Everything seemed to be in slow motion, and the next moment he felt the pain in his lower back and ribs.

He slowly lowered his head, and saw that the knife of the guy in front of him who had betrayed him lay there, as if firmly attached to his flesh and bones, and under the shiny blade was a warm liquid that slowly leaked out, which had already cut a crack in his clothes, and the liquid rushed out from there, and in a moment stained his black coat with a very inconspicuous wet mark.

Something kind of realization suddenly emerges in consciousness after realizing it.

Myself...... Got stabbed?!

Unexpectedly...... Are you going to die......?

No...... No way...... Just...... I climbed into a relationship with Samona and planned to use this as an opportunity...... The ...... to show off your strength

Satsuma said it...... Isamu Kondo or Toyosan Hijikata...... They are all enemies that they desperately want to get rid of......

Satsuma said, since ...... Shinsengumi is now the most suspicious mastermind of the assassination of Ryoma Sakamoto, so ...... Let's let Kondo and Hijikata have the same way to die...... In this way, they will believe in the sincerity of their own self-abandonment of the darkness and the light of the Shinsengumi, who were originally staff officers of the Shinsengumi-

Kokotaro Ito squirmed his lips, wanting to say something.

Maybe he wanted to lash out at the betrayer who ruined his grand plans, or maybe he wanted to ask the handsome young man who rushed out in time to hold his sword, because the young man's face was very foreign to him, but the young man was dressed in the light green feathers of the Shinsengumi......

Also, maybe he wanted to ask this guy who had always claimed that his surname was "Kiyohara", who was good at swordsmanship, who had a bright smile, and who always seemed to have nothing on his mind, but who always hid the important secret that he was a woman, and deceived all the people up and down the Shinsengumi-

There was a gurgling sound in his throat, and blood bubbled up.

"You, you too...... deceived Kondo...... And earthwork. He barely managed to squeeze the staccato syllables out of his blood-soaked throat.

"Haha...... They...... Don't know...... You're—"

Before he could finish his words, he felt the woman's eyebrows in front of him suddenly fall dangerously.

"Farewell!" she said no longer in her feminine voice.

At the same time, the knife in her hand went forward and slammed it with all her might.

Ito Kokotaro felt a chill pass through his ribs, as if the cold night wind poured into his body along the wound cut by the woman's blade, and in an instant, he robbed himself of the warm body temperature of a human being, leaving only a cold shell.

The woman jerked the knife back again, and the blade slashed through the darkness, sending up a trail of blood and sprinkling it on the empty street through the oil path.

Losing the support of his opponent's blade between the ribs, Ito's body fell to the ground with a bang.

The Lady Inquisitor took a step back and let out a long sigh of relief.

Then, with a slight flick of her wrist, she shook off the blood beads on the blade, and then withdrew the knife into the scabbard at her waist.

After that, she turned to Fu Fushen, who was standing beside her, with a very stinky face.

"It's great that I saved my head from being cut off by Ito in time, Kane-san. She said with a smile.

It's a pity that her sense of humor doesn't seem to be understood at all.

He took a deep breath, as if he couldn't stand her inappropriate jokes, and suddenly yelled at her face.

"I said, if you can't beat him, call me to help! What's the matter with that kind of stubbornness? Because I'm worried that I won't be able to do anything to people like Ito, do you want to kill him by myself? Am I so unreliable in your eyes......

He saw the smile that had clinged to her face like an iron mask, as if it had hidden her true expression, slowly melted a little, and showed a look of real surprise. Before he could get complacent, he saw a strange glint in her eyes, and the smile was firmly back on her face.

Then, she whispered, "Shhh ...... I guess the Shinsenkai Fellows, who have been slowed down by some strange reasons, are finally here now. ”

Izumi Mamoru was stunned for a moment, and when he listened to it, he realized that it really seemed that there was a chaotic running sound in the distance.

The female judge made a quick decision.

"Kane-san, you hide in the corner over there for the time being. She said.

"Based on what Kotaro Ito said just now, I can judge that there are people who look similar to me in the Shinsengumi here. But we don't have any information on whether there will be anyone in the Shinsengumi who looks similar to you, so you'd better hide for the time being, so as not to cause trouble...... I'll take care of the negotiations. ”

Izumi Mamoru snorted irritably, knowing that this was not the time for argument, and that what the Witch Judge had said was indeed very reasonable, so he simply nodded, turned and flashed into the shadows behind the corner where he had just hidden.

The Divine Inquisitor took a long breath, settled her mind, and quickly tied the hair that had just been scattered in the fierce battle back into a ponytail at the back of her head—and in this way, she reverted to her former delicate and somewhat androgynous youthful appearance.

At this moment, a series of chaotic footsteps sounded from behind her, accompanied by a loud shout: "Yes, who is it?!"

Liu Quan deliberately paused for a moment before turning around, and when he saw the three or four young men behind him who looked like ordinary soldiers and wore light onion feathers, he slowly lowered his eyebrows, deliberately releasing the kind of compelling momentum she had learned from the deputy chief.

She didn't answer the question, but she lowered her face and shouted angrily, "You guys, you're coming too slowly!!"

The three or four people were stunned. The young man with a thin face and cold eyes in the lead shook his right hand holding the knife, as if he was about to raise his hand and slash at the opponent in front of him.

Thankfully, his companion had spoken up before then.

"Qing, Qingyuan?!" the young man shouted in surprise, and instantly took a step back, arching his knees and putting his hands on the hilt of the sword at his waist, as if he was ready to fight at any moment.

"Y-Aren't you already out of the team and gone to the Imperial Tomb Guards!"

Liu Quan couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips slightly.

Ah, one of the great things about NPCs is that they often explain what they're doing in their lines, which is great.

Liu Quan calmly raised his chin slightly, and motioned to the young men dressed in light onion feathers to look at the body of Ito Kotaro lying on the ground.

"Stupid, can't you guess when you see this?!!" she shouted at the young men who looked like ordinary soldiers.

"Ito is going to be disadvantageous to the director, and I have already killed him here! He is not the one who can wait for you to come slowly, and then arrest him!, therefore, although I was ordered to 'monitor Ito's movements', I had to take matters into my own hands-"

The player uses the NPC's Clever Skill [Lines to Automatically Explain Cause and Effect] skill.

The effect is obvious.

The men looked at each other in disbelief and suspicion, and then slowly touched over and carefully examined Ito's body.

Through the faint light, they finally made it clear - the body was indeed Ito Kokotaro's, and the fatal wound was also a knife wound, and if they compared the wound with the shape of the blade of Kiyohara's saber, etc., they would definitely be able to draw a conclusion about whether it matched or not, so Kiyohara did not need to deceive them about this kind of thing.

However, a bad guy who followed Ito, a traitor, and split the Shinsengumi, could so easily clear his name and prove himself through an assassination?

Those people looked at each other, feeling that whether they wanted to go back to report their merits, or whether they believed that Kiyohara had always been devoted to the Shinsengumi, it seemed as if they had never made such a high-level decision.

They exchanged words for a while.

"Yes, should I go back to the cantonment station immediately and report to the deputy chief......

"By the way, by the way, ask the deputy chief to verify whether this Qingyuan is a good person!"

"Is Ito's body just thrown here?"

"Ito is dead, so ...... How should the remaining traitors be punished?"

"Wait...... Wait a minute! I, I'm running out without permission, will the deputy be angry and punish us if he finds out?"

Liu Quan: "......"

Ah, you NPCs are a little too casual. Although she seems to have a slight impression of these details, is it really good to say it like a bamboo tube pouring beans? Do those rough and rude fellows think that they are whispering like that? She, the so-called "traitor", can hear it very clearly when she stands here!

Seeing that this group of people had been "whispering" here for a few minutes, they still couldn't decide what to do next—after all, they probably just heard that Kokotaro Ito was going to assassinate Kondo-san, so they ran out with bravery and enthusiasm to deal with this despicable person first, and as for what happened after killing someone? Coordination with all sides? If you kill someone who shouldn't be killed, will you be reprimanded?...... In short, those are the things that the hard-working deputy chief has to worry about and deal with, not anyone else's.

Liu Quan sighed secretly, and had to forcibly add a wave of drama to himself, a "suspicious traitor".

"Didn't you report to the deputy chief when you came out?" she asked, with an exaggerated look of surprise.

The Guys: "......"

They all showed a look of emptiness, and their eyes began to drift left and right, and there was no fixed point.

...... It's really easy to understand.

The author has something to say: October 27:

There should be a daily update these days, because there is a word count requirement for the list.

Thank you, little angel Kaoru Moto, and the mine of the immortal limit ~~(づ ̄3 ̄)づ╭~