War...what's the point
A battle had just ended, and on a battlefield filled with corpses and a strong smell of blood, Jiang Cheng, who had just participated in the war against the foreigners and won his first victory, stood quietly here. His clothes had long been soaked with the blood of the enemy. The blood is almost dry.
Jiang Cheng lowered his head and looked quietly at the body of a boy named Shanta at his feet. Just before going to the battlefield, this classmate whom he had known since Matsushita Village School and had been with him for nearly ten years was still bragging that he could definitely No matter how many achievements you make in this battle, you will definitely save the teacher, and then you will definitely change this country...
Jiang Cheng raised his head and looked at the dark sky with confused eyes. In the forest not far from the battlefield, there were his friends who had just won a great victory and were recuperating in place.
The strange thing is that no one showed a happy expression because of this victory with less and less cost. Because everyone is the same, losing the most important thing for the first time.
The war... probably won't stop. Whether it is taking someone else's life or being taken away, it is actually the same. As long as you start losing and taking away... then the war will never stop.
The only way to completely stop the war is for one side to be eaten up...
Jiang Cheng, who was thinking like this, would fight the toughest enemies alone every time in the subsequent wars, biting them to pieces like a wild beast.
But...even so, we are still losing.
Jiang Cheng, who had just finished a battle with a huge difference in combat power, stepped into the camp and saw Gintoki standing with his head lowered in front of several corpses covered with white cloth.
Looking at the very abrupt and unnatural green dragonfly embroidered on the gray sleeves exposed from the white cloth, Jiang Cheng thought of the classmate named Inoue whom he had known day and night for many years and participated in the war together.
"Look! My little sister at home embroidered it for me before I left! Are you envious? You guys who don't have a sister, hahahaha..."
"Yo! Brother-in-law!"
"Gintoki, please stop trying to trick my sister!"
"Yo! Son!"
"Kotaro, please stop trying to trick my mother!"
"That's not what I said! Besides, the one I liked was never the widow but NTR! Jiang Cheng! Did you just imitate me?! God damn it!"
"It's not me, it's Gao Zai."
"Takasugi! I didn't expect you to have such a hobby! I accidentally bought an extra book about widows last time I bought magazines. How about I buy it for you at a 20% discount?"
"First of all, give me back the money you borrowed from me to buy the magazine, wig."
"Not a wig is Gui!"
…
After that, one after another...continuous losses, continuous seizures, the war continues.
Then... new companions join, repeated losses, repeated captures... the war never ends.
Lose, seize, lose, seize, lose, seize... Repeated countless times, Jiang Cheng, who forced himself to forget all this, gritted his teeth, clenched the sword in his hand, and kept running in a certain direction. ,always. but…
"I want to change this country!"
"I want to drive out all the heavenly beings!"
"I want to save the teacher! And then change the world!"
"I want to see my sister get married with my own eyes!"
"I think… "
"…"
Their voices cannot be dissipated!
When killing enemies, when sleeping, when eating, when in a daze, when drinking, when being dragged to Hualiu Street, when reading comics, when playing games...
"Can't you hear me?"
One day, Jiang Cheng asked this question out of the blue. However, after seeing the similar confused expressions on everyone's faces, they shook their heads and changed their words.
"No, it's nothing, just nonsense."
After that, Jiang Cheng's "steps" slowed down little by little, and he began to look back constantly, keeping in mind the wishes of those behind him.
[Perhaps this is the only thing that can be done. I have written down all your wishes, hopes, and expectations. Please continue to look at me. I will definitely...never forget it.]
…
Still on that small spaceship.
Standing in front of the window, Jiang Cheng, who had just recovered from his memories, murmured softly: "I have never forgotten it..."
Zique, who was standing in front of the control panel, suddenly noticed something and hurriedly said to Jiang Cheng: "Hey! The symbol of that spaceship is..."
Jiang Cheng, who turned his face sideways, glanced at the spaceship on the big screen with the logo of the Haruyu Pirates engraved on its body, and then slowly turned around.
"Probably... I was preempted by someone else, but it's not bad. They're all here for me anyway."
"Hey you…"
Jiang Cheng didn't answer, and just walked slowly towards the door.
…
The main control room on the ship of the Spring Rain Pirates.
Kamui, who was sitting on a pile of pirate corpses, holding an umbrella and crossing his legs, squinted his eyes and looked at the figure who appeared after the automatic door opened with a smile on his face - Jiang Cheng.
By the way, this Chunyu pirate ship was originally going to Laoyang to hunt down Takasugi's group, but it was intercepted by a rabbit who was separated from his seventh division for some unknown reason.
Kamui smiled and said: "I'm so sorry~ Uncle idiot, I accidentally took away your job~ But there is no need for rewards or anything like that. After all, I have grown up."
"Alone...?"
"Of course," said Shenwei, he opened his eyes and looked directly at Jiang Cheng, "Because...if I am still with Afutu and the others, my uncle can know my whereabouts anytime, anywhere, right? You still can He is such a protective man that makes people feel sick, although he is also very touched~"
"Really? I can't tell from your expression at all. And... don't get me wrong, Nobita. It was never to protect you. Do you think you need to be protected? This is not like you."
"Alala~ This is really sad to say~ After all, I am not yet twenty years old~ I heard that you are not considered an adult until you are twenty on earth? I am still a complete child!"
"Idiot, I've already changed it to eighteen years old."
"real or fake?"
Jiang Cheng did not answer, but looked at the big screen above the console in front: "But it seems that there is no need to say anything. I am not a person who is good at preaching, and you are not a person who listens to adults. Kid, our way of communicating...is just fighting."
From the moment he walked into the main control room, Jiang Cheng discovered that the spacecraft was heading towards the nearest uninhabited planet.
…
Two spaceships, one large and one small, slowly landed on the desolate planet full of yellow sand, with few green plants and inaccessible to humans.
After the spacecraft stopped, Jiang Cheng and Shenwei jumped down from the hatch of Chunyu's spacecraft and landed on the barren land of this planet.
Zi Que stood far away from the two of them, watching them quietly.
Jiang Cheng raised his head, glanced at the stars in the sky, and shook his head helplessly: "Hey, everyone knows that rabbits are active at night. Wouldn't it be too cunning of you to choose the Eastern Hemisphere at night? Some?"
"Isn't it natural for elders to give way to younger ones?" Shenwei still had a smile on his face and held his umbrella in his hand. "Start on the count of three, two, one. Three!"
Divine power surged and rushed directly towards Jiang Cheng.
"Are you so cunning?!" Jiang Cheng Kankan blocked the divine blow and slid back a few meters, "Come on! Nobita! Let me see your progress!"
Just as the battle between Jiang Cheng and Kamui began, a battle had just begun on the planet named Royang. The two sides of the battle were Takasugi and Hao.
…
Laoyang is a planet that is shrouded in haze most of the time and rains are always unusually frequent.
Just like now, the light rain keeps coming.
An abandoned temple on a low slope was an emergency gathering place known only to the ghost soldiers and internal cadres of the 7th Division.
Takasugi, who was lying in a room, slowly opened his eyes, then sat up and stood up slowly without any pause.
"You can hear it, Jiang Cheng. Just like you, I can always hear it." Gao Shan whispered to himself
But something strange was that Takasugi didn't put on the purple yukata that he was accustomed to wearing.
Tsk-pull
"Mr. Takasugi!"
Hearing the noise in the house, one of the few members of the Ghost Soldiers opened the door and shouted: "You finally woke up!"
After putting on a piece of clothing that he hadn't worn in ten years, Takasugi also hung his sword on his waist. After finishing his clothes, he turned around and walked out the door, while casually responding: "Ah, If you don’t wake up, you’ll sleep until everything is over, and it’s time for us to leave.”
"But Mr. Mansai and Miss Matako are missing..."
"Don't worry over there, come with me."
With that said, Gao Shan stepped out of the room and came to the courtyard of the temple.
In an instant, a group of surviving members of the Ghost Army surrounded him.
Gao Shan gently raised the corners of his lips and said: "Everyone, next... let me take you to meet your "seniors"..."
After finishing speaking, before Takasugi could start, he suddenly noticed something again. He raised his head and looked over, only to see Hagi standing on the wall, staring at him with two eyes.
Gao Shan raised the corner of his mouth and chuckled softly: "Whether it's your own people or your enemies, you can really control anyone. Your good popularity is still as annoying as ever, Jiang Cheng..."
Hazy asked calmly: "You have had the same purpose with him from the beginning to the end, but now you want to hinder him?"
"Ah, unfortunately it's like this." As he said that, Takasugi pulled out the sword from his waist, "Because I feel that he has been looking down on me all the time, so I feel very unhappy. Bearing everything alone? Are you kidding me? I absolutely I won’t agree…! Then, before you are completely killed by me, tell me everything you know!”
"There is nothing to say," Hao pulled out his two swords and held them in his hands, "The only one who can save that Lord, the only one who can completely change that country, the only one who can drag everything into hell... is He is the only one! Neither you nor I are too far apart! Even if we both got wings from the same man...but we are still too far apart!"
Clang!
Takasugi, who was holding a knife in both hands to block the two hazy swords, frowned, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "The same man? Isn't the culprit who killed Yoshida Shoyo right in front of me? His enemy...isn't he right in front of me? ?!"
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(End of chapter)