[Hakuouki Doujin] The Tide of Fallen Leaves

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※The story before the issue is the continuation of the above story; after the ※ issue is the story of the past and Nueno's third marriage.

If you don't want to see the protagonist's past relationship in the play that is too long, you can skip it.

Because I want this story to come to an end in its entirety, I wrote it all at once... and then the word count exploded. XD

However, if you want to know Nue Ye better to a certain extent, I still recommend reading this story... um... there are tears.

Finally, this is the first time I put the author's words here, please bear with me~~

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Returning to the hut where he lived temporarily for a while, Nueno began to clean up the dust accumulated during this period. Not long after it was put away, Rigi's people came to the door with vegetables and rice, handed them to Nueno silently, and then turned and left.

Nue Ye took the things back to the kitchen, and opened the old paper wrapped with vegetables. The important information during this period had already been written on it. At the same time, he also found out the movements of the group of ghosts who cooperated with the new government army. The timetable for the actions is listed below, just waiting for Nueno to decide how to deal with it.

After reading it, the man put down the paper and started to boil water. At the same time, he used the old paper he had just read as a fire starter and put it into the stove. With a flash of fire, the paper scraps were turned into ashes.

Nueno didn't know what mood Rigi had in handing over this information to him, but thinking of the upcoming fierce battle, his face darkened, and he really couldn't bring up any good mood.

Li Ji is one of the few ghosts who have been abroad. No, strictly speaking, he is only a half-ghost, with half the blood of the ghost, but he inherited his father's blood very well, so the ghost men at that time had to travel thousands of miles. Find yourself and hope that you can soothe the overly violent ability in your child's body.

Nueno spent five years teaching Riggy, who was still a child at the time, to control his abilities, and then let him go back to his father... He didn't expect that after 20 years, Riggy found himself again and expressed his willingness to follow him.

He once asked the other party why he made this decision, but the middle-aged man shook his head and smiled wryly, knelt and bowed his head and begged: "Please, Master Nueno, this matter..."

"...Okay." Nueno let out a low breath, "Since this is the case, I need someone to help me see foreign countries and leave Japan. Are you determined?"

He knew that the world was undergoing a change, and from the conversations of foreigners who had recently arrived in Nagasaki, and from his own memory, he felt that he should do something.

"Is it a foreign country...? A country of the Orchids?" Rigi asked in surprise.

"Not just the country of the Dutch, but England, France, Germany...even America."

Listening to the series of unfamiliar country names spit out from Nue Ye's mouth, Rigi's face became even more confused, and Nue Ye waved his hand, just asking someone to bring a copy of Lanren's world map tomorrow, and we'll talk about the rest.

The next day, Nueno pointed to the world map to expand the man's field of vision, and asked him to take Japanese products to make friends with companies in various countries, and linked the intelligence business in the name of commercial interests. After laying a certain foundation abroad, he returned to work domestically.

So, it finally evolved into the current situation.

In addition to endowing him with a certain amount of ghost power, Li Ji's ghost blood also prolongs his lifespan... Nue can even conclude that he has rarely seen a child with such strong ghost power recently... Although It is a half ghost that appeared by coincidence.

But because he had promised Reggie, he would not explore the reasons why the other party left his family at that time.

After Riji, it was Ayako who he brought to see him one day.

Ayako is a half-ghost, and Nue found out as soon as they met, but Riji didn't seem to tell Ayako her identity, but mentioned the word "Shaodong's family" cryptically, which made Ayako misunderstand herself and regard herself as an ordinary young man.

The problem this time is that the two children behind Ayako are also half-ghosts, but they are not Ayako's own children. According to her, they are the children left by a woman in her "shop". After giving birth to newborns, The woman died, and some of the symptoms of the two children were very similar to what she had experienced. When Ayako was feeling troubled, she happened to meet Rigi who had a business relationship, and then she knew that the "young boss" could help.

Thus, Nue Ye began to enter and leave Huajie.

Xiaoxia and Xiaoqiu were named by Ayako. On the surface, they are Ayako's children, but everyone in Xingwu knows that they are their common children.The loneliness and pampering of the wandering girls are poured into them, making the child's life carefree, but the abnormality of the child also makes them uneasy. They don't really feel at ease with Nueno until Nueno solves the problem.

After teaching Xiaoxia and Xiaoqiu to put away their strength, Nuye also worked as their first teacher part-time. At the same time, in order not to arouse suspicion, he went to the suburbs of Beijing and asked Riji to find someone to run a private kendo school, and recruited other teachers. settle down.

As a result, he was directly involved in this huge vortex to subvert the Japanese regime.

If Nue Ye's memory is correct, Riji's father should be a descendant of a noble family of the ghost clan. Given the intricate relationship between the ghost clan, it is impossible for him to have nothing to do with the rebellious ghost clan...

It's just...it's a must.

Thinking of this, the water in the kettle happened to boil, Nue Ye picked up the kettle and put it aside, then filled the soup pot with water, cut the vegetables and meat into appropriate portions and blanched them, boiled the noodles, mixed them with Soy sauce, simply solves a meal.

Before the sky completely darkened, Nueno lit the oil lamp, took out the pen and paper in the house, raised his hand and wrote a series of replies like flowing water, and finally folded the paper carefully and tied it under the bamboo fence. Turned off the oil lamp and went to sleep.

In that case, let them go up the mountain.

The white sword placed by his side made a rare buzzing sound.

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Looking at the shy and angry girl in front of him, Nueno rolled his eyes and gave a soft affirmative answer.

He watched the girl first look at him in disbelief, and then stepped forward to hug him with an overjoyed expression, his heart softened, and he gently stroked the girl's hair, responding to the other party's strength.

If he was not stimulated, he also knew that the girl would never take the initiative to reveal her feelings. In this case, Nueno deliberately created a misunderstanding and made the girl make up her mind to confess to herself.

Then, let's go together.

Holding each other's hands, the two quickly became husband and wife. Together, they walked through the north and south of Japan, walked through all the ghost villages, watched the sun rise and set, saw the glaciers and the ocean.

Holding each other's hand, Nueno kissed the woman's teardrop face, and said softly: "It's okay, it's still a long time, we will have more children."

The woman forced a smile, "Master Blade, I know, but I still feel very sad..."

"It's okay, Zi." Nue Ye hugged her into his arms, rubbing the woman's slender fingers, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, this is just an accident, the doctor said your body is fine, so you must There will be children."

"...I know." Lowering her eyelashes, the woman nestled herself into her husband's arms, calming down her sorrow.

Obviously how happy the two of them were at the beginning, how much they looked forward to...

She knew that Blade liked children very much, so she worked very hard to have a child of the two, but she encountered setbacks for the first time, which made her very disturbed.

So, no matter what the blade said, Zi still walked into a dead end, focusing on giving birth to a baby for her husband wholeheartedly.

Nue Ye hugged Zi's slender body and kissed her cheek, although his heart ached, he quickly remembered the guesses he had had in the past.

The reason why he didn't have any children with Kikyo can be said to be a physical problem of Kikyo, so even if the two tried their best, they couldn't have any signs.

As for Higurashi... He felt that he maintained a normal relationship with the other party, although he didn't force it, but there was no sign of it.It was just because Higurashi was able to give birth to a child in the end, so he once suspected that the problem was with himself.

Now that he heard what the doctor told him privately, this layer of doubts resurfaced again.

Even though he knew that such speculation was pure nonsense, he couldn't let it go.So although Nue Ye didn't mention it to Zi, he kept it in his heart.

Sure enough... Will the strength of the blood affect the chance of conception?

Then, after the second miscarriage, Nueno looked at the baby who was already in shape, and the expression on his face was unprecedentedly heavy.

He knew very well the difference between ghosts and humans, so looking at the obviously deformed body, he couldn't say anything to comfort himself.

Even if she knew that even a child who was different from ordinary people, she would give her pure love, but the consequences would hurt Zi too much.

Sure enough, if she was an ordinary person, Zi wouldn't have to suffer all this...

He took Zi, and started to bury the child properly, but after Zi passed the confinement period, the two got news that made Nuye wonder whether he should be thankful or sigh.

──For a body that has had two miscarriages, the probability of conception is almost zero.

Of course, this is just a relatively safe statement. In terms of medical skills at the time, this is equivalent to an unprecedented sentence.

He hugged Zi, who had fainted on the spot, and said goodbye to the doctor calmly. Then, the husband and wife hugged quietly all night.

"Master Blade..." Cried all night, Zi with red and swollen eyes covered his face, sobbing softly. "Why doesn't God let us have our own children...?"

Nueno remained silent.

"If, if you want to divorce me... I am willing to follow you forever..."

"What are you thinking!" Nue Ye interrupted sharply, "Why did I marry again? Why did I divorce you? You didn't do anything wrong to me!"

"But……"

"This is my problem!" With a low growl, Nueno took a deep breath in order to calm his emotions, and hugged him tightly again, "You know I'm a ghost, maybe it's because of me that you... ..."

"Absolutely not!" This time it was Zi who tightly covered Nueno's mouth, shaking her head, not to let Nueno speak further. "no……"

Nueno pulled the opponent's hand away, wanting to continue: "I don't know if it is, but I have never..."

"Ban-sama!" This time it was Zi who forcefully stopped Nueno's next words. "It's definitely not Blade-sama's fault!"

Nueno was stunned, the two just looked at each other like this, after a while, Nueno softened first, "Since this is the case...the two of us don't have much to say, okay?" He kissed the corner of his wife's eye.

Zi flinched slightly because of the itch, and then kissed Nueno's cheek again, "Okay..."

In the following days, the two had a tacit understanding not to talk about this matter, until one day Zi saw the abandoned children on the side of the road and couldn't help but said, "Master Blade...can we take care of them?"

"Huh?" Nueno thought for a while, "It's ok, but then we won't be able to travel around like we do now."

"It's okay!" Zi said energetically, "No matter what difficulties, we can overcome them together!"

"Since you've said that, I can't refuse." Nueno replied with a smile while holding the other's hand. "Let's take care of them together."

"Mother!" The grown-up child cried out to the woman lying on the bed. "Please don't leave us...!"

"Mother!" The calls of the other children echoed throughout the room, but they couldn't bring back the woman's increasingly lax consciousness.

Nue Ye tightly held Zi's hand, without saying a word, staring at Zi's already bustling face, counting every wrinkle, as if he wanted to deeply engrave this face that had accompanied him for more than [-] years In the bottom of my heart.

But he actually still remembers Zi's appearance clearly when they met for the first time.

On the contrary, it is his cruel appearance that has not changed in any way.

Even the youngest of the children adopted at that time had already married and started a business, and had a child, but he was still not old.

Not a single wrinkle.

It's like it's completely impossible to...follow her down.

This moment is the most ironic scene.

He leaned down, put his face against the other person's skin that had lost some heat, and said softly: "Zi, I am very happy to have you by my company. These years are the happiest days of my life."

Even if they are not my own, the children in front of me are very obedient, filial and caring.

"If you are worried about the children, please don't worry, I will take care of them."

Following Nue Ye's words, the sniffling stopped for a moment, and everyone quietly looked at this couple with different looks.

"If you are worried about me, please don't worry, I will live a good life..."

He kissed gently, just like every time he kissed his wife's cheek, full of soft emotions.

"It was you who fulfilled my life, so please stop worrying about us..."

Nue Ye stretched out his hand to brush some loose white hair, and Nueno's movements were extremely gentle.

"You are my wife and will always be mine."

The clenched hands trembled, and the drooping head made it hard to see the man's face, but it seemed as if he could hear the sound of tears dripping down.

"...Blade... my lord..."

In the silent room, a gentle voice slowly spit out from thin lips.

"I'm so worried about you... If no one walks with you, how painful it will be for you... It's a pity that I can't accompany you, and I dare not drink the potion... So, after I die, don't guard me as a coward, go Find someone better...someone who can be with you for a longer time...Even if we part again like me, don't suffer..."

"I will...try...not to worry about you...and...not to make you...worry..."

"Please...be sure...to live well..."

Struggling to leave the last words behind, the woman's breath slowly disappeared into the air, like a spring silkworm that had exhausted its silk thread, and stopped in the early summer when everything was about to flourish.

Time that stands still still does not turn.

Wait until the next hundred years, finally, all the children disappear at the end of their lives.

The man put on a cloak against the rain and a wide-brimmed hat, so that his entire face was shaded.

He stood quietly in front of the brand-new tombstone until the first lamp in the village was lit, then he seemed to be awakened and moved a bit.

Sworn sentences fell, and finally, the man disappeared at the border of the village.

"I will, live well."