On How Saitoichi Became Hijikata's Fanboy

【Chapter Four】

In March of the third year of Wenjiu.The cold winter is gone, the temperature is gradually rising, and finally it is the season when the ice disappears and the snow melts, and the branches are dyed with the crimson of cherry blossoms.

The dojo gradually began to grow, and the Shiweikan School headed by Isamu Kondo and Toshizo Hijikata merged with the Mito Roshi Group headed by Serizawa Kamo to form the Mibu Roshi Group, which was controlled by Matsudaira Yunho, the guardian of Kyoto.

"The cherry blossoms are blooming." Mr. Okita leaned halfway under a cherry blossom tree, and the petals fluttered down with the wind, covering his half-opened skirt.The wind in March was still a little cool, and the young man leaning against the tree couldn't stand the wind, and coughed violently.

"Boss, your illness has been bad. Go back to your room and don't stay in this kind of place."

"Kondo-kun, let me go to inspect today." The chief executive saw Isamu Kondo coming out of the hall, and immediately stood up, looking at him expectantly.

"Director, today I will lead the inspection team."

"Yeah, Hijikata-kun will go in person, so I have no choice but to continue to be lazy." Hearing this, Mr. Okita still had his usual smile on his face, let go of the hand holding the long knife at his waist, and continued to sit down , leaning against the cherry tree with his hands on the back of his head and squinting to bask in the sun.

Hijikata Toshizo looked at the young man who was still smiling, but there was a little more helplessness in that smile. As a first-class swordsman, he was always protected by Mr. Kondo as a young master because of his health. It's hard too.

Cherry blossoms fell on the young man's shoulders, making the young man's complexion paler. He obviously had ambitions and abilities to match, but...

"Mr. Hijikata, it's time for us to go." The rogues had already organized their teams, interrupting Hijikata Toshizo's reverie.

Cherry blossom petals are falling everywhere in Kyoto, and a thin layer of crimson petals is paved on the road. Hijikata Toshizo led the members of the Ronshi group to inspect. Temporarily calm down.Although the rogue group has gradually grown to the point where the shogunate has to face it squarely, they are still the bottom rogues in the final analysis, and they have never been able to get in touch with the core of the shogunate. Chips, quickly build meritorious deeds.

Hijikata Toshizo was thinking ecstatically, when suddenly his eyes were attracted by the purple light at the corner of the street.

It's him……?

"You guys go there first, you go in that direction."

Hijikata Toshizo ordered the rogues behind him to patrol in different directions, but he couldn't help but follow the boy's figure into the izakaya.

Hijikata Toshizo sat down at the other corner of the izakaya, and looked at Saitou Kazu. It was only a year since he saw him. The boy has grown taller and calmer than before. Now he has the wisdom of an adult wolf king.

Sure enough, I still care about this young man, if he can join the Langshi team...

Hijikata Toshisan thought, since he had already missed the first chance, he did not intend to let go of the second chance.

"Saito-kun, we meet again." Hijikata Toshizo walked up to Saitoichi and sat down.

"Hijikata-san, what's your business?" Saito looked at Hijikata sitting across from him suspiciously.

Hijikata Toshizo was interrupted by the drunken ronin behind him.

"Hey, miss, come and have a drink."

Hijikata Suizan followed the sound, and saw that the ronin who was drinking at another table grabbed a geisha-looking woman passing by him, ignored the woman's pleading eyes, and rudely and unreasonably tried to pull her to sit beside him.

"Please let me go back, I just came out to drink." The woman was frightened, showing panicked eyes, and wanted to run away, but she was afraid of the long knife in the hands of the ronin, so she could only keep begging.

"Isn't it a geisha? Isn't your job just to accompany drinks?" The ronin was already drunk, his face was glowing red, he grabbed the brocade belt behind the woman's kimono, and said drunkenly, "Don't you just Drink with the dignitaries, but look down on us ronin?"

"No... no, you misunderstood."

The woman kept begging, but the ronin didn't intend to let her go.

"whispering sound!"

Hijikata Suisan gritted his teeth, this kind of person is simply insulting the ronin's reputation, he put his hand on the handle of the knife, ready to deal a heavy blow to the unruly ronin at any time, but someone had already acted before him.

The purple figure flashed by so quickly, before everyone could react, the long knife had already returned to the scabbard.

"Ahhhh-"

The Ronin let out a howl like killing a pig. The hand he was holding on to the woman's brocade belt just a moment ago had been cut off with all the bones, and fell to the ground. The boy's skirt and cheeks were stained red.

Hijikata Toshizo felt that the boy with blood had an indescribable charm.