[Comprehensive] Winter Feast

"Mr. Hijikata, you are also very gentle."

Yukimura Chizuru said this to Yae.

The time was one month after the two girls were taken back to the Shinsengumi village. The place was in the kitchen dedicated to the Shinsengumi cadres. Yukimura Chizuru and Yae were working together to process a basket of freshly picked radishes.

Yazhong, who was scrubbing the radish, didn't lift his head: "I know, otherwise I wouldn't be here now."

In order to enforce military discipline, the Xinxuan Group did not keep women in the village at night.

Yukimura Chizuru is the developer of Chang Ruoshui, the daughter of Yukimura Tsunamichi, so she made an exception and was allowed to continue to live in the garrison in men's clothing.

Yae was kicked out and arranged to live in a house within the Shinsengumi's sphere of influence.

Living there, there are other women who are attached to the Shinsengumi for various reasons. Some of these women get their daily needs through cooking, cleaning and other helpers, and some of them maintain the relationship with the members of the Shinsengumi. relationship life.

A small room is filled with all kinds of people, and the relationship is so complicated that Yae is speechless.

Yae, who was dressed in a fancy dress, became the target of everyone's attack as soon as she entered the door. The girl who had heard too many ugly stories as a monster was indifferent, and she curled up in a corner with a knife in her hand. She even felt quite at ease.

People surrounded by malice are indifferent to malice, and quickly turn off the perpetrator.Although the people in the room still haven't stopped whispering, they have already started to pretend that Yae doesn't exist, and go about their own business.And when the women move, the order of dignity in this room is also revealed.

If this state of affairs can continue, the room will maintain the atmosphere of small frictions but generally peaceful atmosphere.

But someone noticed the knife in Yae's arms.

In a dark age of war, beautiful things are like torches burning at night, which are particularly eye-catching.

The dominant woman in this room has to use the very expensive sword in Yae's hand to curry favor with the adult she met in the Shinsengumi.She walked directly in front of Yae, bossing Yae to hand over the knife.

Yae looks weak and weak, and her lack of demonic power makes her even more sluggish, looking extraordinarily pale and easy to bully.

Seeing that Yae didn't move, the woman called someone to surround Yae in the corner, and said that if Yae refused to hand it over, she would make her look good.

The women around Yae chimed in and said that if you want to live here, you should be obedient.

The people around Yae raised their sleeves in a threatening gesture, as if Yae dared to say no, and they would do it immediately.

In the vicious siege, Yae laughed in the face of several people's vicious threats.

In the bright smile like a flower blooming, there is a naked provocation: "Before you speak, please think carefully."

Leaving the familiar environment and familiar people, and losing their strength, the monster in a bad mood fell, and decided to vent his mood by bullying the weak.

Anyway, the people around her were not good people, and they didn't feel guilty when they hit her.

The knife was not out of its sheath, and he didn't even leave his arms. Yae, who had learned how to beat for nothing with the god of death, beat a group of people to the ground.

Yae, who was venting quite readily, didn't notice Okita Souji's arrival. When she came back to her senses, Okita Souji and Todo Heisuke had already stood at the door for a while.

Fujido Hirasuke was dumbfounded, and Chief Director Okita raised the corner of his mouth, his eyes were deep: "You are not only good at using knives."

"So, Mr. Okita, don't worry, if I live on the street, at least I can earn a living as a bodyguard for others." Yae replied.

"What, bodyguard or something, you are a woman!" Fujido Heisuke returned to Shinobi.

"You can dress up as a man."

Sure enough, Yae took off the fancy clothes and put on men's clothes.

But the reason is just for convenience.

Shocked by force, no one dared to trouble Yae again. When a group of people including Okita waited to see what unexpected move Yae would do, they changed into men's clothes. It could be said that they were heroic, but they could still be seen at a glance. The girl's Yae actually went to the kitchen to report obediently, and went to cook seriously.

Yae really doesn't know how to cook. After being a monster for so many years, she doesn't need to eat at all, let alone cook. When she was alive, although noble women had to cook, they only learned exquisite pastries with high ornamental value. Recipes with practical value.So she can only do some washing and chopping in the kitchen.

She did it without complaint.

Anyway, for monsters, washing vegetables and so on in the cold spring... can't feel the cold.

Just when Yae was washing and chopping vegetables, lighting up her cooking skills, waiting for her demon power to recover, San Riyue woke up, thinking that life would go on like this for a long time, the story turned again.

She was squeezed out to make things difficult, and then Yukimura Chizuru found out about the massacre.And Xuecun obviously only paid attention to the first half.

"Yae, Mr. Hijikata agreed, you can live with me!" The bright-eyed girl told her excitedly.

Then Yae's work place was changed from the large kitchen for ordinary soldiers to a small canteen for cadres.

So when Yukimura Chizuru said that Shinsengumi's Oni's deputy chief is gentle, the eighth point should be yes.

"But I think it's inappropriate for Captain Hijikata to do this." Yae poured the muddy water after washing the radish under a nearby tree, "Everyone knows I'm a woman, doesn't this break the rules?"

"Although Mr. Hijikata frowned, he didn't object." Yukimura still looked worried. She was afraid that her request would cause trouble for Toshizo Hijikata, but she also had reasons to comfort herself, "Mr. Kondo said it's okay."

The bosses of the Shinsengumi said it's okay, so of course it must be okay.

"Qianhe, to be honest, did something happen in the village?" Yae wiped his hands and asked Xuecun seriously.

Because of the instinctive closeness of the two girls who entered the Shinsengumi for the same incident, Yukimura Chizuru unconsciously became dependent on Yae.Okita refused to tell Yae, as long as Yae asked, Yukimura would say it.

Yae feels that the decisive condition for living in the village is not gender but trust. She doesn't think she has been so trusted by the Shinsengumi, and Chizuru Yukimura even has the identity of Tsunamichi Yukimura's daughter and won the trust of everyone in the Shinsengumi. If her request goes against Shinsengumi's wishes, it is absolutely impossible for her to pass.

In other words, the Shinsengumi needs Yae to live in the village.

In view of the fact that Sankazuki can be carried with her in the village, Yae believes that the Shinsengumi let her live in to protect Chizuru Yukimura.In other words, the Shinsengumi camp at night is not safe, so a person with reliable force is needed to guard Xuecun.

"Nothing happened, but there is a strange rumor..." After Yae asked, Xuecun Qianhe hesitated, "I heard that the village is haunted."

Yae was very interested: "Oh?"

"Recently, Mr. Hijikata and the others can often hear the sound of fighting at night, but they can't see anything when they go out." Xuecun was worried. "And this only happens in the residences of cadres, and it doesn't happen to ordinary soldiers."

Yae: "Qianzuru, have you heard it?"

Xuecun Qianhe's face turned pale: "I, I heard it the night before yesterday."

After all, she was not in a familiar environment. Yukimura Chizuru slept very lightly at night, and she was awakened when there was noise outside.It did sound like the sharp sound of a weapon breaking through the wind, but it seemed to be a little blurry through a thick wooden wall, but it could feel that the distance was very close.

Awakened from sleep, Xuecun, who was not yet fully awake, didn't realize that she had encountered a strange story for a while. She thought it was the cadres of the Shinsengumi who stayed up in the middle of the night and practiced swordsmanship.

From her contacts with the cadres of the Xinxuan Group, several of them have the habit of practicing swords in the middle of the night because they can't sleep because of their worries.This is obviously not a good habit for health.

The doctor's daughter Yukimura Chizuru decided to go out to have a look. The girl in the coat felt uneasy subconsciously looking at the dark night outside the door, so she turned back and took her own knife.

When she walked around the yard without seeing anyone, and the sharp noise, which could not be said to be vague or clear, continued, she finally realized what she had encountered.

The existence beyond common sense made her legs weak, and she pulled out the knife to embolden herself, but she couldn't walk back to the room, because the voice was too close to her, as if it was close to her ear.

At the same time, she felt the wind, not the natural wind, but the kind of wind brought by someone passing by.

Yukimura Chizuru was so frightened that she didn't even realize that she yelled.

When she came to her senses, Hijikata Toshisan, who was closest to her in the room, was already beside her, holding her shoulder with one hand.

"Shut up, I'm here." The vice-chief of the ghost, who was obviously awakened in his sleep, spoke harshly, but the concern in it was unmistakable.

When telling Yae, Yukimura blurred the details of how she got along with Hijikata Toshizo that night, but the blush on her face and the dodging eyes made Yae make up the story in sevens and eighties.

The night before, Xuecun ran into a strange talk, and yesterday he was notified to move in with her.Yae put the rice into a bowl and joked, "Captain Hijikata is really kind to Chizuru."

Yukimura Chizuru heard what she meant, her face was flushed, and she spoke incoherently: "No, no...ah, no, yes...everyone treats me very well..."

"Since we have met many people, have you thought about any solutions?" Yae saw that he was about to boil himself when he went down to Xuecun, and asked a serious question instead.

"Yes." The topic changed, and Yukimura calmed down, "There are experts in Kyoto who deal with such matters, Mr. Saito knows him, and he went to invite them yesterday, Master Ishikirimaru said that he needs to prepare something, and he will come to see it this evening. "

Yae was stunned: "What's the name of the expert?"

"Ishikirimaru. I also think this name is very strange."