Chief Okita in Taisho

"Tanjiro, Nezuko, how many times have I told you to call me Seta-san."

"It's okay, it's okay," Okita Souji said with a smile, "Just call me Soujiro."

Kamado Tanjirou and Nezuko gathered around his feet.

"You two came out to sell charcoal with your father today," Souji Okita patted their heads, "Huh? Has Tanjiro grown taller again?"

"Of course!"

Kamado Tanjiro's face was flushed, he didn't know whether it was from happiness or cold.

"I want to grow up quickly and help my father!"

As the eldest son, Tanjiro has been restless——

My father's health deteriorated day by day.

Although a doctor was invited to see him, Tanjuro Kamado was not sick, but his physical condition was poor, and there was no other way but to recuperate.

Several members of their family need Tanjuro to sell charcoal to survive.

Seeing the child clinging to Souji Okita and not wanting to leave, Kamado Tanjuro simply said: "Tanjirou and Nezuko, let's play with Seta-kun first, and I'll come find you when the charcoal is sold out."

"Father..."

Tanjiro was a little worried.

"Don't worry, Tanjirou," Kamado Tanjuro reassured, "It will be sold out soon."

Kamado Tanjirou finally nodded.

"Is it possible?" Kamado Tanjuro looked at Souji Okita.

"of course."

Okita Souji smiled and said, "I haven't played with Tanjirou Nezuko for a long time."

Zamon Tanjuro warned: "Don't cause trouble for Seta-kun."

“Okay~~~”

Okita Souji took the two children to a nearby open space to play hide-and-seek. Half an hour later, Kamado Tanjuro came back with an empty cart.

"It's time to go, Tanjiro, Nezuko."

"Say goodbye to Mr. Seta?"

Both children looked disappointed.

Kamado Tanjiro suddenly came up with a coup.

"Hey, Mr. Seta, would you like to come to our house for dinner tonight?"

"right!"

Zaomen Nezuko also agreed with her brother tacitly.

"Mom said that I will cook a lot of delicious dishes tonight, let's go together."

Zaomen Tanjuro also said: "If you don't mind, please come?"

"Brother Sojiro!"

"elder brother."

The little mouths are sweeter than the last.

"Hey, this..." Director Okita said helplessly, "It's really distressing."

Seeing that Osamu Dazai and California Kiyomitsu had no objection, he agreed.

Anyway, no new ghosts have appeared yet.

Zaomen's family lives on a snow-capped mountain.

The eldest son Tanjiro is 7 years old, and the eldest daughter Nezuko is 6 years old. In addition, he has two younger brothers and a younger sister.

Although poor, the family has a harmonious relationship and lives very happily.

The hostess, Aoi Zhi, is very good at cooking. Knowing that Mr. Okita is coming, she added several more dishes.

As for Dazaiji's ten crabs, they naturally became the Zaomen family's meal tonight.

The family couldn't hold back their enthusiasm, so Mr. Okita agreed to stay overnight.

He bought a few sets of new clothes with the redemption value, gave them to some children, and changed into clean ones himself.

Throw away the blood-stained kimono directly.

The system is simply a portable weapon!

"Here are the towels for you."

"Ah, thank you."

Souji Okita, who was wearing a yukata, turned around.The belt is cinched tightly to make your waist look even slimmer.

"Taking a hot bath after running around makes me feel much better." He laughed.

"Mr. Seta is very busy with work, he looks sixteen or seventeen years old," Kui Zhi also said with a smile, "With a successful career and good looks, there should be many suitors, right?"

Gossip is human nature.

As a mother, she has no chance, but can she secretly poke and hope that the other party will take a fancy to her daughter?

Nezuko is also a beauty embryo recognized by the town!

Zaomen's family didn't know the real job of Okita Souji.

"……Hey?"

Director Okita coughed lightly: "I...haven't considered such a thing."

Okita-kun is still not good at dealing with such topics.

Sitting beside the charcoal fire, California Qingguang thought while resting his chin.

In the past, members of the Shinsengumi team often went to Shimabara, which is known as the "men's paradise" in Kyoto. Only Mr. Okita has never been there.

No, I went there once and was dragged past.

Okita-kun was so embarrassed at the time that he slipped away in less than 2 minutes while everyone was not paying attention.

Zaomen Kuizhi was also understanding and didn't ask any more questions.

She pointed to the wet spot on Souji Okita's yukata.

"You need to dry your hair quickly, or you'll catch a cold."

After Kuizhi exited the kitchen door, several children rushed in.

Kamado Nezuko was the first to get the towel.

"Brother Sojiro, let me brush your hair for you!"

"Okay."

"Ah, my sister is so cunning," Kamado Hanako called out, "I want to help Soujiro brush his hair too!"

"That……"

Zaomen Nezuko gave her a towel, "We are half of each other."

Souji Okita sat down on the tatami.

"Then please leave Nezuko and Hanako."

Zaomen Takeo looked at Nezuko who was earnestly helping to brush her hair, and realized something in a daze.

"What kind of boy does my sister like?" he asked.

Zaomen Nezuko thought for a while, covering her face in embarrassment. "A boy like a flying car..."

Huh?

Okita Souji thought about it.

Is it shogi?

In the past, Mr. Shannan loved Xia very much.

"Brother Sojiro also looks like a speeding car..."

"……Um???"

Suddenly being cueed, Souji Okita didn't seem to read the overtones, "Thank you for the compliment?"

Where Okita Souji couldn't see, Kamado Nezuko puffed up her cheeks angrily, summoning up her courage again.

"Brother Sojiro."

Okita Souji looked over: "What's wrong?"

"When I grow up..."

"Ok?"

Being stared at so seriously, Kamado Nezuko's voice was like a gnat.

"You can marry, marry... marry..."

Beside the charcoal fire, Kami Kiyomitsu glanced at Osamu Dazai who was holding a book motionlessly.

Brat, you haven't even turned a single page of this book!

...Wait, I read the book carefully and even took it upside down!

If you care so much, go there!you go! ! !

How do you pursue Okita-kun like this? !

When other people's children can make soy sauce, it's too late for you to cry!

"Brother Sojiro, when I grow up, can you marry me?!"

Hanako Kamodo, who was still young, suddenly shouted.

Kamado Nezuko: "..."

Dazai Osamu: "..."

California Qingguang: "..."

who to marry ? ?

"Oh no!"

Zaomen Hanako was distressed, "I can marry..."

"Tonight Daddy will do a Kagura dance!"

Kamado Tanjiro rushed in cheerfully, interrupting the farce of a group of children.

"Let's go see Soujiro together!"

"We're going too!"

"It's time for you to go to bed, don't keep pestering brother Soujiro."

"Eh? Brother is too cunning!"

Kagura dance...

Souji Okita remembered the time when he first met the Zaomen family.

He and Kiyomitsu Shagui passed by the town, and met Tanjuro Kamado who was selling charcoal down the mountain.That day there was only Zaomen Tanjuro alone. He leaned on the wall and couldn't help coughing, and beside him was a wooden cart full of charcoal.

Qingguang, California is a little emotional.

"Okita-kun, that person..."

Okita Souji walked over.

"Are you okay?"

"Cough cough, it's okay...cough cough cough..."

Okita Souji and California Kiyomitsu helped this person sell the charcoal, and in return, the other party invited them to their home for dinner.

"correct."

Before arriving home, Kamado Tanjuro said to the two of them.

"Please don't tell my family about this."

California Qingguang: "But..."

"Tanjiro is still young. As the pillar of the family, I can't fall down so early."

"As long as I can be active for a day."

This sentence……

Okita Souji closed his eyes.

He can empathize.

In the last days before leaving the team, he vomited blood and shouted.

[Please let me fight, I can still fight. 】

[As long as I stay in Shinsengumi for one day. 】

Okita Souji opened his eyes.

"I see."

Since then, Director Okita has become acquainted with the Zaomen family on the snow mountain.

When I have nothing to do, I will go to play with this family.

Once staying overnight, Kamado Tanjuro showed him Kagura dance.

The glow is bright, and the sun and the moon are shining.

It really looks like the Kagura dance at the festival.

It's just that as a swordsman, Okita Souji couldn't see that under that gorgeous dancing posture, it was clearly a deadly sword skill!

It seems that there are 12 types in total, and they go round and round, forming the thirteenth type.

Okita Souji memorized the sword moves, and the subsequent experience of killing ghosts proved his guess to be correct.

Ji Guoyuan proved that this is the "breath of the sun".

……

"Okay."

Okita Souji responded, "I haven't watched your father's Kagura dance for a long time."

"Then let's go together, brother Soujiro!"

Several children surrounded Souji Okita to the outside yard.

Osamu Dazai snapped the book shut.

"……not understand."

Only the nearest California Qingguang heard his voice.

"what?"

"Why do you like children?"

Dazai Osamu exuded a faint breath of boredom.

He's seen too many—

"Children are a collection of violence and selfish desires. They make no secret of their sadistic desires, greed, and selfish desires. Their small bodies gather animal natures that are more terrifying than lions and giant dragons."

"However, so are adults."

Just learned to hide it with the skin of reason.

Therefore, he is afraid of humans.

"I don't know." California Qingguang replied.

"But Seta-kun has always—" He likes children very much.

Osamu Dazai caught the key.

"From before?"

California cleans up.

"No, nothing."

I almost forgot, this guy is so smart!

Be careful when talking to Osamu Dazai in the future.

He got up.

"Come on, let's go out and have a look."

Tanjirou Kamado hasn't left yet.

"Brother Dazai."

Osamu Dazai got goosebumps from being called this.

He hates this kind of appellation that represents the fetters between people.

"Dazai."

He said lukewarmly.

"—that's all you need to call it that way."

Smells of alienation and resistance...

Kamado Tanjiro tilted his head in confusion.

Obviously when Soujiro was around just now, Brother Dazai was not like this.

"Dazai—"

"Do you have lemons with you?"

Rao is as clever as Dazai Osamu, but he didn't realize it all at once: "What?"

Kamado Tanjirou made two circles with his arms.

"I smell good--big sour!"

Dazai Osamu: "..."

"Pfft."

California Qingguang laughed out loud when he heard the conversation between the two.

Osamu Dazai walked out and said casually.

"Yeah, I brought lemons, why don't you find out where I hide them?"

"I smell a lie, brother, you obviously didn't bring it."

Dazai Osamu: "..."

He refuses to talk to Kamado Tanjiro!

……

In the middle of the night, the Kagura dance continued.

Aoizhi went to take care of the sleeping children, except for Okita Souji and the three who were still in the yard, only Tanjiro Kamado was left.

Flaming tall candlesticks surrounded the circle.In the center, Tanjuro Kamado shakes the Kagura bell and performs a prayer dance for the god of fire.

"Actually, I've always been confused—"

Zamon Tanjiro said, "Why is Dad so weak..."

"—and so many children?"

Kamado Tanjiro: "..."

He looked at California Qingguang dumbly.

"Ah? Isn't that what you mean?" California Qingguang said, "Sorry."

Okita Souji smiled and fell to the side.

Kamado Tanjirou adjusted his expression.

"Father is obviously very weak, but he can dance for so long in the ice and snow."

"Later, my father said that this is a breathing method that will not get tired no matter how much I move."

His breathing even melted the surrounding snow.

Okita Souji managed to straighten his waist again.

"Then you can imprint every movement of him in your heart." He said gently.

I hope Kagura, the god of fire, can dance just to pray.

I will kill all evil spirits for you.

Okita Souji turned his head.

"Shall Qingguang go dancing too?"

"……what?"

"I haven't seen Qingguang dance yet."

Okita-kun, are you serious?

California Qingguang looked at his little high heels, ready to "die heroically".

Dancing is nothing, as long as Okita-kun is happy!

"Pfft."

Hearing the laughter, California Qingguang knew that he was being played by his master again: "Se... Tian... Jun..."

"Sorry sorry~"

Smiling, Okita Souji always felt that something was missing, looked around, and found that Osamu Dazai had fallen asleep leaning on the pillar.

That's right, he and Kiyomitsu are fine even if they don't sleep for seven days and seven nights, but Dazai is just an ordinary person.

I want Dazai to rest earlier, which is why Okita Souji agreed to stay overnight tonight.

"Dazai?"

Okita Souji tentatively called out twice, but there was no response.

Looks really tired.

Osamu Dazai usually sleeps very lightly.

A blanket is offered.

Okita Souji took it from Kamado Tanjiro, "Thank you."

Osamu Dazai's face was a little pale, wondering if he was frozen.Souji Okita's tentative hand stopped halfway and retracted.

"Kiyomitsu, please carry Dazai inside to rest."

"Does Seta-kun want to meet him?"

Okita Souji smiled and shook his head.

He didn't really care about it.

"I can have normal contact with anyone, except Dazai."

"It's not your problem."

Who is Dazai's special ability.

"only……"

Okita Souji looked at Osamu Dazai.

"I always feel that he... is a little lonely."

***

On the side of the snow-capped mountains, there was a lot of joy, while on the other side of the infinite city, Guiwu Tsuji Wuyou was already so angry that he burst.

All the ghosts gathered and fell to the ground trembling.

The bloodstains in the Infinite City, I don't know how many little ghosts have become punching bags.

In this case, Rao even dared not say much.

Why not angry? !

But in three nights, two of them died!

One of them is still the winding one!one! ! !

Is it his turn to be next? !

"A swordsman with Breath of Flowers, is that scary?!"

"Huh? What are you thinking? 'Ask me and I don't know', why don't you know, tell me?"

wow-

The ghost whose voice was heard was devoured by Ghost Wu Tsuji Wuyou, and blood spilled all over the ground.

"You guys can't even beat this guy!"

"What?! You want to say 'the one who can't beat is the first one, what's the use of getting angry with us'? It seems that you think you are very powerful?!"

wow——

Another little ghost gave the ghost head.

"I really don't know what I'm raising you for, you bunch of trash!"

The only one who dares to speak at this time is Tong Mo, who can't feel the emotion.

"Oh, what should I do..."

"In order to appease the adults, why not dedicate my head to the adults."

Before he could finish speaking, Onimai Tsuji Wumi smashed his head.

"Who wants your head?!"

"roll!"