[Gintama] Immortal

There was a wind on the plain.

The gloomy sky hung low, and sparse rays of light pierced through the clouds and fell.The scabbard standing on the pile of corpses was illuminated by the sun, and the blood-stained thread of the knife was decorated with gold leaf phosphor powder, fluttering on the battlefield with the howling of the wind.

The blood soaked in the soil was still warm, and the crows that had been hovering in the air for a long time fluttered down one after another.At this moment, an arm bound with armour suddenly stretched out, grabbed the blood-stained handle and pulled it out forcefully. With a "clang", the cold light reflected the sunlight among the clouds, and the owner of that arm casually With a wave of the knife, the surrounding crows were startled and flew high into the sky.

The fatal arrow wound on the chest no longer bleeds, and the supposedly dead body weighs the Taidao in its hand, and wraps it in its sheath in satisfaction. "He" raised his arm, pulled out the arrow, put on the antler helmet on his head that was slanted to one side, and re-tightened the knot at the chin with a little clumsiness, and then put his index finger and thumb together to his lips, "咴——" let out a strange whistle.

The sound of horseshoes sounded on the plain, and a tall bay red horse appeared on the edge of the battlefield, and the saddle was still splashed with blood from the arrow that fell from its owner during the charge.The warrior in great armor waved to it, it snorted, hesitated for a while, and didn't move.

The whistle sound is still the familiar whistle sound, but the whistle blowing body is long dead.The reason why the soundless body can still move is because someone else is manipulating the body.

Yae and the horse looked at each other for a while—animals are sometimes much harder to fool than people.

"Carrot balls, radish balls, come quickly." She followed the owner of this body on the battlefield for the past few days, learned how to blow the horse whistle secretly, and naturally remembered the original owner's words to her horse... ...a pet name for fans.

After searching her whole body, Yae took out a squashed rice ball, and before she could stretch out her hand, the horse approached unceremoniously and ate her only ration in a few strokes.

...However, the corpse does not need to eat.

Successfully bought the other party at the price of a rice ball, Yae stepped on the stirrup, held the saddle with his hand, and sat firmly on the horse's back with a force from his waist.She held the rein and swung the whip boldly—"Drive!" The wind whistled in her ears.

The battlefield full of corpses was left far behind, and Yae rode his horse towards the direction of the capital.

——It is the sixth year of Zhenhe (1351), and it has been more than two hundred years since she left Kii Kumano.

The dynasty of Heian-kyo ceased to exist, and the war at the end of that era brought countless deaths. At the beginning, she just lingered on the battlefield with the mentality of watching the excitement, and it was purely accidental that she could use the corpse of the owner.

It's like picking up abandoned clothes and moving into an uninhabited house. The first time she gained reality was on the battlefield by the river beach.

It was the body of a young soldier, whose chest had been crushed by a horse's hoof, and the bones in his right foot were broken.Her stiff body was heavy and clumsy, and she staggered forward a few steps like a drunk. She didn't notice the injury on her right foot because she didn't feel any pain. There was a heavy clang of the armor, and it rolled and fell onto the river beach.

She lay there for a long while, the wind brought moist breath to her face, and the sun turned the gravels everywhere on the river beach into glittering golden awns.She blinked, sat up slowly, stared at the rippling river with reeds in a daze.The distant blue sky was so transparent, she tentatively picked up a piece of gravel, and threw it in the direction of the middle of the river—with a plop, the river water rippled, and ripples were real.

The dead body made a wheezing sound, and she laughed like a mentally retarded person who had lived for hundreds of years.

After that, her footprints almost coincided with the continuous trajectory of the war, and she participated in and witnessed almost all the battles, large and small, over the past few hundred years.

The battlefield where the beacon fires and smoldering fires charged into battle was more lively than any place she had ever been to, and it became the best place for her to pick up corpses.She could manipulate a dead body, but she could not stop the natural process of that body decaying into dust.Depending on the severity of her injuries, the amount of time she can move varies from a few hours to a few days, and the flexibility of her hands and feet also depends on luck.

Onimusha who can be resurrected from the dead—I don’t know when, such inexplicable rumors began to spread on the human battlefield.Finally, he experienced what it was like to be labeled indiscriminately. For the first time, Yae was chased and killed by the human army for a few days on the grounds of exterminating monsters, and he was more than one degree proficient in using knives.

When Yae learned how to ride a horse, Yae was so proud that she couldn't help but akimbo on the deserted plain for a while.

The chaotic era of continuous war has become the field where she is most active.

"Woo--" A group of cavalry warriors suddenly appeared on the flat dirt road across the field, with shiny armor and fierce banners.Yae reined in the reins, slowed down, and drove the horse to a stop behind the hidden bushes on the side of the road.

The group of horsemen rushed straight towards a certain direction without even looking at her. The angry shouts of horses and whips were mixed with the sound of thunder and rolling horseshoes, and smoke and dust filled the sky all the way.

The people on both sides of the road consciously stepped out of the way, watching the warriors go away aggressively in silence.

"...It must be that 'that' appeared again." After a long while, someone murmured.

A woman with a vegetable basket on her head moved closer when she heard the words, and her lowered voice could not conceal her strong curiosity: "I heard that Master Zhong Nayan was killed, is it true?"

The man glanced at the woman selling vegetables, and seemed a little displeased with this kind of initiative to talk, but he still replied: "I don't dare to spread rumors about this kind of thing. Just wait and see, the person who passed by just now is to maintain the capital. An army of law and order. The presence of these men shows that the situation is extraordinary."

"It must be that the 'ghost' has appeared again. "

...it really didn't take much effort.

Yae secretly laughed in his heart, pulled the rein without hesitation, turned the horse's head, clamped the horse's belly, and chased after the group of horsemen disappeared.

Rumors have spread in the capital recently, because Master Zhong Nayan was killed by unknown people on the road, the murderer has not been brought to justice so far, people in the Kinki area are in panic, everyone does not go out at night, and they are also cautious on weekdays, try to travel together as much as possible.

The murderer's true identity became more and more mysterious, until later he was no different from a green-faced and fang-toothed evil spirit.She didn't pay much attention to it at first, but she just heard by accident in the army a few days ago that this evil spirit has the ability to heal itself, even if its limbs are cut off, they can grow back again. It is simply an unkillable monster.The imperial court has tried its best to arrest him, but so far there has been no result.

Yae didn't know why he just got poked.

The sassy wind rushed from her side like a stream of water, and the horse's hooves that landed on the ground seemed to have formed a fixed rhythm when she was galloping. She lowered her center of gravity and held the rein in her hand. Above was the endless sky, and the gray and soft clouds seemed to be pulled It was receding rapidly, and the thin daylight came and went, casting moving shadows on the plain.

Suddenly, something changed in the wind.

The first thing Yae saw was the broken military flag, which was inserted obliquely into the ground like a battlefield mark.Someone was screaming, but the terrified voice was abruptly cut off before it completely left the throat.The situation was chaotic, people turned their backs on their backs, and smoke and dust were everywhere.At first glance, all she saw were shogunate soldiers in uniform armor, holding blood-stained katanas, hesitating and backing back again and again, as if they were facing some vicious beast.

Hot blood sprayed out, and the officer wearing a spade helmet let out a cry of pain, grabbed his lost left arm and staggered backwards.Just before the fierce knife light sliced ​​through his forehead, he suddenly felt a tightness in his neck, and someone grabbed his collar and pulled it suddenly, almost saving him from danger.

The officer was dragged a few feet away on the ground, felt unable to breathe smoothly, and struggled subconsciously.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that you still need to breathe." An unfamiliar voice came, and the tight neckline suddenly loosened. He coughed and raised his head, and what he saw was a figure sitting on horseback against the light.

The next moment, the figure turned over from the horse and fell down. The sword at the waist was not out of its sheath, and it just walked towards the center of the battlefield. "Wait, stop, comrades - hardworking comrades, I say stop... pause!!!"

The soldiers who were fighting looked back at Yae in amazement. She walked towards the blood-soaked figure standing on the battlefield, and raised her hand:

"long time no……"

Before the last word "see" can be uttered, the bright knife light flashed across, Yae lowered his head, and the left arm of this body fell to the ground in response, before the blood was sprayed.

This is very embarrassing.

"..." Everyone present was silent.

Yae: "...Do you have any enmity with someone else's left arm?"

It's really awesome to cut off her hand just after meeting.Why every time she sees him, she can't help but want to say that he is so awesome.Know how hard it is for her to find a body that works?It's kind of cutting off her arm, but the other party has the kind of taking it back for her?ah? !

The culprit who chopped off her arm raised his knife again expressionlessly, and Yae shuddered, and quickly got out of the body.Like a wooden stake that had lost its support, the body in heavy armor fell to the ground with a muffled sound, and performed a live performance in front of the soldiers what it means to rush to the street.

"Don't chop, don't chop, if you chop this body again, it will really be useless!"

The soldiers around were frightened and raised their knives in unison. Under their gaze, the man who was regarded by the court as an evil spirit held the knife for a long time. His blood-red eyes were like a dark and dark pool, and he moved slightly after a long time. one time.

"...It's you." He lowered the tip of the knife slightly, his deep and magnetic voice seemed to be wrapped in a cold and illusory mist, showing a cold expression that was very strange to her, and the sarcasm at the corner of his mouth was so shallow that it almost disappeared .

"You're not dead yet."

The surrounding soldiers seemed to have been pressed the pause button, and could only watch in amazement as the man spoke to the air in front of him.The officer wearing a spade-shaped helmet endured the pain and gestured to the subordinates around him, signaling them not to act rashly.

"...I will return this sentence to you intact." The smile on Yae's face disappeared.She leaned forward, and the phantom figure was almost in front of the bloody man.She narrowed her eyes slightly, her knife-sharp gaze seemed to be looking into the depths of the soul of those scarlet pupils.

"Where did you hide him?"

——"That child, where did you hide him?"

For more than 200 years, she thought that no news was the best news.Now it seems that it may be the worst result.

"Are you questioning me, a person who disappeared for more than 200 years without authorization."

Yae: ........ actually beat him up? ?

She still wanted to say something, but her eyes fell inadvertently, the blood soaked the old and dirty clothes of the other party, the wrist holding the knife was full of ugly and hideous scars, and there was hardly a piece of intact skin.She took a step back and swallowed the words back.

"Listen...listen to the order!!" The sudden voice brought Yae's attention back to reality.She turned her head and found that the soldiers had formed an encirclement circle at some point, and did not attack, but only blocked the criminal's escape route.

"I was appointed by His Royal Highness Ashikaga to protect the security of the capital and protect the Holy Master Kuroda Zaemon. Now I am ordered to arrest the murderer who killed Nagonogen-sama. Please hurry and catch him!"

Although he didn't know why the prisoner suddenly put down the knife, the officer immediately seized the opportunity and shouted loudly. He probably still had lingering fears about his left arm, and accidentally mixed in the honorifics.

The prisoner stood indifferently, holding a long knife dripping with blood in his hand, and his scarlet eyes were still as cold and indifferent. At first glance, he lacked the common sense of this era, just like a piece of white paper.

Yae suddenly felt a bit of a headache: "Well... you may have a big problem."

The author has something to say:

It is the end of the Kamakura Shogunate in the 14th century√

The Heian era, governed by the imperial family and ministers, ended in 1192, and was replaced by the Kamakura Shogunate, which was ruled by the samurai

Now this Kamakura shogunate is almost finished, it's time for regime change

According to the original manga, Tianzhaoyuan Naraku has a history of almost 500 years

Today's Zhenhe six years, converted into the Western calendar, is 1351, and there is almost a gap of more than 500 years between the end of the Tokugawa period.

Again, this article is private, don't take it seriously cough