[Gintama] Mr. Songyang that day

The idea of ​​leaving has been delayed again and again, until this summer, Songyang still couldn't make up his mind.

In the sticky and lively summer, there is a fireworks display that people in Matsumoto Village look forward to every year.

The last time a fireworks display was held in the village was the year she first arrived. Grandma Shan took her and Yinshi to the festival. Yinshi was full of resistance and disgust, and she held her hand reluctantly. He didn't take anything seriously, but when he occasionally glanced at the lively scene around him, there was a distressing loneliness in his eyes.

What did he remember?Was it his mother who died young?Or would the color of the fireworks remind him of that tragic sunset on the battlefield?

At that time, Songyang just stroked his hair lightly, and handed him the apple candy he just bought.

"Do you want to eat it? It's very sweet."

"A Yin doesn't like sweets."

Yin Shi said it awkwardly, but bit his mouth honestly.After a while, he forgot what he just said, and kept licking the candy apple.

"Sugar content... Ah Yin's sugar content today is completely satisfied..."

Seeing that he was eating so happily, Songyang bought one herself. She squinted her eyes so satisfied with the sweet taste just after taking the first bite. After eating, she couldn't help but buy two more. One person, one, and the appearance of two people holding hands and eating apple candy was commented by Grandma Shan, "What's the matter with you two, are you carved out of the same mold?"

At that time, Songyang did not have the concept of restraining the amount of sweets Yinshi ate, so in the second year, Yinshi ate a few teeth and was dragged to the dentist by Grandma Shan. Song Yang, who was guarding outside, could hear it clearly, and asked Granny Shan nervously.

"What about the extracted teeth? Won't the mouth be empty? Can it grow back?"

Grandma Shan poked her forehead to teach.

"Fortunately, Yinshi is young, and his teeth can still grow. If you eat rotten teeth, you won't be able to grow them, understand? Don't get used to Yinshi anymore. If you want to control it, let me control it. You are not allowed to eat it for at least a month. .”

Yinshi, who had just had his tooth pulled, covered his face and ran over, blocking Songyang, and angrily pushed Grandma Shan's hand.

"Stay away from Songyang, the stinky old lady, Ah Yin is angry and don't bully her!"

"Yo, I know I'm protecting him, so you should grow up quickly, look at you, a boy's current height—"

Granny Shan stretched out her hand to gesture, and laughed indifferently.

"Wait until you're taller than my shoulders before bickering with me."

"Stinky old woman, don't look down on Ah Yin! And you, Songyang, why are you standing there stupidly and let others poke your forehead!"

Songyang's usually smooth and porcelain-like forehead left a few red marks, Yinshi saw her still smiling, and for some reason became irritable, and scolded Songyang with a dark face.

"Don't you like being touched by others? Don't let the stinky old woman bully you!"

"Hey, you brat is too arrogant! Up to now, I am not as tall as an old woman like me, and I still look like an idiot who is arrogant."

"Ah Yin is clearly still in the normal developmental stage! Even the 'widow' is earlier than the other brats—"

"Stop talking nonsense, you brat!"

Sugataki couldn't bear to knock on Yinshi's head, covering Yinshi's head to hide, but she still chased after Yinshi and continued to knock bang bang.

— That was seven years ago.

Gintoki grew from a stubborn brat holding her knife to an awkward young man with a tough outline. His expression was finally no longer lonely, and the incompatibility of being a ghoul faded away. He established an intimate bond with the people around him, and in This world takes root and grows.

He grew stronger and stronger amidst the loss.

Song Yang thought, this is enough, she only asks so much, even if she has to leave, she won't be worried because she is worried that he won't be able to bear it.

——Gui led a few juniors to shuttle between the food stalls. Gaoshan was holding Songyang's arm, but at this moment he saw something and stopped in front of the ring toy stall, hesitating to speak.

"Let's go play?" Songyang patted Gao Shan's shoulder. "I'm going to stand by the river for a while."

"Don't run around." Yin Shi, who was following her and looked left and right, grabbed her hand when he saw this, and muttered. "The firework festival is about to start, teacher, if you get lost, Ah Yin won't have time to look for you."

"It's over there, No—"

Songyang pointed to him. "On the bank of the river, next to the pine tree, there are too many people, and I want to take a breath."

So who is the one who is excited to take them out every time they hear about an event?Who was the one who caught the goldfish just now and the net bag was broken?

Hearing Yinshi's complaints like this, even Songyang, who is an adult, looked away in embarrassment.

"Well, I'm used to the hand holding the knife, it's really hard to put down the knife and hold something else—"

"What, it would be great if Ah Yin came to shake your hand."

Gintoki blurted out without thinking, and then reacted quickly and explained in a panic.

"I mean, you don't need to worry about things like fishing for goldfish or cooking. Ah Yin is doing it."

"Yes, Yinshi is the most reliable." Song Yang, who didn't understand the other meaning at all, said while rubbing his hair with a smile.

"Don't worry, I'll go over there for a walk."

Yin Shi nodded, and asked worriedly.

"Just stand there, don't go anywhere else, we'll come to you later."

"Got it." Songyang poked his face. "I feel like being talked about by Euntoki like a child, but I'm very happy."

Those pale green eyes held a smile and a tenderness enough to melt the night.

"Who cares about you!" He turned his face away from Songyang's hand in embarrassment, and ran to the dessert house in three steps, not letting the other party catch a glimpse of his blushing face.

Songyang walked slowly towards the river, his eyes reflected all kinds of light, and suddenly turned cold.

— She was being followed.

Songyang walked very slowly.

She walked all the way to the big tree on the opposite side of the river, and after making sure that the eyes of the three children from the lively market could not reach the shadow, she stopped slowly and turned around abruptly.

The other party didn't seem to react to her actions, and let her see clearly in a hurry.

It was a strange man wearing a bamboo hat. Although that face did not match anyone in her memory, Songyang did not dare to make a conclusion directly. ask him.

"Your Excellency has been following me, is there anything urgent?"

The other party was dressed in an ordinary samurai outfit, taller than her by a head, and her hair color was hidden under the bamboo hat, so she couldn't see clearly, and she could detect the element of disguise after looking carefully at that face.

There was a knife on the side of the man, but the decoration on it was not hidden, so Song Yang recognized the source of the knife at a glance.

It was the saber of Amaterasu-in Naraku.

Songyang's heart suddenly felt cold.

"Afraid?"

Xu Xu's voice came from behind her, approaching her quietly, grabbed her hand, changed his usual fierce killing intent, and spoke softly.

"There is nothing to be afraid of. If Naraku comes, I will kill them all for you."

"—Or do you want those children to die with you? Naraku may be afraid of Xu, but he will never be afraid of Yoshida Shoyang as a human being."

"Not stained with blood, but want to protect the people around you? Now, do you regret it?"

"To shut up."

Song Yang didn't have time to answer the chattering Xu, but just watched the man caught by him vigilantly.

Why did the people in Naraku stare at her?Does this person know her identity?No, no, no one who has seen her face in Naraku is gone, and there will be no one else, except——

"Who is Your Excellency?"

The man said nothing.

His hands were pinched by Songyang's joints, and he couldn't break free, so he stood silently and stiffly a few steps away from her, lowered his head and didn't look into her eyes, the hostility in his body flowed slowly around him like running water, but Not toward Songyang.

He seemed to have come out of some dark place, and he was used to arming himself with cold killing intent. Even if he hid in the darkness, he couldn't hide the hazy aura.

The hand held by her was trembling, and Songyang noticed that his body was also trembling unstoppably.

It seemed as if he had suppressed the overly intense emotions with force, and he would lose control if he took a step closer.

Songyang could only be in a stalemate with him for a while.

The other party showed no hostility, let alone any killing intent towards him. Even though his identity and purpose were a mystery, Songyang couldn't let him go so easily with this attire.

She could only continue to probe.

"Are you...do you work for the shogunate?"

The man raised his head bewilderedly.

Even Yi Rong couldn't hide those eyes full of haze, these eyes watched her quietly, and the strong and painful emotions in them made Songyang feel worried for him.

"If I'm wrong..."

She couldn't help frowning, wanting to get closer to this man.

"Allow me to apologize."

The face-changing technique commonly used in Naraku is still a technique that she worked out in her free time. It has been handed down to this day, and she is familiar with the techniques and weaknesses. This kind of mask is thin and tough, and it is not easy to be damaged. Ordinary people can't find the traces of connection, but for As far as she is concerned, she can unmask the opponent's disguise with one blow just by waiting for the opponent to reveal his flaws.

The stranger stepped back to prevent her from touching his face.

He never spoke.

The light in those eyes dimmed, leaving only a void.

The pain of being suppressed tore at him.

Mingming tried his best to climb out of the deep mud, trying to embrace his sun, but was burned by the light that did not belong to him time and time again.

I just want to-

He stared intently at his teacher who looked vigilant in front of him, and the long-lost heartbeat in his chest fell to a boundless silence at this moment.

want to meet you.

but--

He thought so calmly.

But my teacher has forgotten me.

You have completely forgotten my breath, and made such a sentence on me.

There are other people around my teacher.

Her tenderness is given to others.

Her eyes are the shadows of other people.

Obviously, I have already accepted this reality——

"If your Excellency really has something important to say, you might as well say it bluntly. I'm just a country teacher, and I really can't understand what you want to convey."

Songyang never found any traces on him that could reveal her identity. She made up her mind and directly attacked him on the head. When the man hurriedly blocked it with her free hand, she swung her wrist and pulled the bruise on his face. Disguise.

The man squeezed the bamboo hat tightly with his hands to try to hide his face. The suppressed hand struggled violently and almost broke free from Songyang's hands several times. Open the thin mask he used to disguise himself.

——Her hands froze in mid-air, as if she lost her ability to move in an instant.

The man took a deep look at her from under the bamboo hat.

Just a glance.

The strong emotion contained in that look made her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

"You are--"

She let go of her hand involuntarily, and the man quickly tore off the mask and held it in his hand, stepped back a few steps and jumped, turned and left across the river bank.

how can that be possible.

Songyang stared blankly at the empty river bank, recalling the other party's face over and over again.

How did that happen.

It's the scar that runs all over his face.

——Actually, the twelfth generation from many years ago couldn’t figure out why her blood could heal the knife wound that opened her body, but it couldn’t heal the scar on Oboro’s face.

After busying in front of her several times, and letting her sit down to rest, she held her cheek and looked at the conspicuous scar on her face, and couldn't help feeling guilty.

This is her fault.

——Later, she was walking alone in the mountains, in the rain, among the wilderness, thinking about the huge rock, thinking about the obscurity who died for her, thinking about the promise that had not yet been fulfilled.

it's all my fault.

She always thinks so.

I said I would protect that child, but let him be hurt constantly, dragged into the abyss, and finally smashed to pieces.

And I did nothing.

I will continue to walk with the guilt for him and the pain of losing him, until one day I can turn my undead monster into a human being, and pay back everything owed to him with the death of a human being.

This is what I owe you.

"hazy……"

He is still alive.

At this moment, Songyang understood what a cruel mistake she had made.

Oboro is not dead.

Maybe he wasn't affected by the explosion, or maybe the undead blood in his body hasn't been exhausted, which can make him come back to life again, these are not important.

What matters is that he is still alive.

But no matter what, that day she stopped in front of the rocks and let go of the child's hand, causing him to fall into the boundless abyss again.

——He still became a part of Naraku.

How did that happen?

She was thinking about those dead eyes, and she was still staring at the waves on the river in a daze, even when Gintoki rushed over and grabbed her hand and shouted in her ear, she couldn't fully react.

"Are you stupid!!"

When looking for someone to find Yin, who was about to vomit, she took her by the hand and jumped anxiously, panting and shouting.

"I agreed to wait for us by the river bank, and I ran into this dark corner alone, teacher, what are you thinking??? I'm almost dying of anxiety, do you know that!! Such a big man Don’t let Ah Yin worry at all!!!”

Song Yang woke up suddenly.

The man who looked like Oboro had grown up had long since disappeared without a trace.

Yinshi looked at her worriedly, and when he saw her distraught look, the alarm bells in his mind rang instantly.

"Did you—did you meet someone? This expression—"

Songyang was stunned for a moment, and his eyes drifted away unconsciously. Yinshi keenly caught the clue in her eyes, and immediately asked after her.

"What the hell is going on? Why did you come here alone? Who did you meet? A man or a woman? Or—"

The boy's tone darkened.

"Someone is threatening you? Or is someone in trouble approaching you?"

"No."

Songyang tried his best to suppress the throbbing pain in his heart.

No.

We can no longer let these children do it for her—

"I thought I saw someone I knew, so I ran over to see what was going on, but it turned out to be the wrong person. It was super embarrassing-by the way, where are Jinsuke and Kotaro?"

Yinshi looked her up and down suspiciously, seeing that she quickly put on that shallow smile again, knowing that there was no answer, he snorted a little irritably.

"Who knows where they are, they're gone—"

In short, he will take good care of her, don't say anything if you don't say it.

As soon as he turned his hand, he took Songyang's hand into his own.

"Where to go?"

"The firework festival is about to start, find a good place to wait, Ah Yin asked specifically, promise, that small mountain over there is the clearest view."

"But Jinsuke and Kotaro—"

"They'll come by themselves."

Songyang was dragged by him and started to run.

She glanced at Yin Shi's rarely cheerful expression, and sighed.

"Are you in such a good mood?"

"No! Ah Yin thought of something funny."

Yinshi's face looked a little red under the dim light, maybe it was because of running just now.

"Well, what's the matter?"

"That, the wig, that stupid wig."

Gintoki said falteringly. "He said he likes Miss Arwen from the dessert shop."

"Huh? But Miss Arwen is already married."

"That's right, that guy—that idiot is a senior, do you know what it means? In short, the kind of gentle girl who looks like Yamato Nadeko—I don't talk about you anymore, A married married woman, the older kind."

"Then..." Songyang blinked in surprise. "Kotaro's first love seems to be fruitless..."

"Who cares about him!" Although he said he was watching the fireworks, but when the fireworks exploded in clusters above his head, Gintoki kept staring at the ground, and quietly observed Songyang's expression from the corner of his eye, making sure that the other party did not reject Nian After discussing the topic on the topic, he stuttered and squeezed out word by word.

"Well, then, come to think of it, old, the teacher likes it, what type is it?"

"Me?" Song Yang was taken aback by his question, and shook his head honestly.

"I didn't think of such a thing."

A monster like her never considered expecting human love.

"What, you want to be single for the rest of your life."

"Well, that's good too."

"Huh?" Yinshi raised his head to look at her.

Unpredictable emotions flashed in those red eyes. "Teacher, are you serious?"

Seeing his surprised look, Songyang gently touched his head and said with a smile.

"I said so."

She stared at the gorgeous fireworks and said softly.

"I just hope that you will grow up happily and embark on your own life journey. You may go far, but there must be a very vast sky waiting for you—"

"What about you?" Yin Shi interrupted her abruptly.

"Eh?"

Gintoki was silent for a few seconds, then began to speak as if talking to himself.

"As for Ah Yin, I don't have any ideals in life, and I don't have any places I want to go. Before I met you, I thought it was enough to live like this. After I met you, I realized what the life of ordinary people looks like."

The boy's resolute outline was reflected too softly in the light of the firework, and those red eyes reflected the color of the firework, shining scorchingly.

"I don't care about the others. As for Ah Yin, it's good to continue like this, guarding you, the teacher, guarding your private school, and guarding the batch after batch of brats who are babbling with you, just like this."

"Other than that, Ah Yin, I really don't have any lofty goals that are too unrealistic. What kind of vast sky, the dawn of Edo like a wig, or a real samurai like a short cedar, sorry, Ah Yin's pursuit in life is only so low."

"The knife in your hand protects you and what you want to protect. Ah Yin's life is enough."

"So, Ah Yin won't go anywhere, and don't think that I will leave you one day."

Songyang listened to him quietly, and slowly stretched out his hands to wrap his shoulders, and then gently embraced the suddenly stiff body of the other party.

"Thank you, Silver."

If it is silver time.

Even if you step over her corpse, you can still protect everything she wants to cherish.

Gintoki, who was embraced by her, carefully raised his hand to respond to her embrace.

The young and energetic boy secretly made an oath in his heart.

Will protect her, and her wishes.

He still doesn't know what choices he will face in the future.

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