[Gintama] Immortal

The fire raged, and the night melted in the heat.

The world seemed to be paused, and the patriots and Naraku stood still, and the only sound of flames crackling could be heard in the suddenly dead mountains.

Blood slid down the black blade, and he stood there with no expression on his face.

The flickering flames flickered and flickered, reflected in the bright red pupils, falling into the bottomless abyss, being swallowed up with nothing left.

As if it was a second, or a long, long time later, Xu Xu touched the smiling muscles on his face, and his eyes slightly curved, covering the deep and empty darkness under his eyes.

The frozen expression suddenly melted, and he said in a pleasant tone: "Come here."

As he said that, Xu stretched out his hand, as if she was just a child who accidentally made a mistake, waiting for someone to reprimand or appease, full of unease.

"Come here, Yae."

The eyes of the two met through the firelight, Xu's expression was too normal, and Yazhong felt a chill instinctively in her heart, but she knew Xu's character, she calmed down her breathing, and stood up without saying a word.

The blood from the shoulders and neck was no longer bleeding, and the blood that had stained the sleeves red before was still dripping down, dripping and splashing at the feet.The power of the dragon's veins is such a strange thing: the blood spurted out when the flesh was cut open has not yet dried up, and the terrifying wound has already closed.

Before she took a few steps, her wrist suddenly tightened, and it was grabbed by Yinshi who was struggling to get up.

Yae turned his head, Yinshi's breathing was heavy and short, he was seriously injured, his whole body leaned forward, his dark red eyes fixed on her.

"……do not."

Yinshi's voice was so low that it was almost inaudible, and there was a trace of strange emotion hidden in the hoarseness. Yae was stunned for a moment, and heard that the strange fluctuation was suppressed anger.

She raised her hand, subconsciously trying to hide the knife wound on the side of her neck, but the moment she touched it, she realized that the knife wound was no longer there.

healed.

Injuries that would normally take weeks in a hospital, she healed in a matter of minutes.

Monster physique.

"...No, Gintoki..." Yazhong opened his mouth, trying to say something.

"What are you waiting for, Yae?"

Seeing her stop in place, the smile on Xu's face faded.

Keenly aware of the change in the killing intent in the air, Nai Luo, who had been motionless before, re-arranged his offensive formation, and the golden ring of the Zen staff made a clear sound when touched lightly.

Yinshi took a step forward and blocked her behind.The person who was seriously injured and still panting, his eyes were as sharp as a knife drawn out of its sheath.

"Sorry, this guy won't go with you."

Yinshi lowered his voice, his words were chilling.

"……yes?"

The smile on the corner of his lips disappeared completely, and Xu put down his hands, unable to hide the sternness in his eyes anymore.

He said softly: "Then you go to Santuchuan first..."

"Get out of the way, Gintoki." Yae closed her eyes.

"...No, what are you playing..."

"This is my own decision." She raised her head, neither hiding nor dodging, just looking at Yin Shi, "I have no intention of going with you."

"..."

"Let me go, Yinshi."

Xu has been standing in place, which is really not his style.

Yae saw his fingers holding the handle of the knife move several times, but it seemed as if they were tightly entangled by invisible silk threads and strangled into the flesh and blood. After a few struggles, there was no movement.

He wanted to kill Yin Shi.Including everyone present, no one will be left alive.

That was a genuine killing intent, but it was never put into action.

...someone is stopping him.

Yae walked towards Xu, the blood on her sleeve was already dried, and the wind blew slightly, and the sparks fell on the blood-stained silk cloth, like shimmering gold leaf.

Everyone watched her walk quietly step by step, Quan Zang stopped Yin Shi who wanted to chase after her.

The expression was still gloomy and cold, and the killing intent on Xu's body was slightly reduced, and it was no longer so heavy that it was unbearable.

"...We agreed, do you remember?"

Yae stopped slightly.There are only a few steps between the two, which can be easily crossed.

——Before the real end comes, the students of Songyang must not be killed.

She looked into Xu's eyes.The fire and black smoke reflected in the bright red pupils, the burnt ships, and the dead silent night sky.

And her blood-stained figure.

Yae could see her expression, and she found that there was a little hope in her eyes.

Like a person walking on finely cracked ice, with soft to fragile hope.

Slowing down his voice, he said to her in the most gentle tone he could maintain: "Of course."

"As long as you come here," he said, with a gentle expression and bright red blood splattered on his face, "I can forget the rest."

...click.

From a distant place, there was an illusory crisp sound.

Yae took a step forward.

"...don't trust him—!!"

In the silence that enveloped the mountains, the voice sounded so abruptly, as if someone was holding a sharp knife and stabbing it to tear the dead night into two halves.

"Don't believe what he said!!" A Yin almost used all his strength.She leaned on the side of the boat, half of her body leaned out of the boat, her voice was trembling, and she was on the verge of breaking, but she still shouted firmly: "Don't believe a word!!"

"Sister?!" Baiyin's suspicious voice came from beside her, and everyone's eyes were focused on it in an instant, and Ah Yin just pretended not to see it.She has something to say, even if it's not for the mission of protecting the dragon maiden, but just to repay her kindness, she must say it.

"...he already knew!" Ah Yin shouted hoarsely, "He has already guessed what you are——!"

As if he suddenly couldn't understand the meaning of the words, or couldn't find the source of the other party's voice, Yae raised his head, his eyes were full of bewilderment.

"He's been investigating you, so don't trust him! Don't go with him!!"

Unusually quiet down.

He looked in Ayin's direction, narrowed his red pupils, and said softly to Naluo around him:

"Kill her."

He raised his hand, his expression that was about to smile twisted, and the darkness in his eyes suddenly deepened:

"Kill her!"

When the wind in the air changed direction, Naraku moved.They were densely packed like a flock of crows falling from the sky, and as if they were hawks smelling blood, they headed straight towards the ship with a clear goal.

"Don't panic! Follow me to meet the enemy!" A cry erupted from the ranks of the barbarians, and in an instant, the mountains and fields under the night sky were once again involved in the fight.

Hot blood, cold night wind.

Dazzling flames, dark smoke.

Everything happened in another world.

"You are a weapon!! You are a weapon that can cause a dragon's veins to riot, Yae——!!!"

Ayin shouted her name desperately, but the voice was so far away, as if it came from a dream.

"Yae--! Yae!!"

"Shut up that woman."

The voice of Xu commanding Naluo sounded from behind, with a low and tense ferocity that was almost uncontrollable.

"Kill her now," he repeated.

Yae turned around and looked at her, as if he didn't notice the tragedy caused by his order, and asked with crooked eyebrows, "What's wrong?"

"You saw it," she said.

"You read my memory at that time."

The surrounding scenery melted and flowed backwards, flipping like pages of a book.

In her memories, the world switched so abruptly, the ground seemed to suddenly pull away from her feet, and Yae opened her eyes, as if she had returned to the barren land she had seen nearly ten years ago.

——"Songyang, just say 'yes', and I will promise you anything in the future."

--"……good."

What should be called the sky is vague and opaque, like dried ink, and also like clots of congealed blood.The other party's spiritual world is full of monotonous and depressing colors.No, it should be said that there is only this one color.

"Xu" who died on that wasteland, her body turned into black dust little by little, and was blown gently by the wind, and it was completely scattered from her fingers.

In the end, there was only one person left. Facing the imminent death, he had no resentment or fear, and his gentle eyes just watched the figure who was about to decapitate himself.

The sound of imprisoning cracks.The sudden flash of the knife.

The world disappeared at that point in time.

Then, in a short but endless time, everything reorganized.

Go back to the distant past.

"At that time, I saw your memory."

He endured the torture of gouging out his eyes day after day, and was tortured by absolute loneliness and silence in the dark prison for nearly a hundred years.

The most unbearable and painful memories buried in the dark depths—these are the things that make up that world.

Yae raised her head and looked at the night sky torn apart by the flames.

"You saw mine too."

A dark storm, an unquenchable rage.

Born out of this farce, the body of thought that is neither human nor ghost.

What Xu Xu saw was probably just a fragment, but anyone who has seen that part of the past will basically guess her truth at all.

"I once found some books in your room." Yae said softly.

"...It's nothing more than information about dragon veins. Unidentified volumes are mixed in Snow White's research report. It seems that the other party has collected everything related to dragon veins, including ancient legends and records."

"You put it there specially for me to see, didn't you?"

She did not respond to the documents that recorded her provenance at the time, so it can be inferred that she has no memory of the past.

Maybe he once considered using her linkage with the dragon veins, but now these are unnecessary. With the power he currently holds, she was at most a backup plan.

The roar of the fleet came from the edge of the night sky, and it was the arrival of Gui's reinforcements.

Has Black Rope Island retreated smoothly?

It's time for them to go too.If you don't leave, it will be too late.

"You've always known." Yae smiled, "That's why when I became curious about my own origin, your reaction was so intense." You even killed people to silence it.

Piece by piece, those things and details that she had tried so hard not to pay attention to suddenly became clear at this moment, so clear that they were dazzlingly clear, threaded with needles and threads, and those things that passed through her were blind, deaf, and unheard.The truth was finally placed in front of her, and she looked down to see it clearly, but she wasn't surprised at all.

How could someone who has lived for so long like her have not learned to deceive herself.

If you don't learn to deceive yourself, how can you survive.

"How easy it would have been if you had cut me down with a single knife at the beginning."

Yae laughed, her eyes hurt, but there were no tears, they were dry, as if something was about to burst.

In the empty and pure white, endless spiritual world, Xu once put a knife on her throat.

""You seem to have forgotten the fact that you now exist in a real posture. ’ He said, ‘If you die here, you are really dead. ""

But it never started.

"Obviously, as long as you move forward a little bit, you can poke it in.

……

In any case, the tip of the knife did not advance an inch. "

"Are you leaving me, Yae?"

His pupils were dark red like blood, Xu finally got rid of the shackles in his body, as if a part of himself had been severed with a knife, he took a step forward and grabbed her wrist, pulling her directly in front of him.

"Are you blaming me?" He smiled, that smile was cold and suppressed, revealing a chilling hostility.

Xu held her face in his hands and asked her in a low voice: "Do you want to leave?"

Yae shook his head, and then shook his head again. "I'm sorry. I'm the one who needs to say sorry."

The heart hurts so badly that it is about to burst, it has been torn open.But this is a wound that cannot be healed, even with the blood of the dragon vein, even if it is healed by the so-called miracle Altana, the wound dripping with hot blood from the apex of the heart cannot be healed.

She hurts, really hurts.

She felt that she was going to die in pain, and she wanted to die in pain, but even this little begging was now a luxury.

"Please don't be sad."

"Everything has a time and a place to return to."

"So please don't be sad."

All the voices in my head, the fragmented scenes.

Yae thought, if she hated her, she might feel better.

If he had given her that knife at that time, she might have felt extremely relaxed now.

Yae thought she was on the verge of crying, but she didn't.

Those emotions that were about to collapse ran rampant in her body, and they would never see the light of day.Because she didn't allow it, and she wasn't allowed to.

"It's all my fault, I'm sorry." She said to Xu, "Can you... can you, let them go?"

The author has something to say:

Chapter 66: [The key to the dragon vein is about to be obtained, and there is no need to recover the spare chess pieces. 】

Lao Xu used to have bad thoughts, but he just did it and didn't put it into practice

↑Because I have a premonition that "big hooves!" will appear in the comment area again, so I would like to make a special statement [cough