"mouse?"
Harada sat up from the tatami.
"Mrs. Kondo, haven't we killed all the rats in the trial hall today?"
During the day today, Abi led Saito and Harada, who were very free, and searched every corner of the test hall. They killed more than ten rats until they could no longer hear anything from the gaps in the ceiling and walls. Don't stop until there is any abnormal noise.
"I found a fish that slipped through the net! It's on the ceiling of the dojo! The sound was very soft, there should be 2 or 3 of them!"
Abi clenched the broom in his hand with a serious look on his face.
"We cannot ignore these few fish that slipped through the net!"
"If we ignore it, these few fish that have slipped through the net will become dozens in a few months! All our efforts today will be in vain!"
"The ceiling of the dojo is too big. I can't clean it by myself. If any of you are free, please come and help!"
Nagakura, Saito, and Harada are all diners living in the Shiwei Hall now. The sanitary conditions of the Shiwei Hall are closely related to his living conditions.
Culling the rats in the test hall is equivalent to ensuring that your living environment is clean and tidy.
Regardless of the very material reason of "culling the rats in the Trial Guard Hall is good for you", the fact that the Kondo family is willing to let them make the Trial Guard Hall their home is enough for them to accept the offer without hesitation. A small job that is not too troublesome.
"Okay!" Harada's body jumped up like a spring. The moment his butt left the tatami, he straightened his legs and sat upright. "Then let's catch the remaining fish that slipped through the net. Bring him to justice!"
"I told you...that's not how justice works..." Saito slowly raised his upper body, lying flat on the tatami, like a corpse.
Hijikata, Nagakura, and Kyuubei stood up immediately after Harada and Saito, silently expressing their willingness to do their part in the "rodent eradication operation" with their movements.
Except for Qingden who was taking a shower with Souji, all the residents among the diners followed Abi to the dojo of the Trial Guard Hall.
After arriving at the dojo, they saw Shusuke, Kondo and Inoue who had been waiting here all morning.
"Master." Hijikata asked, "Do you want to catch mice too?"
"Hoo ho ho." Zhou Assistant touched his swollen chin, "Our trial gym is so big, so the more people who can help us, the better."
The area of the trial gymnasium is around one hundred square meters, and it would be a lot of work to thoroughly check the ceiling of a place with such an area.
"Father, mother, Mr. Kyubey, just leave the work of climbing the ceiling to us young people." Kondo patted his extremely strong chest muscles vigorously, "Just help us hold the ladder and hand over the tools. good."
Kondo's proposition was unanimously recognized by Hijikata and others.
Shusuke, Abi, and Jiubei are all gray-haired old people. Reasonably and emotionally, they should not be allowed to do such a dangerous job as climbing the ceiling.
"Can you guys do that?" Zhou Zhu asked with some worry.
"Hahahaha, feel free to leave it to us!" After laughing boldly a few times, Kondo took the lead in taking a wooden ladder and climbed up the wooden ladder to the place closest to the ceiling.
As soon as he pushed the wooden board above his head away, Zhousuke saw a small cloud of dust falling down the gap in the wooden board.
The ceiling of the test hall will only be cleaned near the New Year.
After more than half a year of accumulation, the ceiling of the trial hall was already filled with thick dust and a large number of disgusting spider webs.
Kondo stretched his neck, held the Tianling Cover against the wooden board, and stuck half of his head into the ceiling. After taking a rough look at the dust and cobwebs that filled his field of vision, a bitter smile appeared on his cheeks:
"It seems... after killing the mouse, I have to go to Chihiro House to take a bath again..."
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The two areas of "bath room" and "bath pool" must be strictly separated.
The "bath room" is usually a fairly large room with no partitions, where everyone collects water and washes their bodies. After washing their bodies cleanly, they can go to the bathtub to take a bath.
When taking a bath, you can only soak in it, you cannot swim in it, and you cannot wash your body in it.
Logically speaking, no one would be so disgusted as to wash their body with this kind of bath water that has been used by countless people.
The above are all the rules that must be followed when taking a bath in a bathhouse.
At this moment, in the shower room of Chihiro House, Qingto cast a puzzled look at Souji.
"Okita-kun, why are you sitting so far away?"
Perhaps it was because he had realized that he would not be able to escape Qingden's grasp tonight. After being dragged into the men's bath by Qingden, he seemed to have resigned himself to his fate and stopped struggling much.
Souji, who was as naked as Aoto, was sitting quite far away from Aoto with his back to Aoto.
The same thing happened when he was taking off his clothes in the dressing room. Souji stood far away from Aoto with his back to Aoto and took off his clothes. After taking off his clothes, he hurried into the shower room alone.
Souji slipped into the shower room very quickly. Qingteng, who had just had time to take off his upper body clothes, turned his head because of Souji's "I'll go in first", but Souji's figure had already disappeared into the bathroom. In the bathroom.
"I, I, I just sit here..."
As Souji said this, he "shrunk" his body a little smaller.
Souji's current posture is completely curled up.
Put your legs together, pull your shoulders and arms hard toward your chest, and use only your right hand to wipe your body with a wet towel.
Because Souji had tightened his limbs, from Aoto's perspective, he could only see the back of Souji's head, spine, and buttocks.
Ever since entering the bathhouse, Souji's behavior has been strange... Aomori couldn't help but stare at the back of Souji's head and spine with eyes that became more suspicious.
The secretive attitude of the General Secretary made Qingden uncontrollably doubtful:
——Souji Is this because I forced him, who likes to bathe alone, to take a bath with me, so he got angry and didn’t want to get close to me?
——Or... is he the kind of person who is not good at "being honest" with others?
This kind of person is quite common. There are often people like this in bathhouses: they don’t like to be “candid” with others, especially they don’t want others to see their private parts.
Qingto doesn't know whether Souji is such a person.
Qingteng only knew that Souji had been extremely weird these past two days.
He only regarded Souji's strange behavior after entering the bathhouse as an extension of Souji's weird behavior in the past two days, so he didn't pay much attention to Souji's weird behavior and silently averted his eyes.
Neither Aomori nor Souji spoke... In the huge bathroom where they were alone, the only sound was the sound of wiping themselves with towels.
Souji washed himself as quickly as he took off his clothes.
"I-I'm done washing!"
From the time he entered the shower room to the time the director shouted "I'm done"... less than 2 minutes had passed.
"Have you finished washing?"
Qingto, who was shocked by Souji's bathing speed, subconsciously turned to look at Souji, but he failed to see Souji - Souji had already rushed through Souji's body like a rabbit before he could turn around to look over. Pass through the pomegranate mouth and rush into the bathing place.
——Okita-kun...it's really weird...
Qingdeng stared at the mouth of the pomegranate, his eyelids sank slightly, and the confusion that had just faded rose again in his eyes.
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Trial Guard Hall, Dojo——
"I finally succeeded in bringing you to justice..."
Harada triumphantly held up a fat and lifeless mouse.
Saito, standing next to him, was too lazy to correct Harada's usage of idioms.
"This one should be the last one." Kondo took the fat mouse from Harada's hand and threw it into the dustpan at his feet.
Including the fat mouse that Harada caught recently, there are now three dead mice lying quietly in the dustpan at Kondo's feet.
"It should be the last one." Hijikata said, "We have searched every corner of the ceiling of the dojo. Even if there are still fish that slipped through the net, they should have escaped far away."
"Hoo ho ho ho, thank you for your hard work." Zhou Assistant came over with a broom, "The rats in the dojo should be gone... let's call it a night."
"Wow, likes and dislikes!"
Suddenly, Nagakura let out a scream.
Everyone turned to look and saw Nagakura peeling off a complete spider web stuck to the back of his head with a look of disgust on his face.
"There is such a big spider web stuck on my head...there should be no spiders running into my clothes..."
Nagakura crumpled the spider web into a ball, flicked it into the dustpan containing the dead mouse, and then turned over his clothes attentively to check whether there were any spider webs on his body or anything that had gotten into his clothes. spider.
Kondo glanced at Nagakura with a wry smile, then turned to look at the others: "Everyone is very embarrassed..."
The people climbing up and down on the ceiling looked like they had just come out of a coal mine.
His face, hands, and clothes were all smeared black with dust.
In addition to dust, there were also a lot of spider web residues stuck everywhere on his body.
My body is dirty and I feel extremely uncomfortable. If I get into the room to sleep like this, it will only make the room and the bed dirty.
"Why don't we take a bath again?" Nagakura suggested first.
"I agree!" Harada immediately voted in favor of Nagakura's proposal.
"Is Chihiro House still open now?" Hijikata asked back.
"It's still open." Inoue nodded, "Chihiro House is still open, and it's not time for Chihiro House to close yet."
Kondo and the others, who were all dirty and dirty, couldn't wait to get their bodies clean as soon as possible.
With almost no discussion, everyone reached a consensus - everyone should go to Chihiro House to take a bath again...
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Chihiro House——
He and Souji's bathing together tonight came with a mission.
Therefore, Qingdeng didn't have the time to wash himself seriously.
After scrubbing his body roughly, he strode through the pomegranate opening connecting the bathtub and the shower room and entered the bathtub.
The air in the bathhouse was filled with thick mist.
Setting foot here is like being in a fairyland.
Qingden glanced around and quickly found the figure of Souji - he was sitting in a remote corner of the bath with his back to the pomegranate mouth and his knees in his arms.
Souji soaked deeply, with the area below his neck submerged under the water and his chin close to the water.
Under the cover of the pool water and mist, Souji's body under the water was as hazy as the moon in the water, making it difficult to distinguish his detailed appearance.
After hearing the sound of Qingden passing through the pomegranate mouth, Souji hurriedly turned around and changed his body's orientation from facing away from the pomegranate mouth to precisely facing away from Qingteng.
Qingteng, who was eager to question the General Secretary, was too lazy... no, it couldn't be said to be "lazy". It should be said that he didn't want to spend more energy to pay attention to the strange behavior of the General Secretary for the time being.
Quietly deducing that Souji was the kind of person who didn't like to be "honest" with others, Qingto strode into the bath and sat cross-legged not far from Souji with his back to back.
"Okita-kun. I think you should also know why I have been pestering you today... How was your conversation with your sister?"
Although Souji occasionally shows his stupid side when doing arithmetic problems and in certain situations, he is generally a person with normal intelligence.
Qingto thought to himself: The Souji must have guessed the purpose of forcing him to come to the bathhouse to bathe together in such a tough manner.
Since everyone is understanding, there is no need to go through any twists and turns. Qingdeng goes straight to the point and clearly states his purpose.
"Ah, ah ha ha ha ha..."
Souji's tone was generally calm, and it could be heard that he was mentally prepared for Qingtohui's question.
After laughing a few times, the director-general said softly:
"Tachibana-kun, you are so perseverant... In order to ask me this question, you even chased me into the bathhouse..."
"Because I'm worried about you."
Qingdeng said without hesitation.
"I originally didn't want to interfere too much in your housework...but your current state really worries me. You were so distracted today that you hit the wall."
"Did the negotiation between you and your sister... go poorly?"
"..." The Souji fell silent.
Qingteng was not in a hurry and waited patiently for the DG's answer.
Time passes bit by bit...
After a long while, Qingden finally heard the Souji's soft whisper from behind him.
"...Well...it didn't go well."
"The day after you found out that my sister was forcing me to give up my swordsmanship, I went to find my sister and had a serious talk with her."
"I really tried my best to convince my sister."
"In order to impress my sister, I almost took off my clothes and gave her a standard 'full fruit soil seat'."
In Japanese culture, taking off your clothes means "I am the same as I am on the outside, and there is absolutely no second thoughts."
"But no matter what I say or do, my sister just can't get enough..."
"Her determination to 'want me to give up my swordsmanship' is as firm as my determination to 'not want to give up my swordsmanship'."
"No one is willing to give in... She and I are very unhappy now..."
Souji's tone was full of frustration and loss.
"...Okita-kun, actually...you don't need to pay too much attention to your sister's opinion, right?"
Qingden couldn't help but said.
"You are you and she is she."
"Since you don't want to give up swordsmanship and want to continue to study swordsmanship in the trial guard hall, then just ignore her and stick to your own opinion."
"No matter how much your sister opposes you learning the sword...could she still be able to tie your hands and feet so that you can no longer hold a sword?"
Wow...
As soon as Qingto finished speaking, he heard the sound of pool water being stirred behind him - this was the sound of Souji hugging his legs tighter.
"That's right..."
Souji buried his head lower, so that the tip of his nose almost touched the water.
"But if possible... I want this incident to end with a result that everyone can be satisfied with..."
"My father died of illness when I was less than 1 year old."
"A few years later, my mother also passed away to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss."
"With no father or mother, I was basically raised by my eldest sister."
"To me, she is both my eldest sister and the mother who raised me..."
"I can indeed ignore my sister's opinion and continue to stay in the trial guard hall to study swordsmanship."
Speaking of this, the Director-General laughed a few times with a bitter tone.
"But if you do this, sister will definitely be sad..."
"I... don't want to make my sister unhappy..."
Souji's parents died young, and he was brought up by his two older sisters...mainly by Okita Hikaru - about this, Aonto had briefly heard about it from Kondo and Hijikata.
Although he knew the specific relationship between Souji and his sister, Aomori underestimated Souji's feelings for his sister.
"I see...I'm sorry, I made a stupid suggestion."
"fine."
The Souji shook his head slightly with a faint smile.
"Next...I plan to continue trying to convince my sister."
"Water droplets can penetrate stone."
"As long as I continue to show my sincerity and my determination to 'never put down my sword' to my sister, maybe I can impress her."
There was an optimistic smile in Souji's voice.
Infected by the smile in Souji's voice, Qingto smiled slightly.
Knowing the outcome of the negotiation between Souji and his sister, a question in his mind was answered... But soon, a new question emerged in Qingden's mind.
The scene where Souji had been trying various ways to avoid him today flew past Qingto's eyes.
"Okita-kun, why have you been avoiding me today?"
Qingdeng quickly handed over his new question.
"Even if the negotiation between you and your sister is not going well, and the outcome of the negotiation is difficult to tell me, you don't need to avoid me today, right?"
"Well... this, this..."
I wonder if it was Qingdeng’s illusion.
He always felt that there seemed to be a hint of tension in Souji Shicai's voice.
Because Qingteng and Souji were sitting with their backs to each other, Qingteng was not able to notice that Souji behind him was lowering his already drooped head, as if he wished he could see the whole picture. It was like his face was buried in the water.
He secretly turned his head and glanced back. The moment his eyes touched Qingden's figure, he immediately retracted his eyes as if he was electrocuted, and focused his vision back on the water in front of his chest.
The moment Souji withdrew his gaze, a faint blush flew up to his cheeks.
When outsiders saw Souji's red face, they might think that Souji had been soaking in the bath for too long, until his face was turned red by the heat of the bath.
But only Souji himself knew that the blush on his face... was not caused by the heat of the bath.
"The reason why I have been avoiding you today...is not because of the result of the negotiation with my sister. It is difficult to tell you..."
"Huh? Why is that?"
"Well...this..."
The blush on Souji's face spread.
"This...it's not convenient to tell you at the moment..."
"It's not convenient to tell me..."
Qingden couldn't help but smile wryly at himself.
When asked last time about the main reason why Okita Hikaru insisted on asking Souji to give up swordsmanship, Souji also declined to answer on the grounds that "it's not convenient to tell you."
"Okay, if it's not convenient for you to tell me, then I won't tell you."
Convince your sister not to stop her from practicing swordsmanship... This is certainly important, but daily life and sword practice in the dojo are also important.
Because of the pressure exerted by my sister, I feel confused and distracted every day... This is really not what I should be doing.
Just when Qingteng wanted to remind Souji aloud, let him be more open-minded and pay more attention in the future, and stop looking like he was out of his mind every day because of his sister's affairs——
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Nagakura: "It seems quite refreshing to take a shower late at night. It's very quiet and no one can disturb me."
Inoue: "Coming to the bathhouse late at night to take a bath is really unique."
Harada: "Huh? Don't you think it would be boring to take a bath if the bathhouse is not busy?"
Hijikata: "I don't like coming to the bathhouse too late. If you come to the bathhouse too late to take a bath, the water temperature in the bathhouse will become lower."
Saito: "...Nagakura-kun, there is a spider on the back of your neck."
Nagakura: "What?! Really?!"
Saito: "Ah, sorry, I saw it wrong. I thought your mole looked like a spider."
Nagakura: "Damn, you scared me to death."
Kondo: "Okay, stop making trouble. Have you forgotten what Yubaba just said? The bathhouse will be closed in a while, so hurry up and take a bath."
Harada: "Come on, let's take a dip in the bathhouse after washing your body."
Nagakura: "Do you still want to take a bath?"
Harada: "Nagakura, are you stupid? We each spent 2 cents to get in. Wouldn't it be a loss if we don't try our best to get our money back?"
Nagakura: "That's right..."
Hijikata: "If you want to take a bath, I have no objection."
Inoue: "I don't have any objection either."
Kondo: "Then after we take a bath, let's take a dip in the bathtub together before we go."
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Outside Shiliu's mouth, the voices of the friends from the Trial Guard Hall suddenly came.
"Um?"
Qingdeng blinked at Pomegranate Mouth in surprise.
"Kondo-kun, haven't they already taken a bath?"
The sudden arrival of Kondo and his party only made Qingden look a little surprised.
Qingto's calmness... and the reaction shown by the Souji behind him at this time formed a very sharp contrast.
Wow!
There was a huge sound of water waves being pushed away from behind, causing Qingden to turn around because he was attracted by the sound.
As soon as he turned his face behind him, Qingden saw Souji, who was still facing away from him, and changed the position of his arms from "encircling the knees" to "clasping tightly in front of the chest."
"How come he, he, he and the others suddenly come to the bathhouse at this time? And they still have to enter the bathhouse to take a bath...!"
As the Souji spoke, he looked around in panic.
"No, no! You have to, you have to find a place to hide quickly!"
"Okita-kun, what are you doing?"
Whether it was the action of Souji looking around hastily or his words, Monk Ayoto Joji was confused.
The Souji ignored Aomori's question, and continued to hide in the water with his waist and neck down, and rushed towards the corner of the bathhouse... He seemed to want to go there to see if there was anyone he could hide in. The place.
"Hey, wait a minute, Okita-kun, be careful, the pool there is very deep."
In order to allow people of different heights to have a good bathing experience, Chihiroya's bathhouse is specially divided into a "shallow water area" and a "deep water area."
The deeper you go into the bath, the deeper the water becomes.
In a hurry to find a hiding place, Souji hurriedly moved deeper into the bath, ignoring the changes in the water.
He suddenly stepped into the "deep water area" and accidentally stepped on the air.
With a "plop" sound... Souji's entire figure disappeared from Aomori's field of vision.
Souji fell into the deep water area, and plunged into the water with a heavy body. His whole head, along with the body parts below his neck, disappeared under the water...
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
From the place where circles of water appeared crazily, there was the sound of a lot of bubbles...
When Qingdeng saw this, his face turned pale, and before he could even scream, he quickly pushed aside the water blocking him and ran towards the place where a large amount of foam was spraying out of the water.
Although it was unlikely that he would drown in the bath, the salvage of Souji was still urgent.
If water is accidentally choked into the trachea, it is also life-threatening.
"Okita-kun! Are you okay?"
Qingteng ran to the headmaster's side in three steps at a time, reached out into the water, and through the hazy mist that blocked his vision, he searched for the headmaster's body under the water like a blind man searching for something.
At this time, Souji's head resurfaced.
"C-Pfft! T-Tachibana-kun...?"
The moment his mouth and nose recovered from the water and regained the ability to speak, Souji immediately opened his eyes wide, stared at Aitobo who was close to him with a horrified gaze, and shouted in a panicked tone. Qingdeng’s name.
Souji could still speak normally... This made Qingto breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that Souji's trachea was not choked by the pool water.
Although Souji seemed to be in no serious condition, Qingteng decided to fish Souji out of the pond as soon as possible just to be on the safe side.
"Come on, Souji, I'll help you."
Qingteng's hands continued to search for Souji's body under the water.
"Stand still, don't fall again."
"Wait, wait, wait! No, don't...!"
Suddenly, Souji suddenly began to struggle violently.
It was as if he wanted to stop Qingdeng's hands from getting closer, as if he was trying to stay away from Qingdeng.
The violently swinging hands splashed out handfuls of water splashes and waves.
If a third party were present and saw this scene, they would definitely think that Qingto and Souji were playing in the pool.
Souji's sudden resistance left Qingnobo confused.
Qingteng didn't even have time to ask the general manager why he was acting like this suddenly.
Souji struggled wildly like a fish that accidentally jumped onto the land, making the scene extremely chaotic for a while.
Suddenly...an accident happened.
Souji was waving his hands wildly, and his left elbow accidentally hit Qingto's chest.
The unexpected "attack" caused Qingdeng's body to fall backward due to his unstable center of gravity.
Although he relied on the "cat turn" to quickly stand firm in the pool, his palms still reacted instinctively and unconsciously grabbed anything at hand that could be used to grab onto.
Qingdeng's left hand caught nothing in the water.
But I managed to catch something with my right hand...
At this moment, time seemed to stand still.
Souji stopped struggling, and his flapping hands froze in mid-air.
Qingdeng also seemed to be petrified, frozen in place.
At this moment, the positions of Qingnobo and Souji were such that Qingnog was behind and Souji was in front, Qingnobo was facing Souji, and Souji had his back to Qingnobo.
The thing Aomori held in his right palm came from Souji.
To be more precise, it comes from the head of the DG...
Qingto's right arm wrapped around Souji's right shoulder, stretched out to Souji's chest, and grasped something... filling and stretching all the fingers of his right palm with something that no man should have. …
Time seems to have passed by 1 second, and it seems like 1 year has passed.
"Let, let me go..."
It wasn't until he heard Souji's moan-like plea that Qingto finally seemed to be electrocuted. He quickly let go of what he was holding and took two steps back.
After closing the distance between him and Souji, Qingto looked at the beautiful young man in front of him blankly and absent-mindedly with shocked eyes that seemed to have lost focus.
No……
Now I should say she is a beautiful girl!
"O-Okita-kun... you, why are you a girl...?"
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From Chapter 12 of Volume 1, when Souji first appeared, 1.26 million words have passed. The author can finally shout out in a voice that has been impatient for a long time without any scruples:
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