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　At the same time--

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　Hijikata Toshizo is in a colorful town in the castle town of Ashtaroth.

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　The oriental-style brothel named "Yoshiwara" was a kind of a brothel that Toshizo had built, but he did not behave arrogantly or as if he owned the place.

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　They were just one of his customers. The whoremongers were also told not to give them special treatment, but the order was not strictly enforced.

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　Hijikata Toshizo is a man who has always been popular and popular in his previous life. Even when he was working as a policeman in the city of Kyoto, he was so popular that he was resented by the shogunate high command and his subordinates.

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　Whenever Toshizo showed his face at a whorehouse, the beautiful girls of the whorehouse would come to him, leaving their customers behind, so it's no wonder they resented him.

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　Well, it's also wrong that Toshizo doesn't pay much attention to them and lets them do whatever they want.

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　Today, too, Toshizo comes to the brothel, calls a familiar prostitute, and makes her play the shamisen while he falls on his knees.

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　He does not plan to have a woman today. He tries not to drink too much.

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　Then an elf girl, who is the tayu of the brothel, asks him.

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"Are you sick today, Master?

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"No, I don't think so. I just have a hunch for some reason.

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A premonition?

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I have a feeling that a friend is coming to see me today.

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A friend?

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An old friend. I don't want to see him while he's sober.

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"I see, but I'm afraid I'll burn myself if you say that."

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"Baked rice cakes?"

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"Yes, I can't think of anyone but the Demon Lord who would be so concerned about you.

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"I see, that may be true, but..."

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　I was surprised and reconfirmed it myself when an apprentice prostitute called Kamuro came in.

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"Mr. Toshizo, you have a visitor.

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"Oh, Mr. Toshizo, it looks like your hunch came true.

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"Yes, I think so. I'm going to invite him in now and prepare some sake.

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I'll invite him in now. Would you like it hot?

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"Yes."

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　The bald man runs to the kitchen.

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　He thinks she is a pretty girl, and the elf steward pinches the back of his hand.

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"You're trying to land her, aren't you?

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"No way. I don't like first-timers."

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　He then went to the back room. There he waited for his friend.

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　When the sake was served before his friend arrived, the man appeared just in time.

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　He was an old man wearing a fox mask.

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"A mask after all this time?

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I don't want to be told by a man who doesn't know who I am at this point in time.

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I have a pretty good idea. You're...

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　He says the old man's name.

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　The old man heard the name silently. He neither confirmed nor denied. Toshizo did not dare to confirm it.

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"............"

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　The old man became silent for a moment and then continued as if nothing had happened.

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"Well, well, it doesn't matter who I am. I came here today with a purpose.

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　What is the purpose?　I didn't ask him what his purpose was because I had a pretty good idea why he was here.

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"I've come here tonight to drink the last of the alcohol with you."

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".........a last drink. So you're not going to turn on Ashtaroth's army?

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"No, I have to offer my sword to the master who found me."

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Is he more handsome than my husband?

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He's a pretty girl.

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Then there's no need to compare them. But my husband inspires a certain amount of loyalty.

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Yes, I'll admit that. If I had met the demon king Ashtaroth before my master I would have gladly offered him my sword.

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You mean we met them in the wrong order?

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"Yes. You and I both met that fool Kondo Isamu and we were always the ones who got the short end of the stick. It's just like that.

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That analogy is too easy to understand and I can't make you change your mind now.

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You know what I mean. Then pour it in.

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　The old man with the fox face holds out a sake cup in front of him.

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　I am not in the habit of pouring for men, but my hand naturally came out when I thought that this was the last time I would ever do so.

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　The old man returns the drink when the cup is filled to the brim.

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　The two sip the sake without saying another word.

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　The sake, which had been purchased from a southern maritime city, tasted as if it had soaked into their stomachs.

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　That night, I remember the days at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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　Days spent fighting for our lives, days when we lived as best we could knowing that tomorrow we might die, days when we were eventually disposed of by the Shogunate and pointed back at as pirates.

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　Those were terrible days, but for Toshizo and the old man, those days were indeed their youth.

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　As if reminiscing, Toshizo had a chance encounter with the past and drank with the old man until the morning.

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　They drank until the barrels of liquor in the brothel were empty, and then he and the old man fell asleep in the daytime, snoring.

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　Around noon, Toshizo woke up and looked around the room.

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　He stared at the place where the old man had slept, and then went to the washroom to urinate.

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