[Hakuouki Doujin] The Tide of Fallen Leaves

"You..." Todo Heisuke lowered his head, suddenly not knowing where to place his eyes, "I..."

"Don't stand there, come in." Without any indication, Nueno took a step closer and brought Hirasuke in, during which he casually glanced at Ryunosuke, "Ryunosuke, your milk...give me Give me a drink if you pour it!"

"What!? Such a nasty thing!?" Ryunosuke jumped up immediately.

"Hey!" Nueno explained, throwing a sugar bowl to him, "add the sugar, what do you expect?"

"Oh──......" Scratching his nose, Ryunosuke had no choice but to sit down obediently, add sugar, and drink the bowl of liquid.

On the other side, Nueno rummaged through the cupboard above, took out a bowl, and handed it to Hirasuke: "Here is this for you, have you had breakfast yet?"

Hirasuke silently shook his head and took the bowl.

"Then let's eat some!" Nueno said slowly.

Looking up at Nueno with complicated eyes, Hirasuke obediently went to the other side to finish his breakfast.

Similarly, Nueno also filled up his own bowl, and slowly drank the porridge. For a moment, the only sound in the whole kitchen was the beeping of burning matches.

It wasn't until everyone had finished their breakfast that Nueno spoke in a relaxed tone, but it wasn't to Hirasuke, but to Ryunosuke.

"Speaking of Ryunosuke, are you curious, why should I be loyal to that Serizawa duck who is "easy to do business, has a weird temper, and a bad style"?" Narrowing his eyes slightly, Nueno observed every move of the two people opposite him .

"Who cares about your affairs!" snorting, Ryunosuke turned his head in disdain.

"Well, that's good, so I don't need to explain." I understood on my own, got up on my own, and someone just stood up to someone's murderous gaze and left, "Go back, Ryunosuke .”

"Neye Blade!!"

Todo Heisuke couldn't help bursting into anger, and yelled at Nueno.

Calmly turning back to look at the other party, Nue Ye's face showed no joy or anger.

With clenched fists in both hands, Hirasuke lowered his head, his face under the shadows could not be seen clearly, Nueno just put his hands in his clothes, stood there silently waiting for him to speak, while Ryunosuke just watched the situation dumbly , at a loss.

"You have nothing else to explain?" After a long, long time, Hirasuke asked through gritted teeth.

Regarding this question, Nueno just shifted his gaze slightly, and then turned his gaze back to Todo, "Hirasuke, we have only known each other not long ago, if we have known each other for a longer time, you will know."

If you get to know Nue Ye deeply, you will know how fanatical this guy is about the things he is interested in. Once he devotes himself to it, there is no one or anything that can pull him back. There is no way to stop him. The frenzy receded.

But now, his fanaticism has been completely invested in Serizawa, a swordsman whose survival mode is extremely contradictory. For this reason, he let himself worship under Serizawa's command, as Serizawa's swordsman.

Surviving in such a crazy and paranoid way until now, for those who just met, this way of living is a very special habit in this era, not everyone can accept this way of living with a smile of.

There was a few seconds of silence between the two, and it ended with Nueno leading Ryunosuke to leave. Looking at the field of vision where the other party had disappeared, Todo Heisuke felt a heavy sense of loss in his heart.He has always been a person who is easy to put his feelings into. He can make the two look like childhood sweethearts within a few days of knowing each other. He can also easily project his feelings on any people who have suffered misfortune. Pain for them.

──It is precisely because of this that he is willing to come to this place from Edo, raise the sword in his hand, and provoke the whole responsibility with his partner who he believes to be righteous.

Among the people he met, Nueno was one of the few people who couldn't fully - in Hesuke's sense - it was difficult to go deep into his heart.

When I looked at Nueno's expression that seemed to be indifferent to everything, when I thought that I could be regarded as his good friend, he would quickly walk away in the next second, unable to reach him.

Really... so weird, this man.

too weird.

At first, I was simply admiring his comprehension of swordsmanship, but now this slight pain in my heart, can anyone tell him what it is...?

Feeling the strange touch in his heart, looking at the sky, the boy asked himself silently with an expression on his face that was about to cry.

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"Hey, what did you mean just now?" On the way back to the settlement, Ryunosuke asked the young man in front of him.

Nueno turned his head, slowed down, and walked to Ryunosuke's side, "How long do you think it takes to know someone? How long does it take to know someone? Ryunosuke."

"Is there a difference between these two?" Ryunosuke directly asked these two somewhat similar questions.

"It's different." Thinking about it, Nueno put his hands in his sleeves and put them on his chest, "To know someone, you only need to know some of his information, such as name, gender, appearance, and job, but you To understand a person, it takes a lot of time to think about his thoughts, will, and the reasons why he does these things.” Cursing the corners of his lips, Nueno asked again: “Then, which one do you think takes time? How much longer?"

"...If it's what you said, it should take longer to understand, right?" Ryunosuke said uncertainly, scratching his head.

"Then, how long do you think it takes to get to know someone?" Uno looked at Ryunosuke with a crooked face, and Nueno continued, "It's just the first time I met Hijikata, and the first time I met Hirasuke. It happened a few weeks ago, even if I met Serizawa for the first time, it was only seven days ago, do you think they can understand me in this short period of time?"

After listening to Ryunosuke, he suddenly realized after thinking, "──You want to say that they don't understand you!"

"Maybe I understand. But that's only part of it." The ambiguous words spit out from Nueno's mouth again, "If you don't understand, you will understand later. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, in this situation You who are in the same delicate position as me, the most important thing about yourself, do you know?"

"I asked Serizawa in private. You are the descendant of a samurai who was picked up by him and has no understanding of the samurai. What I want to ask is, do you think I am a "samurai"?"

"Why are you asking this question?" Ryunosuke looked at Nueno suspiciously, and Ryunosuke couldn't figure out the intention of the other party's sudden mention of this.

"Haha, I just want to remind you!" Happily stretched out a finger and waved it in front of Ryunosuke, "Don't do what you don't want to do, whatever path we end up on is the consequence of our own choice , if you don’t want to walk the road paved for you by others, then think about what you want to do!”

"Of course, if you are interested in being a farmer, I can give you the backyard!" After saying this, Nueno greeted Ryunosuke with a roar.

"Who is interested in milking that cow every day, bastard!! Don't think everyone is as perverted as you are!!"

The author has something to say:

I don't know why...I know this ending sucks...I admit my emotional cells are dead...

And when being with Ryunosuke, Nueno will become very reasonable...beyond my expectations.

In short, I will try my best not to let Nueno keep saying things that people don't understand...orz