Goro Fujita returned to the Metropolitan Police Department with the sword that had been identified as a high-grade imitation of "one phase and one vibration".

As soon as I entered the door, I heard the yelling of the Nishino Police Department.

"Fujita Fujita, that kid hasn't come back yet, it's really troublesome, who of you knows where he went"

Fujita Goro was slightly stunned, took two steps to the front of the Nishino Police Department, bowed slightly, and said, "It's rude." Just went out to find someone to identify this one."

He originally wanted to say "this sword left by the doubter at the scene", but when the words came to his lips for some reason, he swallowed it back and changed it to a simple explanation of "the knifesmith and the origin of this sword".

The Nishino Police Department obviously received a report from Kobayakawa about asking for leave on his behalf after he went out, and when he heard this, he suppressed his breath and nodded, his whole face tightened, and said to Fujita Goro, "Come to my office, I have a new task", and he took heavy steps, and stepped on the wooden floor of the Metropolitan Police Department as if he was angry, and went all the way back to his small private office.

Fujita had no choice but to follow him.

The Nishino Police Department pushed the door into the office, and began to slam open the cabinets, rummaging through something.

A hint of doubt appeared in Gorou Fujita's eyes, but he still stood straight in place, waiting for the Nishino Police Department to speak first.

The Nishino Police Department snorted angrily and carried it in place for half a while, before he spit out a few words reluctantly.

"Tonight, there's a makeshift assignment on the roof. ”

He finally pulled out a crumpled Western-style shirt from the cupboard, shook it a few times, and saw that the wrinkles had not disappeared, and the expression on his face became even more ugly.

"I said that I was going to take two people to the engagement banquet of the young master of the Chinese family, but in fact, it was because that family had offended some crazy person, and the other party threatened to be detrimental to the only heir of his family, the young master Kuo, who was going to get engaged. Originally, since this family did not report the crime, this matter is not under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police Department, but this house climbed up, I heard that it was a big man from Satsuma, so a certain adult personally ordered me to take a few people to the engagement banquet in the name of guests, which is not a formal task of vigilance, but I have to help keep an eye on the field, so as not to have any bloodshed at the engagement banquet, and finally make it difficult to clean up"

Oh. Goro Fujita thought to himself.

So it's better to be on guard.

Unlike the Nishino Police Department, which felt a little embarrassed because he was going to work as a guard, he didn't serve as a guard once or twice during the Shinsengumi period, so Fujita Goro didn't feel that there was any shame in this kind of thing.

He waited silently for a while, feeling that the Nishino Police Department would not vent any more anger, before quietly asking, "In that case, what should I pay attention to tonight?"

The Nishino Police Department was stunned, looked Fujita Goro up and down, and showed a smoky expression on his face again.

"You can't wear a police uniform, I asked you, do you have any suitable clothes"

Fujita Goro thought for a moment.

In his experience, he didn't need to dress brightly to attend any banquets as a member of the Shinsengumi, and most of the banquets that he was asked to attend were also with heavy responsibilities, not as a simple guest. But of course, the way of the world is different now, and there are a lot of things like that you have to observe that are completely unfamiliar and have been learned from the West. So, it sounds like a good dress that is formal and not rude is a must-have. Unfortunately, he had no idea where to find such a garment.

The Nishino Police Department looked at his embarrassed face, and there was nothing to guess. His face twisted suddenly, he walked to the door and pulled the door hard, shouting outside, "Hey, Zhongjin Zhongjin will take this guy to buy a suit, and by the way, explain the night's tasks to him"

The grinning little man came out of nowhere and dragged Goro Fujita away.

The Nakatsu Police Department was not slow, and by the evening, he had already led Fujita Goro to the door of a mansion that looked to be a few years old, and was quickly welcomed in.

The Nakatsu Police Department found the Nishino Police Department in the lobby with a crooked Western-style tie and an awkward and uncomfortable face, and after saying a few words to him, he turned back to Fujita Goro and said, "You can walk around the hall and the courtyard tonight." Just be careful not to be rude to the host's house. ”

Then he gave him a look.

Fujita Goro was dumbfounded for a moment, nodded silently, and walked away.

Due to the promulgation of the "Distributing Knife Removal Order", ordinary people can no longer walk outside with a sword. However, Fujita Goro can't be allowed to swing around the hall with a baton around his waist. The Nishino Police Department and the Nakatsu Police Department had guns, but Fujita Goro didn't, so he had to find a reason to legally carry a sword.

So after leaving the Metropolitan Police Department, the Nakatsu Police Department went to find a friend of his, and then quickly got a military uniform for Fujita Goro.

This military uniform is worn by military cadets, and it looks suitable with the handsome face of Fujita Goro, who has a calm face but does not show his age.

The top of this military uniform is navy blue, which just matches the hair color of Goro Fujita and the ?by ?? The alliance is frightened, the rebellion is rebellious, the wren is fortunate to be restored, the donkey is ⊥ the donkey, the donkey is scorched, the donkey is scorched, the donkey is revived, the donkey is revital

"Speaking of which, don't you really think about Miss Miwako anymore, Fujita" he laughed and patted Fujita Goro on the shoulder.

"You look so good dressed like this. Wait a minute, when you get to the dinner party, if someone asks, you can say that you are studying in the military academy, and you can push everything else to me and the Nishino Police Department to answer, be careful not to call out our police ranks, maybe there are enemies of the owner of this house among the people you talk to, and you want to take this opportunity to sneak into the venue to create trouble. ”

Fujita Goro was silent for a moment, nodded his head, and said that he understood the words behind the Nakatsu Police Department, and as for the previous sentence that he still didn't want to call him on a blind date, he selectively skipped it.

The Nakatsu Police Department did not explain the background of tonight's mission in too much detail, but simply instructed Fujita Goro to pay attention to whether there were any suspicious people in the venue, so as not to be seen by others as a police officer.

"Because although this family inherited the kindness of the big man and assigned us to guard his family's house, but in the end, tonight is still a joyful engagement banquet, and I don't want to expose the secret of the scene and the police guard, causing a tense atmosphere, this mood is not incomprehensible. Nakatsu said.

"I really don't know what kind of trouble the owner of this family has gotten into trouble, didn't he say that he climbed up to the big man from Satsuma, and he is a model of the transformation of the old Chinese family, and those big people have a much better attitude towards this obedient and obedient old family than those old old-fashioned people, maybe it's because of this, maybe it's because of this, maybe it's resigned by those old old-fashioned people," Nakatsu continued to analyze as if talking to himself. However, as soon as he saw the reliable subordinate standing quietly beside him, his eyebrows and eyes lowered and silent, the slightly gossipy thinking expression on his face was swept away.

"Well, it's useless to tell you this. Hahaha, we don't care so much about what to do, it's enough to do what the adults above told us. There's an even tougher case of nocturnal homicidal to be solved tomorrow. He laughed and patted Fujita Goro on the shoulder like mud.

From the beginning to the end, he quietly watched him talk to himself over there alone."

In short, now he was dressed as a young soldier, standing in a corner of the hall, quietly watching the various people coming and going in the hall.

The family looked like a declining old Chinese family, at least judging by the fact that this old mansion is a bit of history, not small, but a little lacking in repair.

Before choosing this corner where he could easily take in the whole room, Fujita Goro had already quietly toured the hall and the courtyard, all of which were accessible to guests without causing any suspicion.

According to his observations, the hall of the mansion was originally Japanese, but it was obviously hastily remodeled and now has been renovated in the Western style, which is the most new part of the mansion, but the courtyard that still retains the Japanese flavor is a bit lacking in maintenance, and some of the plants have grown a little messy due to neglect, and have lost the shape that has been well pruned to adapt to the beauty of the garden.

In general, the owner of the mansion obviously wanted to cater to the new government's policy of total westernization, and was eager to add an aura of "obedience to orders and loyalty to the king" to his old Chinese identity, so as not to be purged soon, but due to the long-term decline of his family and the lack of money, only money was needed to renovate the hall, which Fujita Goro speculated.

Moreover, his speculation is indeed very close to the truth.

Some of the guests he saw were still wearing kimonos, but many more were wearing Western clothes. The women wore colorful Western-style dresses with tight-fitting designs that framed the curves of their limbs.

Goro Fujita just glanced at the crowd, and then indifferently turned his gaze in another direction.

Now that the new government has vigorously introduced and promoted the Western-style lifestyle, everyone has put on dresses, untied their swords, drunk red wine, and women have also worn tight long skirts, even if this kind of skirt is better to be taller, and most women in China are short, in fact, it is not suitable for this design.

Although he was always vigilant and observed the crowd in the entire venue, Goro Fujita, who was hiding in the corner, suddenly thought of another scene out of place.

Shimabara, who is also brightly lit and noisy, sits alone and quietly in a dark empty room, his favorite knife "Ikeda Onimamaru Kunishige" rests quietly on the tatami mat on his right. The room next to it was brightly lit, and the laughter of geisha and guests came from there.

He knew she was there. It was in the next room just a door away from him. Dressed in geisha costumes, with gorgeous hairstyles and gorgeous headdresses such as hairpins and tortoiseshell crows on top of her head, she looks uncharacteristically gorgeous. "The new girl will definitely become a husband in the future," the guests praised her with fascination.

Eventually, after they had defeated all of the unscrupulous ronins plotting against Shinsengumi side by side, she changed into her costume again and appeared in front of him.

He still remembers that she wore a hairstyle called Date Hyogo, six pine and piano-shaped hairpins, two large coral hostas, and three tortoiseshells on the temples of the large bun, and wore an extremely colorful kimono with furisode on which she gradually transitioned to black, embroidered with bright flowers and black edges, which set off her slender figure and was dazzlingly beautiful

At the time, he wanted to say something to her

He wanted to say, "You look so beautiful like this," didn't he?

I want to say that such beauty is simply shocking, isn't it

Although these words could not be said at the time because she had stopped them, the memory of the moment he stood in the middle of the room that had just experienced a fierce battle, and turned to see her, stayed in his mind forever, as it was yesterday.

Just as he was fighting alone on the streets of the oil road, fighting against enemies dozens of times his own, when his sword and clothes were stained with blood, he heard a broken cry from behind him, "I will be your opponent", and then turned around to see the other end of the long street, she was dressed as a man, and the moment she rushed in his direction with a knife, he felt shocked and shaken in his heart.

In the end, only he and she remained, standing back to back in the center of the encirclement of a large group of Satsuma feudal soldiers, the swords in their hands that were also blood-stained but still sharp, trusting each other to trust each other, and then swinging their trusting swords at the enemies in front of them

Also, in Momoyama, on the outskirts of Fushimi, at Katsunuma Kannonzaka near Kofu, she risked her life again and again to appear in front of him, because she said, "No matter how many times I will rush to support Ichi-kun, because Ichi-kun is an important companion."

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In Tsurujo in Aizu, it's not her in the end

Fujita Goro's dark blue eyes narrowed suddenly.

Almost at the same time, he noticed a sudden commotion in the hall.

At the center of the commotion was a young man in a crisp dress who had just entered the hall through a side door, and a young woman holding his arm, also dressed in a long dress.

The young man's face looked a little thin and gloomy, but the gloomy color seemed to stay only between his eyebrows and eyes, and did not extend to his entire face, so not only did it not make people feel bored, but it added a certain kind of delicate and sensitive meaning similar to that of a literary youth, if Fujita Goro was sophisticated enough to understand the female psyche, he would quickly realize that the feminine and delicate beauty similar to that young man was the favorite type of older women nowadays, because such a thin and sensitive young man was easy to make people feel pity, but Fujita Goro didn't know the mystery at all, so he only frowned slightly。

But the young woman who was holding the young man's arm and standing beside him looked very different from the impression that the young man had given him.

She was as slender as a short man, so she was particularly suitable for dresses such as dresses and long skirts, and when she stood there, her back was straight, her figure was slender and graceful, and she did not have the sense of dislocation and inplace caused by foreigners wearing dresses.

Because of the distance from which he stood, Fujita Goro could not see her appearance clearly, but a woman with that temperament could not have a mediocre appearance, and he noticed that she had been calmly talking to the guests who had gathered around her since she had accompanied the young man into the hall, and very naturally took all those questions to her side to answer, as if she was protecting the young man from these tedious social etiquette without a trace, and would not be rude for mishandling such an important occasion.

Are those two people the protagonists of tonight's engagement banquet?

Such speculation came to the mind of Goro Fujita.

Suddenly, he noticed that the young girl in a long dress in the middle of the crowd was chatting and laughing with the guests around her as usual, but at the same time she raised her gaze slightly, and crossed the shoulders of the guests who happened to be half-blocking in front of him, and walked through the whole hall, and her eyes fell straight to himself standing in the corner

Goro Fujita