[Gintama] Immortal

When Oboro received the news from the rear, the battle on Black String Island was at its most intense stage.

Kondo Isao, Matsudaira Kataguri, and Katsura Kotaro took advantage of the chaos to escape, the Shinsengumi and the barbarians landed on the island to rob prison, Sasaki Isaburo betrayed the shogunate, and the fleet of the Kaneigumi exchanged fire with Amaterasu-in Naraku head-on, and the bombardment fell from the sky like a stream of fire.

The precipitous isolated island has become a battlefield where there is no return, and there are noisy fighting and shouting everywhere.

Standing in the middle of this chaos, Oboro raised his hand, signaling to Naraku behind him that he understood the unexpected situation.

"What's the matter, Your Excellency doesn't seem to be looking very well."

The bright cold light came from the side, and he waved his stick to resist, the long knife and the Zen stick collided in the air in front of him, Sasaki Isaburo gasped, blood dripped down the brow bone, and there was a smile in his eyes as if he was about to be relieved: " Are you in trouble?"

"...No." Oboro closed his left eye, "I'm sighing for your stupidity and ignorance."

He drew out his waist knife and swung it at the person opposite him.Sasaki reacted quickly, retreated immediately, and fired several shots in the direction of Oboro, the metal sparks flashed away, and Oboro flipped his wrist, splitting all the bullets.

He said hoarsely:

"Sinners who are enemies of the sky don't know what kind of sanctions are waiting in front of them."

The blood-stained knife flew down from the cliff, and with a thud, the knife knocked to the ground.

The Zhenxuan team members who were helping their companions to retreat stopped, watching the dark figure descending from the sky with horror on their faces.

"Run! Keep running! Don't stop!" Okita coughed up a mouthful of blood and struggled to get up. Just as his fingers touched the handle of the knife, his back suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a huge force stepped on him, crushing him into the ground.His ribs let out a crushing scream, and they sank directly.

"Captain Okita!!"

Xu raised the knife, the tip of the knife pointed down, the cold light was like the poisonous fangs of a snake.

The believer girl ran down the cliff, raised her knife and slashed at her from behind, turned slightly sideways, and hit her abdomen with a palm.Blood splattered in an instant, and she fell several feet away, lying on the ground clutching her shattered internal organs, unable to get up for a while.

The fire was burning behind him, the bamboo hat cast a shadow on the masked face, his eyes were slightly bent, his voice seemed to be smiling, but the scarlet pupils were cold, without the warmth of a living person.

"How many times has it been?" He asked the believer, and asked those around him who were present or not.

"Even if it's the afterthought before the end comes, you still need to grasp it carefully." Xu said slowly, "Why bother to provoke me again and again?"

If there is no insider to provide information, let alone sneak into Naraku's main formation, they will not even know the exact location of the main formation.

Sasaki blocked Xu's only path and covered the letter girl behind him.

"...Is... Isaburo."

"Oh? Do you want to die that much?"

Xu smiled, the darkness in his eyes bottomless.That smile is chilling.

"I'm just a mere human, but I tried my bottom line again and again. I think you have already made up your mind to die."

"Master Xu." Lu suddenly said, "Even if something unexpected happens to the plan, that threat is nothing to fear. The emergency measures you have arranged are sufficient to deal with it."

The scarlet eyes moved over, and were stared at by the cold eyes, and the expression of silence and humility remained unchanged.

"Are you going to stop me, Obscure?" Xu Wen asked.

"Don't dare."

The air became cramped and narrow, like caked iron, cold and heavy, making it difficult to breathe.

Nai Luo, who delivered the message, reappeared quietly, Xu Xu's eyes suddenly darkened.The enemy who sneaked into the rear of Nai has been identified.

"The first team will go back with me, and the others will stay on Heishian Island and continue to suppress the rebel forces."

"...Master Xu." Obscure suddenly raised his eyes.

The enemy's intention to distract Naraku from the Heavenly Daoists could not be more obvious. At this time, taking care of the rear and leaving the battlefield is in the opponent's arms.

"Stand back, Obscure." Said in a weak voice, "Don't make me repeat it again."

Falling into a cold rage, but still with a smile on his face, Xu is not so much aimed at Ou, but at everyone around him, and his tone of voice gently releases terrifying hostility.

"If you stop in front of me now, I will kill you together."

……

It is said that people will see various visions before they die.

When you are about to die, your five senses are finally no longer bound by the common sense of this world. Some people will see their whole life in front of their eyes. This illusion is called a revolving lantern.Some people will have hallucinations that go against reality. It is rumored that people who freeze to death will feel extremely warm before they die, as if they are in midsummer, which is the opposite of cold winter.

Yae didn't know if what he saw recently was a revolving door.

Amaterasu-in Naraku is a very dull place. From the perspective of ordinary people, it is deathly depressing.

Maybe it's because she's too bored. Recently, when she was lying motionless under the blanket, or sitting by the window looking outside in a daze, she would hallucinate and see scenes that shouldn't appear here.

Matsushita Village Juku is a very lively place.This is true of any place where a group of young children gather.

The sound of chasing and fighting in the corridor, the laughter of children, the sound of the teacher knocking on the desk to quiet everyone.Yae has often heard these voices from the past recently.So she became more and more quiet, trying to make herself listen.

"Teacher—Yinshi fell asleep in class again."

snort snort.The sound of someone falling asleep.

Boom boom boom.The sound of three people being planted into the ground by Songyang.

Crash clatter.There was a soft sound of the books being opened neatly.

A voice full of colors, filling the void in her days.

The reality became far away, but the memory was closer. Yae sat at the table and saw, but didn't see, the ninja standing at the door covered in blood.

"...I can't go with you."

Yae heard the calm and rational self say so.

"I have a positioning chip implanted in my body, and I can't escape very far with me."

"You should go to the Sutra Pavilion. There is a secret passage leading to the outside world. It is the fastest way to leave here."

"...You shouldn't have said these things to me." After a moment of silence, Quan Zang straightened up from the door frame and made way for him, "If you really want to be long-winded, just talk to that idiot who troubled me."

Seeing the person coming, Yae thought for a moment that he was hallucinating again.

But the expression on Ayin's face, and Yinshi walking over with a blank face in Naraku's monk's robe, made her clearly realize that Ayin had already told the truth.At least, Yinshi already knew what Ayin knew.

...Why did she honestly state her real name when she introduced herself to Ah Yin?

Thanks to her thinking about it a second ago, even if Yin Shi appeared, she would try her best to play dumb.

As we get older, our skin becomes thicker.

Facing Yinshi's expression of not intending to talk nonsense with her, Yae took a sip of tea and said calmly:

"Hello, my name is Shigehachi."

……

She has been seeing hallucinations a lot lately.Sometimes you will see a private school with cherry blossoms, and sometimes you will return to the battlefield of picking up corpses, but the most common thing you see is the journey through the golden rice fields.

There are two people who appear most often in memories: Yoshida Shoyo, who has a gentle and shallow smile and is not yet a teacher, and Sakata Gintoki, who always looks listless with curly hair.

The long samurai sword is taller than Gintoki himself, and it will be dragged directly to the ground when walking.

Sometimes Songyang would carry Yinshi on his back, and she would walk behind the two of them. Yinshi hugged Songyang's neck and lay on his back like a koala. At that time, she always liked to sigh: Hey Songyang, you have Haven't found that you are particularly suitable to be a childcare worker?

Thinking about it carefully, it was Song Yang who decided to leave Tianshaoyuan Naraku, and it was Song Yang who wanted to become a teacher.What is she?She came out to join in the fun, and decided with a slap on the thigh: It's great to be a teacher, and then follow the fellow travelers on the road regardless.

Songyang decided to open a private school, so she helped to make suggestions.Songyang picked up a child and came back, and she learned to raise human cubs together.

Yes.She was the one who followed, the one who watched the time from the sidelines.

— At least, at first.

Facing the invasion, Amaterasu Institute Naraku reacted quickly.

The academy was surrounded, and Yinshi took the lead in fighting a bloody road ahead.

Seeing Kagura Shinhachi who was meeting outside with the Katsura faction's anti-barbarians, Yae couldn't hold back, and almost wanted to pull Gintoki's curly hair and ask him what the guardian was thinking, actually bringing two minors into such danger The place.

But no.Once the awkwardness in Yinshi's character comes up, it will become particularly difficult to deal with.She was talking nonsense with her eyes open just now, saying that her name was Zhong Hachi, but Yin Shi didn't say a word, and just said that it happened to be the hostage lady, so why don't you come with us.

So she was "kidnapped".

...It's up to her to pretend to be a hostage, okay?

Yinshi is so anti-general, how can she continue to act.

The spaceship that came to pick them up landed, and Ayin and Baiyin went up the boarding ladder first.

The night was thick in the mountains, and the highly concealed ship turned the lights and indicator lights to the minimum. Yae saw Baiyin's face through the light. She and Ayin did look alike, and her face was a little pale, but Other than that, there was no sign of damage.

Seeing that the two of them were safe and sound, Yae felt a little relieved.

The stone in her heart can finally fall to the ground.

Time is running out, and Yinshi is about to board the ship with her.Yae stopped in place.

"Silver time." She stopped pretending.

This seemed to be some kind of signal, and Yinshi's aura of pretending to be a stranger suddenly collapsed.He twitched the corners of his mouth, and put on a familiar expression: "Hey, hey, don't tell me you are seasick just now."

"Take me, you won't be able to leave." Yae said in a very ordinary tone, "but you are here to save a friend, aren't you?"

The grip on her wrist suddenly increased, and then quickly eased.

"What nonsense are you talking about, haven't you woken up yet?" Yinshi dragged his voice, the smile on his mouth didn't reach his eyes.

"You are a hostage on our side now, how can you let the hostage escape?"

"Then," Yae tried to pull out his finger, but failed. "The hostages are useless now, you should go."

She paused for a moment: "Just for your friend, you shouldn't take me away."

"...There is one thing you may not know." Gintoki smiled softly, and Yae's heart suddenly ached without warning.

"Ayin, I don't like doing multiple-choice questions."

"……silver……"

She was about to say something, but Yin Shi's expression suddenly changed, and he pulled her behind him, and the moment he pulled out the knife, Naluo's Zen staff stabbed at him!

The sound of metal tremors was like dense buzzing, and Naraku's pursuit troops had arrived.

But it's impossible.The number of people and the timing of their appearance are almost as if they missed a group of enemies when they fought in Naraku's main formation.

Naraku, who was killed by Gintoki, suddenly got up from the ground, Yae pierced his back with a knife, and nailed him to the ground again.Bubbles of blood came out of his throat, that Naraku struggled and continued to crawl, another Naraku attacked with a stick knife, Yae had to pull out the tip of the knife, and jumped back, this retreat, the surrounding Naraku immediately caught In the gap, there was an instant distance between her and Yinshi.

Many pictures flashed through Yae's mind, including the culture tank she had seen in the laboratory.

——Amaterasu Institute Naraku is studying the blood of immortality.

Her blood was cold for an instant, but Yinshi's voice brought her back to reality.

"Eight heavy!!"

The surrounding Naraku aimed their killing intent at Gintoki alone. Naraku, who would not die even if his heart was pierced, was very difficult to deal with. Pulling his leg, he cut off the enemy's arm with a single knife, and the blood splashed directly on his face, his usual lazy expression completely changed.

The people with lofty ideals and Naraku fought together, and the battle became chaotic.Suddenly shelling fell from the sky, and raging fire exploded in the darkness, tearing the night to pieces.

At that moment the air became viscous, heavy, suffocating, and oppressive.

The sudden bombardment blew up the boarding ladder in one fell swoop, and Yae turned his head as if feeling something, and saw the figure jumping off Naraku's battleship, his face reflecting the firelight suddenly paled.

For a moment, what she saw was the seaside, Songyang was holding a branch, smiling expectantly, Yinshi challenged him again and again, every time he was knocked all over his head, and then another afternoon, repeated many times The next afternoon, Yinshi was lying sprawled on the wooden floor in the empty gymnasium, Songyang smiled and bent down to look at him, "You want to defeat me with a human sword, Yinshi."

The sunlight slanted in, and the light green pupils were full of smiles, hiding the complexity that the teenagers at that time could not understand.

Lost for the hundredth time.

The two hundredth defeat.

th...

Sword and sword continue to meet and clash, making a sound that has been vibrated thousands of times.

No one else could intervene in the battle between Xu and Yinshi, as if there was a kind of vacuum around the two of them, which couldn't even accommodate the gaps in thinking, leaving only the instinctive heartbeat and breathing.

"You are familiar with my sword skills."

The black mask shattered at the sound, and he raised his head in vain. Under Yinshi's stiff gaze, he curved his lips to reveal a gentle smile.

"If that's the case, I'm afraid you still have an unforgettable memory of defeat."

The blade of death struck, and Gintoki stood there without any reaction.It was a reaction that had nothing to do with pain or shock, as if a person's soul had been shattered directly from within, fragmented.

"A Yin!!"

"Little Silver!!"

Kagura grasped the black blade, and Shinhachi swung towards Xu's face with one blow, Gintoki finally showed the look of waking up from a dream.

Yinshi's chest was split open by Yinshi, and hot blood spurted out.

Then, his wounds began to heal at a speed visible to the human eye, and the flesh and blood grew again, as if invisible needles and threads had sewn up his exposed bone chest, connected the broken nerves and blood vessels, and recovered in the blink of an eye.

"It's a pity," Xu smiled slightly, "it's just this level, it can't kill me."

He easily got rid of the entanglement of Kagura and Shinpachi, took off his arm and put it back together again, knocking the knife in Ginshiki's hand and knocking him several feet away.

Driven by the instinct of fighting, Gintoki immediately wanted to get up, Xu pulled out a stick knife from Naraku's body, and threw it with his hands, the sharp tip of the knife pierced the air, whistling like an arrow——

—— "I just want you to be happy. If you encounter painful things and unbearable burdens in the future, it doesn't matter if you run away."

The sharp blade sank into the ground beside him, and the bright red blood oozed from the shoulder, dyed the skirt of the kimono red, spread to the soft sleeves, and dripped down along the corners of the sleeves.Yae knelt on the ground, bending over to protect Gin, as if trying to cover himself on top of him.

……

What else did she say then?

——"I just want you to be happy, Yinshi."

If you encounter something that is too painful to face, just run away, Gintoki.

It's okay to run away, she doesn't care.

Just be alive.

The wound began to heal and the bleeding gradually stopped.The surrounding sounds seemed to disappear, and Yae slowly raised his head, only looking at one person.

"No."

She looked at Xu, and her crackling voice finally trembled: "No."