Chapter 324 If you can’t cure the foreigners, then you can’t cure the foreign waste?
In Luye Castle, Okita Souji looked at the corpses on the ground, and from time to time he could see disgusting liquids on the ground or on the table.
Okita Souji, the captain of the Shinsengumi 1st Division, is currently wearing his Tsukiyo hair, but he only smoothes the top of his head and does not shave it bald.
Even a hairstyle like Tsukiyo's hair could not conceal the beauty of the young man. Looking at the rotten atmosphere here, he let out a dissatisfied "tsk".
"Captain Okita, we restored the scene. The assassin was brought in openly from the main entrance, and then he was taken away by a priest. Then he seemed to kill the priest out of shame and anger, climbed through the window, found the Milan businessman, and killed him.
"said the warrior on the side.
"Take me to see the priest's body." Souji Okita said.
"Hi!" The warrior saluted and then led him to a small box.
Inside the box was the body of the priest. He had been stabbed through the waist from behind, and his throat was cut. Blood spurted onto the ceiling.
What everyone is concerned about is the way the priest died after taking off his pants. He seemed to be preparing for something good, but he was directly stabbed in the back by the so-called good thing.
"Tsk..." Souji Okita clicked his tongue again. Seeing the way the priest died, he waved directly to the samurai next to him, "I said, you remember."
"Hi!"
"The person who can be pulled into the box by the priest should be a very small boy, no more than 13 years old, very small and thin, and may not have developed yet. He looks like a girl, holding a short knife, and has no strength.
Not big, but very fast..." Souji Okita said.
Just relying on the scene here, he was able to restore Kawakami Hikosai's figure, appearance and body shape to an exact degree.
This incident was very bad, because the foreigner who died was a grain merchant related to the shogunate's food supply, and the impact was extremely bad.
Even the lord of the Choshu Domain directly ordered a strict investigation into the matter.
Their Shinsengumi is under a lot of pressure. Not only him, but other captains and even the third vice-captain Hijikata may have to come over later.
It wouldn't be such a big problem if the people who died were locals, but it would be so troublesome just because the people who died were foreigners. The shogunate itself was already crumbling. If foreign countries put more pressure on it, it would completely collapse.
Even if the person who died was a big noble, he wouldn't be under such great pressure.
"Captain Okita, I think it was the priest who wanted to do evil to the assassin, and then he was killed..." the samurai who recorded the story said, speaking for the assassin.
After all, during the Black Ship Incident, he saw with his own eyes that his sister was dragged into an alley by the Bald Eagle soldiers and came back crying in ragged clothes half an hour later.
And I saw some children being taken away by the priest and never coming back.
At that time, he had no strength, so he trained hard to become a warrior.
Seeing this scene, he once again recalled his powerless self.
"No, the assassin was completely prepared. The priest's death was just an accident." Souji Okita shook his head, "Besides, even if the priest really had a plot and was killed, that person would still be caught and executed."
He raised his head and looked out the window, looked at the city, and sighed: "After all, we can't cure foreigners, we can only cure them."
"Captain Okita!" The samurai next to him began to feel a little sad and angry.
But there is no other way. Even if foreigners open impas here, kill people, or even rush into residential houses and rape other women, at most they will just be sent back.
They samurai had no choice but to give up their identity as samurai and join in the trouble with those reforming bastards.
As for the bastards of the Reform, they said they killed foreigners, but they killed their own people hundreds of times more ruthlessly than they killed foreigners.
"Let's start investigating the assassin. Will it be Okada Izo? Or Yagyu Shinbei? Or, Battousai Kawakami Hikosai?" Chief Okita looked at the port in the distance outside the window, with the roar of steam freighters and the constant coming and going.
of foreigners and young people.
"Any other discoveries?" he asked.
"Captain, according to the investigation, a guard said that he had stopped a child before, but the child was brought in by a man dressed like a bald eagle and a western farmer."
"Huh? Tell me in detail." Souji Okita suddenly realized something when he heard "little boy".
"The little boy, the guard's description is very similar to what you just said, and the man in cowboy clothes looks about twenty years old, a bit like a young man, a bit like a foreigner, he should be of mixed race." Another.
The samurai told the information.
"Yes, that's that person. Hey, he caught a fish. Can you ask the guard to describe it based on his memory and find a painter to draw a rough picture of it?"
"Okay, Captain Okita."
"Then do as you are told, and then use the portrait to search for the assassin throughout Luye City." Souji Okita replied.
"Captain Okita, where is the guy in cowboy clothes?"
"While we don't know whether he is a foreigner, we will focus on searching and do not arrest him for the time being."
"Okita-sama, why...that man is also a murderer!" The samurai with a higher sense of honor yelled.
"Because, you can't cure foreigners, but you can cure the reformers, and you have to cure them to death!" Deputy Chief Okita's kind face disappeared, replaced by a cold look, "Do as I say."
"Hai!"
Some of the warriors below were angry, some were angry, but none of them dared to speak, so they could only drag their swords and leave.
Even though Souji Okita knew that his subordinates were dissatisfied with him, he said nothing.
Looking out the window, he only felt sadness.
"Across the flowers and water of darkness, the reformists' actions will completely drag this country into hell. Even this shogunate that has suffered a lot is ten thousand times stronger than that disgusting reform government." He murmured.
"Cough cough cough..." He kept coughing and took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth.
There was bright red blood on the handkerchief.
"This damn consumption..." He looked at the blood on the handkerchief and could clearly feel that his lungs were riddled with holes. Of course, he would continue to fight for the shogunate until his sword was completely
Can't cut anyone down.
"Hijikata-san, there is no need to take me to Flan for treatment. I know that tuberculosis is a terminal disease that will lead to death..." He murmured, staring at the freighter going away, sinking into the darkness.
In fact, the senior leaders of the Shinsengumi knew that they were already remnants of the old era. However, they could not see any hope in the restoration, only endless despair.
Then it is better to die in the way of the remnants of the old era, and use this consumptive body to finally resist the crushing of the steel freighter of the times...
As for the conflicts with foreigners, he had no time to consider such trivial matters.
I don’t know why, Okita Souji especially hopes that there will be ghosts in the world, so that there will be a clear enemy. I feel that this era without ghosts is even more sad. He even would rather have ghosts and the Demon Slayer Squad.
existence, in that case, at least there is a clear enemy, and you can even deceive yourself into thinking that as long as you kill the ghost, there will be peace.
Holding on to this false ideal, he eventually drowned in the pursuit of ghosts.
They, the Shinsengumi Mibuwolves, no longer have a place on the big ship of the new era.
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"Open the door, open the door! The Shinsengumi catch the thief!" Shinsengumi warriors knocked on the door from door to door, holding a portrait in their hands that looked exactly like Kawagami Hikosai and asking from door to door.
However, in addition to Kawagami Hikosai's, there is another portrait, but that portrait is only kept in the bag. Just record it when you encounter it, and don't make too much publicity.
The Shinsengumi samurai searched houses from house to house, but it was obvious that they only searched the houses of Fuso people. As for the mansions of foreigners, how could they have this power?
Many foreigners also watched curiously and pointed.
They chose to do business here precisely because the Shinsengumi maintained law and order. If they went to other places, they would easily be attacked by those hateful reformers.
However, after the black ship docked, this land became like a hot weapon in the eyes of many people.
A kid with black ash on his face who looked like a refugee returned to Luye City.
He wants to complete the final assassination mission, to assassinate...Mr. Levi...
But even with the disguise, he tried his best to avoid the Shinsengumi people.
The faces in the portraits were very close to his.
The Shinsengumi men came to the door of a shoemaker's house and slammed the door.
"Open the door, open the door, the Shinsengumi is on duty, searching for the barbarian thieves!" the warriors shouted angrily.
The door opened directly, but the moment they saw the gatekeeper, the samurai were completely stunned.
The appearance of their other person is not exactly the same, at least it is the same mold.
"What's the matter?" Levi asked casually.
He naturally knew that Kawagami Hikosai had been exposed, and it was very likely that he had been investigated.
"It's okay, is this the bald eagle here?" a warrior asked.
"Huh? That's right." Levi replied.
"Then you should be careful these days. The rebel thieves are planning to attack you. If you notice anything, you can come to the Shinsengumi." After the samurai finished speaking, he bowed slightly and left.
Levi was a little confused. He thought the Shinsengumi were the most polite and wanted to invite him to have a cup of tea, but he didn't expect to just ignore him.
He closed the door and Levi walked into the house. At this time, the original owner, the shoemaker Sun, was packing his belongings and was ready to leave at any time.
"Mr. Sun, when did you book the boat ticket back to Magic City?" Li Wei said.
"Guest, I am definitely not a 'sir', please don't offend us." Shoemaker Sun said, but he still asked, "It will take three days at the earliest to get a boat back to the Magic City. Guest, what's going on outside?
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"The people from the Shinsengumi are here to capture the anti-barbarian faction. You don't need to participate. At least I will stop everything before you board the ship." Li Wei said.
"Then thank you, Your Excellency, thank you, Your Excellency..." Shoemaker Sun kept thanking him, and seemed to almost kneel down because of the custom of his hometown.
But Li Wei immediately stopped him.
This shoemaker with pigtails is actually completely out of touch with those rules.
But the shoemaker's son, who is still just a baby in swaddling clothes, will become the first light on that land, the light that completely changes everything.
Shoemaker Sun's family is leaving here soon. They are here to sell the property here and then return to their country to start a business. This shoemaker's hut is their last property in Fuso.
And Li Wei will protect them until they board the ship back to the Magic City.