In Order to Become a Heroic Spirit, I Had to Do Things in History

"Don't laugh at Kondo, your smile is so ugly." Zuo Cun reluctantly interrupted Kondo's laughter, "I'm here this time..."

"I want to persuade you to leave the shogunate, and leave Tokugawa Qingxi."

"The war is about to break out, Inoue is dead, and I don't want you to..."

"Zumura!" Kondo Isamu interrupted Zuo Mura sharply.

"...Thank you, I know, you are for me, for the earthwork, for us."

"But ah..."

"I still have to continue on this path." He clenched his fists, "This is the path I chose myself, and it is also the sincerity of the Shinsengumi."

"My path, if I don't even have the confidence to go on it myself."

"Then my sincerity...maybe it doesn't exist anymore."

Zuo Village looked at Kondo Isamu's profile and was silent for a while.

"I will fight."

he said softly.

"This war, I will fight."

Zuo Village stood up.

"On the battlefield, I won't show mercy this time."

"As you said, Kondo, the path I chose... I must keep walking."

The two stood up and looked at each other.

"Ah, I won't be merciful either." Kondo Yu's mouth showed a hint of fighting intent.

"See you on the battlefield." Zuo Cun walked towards the window.

"Ah, by the way, Zuo Cun, there is one thing I want to tell you." Suddenly, Kondo remembered something.

"what?"

"Go to the southwest of Osaka and look for a place called Ryoshunya." Kondo Isamu's eyes showed a hint of determination, "Okita...now there."

Zuo Village was stunned: "Kondo, no, I...not qualified..."

Kondo Isamu came over, grabbed Zuo Village's shoulders, and looked Zuo Village in the eye.

Zuo Village dodged a little.

"She's sick." Kondo's tone was pleading, "She's so sick that she can't hold a knife anymore."

Zuo Mura looked at Kondo in disbelief.

"Is... cough?"

He thought of Takasugi, and of the great fire in Kyoto a few years ago.

The symptoms of the two seem to be the same.

Zuo Village panicked.

Kondo nodded.

"So, promise me, you'll go, okay?"

"Okita is like me, Hijikata and Inoue, the younger sister of the three of us."

"At least, at least let Okita..."

"You can leave without regrets."

Zuo Village nodded.

"I see."

"I'll be there."

As he spoke, Zuo Cun jumped out of the window.

Kondo looked at Zuomura who disappeared into the night and sighed.

He went back to his desk and continued to look at Fushimi's map.

===Chapter 410: The Battle of Toba·Fushimi===

It's snowing outside.

"Cough-cough-cough-cough-"

Miss Okita huddled under the quilt, opened her eyes and glanced at the window.

"It's dawn--cough-cough--"

Putting on the thick Wu clothes, Chief Director Okita glanced at the California Qingguang hanging on the wall and let out a long sigh.

Glancing at his dry and thin hands, Soji Okita's eyes gleamed with pain.

"Can't take a knife... What kind of samurai is this..."

Kondo Isamu placed Chief Okita in Liangshun House, and spent money to hire a servant for Mr. Okita to take care of Mr. Okita.

"Miss Okita, are you awake?" The maid knocked on the door and asked respectfully.

"Ah, I'm awake, Masaki." Chief Okita smiled.

The maid came in: "Have a cup of hot tea, Miss Chongtian. It's snowing outside and it's a little cold. I'll go and bring you thick clothes."

"Well, thank you Masaki."

Mr. Okita sat on the tatami with a faint smile.

"Ah!" Suddenly, the panicked voice of maid Masaki came from outside.

"What's wrong, Masaki? What happened?" Okita was a little puzzled.

"You...don't come here!" Masaki's voice became more and more frightened.

"Masaki!" Okita realized something was wrong, got up quickly and rushed out.

But I saw a man standing in the courtyard and explaining something to Zhengmu in a panic.

Looking at the man's appearance, Mr. Okita felt his pupils shrink.

"...Zuo Village?"

......

"How did you come here?" The two of them sat on the platform side by side, and Chief Director Okita asked calmly.

"I went to meet Kondo, and Kondo told me." Zuo Village was a little lost.

"Cough-cough-cough-cough-"

"...You're sick, Chongtian." Zuo Cun stretched out his hand, hesitant to pat Chongtian's head, "Sorry, I didn't know for so long."

"I don't blame you." Chief Okita smiled and shook his head, "After all, you are too far away."

"I..." Zuo Cun didn't know what to say for a while.

He pulled his hand back.

"It's not to blame, Zuo Cun." Chief Okita smiled, "I just feel that after you learned that I was ill, I was very happy that you could come to see me immediately."

"The thing about Inoue..." Zuo Cun mentioned a name that shouldn't be mentioned.

He will not actively avoid the problem.

"Senior Brother Inoue, there is no need for you to apologize to me, and there is no need to apologize to Brother Inoue." Chief Okita stretched out his hand and touched Zuo Cun's head, Zuo Cun's body suddenly stiffened.

"Everyone moves forward along their own path without hesitation. In the process of advancing, roads will intersect and ideas will collide."

"It also creates conflict."

"You just chose your own path. If you hesitate about your own path because of us, it will be an insult to yourself, to us, and to the Xinxuan group."

"Samurai...isn't it a kind of person who would rather accept death than humiliation?" Chief Okita looked at the sky and withdrew his hand, "It's just a pity that Inoue-san is not dead. In a showdown with people, that's all."

Zuo Cun's eyes focused on Chief Okita's hand: "Your hand—"

Chief Okita's hands were shaking.

"Cough cough—cough cough—" Mr. Okita suddenly covered his mouth and coughed.

"I'll take you to the doctor..."

Gu "No need, Zuo Village." Chief Director Okita interrupted Zuo Cun's words.

Snow fell on the eaves without making any noise.

"It can't be cured." Chief Okita shook his head.

There was a long silence.

"The war is about to begin." Zuo Cun said these words with difficulty.

"Without a doubt...I will face Kondo and the others."

"Then, if you really meet, please follow your own path." Soji Okita lifted a strand of hair from his forehead, "Just as I expect Kondo to follow through on his sincerity."

"Both of you, don't make a decision that will shame and regret yourselves."

"......I understand."

......

mid-January.

Emperor Meiji issued the imperial edict "Retro decree of royal administration", ordering the Tokugawa shogunate to hand over the real power that should have been handed over long ago.

Tokugawa Qingxi, unsurprisingly, denied the legitimacy of the "Wangzheng Retro Large Order".

War broke out.

The Emperor Meiji immediately ordered that the shogunate be defined as "the enemy of the dynasty" and inform the world.