[Gintama] Mr. Songyang that day

In the morning, all the cargo crews came and went by the pier, and no one paid attention to the sparsely populated alley.

Song Yang stood in the shadow of the corner of this alley away from the main street, of course he did not forget to wear a mask as Yin Shi asked.

The person who came was probably used to hiding his tracks, so the sound of his footsteps was very faint, but Songyang was able to distinguish the existence of this person from the noisy noise by the pier.

The man is still dressed in the same dress as when we met at the old private school site, and his face is still the same as the one he saw that day.Although the person who buried the note with "Kabukicho" under the pine tree was Matsuyo, but it was the other party who pasted the note "Meet you at the pier" outside the window of the master house. When Matsuyo came to the appointment, the other party stared at her without saying a word.

After thinking about it, she carefully pulled the mask down to her chin, and then noticed that the man began to tremble uncontrollably.

It was from the moment he saw her face that the other party was shaken uncontrollably. Through that mask of calm, shock, ecstasy, panic, fear, etc. surged into those uncovered eyes in an instant. These emotions settled down, leaving only a daze and emptiness.

It was the look in the eyes of someone who was so desperate that his heart died, but suddenly faced with such a reunion, he seemed to have forgotten what a surprise is and a miracle is.

Songyang took a step forward, tentatively touched the man's cheek, and groped for the trace of disguise behind his ear, while slowly explaining.

"I...for some reason, I forgot a lot of things, including who I am, and I haven't been able to remember, but you said that you are my first disciple, but I don't have any doubts. Tell me that what you said is not wrong."

The man's body was stiff, until Songyang touched the edge of the mask, he suddenly reacted, and seemed to have finally recovered from Songyang's words, understood her meaning, and stopped his original movement of retreating. He lowered his head and quietly asked Songyang to remove the mask.

The face spanned by the scar was completely exposed to the air.

Songyang suddenly felt his heart tighten.

This face gave her a strong sense of impact. It seemed that at a certain moment, this person caused her pain and powerlessness from the bottom of her heart, and this feeling intensified when meeting the other person.

But she couldn't grasp the fleeting memory, so she could only stare at the man's real face, and then she was stunned for a while before slowly making a sound.

"What's your name? I still can't remember you..."

"it does not matter."

On the man's gloom-covered face, there was an expression of relief as if seeing the sun through the clouds.

He bit the two words of this address very lightly and slowly, and called out gently in a very cherished tone.

"teacher."

Teacher Songyang.

- The man's name is Oboro.

Songyang felt a little familiar with this name for a while.She remembered another name, similar in composition and naming style, making her wonder if there was any connection.

After all, in Jianghua's mouth, the woman with this name has the same appearance and body shape as her, and even her physique also comes from the dragon veins of the earth, so similar that she is almost the same person.

"When I met that woman named Xu, I was still living in Luoyang."

Jiang Hua is also a mutant caused by the influence of dragon veins, but now she is no different from ordinary people. Only her husband Shenhuang knows about this past, and now Songyang is added.

"Although I, you, and Xu are both dragon vein mutants, the situation is not very similar. Besides, my planet—the dragon vein of Anxiety had completely stopped responding at that time."

Songyang has not fully remembered his past as a dragon vein body, but it was obviously not an easy experience. People affected by dragon veins mutate from their body cells, so no matter what kind of serious injuries they suffer, they can heal the wounds very quickly. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is indeed a terrifying thing.

But it's not just the wounds, judging from her current state, even if she is killed, she may be able to be resurrected again.

"I don't know what she did, but I recovered from the near-death state and became like a normal person, free from the influence of the mutant."

For Jiang Hua, it is her wish to become an ordinary person.And she was so worried, and she was naturally targeting that woman——

virtual.

"It's the same as me. Xu is also working hard to become an ordinary person. I asked her why she didn't use it on herself. She said that this method didn't work for her, and it could only work for mutants whose dragon veins stopped moving."

At that time Jiang Hua told her so, and sighed deeply.

"I don't know what she wants to do, but her goal is probably the earth's dragon veins, or some kind of force that controls the dragon veins. She is eager to destroy this power."

Jiang Hua's eyes fell on Songyang's face, perhaps looking for her other connection with Yu and Xu.

"That's what I think. Songyang, the key to your lost memory may lie in Xu. If she can sense your existence, I think you will meet one day."

——Hazy (おぼろ).

——Virtual (うつろ).

"How did I meet Mr. Oboro?"

Oboro is a man of few words.When Songyang talks to him, she always asks a question and answers vaguely, with an overly respectful attitude, which makes Songyang a little uncomfortable.

She doesn't like Oboro's humble appearance, at least this is not the state a disciple should have, but more like putting herself in an inferior position.

Songyang just asked this question by accident, and then he expressed his resistance to the honorific title of "Sir", and almost knelt down to salute.

"Please be sure to call the students by their names, the teacher."

Songyang who was startled quickly stretched out his hand to pull him.

"I see, Oboro-kun, anyway, please don't be too restrictive."

"...Just call me by my name, teacher."

"Hazy?...Don't be too nervous, just relax a little bit, shall we?"

Oboro's lips curled up because his name was called out from Shoyang's mouth.

Although the smile was very faint, for this man's expressionless face without any fluctuations, such an arc was enough to soften his somewhat ferocious appearance.

"The student was brought up by the teacher when he was very young."

Regarding the acquaintance between the two, Oboro briefly summed up with this sentence, and did not want to reveal anything else.

Songyang had no choice but to find a breakthrough by himself.

"Why isn't Kelong in the private school?"

"……that is because……"

The gray-haired man's lips trembled, he lost his voice for a while, and it took him a while to regain his voice, and he answered slowly.

"Because of the war, I was separated from the teacher, and I couldn't accompany the teacher when he opened a private school."

"Is that so..."

Song Yang was stunned for a moment, seeing the extremely painful expression on his face, he hesitated for a while, and gently embraced his trembling body.

"Hasn't Oboro suffered a lot... But to see Oboro standing here, I must have been very happy in the past. Of course, I am also very happy to meet Oboro now."

——Hazy often thinks of that full moon night.

That person had already planned to kill again for the injured student, but halfway out of the knife, the bright light shone into his lifeless eyes.

But she didn't go on.

For that promise, the promise she made with her first disciple to "not kill anyone again", she willingly passed away as a speck of dust in this world that could not shake the sky.

——Evil spirits don’t disappear.

But humans are just a drop in the ocean.

that time.

Hazy looked at that familiar yet unfamiliar face, and listened to the strange yet familiar person tied up in the laboratory narrating the long past in a calm tone.

For a moment, he felt that that person was still the "virtual" he was familiar with. Compared with Yoshida Shoyo who was a village teacher who stayed safely in the human world in Matsumoto Village, he seemed to be more used to that person, who would sit on a tree for He followed up with the twelfth chief who was happily shaking his feet.

But who is it?

It took the gray-haired man kneeling there some time to feel the coldness spreading from his heart, into his blood and into his whole body, making him unable to move, just like at this moment, the eldest disciple of Matsushita private school completely died .

Did he really meet that human named Yoshida Shoyo?

Has such a god really appeared in his life?

——It was just the last sweet dream he had before falling into Naraku.

There is only the "virtual" that he must devote his entire life to.

If anyone can tell him that this is not a dream of nothingness.

——Then he saw those beautiful eyes, with the familiar emerald green as gentle as the spring breeze.

That is the beautiful color that makes him willing to indulge in it and give all.

"Students too... overjoyed to be reunited with their teachers."

Even if that person forgets him again.

But it's okay, it's fine.

Deep in his heart, Oboro thought silently.

The teacher still looks so happy, is it because of staying with that man?

He knew that the man named Sakata Gintoki had special meaning to Songyang, and he also knew the reason why Songyang let this man make a choice.

——that man has always had the treasure he dreamed of.

But now he has nothing else to wish for, only wishing that his teacher can not remember anything and live in peace.

Theoretically speaking, it should be the man who knows Songyang better than Yinshi——, but he doesn't talk much about the past with Songyang, nor does he talk about his own affairs.

Songyang also couldn't guess whether the other party knew the identity of her dragon vein mutant, and couldn't find any useful clues from the language.

She and Oboro met by the pier for three days, each time before the sun set, Oboro would send her to a place half a street away from the Master's House, and then disappear across the roof.

When chatting, he was like the most perfect listener, quietly listening to Songyang talking about what happened after waking up, what he remembered, and his worries and concerns for the three students.

Except that he frowned when he mentioned Yinshi's random name, asked a few more words, and only nodded in satisfaction after Songyang said that Yinshi stuffed himself into the cupboard to sleep.

Although when I was leaving, I was quite concerned and said, "Let's ask that guy to change the name teacher."

Regarding Takasugi, he only said "It is better to keep a distance from that guy for the time being", and he has no other opinions.

Basically, he does not express negative or affirmative opinions, no matter what Songyang says, he keeps listening. If Songyang asks him about his current situation, he will explain it in the simplest terms.

"Now I work for the shogunate, and I stay in the universe all year round." The rest is unwilling to say more, even if Songyang asked him if he had met Takasugi in the universe, he just shook his head and did not speak.

If Songyang asked her about her past, she would explain in embarrassment.

"I don't know, the teacher has been traveling around, and he doesn't talk about his past."

"I shouldn't have been a terrible villain in the past."

Songyang sometimes complains to himself with a wry smile.

At this time, Yu's expression is always a bit complicated, Songyang can see that he is hiding something, but she is not the character of asking the truth, so she can only sigh helplessly.

She didn't know what kind of past she had with Oboro.

She could only guess that for Oboro, perhaps the pain was more than the happiness, which made every word he said with regret and guilt in his eyes.

But when his eyes fell on her face, after all the emotions disappeared, only peace of mind remained.

Probably as long as she is still here, there will be light in this man's life.

Such a weight often makes Song Yang wonder how to get along with Oboro.

Oboro's personality is different from any student in her memory. Both outwardly and inwardly, he is the kind who is too calm. In order to make him feel more relaxed, Songyang often searches for topics, hoping to open his chatterbox .

——There will also be a time or two when Oboro will take the initiative to say something.

"The matter of opening a private school was an agreement made with the teacher at that time."

Oboro probably doesn't talk to people very much, once he speaks for a long time, it seems too slow, and his voice is a bit dry and tense.

"When you were with the teacher before, you often felt confused and didn't know where to go. It was the students who suggested that you can try to open a private school and be a teacher who teaches others."

Song Yang blinked and laughed.

"Looks like it's all due to obscurity."

"Ok?"

"Because I made an agreement with Oboro, I went to open a private school and met those children."

Hazy eyes flashed.

The soft voice made him mistakenly for a moment that he was back on that fateful day.

Those were the last words the person in front of her left to her eldest disciple who had reunited after a long absence.

In this life, he tried hard for himself once, but once he lost everything.

—Maybe God gave him a chance to start over.

"When will you let Kukami see you? Well... Sure enough, the problem between Jinsuke and those two children must be resolved first..."

"There will be a chance."

Probably because he had made up his mind, the luster in the gray-haired man's eyes became clearer.

"Huh?" Songyang was startled.

The man stared at her, slightly raised the corners of his lips.

"Wait until the teacher thinks of me, and then make a decision."

—to meet the final verdict given by his god.

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