[Lord Gintama] Overlooking the Throne

When Ryo Jingomiya woke up, her hands were tied behind her back and tied to the back of the chair.

The bright incandescent light suddenly pierced into the depths of the pupils that had not yet adapted, causing her to half-close her eyes, and after a while, she opened them again and looked around.

This place is like underground, except for the light in front of her, the rest of the place is filled with bottomless darkness, even though the ghouls have very strong night vision, they can only vaguely see all kinds of intricate mechanical pipes in the darkness , extending all the way to the ground, with no end in sight.

A faint light came from the gap between the pipes.

"you're awake."

The man's faint voice suddenly sounded in the dead silence.

Ryo Jingomiya suddenly turned around.

A blond man, standing in the dark, looked at her indifferently.

"Since you're awake, come with me. I've prepared the alchemy formation for you." The man said, turning around and walking into the darkness.

"...Hey, won't you untie the rope for me?" Ryo Jingomiya reminded.

"You can untie it yourself." The man's voice was cold.

"Tch, boring." Ryo Jingomiya muttered, flipped her wrist, untied the rope skillfully, and followed.

She probably can't beat this man.

Thinking of this, Ryo Jingomiya threw herself away and realized that Yuehua was no longer by her side, and did not make any unnecessary moves.

In the empty room, a glowing torch was lit on the wall, burning silently and making a crackling sound.

An intricate alchemy array was drawn on the ground, with a knife in the eye of the array.

White as frost and snow, silent as the bright moon.

"Do as I say, I will teach you to activate this alchemy array." The man said.

"..." Jingu Ryo didn't forget Edward, who lost his limbs due to human body refining, and his brother Alphonse, who lost his body, so she vetoed it without thinking, "Why should I do this?" ? This alchemy array might be dangerous, and I don't know alchemy either."

"I will activate it for you, you just need to act like you are the one who activated it." The man responded, "Don't worry, this alchemy circle will not kill you, it will only send you back to where you came from." world, you also want to go back, don’t you?”

"I don't think you would be so kind and want to help me." Mulu hesitated, Jingong Ryo said immediately, "What's more, I don't even know who you are..."

After a pause, recalling the conversation between the two before her consciousness faded, Jingomiya Ryo suddenly realized: "You are the father that Ryan and Ruster said."

"I don't need to harm you. This knife does not belong to this world. Keeping it here will affect my plan." The man said indifferently, "Although it is safer to send you directly to the original world, it is better for this world. The impact is also relatively small, but I can also choose to kill you, and then destroy the knife, whether to go back or die, it is your choice."

"..." Although she really couldn't beat her appearance, she still felt subtly uncomfortable being pointed out so directly.

"I'll choose to go back." After a pause, Jingong Ryo, after examining the measurement, withdrew his gaze from looking at the man, and spoke calmly.

……

The chalk-drawn alchemy formation emitted a dazzling light, the formation eyes opened, and a black eye opened abruptly. Just as Jingomiya Ryo wanted to back away, he was pulled in by the black tentacles.

Flying on both sides are memories like revolving lanterns.

When he was four years old, his biological parents were killed by CCG's ghoul investigators.

When she was eight years old, she was stranded in an orphanage and disguised as a human being, and was adopted by a human couple.

When he was ten years old, his identity as a ghoul was exposed, and he got acquainted with Kurosawa Natsuki, Miura Akane, Kamdai Toshiyo and others.

At the age of 12, he killed his adoptive parents.

……

All kinds of memories flooded into her consciousness like wildly growing grass, and she heard the silver bell-like laughter of a little girl coming from her side as her headache was splitting.

"Ah, I'm here again, and the villain in the flask is too. Are you so afraid that I will tell about him? What a coward." The little girl with black hair twirled like a dance He jumped in front of her, tilted his head, and showed a pure smile, "Ah, this is the first time we meet, my master, I am Yuehua, please give me your advice."

"Sword spirit...?" Thinking of the fantasy novels that Akane Miura likes to read, Suzume's eyes showed hesitation.

"Ah, it's okay." The little girl who called herself Yuehua raised her fingers, and a hint of cunning flashed in her golden clear eyes, "But I used to be a human being. As the master, you don't understand me. How can this work?"

A heavy stone door with the Kabbalah tree of life appeared suddenly behind the little girl. She turned her back to the stone door, pushed it open, and stretched out her hand to the girl: "Please come with me, master."

The door suddenly opened, and Shen Gongliang, who was sucked into the stone door, looked at the blank space in astonishment.

Immediately afterwards, the lifeless blank suddenly disappeared, and the sound of boiling suddenly sounded. It was a golden horse and an iron horse, and the army was pressing down on the formation.

Shen Gongliang, who suddenly appeared on the battlefield, watched in a daze as those soldiers pierced through her like no one else, fighting each other, bleeding profusely, and dying.

They can't see her.

"It's here." The little girl was held by the little girl's soft hand, and the little girl who pulled her out of the battlefield ran straight into the mountains until she appeared in front of a shrine.

The leaves are verdant and the birds are singing melodiously. It is hard to imagine that there is such a leisurely and peaceful place in such a chaotic world.

"This is the Warring States Period." The little girl turned her head and introduced to her.

"Misaki Miko, why did you come out?" A woman in a kimono suddenly sprang out from the woods with a panicked expression, and when she saw them standing on the stone steps, she hurried down and said softly complain.

Ryo Jingomiya thought that she was speaking to the little girl, because the woman's tone and demeanor were undoubtedly directed in this direction.

But the little girl still had a careless smile on the corner of her mouth and did not respond.

The woman penetrated the little girl's body, Jingomiya Ryo followed and turned her head to look. There was a dirty-looking little girl wearing a priestess costume standing under the stone steps. That was probably what the woman called "Miko-sama!" "Are.

The girl has shoulder-length short hair, smiling with crooked eyebrows, and a pair of dark green eyes, like the most prosperous green pine tree on the mountain, pulling the sleeve of the woman's kimono, shaking it back and forth. Zhuojiao: "Sister Xing is the best, she won't tell Miko Takeuchi, right?"

"Really, you will be punished again if Miko Misaki finds out about it." Ueno Anko, who was pretending to be angry, scratched Misaki Miko's nose lightly with her hand, and said, "A shrine maiden who serves the gods cannot leave the shrine easily, you know Yet?"

"But, but... I saw that someone was injured again at the bottom of the mountain, so..." Misaki Yuehua muttered, lowering his head emotionally.

Perhaps thanks to the blessing of the gods, Misaki Yueka has a pair of magical eyes that can see the past and the future. Whenever she uses that miraculous ability, her eyes will turn golden as bright as the sun.

But, is it really a blessing to have such eyes?

Ueno Anmo, who led Misaki Yueka up the stone steps, was worried.

Misaki Tsukka and Ueno Anko who passed by them, before entering the shrine, the little girl wearing a shrine maiden costume suddenly turned her head and looked at them, obvious surprise and bewilderment flashed in her clear dark green eyes.

That immature face is clearly the same as Dao Ling Yuehua standing beside Jingong Ryo.

"Is that you?" Although it was a questioning tone, Ryo Jingomiya actually knew the answer.

"Well, yes." Dao Ling Yuehua nodded, "Master, have you met the descendants of the Misaki family, right? Mayumi Misaki, she is the descendant of the branch family."

"..." Shen Gongliang vaguely felt that Dao Lingyuehua's words were always weird, but she couldn't say what was weird for a while.

After a pause, she suddenly realized what was strange, and asked, "What about the people in my family?"

When Dao Lingyuehua said that Mayumi Misaki was from a separate family, his tone was too firm.

It seems that such a conclusion can be drawn without thinking at all.

"They're all dead." Dao Ling Yuehua's tone was very brisk, "Master, have you ever heard of the saying 'to provoke gold with blood'? It's like this——"

Daoling Yuehua, who snapped his fingers casually, watched the surrounding scenery change instantly with great interest. The sea of ​​fire was churning, and the molten iron in the metallurgical furnace was boiling, surging up like magma, and was about to overflow the furnace.

Plop, plop, like the sound of a stone sinking into the water, but it was the people of Misaki's family, who jumped into the molten iron as if they were dead.

The blood swayed slightly like a splash, and fell back into the same bright red bright fire and molten iron in an instant.

On the high platform, the maiden dressed in red was clearly still a little girl, her immature and weak body was covered with various decorations that did not match her age. Wearing armor, the man dressed as a samurai pressed his shoulders tightly with his hands, and wanted to scream out in horror, but he opened his mouth several times, but he couldn't make any sound.

The extreme fear and unwillingness made her tremble so much that she forgot how to make a sound.

When the last woman looked at her with a smile on her face, she jumped down the iron pool, and was soon submerged until she couldn't even see the hem of her clothes. The little girl finally let out a shrill cry: "Don't—"

The dark green pupils showed a dazzling golden color, and the little girl who was struggling violently and trying to stand up was lifted up by the back of the collar, and was pushed into the iron furnace in a trance.

It was only a moment to hang in the air, and the little girl seemed to have not reacted yet, with a dazed expression on her face, and then fell into the molten iron that was as bright red as magma and blazing with fire.

"The Misaki family is the family of the retainers of a daimyo of a small country during the Warring States period. When that daimyo lost his power and humiliated the country, the head of the Misaki family took the initiative to invite Ying, and proposed to fight for gold with blood, that is, to forge swords with living people. They all believed that they could change their fate against the sky. The sword made of the blood of the Misaki family will certainly be able to reverse the unfavorable situation on the battlefield, and the sword that was cast is to commemorate the daughter of the head of the Misaki family who is not yet ten years old, that is, I, Yuehua Misaki. Sacrifice, specially named 'Yuehua'." Dao Ling Yuehua explained this matter very calmly, "It's just that they still failed, no one can control this knife, obviously I didn't do anything, But those who got this sword all died badly, and the Onin Rebellion ended, and I was also demoted from the high-ranking God Sword to the Demon Sword, and was sealed in the shrine."

"..."

"However, people's hearts are the most unpredictable. One day, someone stole me out of the shrine. He wanted to see what the rumored demon sword was like, but he also died in the end. I was killed by the person who came to snatch the knife, and then the person who took the knife was killed by another person. Some of them said that it was for justice, and a demon knife like me should be sealed in the shrine and not allowed Some people say that I was born for the sake of evil, I am the demon sword, I should come to the world to punish this unjust world, I have been to many places, and I have also been to many different worlds."

"..."

"In some worlds, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, warm as the sun, and some worlds are dark and dull, with ugly pagodas, but no matter which world it is, my master is dead. I... can't understand why? It was born as the Imperial Sword Am I really a demon sword full of curses?"

"But I'm not dead." Ryo Jingomiya, who had been listening to Dao Lingyuehua's murmur in a daze, thought for a while and lowered her eyelids slightly when she asked a question, "That time when I met Kurosawa Natsuki At that time, although I barely escaped, but with such a blood loss, I shouldn't be alive."

"Well, I reversed your time because you made a wish to me." Dao Ling Yuehua said.

"..." Ryo Jingomiya was slightly stunned, his eyes were blank.

Did she wish for anything?

"Ah, okay, master, time is running out, you should go to the next world." Jumping in front of her, blocking her view of the swordsmith when he was forging iron, Dao Ling Yuehua revealed With a playful smile, "Don't worry, I will meet the person you want to meet, Master."

The surrounding scenery, like a lime wall that has been soaked in water, peeled off layer by layer, turning into a blank.

Dao Ling Yuehua, standing in front of the gate of truth, stretched out her hand: "Come with me, master."

The door suddenly opened, and when she came back to her senses, Ryo Jingomiya had already appeared outside the door, and the door slammed shut behind her with a sound as heavy as thunder.

Her vision suddenly became blurred, and when her consciousness sank into darkness, she suddenly remembered a series of dialogues.

- "Do you have any wishes?"

--"desire?"

——"Well, no matter what kind of wish you want, I can help you realize it. Money, wealth, rights... just want something, and you have to pay the corresponding price. So, do you have any wish you want to realize? ?”

— "So, I want to... live?"

——"Ah, is it eternal life, yes."

——"It's not like that, I just want to live a normal life."

——"...It's a little unexpected, I will definitely fulfill your wish, then, please be ready to pay the price, my master."

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When the end is almost over, that is, when the heroine's memories are all revealed, I will explain Xiaoliang's psychology.

Now, I can only say that she is actually a big liar who even lied to herself. _(:з」∠)_

Xiaoliang's wish here is to live a very ordinary life, but Yuehua actually failed to help her realize her wish.

Yuehua's foreshadowing is almost revealed, well, the next chapter will return to Gintama.