[Thin Sakura Ghost] Tongqi

***Parting gift for Ryoma***

After nightfall, Senior Ishikawa came to my room and said: "Actually, you don't have to do this."

"Did you see it?" I looked at him and said coldly. I felt very uncomfortable at first, but now he came up to me, and it counted that he hit the muzzle of the gun.

"I happened to meet you when I came back, and I hid behind a tree and didn't dare to make a sound." Senior Ishikawa sat cross-legged across from me, "I didn't expect you to make such a straightforward decision."

"What else can I do?" I twitched the corners of my mouth in self-deprecating, "You should have seen that Ryoma can't let go of his dream. As you said, I can't help him by his side, only with you Binding to this Shinsengumi together, maybe we can save Ryoma." I paused here, looked at the smiling Ishikawa-senpai clenched his hands, and asked with a frown, "What are you laughing at?"

"If these excuses make you feel at ease, I don't need to say anything more, just save Ryoma."

His words were like a silver needle, piercing my heart easily, but at the same time, the sadness and melancholy poured out bit by bit along with the small wound left by the silver needle.

Run away, escape from this place.What I thought at that moment was not just a struggle with the ending of Ryoma's history, but I was also mixed with selfishness. His marriage contract with Zona was a fact that I couldn't change.

Since I chose to stay and let myself and Ryoma develop, how should I face Zona.Maybe I should be more selfish, maybe I should be more brave, I sighed: "Didn't Senior Ishikawa warn me about the power of history correction? What if something happens to us after saving Ryoma, at least at that time , Ryoma will have the support of her wife by her side."

If her wife were me, I would definitely not be able to accept the punishment of the historical revision force calmly, nor would I be able to bear it, leaving him alone in the world.

"Cut the mess quickly, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain." Senior Ishikawa stretched out his hand and scratched my nose lightly, "In the end, Ryoma will thank you and he will be a hero."

"Oh——" I smiled weakly, "It's very tasteless to say that, but I still want to say that as long as he lives, no matter whether he is a hero or an ordinary person, I only hope that he can live well."

Senior Ishikawa stood up, groped around the door for a while, and took out a big wooden box with my name on it - "Ishikawa Tong."

"What is this?" I asked.

"Parting gift." Senior Ishikawa said as he opened the box, and there was a pistol inside. The smooth surface reflected the light of the moon, which was particularly eye-catching at night.

This is the first time I have seen a gun. I stood up carefully and touched it. Feeling the cold body of the gun, I moved my hand inch by inch and picked up a metal bullet separated by a wooden board. It was heavier than I imagined. many.

"Are you leaving?" I was surprised.But it seemed that Senior Ishikawa was in the same mood as me, with a questioning expression on his face, he said, "Did I say I'm leaving?"

"Then what are you talking about as a parting gift?" I put down the bullet angrily.

"Heh - Ryoma will be leaving tomorrow, this is a parting gift for him." Senior Ishikawa closed the box, and my name was pasted on it vigorously, which was very attractive, "In your name."

Senior Ishikawa said and pushed the box into my arms, and I stood there holding the wooden box against the mess in my head.

Is Ryoma leaving tomorrow?Thinking about it, I felt hypocritical again, and decided that we were just friends, so what's the matter now.

"Then I'll leave it to him." I raised my head and nodded at Senior Ishikawa.

******

Early the next morning, I blocked Ryoma who was about to go out at the door.

"I wanted to leave quietly." Long Ma twitched the corners of his mouth, but there was no smile in his eyes.His complexion is not very good-looking, but I think my complexion must not be very good-looking either.

"I know all your little tricks." I smiled, and the days when we first met suddenly flashed in my mind. He taught me to drink, showed me the globe, and said some big words about sending me back.His side face bathed in the sun is still engraved in my heart. The first time I met was the shining black pearl-like eyes. I'm afraid I can't forget it.I handed over the wooden box and smiled softly: "A parting gift."

Ryoma didn't reach out to take it, but a tall and thin man beside him glanced at me, and then hurriedly took it.

"Help people in this country get rid of class." I looked into his eyes, "Didn't you say that people should be equal, and Aizu-Satsuma Choshu should not exist, it should be a country."

Ryoma stretched out his arms to embrace me, and pressed my head against his chest: "You remember wrongly, those are what Teacher Sheng said."

"No." I murmured, "You told me that you would take the woman you love out to sea, and don't rely on it, you said you would send me back to my hometown."

"I can't forget." The voice from the top of my head trembled, and I greedily shrank into his arms. This embrace will be exclusive to Zona in the future. She is such a lucky woman. I smiled and pushed him away. He: "Take care of yourself. If you die before leaving the teacher, I will follow you down to find you, and I will scold you well by the way."

"Haha. Then I have to be careful." Long Ma laughed loudly and took the wooden box from the tall and thin man next to him, and looked at the name on it, "Ishikawa...Tong?"

"Well, my last name is Ishikawa."

"Good name." He smiled at me slightly, "A Tong, you... also take good care of yourself."

"I will." I patted the knife on my waist, which meant that I would not let others hurt me.

"Then, goodbye." Ryoma walked slowly in front of me with the box in his arms, without looking back.

"Goodbye." I stared at his back until he disappeared around the corner, and then fell to the ground against the door, thinking to myself:

Goodbye, Ryoma.

……

Time flies like a white horse, and in the blink of an eye, it is already snowy December.

Wrapped in thick clothes, I breathed a sigh of relief in my hands and rubbed them lightly.For more than two months, I have never slackened my practice of swordsmanship, coupled with the gift of the sword from Ishikawa senior, I finally got rid of the position of being a hindrance when performing tasks.

"No, no. It shouldn't be like this." Director General Okita passed by, and he had a lot of opinions on the way I used my sword. What are you doing?"

"Mr. Hijikata said we have to forget the moves." I pretended to be serious and grabbed the sleeve of the chief executive, "Turn the tangible into the invisible, and turn the moves into changes."

"Well, I don't care about these things, as long as you don't say that I taught you when you go out." Okita Souji spread his hand and brushed my hand lazily.

"team leader!"

A shout came from behind.

"What's the matter?" I answered without waiting for the general manager to speak. The soldier belongs to the first team, and like him, I am also a member of the first team.

"The deputy chief ordered you to rush to the main hall immediately."

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