"Deputy Chief"

"The deputy chief is back."

Hijikata Suizo had just returned from Edo in the past two days, and now that the Shinsengumi had just improved, it was not time for him to settle down, and some things were not at ease when he was handed over to his subordinates, and he had to do it himself. There's no way that everyone is a martial artist, although a martial artist is not without the ability to do things, but in addition to the knife in his hand, he is not mediocre in other aspects.

Nodding in response to these ronin, Hijikata vaguely noticed that everyone's expressions were a little stiff, as if something was on their minds.

Everybody has something on their minds.

"Shannan." It just so happened that he saw Yamanan Keisuke, who was also the deputy governor, and had a lot of exchanges on weekdays, which was also considered a harmonious relationship, so since he met, he asked about it clearly.

"Hijikata, you're back."

Shannan was also looking down and pondering something before, and when he heard the earthwork shouting, he looked up in a panic, and when he saw that it was the earthwork who had returned, he turned into a smile.

Seeing Shannan's reaction, Hijikata was even more convinced of his judgment - what had happened to the Shinsengumi in the past few days of his absence.

"Shannan, what's going on in the group."

Everything involves the Shinsengumi, and he has always been very serious.

"Sure enough, I can't hide it from you, although you will soon know, I think the copywriting is probably on your desk." Shannan smiled bitterly

"What the hell is going on?"

"Asakura, that kid drew his knife at the director.

“！！”

"If she were a man, I'm afraid she would have already apologized, and now she just removed her knife and was temporarily placed under house arrest, and you still have to decide what to do."

"Asakura draws his sword against the chief?"

"That's right." Shannan nodded.

“……”

Asakura Nanami.

"Why would she do it?"

"When she heard the news of Miss Mist's death, she lost control, that's why she did that." Shannan shook her head, "I haven't seen her so abnormal, except for the last time she was shot." ”

"Kiri Yuka is dead?" The nominal subordinate Kirikiri Yuuka, but the people of the Shinsengumi all know the meaning of this woman's existence, as the person who secretly killed Kiyokawa Hachiro, since Kiyoshira Kiri Yuuka did not accompany the ashes of Yoshiwara Street for the first time, then it must not fall into the hands of others, and she can tie the rope of Asakura Nanami, which is more convenient than controlling the girl who is extraordinary in kendo itself or grabs her weakness.

The fragile but strong connection between the Shinsengumi and the Seven Truths, a very important part of which is Yuuka, is unspoken but secretly acquiesced.

"What's going on!! What about the protectors who were secretly arranged?! ”

It's incredible.

"Recently, the Shinsengumi was too short of people, and it just so happened that there was no arrangement for the time of the moment."

"So, what about the corpses?" If the corpse is still in the Shinsengumi, then everything is easy to say, and it will not fall into the hands of people if it is disposed of quickly, but it will be more troublesome for Asakura.

It's a pity that Hijikata has long abandoned his personal feelings, and the way he chose to save the country does not allow him to sympathize with the dead.

“……”

Shannan was silent for a long time, looking directly into Hijikata's eyes with an expressionless face.

"It's in the hands of the Hui group."

At worst, that's not it.

"Where has the specific information been sent to me?"

"That's right."

Hijikata walked quickly towards his study.

"Asakura Nanami's sword is very sharp." Shouted at the back of the departing friend, Shannan, "I'm afraid the Shinsengumi can't do without this sword now." ”

“……”

After a pause, he looked up at the sky.

"If you lose the scabbard, you will inevitably hurt yourself." After speaking, he will not stay.

The meaning of the unearthed party that Sannan Keisuke listened to.

"Yes, can't Asakura stay?"

Less than a year ago, he picked up the horrible little girl, and now he was the first to know her end.

"Director-General, what do you want to choose now?"

Okita Soji always hid his body and aura nearby, and of course all his conversations with Hijikata were heard by the Soji.

“……”

"Really? Didn't want to answer. ”

The chief secretary stood up silently, he took the chrysanthemum and the text Zezong bowed to Shannan, and then disappeared.

"No thanks." He doesn't understand what the young man thinks, although he is not too old" What is that sentence, the hero is sad to pass the beauty pass? ”

……

……

After reading the report, Hijikata temporarily sorted out the cause and effect of the matter.

"See the Hui group?"

In the past, when the Shinsengumi was still the Mibu Ronin group, they would be squeezed to the edge of Kyoto, which was the blessing of dragging back to the group, but now the Shinsengumi is trying to suppress it if it improves slightly.

Kill Kiriti Yuuka, take away the body, and make the incident of Kiyokawa Hachiro public to the Shinsengumi on the charge of harboring criminals, and then forcibly send them to fight the righteous men of the Restoration, but the righteousness is not at the head of the Shinsengumi.

The righteousness is in the hands of the Jianhui group, and even if the Shinsengumi can annihilate the righteous people of Changzhou under the strategy of the Eagle Palace, they will not gain something that is commensurate with their efforts, and they will become someone else's sword in vain.

"Asakura."

This move, by the way, will kill Asakura Nanami.

The Flying Edgeworth, which can be said to be the sharpest sword in the Shinsengumi today, although I don't understand how the Mikai Group knew about this relationship between Asakura and Yuuka, but there is no doubt that their operation was very effective.

"It's too dangerous."

Nanami Asakura is not mature and rational enough, and originally thought that she had enough consciousness, but in the end, she actually drew a sword to Isamu Kondo. Kendo is indeed extraordinary, but the mind is really unbearable.

Hidden trouble.

"Knock knock."

Hijikata was having a headache when he heard someone knocking on the door.

"Who?"

"Kondo."

Isamu Kondo pushed the door in, "I heard that you're back, and things are in order on the Edo side?" ”

"Chief...... Well, that's fine, it's just that I didn't expect to come back with such a big mess. ”

"Mess, I'm afraid this mess is about to smash."

Isamu Kondo and Toshizo Hijikata sit down face to face.

"But whoever let this be their own stall, no matter how bad it is, they have to clean it up, and they have to clean it up from where they touch it first."

Now all their hands can touch is the things of Asakura Nanami.

"Okita there, what does he think."

Hijikata asked Kondo, and no one knew Okita Soji's thoughts better than Kondo, and Okita Soji liked the fact that Asakura Nanami estimated that only Nanami himself did not see it in the entire Shinsengumi.

In short, if the seven realities were to be executed, the biggest resistance would probably come from Okita.

"His sword is not for himself."

What Isamu Kondo meant couldn't be clearer.

"Asakura doesn't need to cut her abdomen, give her a poison bar."

When Hijikata made this decision, he sincerely felt sorry for Asakura, even if you are a genius of the heavens, if you do your own evil, there is still no way to live.

……

……

Asakura Nanami was not locked up anywhere else, but his arms were unloaded, and then he was restrained and thrown here.

In the past, the incense is there.

Now she's the only one.

"Whew."

Because of this impulsive act, it is estimated that he has been more than lucky.

Someone brought her food, but she didn't even move half of it, so she looked haggard and thin for two days.

"It's time for Hijikata to come back."

That rigid samurai-like deputy head of the Shinsengumi would not sympathize with him, and perhaps he would not even sympathize with himself for the future of the Shinsengumi.

It's ironic, that man is very prestigious, and everyone defaults to him deciding whether he dies, but if it is up to him, isn't it death?

Qishi knew that he might not survive, but he didn't panic and just sat quietly and waited for his end.

"Captain Okita!" The person in charge of guarding the door saw Soji Okita approaching.

"Director Kondo asked me to come." The Directorate's voice was unusually low

"Yes!"

After saying that, let the Okita Soji come in.

"Well, it's you."

Qishi guessed that it might be who would send him on his last journey, and everyone thought about it, but the only thing he didn't expect was the general director.

"Well, it's you."

"Aren't you angry?"

"Don't be angry, I know why you helped them arrest me."

“……”

"Because I moved Isamu Kondo."

For Okita Soji, Isamu Kondo is also a brother and a teacher.

"Qishi, you shouldn't be impulsive." The chief drew his sword and pointed it at her.

"It's useless to talk about that now."

In front of Qishi, the chief secretary swung his knife and cut the rope that bound her, and then put away the knife and reached out to support her who was numb and couldn't move.

"Director-General?!"

The head secretary whispered in Qishi's ear.

It's good that Kondo-brother didn't die, so I can still save you.

What a redemption this is for him, if Nanami really killed Kondo at that time, then the head secretary will completely lose the chance to save her.

"Huh? Director-General..."

It was too close, and Nanami could feel the head office's body temperature and his trembling, and then her own heartbeat rate seemed to increase a little.

"Yuuka is dead."

"yes, I know."

“…… Yuuka she ......"

"Well, let's go."

Qishi and the general secretary didn't notice that this scene was completely heard by another person.

……

……

On the same day, Sasaki Sazaburo received the report.

"Soji Okita escaped from the Shinsengumi with Nanami Asakura?"

"Yes, it's true."

He was reported by a woman, wearing a mask that made her face unreadable, but her gender could be determined by listening to her voice.

"The harvest has exceeded expectations." Sasaki sighed, he didn't expect that there would be such an interesting chain reaction after killing Kiri Yuuka.

"Then the subordinates will retire first." After the woman finished the report, she wanted to step down.

"Faith girl."

“？”

"I'm sorry for you, if you can suppress the arrogance of the Shinsengumi this time, you have a lot of credit."

"Don't dare."

The woman was unfazed, and disappeared into the darkness silently without saying anything.