No. A103 Honmaru.

The team that went out today was composed of Gokotai, Kashuu Kiyomitsu, Chodaikiri Mitsutada, Oshikiri Hasebe, Sayo Samonji, and Yamaubakiri Kunihiro. Gokotai was the leader, and he was the highest-ranking swordsman in the Honmaru. Like Chodaikiri Mitsutada, he was a sage who was collected from another Darkfall Honmaru and was not tainted by the Darkfall aura.

This main castle is still very new, with only eleven sword spirits, not even enough for two full teams. The judge is codenamed "Sakura", and does not deliberately cover her face. She looks like a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, with strong spiritual power and a gentle personality. She is a very powerful shrine maiden, very suitable to take over sword spirits like Gokotai.

This is how the staff of the Government of Time introduced it to him before the Five Tigers retreated to this Honmaru.

Today was supposed to be an ordinary day, but the ordinary was broken by the team that went out.

They picked up a sword, or more precisely, a sword with a faint aura of decadence. After weighing the pros and cons, the captain Gokotai decided to bring the sword [Tsurumaru Kuninaga] back to Honmaru.

When they returned from the battle, the Shinsengumi was waiting for them in front of the converter. Seeing that they were safe and sound, he smiled and looked at the sword held by Cangdaikiri Mitsutada with curiosity, "Welcome back, what is this...?"

Wu Hu Tui explained, "This is a sword we picked up on the battlefield. It belongs to Tsurumaru Kuninaga. He has a slight aura of darkness and corruption. After some hesitation, I decided to bring him back."

The judge codenamed Sakura looked at the Tsurumaru Kuninaga for a while, and wanted to take it under the nervous gaze of the surrounding sword masters. Cangdaikiri Mitsutada spoke hesitantly, "My lord, what are you going to do...?"

Sakura smiled at the Zombies and said, "Don't worry, I don't intend to break them. I just summoned them to see what happens."

Yakiri Hasebe disagreed. He was a sword god forged by the judge of the Honmaru. "My lord, do you want to summon him now? After all, he has the aura of the Dark Fallen. Why not ask the people of the government to check him out first before summoning him?"

Sakura shook her head and carefully took the sword from Mitsutada Tōdaikiri's hand. "No need. Although there is the aura of Darkness, the spiritual power is very clear, without the turbidity of Darkness. It is a very noble god." And even if he attacks after being summoned, he can't beat me. Of course, Sakura didn't say the latter sentence. She is very confident in her own strength, otherwise the people of the Time Government would not have stuffed her with several swords collected from Darkness Honmaru.

The judge injected spiritual power, and after a special effect-like shower of cherry blossoms, Tsurumaru Kuninaga appeared in front of everyone with black hair and red eyes. His whole body was black except for his white face. He greeted them in a cheerful voice: "Hey! I'm Tsurumaru Kuninaga. Are you scared by me?"

Mr. Black Crane, this is really a great shock.

Candida Kiritada's eyes were complicated.

Sakura smiled slightly, her eyes did not linger on the black, but looked into Tsurumaru's eyes: "I am Sakura, the judge of this Honmaru, please give me your guidance."

Tsurumaru blinked his eyes. "Sir, please give me your advice. Aren't you surprised to see a black crane?"

Sakura nodded. "It was indeed surprising, but as Tsurumaru Kuninaga said, surprises are necessary in life. If you can predict everything, your heart will die first. You in black are a big surprise."

Tsurumaru Kuninaga slumped his shoulders like a child and sighed, "You know it very well. I can't see any surprise at all, Judge."

Sakura asked the other swordsmen to leave, leaving only Candakiri Mitsutada by her side. Tsurumaru Kuninaga observed her actions and asked, "Master Judge, you asked them to leave. Aren't you afraid that I, the Dark Swordsman, will do something to you?"

Cangdaikiri Mitsutada took a deep breath and nervously observed Tsurumaru Kuninaga's every move. Although there were many fallen gods in Honmaru, Tsurumaru was the only one who was so completely evil and did not come to Honmaru through the government of time. While observing Tsurumaru Kuninaga's actions, Cangdaikiri Mitsutada couldn't help but think of Mr. Tsuru who broke his sword in Honmaru to protect him. He tightened his hands and told himself that no matter what, even if the sword was broken, he had to protect the judge. This was his duty.

The judge codenamed Sakura shook his head and said solemnly, "Tsurumaru-dono, please believe me, this is the A103 Honmaru, which is also the most strictly supervised by the government of time. You will not be harmed here. If possible, please tell me the number or code of your previous Honmaru, and we will make the decision for you, destroy the dark Honmaru, and severely punish the judge who disqualified."

"Please believe us. As inquisitors, we will not let this kind of scum go."

Tsurumaru tilted his head, "But so what?" He waved his wide sleeves, his long black hair falling down his shoulders, "The black crane is not bad, what do you think, Guangzai?"

But so what? He couldn't come up with an accurate number for the Dark Honmaru. Arasuke burst into tears. It was too careless. The crappy technical department seemed to have forgotten the number and didn't tell him.

Candakiri Mitsutada did not answer.

The judge paused, and the girl's eyes were gentle and encouraging. "It's okay if you don't want to talk for the time being. I'll be in the castle tower. If you change your mind, you can come to me anytime. Many people in Honmaru came from the Dark Honmaru, and everyone gets along well. I believe everyone will be happy to have another partner. Can your room be shared with the Candelabra Kirido? I think I can take better care of you this way."

Why does this look so much like that of my old mother?

With such a strange feeling, Tsurumaru Kuninaga nodded and agreed, "Okay, Master of the Gods, it's really a big shock to let me stay like this."

The judge did not hand him over to the government of time, nor did he crush him directly. On the contrary, he did not give him the choice of whether to stay in the Honmaru voluntarily. Instead, he decided to let him stay in the Honmaru and gave Tsurumaru Kuninaga the right to enter and exit the castle tower at any time.

This inquisitor...is he too brave?

Tsurumaru Kuninaga raised his hand and pushed aside the hair that was hanging in front of his eyes and blocking his vision. Was he too confident, too stupid, or did he have another purpose?

No matter what, the most important thing now is——

"Guangzai, is there any more food? I'm hungry."

Although he was assigned to share a room with Mitsutada Chodaikiri, they did not live in the same room, but next door.

After having dinner in the room, Tsurumaru Kuninaga did not change his clothes. The window of this room was just right for looking at the moon. After saying goodnight to Cangdaikiri Mitsutada with a complicated look, Tsurumaru sat in front of the window looking at the moon. After an unknown amount of time, he finally moved and stood up.

Tsurumaru Kuninaga went to the castle tower.

He walked all the way to the castle tower without any hindrance and entered the barrier smoothly. The black-haired, red-eyed swordsman was very different from the daytime. He had no pure spiritual energy that a god should have. Instead, he looked like a demon crawling out of hell. His filthy spiritual energy burned the enemy and himself at the same time.

In the castle tower, the judge sat in front of him.

His red eyes were filthy, with thick malice flowing freely inside. His long black hair was scattered behind him, and his wide sleeves fluttered as he walked. He really looked like a crane. Tsurumaru's true form lay across the white neck of the Judge, revealing a cheerful smile just like during the day.

"What a shock! Are you scared? Hahahaha~"

Out of some twisted idea, the sword Fudanjin did not restrict the actions of the judge, but only sealed the judge's spiritual power and the castle tower, so that the outside world could not hear what happened inside.

A judge of gods is a person who judges the gods.

Under the arrangement of the Time Government, anyone with spiritual power in their body can become an inquisitor. Because of the urgent need for manpower, the Time Government absorbed a large number of people with spiritual power, and did not properly screen the character of the recruited personnel, which resulted in many inquisitors being hypocritical, extremely evil scum.

So, what would this judge do in this situation?

Will he expose his true face and yell "disrespect"? Or will he cry and beg to live? Or...

Use up your last bit of strength and go to hell with me?

He watched the Inquisitor's actions with a smile, looking forward to what was about to happen.

The sage, who was still wearing her regular uniform, had a sad look in her eyes. She did not react as Tsurumaru had imagined. Instead, she stood up and walked towards him, not caring about the weapon on her neck at all, as if she was not afraid at all that Tsurumaru would actually kill her.

Tsurumaru looked at the Shinsengumi with interest and moved his body to the side so as not to actually hurt the courageous girl.

He wanted to see what the Inquisitor would do in this situation.

The next second, Tsurumaru Kuninaga's entire body stiffened.

He was embraced by the inquisitor, with the protective attitude of an elder towards a child.

"Please forgive me if this causes you pain."

"I just thought you really needed a hug right now."

The judge said so.

Tsurumaru blinked slowly.

This really scared me.

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