[War Engraved Night Blood] Himiko's War

Chapter 83

Three days, fleeting.After the festival is over, the finishing work under the castle is handled, and everyone returns to daily life again.During the festival time that Ishida Kaoru and Oda Nobunaga spent together, the atmosphere of lovers disappeared without a trace like the wind and mist.Ishida Kaoru didn't think deeply about it, and Oda Nobunaga also skipped this section, and the matter passed like this.

What bothered Kaoru Ishida was another matter.She had planned to talk to Xunranmaru after the Harvest Festival, but she couldn't find him no matter what.

"Alas..." After another fruitless search, Ishida Kaoru returned to Oda Nobunaga's room dejectedly.

The girl's sigh disturbed Oda Nobunaga from studying the art of war with peace of mind.He asked, "...why are you sighing?"

"I can't find Mr. Ranmaru anywhere..." Ishida Kaoru sat casually in front of the newly placed low table in the room, and said while teasing the goldfish kept in the glazed gui, "He is avoiding me. ?"

"No, he has a job."

"Work?"

"That's right, the Oda leaders, except you, Hime Miko, have defected."

"Huh?" Ishida took a lot of effort to digest the news, "Isn't it, you defected?"

"During the festival, crescents from other territories mixed in. When the festival ended and the people left, those guys took them away from the Oda territory. Because of the different forces they defected to, Mitsuhide, Naghide, and Ranmaru were splitting up. Follow up."

"Is that so...are you going to hunt..."

"They don't want to stay, and I don't intend to force them. The purpose of sending them is to monitor the movement and confirm which territory they will eventually go to."

Kaoru Ishida sat up straight with a "shua", "Then what, can I also..."

"You can not."

"What..." Ishida Kaoru complained half-truth, half-fake, like a joke, "I want to stay here if there is a chance to escape, but they can escape freely, it's not fair."

"You still don't understand." Oda Nobunaga put down the book of war, and looked directly at the little girl who looked suspiciously at him after hearing the words, "There is never any fairness between you."

With such a straightforward point, Kaoru Ishida didn't understand anything.Regardless of the purpose, the fact is that she has enjoyed great pampering and preferential treatment from this lord.Even if the same kind does not suffer from being few but suffering from inequality, in the eyes of others, she is the "false concubine god son", and she will only be more envied by others.She was part of the reason why those Ji Shenzi would leave the Oda collar.As she was thinking, Oda Nobunaga's voice sounded again.

"Also, where can you escape to? Don't forget, your chance to escape is 'on the premise of not betraying'."

"Then wander the world and make the world your home." Seeing Oda Nobunaga's face downcast, Ishida Kaoru curled his lips, "I'm lying to you, I won't go anywhere until your goal is achieved." Standing up , she walked out of the room, "In order to be more useful to you, I went to exercise, and I will be back before dinner."

The other Ji Shenzi were no longer there, which meant that there was no need to worry about being in the mansion.Arriving directly at the training ground, Kaoru Ishida began to practice swinging his sword.

There is no special treatment for no reason, what you enjoy, you have to pay the corresponding price, Kaoru Ishida has always understood this.Possessing force, being able to be a military commander, and even being accepted as a retainer has never been her value.She was the adult's prop first, and then his retainer.Improving her physical fitness so that she can accommodate enough strength is what she should really do.Now, the price to be paid for becoming a tool for that adult to focus on cultivating and protecting may be death, but so what?Wanting to completely get rid of the identity of props in the future, wanting to live upright as a "human", this is her desire that she never gave up.And this desire can only be achieved by following the adult to break the game.When she recognized her identity and figured out the way forward, even if she immediately knew that there was a Jedi ahead, she would not hesitate to step into that lord's plan.As long as there is still a glimmer of hope in the future, it is worth all her efforts to make a way out.

In this way, in the next few days, Kaoru Ishida served Oda Nobunaga in the morning, and practiced in the afternoon to pick up some unfamiliar martial arts. In the evening, if Oda Nobunaga had not finished his official duties, she would serve him until the work was over.

One week later in the afternoon, Ishida Kaoru finished his exercise, took a bath and changed his clothes, and saw Ranmaru outside.

Kaoru Ishida was stunned, "Master Ranmaru...?"

"It's just right." Oda Nobunaga unfolded the map in his hand, and ordered Kaoru Ishida, "Come here."

Ishida Kaoru obediently walked to Oda Nobunaga and sat down, looking at the map.

"Here," Oda Nobunaga pointed to a location close to the border of the Oda Territory, "There are demons gathering, you and Ranmaru will go together tomorrow morning, and return within three days."

"Yes." Ranmaru responded directly, "Please allow me to resign."

"can."

"Ah..." Kaoru Ishida looked at Ranmaru's back in disappointment, "Gone away..."

"..." Tapping the table lightly brought the girl back to her senses, and Oda Nobunaga said to her, "Go and pack your bags."

"it is good……"

In the early morning of the next day, Ishida Kaoru and Ranmaru each rode their own mounts and galloped away to their destination.It was a very remote and abandoned village. In the early years, evil spirits were rampant, and the villagers of the village were forced to move to a safer place by Oda Nobunaga.After traveling at high speed all day, Kaoru Ishida and Ranmaru finally arrived at sunset.

The two simply cleared out a deserted house, lit a bonfire among the ruined walls, and swallowed dry food with the boiled stream.

Kaoru Ishida hesitated for a moment, "Well, Lord Ranmaru..."

Ranmaru didn't even look at the girl, lying down in the army bunk, "Good night."

"Uh... um... good night..."

Nothing to say all night.The gathering place of the evil demons is adjacent to the village. After a brief tidying up, the two went to perform the task.Probably because of the previous cleanup, the number of Evil Demons gathered this time is not overwhelming, but there are more than forty of them.Once this amount of evil demons besieges, I am afraid that both of them will fall here.Fortunately, Ermo does not have sanity, relying on the dilapidated walls of the village, Kaoru Ishida and Ranmaru led them into divisions and defeated them one by one.

The evil spirits here are stronger than those in the forest. During the fierce battle, the pain that struck earlier than expected made Ishida Kaoru's hands tremble slightly.But the evil spirit has not been completely eliminated, and she can't just watch Ranmaru fall into a bitter fight alone because of her own pain.Enduring the pain caused by absorbing too much force, Kaoru Ishida firmly killed the next one.

Ranmaru smashed the Emo who was fighting with him, heaved a sigh of relief, and looked at the girl beside him.She seemed to be enduring something, and her movements were a little stiff.Here we go again... Ranmaru lowered his eyes, thinking.The last time I saw this girl in such a posture was in a shrine.Already falling to the ground in pain, even struggling to breathe, she still had to persist until the end of the battle, until she was picked up by Sheng Jia before she was willing to pass out in peace.Such a strong and dazzling person, why... would he do such despicable things...

There was a flash of struggle in Lanwan's eyes, and after a while, he put away the knife and rushed over, picking up the girl to escape the evil demon's attack.

"Master Ranmaru?"

Seeing that the girl seemed to want to say something, Ranmaru didn't want to listen to her, and interrupted directly, "Master Nobunaga's order, when you feel unwell, stop the battle and take a break."

Kaoru Ishida opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, so he gave a soft "hmm".

The more than forty demons, because Ishida Kaoru needs to rest, can be cleaned up until nightfall.

Kaoru Ishida was in deep pain, wrapped in the marching blanket and resting on the belly of her war horse.Ranmaru lit the bonfire, and silently picked the dead branches in the bonfire.

In the oppressive atmosphere, Kaoru Ishida gritted his teeth and decided to break the silence and have a frank talk with Ranmaru. "Master Ranmaru... I know you are worried that I will attack adults like Hime Miko before. But I am not like that. As a human being, I will not fall in love with vampires!"

"Liar." On the one hand, there was admiration and involuntary admiration for the girl, and on the other hand, the involuntary hatred of him caused by his past encounters. The two extremely contradictory emotions were entangled, making Ranmaru's voice tremble a little. "I used to think that you were different from them, but it turned out that you did the same thing..."

same thing?Kaoru Ishida had some vague guesses before, but she couldn't confirm it, so she spoke tentatively. "Did Ranmaru-sama have more affection for me? Was the first change after the shrine came back?"

"You admit it!" Ran Wan stepped aside to the girl, and pressed the knife on her neck.

Kaoru Ishida tried to avoid the cold blade on his neck, "Please, please calm down...listen to my explanation..."

Before leaving, Lord Nobunaga specially warned that this woman is a very important prop and should not be hurt.An Xin was mixed with unwillingness, and this complex emotion made Ran Wan even more irritable.He retracted the knife and straightened up, looking down at the girl condescendingly, to see what explanation she could give.

Kaoru Ishida breathed a sigh of relief as the blade left his body.For a long time, every time she obtained the evil power, she would have the feeling that this power should not be contaminated too much, especially when she felt pain, it gave her a very strong sense of crisis.Thinking about it, every time it reaches the limit, it will cause damage to itself, and there will be overflow of power.Before the overflowing power dissipated, it probably lingered around her.

Kaoru Ishida told Ranmaru his speculation, and said, "You can feel it, do you like me more now than before you left? And, if I guessed correctly, did Mr. Nobunaga Have there been orders like 'Don't kill Hemo near Ji Shenzi'?"

As a spy, Ranmaru is naturally careful.After careful memory comparison and confirmation with the girl's conjecture, he found that this was most likely the correct truth.So, is this really a misunderstanding?Then what did he do to her? !

"So, Lord Ranmaru, please trust me, okay?" Kaoru Ishida said sincerely.

"I……"

Seeing the sad expression on Ranmaru's face, Kaoru Ishida reached into the package hanging on the horse's back, and brought the things out to Ranmaru. "Here, here you are."

"This is..." The girl spread a few gold flat candies in the palm in front of Ranwan's eyes.

"Hey, don't be unhappy, okay?"

"I'm sorry, Naki, I'm sorry..."

After calming down, Ranmaru remembered that Singer had mentioned before that this girl had said that "there is no possibility with a vampire". "Naiji, don't you really love vampires?"

"Isn't it natural? I'm human." Kaoru Ishida said confidently.

"Why?" Ranmaru asked.

"Why...isn't it obvious?" Kaoru Ishida replied, "The life of a vampire is much longer than that of a human. If I fall in love with a vampire, when my temples are gray and the person I admire is still young, how should I deal with myself? What's more, when I die, I can't stop the one I love from loving someone else. Just imagining it is enough to make me sad."

"Humans are different from vampires, they can be reincarnated~ You can definitely go to find your reincarnation again, it would be nice to continue the relationship~"

"And then aging and dying in front of the one you love again and again? It sounds too sad..."

"..."

"..." Oops, it seems that I have chatted to death, Kaoru Ishida tried to find something to talk about, but in a hurry, he couldn't think of anything.

It was Ranmaru, who thought of something he cared about because of recent events. "This is already near the border... Speaking of which, has Naiji ever thought about leaving the Oda Territory?"

"I have thought about it, but not now." Kaoru Ishida raised his head and looked up at the starry sky. "I will not betray Nobunaga-sama. So, after completing Nobunaga-sama's goal," Kaoru Ishida didn't know whether Ranmaru and the others knew about [World] and "Hime Miko", so he put the target's Referring to the ambiguous past, he continued, "I have to think about leaving. At that time, I should be useless. After I am free, I want to take a good look at the world, and then go to the other side of the sea."

"The other side of the sea?"

"Well, my hometown in another world, although it may be different..."

Ranmaru looked at the girl under the starlight, and clenched the candy wrapper in her hand.The stars are reflected in her eyes, and what shines is her longing for the future.

The author has something to say:

Racial private setting: Vampires have a longer lifespan than humans, but they cannot be reincarnated, and death is death.Human life is short, but it can be reincarnated.

Private source of longevity: Generally speaking, people with good physical fitness usually live longer than people with average health.Then the physical fitness of vampires is far superior to that of humans, and it is only natural that they live longer than humans.

Reincarnation private source: In Changxiu's exchange plot, there is a sentence "If I can reincarnate, I want to go to the world you are in." This sentence can be understood as "If reincarnation exists", or "If you are a vampire I can be reborn".I chose the latter option, privately assuming that there is reincarnation in the tooth world, but vampires cannot be reincarnated. (I don’t know Japanese very well. If I make a mistake here, I won’t change the settings.【Hey）

The description of Ranmaru in this article is not much, but he is actually the one with the most complicated feelings for the heroine among the four retainers in this article.This chapter is collecting the thread about Lanwan Buried, and I can't control the hands of the explanation, so I will draw the key points for you.

1. Ranmaru knows about "false love" but doesn't know how it happened. (Chapter 61)【Awakening setting part】

2. Ranmaru was contaminated with the "blood" of the heroine and awakened in the subsequent treatment. (Chapter 20)

3. After Ranmaru investigated the situation of Himeko in other territories, when he became more guarded against Himeko, he realized that he had a different feeling for the heroine, and tested whether the heroine would attack other people in a joking way. (Chapter 42)

The losses of 4, 48, [-], and [-] were pointed out by Oda Nobunaga not because of insufficient planning, but because of omissions in intelligence. (Chapter [-])【"In the previous situation, I will not pursue whether you were intentional or not."】

Ranmaru misunderstood that the heroine is the same as the Himeko who was beheaded before, so he has prejudice against the heroine.In order to cut off possible potential dangers, Ranmaru once tried to kill the heroine with the surprise attack of Toyotomi's army, and consciously targeted the heroine.When Oda Nobunaga noticed Ranmaru's unilateral conflict with the heroine, the importance of the heroine as a prop just began to increase, so Ranmaru was deliberately dismissed by Oda Nobunaga.But internal conflicts must be resolved after all. This time ordering the two to come out together to eliminate the evil spirits is Oda Nobunaga's opportunity to resolve the misunderstanding between the two.

Although from God's perspective, we feel that the misunderstanding between the heroine and Ranmaru is a coincidence, but because the characters in the text have limited information, they all think it is reasonable from their respective perspectives.

This chapter is an important chapter of the plot, and it is written relatively smoothly. Sure enough, I am a person who writes about daily calculus. 【Shut up

By the way, when it’s over, I’ll also clean up the writers after the 23rd who have (broken) words (broken) (broken) words (read) and I’ll clean them up. There will be frequent update reminders at that time, so don’t delete them. , don't think I'm annoying QAQ