Chapter 322: Flowers Bloom Fruitlessly
Despite the loss of two fingers, Hanjiro Nakamura did not intend to admit defeat, but chose to fight until the last moment to maintain his dignity as a samurai.
As a top master of the Edo era, once he has the will to die, the combat power he bursts out is incomparably amazing.
Nakamura Hanjiro threw away all the distractions in his heart, and every knife was a lose-lose tactic, which actually made up for the disadvantage of the knife in his left hand to a certain extent, and brought the fierceness of the show to the extreme.
However, Zhang Heng always took the initiative, and as time went by, there were more and more wounds on Nakamura Hanjiro's body.
Not only on the chest, waist and abdomen, arms, but even on the neck, he pressed the wound with one hand, trying to stop the blood flowing out, and the other hand was still fighting with the knife, but the strength was getting weaker and weaker, until he was finally slashed in the chest by Zhang Heng again, straightened his back, and then fell down unwillingly, but he stuck the number of beads in his hand Hengji on the ground, and wanted to struggle to get up again.
Zhang Heng walked over and inserted the rib difference in his hand into the back of Nakamura Hanjiro's heart, helping this person to completely get free.
Then he breathed a sigh of relief, and then he pulled out the number bead pill Hengji that was inserted on the ground.
The rosary wrapped around the handle of the knife was a little cold after it was in his hands, which also calmed Zhang Heng's restless qi and blood a little, and then Zhang Heng carefully looked at the blade.
I found out that I don't know if it was because of the supernatural power on the knife, after such a long battle, Shuzhu Maru Hengji was not injured much, and there was not even a gap on the blade, on the other hand, the two knives in Zhang Heng's hand before could almost be described as scarred, and there was no intact place on the knife body, if the battle didn't end, it might not be long before they were all broken.
Zhang Heng glanced at it twice, and then inserted Shuzhu Pill Hengji back into the scabbard.
At this point, he has completed half of the task of this dungeon, and found a famous knife of the same level as the Three Sun Moon Sect, and then just continue to sharpen the knife technique, and by the way, see if he can find a better knife.
The battle in Gion finally came to an end, and Zhang Heng didn't know what was going on with Okita Soji.
In fact, Takasugi Jinsaku doesn't care much about whether he dies or not, whether it's the shogunate or the fallen shogunate, it doesn't make a difference to him who loses or who wins, not to mention that now the shogunate is in decline, and it can't be reversed by one person's power at all, even if Takasugi Jinsaku dies here tonight, there are Okubo Ritsu, Saigo Takamori and others, there is a high probability that there is still no way to prevent the battle between Daimasei and Toba Fushimi in the future.
The reason why Zhang Heng threw out this bait that the Shinsengumi couldn't refuse was just to ask Okita Soji to help him get the knife, and now that the knife has been obtained, it stands to reason that there will be nothing to do with Zhang Heng after that, but thinking that tonight and Okita Soji can also be regarded as fighting side by side, if the latter doesn't make a move, he can only choose to escape in the courtyard before, and he can't get Shuju Maru Hengji.
Zhang Heng still decided to take a look at the honest boy.
The bloody battle that happened in Gion just now really shocked many people, those people looked at Zhang Heng with a trace of fear, and the crowd where Zhang Heng walked couldn't stop retreating, for fear that this guy who looked like a demon king would be unhappy and cut them down.
Zhang Heng walked to the place where Okita Soji fought before, and saw the three corpses on the road, all of them were samurai of the Fallen Shogunate Sect, with different deaths, and some of them had different heads, and then Zhang Heng also saw blood stains on the ground.
After Sherlock Holmes's training, tracking has become Zhang Heng's strong point, and he quickly restored what happened here at that time, Takasugi Shinsaku should have abandoned the sedan chair and wanted to exchange it for more time, but then Okita Soji still chased after him.
Zhang Heng was about to move forward, but the next moment he saw a figure with a knife appear in the darkness.
"Who?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows and asked.
The other party did not answer.
So Zhang Heng's palm moved to the handle of Shuzhu Pill Hengji.
But then he saw the face of the visitor through the lantern on the side of the road, and it was actually Okita Soji who had just separated from him not long ago, but now Okita looked dazed and depressed.
"What happened?" Zhang Heng was a little surprised, "Did Takasugi Jinsaku run away?" ”
"No...... I killed him," Okita muttered, "I killed him, in front of her, I killed a person who had no resistance left. ”
"Him?" Zhang Heng was a little unconscious, who came over and said that Okita was talking about.
"Miss Koyo of the Yunshu Domain, Takasugi Shinsaku fled to her house, and when I rushed over, she was about to heal Takasugi Shinsaku, and I killed Takasugi Shinsaku who had fallen into a coma despite her pleas, and knocked out her father who came to dissuade her." Okita raised his head and looked at Zhang Heng's eyes, his eyes full of pain, "I...... Did you make the wrong choice? ”
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This question is not easy for Zhang Heng to answer, the contradictions between the Shogunate faction and the shogunate are irreconcilable, and their struggle will determine the direction of Japanese history, Okita Soji is a member of the Shinsengumi, even if he doesn't care about politics, he is still very clear about his position.
The two of them spent so much effort and paid so much price tonight, Okita Soji was going to kill Takasugi Shinsaku no matter what, it can only be said that his luck was too bad, Takasugi Shinsaku ran to his sweetheart's residence at the end, so that this relationship that was still in the bud went directly to wither.
But to be honest, even if there is no tonight's incident, Zhang Heng is actually not optimistic about this relationship.
No matter how beautiful the meeting between the two is, it can't change the fact that Soji Okita is the captain of the Shinsengumi Ichiban team, and Xiaoya's father is a member of the Yunshu Domain, and he is on the side of the shogunate, so he will not marry his daughter to Okita Soji, the executioner of the shogunate, in any case, otherwise how will he face his relatives and friends, and how will he face those fallen heroes who died at the hands of the shogunate?
And the identity of Okita General Secretary can't hide it from Xiao Ye for a lifetime, so Zhang Heng thought, maybe it's not bad to end like this, and use this most decisive way to end this relationship when both of them only have ignorance and good feelings.
Like most love in this world, only flowers bloom, and it is difficult to bear fruit.
The taste can only be left to both parties to taste silently.
Of course, the bitterness and heartbreak in Okita's heart now are also difficult for others to understand, Zhang Heng can clearly feel the pain and contradiction of this cheerful big boy at the moment, but he didn't say anything, just patted Okita on the shoulder and said, "Go home, take a hot bath, find a doctor, sleep well, and it will be a new day when you wake up tomorrow." ”