[Gintama] Immortal

The sharp alarm kept echoing, the portholes were closed tightly, and the main control room was as dark as night.

The red emergency light became the only light source, and the hull trembled violently, roaring and roaring through the turbulent air current and sea of ​​clouds.

One word to describe the situation at this time is exciting.

Very exciting.

If it wasn't for being firmly pressed on the seat by the safety device, Yae would have thought of standing and applauding.

The pictures on the screen kept flickering. For a while, it was black smoke wrapped in fire, and for a while it was the picture of the frigate being sunk and smashed by Naraku. The gloomy and dull winter sky became very lively, and there were falling wreckage and fleets fighting each other everywhere. .

... It's fun to disassemble the battleship.

She didn't know when Naraku of Tianzhaoyuan learned the ability to blast people back to grandma's house with one shot.

After speeding up to the limit, the enemy ship commanded by Xu still clenched tightly.The assassination organization, which has always only been active in the shadows, bared its sharp fangs and bombarded the sky, like a wild beast that would never stop until it bit off the neck of its prey. At worst, it dragged the target to the ground and was involved in the explosion.

There was another loud bang, and the left wing of the spaceship was hit by artillery fire.

The metal wall panels creaked and trembled, and the tilting and falling ship let out a tooth-piercing moan like a dying whale.

There was no one standing around, and the celestial soldiers in charge of guarding her fastened the safety gear, and their octopus-like eyeballs rolled towards her, and then rolled back again.

"Damn it, isn't this guy an important experimental subject?"

The emergency lights above the head flickered angrily, and the unbalanced ship began to tilt to the left, and the sharp alarm was drowned out by the roar of the guns.

Yae is innocent.

"Even if you tie me to the deck now, Naraku's side will still be bombarded."

convergence?scruples?Show mercy?

That kind of thing doesn't exist.

Her body was filled with empty blood, even if the ship crashed and exploded, as long as she was fished out, she still had one breath, and she would be able to survive.

To be locked in this body, to live on.

"Young man, if you think that Naraku will have scruples because I'm on the ship, then you're going to be disappointed."

As if confirming her words, there was a loud bang, and the tail of the spaceship was pierced by shells again.

"It's time to make contact." The heavenly man who manipulated the ship gritted his teeth, and the back of his hand holding the joystick was so hard that his veins bulged.

The gray clouds were broken, the jagged rocks were covered with snow, and the dense coniferous forest was like a sharp bone spur on the ground, poking straight and neatly into the sky.

Wrapped in billowing black smoke, the airship made an emergency landing in the mountains.

The emergency cabin door popped open, and the biting cold air hit the face.

The heavily armed celestial and human soldiers escorted her and did not run far, and met Naraku's ground troops in the snow-covered forest.

Snowflakes drifted from the gray sky, and the pine-covered mountains could not hear the sound of all things.

The uniformly dressed Naraku crowd cut off the road in front of them like black shadows, and the fine white snowflakes fell rustlingly, gently gliding across the leader's shoulders.

"Let's stop here." Hazy raised his eyes, his pale face was extremely pale, "Fighting the evil spirits in the sky will only lead you to fall into the endless hell."

The surrounding celestial and human soldiers raised their guns in unison, and Naraku, who was standing behind Lu, remained motionless, like a frozen stone statue.

Yae knew that to bring these stone statues back to life, all he had to do was nod his head, and the place would soon turn into a brutal killing field.

She raised her head and looked at the snowy sky.

Wrapped in black smoke and flames, another firebird with broken wings like a battleship fell from the sky with a mournful cry.

There is a net in the sky and a net on the ground, and there is no escape.

Withdrawing his gaze, Yae looked at Oboro.

"If I say, I don't intend to go back."

"..." Long looked at her expressionlessly, "Please stop getting angry with Master Xu."

The men and horses on both sides were at rest in the middle of the forest, and the tense situation was about to explode.

Under such circumstances, Yae was taken aback, and suddenly laughed:

"You really know everything."

She raised her arms, as if she wanted to subconsciously wipe something away, but remembering that her hands were still cuffed behind her back, she put them down again.

"Angry? Do you think I am angry with him?"

As if he had heard some amazing joke, Yae laughed and said: "It's just me, what do you think I can bet with him? I bet everything I could on him, and I lost everything. What else is there to bet on?"

Closing her eyes, Oboro didn't answer her directly, but said in a deep voice:

"As an experimental subject, you must be very clear about the consequences of falling into the hands of the enemy. I won't say the same warning a second time."

Holding back his smile slightly, Yae looked at him quietly for a moment, then suddenly said softly:

"You never called me by my name."

……

——"Yae, do you know when the teacher's birthday is?"

——"Yae, isn't it embarrassing for me to fall into the river today?"

—— "...Wow Yae, you actually spoiled me!!"

……

——"... Yae, does your wound still hurt?"

"It's really never happened once." She blinked lightly, and the world in front of her eyes returned to the white forest, and the rustling snowdrops fell like broken feathers, covering the gray hair of the person opposite. With calm eyebrows, "You never called my name once."

"If I beg you, will you let me go?" Yae laughed.

"Not really letting me go, but would you really let me go?"

Rice balls wrapped in bamboo leaves, desserts neatly arranged in lacquer boxes, just pretend to accept them.

It doesn't matter if you turn around and throw it where she can't see it.

"...This assumption is meaningless." Oboro lowered his eyes, still unable to see any expression on his face.

"You have decided to fight the sky to the end."

"Come on less, it's not something so high-sounding as a struggle."

With his hands cuffed behind his back, Yae stood upright in the snow with a smile on his lips.

"It's just that there are people who want to see even if they die."

——"... Yae, you're not going to get better, are you?"

"...Unfortunately, you made the wrong choice."

Silently, he grasped the metal Zen staff tightly.

The snowflakes fell to the shoulders, and the coolness penetrated into the skirt of the clothes.

"……Feel sorry."

She didn't know if the other party understood this apology.

The eyes softened, Yae looked at the other party, and repeated quietly:

"I'm really sorry, Oboro."

The only one who can bring Oboro out of Amaterasu-in Naraku is Yoshida Shoyo.

The only one who can make him fall into hell willingly, and the difference between salvation and eternal calamity is only one thought, is Yoshida Shoyang.

"Fire--!!"

Scarlet blood bloomed in the forest. It was unknown whether the bullet had passed through the black monk's robe first, or the staff and knife had sliced ​​off the hot gun barrel. There was a sharp metal buzzing, and both sides launched an attack at the same time.

Taking advantage of the chaotic situation, Wuji dragged Yae over, and escaped first under the cover of several celestial soldiers.

The pine forests in the mountains are dense, and the straight rough trees tower into the sky.

The fluffy snowflakes fell in the forest one after another, and the field of vision seemed to be shrouded in intermittent white fog. The cold snowflakes fell on the eyelashes and melted in a blink of an eye.

The crashed airship, the black smoke and flames, the sound of weapons intersecting and the sound of gunfire gradually diminished, swallowed by the eternal silence in this mountain, and finally only the sound of snow falling on the branches remained.

The vines and moss grew intertwined, Yae looked at the rapidly retreating landscape around him, and suddenly felt a little familiar for some reason.

The moment this thought flashed through his mind, the pine forest in front of him suddenly opened up.

The biting cold wind blows up the cliff, fluffy snow foam rushes towards the face, and when the wind dies down, the snow mist dissipates, and the boundless snowfield emerges.

"...Isn't there no way?!"

Angrily questioned by other celestial beings came from behind, and Wuji's voice was cold, like the surface of a frozen lake without any ups and downs.

"...there is no need for a road anymore."

As if she didn't hear the movement behind her, she took a step forward, and the clogs landed in the snow where no one had stepped on, with a fluffy and crisp sound, the snow sank down.

The howling wind rolled up the sleeves of the kimono, and Yae walked towards the edge of the cliff, raising her face slightly.

The snow field is vague, the gloomy sky is like a huge furnace cover buckled down, the dark sea of ​​clouds is layered, and snowflakes are constantly falling in the gaps.

The time is extremely quiet, and the phantom of the golden and iron horse comes from a distant era.She blinked, and suddenly saw the army hunting with flags wading through the barren snowfield, the figure from the past was standing on the edge of the cliff, the black kimono fluttering like a crow's wings in the cold wind.

She walked to the edge of the cliff step by step, to the place where the phantom of the past stood.Take it instead.

Looking far away from here, apart from the vast white, there is only the vast white.

The movement behind him disappeared at some point, dead quiet.

Yae turned sideways, those celestial and human soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the face of being betrayed finally froze in disbelief.

"What are you doing?" She narrowed her eyes slightly and smiled.

The strange yet familiar face moved, and the veins under the skin came to life like seaweed.

"From the very beginning, my mission was not to take you out."

"...That's really reassuring. You're moving so slowly, I'm thinking of leaving you and running away." With his back to the empty cliff, Yae turned around.

"Who exactly sent you here?"

Wuji spread his hands: "It's an open secret that the Heavenly Daoists have been conducting research related to Altana. If the Heavenly Daoists want to get you, there will naturally be someone who wants to hinder it."

"The study of the blood of the Altana variant has promoted the evolution of the universe by leaps and bounds. There are not a few people who oppose this research. Artificially promoting biological evolution is a taboo in the field of scientific research. People think the plan is crazy."

"So," Yae continued, "those who oppose this research want to get rid of me, right?"

She, an experimental subject that violates the rules of nature, should not exist, let alone fall into the hands of the Daoists.

That weird smile appeared on Wuji's face again.

"Because of the parasitic ability, no matter where an existence like me goes, people will hate and suspect it. And you are in this situation, all thanks to one person."

"...Since you didn't intend to run away with me,"

Yae looked up at the gray sky.The thin and dense snowflakes are still falling, and the whiteness like tearing cotton can't see the end.

"How are you going to kill me?"

"You'll know right away." Wuji narrowed his cloudy eyes.

"It's almost time."

The bone-piercing pain came without warning, and Yae slightly opened his eyes wide, looking down at the large expanses of blood on the ground in front of him.

The healed wound at the throat suddenly tore, and the blood of the dragon veins lost its effectiveness. The body was supported by medical equipment at first, and then it was maintained by the blood of the dragon veins. Once these support systems were removed, it would easily collapse like a broken vessel.

The strength seemed to be hollowed out from the inside, Yae swayed, took a step back and bent down.

Wuji stepped forward unhurriedly, stabbed the knife in his hand into her belly, with a little force, the blade was broken, and only the handle was withdrawn.

It was an ordinary knife.

Black sheath, silver straight blade.

The blood in his chest surged, Yazhong coughed, and swallowed blood foam in his mouth.

"... I underestimated you." She hooked her lips, showing a weak but appreciative smile, "What is this?"

"Although it is extremely rare, Altana's crystal stones can be forged into weapons."

Wuji looked down at her.

"For ordinary people, this is just a knife, but for you who live on the blood of dragon veins, ingesting Altana from other planets is like ingesting highly poisonous, even if it is only a little bit, once a trace of toxin Flowing all over the body is enough to kill."

Yae laughed silently.

— There is no quicker shortcut than death.

"...Unfortunately, the outside world is full of your enemies. For you, perhaps the only safe place is Tenshoin Naraku." Wuji's voice became indistinct, as if it came from across the distant water. .

Yae didn't have the strength to respond or discern what the other person said.

The blood in her body seemed to be scrambling to get out of the broken vessel, she wanted to speak but couldn't make a sound, at least she wanted to praise the other party's intention to kill her, but just as soon as she opened her mouth, hot blood overflowed.

"Although I was the one who killed you, if you want to blame it, blame the one who gave you the blood of the curse."

The field of vision is dim, and the existence of the other party is just the voice of talking.

Yae felt the body fall and sink into the snow.

Raising the eyelids, the dark sky seemed to be falling towards the ground, and the white snowflakes fell on the eyelashes, clear and cold.

It also seems to be good as the last view before death.

……

The world is tilted.

Time stands still, the sound disappears, and in this tilted world, Wuji's blurred figure suddenly trembles, flying back as if hit hard.

Excessive blood loss and extremely dim vision, Yae struggled to raise his eyes.

The other party was lifted with one hand while someone was holding his throat, and he was held on the edge of the cliff where the cold wind was howling. His face covered with veins was twisted in pain, which was extremely terrifying and strange.

... virtual.

She moved her lips, trying to call that person's name, but couldn't make a sound.

"……what have you done."

A murderous and cold voice came faintly, and the fingers pinching Wuji's neck gradually tightened.

Wheezing and wheezing, a hoarse laughter like a bellows sounded low.

What Wuji said, Yae didn't hear clearly, Xu's patience seemed to reach its limit in an instant.

Wuji's head flew out without seeing the trace of the blade.

Bright red drops of blood slid down the black blade, the slender white fingers loosened carelessly, and the headless corpse slumped down from the edge of the cliff.

Her thinking gradually slowed down, darkness flooded up like water, and the connection between her consciousness and this body had become so weak that she vaguely had the illusion that she was watching.

She saw herself being held in Xu's arms, leaning against his chest weakly, her breath was so weak that it became difficult to breathe.

Raising his hand, Xu directly pulled out the broken knife embedded in her abdomen, blood gushing out immediately.

He dug out all the broken blades in her body together with blood foam and pieces of meat, the palms and fingers were covered with blood, and he suddenly turned back to the evil ghost who had ripped people apart in the first place.

The pain that was crueler than death pulled her consciousness back into her body, and Yae shivered slightly from the pain.

……stop.

stop.

stop.

"……pain."

Xu's figure froze for a moment.

He raised his head, blood was splattered on his expressionless face, and dark mist surged deep in his scarlet pupils.

Before the consciousness left this body, the last thing Yae felt was that the other party held up her head and kissed it with blood in it.

The lips touched were unexpectedly warm, and the blood fed to her continued to overflow from the corner of her mouth, splashed on the collar of the kimono, slipped along the fabric, and finally melted into the dark red snow.

For this body, the blood it once depended on for survival is extremely poisonous.

...she can go.

Flying snowflakes were blown up by the wind and scattered back to the ground one after another.

The edge of the cliff was extremely quiet, for a while, Xu put down his hands and stood up, his body lay motionless in the snow, his kimono was stained red with blood, like an extremely bright red plum.

I'm out of breath.

"...Master Xu." A faint voice came from the edge of the pine forest.

Lowering his head and eyes, he respectfully knelt on one knee in the snow, as if he didn't see the corpse in the snow, nor did he see the blood in Xu's arms.

"The enemy is completely wiped out, please issue further instructions."

no respond.

"...Master Xu?"

After what seemed like a long time, the figure with his back turned carelessly shook off the blood on the knife and put it back into the sheath.

"The corpse is useless—dispose of it."

He lowered his head and responded with a low voice.

Putting on the mask, Xu turned around and walked past him without looking sideways.

Just when Wu thought that Xu would leave directly, Xu suddenly paused and turned his head slightly.

"as well as,"

He raised the corners of his mouth, his deep voice seemed to be smiling, but his eyes were cold.

"What happened to those disciples of Songyang these past few years, it's time for me to take care of him."

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