The Seven Realities of the Rogue

"Asakura?!" Someone recognized her.

Nanami seized other people's positions in an instant. When the other members of the Shinsengumi were fighting hard, she seemed to easily step on the strange metal killer and wiped out its controller in one fell swoop.

"How many more people?!"

"I don't know, I don't know how many people can move!!" Everyone was disheveled, their faces were hard to distinguish, and they didn't know which team they belonged to.

She could only cut down the soldiers who tried to rush up to resist, and then confronted the enemy with a knife. After seeing the first wave of companions who came forward was easily dealt with by her, the enemy no longer dared to act rashly, but also held up their weapons and gritted their teeth. Staring at Qishi standing on the wooden cart carrying the Gatling gun.

This is a wooden bridge.

Qishi takes a step forward, and the enemy also moves forward. When the distance is shortened to a certain limit, the battle will start immediately.

In such a relatively small space to deal with multiple enemies, Qi Shi is handy.In the dark of night, only the light of the knife is flowing, human life is so insignificant compared to the tip of the knife, but the strength of one person can stop the enemy's encirclement.

Behind her, the fighters of the newly selected group were also encouraged. They had heard of Qishi's powerful and superb swordsmanship, but it was the first time that it was shown directly in front of their eyes. This girl deserved her reputation as a sword ghost. Really strong makes people tremble with fear.

"You guys! Get out of the siege of the Changzhou Fan!!" Qishi shouted, restraining the decline, and turned against the enemy. Now that he has understood what the enemy's trump card is, then go and solve it. If it is too late to retreat, he will slash back.

"Where are the others?"

Grabbing a ronin with a sword in his hand who was struggling forward, Qi Shi asked.

"..." He shook his head. To tell the truth, it is too difficult to distinguish east, west, north and south at this level.

"Really..." Qi Shi could hear the gunshots in the distance and see the flames soaring into the sky. If he couldn't know the exact location, then he could always find a breakthrough if he went deep into the battle situation.

With a plan in mind, she put away the knife and prepared to go to the firefight.Before leaving, he glanced at the man stopped by him.She has been in the Shinsengumi for more than a year, but she has never seriously wanted to meet anyone, let alone ordinary members, and she can't even name the captains of various teams.

Then dozens of people wearing blue feathers like her were bloodied here.

Whether it is the Shinsengumi or the Restoration faction, many people will die in this battle.

"Damn it." Qi Shi didn't want to care about it so much, the life and death of other people had nothing to do with her.

Tadashi Matsubara, who was killed by the bomb, and the deformed man whose arms were cut off by himself...the people who died inexplicably in the Ikeda House.

"Mr. Asakura...Mr. Asakura..." Even though he is older than Qishi, he calls him Mr. "You have a bad complexion."

"Give me your gun." Qi Shi stretched out his hand to the man and asked for his fighting weapon.

The other party also solemnly handed the musket to her without hesitation.

"Take it." Taking the musket and carrying it behind his back, Qishi threw Chaoqie to the man.

"This!!"

"If you can't fight, then retreat. Compared with Chaokiri, Kaga Kiyomitsu is more suitable for my swordsmanship, and it is meaningless to carry more cold weapons in such a battle." Nanami explained to the other party expressionlessly." You take my knife and step back, and return it to me when you go back tomorrow."

Then without giving the other party a chance to refuse, she jumped away.

After receiving the knife, the man did not retreat to the rear for safety. He rushed into the enemy line like everyone else.

After all, isn't this moment the reason why a guy who was just a ronin joined the Shinsengumi and participated in the battle at Ikedaya?

Although everyone is not fighting for death, nor is it for survival.Both parties just want to prove that some things engraved in the bones have not decayed due to the changes of the times.

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Once again, it was not an enemy that stopped Qi Shi but Yuki Kawasaki.

At such a tense moment of battle, it is a bit inappropriate for two women to appear at the core of the "battlefield", but they all have their own reasons for appearing here at this moment.

"Haven't you left yet?" Looking at the woman who was almost dragging her body in front of her, the already irritable girl became even more irritable at the moment. Her brain seemed to be burning on a hot coal fire. In fact, she didn't understand it very much. There were too many things that gave her a headache today, and now another one popped up.

She really didn't want Yuxiang to stay in such a place of right and wrong in Kyoto, but Yuxiang just appeared and stood in front of her again and again, which made Qishi wonder if her solemn farewell in the morning was a joke .

"Let's go." Although she was getting impatient, Qi Shi still suppressed her emotions and didn't let herself get angry.

Yuxiang was panting, running back and forth like this was really difficult for her who lacked exercise on weekdays, but Yuxiang still gritted her teeth and carried it, just as Takanomiya told her.

Yuka Kiriri had something she had to confirm with Nanami Asakura.

"If I don't come back, you, ahem..." Her voice was very soft, but this was what she could convey to the other party with all her strength.

"Are you going to die here?"

"I told you, I won't die this time." Qi Shi didn't have the joy of seeing Jie Xiang when she woke up from a coma, and now she just begged that Jie Xiang would leave quickly.

"Then, assume that Asakura Nanami has died in the battle." Yuxiang said suddenly, "Just assume that you are dead."

"What's the meaning."

"Then you can leave, because you are dead, and the next battle has nothing to do with you."

"Yuxiang... what are you talking about?"

"Sure enough, it's the same as Takanomiya said."

"Takanomiya..." Yuxiang will appear here, it seems that that person is also involved, Qi Shi gritted her teeth, she never figured out what that person Takanomiya would do, that woman is really crazy .

"Qishi, what are you asking for extravagantly?" Jie Xiang asked her

And when she looked into Jiexiang's eyes, there was indescribable sadness in it.

"...excessive desire..."

"Is there no room for pain in your life?" Jie Xiang almost questioned Qi Shi.

"When you saved me from Yoshihara, why did you save someone who was not related to you? What did my life and death have to do with you at that time."

"That, politician, Qinghe Hachiro's body, you are obviously a dead person, but you risked his body and wanted to get out his body."

From the time Yoshihara met, Yuxiang should have seen Qishi's true nature, a strong and kind girl. Although many things happened after that changed Qishi's character and once became the ghost sword in his population, but after making a decision The girl seems to be back after leaving Shinsengumi's determination.

"You don't care about the reform or the shogunate, you just want to take some kind of responsibility... You, who can't stand the pain in your eyes, will you step down this time?"

Jiexiang talked too much today, and she didn't know when she had learned so much about Qishi.

"You say you don't have any big ambitions, but your ambitions are so terrifying."

"Use the sword in your hand to save people from fire and water, Qi Shi, what do you want to be?"

Qi Shi was stunned by Jie Xiang's words.

All along, what she did, what she did, what she felt pained after her father passed away.

The emotions belonging to modern people, a world view cultivated in the peaceful world for 18 years was brought to this era by her.

She couldn't bear the suffering of others in front of her.

"Run away."

Jiexiang approached Qishi step by step.

"Don't stay here."

Qishi shook her head.

"If you really want to leave, you don't have to keep your promise to Shinsengumi. No one can stop you."

Qishi stepped back.

"Let's go."

"A lot of people died here!! What I killed!! Others killed!! To protect mine! If I leave, wouldn't their lives become a joke!!"

That is a second, a second, a life that has been achieved with great difficulty over the years.

"Really... Sure enough, you are this kind of person." Yuxiang stopped in her tracks and smiled reassuringly.

Then Qishi saw the enemy soldiers appearing at the corner of the alley behind Yuxiang, and they aimed at the back of Yuxiang with their metal death gods.

She didn't have time to think about why the enemy appeared in this place, she almost used all her strength to pounce on Yuxiang who still didn't know anything.

"shooting!!"

The speed that Qi Shi has always regarded as her strongest weapon is very weak at this moment. She tried her best to make herself faster and faster, but there was still no way to reach Yuxiang's side faster than the bullet.

A woman's smile is beautiful.

Qishi didn't want that smile to freeze here.

The sound of the burst of bullets seemed to her more clearly than all the others.