"You guy... I remember that you don't have any habit of sleeping, right?"
"What on earth are you doing? How can you sleep when you haven't finished anything you should do?"
The voice of dissatisfaction reached Zuo Cun's ears.
This voice...
Good, familiar...
Zuo Cun looked a little dazed.
His mouth was dry and his throat felt like it was being burned by fire.
all in all--
pain.
"Takasugi, please let Zuocun go. After all, he looks quite uncomfortable now...as if he had just been thrown out of a fire?"
Another voice also entered Zuo Cun's ears.
Takasugi...?
The first person who spoke just now...was Takasugi...?
Ah, it’s Takasugi...
Then, if another person's voice...
Yes, Gui?
"Okay, Zuocun, even if you're sleeping, it's time to wake up, right?"
The last sound reached Zuo Cun's ears.
Zuo Cun finally opened his eyes while feeling sleepy.
"What...it turns out it's you three..."
He sighed reassuringly.
The three people in front of him were naturally very familiar to him.
Takasugi Shinsaku, Katsura Kogoro, and...
Ryoma Sakamoto.
"Then why do you three think of visiting me?"
He looked at the three of them and asked speciously.
Takasugi Shinsaku and Katsura Kogoro looked at each other, and then burst into laughter together involuntarily.
"Hahahahahahahaha——Have you seen his bad appearance? Gui! He is simply an idiot!"
"Have we ever had a career with such a stupid guy - hahahahaha!!!"
"I'm talking about you... I know you have forgotten a lot of things, but you haven't forgotten what you are doing now, right?"
Ryoma didn't laugh, but patted Zuo Cun on the shoulder with a helpless smile.
"You need to cheer up quickly."
"......ah."
Zuo Cun was in a daze, but he seemed to have finally remembered something and nodded.
"But... I didn't expect that the four of us would be able to get together again."
Raising his head, Zuo Cun looked at the three people in front of him and said with a smile.
【Four-person alliance】
What wonderful memories.
"Who knows, but what can I say? Since we have all become servants, I might be summoned together on that day too?"
Takasugi Shinsaku didn't seem to have any special ideas. He straightened his hair and said with a smile.
"...I would like to, but compared to the three of you, the number of times I have been summoned is too small, right?"
Katsura Kogoro looked a little troubled.
Really?
Among the four-person alliance, Samura and Ryoma have been summoned the most. They are famous and have many legends, so they are summoned most often. Takasugi Shinsaku also has the ability to lead an army, and they are summoned less often than the previous two.
Some, but in the final analysis can also be summoned, Katsura Kogoro...
"If you were summoned, it would be a question of what your real name would be, right?"
Samura smiled and teased Katsura Kogoro.
Katsura Kogoro, Kido Kaiichiro, Shinhori Matsushita, Hirado Takasuke, this person has a lot of names, but he changed his name to "Kido Takayoshi" at the end of his career, and it never changed.
"I even wonder if you have the same habit of changing names as Katsushika Hokusai."
Takasugi Shinsaku curled his lips.
"You...you two guys!"
Katsura Kogoro's eyes widened and he kept going back and forth between Samura and Takasugi, as if he was very angry.
"Okay, okay, it's rare for the four of us to get together, and it would be nice to have a little fun, right?"
"It's you Zuomura. As the last one alive, in the new era...have you seen it?"
To be honest, Ryoma didn't expect much from this event.
After all, when Zuo Cun died...there were only a few people who died later than them.
The so-called [Alliance of Four]... none of the four people died young.
"I just taught at the university for a few years, and then I retired and returned home...and when that guy Saigo Moritaka died, I died with him."
"Speaking of which, I remember that Katsura... also had the title of the 'Three Heroes of the Restoration' which is the same as our 'Alliance of Four'. They were together with that fellow Saigo Moritaka and that fellow Okubo Toshimichi.
Did you get it?"
"Huh? Are you still related to such a person, Gui?"
Takasugi Shinsaku looked up and down at Gui with some surprise.
"...As long as I don't betray my ideals, it doesn't matter. That's what I think. And didn't I also die in front of Zuo Cun?"
Gui scratched his head in embarrassment and did not defend himself.
The reputations of these two people are not very good.
"But in the new era... I did see it, but I saw it during a Holy Grail War. At that time, I was summoned by an interesting guy as an assassin, and fought a Holy Grail War there.
,Although I lost in the end..."
“What does the new era look like!?”
The three people rushed forward together, and even Ryoma, who usually showed no emotion or anger and only showed a gentle smile, had a sparkle in his eyes.
"ah......"
"In terms of the era alone, it was a pretty good era."
"Children don't have to go to the battlefield, and adults don't have to wield swords or guns. As long as they work, they can eat and have a house to live in. Even people with no fixed residence can survive."
"There were even a lot of entertainment activities in that era, but there were no flower streets or anything like that in that era. There were a lot less. I feel that Takasugi might be a little inconvenient."
Zuocun said, glancing at the red-haired boy in the team.
"This kind of thing is not indifferent. As long as there is it, the quantity... doesn't matter."
Takasugi said with a smile.
It's hard to say whether his early death has anything to do with these things...
"This is it, this is it, this is good."
Ryoma nodded vigorously.
"That's...that's good."
He looked very happy.
only--
"ah."
Takasugi also raised his hand.
His hands and fingertips turned into sand a little bit.
"It seems that time is running out, Zuocun."
As he said that, he waved to Zuo Cun.
Zuocun was stunned.
"Are you leaving too?"
he......
Somewhat reluctant.
I can’t let go of these friends, let alone these memories.
The alliance of four is really... the best memory.
"There is nothing we can do about it. As long as we continue to fight, we will continue to lose something, right? You, the guy, have concluded this."
Gui shook his head helplessly.
"In short, wake up and do everything you need to do."