[Gintama] Immortal

Katsura Kotaro is a person who keeps his word and firmly implements his goals.

He said "there will be a lot of trouble in the next few days", and he did it in the following week.

Katsura Kotaro, a good student in the past, was taken by Gintoki and Takasugi to skip class and climb over the wall. Now he is good at everything, can go to the sky and enter the earth, and he is better than the blue.

Either fly in through the window, or climb over the balcony, Yae gets off work at ten o'clock in the evening, and every time he returns to the apartment, he will definitely see someone appearing on time, often accompanied by hearty and disturbing laughter:

"Hahahahaha, come and chase the dawn of Edo if you have the guts, you lackeys of the Shinsengumi!"

Gui, who pretended to be chased here by the Shinsengumi, played it with all his heart, and sometimes floated to the balcony of her apartment like a little fairy wearing a parachute with the pattern of Elizabeth on his back.

Seeing him having so much fun, Yae thought about the neighbor’s complaint posted in her mailbox—"The nightly news is too loud, please turn down the volume of the TV"—finally she spoke after some deliberation:

"Isn't it good to always let Shinsengumi take the blame?"

On the second night after saying this, Gui quickly changed his words.

"Accept the justice of Tianzhu, lackeys of the shogunate!"

Then there are "damned tax thieves", "a circus organization whose chief is an orangutan", "the defeated dog in the battle of Hakodate", and so on.

...In the end, it just changed the way of scolding Shinsengumi.

By the way, the last title has already broken through the dimensional wall, which is super dangerous.

Seeing that Guihui would help her clean the living room, Yae finally gave up on locking the balcony door.

In the middle of the night, the kitchen was lit with warm yellow light.

The soup pot where the seaweed porridge was cooking made a gurgling sound, and Yae cut the tamago tofu into small cubes and put them in the porcelain bowl containing the conger noodles.

Summer is moray eel season.

The Seto Inland Sea is rich in seafood, and conger eel cuisine is a specialty of Cheung Chau. If you don’t eat some conger eel, summer will be in vain.

In the past, even though Matsushita Village School was always tight in funds, she would try her best to get a few conger eels in summer, or chop them into mashed meat for noodles, or boil them into delicious broth, and make refreshing sashimi in the hottest weather It is also a delicious dish.

Mix the juice, soy sauce, and mirin, and pour it into a light blue porcelain bowl. The delicious dark sauce does not go into the noodles bit by bit, and sinks to the bottom of the bowl. The cubed jade tofu looks bright yellow.

Yae brought the supper to the table.

"...What's the matter? Don't you want to eat?"

"...No, that's not the case."

Slightly closing his eyes to hide his thoughts, Gui folded his hands together with his chopsticks in his hands, and said seriously: "I'm starting."

Gui's face was still covered with the plaster from before, and Yae thought it looked a bit stupid, and those who didn't know it thought he had been beaten, so he reached out to help him take it off.

"Why are you still posting this?"

Gui reacted very quickly and bent to the side, like a nimble tumbler, and sat back again with a swing.

"No, this cannot be revealed." He said seriously, and added: "This is a seal."

Yae: "..."

Deciding to respect Gui's strange imagination, she silently put her hand back.

The supper portion is not much, and the conger eel noodles and black kelp porridge are finished quickly.

Yae put away the bowls and chopsticks on the table and carried them to the kitchen sink.

"Let me do it." Gui walked into the kitchen.

"No need, I'll wash it off in one go."

Gui let out an "oh", as if stuck to the kitchen door, and didn't leave.

From the corner of his eyes, Yae saw that he was dawdling there but refused to leave, and in the end he stopped struggling and stood up straight with both hands.

There was the sound of rushing water in the kitchen, Gui cleared his throat, and said in a tone of "the weather is fine tonight":

"Have you seen Yinshi?"

Yae casually murmured.

"I saw it—at the ladyboy club."

Gui's voice stuck in his throat.

"...I'm not talking about this kind of meeting."

After rinsing off the foam, Yae put the cleaned porcelain bowls on the rack to dry.

Gui was quiet for a while: "Have you met?"

Yae turned off the tap, and the sound of rushing water stopped suddenly.

"Although I was chased by a fierce landlord to ask for rent, I seem to be doing well."

have seen it from afar.

"I'll hold him down for you." Gui suddenly said, "Ah, no, what I mean is——Yinshi will be very happy to see you."

Yae was a little amused, and the corners of his mouth did bend: "Thank you so much."

After a pause, she continued: "But I think it's fine to keep the status quo."

"why?"

Yae thought for a while how to explain her troubled situation: "You remember I told you to call me "Maho" now, right? "

Gui nodded: "Frieza was resurrected in the Dragon Ball Z movie, there is nothing strange about this kind of thing."

... Wait, she didn't catch up with this idea at all.She didn't keep up with where the other party's imagination was going now.

Yae coughed lightly: "In short, for me now, maintaining the identity of "Sakuraniwa Maho" is the best way. "

Gui frowned, and didn't pursue the question further, but just said: "If you encounter trouble in the future, you can come to me."

You said the same thing as Takasugi.

Yae smiled and said, "Okay."

"If the time is right, would you go see Yinshi?" Gui asked.

Yae thought for a while: "If the timing is right, maybe."

As for what the right timing was, she didn't know.

Yae smiled and bent his eyes: "When the time comes, please help me hold him down, Kotaro."

……

Kabukicho is not far from Osaki Bento House, about a ten-minute walk away.

Today's guest ordered two fried chicken bentos, and after Yae finished delivering the food, it happened to be exactly two o'clock in the afternoon, which was also her break time.

In the hot summer, the cicadas sing like waves.

The weather is too hot, and there are not many people on the streets of Kabukicho.Yae stood in front of the cold drink vending machine, counting out the coins in his purse.

Putting in 150 yen, Yae raised his head and squinted at the cold drinks in the display case.

After thinking about it for a while, she seemed to have made a decision. She pressed the green light, and a clattering sound came from inside the vending machine. Pocari rolled to the delivery port.

No matter how many times you watch it, the vending machine delivery process is fun.

She loves modern technology and praises the technology of heaven and man.

Yae found a 150-yen coin from his purse and put it in again.

The same clatter sounded, and the second bottle of Pocari happily rolled to the delivery port.

She bent down and took out the two bottles of Pocari. When she got up, the mouth of the purse opened, and the coins rolled out of it crisply, and the silver bounced on the ground a few times before lying flat.

Yae picked up the dropped coins, stood up holding Baocari in his arms, and suddenly a hand stretched out in front of him.

Her eyes followed that hand and looked up. The owner of the hand was dressed in black, covered with a loose moiré kimono, the silver curly hair was limp by the sun, and the dark red dead fish eyes drooped listlessly Looking at it, the expression against the light can be as loose as possible.

"Hey——if you don't take it, Ah Yin will regard it as having picked it up by himself."

The boss of Manshiya, Sakata Gintoki, dragged his voice, and the fifty-yen coin was still lying in his hand.

"If you collect all six pieces, you can buy a copy of Jump."

Yae suddenly laughed.

She didn't know why she was smiling, but the upward curve of her mouth couldn't be restrained, and even the high temperature in summer became amiable, as if the weather was decided for the two of them to talk in front of the cold drink vending machine at this moment.

"Thank you."

The coin in her hand when she took over the silver.

The colors of summer are the white clouds in the sky, the ripe red of watermelon, the green leaves scalded by the sun, and the blue of Pocari packaging.

... what a beautiful day.

Yae thought for a while, and handed out a bottle of Pocari that he was holding in his hand.

"It's a thank you."

It's a gift in return.

— Ten years ago.

Yinshi raised one eyebrow: "For me?"

"Otherwise?" Yae blinked, "The living person standing in front of me, who else is there besides you?"

"This time you get a free drink, will there be a free bento next time?"

Yin Shi smiled, not being polite to her, and took a sip after opening the bottle cap.

"Do you remember?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Aren't you wearing the staff uniform of Osaki Bento House right now?"

Gintoki looked away casually.

"It's not long since you started working, right? This is the first time I've seen a delivery man who spread bento all over the floor."

Holding his drink, he lazily leaned against the vending machine, and finally raised his drooping eyelids when he was joking.

"But seeing that you are doing well now, it means that the boss there is not bad, he is a good person."

"Worthy of being the boss of Wanshiwu, he has rich social experience, as well as other aspects."

Yae raised her head and smiled.

Yinshi seemed to choke: "...that was a misunderstanding."

Yae nodded with a smile: "I understand, it's all a misunderstanding."

"No, I mean, that was really a misunderstanding." Yin Shi's mouth twitched.

Yae continued to smile: "Okay."

"Are you listening? Do you understand what Ah Yin is saying?"

"I understand, it's a misunderstanding to have rich experience in that area. But it doesn't matter, experience can be accumulated."

"No, what did you understand! Ah Yin doesn't want to accumulate that kind of experience at all!"

Silver showed a very tired expression.

She has seen this expression many times, but at that time, Yinshi's face still had the slight baby fat from when he was a child. When Songyang pinched his face, he would praise "it feels so good", and then looked at Yinshi with a smile.

The person standing in front of her now is obviously an adult who has faded from the youthful outline, and there is probably no flesh on his face.

Probably because the atmosphere was so good at this time, so good that it was a little inexplicable. Yae didn't think about what to say next, and the voice had already come out without authorization:

"As long as you give me money, Wanshiwu will do everything-is it true?"

The movement of drinking the drink paused, and Yin Shi put down his hand: "Do you have an entrustment?"

"...That's right. The store plans to launch a new product tasting event recently. If I distribute the flyers by myself, I may not be too busy."

"Well," Yinshi thought for a while, "about when?"

"next Friday."

"Come on," he casually pushed down the brim of her peaked cap, realizing that this gesture was a little too intimate, coughed a few times and quickly withdrew his hand, "I'll bring those two little devils to meet you in front of the station next Friday. "

Yae was stunned for a moment, raised the brim of his hat, and smiled unconsciously:

"That's it - see you next Friday."

……

Seven days a week, she rests on Sunday, leaves work early on Saturday, and finishes work at [-] pm.

After leaving the station, it happened to be sunset time, the magnificent sunset covered the sky, the meandering sunset was burning on the horizon, the temperature in the air was much cooler, and there were pedestrians walking in twos and threes on the street.

Yae went to a nearby convenience store and bought some snacks and ice cream.

On the way home with a plastic bag, the scenery in the evening is quiet, the light is mild, and the sky is low and wide.

The roar of the motorcycle drove away, and the refreshing evening wind blew in the face. Yae vaguely heard the laughter of children in the wind. Passing by the park in the neighborhood, he saw a few little Doudings playing and kicking cans.

Those children seemed to be only eight or nine years old, and the youngest boy was only about six years old. He worked very hard to follow behind the older children, his small face flushed red.

With a bang, the iron pot was kicked high, the sound was like a stone falling into the water, and it was like a bird flapping its wings high into the sky.

The child pretending to be a ghost turned around in surprise, and the others laughed and shouted in unison: "It's been kicked! It's still Shengping who is a ghost!"

Yae was standing near the park with a plastic bag in his hand, the soothing breeze blew across his cheeks, and when he squinted his eyes, the golden-red sunset melted and fainted in his vision. line.

She realized that she hadn't heard a child laugh for a long time.

"Found you, Kiyoshi!"

"Tatsuya, Kentaro, Keita, Naoto..."

"Ah! Jar!"

The metal can was kicked up again, and flew high into the air with the echoing sound.

The game restarted, the person pretending to be a ghost continued to be a ghost, and the people around him dispersed. The youngest child ran in a hurry, tripped and was about to fall.

Yae heard others shout:

"Yuki!"

……

——Short and not good at sports, he can fall on the ground even when he walks.

The child once held her hand and sobbed all the way.

With a blank mind, Yae caught the child who was about to fall and held him in his arms.

...children at this age are very young.

Even if she lives for thousands of years, she can't forget that little warmth.

"Are you okay, Yuuki?!"

The jar stopped kicking, and the surrounding children gathered around.

"I am fine."

The child named Yuki came back to his senses, blinked his eyes, and thanked her very politely:

"Thank you, big sister."

"...You're welcome," Yae let go of her hand.

She heard herself smiling as usual: "Be careful next time."

——and tree.

As the sun went down, the children playing games all went home.

The giggling laughter gradually faded away, Yae stood for a while holding the plastic bag, and then sat down on the empty bench in the park.

The last ray of sunset glow is embedded far away at the end of the sky, and the street lamps on the side of the street are lit up one by one, emitting halos in the fresh night.

She looked at the lights in the residential area, it should be dinner time now.

The chirping of insects in the grass gradually became louder, and the whistling evening wind stopped blowing.

Looking up, he saw the person who was standing on the opposite side of the park for an unknown amount of time, and Yae raised the plastic bag in his hand:

"Free ice cream, would you like one?"

"...you mean free melted ice cream?"

Gintoki showed an expression as if he wanted to make a joke, but his voice was a bit harsh.

"Do you have any prejudice against free ice cream that melts?"

Eightfold laugh.

She tore open the package and found that the strawberry-flavored ice cream had indeed melted to the point where it was inedible, and water was dripping from the package, looking pitiful.

"...well, you're right."

Yae throws the strawberry ice cream in the park's trash can.

Yin Shi stayed where he was, as if he was afraid to step forward and not willing to back away.

Without the cover of cynical expression, those dark red eyes just looked at her.

"If you want to cancel the commission for next Friday, you can tell me at any time."

The eightfold voice is brisk.

"You don't have to force yourself," she said with a smile, "Mr. Sakata."