The moon is dark and the wind is high.

A group of men carrying a sedan chair and running through the streets in the middle of the night. Their footsteps were chaotic, and if you look closely, you can see that there is a hint of panic in their expressions, to be precise, they should be in a state of leaderlessness.

Their goal was clear - to rush to the intersection of Shichijo-dori and Yakoji-dori, and then immediately crouched down to check on the body of Kotaro Ito, who had been discarded there. After that, some of them let out angry cries and wails of grief.

"Sir...... Ahh

"What kind of people are from Tosa...... Sir is wise, it is impossible to have a rash conflict with those people!"

"No, Sir must have been plotted by the Shinsengumi guys...... Those guys, the murder syndicate in the country......"

"Hurry up and bring the sedan chair, we can't let Mr. just lie on the ground......"

On the wall of a house on the side of the road, a dozen bamboo poles leaned. Wooden boxes for storage and storage are stacked underneath the bamboo poles, creating an excellent hiding place.

After the bamboo pole and the wooden box were shielded, Nagakura Shinpachi whispered, "...... There are more people than you think. ”

Liu Quan was lying in ambush near Yongcang, and when he heard this, his eyes flashed slightly.

Tonight, there are only three people sent by the deputy governor to Yatsukoji, except for Nagakura and Harada. Perhaps it was because the Imperial Tomb Guards themselves were not numerous, and the deputy chief thought that helpers like the three Hei Soldiers who didn't know the truth didn't need to be sent too much, so as not to let go of Heisuke in the chaos of the battle, so now that Nagakura looked at it, there were actually more than a dozen people on the other side, and he couldn't help but be a little annoyed when he saw that there were more than a dozen people on the other side, and he had an advantage in numbers.

Although I don't know the exact number of people on both sides who participated in the battle in the history of the Oil Road Change, but now this disparity in the number of enemies and us, which is close to one to four, still makes Liu Quan frown slightly, and a layer of not very good premonition appears in his heart.

This...... Is it also because the time-retrospective march has already intervened?!

Ryuzumi watched as Nagakura slowly drew his knife, and he also drew his sword, followed Nagakura and Harada out of their hiding place, and quickly surrounded the group of people in the middle of the street.

Although the difference in numbers made this so-called encirclement seem a little ridiculous, none of the Imperial Tomb Guards who found themselves ambushed by the Shinsengumi could laugh.

Without saying a word, as if that were enough to make them understand that tonight was going to be a long, endless night of darkness, the Imperial Tomb guards drew their swords from their waists and silently lined up and aimed at the six men in front of them dressed in light onion featherweaves.

Since you are at a disadvantage, you don't have to stick to anything. Nagakura glanced at Heisuke, who was standing in the camp of the Imperial Tomb Guardians and had also set up his sword, and then let out a loud shout and launched the first attack.

In the middle of the night, on the originally quiet street, the sound of killing suddenly shook the sky.

Of course, the Imperial Tomb Guards are not all people who sell their fame and reputation, and there are a few people who are not low in force and have created some trouble for Nagakura, Harada, and Yanagiquan.

Of course, there is also peace in this.

It was not the same as the Heisuke boy she remembered, and although Heisuke here had a thin and young face, there was no doubt that he had grown into a young man.

Although he looked at Nagakura and Harada, his eyes were full of mixed and painful emotions, Ito's death undoubtedly had a great mental impact on him, and he was probably still emotionally oscillating back and forth between the Shinsengumi and the Guardians of the Tomb, and he firmly stood by the side of the Guardians of the Tomb.

I don't know if it's providence or coincidence, not long after the war began, Heisuke faced up with Liu Quan between frequent offensive and defensive switches and changes of position.

When their eyes met in the air for the first time tonight, Ryuizumi noticed a look of surprise flashing in Heisuke's eyes.

Of course, this look of surprise had already appeared on Heisuke's face when she saw her jump out with Nagakura and Harada - after all, as a member of the former Imperial Tomb Guard, "Kiyohara", now she is standing with the members of the Shinsengumi again, and the appearance of Nagakura and Harada, and even the appearance of "Kiyohara" with them, can make others deduce a conclusion-

Kiyohara is a person appointed by the director and deputy head of the Shinsengumi. In addition, he has won the trust of the director and deputy chief, so that after leaving the Shinsengumi and serving as the Imperial Tomb Guardian for so long, he can still participate in the mission of intercepting and killing the Imperial Tomb Guardian here, which shows that his loyalty and steadfastness are recognized by the director of the Shinsengumi Kondo and the deputy head Hijikata.

However, just now Heisuke has suffered two blows - first Saito voluntarily revealed his undercover identity and left the Imperial Tomb Guard, and then Mr. Ito's death, so that in the cold night, a person is lying alone on the street, and there are still condensed, hard and cold blood stains on his clothes.

Now, it's Kiyohara again!Standing on the side of his former companions, wearing a light green hatori, it seems that he has made such a huge mistake as leaving the Shinsengumi and joining the Imperial Tomb Guard, but he can't shake his confidence, because all the betrayal of the Shinsengumi and his identification with Mr. Ito are all fake, and he played it!

Now that I think about it, Kiyohara never really identified with Mr. Ito, nor did he really see Mr. Ito or him as his companion, and what were those two people doing in those days when he was so sorry for pulling Kiyohara and Saito out of the Shinsengumi? Are they secretly laughing at his stupidity, ignorance, and wishful thinking?!

This sense of self-loathing caused by the contradiction between the two camps is mixed with the confidence in Kiyohara and Saito from the beginning without making a wrong choice. As a result, the envy of being able to easily get rid of the side that bound him and return to the camp he really wanted to stay, and the self-hatred and regret that he naively thought that Mr. Ito was his teacher and a talent that the Shinsengumi desperately needed and invited him to join, but the other party concealed his true goal, leading to the split of the Shinsengumi and Mr. Yamanan's escape, and a series of tragedies, such as the splitting of the Shinsengumi and Mr. Yamanan's escape, mixed up in Fujido Heisuke's heart, forming a rapidly spinning whirlpool.

The vortex continued to expand, and finally it was as if it wanted to turn into a black hole, as if the next moment it would swallow his reason and his whole person.

Heisuke suddenly let out a loud roar.

"Ahhhh——!!h

Before the shout fell, he had already taken the lead in launching an attack on Qingyuan in front of him.

Perhaps with thoughts and feelings such as "It doesn't matter if you die here today, because it's better to live than die to bear such pain, contradictions, and remorseful torments", Heisuke used a desperate Saburo-style trick of completely ignoring and killing 1,000 enemies and self-inflicting 800 losses.

This made Liu Quan's style of play, which was mainly based on blocking at the beginning and didn't intend to hurt him, suddenly became very difficult.

After all, Ryuzumi didn't intend to be unfavorable to Heisuke at first. Because according to historical records, it was not the Shinsengumi whose name was "Kiyohara" who killed Heisuke. In fact, on this night in history, that "Kiyohara" was away in Ise on a business trip, so he escaped. Now that she can't help but fight in the name of "Qingyuan", she also hopes not to be too active, so as not to violate the authenticity of history too much in this regard-

She slumped to the right and dodged Heisuke's blow. The blade of the knife was slashed almost flat against her face, and the wind from the blade even stirred the shredded hair on her sideburns.

Willow Springs: !!

She jerked her head up.

The facial features on Heisuke's face in front of him were almost twisted together, revealing a desperate expression, and a stubborn and distorted light shot out of his eyes, and after seeing her dodge this blow in a thrilling way, his pupils widened slightly, and he quickly lowered his eyebrows, narrowed his eyes, revealing a fierce look, his nose was slightly wrinkled, and he held the hilt of the knife with both hands, and took another step forward, swinging the blade at her.

"Drink!"

Liu Quan had to raise his hand in a hurry.

With a clang, the blade of the knife in her hand collided with Heisuke's blade in midair, making a low, ominous sound.

Ryuzumi held Heisuke's knife hard, because he actually pursed his mouth slightly, and the tip of his nose was wrinkled, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and wanted to use brute force to slowly press down her blade until he let go-

Liu Quan was in a hurry and flew up.

There was a loud bang, and dust suddenly flew from the pavement of the leveled streets.

Heisuke subconsciously loosened the strength in his hands. The next moment, he heard Kiyohara on the other side shouting, and the knife in his hand shook hard, swinging his blade away.

Before Heisuke could get annoyed—because the little advantage he had just gained was instantly wiped out by his opponent's clever moves—he heard his opponent's smug voice rise, grinning as if he wanted to kill him.

"Hey, how about this trick 'Raising the Soil and Blinding the Eyes'!"

Heisuke: "......"

For some reason, he was stunned for a moment, then suddenly lowered his gaze slightly, and smiled a little lost.

"Original...... The one who has never changed, it's you. He whispered to himself.

Liu Quan: ?

Heisuke continued, "And all of us have changed......

Liu Quan: "......"

She was beginning to understand what Heisuke was trying to say. However, due to the position, personality and identity of the undercover "Kiyohara" in the loyal team member of the Shinsengumi and the guardian of the Imperial Tomb that she played, she couldn't say or do anything, so she could only smile bitterly, think about it for a while, grasp the setting as "Kiyohara", and cautiously responded: "...... It's not too late. As long as Heisuke-kun comes back—"

Who knows which word in this sentence touched Heisuke's already fragile nerves. He suddenly threw his head up, and suspicious tears welled up in his large, bright eyes that looked like a teenager.

He shouted, "...... No!!"

Willow Springs: !!

Her eyes widened slightly, staring at the excited Heisuke in amazement.

Heisuke, perhaps sensing her surprise, suddenly disappeared from all his previous momentum, and he smiled faintly as if he had lost himself, and lowered his voice.

"yes...... No way. ”

His voice was as low as a whisper.

"No matter how much you want to go back to the way you used to be...... It's impossible......"

Liu Quan: !?

In the fandom she's been through, she hasn't actually witnessed Heisuke being seriously injured on the oil trail. Because when she accepted Shannan's order to chase and hurried to the oil road, Heisuke was already seriously injured enough to threaten her life, and the big butler of the ghost clan, Tianwu Jiuju, led the Satsuma clan soldiers to surround Saito, who was fighting alone, so she didn't have the heart to think much about Heisuke's affairs at all, so she quickly entered the battle.

Afterwards, when he returned to the camp, he heard that Heisuke was still too injured and had to drink the water to become a rakshasa, but he had a chance to prolong his life by several years compared to history, so the realism and pain of losing such a companion was also delayed for several years, and the location was also postponed from Yukoji to Sendai Castle.

So now standing on the streets of Yakoji, with the corpses of several Imperial Tomb Guards, including the real Ito Kotaro, and facing Heisuke, a young man who looked like he was in his early twenties, she suddenly felt like she was about to lose an important companion in the here and now—and the pain.

Her eyes widened as she stared intently at the young man who was about to lose his young life, and an urge swelled in her heart to comfort him in the last moments of his life, and she couldn't help but take a step forward and say, "No, Heisuke-kun...... Everyone is waiting for you to come back—"

Before she could finish speaking, her eyes widened suddenly!

Because she saw that behind Heisuke, a team member dressed in the light green onion of the Shinsengumi suddenly raised the sword in his hand towards Heisuke's body!

Her first knee-jerk reaction was to shout out a warning to Heisuke and tell him to "watch out behind you!". However, the tenacious and solid reason, which had been tempered in the long tempering and the tossing and turning of multiple worlds, suddenly emerged from the depths of her body, and then dominated her entire body, so that although she opened her mouth slightly, the warning words of "Beware of sneak attacks behind you!" suddenly turned into a hard lump and choked in her throat, firmly blocking all her vocal pathways.

She didn't make any sound.

Not even a gesture like raising her hand and pointing behind Heisuke as a warning, her body, which had been dominated by her stubborn and almost cold and powerful reason, didn't do it.

Sometimes, the slightest dislocation or lag in time or space on a ruthless battlefield – or rather, at a point in history – can lead to entirely different consequences.

Like now.

Ryuizumi watched as the Shinsengumi Hei Clan's knife swung down. Then there was a tooth-aching, muffled thud beneath the sharp blade, which sliced through human flesh. Even in the middle of the night, Yanagizumi could still see a puddle of blood spurting out from Heisuke's back!

Willow Springs: !!

"No!

Almost at the same time, Heisuke, who had previously seemed to be so immersed in fighting and talking to her that he had forgotten to guard against the enemy behind him, shook his body violently, his expression instantly distorted from the intense pain, and let out a scream.

Then, as if at once, he forgot about his opponent in front of him, and staggered away, as if he wanted to swing his sword and fire back, to teach a lesson to the ruthless opponent who had no spirit of morality and dared to sneak up on his opponent from behind.

However, his turning and swinging movements had become extremely slow and rigid due to the severe wound from the knife and the massive blood loss in an instant, like a puppet and stiff.

Before he could raise his sword, the sneak attacker behind him, whose face was twisted by excitement, surprise, fear, horror, and other emotions, preemptively attacked again, grasping the hilt of the knife with both hands, and swung it towards Heisuke's face.

Smack.

Heisuke's head and neck slammed back with the opponent's knife momentum.

Liu Quan: !?

Before she could rush up to stop the soldier who had made a meritorious service and had sneaked up from behind because she was afraid of the leader of the original Shinsengumi Yaban Group, Nagakura's angry shouts had already sounded behind her:

"Hey!!Miura, you guy—stop!!"

Perhaps because he heard Nagakura's roar, Heisuke, who was already shaking, actually staggered and stubbornly turned back half-sideways, as if he wanted to take another look at Nagakura and Harada, who were his best friends back then.

However, this action made Liu Quan, who had good eyesight, immediately change color in shock.

Because of this movement, Heisuke's front was facing her again, and by the light of the moon, she could almost immediately see a huge and terrifying wound on Heisuke's face, which was slanted from his forehead to the bridge of his nose, which was long and deep, and the flesh rolled up, and a large amount of blood gushing out of the wound slid down the sides of Heisuke's nose, staining most of the lower half of his face red.

Liu Quan felt that the blood in his whole body had coagulated in an instant.

As if her blood had frozen, she felt chills all over her body, and even her vision was sparkling. She felt her mouth open uncontrollably, trying to call Heisuke's name, but her voice was stuck somewhere, unable to come out.

In her flowery and blurry vision, Heisuke shook a few more times. Then, in front of her, he fell to the ground with a bang.

He fell face down, blood gushing from the huge, terrible wound on his face, which instantly stained the small pavement beneath his face red. His knife fell not far from him.

Yanagizumi seemed to hear Harada's voice, and shouted with a heart-rending feeling that was completely inconsistent with his swordsman's character, "Heisuke !!"

The author has something to say: November 1:

I'm sorry everyone, but I've finally been tired for the past two days...... For a viral severe cold, no medicine is too effective......

In this week's list, I finally didn't release everyone's pigeons

I don't know if I will be on the list next week, but if there is, I will continue to work hard, and of course I will continue to work hard if not!

In short, there will be all kinds of huge brain holes in the future, and everyone's favorite sword may also make its debut

I won't update it on Thursday, so I'll put it off for a day. Updates resumed on Friday~~