In order to become a Heroic Spirit, I had no choice but to cause trouble in history.

Inoue Genzaburo's sword was cut in two by Tsurugi.

However, Inoue Genzaburo's attack was not without effect.

Zuo Cun wiped the wound on his face and smiled.

bang——

Instead of using a knife, Samura kicked Inoue Genzaburo in the stomach, striking Inoue Genzaburo's jaw directly with his fist.

"Pfft-"

In an instant, Zuocun jumped up and kicked Inoue back to the ground.

In the air, Zuocun slowly assumed a fighting stance.

"New Feather Wheel, one of the separate wings."

Zuocun looked at the well lying on the ground.

"He Liu".

Clang—!!!

A lightning-like strike hurtled towards Inoue Genzaburo.

Inoue Genzaburo instinctively closed his eyes.

But the expected slash did not come.

He slowly opened his eyes and saw Zuo Cun with a cold expression, and He He standing in front of his face.

"Are you humiliating me?" Inoue asked through gritted teeth.

"...I thought you still remembered." Zuo Cun's eyes showed some disappointment.

"Remember...what..." Inoue Genzaburo asked, as he recalled something.

Zuocun sighed, sheathed his crane wings, turned around, and walked towards Izo's battlefield.

"This is not pity, nor is it humiliation; it is simply fulfilling a promise."

“Inoue, the next time I see you—” Samura turned his head, looked at Inoue who was still lying on the ground, his eyes appearing particularly cold in the moonlight, “I will kill you.”

Inoue watched Samura's retreating figure and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"You bastard..."

Before Inoue could finish speaking, he lost consciousness.

Before he lost consciousness, he thought sadly:

I no longer even qualify to be your opponent...

Zuocun hurriedly ran to Okada Izo's location.

Izō was in a fit of rage. Although he was surrounded by several people, he did not lose any ground and even steadily suppressed the Shinsengumi members.

"You bastards—" Izo was also injured, his eyes stained red with blood, "You're two hundred years too early to kill me—"

He aimed at a Shinsengumi member and slashed upwards.

"This is—divine retribution! Hahahaha!!!"

Ping!

Izō's sword, aimed at the Shinsengumi members, was stopped by Sōmura.

"Zuocun? What are you doing?" Izo was taken aback.

"We'll talk about it later." Zuo Cun looked at the faces of the Shinsengumi members and silently made a note of it.

"Hey, what are you doing here, Captain... Ah—!"

The team member questioned Zuo Cun with a mixture of anger and fear, only to be punched on the head by Zuo Cun who jumped up.

"Your squad leader is fine, he was just knocked unconscious by me." Zuocun jumped up again without pausing.

Half a minute later, all five members of the Shinsengumi were knocked unconscious by Samura.

He sighed.

Okita...

"Hey, Zuocun, what happened? Mr. Wuchi and the others..." he stammered in Tibetan, "And why didn't you kill them? They were all..."

“Mr. Okada!” Samura interrupted Okada Izo, his eyes vacant. “...Come with me, I will explain everything to you.”

“...Alright.” Okada Izo looked at the expressionless Samura and felt a chill for some reason.

......

"That's how it is." Zuo Cun and Yi Zang sat in Wu Shi Zui Shan's room.

Samura did not tell Okada Izo the whole truth, but only told him that the nationwide purge of anti-foreign elements was underway, and that Takeichi Zuizan, as the leader of the largest opposition anti-foreign organization, would naturally not escape this calamity.

After hearing what Samura said, Okada Izou suddenly stood up.

What are you going to do?

"What nonsense are you talking about? Of course we're going to rescue Mr. Takechi!" Okada Izo put on his clothes.

"...I went to see Mr. Takeichi before I got here...I went in and met him in prison."

wow-

Izo grabbed Samura by the collar, his eyes bloodshot: "You bastard—then why didn't you rescue Mr. Takechi? Didn't you know what kind of fate awaited Mr. Takechi?!"

Zuocun turned his head slightly away.

“Mr. Takeshi…won’t let me rescue him.”

“What—” Okada Izo was stunned in astonishment.

Zuo Cun broke free from Yi Zang's hand and went to the cabinet in the corner of Wu Shi Ruishan's room.

Clang—!

Zuocun cut open the outer shell of the cabinet, revealing a compartment.

After searching for a while, Samura took out two letters from the compartment. He put the one with the red seal in his pocket and handed the one with the black seal to Okada Izou.

“This is what Mr. Takeichi... entrusted me to give to you.” He didn’t look at Okada Izo’s face.

Izang looked at Samura and took the letter from Samura's hand with a trembling hand.

Open the letter to secretly read its contents.

“Okada Izo, my disciple, my subordinate.”

"By the time you read this letter, I estimate you'll already be in prison, with no future in sight."

"I am warning you here: do not even think about rescuing me. This is my final order as the leader of the Loyalist Party, Okada Izo, to kill me."

“I had long anticipated this day, because the goal of expelling the barbarians was simply impossible to achieve.”

“You are my proud disciple. I and others will insist in prison that there is no such person as you in the loyalist party. So, after the storm has passed, go back to Tosa. You are still young and should not die so soon.”

"Remember, Izang, you must live well."

Signed: Wushi Banpingtai.

As Izang held the letter, his body trembled uncontrollably, and tears streamed down his face.

"Mr. Takeshi...why...?"

He gritted his teeth.

bang——

Izo's head slammed heavily to the ground, and he held Takeshi Zuiyama's Shinmi in his arms.

He was crying and shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Aa ...

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Chapter 384 The Shinsengumi's Quarrel

Zuocun first bandaged the wounds on his face and arms, and then bandaged Yizang as well.

“The most important thing now is not to disobey Mr. Takechi’s instructions, Mr. Okada.” Samura looked into Izo’s eyes. “You must survive.”

Zuocun used a cloth strip to bandage a wound on Yizang's leg, but he used a bit too much force, and Yizang cried out in pain.

"What do we do now?" Okada Izo's eyes were numb. "Mr. Takeichi has been arrested, and the Loyalist Party is gone too."

Sōmura sighed, patted his head, and kicked Okada Izō hard.

"Ouch!" Okada Izo stood up, clutching his backside and glaring angrily at Samura. "What are you doing?"

"I'll wake you up." Zuo Cun said expressionlessly. "We can't stay in Kyoto any longer. We need to leave now."

"...Where to?" Okada Izo looked at Samura with a hint of doubt.

"First, go to Tosa and deliver another letter to Mr. Takechi's wife, Tomiko Takechi, and then..." Samura walked out of the room, "We'll go to Satsuma to find Sakamoto."

......

Inoue Genzaburo opened his eyes a little.

"Uh—ah..." He sat up, clutching his head.

Looking around, they realized they were outside the Loyalist Party's base, in a grove of trees.

Suddenly remembering what happened yesterday, Inoue Genzaburo slammed his fist on the ground.

"Damn it...were we let go?"

He let out a long sigh.

"Seriously... monstrous swordsmanship..."

Standing up, Inoue Genzaburo shoved the two broken swords back into their sheaths, rubbed his stomach, and looked for his squad members.

"We need to get back quickly; Chief Kondo and Chief Serizawa are probably very anxious right now..."