When people are in a quiet corner for a long time, their thinking will become dull, and their minds will gradually begin to forget some facts that already exist.

Such an ability to adapt, the ability to forget pain. It is really difficult to judge whether it is happiness or misfortune in human beings. Yuuka doesn't think it's good to forget her sin of killing people, but she hopes that everything is fake.

Regret and contradiction are inevitable.

"I'm thinking nonsense again."

I finally have a stable life, I can be sheltered by others, and I am still thinking about these past things, hehe, it seems that I have too much time to live, and it is very ironic.

Forget it, let's just talk about the past.

Yuuka is shopping for fabrics at the market, and she wants to buy a suitable dress for Nanami and the head office, but she can't find the one she likes, so she finally decides to buy the fabric back and make it at night.

I chose cherry blossoms for Shichishi. She felt that even if she made Qishi, she might not be willing to wear clothes of this color, but that person could never refuse the kindness of others, and it was even more impossible for Yuuka to make it herself.

"Like me......"

That day, Qishi's hug was very light, but Yuuka could feel the other party's powerlessness and dependence. Only at that moment, the incomparably powerful girl was as fragile as an illusion, and her love for Yuuka was not a simple friendship.

Nanami fell in love with Yuuka.

Yuuka knew at the time, she had been in Yoshihara for many years, and she was no longer the ignorant girl she was back then, and it was easy to understand the words hidden under the skin of people, and Qishi didn't hide the meaning when she said that, and her love was clear and hot.

Yuuka's way to deal with Qishi is to be silent, she pretends not to find anything and doesn't say anything, hoping to get along with Qishi as before, after all, even the former Oiran Yuuka has no experience of being confessed by a girl.

This time it was really hard for her.

Walking on the road, I felt that the corner of my clothes was being pulled, and when I looked back, I saw a little boy in ragged clothes, he was thin and skinny, and only a pair of eyes were still bright.

“……”

He held out his dirty hand at Yuuka.

Yuuka took out a few coins from her arms and put them in the boy's hand, and the other party saved up the money and ran away without saying a word of thanks. She didn't care, everything she needed to buy was already in place, and it was time to go back to the Shinsengumi station.

"I haven't seen you for a while, but Miss Soi can already give money to others?"

Yuuka turned her head, and she couldn't forget the faces of the people standing there.

Obviously he is a gentle and honest man, and his smile is very kind, but when Yuuka sees him, it is like seeing a nightmare from the past, and everything on the night of the Yoshiwara fire wakes up again.

"Miss Soi, you won't forget to be here."

"How could it be...... Mr. Sasaki. ”

Sasaki Saburo, Yuuka killed people with the gun he gave.

"But why is Miss Soi in Kyoto?" The man touched his chin as if he was pensive.

"Oh, I remember that there were a lot of people present at the time, and Okita-kun was there."

“……”

"Heh, I wonder if Miss Natsui is having a good time in the Shinsengumi?"

There are a lot of people here who haven't left the bazaar yet, and the other party shouldn't mess around, but even if the other party really takes her with a tough attitude and arrests her, it is impossible for the civilians present to jump out and stop the samurai master.

"Please take it easy, there's no malice in the next place, but can you ask Miss Sokai to say hello to the Shinsengumi for me?"

Sasaki said, "As the director of the Mikai group, I really regret that I haven't had time to visit the Shinsengumi. ”

"See you in the back group." Yuuka has heard that it is said to be an organization of the same nature as the Shinsengumi, but unlike the Shinsengumi, who recruit members regardless of their origins, the members of the Mikai Group generally have a much higher status, and then their own relationship, the security zone in charge of the Minkai Group is the central area of Kyoto.

It was also a place where there were more frequent battles with the righteous warriors of the Cheung Chau Domain, and I was afraid that the Hui group had suffered a lot of losses from those executioners.

"I know, I'll tell Mr. Sasaki." Yuuka lowered her gaze from Sasaki Sasaburo's eyes, and she said respectfully, "If Mr. is okay, I will be rude and go first." ”

Yuuka walked past Sasaki with the cloth in her arms, and he didn't stop the woman and let her go.

“…… Hehe, Shinsengumi. ”

One mountain does not tolerate two tigers, at first Sasaki only Saburo never put this fragile organization in his eyes, who would have thought that it would have a chance to grow, when he drove the Shinsengumi out of the hinterland of Kyoto, he never thought that the guys in the Changzhou Domain would still be haunted after the August 18 incident.

Yuuka's guess was not wrong, but in recent months, the Hui group has been tormented by those executioners who haunt the night and are skilled in swordsmanship, and several swordsmen in the group have died at the hands of the scarlet village to draw the sword.

"This harvest is not small......

Harboring and killing the shogunate's important officials may be a lie. Everyone knows what the essence of Kiyokawa Hachiro is, but in the eyes of the people, Kiyokawa Hachiro is a good person who died in an accident.

When it is known that the good man did not die in an accident, but was assassinated by a Yoshiwara woman, and at the same time the Shinsengumi took in the murderer, then his sacrifice Serizawa duck in exchange for innocence will be stained.

"In order to prove his innocence, the Shinsengumi used his own blood to prove it. It is not natural to fight with their lives to destroy the righteous people of Cheung Chau. ”

This is the end of the recuperation, and it is time for the Shinsengumi to fight with a sword.

"Woman, it's good that you didn't die at that time......"

Originally, he just got the news, but now he is finally "at ease" after confirming it with his own eyes.

This society is made up of people who have no status to talk a lot, and the samurai can make the common people die as long as they come up with a trumped-up charge.

Sasaki only Saburo beckoned his subordinates to secretly follow Yuuka.

"Grab her and kill her."

It's actually just a joke to let Yuuka go back.,Since you really met it, let's get rid of it decisively.

Next, he will see Kondo's reaction first, that man is like a demon and can't even guess such a trivial matter.

"But no matter how much you struggle this time, it's futile."

I'm going to dampen the spirits of these people. Sasaki Sazaburo and Shinsengumi have no grievances and no hatred, but they set foot in the same field.

In order to see the survival of the Hui group, he can only trouble the Shinsengumi to die.

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Yuuka didn't go back that night.