[Comprehensive] Xifang Qi Tan

031

Two years later.

The wind is sunny, and the warm sunlight shines on the signboard of Manshiya run by Nagi Kanbara.

The purple-haired, green-eyed boy pushed the store door open with his hands behind his back, and shouted inside again with a deep magnetic voice.

"... Nagi."

"Jinsuke?"

Nagi Kanbara, who was cleaning the Youmu Stone in the store, raised her eyes and looked at the taller and handsome boy who had grown taller and handsome in the past two years. I'll make tea for you when I finish tidying up."

"No need." He lowered his eyes, and sat directly in front of Nagi Kanbara again, propping his chin to watch her clean the stone with careful movements, and his green pupils also became quiet, which made him feel restless before he came in. was gradually washed away.

However, the emotions he had leaked were still discovered by her.

"...Jin Zhu quarreled with Yin Shi again?" She lowered her head and asked.

"Tsk, can you not be so sharp."

He froze when he propped his chin, raised his delicate brows, and sighed again.

"It's not a quarrel, it's just that I was tied with him again in the sword competition." He lowered his eyes and replied, "I feel like I tried my best, but that guy looks like he's not serious. "

"Hmm... I don't think Gintoki will keep your hands from you, right?" Nagi Kanbara blew lightly on the stone, put the stone into her collection box, and carefully put the Youmeng Stone back In the cabinet: "He should have taken the duel with you seriously."

After all, based on her perception, Sakata Gintoki is the kind of person who never stops doing things.

Either he didn't participate in the competition from the very beginning, and used various reasons and unscrupulous reasons to fool others, or he was serious from the beginning of the competition to the end.Although his swordsmanship is still so chaotic, it does not mean that he is not serious.

And Takasugi Shinsuke listened to Nagi Kanbara's answer, looked at her back after putting down the stone and started making tea, and lowered his eyes to respond: "...I know, I'm just upset."

"... Two years have passed, and the relationship between Jinzhu and Yinshi hasn't changed at all." She was silent for a while, then responded with a smile.

"Okay, okay, stop making fun of us."

"……not at all."

She replied, and put the small teapot and cup on the table, and then brought only one portion of chestnut yokan to her—because Jinsuke didn't like dessert very much, she didn't bring it to him.

And Takasugi Shinsuke looked at the girl in front of her who was eating dessert on her own, and saw that her temple hair was about to touch the dessert, so she reached out and stroked her temple hair behind her ears.And Nagi smiled gratefully at him, the cute smile made his heart tighten.

"Speaking of which, you and I have known each other for two years..."

He looked at her swollen cheeks when she chewed something, and his green pupils were full of sighs.

From the slope at dusk to the hilltop in late autumn, in a short period of time, he fell in love with this mysterious girl.

In the past two years, many things have happened between them.

For example, not long after the chestnut picking activity, when she was in a private school, a boy in the class viciously broke the hair tie that tied her hair. After that, her long hair fell like a waterfall... After that, Her identity as a girl was exposed on the private school.

After that, although she insisted on dressing up as a man every day to go to the private school, the boys in the class no longer regarded her as a man. On the contrary, her admirers began to emerge.

As a result, their private school was lively for a while, but because of his and Yinshi's hard work to protect her, the disciples in the private school have given up approaching her now.Teacher Songyang didn't take special care of Nagi's situation, and now she is learning knowledge in a private school like an ordinary student.

And in order to protect her, since that time, he has secretly set the goal of becoming the strongest.

He talked with her about the most youthful and sweet love, for example, he would specially find her during lunch and sneak away to a place where no one was in the private school to eat, and he would let his servant teach him how to tie his hair The headband was made by myself and given to her, and she was deliberately protected during tactical training, and the men in the same group as her were completely beaten to the ground.

Those were all childish and extremely possessive manifestations of him, but he just wanted to tie her by his side in various ways.

After all, Nagi Kanbara and this store are also a shelter for him.

When he quarrels with Sakata Gintoki, or when he has conflicts with his family, he will come here immediately, as long as he touches her shoulder and smells the faint fragrance of her that reassures him, he will Gradually put the things that upset him behind him.

She, without a doubt, was his only consolation.

Thinking of this, Takasugi Shinsuke stretched out his hand to pinch her chin again, and quickly pressed a kiss on her lips, seeing that she was frightened by his long-lost kiss, and showed her a rare... A hearty smile that is never easily shown to others.

"I'm going back." He stared at her with dark green eyes, drank the hot tea in one gulp, and got up from the table.

"Are you going back now?" She stretched out her hand to caress the place where she was kissed just now, her cheeks were slightly hot.

"Do you want me to stay?" He asked with a malicious smile, his pupils like a deep pool stared at her, embarrassing her, and hurriedly said the opposite: "...No!"

"That's it, see you at the private school tomorrow." He took a trace of her panic into his eyes, and in a better mood, he pushed open the door of her everything room with ease, and left freely.

And Nagi Kanbara watched him drift away, looked at the back of the young man who had grown taller in the past two years, thought that he had to look up to him before he knew it, and closed the door with a helpless smile.

Jinsuke and her have also grown up a little.

……

032

On the same day and night.

After the sun went down, Nagi Kanbara, who was supposed to start preparing dinner, was now making different preparations.

Talisman paper... a bandage, a guiding tool with spiritual power.

She raised her fingertips and counted the props she was about to take out with a serious expression.

This is also normal, after all, tonight she wants to go to the mountain alone to fight against monsters.

The work of hunting monsters is not because the villagers here let her participate in exorcising monsters, but because of the onmyoji she met in this era... Although she should be called a foreigner in her knowledge, a letter was sent to her recently , and told her that there will be monsters with great destructive power passing by this village at this evening.

And the onmyojis who sent her letters told her that according to the strength of the monsters, even all of them together could not move a bit--that can be called monsters equivalent to natural disasters, while humans are It is absolutely impossible to overcome natural disasters.

It's just that if they let that thing run over the village, the evil spirit on that monster will stimulate more monsters to breed here, so they, as demon exorcisers, must try their best to weaken the monster's power when the monster passes by. Part of the power, so as to reduce the influence of monsters on the surroundings.

And Nagi Kanbara, as an "onmyoji" with special ability to exorcise demons, was also invited to participate in the action.

She rolled up the sleeves of the kimono she was wearing, and took advantage of the neighbor's house to turn off the lights, and ran in the direction where the evil spirit existed.

……

033

Nagi Kanbara did not come to the private school today.

When Yoshida Shoyo called the roll call, one person was missing, and it was Nagi Kanbara, so he was a little concerned.

"...Hey, Takasugi, do you know where Nagi went?"

After Yoshida Shoyo taught a class as usual, during the break time, Sakata Gintoki kicked Jinsuke's seat rather unceremoniously, and Takasugi, who was also in confusion, frowned and yelled back angrily :"……Hello!"

"Doesn't Jinzhu know?" Gui Mo, who was wearing a ponytail next to him, rubbed his chin again: "Could she be sick?"

"...I don't know." Jin Zhu pursed his lips. Although he wanted to accept Gui's possibility directly, there was still a sense of disobedience in his heart—after all, according to Nagi Kanbara herself, her The body has an extraordinary ability to recover, whether it is sick or injured, it is almost "not overnight" in her body.

So was it sick this morning?So I can't come to private school.

And in a rural place like theirs, Nagi Kanbara lives alone, so it is reasonable to be unable to ask for leave from a private school.

Normally, there would always be students who were absent suddenly in the class, and they would reappear in the class after two days, and they would not be surprised.

It's just...Nagi Kanbara has never been absent from class in the past two years, so it made him feel awkward, right?

Takasugi Shinsuke didn't think about it, but secretly made the decision to visit her after class, and continued with the class.

……

034

However, the situation was different from Jinsuke's expectation.

She was not there when she opened the door of Nagi Kanbara's "Everything House", or even the door of her room.

There was no trace of burning firewood in the house. It seemed that she had been out for a long time.

She disappeared quite completely, so obvious that even Yin Shi and Gui could see it directly.

"Could it be that Nagi has a sudden commission today?" Gui blinked and added: "In short, it's not just sick!"

"No way, since Nagi went to a private school, she never arranges work during class time." Jinsuke directly vetoed Gui's deduction, and his worried expression was written all over his face.

"You guys worry too much, right? How old is she, and she's not a weak woman, how could something happen so easily." Sakata Gintoki complained helplessly: "It's just a matter of skipping a day of school."

"..." Shinsuke Takasugi did not refute, but he did not agree in his heart.

After all, he also told her yesterday that "we will meet at the private school tomorrow", so if she has other arrangements, she can tell him at that time, right?So in the current situation, no matter how he looked at it, he could only think of what was going on.

However, he couldn't tell Sakata Gintoki this reasoning at this juncture, so he had no choice but to leave her home with two friends in silence, and after the two returned, he went to find her alone.

……