I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"I, I...remember..."

Outside the Goryokaku City Gate, I finally digested the excessive information in my mind, combined with the comics I have read such as "Shinsengumi's Daily ♂", "Hijikata \u0026 Chief Director Can't Tell Ayong's Secret ♂", Morosho gradually recalled the life of the "historical celebrity" in the city: "... Hijikata Toshizo, indeed died in Goryokaku."

The world's impression of Hijikata Toshizo mostly stays in the heyday of the Shinsengumi, the thoughtful, skilled swordsman, murderous, but also known as the poet of Yufeng, so handsome that Edo wandering girls pay for it. Deputy Chief".

However, Hijikata Toshizo's true strength was revealed to the fullest after the director Isamu Kondo was beheaded and the shogunate was defeated like a mountain.

In the Boshin War, Hijikata Suisan was brave and good at fighting. With his powerful strategy and swordsmanship, he won consecutive battles and killed the Sachang League with fear.

In the end, due to the defeat of other fronts, he had to follow the remnants of the shogunate to retreat from Tokyo, all the way north to Hokkaido, a place of bitter cold...

After the election of the establishment of the "Ezo Republic", Hijikata Toshizo was appointed as the army's executive officer, that is, the army's deputy commander.

In the final battle of Hakodate, Hijikata Toshizo relied on his unparalleled military art and original tactics to lead a small army with only single-shot rifles and less than 200 people. He will have the latest company in Odaiba Mountain. The army of the new government with a total of 5,000 soldiers and rifles and dozens of cannons is playing with it wantonly in the palm of their hands.

The battle shocked both at home and abroad, and even the French emperor Napoleon wrote a letter, eagerly hoping that Toshizo Hijikata would go into exile in France and serve as the commander of the French army division, but he declined.

"So that's the case. No wonder Hijikata Toshizo and his Shinsengumi were the main sacrifices in the Battle of Hakodate... They knew that the situation was over, and they intended to die for the country?!"

In May 1869, when Goryokaku soldiers approached the city, Hijikata Toshizo led a death squad of less than 50 people into the enemy line to rescue the old troops of the Shinsengumi who were surrounded...

With both left and right dead, he continued to charge alone, but was hit by stray bullets and killed in battle.

After the death of Hijikata Toshizo, the Ezo Republic immediately surrendered without bloodshed. The first president Takehiro Enomoto was pardoned by the royal family after only 4 years in prison.

"After the surrender of the Ezo Republic and the descendants of the Shinsengumi, they have been secretly brewing, wanting to resurrect Hijikata Toshizo as a ghost?!"

Putting together all the "fragments" in front of him, a conspiracy that spanned a century and a half gradually revealed its hideous face in Sen Luosi's eyes...

"With their cover, such a terrifying formation was able to hide for 150 years in the 'Goryokaku Park' that has been rebuilt many times under the eyes of the officials!"

After the Battle of Hakodate, the whereabouts of Hijikata Toshizo's body is unknown. It is said that he was buried in Goryokaku with other war dead, but there is no way to verify it.

Because Hijikata Toshizo once refused to collect "war donations" from the people of Hakodate, and he was quite famous in the old shogunate who resisted the Sacho warlord and the royal family...

After his death, in Hokkaido, Hijikata Toshizo's hometown Tama, and all over Japan, such as Noryoji Temple, Jodo Sect, Ishida Temple, Shomyoji Temple, Shoutoku Temple, Entsuji Temple and other places, many Toshizo Hijikata's clothes quietly appeared.

Even countless people secretly enshrined Hijikata in their homes under the precepts of "Tigakata Yoshinao", "Guangchangin Temple Interpretation Exercise", "Suijininden Chengshan Yifeng Dajushi", "Youtongyuandian Tiexin Rixian layman" and so on. The tablet of the third year old.

To this day, there will be various commemorative activities such as the "Hijikata Toshizo Performance Conference" at the annual Hakodate Festival.

After failing in the struggle, there are many precedents in Japanese history for trying to use metaphysical means to start another dimension of "war"...

Such as Hei Shomon, Emperor Sutoku, Tokugawa Gosanke, etc., are all good at this way.

But after going through more than 150 years, in the chaotic era and intermittent blood, they still stick to their hearts and continue their illusory mission. The foolish loyalty of this "Earth Cult" is really chilling.

Presumably, the members of this generation, just like Kono Priest, lurk among the spirit eliminators, administrative agencies and even all walks of life, silently caring for the "seeds" buried under the Goryokaku Castle, but they have not thought about their own life. Is there a chance to see its "germination".

"No, we must take this news out, tell the captain, tell Yinyangliao!"

Just when Sen Luosi figured everything out and retreated subconsciously, the "Hikata Religion" in Goryokaku made a new move.

"My lord, according to your will... the remains of the ancestors of the Shinsengumi who died in the battle that year are all sleeping under the cherry blossom trees inside and outside Goryokaku Castle, waiting to fight under your command again!"

Several men carried the two wooden boxes beside him to Hijikata Toshisan.

"Not only that, but we, the people of the Earth Cult, who have been working for more than a hundred years, finally fulfilled our mission and brought the remains of those two together..."

Looking carefully, it turned out to be two small coffins!

"Oh? Jie Jie Jie Jie..."

Looking at the two coffins in front of him, Hijikata Toshizo, who always had a stern face, gradually trembled with the muscles of his cheeks: "I have been against the trend all my life, and I have never yielded even when I died, because my way is not right. Alone!"

The remaining confusion in his eyes faded away, and turned into a fighting spirit like a ghost!

"Today, let me become a ghost and god, and bear the sincerity of everyone again, so what?!"

He reached out to take the red flag from Kono Ichiro's hand, and tied it behind his back as a cloak.

"In the name of the first and last Shinsengumi..."

"Zheng."

Wearing a motorcycle helmet and a scarlet cloak, Hijikata Toshizo, who looked a little nondescript but exuded incomparable majesty, reached out and pulled out the long knife at his waist, holding it high to the sky.

"Call you all, reunite under this banner of sincerity, and fight side by side with me again!"

Following his movements, the pentagram-shaped moat surrounding the Goryokaku suddenly protruded countless pale and dry arms, boiling like hot water!

"Swear to the distance, be sincere here!"

On the outside of the moat, on the bare tree trunks, the heavy resentful snow bloomed into brilliant black cherry blossoms!

Black cherry blossoms dance like flowers and snow, wrapping Goryokaku in a black ocean.

A samurai dressed in black weaving feathers, with a long knife and musket on his back, whose face was too dark to see clearly, slowly appeared among the black petals falling under the tree.

Shinsengumi, Koyofu Town Team, Ezo Republic Army...

The undead who once shed their blood under this "banner of sincerity" and died endlessly, all return at this moment!

Perhaps, they have long forgotten their faces, the love in their hearts, and the past in their lives, but only the word "sincerity" is forever imprinted in the depths of their souls.

That, let me add, although I entered the 2000-word salted fish mode, I never planned to finish the book hastily, but followed the long-established outline. It is estimated that there are still about 3 big plots, and all the pitfalls and foreshadowing will be filled in, so please rest assured and watch it.

PS: I didn’t do it when I started the book. I thought that if I could write a million words, I would be Amitabha. I didn’t expect that it was almost 2 million words and I still couldn’t stop the car. It was really scary.