[Gintama] Immortal

"False-!!!!!!"

The snow-covered pine branches suddenly bent, and the frightened birds all took off.

Before the tragedy happened, Yae jumped down the steps in two steps in three steps, and almost stopped Xu in front of him with one stride.

She opened her arms, her muscles tensed, as if she would rush to grab the knife empty-handed whoever made the first move.

Gui's movements wobbled, and the tip of the knife froze slightly.Xu seemed to glance at her.

"...This matter is a misunderstanding." Yazhong carefully chose his words, "You put down the knife first."

With a false smile, Gui's expression immediately became as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

But immediately, Xu let go of his palm, like throwing away a piece of scrap iron, and let the handle of the knife slip from his hand.

"Look," he spread his hands, "I'm not the one who started the fight."

Yae froze for a moment, then turned her head leisurely, her gaze fell directly on her, as if the tense atmosphere before was all her illusion.

At that moment, she had a strange feeling: Xu was waiting for her to reply to this.

"... Yae." Seeing her standing motionless, Gui saw that her eyes were visibly stained with worry and vigilance.

Therefore, when Xu suddenly stretched out his hand towards her, he acted almost immediately, but saw Xu lift her up from the snow, and turned to walk towards the direction of the temple.

Xu throws Yae to the fireside, his inexplicable behavior seems to have no reason at all.

He turned around and looked at Gui Shi who was standing behind him, with a smile that was not a smile, as if he was mocking him for missing an excellent opportunity to sneak attack.

"Is this what Songyang taught you too—never attack an enemy whose back is exposed, or is this your own boring Bushido?"

Gui frowned, hearing Songyang's name from Xu's mouth seemed to trigger some kind of instinctive reaction, but he quickly suppressed the excess emotion.

"I don't know what your purpose is, but I'm here to stop you, Xu."

"What a pity." Xu Xu bent his dark red eyes, his voice was cold and calm, "there is only one way to stop me."

He turned his head to the side, revealing his pale neck and light blue blood vessels: "But, as a disciple of Songyang, can you do it?"

"In order not to let your important companion bear this crime, you have made such a trip so hard, but you have wasted a precious opportunity just now."

"Why not cut it down? If it is now, as you can see, I will not fight back, and I have no self-defense weapon in my hand."

"Enough." Yae raised his hand and grabbed his sleeve, paused for a while, and the seemingly warm but malicious smile on his face faded like a snake scale.

"Don't lie."

Kill at the neck?who?false?

He made an unidentified sound from his nasal cavity, which seemed to be some kind of sneer.

Even with empty hands, he can twist the opponent's head off.

"Let's talk about it," Yae said.

She never thought that one day she would see such a strange scene——

After a long stalemate, Gui put away the knife and sat down beside her, perfectly separating her from Xu.

"Yae, are you okay?" When Gui asked this sentence, he kept staring at Xu on the opposite side.

Xu Xu's fingers seemed to move, and his eyes glanced here a few times.

Yae failed to meet his eyes, and Gui blocked her sight tightly like a hen guarding chicken cubs.

She focused on explaining the recent situation, emphasizing again and again that Xu killed all the killers of the old curtain school, and he has not hurt any innocent people so far—just so far, Gui said with his eyes.

During this period, Xu kept tapping the ground with his fingers nonchalantly, with a countdown-like sound ticking, as if his patience would run out at any moment.

How is the situation in Edo, how are Gintoki and Takasugi, how are the children in the private school—Yae can't wait to ask Gui for three days and three nights.

"Then go back with me." Gui paused for a long time before continuing, "Staying... staying here is not an option."

Since he can find this place, it means that others will find this place sooner or later.

Yae froze.

"...Not yet."

"Why? Could it be that your body..."

"It's all right."

Gui opened his mouth, but he seemed to understand something, he didn't make a sound immediately, but just looked straight at her.

Yae said slowly: "I don't want to, and I can't go back."

The days of isolation in the mountains are short-lived.

Xu, who is regarded as a thorn in the side of the world, can only exist during this specific time.

It is impossible for her to go back to Edo alone, but it is also impossible for two people to go back together.

"... Yae..." Gui's voice was low, and before he could speak out to dissuade him, his expression suddenly changed, and he drew the knife out of its sheath like a conditioned reflex.Xu raised his eyelids and asked with a pleasant face:

"what happened?"

Gui's voice was tense: "What did you want to do just now?"

"What do you want to do?" Xu's eyes rested on the knife in his hand for a moment, "I should ask you about this matter."

This camouflage lasted for a very short time, and he seemed to want to raise his hand to grab something, but an invisible force prevented him from doing so.

During the confrontation outside the temple, and during the entire conversation, he kept tapping the ground with his fingers, as if this could cover up the slightly unnatural convulsions, and from the moment he saw Songyang's disciple, he had been His body and the force of his conquest tearing.

"Your judgment is correct." Xu said gently.

"There is nothing to talk about. If you don't plan to cut off your teacher's head now, stay here. I can't guarantee that I won't kill you."

……

Yae didn't know how Gui did it, but he did stay.

And not only did he stay, but he also became the role of the teaching director who catches puppy love.

When eating, he guarded against death between the two of them, and at night when he slept, he still guarded against death between the two of them, and even when Yae was taking a bath, he also guarded against death outside. formation.

Yae hesitated to speak, and whenever this happened, Gui would shake his head and tell her righteously: "I understand, if you don't plan to go back, then let me stay, don't worry, everything is with me, he is absolutely impossible Force you to [beep——] then [beep——] and then [beep——] [beep——] [beep——]”

"..."

No, wait, what's going on in your mental theater?Has the back been completely silenced? ?

After repeated pulling several times, Yae, who was almost forced to complain, finally had no choice.

"Why on earth are you here?"

"Because I have too few roles in the final battle of the original work."

"..."

"The conversation between me and the teacher across the screen is really only one sentence."

"..."

"Obviously, on the eve of the big battle, he gave a super cool speech, "This time I won't let you bear it alone again, Gintoki." Mingming said so handsomely, but in the end he still couldn't do anything. "

"..."

"...Hey, wait, wig, are you crying? Are there tears in your eyes? Hey, wait, wait, let me calm down, how old is the child, why are you still crying..."

Yae hugged Gui's shoulder and patted it.

A knife flew over with a whizzing sound, and with the bitter wind, it sank into the wall on the side of Gui's head like a knife cutting tofu.

Xu: "Go away."

Gui immediately revived with full blood, and hid her behind her back energetically: "If you want Teacher Lu, unless you step on my dead body!"

……

Yae didn't know how long this time could be delayed.When going to bed at night, Gui rolled himself up under the quilt as usual, and slept soundly next to her.

During the day, she winked at Xu many times desperately, feeling that her eyelids were about to cramp, maybe seeing Songyang's disciples jumping around in front of her eyes but being unable to do anything made him feel very bad. He disappeared, maybe he went out to relax, or he went to murder and set fire. For Xu, there is no difference between the two.

In the quiet night, the sound of the fire in the fireplace is fading away, the open-eyed laurel dress is pretending to be sleeping, Yae throws off the quilt, puts on his coat, and walks calmly to the door under the dim and muddy light. .

"...Be careful of catching a cold." There was a sleepy murmur from behind.

Yae closed the door behind him.

The thin moonlight melted with the snow outside the house, and this time she didn't jump into the snow barefoot.

Yae walked through the ancient temple full of dark shadows in the night, and before walking too far, he saw Xu's figure.

He is like a huge crow, standing on the border between the ancient temple and the forest when he is half asleep and half awake.

"Hey, aren't you afraid of the cold?" Yae touched his hand, his knife was pinned to his waist, his pale fingers were stained with the coolness of the winter night.She held his hand and tried to lead him towards the temple.

"Why didn't you tell him?"

"what?"

Xu stretched out his hand, under the bleak moonlight, on the wrist exposed from the cuff of the black kimono, there was a not deep and not shallow scar.

"I can be killed." He said in a cold, mocking tone, as if talking about someone else.

"My wounds won't heal quickly anymore. You don't even need to cut off my head and dig out my heart. As long as I lose too much blood, I can be easily killed."

Yae looked up at him.

"Because I don't want to tell anyone about it, simple as that."

Because you can no longer destroy the world with your own hands, but others can still destroy you.

Yae took Xu's hand, and gently rested her head on his chest: "Tell me, Xu."

"Why are you back?"

Obviously, you can embrace death.

Obviously, there is no need to bear the eternal pain anymore.

Is it because of unwillingness?

Is it because you want revenge?

Even if everything is destroyed, others will be dragged to hell with them.

"Your place," Yae leaned against Xu's chest, "has always been a hole."

Revenge doesn't fill it, killing doesn't fill it, it doesn't fill it anyway.

Perhaps, it can't be filled with something as illusory as love.

"Do you want to live? Even if it's just for a moment, have you ever had the desire to live?"

The winter moon cast their shadows long on the ground.

Yae got the answer from Xu's silence.

She pressed her face into his arms, hiding all her expressions.

I love you so much, she heard a voice say from the bottom of her heart.

During the period before Gui's arrival, she had been clinging to him like never before, so clinging that she wished he could always take her with her.

"...I am very happy to see you again." Yae narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "Anyway, thank you for coming back to see me."

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