[Hakuouki Doujin] The Tide of Fallen Leaves

Finally, he met her.

The last time the publicity between the woman's eyebrows and eyes was displayed was when Nue Yeying made the agreement.

That was, another curse that haunted him to this day.

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Following his faint warning premonition, Nue Ye stepped into the army garrison, restrained his breath, and went straight to Luo Sha's position.

He knew that there were still a few Rakshasa left in the Ezo military camp, including Hirasuke, Shannan, and Hijikata.

Calculating the time, he also knew that the potion for suppressing blood had already been exhausted, so he focused on the situation in the barracks.

If there is an accidental injury... it is definitely not what he would like to see.

With stray steps, Nue dodged past the patrolling soldiers, then stepped on the wall and climbed onto the roof, and continued walking.

After arriving above Hirasuke's room, Nueno jumped down and jumped directly through the window.

As soon as he landed, Nueno immediately looked around.

no one?

He opened the door and carefully confirmed that no one else was walking in the corridor of the sergeant's dormitory. Then he calmed down and used his senses to detect the abnormality. Once confirmed, he quickly aimed at the target and moved forward.

It's not that he didn't notice the abnormality in the whole dormitory, but now is not the time to investigate.

Following his feeling, he came to the room deep in the first floor, tapped a few times, waited for a while without getting a response, opened the door directly, rushed in and closed it in an instant.

As soon as the door was locked, his back hit the door panel due to the force of his pounce. Fortunately, his footsteps had stabilized his weight, otherwise the door might have been knocked open.

Seeing the white-haired and red-eyed Rakshasa pressing on his body, Nueno froze for a moment, "Hijikata...?"

At the same time, he didn't forget to stretch out his hand and use his strength to open the distance between himself and the earthwork.

Facing Rakshasa who was about to bite him all the time, Nueno frowned, did he finally lose consciousness?

With a sigh, Nue Ye stretched out his legs and swept the opponent, tripping him to the ground, and then suppressing him sharply with his hands and feet.

Pulling back the man who had been trying to turn his head back to break away from him, Nueno increased his strength, put all his weight on the opponent, lowered his body at the same time, and called close to the opponent's ear: "Hijikata Toshizo." While speaking , His eyes also turned the color of blood.

Once there was no response, Nue Ye continued to yell, the voice became louder and stronger, and in the end it was yelling in the other party's ear.

Although Tufang's struggling movements were slightly slow, he did not fully recover his sanity.

Nue Ye tried a few more times, and simply knocked him unconscious, and carried him to a chair beside him, only then did he have time to look around the room.

Office...?

Then why is there no one here?Is it afternoon at best?

Nue Ye pulled a chair, sat down, straightened the somewhat messy skirt, and thought quietly.

Hijikata should have lost his mind only because of a momentary impulse, because he still reacted to his name, so he should not be completely controlled by his nature.

Nueno spent a lot of time yelling just to confirm this point, and because of this point, he didn't immediately draw his sword and kill the opponent.

The succinct office is basically only containing official documents and a few related books, and it is so clean that there are no personal items. Nueno doesn't know whether this is because of Hijikata's personality, or because the Ezo army has not settled down for a long time.

As he thought about it carefully, time passed unknowingly, and by the time Nueno regained consciousness because of Hijikata's groan, the sun had already set, and after a while, it would be necessary to use kerosene lamps for lighting.

He looked at the man who was slowly regaining consciousness, at the white hair that had not yet returned to its original color.

His eyesight and rationality gradually became clear, and Hijikata rubbed the back of his neck, which was a little sore, and pretended to ask casually, "Why are you here?"

Nue Ye didn't answer, but instead asked, "Why don't you have anyone here? Where are Hirasuke and Shannan?"

"They're busy with other things." Tufang refused to say more, "You haven't answered my question yet."

"I can detect the restlessness of the Rakshasa." Nue Ye paused, "There are not many Rakshasa here, and the breath is very clean, so it is easy to detect."

"You, the medicine is finished."

Hijikata lowered his eyes and responded casually, ignoring the white hair exposed in his sight, picked up the pen again, and began to correct the official document on the desk.

"You need someone to take care of you." Seeing that the other party is about to start work, Nue Ye added coldly, "You can find someone who will be your shackles and prevent you from losing your mind when necessary."

Hijikata secretly increased his grip on the pen, and replied, "No need."

"Even if I ask Ryunosuke to bring the potion, it will definitely not arrive in a short time, so you need it." Nueno directly dismissed it. "If you don't know how to relax and vent at the right time, then your situation will be the most severe among you. Do you want to suddenly become a Rakshasa during a meeting?"

Holding the pen tightly in his hand, Hijikata gritted his teeth, "I said I don't need it."

"You haven't changed back to your original form until now, which means that Rakshasa has more and more influence on you." Nueno once again pointed out the facts, "If you still want to sit in this position──"

"It's enough!!"

Tufang suddenly slapped the table and yelled, the pen in his hand was cut off unconsciously by him, and he stared at the calm man in front of him, with countless complex emotions surging in his heart, anger, disgust, nausea, pain , complaining, grievance, jealousy, avoidance, and hiding the deepest concern.

"I said I don't need it!!!" He declared forcefully again.

Nueno looked at him quietly, not affected by Hijikata's sudden attack, which made Hijikata a little discouraged when he noticed this.

After a while, when Hijikata sat back to his seat weakly and took out a new pen, Nueno spoke.

"Your memory... came back?"

The man's hand trembled, and the tip of the pen scratched a line, almost across the entire document.

"……what are you saying?"

"Ah, sure enough." Nueno observed Hijikata's slightly shaken expression, noticed the other person's body stiffened suddenly, and said to himself, "You really remembered."

The nib of the pen was attached to the paper, but it had not moved for a long time due to the inner shock of the person holding it, so the ink slowly slid down the nib, and began to smudge the entire white paper.

"What are you talking about, I don't know."

Hijikata's tone began to tremble imperceptibly, but the room was so quiet that Nueno could easily tell the difference.

He organized his words a little bit in his heart, "Actually, just like what I said at the time, you don't need to take what happened that night to your heart, so you don't have to care about it either. It was just an accident."

Tu Fang put down his pen, fixed his eyes on the ink stain he had just dyed, and said nothing.

Only he himself knows that his muscles are tensing, his organs are falling, and his heart is screaming, very sore, painful, and full of hollows.

He suddenly felt that he was stupid, obviously the other party didn't take it seriously at all...but he was addicted to it and couldn't extricate himself.

This kind of emotion that is difficult to express makes him feel as if he is falling even though he is sitting on the chair.

After a long time, he pulled himself back with difficulty and said, "I... knew it a long time ago."

He will never say it.

He didn't need or want to be so mean.

His self-esteem did not allow him to react more.

"Are you finished? Can you go back? Trespassing on the barracks is a serious crime. I can kill you on the spot."

Nueno tapped his fingers on his knee, and suddenly brought the topic back to the beginning, "Don't you want to find someone who can stop you at any time?"

"Can you get lost right now?" Hijikata couldn't hold back the impulse in his heart, and retorted sharply and mockingly: "Why do you stand in front of me and block my eyes? If you just want to prevent me from losing my mind, I would have recovered by now. No problem, you can go now."

"It doesn't matter where you go. Go to Fujido, go to Shannan, or even go back to your house outside the camp. Anywhere is fine. Can you stop appearing in front of me?"

"I really, really, really don't want to see you."

Nueno heard Hijikata say these words with a painful expression, felt a slight touch in his heart, and was a little dazed unknowingly.

Uncontrollable in his mind, he suddenly said something he had never thought of before.

The long-haired man said to the man who was on the verge of collapse in a calm tone, "Want to drink my blood? Earth Fang."

The author has something to say:

After writing this article, I found that Hijikata is indeed true love... (in a sense)

But this kind of performance always makes me unable to help making him more wronged...(?)

So this is a make-up from last week, and if I remember when I come back on Sunday, there will be another chapter.

It's so good to sleep in winter hum.