ps: slightly modified version.

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A few days ago, Takanomiya's visit to Katsura Kogoro was very sudden.

There was no interrogation, and Katsura didn't get any news, so the half-foreign man came over, obviously he came to Kyoto with a false identity, but he still didn't hide this woman.

"Mr. Gui, don't come unharmed."

She came to the place where Gui Kogoro received the guests with a smile, and she was not afraid of being killed, and the personal guard was just outside the door, and she was sitting in front of him very openly, looking like I was just here to be a guest.

"Oh? The eldest lady of the Eagle Palace, come here at this time, I'm afraid that I will not be well entertained. Katsura Kogoro felt that this woman was troublesome in his heart, but the look on his face was like welcoming an unexpected guest who had made a good friend, and he smiled kindly.

Both of them have ghosts in their hearts.

"Mr. Gui doesn't seem to welcome me." Beloved's tone was soft, she didn't look directly into the other's eyes, her gaze staggered and fell on the table and then said slowly.

"I felt a little thirsty after walking this way."

"Someone, prepare tea." Gui Yi waved his hand, and his attendants withdrew one after another.

"Kyoichi, you go and help too."

"Yes." Jingyi, who was waiting outside the door, also followed the other party's people to leave, and the people on both sides were very tacit, and after waiting for the footsteps to go away, the smile that was still hanging on the corner of the mouth before both Katsura and Yingnaigong disappeared, leaving behind the vigilant killing intent.

Katsura has a short knife in his hand, and Takanomiya has a pistol in his arms.

Put force on the bright side, and other clumsy acting skills are just enough, and speak openly as needed.

There is no beating around the bush, the beloved knows that the "high-position" people who have a serious sense of vigilance and have a wrong killing of a thousand people who do not let go of a character are in vain no matter what the pretense is, and they do not have the patience to talk much with people of uncertain nature, and the beloved feels that he is close enough to that boundary, and then he just needs to show his intentions well.

As for how true or false this intention is, it depends on the man's own judgment.

And looking at Gui's meaning, it doesn't seem that he is not a little interested in her visit.

"As far as I know, Mr. Katsura doesn't feel happy in Kyoto."

"I don't need you to worry about how I'm in Kyoto, do I?" Katsura pointed out, "I still know a thing or two about the fact that you're helping the Shinsengumi. ”

In one sentence, tell his beloved that he still understands what she is doing, and the people of Changzhou are not blind.

"Yes." The beloved was unshaken and did not waver, and he sat respectfully without trembling his eyebrows.

"So I can see you as a threat." Katsura pretended not to care, but in fact he pressed step by step

"Whether it's a threat or not, you have your own judgment, if you have to take it as a threat to me, then I can't change Mr. Gui's mind as a woman."

Katsura Kogoro has obviously moved to kill, but his beloved still doesn't have the slightest sense of fear, so he naturally opens his eyes and talks nonsense.

"There are Kyoto Evil Dog Shinsengumi outside, and there are other so-called 'reformers' who don't want to drink and can talk and disturb your mind, this is the status quo."

"Status quo ......" Katsura will not be easily swayed by people's words, he waits for his beloved to see what she wants to do.

"I think it's time to clean up the internal worries and eliminate the external troubles." Beloved said, "You need the kind of power that can make a final decision and exceed everyone's imagination." ”

"I never want to have a verbal argument with someone."

"Huh." Beloved smiled, what she had been waiting for was this sentence.

"As long as I can come up with something convincing to you, can I continue the conversation?"

"If I can't get it, I won't let anyone who knows where I am leave today."

"The Devil's Key ......"

"What?"

What Gui said just now is the key, my heart knows it very well, this man still has a trace of expectation, he has the same desire as everyone else. That desire was the source of her destined success.

As long as you grasp the desires of the person, the beloved can realize his own plans.

"Now, Mr. Gui, do you want to know how to make an ordinary person fight against a hundred?"

What Choshu wants now is a powerful force.,Since you want it.,Why not give it to him.。

"GatlingGears" said a completely unfamiliar English word, "Maybe Mr. Gui still has trouble understanding what I'm saying, but you'll understand it right away." ”

The backward musket was completely incomparable with that machine.

……

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"In addition to the two teams that broke into Ikedaya, the other members of the Shinsengumi were in the vicinity of Ikedaya, and based on daytime records, we were able to barely investigate their location."

Until now, it has been the same as expected by the Eagle Palace.

Isamu Kondo is not a man who falls into traps so easily.

"He will use this trap to find a breakthrough, and that man's goal is always you, and no matter how much sacrifice Kondo makes for this, it will be worth it." The words that the beloved said were still echoed in Katsura Kogoro's ears.

"He's betting you're still in Kyoto, and as long as you're here, you can't stand by and watch it."

"Isamu Kondo borrowed the eyes I gave him, even if it was blinded, but his sense of smell like that of a hungry wolf was still digging out your hiding place little by little, and the firewood merchant named Shuntaro Kotaka exposed the place where you originally gathered, which is proof that you are showing your feet."

"So, instead of hiding any longer, it's better to take this opportunity to design a destruction Shinsengumi, and if it succeeds, it can also be a good morale boost."

"With the so-called crisis comes opportunity."

You all think that way.

"And then, with the power I lent you, don't you feel that victory is within reach?"

Every word of his beloved, he inadvertently memorized it clearly.

Behind Katsura Kogoro are three killing machines that glow with metal.

"Gatling gun."

It is said that in order to reduce the number of soldiers participating in the war, overseas people made a weapon in the first two years to greatly enhance the combat ability of individual soldiers.

Just shake the crank behind it and you can get a steady stream of bullets shooting out quickly.

"This kind of thing, it is impossible to reduce the number of soldiers participating in the war, heh, the naivety of foreigners is sometimes incomprehensible."

"Out of battle!!"

The machine guns were placed on the carts that were easy to move, and the soldiers of the Emperor's faction pushed them forward, and under the order of Katsura Kogoro, his soldiers led by these three hand-cranked machine guns and carried swords, spears, and muskets, and attacked the ambush site of the Shinsengumi.

"This battle is the last battle in Kyoto."

"Don't forget what you promised me."

Just when his heart was already burning and his emotions were extremely excited, the words of his beloved words sounded in his mind again.

"Wait!"

Katsura halted the team for a moment and issued additional orders.

"If an outsider enters this area, don't hesitate whether it's a civilian, an old man, a child, or a woman......

Shoot them all.

This is the only request that Takanomiya Beloved makes after giving him the weapon, a request of unknown significance.

But as a businessman, she won't do anything that doesn't make a profit...... Probably so.