[Gintama] Killing Knight

The surrounding environment was very quiet, maybe it was affected by the dignified atmosphere of those who were being hunted down, it was so quiet that even the little dust in the air stopped floating, only the slight sound of her drawing the knife out of its sheath Little sound waves.

The hand holding the handle of the knife trembled unconsciously, Hikaru Sakata took a deep breath, held the knife flat, closed his eyes and carefully recalled the state that was almost carved into his bones.

In the dilapidated and simple Japanese room, she was the only one facing the wall alone, and the rest of the people were guarding outside. No one knew what happened to their captain at this moment.

The hand holding the handle began to tremble visibly.

Obviously wanting to recall the physical habits and consciousness of practicing kendo in the past, but some bad memories involuntarily burst into my mind.

——[They can no longer hold the sword in their hands! 】

——【What do you think your weak knife can protect now? ! 】

--【team leader……】

As if something exploded at the nerve endings, a strong white light exploded in Hikaru Sakata's mind, his arms trembled violently uncontrollably, and finally couldn't support the weight of the knife anymore.

Bang!

The long knife landed on the wooden floor with a dull sound.

Outside the door, there was a sound of footsteps rushing over, and then Xiaosuke Shirai opened the door anxiously, "Master Sakata...?"

Inside the house, the expressionless girl slowly put the knife back into the scabbard, and it fit perfectly, then raised her eyes to meet Shirai Kosuke.

"...Is something wrong?"

"No, no." Shirai Kosuke stammered a little, subconsciously avoiding Sakata Hikaru's eyes, closed the door again after an interruption, and went back to the courtyard to fulfill his duties as a guard.

Hikaru Sakata watched him leave silently, and the sound of footsteps gradually drifted away, and the uncontrollable fear surged into her heart, almost swallowing her reason.

She can't hold the knife, can't hold the knife, can't hold the knife, can't hold the knife...

Trembling, she raised her hands in front of her, clearly feeling the fear in her heart, breathing heavily like a drowning person lacking oxygen.

However, there are still her comrades outside... Without her combat power, what would they do?

The confused eyes only lasted for a moment, and soon became firm again.

Hikaru Sakata took a few deep breaths to adjust his state, then went out and called, "Shirai."

"No!" After hearing Hikaru Sakata's deployment, Xiaosuke Shirai was very emotional, "I... no, not just me, everyone will not agree with your plan, Mr. Sakata!"

Hikaru Sakata frowned, "Follow orders, Shirai!"

"I won't obey this order!" The thin young man made up his mind to oppose Hikaru Sakata's plan, "Leave Sakata-sama and you alone to deal with the shogunate soldiers... Damn it! How could we do it!"

"If you can't do it, do it." Sakata Hikaru stared at the teacup in his hand, his almost dead eyes remained unmoved, "I am the most suitable person to stay, let alone my strength, and my identity is enough to attract those guys from the shogunate attention..."

Shirai suddenly interrupted her, "Master Sakata, are you hiding something from us?"

Hikaru Sakata took a deep breath, trying to suppress the anger in his heart, "I say, obey orders, Shirai. Don't ask meaningless things."

Shirai was silent for a long while, then suddenly said, "Master Sakata, before...you came to stop Master Takasugi just like I stopped you."

Sakata Hikaru's fingers trembled.

Shirai smiled at her, that smile was very reluctant, "Master Sakata, you always make up your own mind like this, you never ask other people's opinions... you always make yourself scarred and let us be protected by you The people behind were terrified."

"..."

Shirai ignored Hikaru Sakata's silence, and continued on his own, "This time it will definitely not be like this, you must know that although we people are very worthless, but... we also want to protect Lord Sakata who has always protected us. "

Sakata Hikaru seemed to have a premonition of something, and got up suddenly in a start, but immediately swayed after standing up, fell forward, and was caught by Shirai, who had been prepared for a long time.

"Bai, Jing..." Sakata Hikaru's eyes turned black, and his consciousness even began to go dark, "You..."

"...If Ikawa-san knows that her medicine can be used to protect Sakata-sama, she will be happy too."

……what did he say? !

Xiaosuke Shirai slowly hugged Hikaru Sakata in his arms, and gave her a hug, "Master Sakata, you probably don't know... When you are lying, you really have a lot of small tricks."

His tongue became numb, and he could only utter some syllables with unknown meanings. Hikaru Sakata seemed to have anticipated something, and tried to reach out his hand trying to grab Shirai Kosuke.

No, don't... go...

"Although it's really a little overpowering... But we incompetent subordinates really feel that even if it's just one time, as long as we can protect Mr. Sakata, no matter what."

"This time, it's our turn to protect you...Captain."

He paused, tightened his arms holding Hikaru Sakata, breathed hot breath into Hikaru Sakata's ears, with determination and a trace of relief, "Although... at this time, say this kind of thing." It's a little bit...but sure enough, I still want to convey my heart to you willfully, because in the future, I probably won't have the chance again, and I won't have the courage I have now."

"Master Sakata... I... like you."

"It's not the team members' admiration for their captain, but a man's admiration for his beloved woman."

"Ahh... I'm still very shy to say such words suddenly. Oops, my expression must be very unpromising. It's better not to let the captain see it."

His strength around Hikaru Sakata was getting stronger and stronger, but it didn't make Hikaru Sakata feel suffocated, but it was extraordinarily warm. He looked a little sad when he couldn't see Hikaru Sakata.

"But Captain... If you can, even if you may not be able to do it now, I hope that even in the future that I can't see, one day, you can smile from the bottom of your heart again."

"I hope that in the future there will be such a person that you can rely on as the captain."

As he talked, he felt a little stuck, his captain was too tough, would there really be such a day?But immediately he laughed again, there must be some, after all, that lord...

He finally let go of Hikaru Sakata whose eyes had begun to fade, and gently covered her cool forehead with a warm hand, leaned over and kissed her forehead through the back of his hand, "This place... is reserved for the future to be by your side the grown-up."

Hikaru Sakata tried his best to gather his slack and drowsy consciousness, but he could only catch Shirai Kosuke's words with a smile at the end.

"No matter what your identity is, I hope... we all hope that you, Mr. Sakata, can survive."

"Must...to survive."

"As long as you are alive, there will always be a day when the wound will heal. At that time, when you think of me, Captain, please smile peacefully, because I have no regrets when I leave."

The noisy crowd, the cloudy sky, the nightmare of her life.

Hikaru Sakata, who was in the crowd with a bamboo hat, was bumped by passers-by several times but didn't respond, just walked in one direction in a daze.

The line is straight.

The goal is very clear.

Ever since waking up again, he has been struggling to leave the supposedly safe stronghold, from staggering step by step to the present.

Until the river bank of Edo Castle.

Until I saw the extremely neat rows of bloody heads.

They even had people with smiles on their faces.

They are being eaten by crows.

They are being pointed at by passers-by.

And the people sent by the shogunate to guard them are bowing their knees to the arrogant heaven and man, bowing down to flatter them.

Hikaru Sakata walked towards the river bank step by step slowly. The people around were still dissatisfied with the people who squeezed in suddenly, but when they turned their heads, Hikaru Sakata was shocked and silenced.

"Hey! You, go back! You are not allowed to get closer here... Hey, do you hear me!"

Sakata Hikaru naturally couldn't hear anything.

She stared at her friends, her eyes couldn't take anything else, her vision slowly shrank, and finally there was only blood red left.

"You...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Hikaru Sakata slowly drew out the bloody knife again, and smiled slightly in the direction of the head amidst the screams of the surrounding crowd.

—she came to fetch them.

When Sakata Hikaru finally woke up, she no longer knew how many times she ran back and forth between Edo and Edo city, and her clothes were already stained with the blood of so many people.

At the moment when her already sore and weak legs gradually returned to consciousness, she finally couldn't hold on and fell on the muddy ground.

The sky had long since rained, soaking Hikaru Sakata's hair and clothes, and the blood on them slid down by gravity, leaving shallow puddles of blood on the ground.

Sakata Hikaru suddenly choked up, she propped up her upper body, hugged the familiar head in her arms, and crawled to the place where everyone was there, "Shirai...I'll take you to find everyone."

Under the old cherry blossom tree outside the city, all the people who had appeared by the river bank gathered together.

With the addition of Shirai in Sakata Hikaru's arms, they are finally all together.

The soil on the ground was already soft, and it was soaked by the rain, so Hikaru Sakata's digging was much easier than expected.

She dug out the soil one by one without any image, and I don't know how long it took to pile up small mounds beside it.

The sharp stones hidden in the soil cut her hands with bloodstains, but she didn't notice it. She didn't stop until the number of pits and the number of people were exactly the same, and she started to bury her comrades.

Perhaps it was due to the extreme pain, the expression on her face could even be said to be numb, saying words to her comrades who would never answer.

"Tanaka, haven't you always complained that you don't have any girls to like? Actually, the medical team... ha, that little girl Ryoko from the medical team has been secretly paying attention to you."

"Song Yuan, please keep your voice down when you speak behind my back. My hearing is very good, and I heard every word. I'm so sorry that I have been paralyzed and talk less."

"Yamaguchi, everyone in the team knows that you deliberately put pornographic magazines at Nakagawa's place. If it wasn't for Nakagawa, it would be fine... Forget it, you really..."

"Asano, your leg injury that time..."

"Watanabe, you..."

"Hetian..."

"Aoki..."

"..."

In the end, there was only one person left.

Hikaru Sakata looked at Shirai Kosuke silently, and after a while, he quietly put him into the dug hole, but instead of filling it with soil, he pulled out his side, which had already become tattered in battles. With a long knife, she cut off the wet hair that she had left for a long time without hesitation.

Because the knife became blunt, the small cut on the blade made his scalp ache, but Hikaru Sakata didn't seem to notice it, and cut off his hair abruptly, and buried him with Shirai Kosuke.

It's not that there is no pain in the chest, it's so painful that she can't breathe for a long time.

Sakata Guang took a deep breath, knelt on the ground, looked up at the sky, the raindrops on the sky were still pattering on her face, it hurt a little, but she seemed to be relieved, "You can take care...it's not tears , it's just rain."

The hands clasped by the sides were almost tense with blue veins.

Hikaru Sakata endured it for a long time, but at last he couldn't help it anymore. He punched the cherry tree trunk beside him, suppressing the crying that almost overflowed his throat, "Bastard, bastard..."

"Make that kind of agreement without authorization..." The choked throat could no longer speak.

She leaned on the tree trunk to stand up, staggered, walked away step by step, and left.

"... Light? Light!"

Sakata Hikaru wakes up with a call, looking at the relieved A Xiao, a little confused, "...?"

"Today I'm going to take you to see the sun wheel, so wake up quickly."

"……Um."

Hikaru Sakata sat up from her leaning beam, dressed in a long kimono that she was not used to, and followed Ah Xiao obediently, after all, something was broken in her eyes.

— Yoshihara, there is no light.

The author has something to say: Actually... Although the foreshadowing I buried is not too much, it is not too little_(:зゝ∠)_

But it seems that everyone can't notice it... so I think it's better not to keep it secret in the future [Yuanmu

Regarding today's chapter, I followed a friend's suggestion and divided the memory killing into two parts. Today is the later part. After Aguang buried her teammates, she fled to Yoshihara.

What happened before... It can be said that Ah Guang's collapse did not happen overnight, but was caused by the superimposition of events one after another. The first half of the memory killing involves the reason why she couldn't hold the knife in the first place.

In fact, it is best to write it coherently, but after all, this is the Yoshihara volume, so it is best not to take up too much space at one time for the part about expelling barbarians... In this way, the memory killing of the first half will appear after the reunion of Hikaru and Takasugi.

By the way, why did you say she was the former raid captain?Because she broke with the governor.Everyone should be able to see a little bit in today's chapter, but I will talk about what happened in a few chapters... Although I feel that I have almost exploded _(:зゝ∠)_

By the way, the following is the focus of today!focus!focus!The important part is said three times!

Finally, the picture of Ah Guang cutting his hair!This is what it looks like below!

My Jiazi is great! !

Because of the color, I can't see clearly, but the hair fell out of Aguang's hand_(:зゝ∠)_

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