It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

However, before Tousei could say "but", the radio intercom that Gengai left in the izakaya suddenly rang!

"Ms. Tose, may I ask if the bald but handsome restaurant owner has returned?"

Because the intercom had a video function, Yuanwai had already noticed Boss Cheng's big, thick arms from the screen, so he had to temporarily change his words, turning "bald man" into "bald but handsome restaurant owner."

"Hey! Stop talking nonsense!" The boss took the intercom and asked the other end, "Is there anything important? If there is, please tell me what's important."

"Yes! Something terrible has happened! The Time Thief, which was just repaired, has been snatched away by the Nightmare!"

"Took it away? From you?"

"Yes, from me!"

The boss asked again: "Have you met Yan Mei?"

"We met!"

"We met, but I didn't kill you?"

"As you can see, I'm still alive, old man." Even Yuanwai himself admitted, "It's strange, isn't it?"

The boss asked again: "Do you know each other?"

"I don't know. He was wearing a bamboo hat and his face was covered with bandages. But..."

"But you think you probably know him, don't you?"

"Yes, there is indeed an inexplicable sense of familiarity. In addition, after the other party snatched the Time Thief, he did not destroy or throw her away immediately, but took her to the ruins of the Central Terminal Tower. I think the other party snatched the Time Thief, most likely intending to..."

"He's planning to lead us there!" After making his judgment, the boss continued to ask, "Have you told Ah Yin the news?"

"I told you before I contacted you."

"Understood, arriving in 5 minutes!"

The boss called the still crying Sweet Cheese and rushed out, and then the two immediately activated the flight mode and flew straight to the ruins of the central terminal tower in the center of Edo. This direction happened to coincide with the direction that the Nightmare escaped last night.

Boss Makoto didn't have time to think about why this Nightmare did such a thing as to fear that Gintoki wouldn't be able to find him. There were too many unreasonable and suspicious points in it. Instead of wasting time thinking about it, it would be better to go to the central tower immediately and ask the Nightmare in person.

"Pilot, look!" Sweet Cheese pointed at three people running on the abandoned road, "It's Yin, Glasses, and Little Rice Bucket!"

"Go down and give them a ride."

Therefore, the three of them should have taken an hour to complete the journey, but due to the sudden appearance of the boss and Sweet Cheese, the travel time was successfully shortened to 3 minutes.

3 minutes later, the top of the destroyed central tower.

"Finally found you~~~~"

"Fuck, it's still 10 meters away, let go of your uncle's hand!"

Boss Cheng accelerated and finally caught Gintoki who was falling freely.

As soon as Gintoki was rescued, he asked his boss: "Why didn't you show off to me and make a perfect and handsome debut?"

"You didn't even signal me to throw you out!"

"I winked at you! I winked for quite a while!"

"Are you a tyrant? Have you suddenly changed or have your standards become higher? How can you be so arrogant without even saying hello?"

"I……"

"You're a piece of shit! You were pointing your head at me the whole time, I'll see you blink!"

"Then this time... ah~ you~dumped~ it~ too~ early~"

Gintoki flew more than 30 meters in the air, and at the same time when he ran out of strength, he landed safely on the top floor of the central tower. Although he looked a little embarrassed when he did two forward rolls to relieve the force when landing, the pose he made after stopping was still quite stylish.

"Finally found you!" Gintoki walked towards the enemy who had appeared, and said lazily: "In order to find you, a group of us have been looking for you all day long. The two of us have gone through a long circle just to take back something that was forgotten 15 years ago.

But this farce should end here. You'd better tell me your origins honestly to save yourself some pain. I have to tell you that the bald guy flying behind you is a super perverted chef who has enough power to cook you into 108 different dishes! "

"Steve Rogers, you bastard!"

0361 The Longest 10 Minutes

“Swoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”

Dozens of bandages flew out from the Nightmare and entangled Boss Makoto who was flying in the air. Fortunately, the boss reacted quickly and threw Gintoki to Sweet Cheese who came to pick him up before the bandages entangled Gintoki.

Kagura arrived and swung his umbrella to blast the nightmare away, but he didn't expect that after being flown away, the other party used the bandages wrapped around the boss' body to prevent himself from falling from the central tower several hundred meters high.

The next moment, the bandages wrapped around the boss were burned off by the high temperature, but the Nightmare had already used the force to fly back into the central tower.

But as he landed, the boss also pulled out the super shotgun and aimed at the legs of the nightmare. However, the opponent's fighting instinct was very fast, and the moment when the boss was about to pull the trigger, he killed Gintoki who was just about to attack. Then there were two "bangs", and the explosives penetrated the ground of the central tower. The boss rarely fired two blank shots.

Gintoki faced the attack of the Nightmare and immediately decided to hold the Nightmare back with himself. So when the Nightmare thrust out his staff at Gintoki, Gintoki decisively gave up defense and let the staff brush past his left ribs. At the same time, the wooden sword in his hand stabbed at the Nightmare's left leg, which was in a forward stance.

And when Yanmei discovered Gintoki's intention and was about to retract his left leg, he didn't expect Gintoki to suddenly let go of the wooden sword in his hand and grabbed his arms tightly!

"It's now!"

"Armor! Up!"

The Berserker armor, which had its own ability to jump around, immediately detached from the armored frame of Thor's hammer and stuck to the lower body of Nightmare in the blink of an eye.

The shin guard of the Berserker's armor transformed into tree roots and stuck firmly into the ground. The gaps in the armor also merged at this time, turning it into an airtight iron can.

Nightmare tried to get rid of the armor but found that except for his head, his whole body was trapped in the damn armor and he could not move at all.

"Haha, what a great tactic!" Yan Mei said with great satisfaction, "It turned out to be the right decision to let the old man pull you over!"

"How can it be!"

Upon hearing Yan Mei's voice, Boss Cheng and Gintoki were stunned. Although they had both guessed in this direction before, they both did not dare to guess further in this direction. They never expected that the answer they least wanted to guess would become the final answer to Yan Mei's identity.

"It's been five years! I can finally be free this time." Yan Mei said in the same voice as Gintoki: "I have been waiting for you to come. While listening to the wailing of the world's collapse, I am waiting for you to help me be free, to help the world be free.

Because the only ones who can kill me are probably myself and a bald guy who runs a restaurant. As you two can see, I am Sakata Gintoki who disappeared 5 years ago, and I am also the mastermind who forced you to this era, and I am also the unforgivable sinner who destroyed the world.

Everything that happened in this world was caused by me... no, it was you... Baldy, could you please move aside? I didn't mean you. It was you, Sakata Gintoki, who was going to cause it sooner or later. From that moment on, the curse they prepared for you was planted in your body - the seedling of the virus that would destroy the world."

In an instant, Gintoki suddenly recalled what the Nightmare said before he died 15 years ago when he killed him: "You and the precious things you guard tightly in your arms will sooner or later be destroyed by your dirty hands. That is the sin you must bear as an evil ghost. No matter what you love, what you hate, what you think, what you forget. Everything will be swallowed up by you. Cry, this is the gift we give you!"

"You must have remembered it!" Gintoki said with a wry smile five years later: "What we destroyed was just a container. The main body of the Nightmare has always been the nanomachine virus that controls them. When the container was destroyed by us, they chose us to be their new host.

They gathered into a core in our bodies, and this process took them 10 years. Just like the desperate virus in the boss's body, they completed a new round of evolution by devouring my genes. Then, a mechanical virus targeting human genes was born in our bodies, spreading from our bodies until it spread all over the world.

By the time I discovered all this, it was too late. I could only barely control my body, which was about to be completely controlled by the virus, and tried to die with the virus by committing suicide. But when I pointed the knife at my heart, I found that my body would not allow me to end my life. So I became a walking corpse who was always awake, and could only watch the world gradually go to destruction because of me.

Now you understand! I brought myself and you, my boss, from the past to this world just to destroy myself. The me of this world must be destroyed, but you, the me of the past! You should also understand what you must do! Only in this way..."

"No, that's not the case!" Boss Cheng patted his chest and said, "I'm already standing here, why are you still talking about those useless bullshit? Who are you trying to mess with this self-indulgent idiot?"

"Eh?" The two Gintoki asked in surprise.

"Are you two stupid?"

Obviously, the boss's IQ is not only always online, but he is also very good at grasping the key and main contradiction of a matter. He asked the two idiots: "Are you the nightmare you met in the decisive battle 15 years ago?"

The two Gintoki nodded at the same time.

"Then were both of you infected by the nanomechanical virus during the battle with Nightmare?"

The two Gintoki nodded at the same time.

"Does that mean that we can just go back to the past and catch this thing before you encounter the Nightmare, and then put it into the furnace of the smelter so that it won't have a chance to 'I'll Be Back'! Don't you agree?"

The two Gintoki nodded at the same time again.

"And there's more! Just to control your broken virus, how high a temperature can it withstand? 100 degrees, 200 degrees, or 1000 degrees, 2000 degrees?"

Gintoki five years later shook his head, but he immediately said that the nanomechanical virus is afraid of fire.

"Fuck, I thought it was a very powerful virus, but it turns out it's even afraid of fire!" Then Boss Cheng asked, "Is it afraid of EMP (electromagnetic pulse)?"

Five years later, Gintoki shook his head again.

This time the boss didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he called out through the communication: "Can you hear me? Send someone over to receive the supplies. Also, bring me a box of EMP grenades! What do you need EMP for? For disinfection experiments! Hey, I have dozens of boxes of stock in my base. If I don't find a chance to use them up, they will be like fission bombs and expire."

Then, Iron Man sent a whole box of EMP grenades to Boss Cheng.

Then, the boss ordered everything that might be affected by the EMP to be moved out of the range of 300 meters.

Then, Boss Makoto used the Berserker Armor to expose Gintoki's body and torso, and pulled the safety of the EMP grenade, and thrust it into Gintoki's chest.

"what!"

Old Gintoki screamed, and a large area of ​​flesh on his chest was burned by the EMP grenade.

But miraculously, the virus in Gintoki's body suddenly stopped. Gintoki himself could feel his brain taking back control of his body.

"Did you see it?" The boss shook his non-existent hair in a cool manner, pointed at the old Gintoki and said to the young Gintoki: "What do you mean by knowledge changing destiny? This is it!"

"Okay!" The young Gintoki nodded seriously, "You can shout or sing, but let me cover my ears first."

"roll!"

However, after Gintoki regained full control of his body, he suddenly fell to his knees and vomited. In order to prevent the vomit from splashing on himself, the Berserker Armor decisively fell off Gintoki's body and returned to his boss's body.

Seeing this, the boss had to explain to old Gintoki: "There's nothing we can do. After all, it's a strong electromagnetic attack. Your body may have been penetrated by the electromagnetic waves. Vomiting is also normal. But it doesn't matter. Anyway, as long as we get rid of the nightmare, it doesn't matter even if you die on the battlefield!"

"Damn it! You disgusting bastard! I didn't expect that after not seeing you for 5 years, you're still so disgusting!"

"I'm warning you! Be careful. After the timeline is restarted, I will take all the gold reserves you put in my base!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't joke about this kind of thing, okay?" The young Gintoki immediately reminded his boss: "That pile of gold isn't just his, you also have my share!"

"Don't you both have the same share of gold?"

"Well, there's nothing wrong with what you said."

Young Gintoki also agreed, "There is indeed nothing wrong. The only problem is that I am a little thirsty."

Old Gintoki immediately agreed, "Indeed, what you said makes me thirsty too. Come to think of it, I really want to drink the lychee soda in the restaurant again before ending this farce."

"Kvass is still the best, refreshing and filling." After saying that, the young Gintoki looked at the boss and said, "How about buying us a bottle of soda before we go to solve the problem? It's not too much, right?"

"Okay, okay, I'll get it for you right away! Okay!"

However, when Boss Makoto took less than 2 minutes to get the soda, the two people who were supposed to be waiting in the central tower to drink the soda disappeared. Along with them, the time thief and the box of EMP grenades sent by Iron Man disappeared. Only Kagura and Shinpachi were left on the rooftop, muttering "Gin-san" and howling.

"Hey, you two, stop crying. Tell me, how long have I been walking since I went back to get the soda?"

Shinpachi wiped his tears and answered his boss: "At most... at most 10 minutes."

"Tsk, two bastards seeking their own death!" Boss Cheng looked at the "Zhenzhen" sugar-free lychee soda and "Qiulin" sugar-free kvass in his hand, "Can't you even wait for 10 minutes!"

0362 Some Like It Hot

"Tsk, two bastards seeking their own death!" Boss Cheng looked at the "Zhenzhen" sugar-free lychee soda and "Qiulin" sugar-free kvass in his hand, "Can't you even wait for 10 minutes!"

(Explanation: Gintoki has high blood sugar, and the doctor only allows him to eat chocolate parfait once a week.)

"Boss, can you take us with you?" Kagura, who cried out her crystal pendant, also said, "We also want to..."

But before Kagura could "think" of anything, the originally dilapidated top floor of the central tower suddenly returned to its state before it was destroyed and abandoned.

"Hey! You guys!" An inspector in charge of public security shouted at the three people, "What are you doing in the baggage sorting area? You can't pick up luggage here!"

The three drove to the base of the central tower and found that the place had returned to its original bustling state.

At the same time, Tony asked his boss on the comms: "My God, what happened to this world? Why did it suddenly change? The old man who just promised us to move and take whatever we wanted, suddenly rushed over with a wrench. Could it be that... someone changed history?"

The boss took a deep breath and told Tony: "Knock out that old man and move the things back to the base quickly. You don't have to worry about other things for now."

"I see. What about you?"

"I'm going to verify something," the boss replied.

"Confirm what?"

"Confirm whether a certain person has lived to this era!"

"Is it Sakata?" Tony cursed in annoyance: "Shit, why is it him? I quite like that guy's personality."

Then, the thing that no one wanted to happen the most, still happened.