After returning in the afternoon, Miyazawa received a letter from Kitaiwa. There are only a dozen or so words written on it - at noon on November 21, ***, I sincerely invite you to meet, Beiyan.

When Miyazawa read it, he immediately destroyed the letter, thinking, "November 21 is tomorrow, and I don't know what happened. ”

At dinner, Yingxue had no intention of eating, and the events of the past few days made her uneasy, and she heard that she would go to patrol the city prison in the morning, and she didn't know what she was going to do.

Early the next morning, Sakura changed into a tan military uniform and waited neatly. She stood upright in front of the mirror, looking at herself affectionately from top to bottom - this hat, military uniform, belt, military pants, boots, she had never had before, and now she felt heavy on her body, and finally she moved her eyes to the face in the mirror, and raised her hand to caress her cheek, only to feel that her face had not changed much, except that her face had been thinner, but she was unfamiliar with this face.

"Gone." Miyazawa shouted outside the door.

"That's fine." Sakurayuki turned around, took a few steps, opened the door and went out.

When Miyazawa saw her eyes full of affection, she was sad and sad, but she was stunned at first, and a sense of sadness and desolation arose, "You...... You ready? Miyazawa asked.

"Hmm." Sakurayuki answered, squinted at Miyazawa, and still walked forward.

"Wait a minute...... Come what may...... You're thinking about your family, they must want you back-"

Sakura Xue listened for a moment, not feeling good in her heart.

Kurokawa Shikibu specially asked Nagase intermediary to go with him, and a few people went to patrol the city prison in a short time.

Kurokawa Shikibu had already arranged and instructed Miyazawa Shinobu to inform the people here, so they were led by a leader and two guards to a separate cell inside the prison.

"That's him."

A few people looked through the cold window and saw a bloodstained man sitting on a stool with his head bowed, his hands and feet chained.

"This person has a background, he is still a Chinese, and the people above took him for half a month in a row, beat him like this and did not pry his mouth open, and the day before yesterday he was taken up again, I thought he was lifeless to come back, but I didn't expect that he was not dead." However, the document has been issued, and it is ordered that he be executed tomorrow, but fortunately you have come at a good time, and it is up to you to deal with him tonight. ”

When Yingxue heard that he was a Chinese, she stared at him directly, and when she saw his miserable situation, she felt a little uncomfortable.

"Open the door, open the shackles of your hands and feet." Kurokawa Shikibe said.

The prison officer said solemnly: "This person is determined far beyond ordinary people, and his body seems to be made of iron and copper, but he is a dangerous person. ”

"Well, open it."

The warden motioned for his men to get the key and ordered him to open the cell door. When he heard that the prisoner's hands and feet were to be shackled, he didn't dare.

"Sakurayuki, you go." Kurokawa Shikibe said.

Sakurayuki tilted her head slightly and glanced at Kurokawa Shikibu, still staring back at the man.

Kurokawa Shikibu signaled to the prison officer, who understood, and handed the key to Sakurayuki.

Sakura Xue looked at this bunch of keys with low eyebrows, and slowly reached out to take it, Miyazawa Shinobu opened her eyes as big as copper bells, and slowly shook her head, but Sakura Xue couldn't see it, she quietly moved in, not daring to take a breath. Walking straight up to the man, he could see him completely - covered in blood, his face was red and swollen, his head was still hanging and his eyes were closed, there was no movement at all, only his chest was still rising and falling.

This man had no fear, and looked down on life and death, and was weary, so he hung his head and did not even open his eyes, and although he heard some noises, he only took him before him for trial.

Sakurayuki saw that he was motionless, so she just opened the shackles of his hands and feet as Kurokawa Shikibu said, and when she was suspicious, she heard a noise, and looked back - Kurokawa Shikibu had already asked someone to close the prison door.

Sakura stared at them in confusion, not knowing what it meant.

Kurokawa Shikibu walked to the prison door and said unhurriedly: "Tonight, only one of the two of you can come out of here, either he dies or you die." “

As he spoke, he threw a short knife into it and left the place.

Miyazawa stood indifferently, he couldn't go, if the teacher had to let Sakurayuki kill in this way, then he must look at her this time.

"You can't be here, she'll be distracted." Kurokawa Shikibe said.

"Teacher, I can't go, I want to watch her, aren't you worried that Sakura Xue will be killed by him?"

"She's in danger if you're here!"

Miyazawa couldn't listen, and he stood dumbfounded.

Sakurayuki's heart melted at this moment, and she took two steps back, staring blankly at the man and the short knife on the ground.

The Chinese man heard someone say this outside, he opened his eyes and slowly raised his head.

Sakura shook her head violently, only to come back to her senses for a moment, and immediately turned around and rushed to the door, shouting, "I won't kill him!" You madman, you can't do this! Let me out! ”

She shouted a dozen times, only to hear echoes from the empty room, and the atmosphere became even colder and more solemn, and she was terrified.

"Heh......" The man sneered and said to himself, "Let me kill another Japanese when I die, and God treats me ...... naively."

He bent down and picked up the short knife and walked towards Sakura Xue step by step, the scars on his body were cracked, and several parts of the flesh were oozing blood.

Sakura didn't care to look behind her, and this person had already walked behind her, she felt a chill down her spine, and squinted to see a bright knife falling from the sky, stabbing at it quickly, she hurriedly dodged sideways, and retreated to the corner.

"I don't have a grudge against you, why would you kill me?"

He couldn't understand Japanese, he couldn't hear her clearly, he only knew that there was a person in his blurred vision, this person must die, and he walked crookedly with heavy steps.

"Don't—" Sakurayuki's voice trembled, and the man in front of her was covered in bruises with only a corpse in his eyes.

"Did they tell you?" Ying Xue kept asking, "Are they testing me, and you are also my senior brother, are you...... Right? ”

"Huh-" The short knife stabbed over, Sakura Xue just dodged, and said tremblingly as she retreated, "Don't force me, I will really kill you...... I'm really going to kill him, Shinobu! Teacher! I'm really going to kill him, don't force me! ”

At this time, Miyazawa Shinobu had been pulled outside by Kurokawa Shikibu, and he only saw Sakurayuki shouting in horror from a small window.

Sakura Xue couldn't retreat, shrinking in the corner, she watched in amazement as the shining knife stabbed towards her heart, "If you stab here, you will die immediately." This thought flashed through her mind, but she didn't have time to dodge, she reached out and grabbed the handle of the knife, and at the same time, her hand was also cut, and the blood was dripping down instantly, she didn't feel much pain, she just stared at the tip of the bloody knife hovering over her chest, "I...... If you do this to me, I'll kill you..."She kicked the man away, his knife fell, Sakurayuki picked it up, held it tightly, and he pounced on it again, on the tip of the knife.

"Uhh

There had been silence in the cell for half a minute, and Miyazawa Shinobu could only see the man's back, still standing.

"I'll take a look!"

"Just wait here!" Kurokawa Shikibe couldn't say anything, and grabbed him.

After another dozen seconds, he collapsed.

Kurokawa Shikibu turned his head to look at Nagase Intermediary Lang, his eyes full of pride.

"You win, I'll sign." After he finished speaking, he turned and left.

Shinobu Miyazawa ran to the door and was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.

Sakura Xue sat crookedly on the ground, the knife in her hand was still dripping blood, looking at the person who fell in a pool of blood and twitching, she said to herself in a trance: "Killed, I killed someone......"

The man was lying on the ground and still didn't breathe, and when he heard that it was Chinese, he struggled with all his might, raised his last breath, and scolded: "Traitor! Come to a sticky end. Then he closed his eyes.

Sakura's heart was like a thorn, trembling all over, and she wept silently.

On the second day, Shinobu Miyazawa met with Kitawa as promised.

The two sat opposite each other, Kitawa handed him a note, Miyazawa unfolded it, then rubbed it and swallowed it, the two looked at each other, Miyazawa Shinobu pondered for a moment, only nodded, Kitawa also nodded, and then left separately.

Half a month later, the military school, Kurokawa Shikibu office

"All the information and required documents have been sorted out, and you will submit it when you pass it, as long as the review goes well, Sakura Xue can leave early next year." Miyazawa said.

"Well," Kurokawa Shikibe asked, "how is she now?" ”

"It's very bad, but I'm still training every day."

Kurokawa Shikibe frowned and said, "You go and see, this is not all over, she needs to recover immediately." ”

"Yes." Miyazawa responded, very worried, so he went to the training ground to see Sakurayuki.

She was carrying a dagger and stabbing the humanoid target intently, each stab hitting the heart, and she was sweating profusely, a few strands of hair clinging to her face.

"Let's take a break." Shinobu Miyazawa said.

Sakura Xue ignored him, still staring at him without squinting and without distractions.

"I'll go get you water."

"Don't drink it."

"Sakura, it's been half a month, can't you release it yet?"

"I'll never let go of it for the rest of my life."

"He's a prisoner, if you kill him, he'll kill him, why do you torture yourself like this?"

"He's a prisoner to you, not to me." "I only know that he is Chinese." ”

"What happened to the Chinese?"

Sakurayuki stopped and said, "Because I'm also Chinese." ”

"What?"

Sakurayuki stopped answering, and Shinobu Miyazawa fell into deep thought.

The next day, training was underway.

The four of them stood in a row, and after days of training, all of them had a new look, and they completely bid farewell to the youth and naivety when they first entered the military academy.

Kurokawa Shikibe nodded, spun around in front of them, and asked, "As women, you have a naturally deadliest weapon, do you know what it is?" ”

The four of them stood with their heads held high, like statues, and did not answer.

"It's your face and body."

The eyes of the four of them were shining, but their faces did not change.

Kurokawa Shikibu glanced at them one by one, and said as he walked, "Your external conditions are enough to make a normal man swoon, but if you meet an extraordinary man, it will take a little more effort to make him fall into your beauty trap." ”

Suddenly, he frowned and said sharply, "But now you have no femininity at all!" Empty eyes, pale expressions, and stiff bodies will only make people avoid them, you don't look like a woman at all except for gender! ”

Miyazawa Shinobu watched from the sidelines, quite touched, he walked closest to Sakurayuki, and he hadn't seen her smile so far.

"That's good, because I didn't treat you as women in the military academy, but you are still women when you get out of here, so now I want to restore your female identity, as a female agent, you must be stronger than ordinary men, but also more feminine than ordinary women, so that you can adapt to any environment, now you are like "men" enough, at this time you need to release your nature, I want to see your side as women. ”

The crowd was puzzled, but they remained silent.

"I've never seen you laugh, but now I'm smiling." Kurokawa Shikibe said.

They looked at each other.

"It's an order!" From left to right, Kurokawa Shikibu walked up to the first girl first and said, "Laugh! ”

She forced a smile.

"It's too blunt." Kurokawa Shikibe walked up to the second girl.

She smiled.

"Too rigid." Kurokawa Shikibu walked up to the third girl.

She smiled too.

"Too reluctantly." Kurokawa Shikibu shook his head and asked, "Miyazawa, can they charm you like this?" ”

"I can't." Shinobu Miyazawa said.

"I just feel disgusted, if you try to seduce men with such a smile, they will kick you away." Kurokawa Shikibe came to Sakurayuki again.

Sakura Xue was motionless, her face expressionless.

"What's wrong with you, you don't understand?"

"Out of thin air, how can you laugh?" Sakura Xue said.

"Whether you mean it or not, even if you face the enemy, I only make you laugh now!"

Sakura still doesn't obey.

"You dare to disobey orders," Kurokawa Shikibe stared at Sakurayuki, but she still didn't smile, so she said to Miyazawa, "Take a chopstick and hold it for her, you don't have to eat tonight." ”

Miyazawa took one out of his mind, and Sakurayuki had to grin and say nothing.

"Miyazawa, Kawashima Sakurayuki will be handed over to you, I will only give you two weeks, no matter what method you use, you must let her learn how to laugh, I want that kind of charming, soul-seducing charm!" Kurokawa Shikibe said obliquely at Sakurayuki.

"Yes." Shinobu Miyazawa agreed.

"You three, come with me." Kurokawa Shikibu took the other three girls and handed them over to the others.

Recently, Beiyan's letter of appointment to China has come down, and it is tentatively scheduled for early next year, which is close to the time when Sakura Xue will be transferred to the Senior Secret Service, so before that, Sakura Xue must escape from the military academy, otherwise once Beiyan leaves or she is transferred to the Secret Service, it is difficult to say what will happen next.

Now, no one can save her except Miyazawa Shinobu anymore, so Kitaiwa wrote him two letters in succession.

Since Oda's death, Shinobu Miyazawa has changed, and he knows that Sakurayuki's angular personality is not suitable for staying here, so he is determined to let him escape from here.

One night, the training ended

Sakurayuki came to the Kurokawa Shikibu office according to Miyazawa Shinobu words.

Shinobu Miyazawa was already standing respectfully at the Kurokawa-style table at this time.

Sakurayuki stood in front of the door and saw Kurokawa Shikibe leaning back in his chair, tilting his head and squinting to rest.

"Coming?" Kurokawa Shikibe didn't move, only moved his lips, and said, "Come in." ”

Sakurayuki walked to the center of the room and stood straight, not daring to go any further, nor daring to speak.

"A week has passed, and I heard Miyazawa say that you have grown." Kurokawa Shikibe opened his eyes and raised his head.

Sakura didn't know what he meant, and asked, "What did I grow?" ”

Kurokawa Shikibu threw away the question, looked at the cup of tea on the table, and said, "Drink tea." ”

"Teacher's tea, how dare I drink it."

"I told you to drink." Kurokawa Shikibe said.

Sakura Xue rolled her eyes, she didn't know what she meant, she glanced at Miyazawa Shinobu , he nodded at himself, and when he turned around, he saw that Kurokawa Shikibe was still looking at him stunned, as if he was ordering himself to drink, so he had to take a few steps forward, take a sip of the teacup, and still stand a few steps back after putting it down.

Kurokawa Shikibu picked up the teacup and looked at it for a moment, looking at the lip prints left by Sakurayuki drinking water on this cup, and actually brought it to his mouth in this place and drank it all.

"Teacher, you-" Sakura Xue was shocked, dumbfounded, and her face turned red.

Kurokawa Shikibe smiled and said, "It's a little interesting, it's a little bit of a woman's charm, you sit down." ”

Sakurayuki didn't sit at first, but Kurokawa Shikibu knocked on the table and frowned, "Sit!" ”

Sakura sat down next to the chair and bowed her head in a proper manner.

Kurokawa Shikibe blinked in a trance, the light was red, his eyes were rolling, and he smiled: "Why don't you never smile?" Laugh a little. ”

Sakurayuki was at a loss, Kurokawa Shikibe smiled, reached out to Sakurayuki's face, and muttered, "Daughter, why are you unhappy?" ”

Shinobu Miyazawa next to him was still standing casually, and Sakurayuki was so frightened that she hurriedly stood up and dodged, "What's wrong with the teacher?" She asked.

"I'm drugged."

"You-" Sakurayuki asked in a suppressed voice, "Why did you drug the teacher?" ”

Miyazawa Shinobu didn't answer, and kept staring at Kurokawa Shikibu.

Kurokawa Shikibe couldn't stop turning his head, his whole face was black and red, he felt that what was in front of him was both real and illusory, and there was no sound in the room, but there was a rumbling sound in his ears.

"Teacher, how are you?" Shinobu Miyazawa asked.

"I ...... What's wrong, I'm fine. Kurokawa Shikibe asked rhetorically, "What's the matter with the two of you?" ”

Seeing that his eyes were confused and his words and deeds were out of shape, Miyazawa Shinobu knew that the effect of the medicine had completely taken off, so that he was confused, so he said: "Teacher, you ordered me to teach Sakura Xue the ability to hook souls, but there are no outsiders in the school, how can I let her be immersed, so I want to ask you for a week off, take Sakura Xue out to integrate into real life, and go to experience first-hand learning, so that she can be beneficial." ”

"Get out, get out...... Oh, that's a good thing, you take her there. Kurokawa Shikibe took out a pass from the drawer, handed it to Shinobu Miyazawa, and said, "You two go, you take good care of her." ”

"Yes, then I'll take her out tomorrow."

Kurokawa Shikibe nodded, and Sakurayuki was surprised to witness that Shinobu Miyazawa actually took out his pass.

"Go" Miyazawa Shinobu waved his hand.

Sakurayuki followed out the door, Kurokawa Shikibe frowned, rested with his head propped up, and then fell asleep on the table.