Chapter 73

When Okita-kun and Okita-san stepped off the stage, the first thing they saw was Kashuu Kiyomitsu, who was waiting in the backstage lounge with a sullen face. The two swordsmen from H41 winked at each other behind the two Okita Sojis, but they hesitated until the singing of the three members of H41 Oda Group was heard on the stage. They looked at each other in bewilderment and were unable to utter the first word.

"Has Okita-kun and Okita-san's mission as special guests ended?" Kashuu Kiyomitsu sighed helplessly, interrupting the silence that everyone had agreed to. "Although they are not the Okita-kun of our world, I still don't want to share the time I spend with them with other Honmaru."

"How stingy, 'me'." Kashuu Kiyomitsu H41 responded to Kashuu Kiyomitsu without any hesitation, crossed his arms, and cast a sharp gaze on him. He took his own Yamato-mori from Honmaru and sat down on the bench. "I wanted to take advantage of the halftime break when I don't have to play to have a good chat with them."

"...Then you might as well have a good chat with old man Ichimonji." Kashuu Kiyomitsu paused, avoiding the curious gaze of Yamato-no-kami Yasuda·H41, and handed the hot drinks and skewers to Okita-kun, "The food here is for two people. I went to the Archer grill called Emiya to ask what you usually like before getting it."

Ms. Okita and Mr. Okita paused in their movements of reaching for the skewers, and the two of them looked at Kashuu Kiyomitsu facing Kashuu Kiyomitsu H41 and Yamatomori Yasuda H41 alone, and exchanged glances in silence - the two people in H41 said that they knew the content of their previous conversation in the courtyard, but in fact, the part they told the two people in person was only an ambiguous summary.

For example, something ambiguous like "We feel the same as you do."

And——"I love you. This sentence is absolutely not false. Clearly."

——『It would be nice if I could swing the sword one more time.』

——"Hold your head high and be proud of the fact that you are my, Okita Souji's, favorite sword, Anding."

Yamato-mori Yasusada H41 turned his head and saw Souzo Sawamonji H41 and Okiri Hasebe H41, who had just left the stage, walking together with a gloomy look on their faces at the entrance to the backstage rest area. Yagen Toushirou H41, who usually stood between them like a stabilizing force, did not leave the stage at all because he had to perform the next song with his younger brothers.

As a result, most of the people backstage could only watch from afar as the two people with gloomy faces walked into the rest area with a gloomy atmosphere - there was still a long time before the next time they went on stage, and Oda Nobunaga, who was too energetic, didn't even notice that the backstage rest area was undoubtedly a good place for them.

"...I'll go get you some more food." Kashuu Kiyomitsu's brows jumped when he saw the two people. He immediately found an excuse and left the question to the members of H41 Honmaru. After confirming that Okita-kun and Okita-san were not going to leave, he quickly left the rest area. "It's still a long time before the concert ends tonight."

After Kashuu Kiyomitsu left, Kashuu Kiyomitsu, who was sitting on the sides of Okita-kun and Okita-san respectively with Yamato-mori Yasusada H41, looked at the two people with gloomy moods, and found that Oshikiri Hasebe H41, who was always proud of his identity as a swordsman who was responsible for taking care of the Judge, and Souzo Sawamonji H41, who was also the Demon King's Blade, sat down at a considerable distance.

"What's wrong? Are you upset that you just remembered it after the performance, Hasebe?" Kashuu Kiyomitsu H41 held his face and tilted his head towards Hasebe H41, showing him the program list for the rest of the concert. "Or is it because of something else? Yakumi will be back soon, and if you want to avoid him, this is your only chance."

"When we came back, we met the devil - the star of this concert." The heavy gloomy aura made Souzo Sawamonji·H41 look like a cumulonimbus cloud filled with rain. However, he answered Kashuu Kiyomitsu·H41's question before he could cut off Hasebe·H41, "Hasebe saw the guitar in her hand."

In fact, before H41 set off, their judge had specifically reminded them of the problem with their co-stars - but no one at the time thought that the co-star would be the real Oda Nobunaga; and after knowing the truth, because they had already accepted the performance invitation from Zero Honmaru, the Oda group of H41 calmed themselves down before going on stage with the mentality of working hard for their lord.

But all this obviously changed after Hasebe H41 and Sozo Sawamonji H41 stepped down.

"Ahem. I thought that you, the judges, who have nothing to do with Chaldea, would be most concerned about gender issues." Okita-kun choked on a mouthful of drink and coughed violently a few times before returning to normal. However, his eyes involuntarily drifted towards Ms. Okita's direction. "But, speaking of that guitar... do you know its name?"

--name.

Kashuu Kiyomitsu H41 subconsciously felt something was wrong about this keyword - no matter which Honmaru, Oshikiri Hasebe was recognized as a swordsman who was dissatisfied with his name; especially when this name was related to Oda Nobunaga, it was simply danger itself.

"Looks like you figured it out." Ms. Okita appeased Okita-kun, and confirmed the conclusion after watching the silent Hasebe H41. "I knew that the way Shin named his swords would be punished sooner or later. However, in a sense, her swords are much more difficult to deal with than ours."

"But to be honest, if it comes to our Master, there is no one who is difficult to deal with." Okita-kun calmly recalled his past experience of exploring anomalies, and thought about what the two Nobunaga-kun had done. "However, from Nobunaga's point of view... that kind of stupid style will only make things worse, right?"

"After all, it was... a letter from the reckless summer who knocked on the temple door and then ran away, stuffed firecrackers into the teapot, and made Nobukatsu cry." Ms. Okita looked away calmly and curled her lips, "That was a letter that made the ultimate letter chef Oda Nobukatsu cry!!!"

"Indeed." Okita-kun thought of the katana that the two Nobunaga Archers carried with them, looked at the Hasebe H41, and turned the topic back to the previous content, "So, do you have any opinion on that name? What kind of guy Oda Nobunaga is, you should know better than us, right?"

This time, after being provoked by Okita-kun, H41 finally chose to speak up - "Hasebe. ...It's a strange name, right? The previous owner couldn't forgive the teahouse owner's mistakes, so he cut the shed where he hid with a knife and named it in memory of him. That guy named Oda Nobunaga is such a person."

"Even after giving him a name, he was still given to a guy who wasn't even a direct vassal. That's the kind of person Oda Nobunaga was, my former master." Suppressing Hasebe H41 repeated his own understanding of Oda Nobunaga, while looking closely at the two Okita Sojis sitting opposite him with his purple eyes, "But..."

"Why is the name of that guitar 'Kill Hasebe'?"

——『Pressure Kill Hasebe』.

——This moment has finally arrived.

Although Okita-kun and Okita-san had already imagined the situation where one of the two Nobunaga Lords would have a conflict with their swordsman again, the two Okita sous obviously did not expect that because the two Nobunaga Lords got involved with Yaken Toshiro, who was in charge of breaking into the room, the first batch of swordsman who came into contact with Oda Nobunaga became the swordsman of H41 Honmaru who were temporarily invited to perform.

Okita-kun and Okita-san looked at each other and reached a consensus - the matter of the Oda sword was troublesome, but it would be even more troublesome if Oda Nobunaga found out; not to mention that the members of H41 Honmaru would actually return to participate in the performance later, and they absolutely could not be allowed to continue in this state of being surrounded by black energy.

"Actually..." Ms. Okita transformed her spirit base into Summer Assassin mode with a subtle expression, took out a square sword and showed it to everyone, "Let me introduce it to everyone. This is a weapon that was strengthened with mysterious parts provided by Ms. XX and matched with my Summer Spirit Base - Kikuichimonji Version β."

"Why is there a beta version?!" Kashuu Kiyomitsu, who was returning to the rest area with new food, estimated that the two Okita Sojis would have finished their previous skewers. The moment he heard Miss Okita's introduction, he let out a sharp cry, "Okita-kun, including the spirit clothes, only has two swords, me and Anding!!!"

Fortunately, the music from the concert was loud enough to drown out the commotion in the backstage lounge. After Kashuu Kiyomitsu calmed down, he noticed that the two people opposite him were obviously more evil than before he left, and that Ms. Okita had obviously changed her clothes... Her spiritual base had changed from Saber mode to Assassin mode.

"Why did you suddenly change your spiritual base?" Kashuu Kiyomitsu looked at the black haori on Ms. Okita and tilted his head in confusion, "No, that's not right - why is there a jet backpack tied behind the haori!!! Ms. Okita, please explain what happened when I left!!!"

"That's because they learned the name of Shin's weapon from Natsumi Shin." Ms. Okita curled her lips and turned her Spiritual Base back to Saber mode, looking at Okita-kun, "I just used my own swimsuit Spiritual Base as an example. By the way, except for Yaken Toushirou of Zero Honmaru, no one has seen Shin's Archer Spiritual Base, right?"

"Does this have anything to do with the different modes of the demon king?" Souzo Sawamonji · H41 looked at Ms. Okita dimly, and at the same time noticed Yamato-mori Yasudasa · H41 sitting next to her, "Kikuichimonji version β... You, are the predecessor of Kiyomitsu and Yasudasa who passed away long ago, right?"

"I just want to tell you one thing..." Ms. Okita quickly showed everyone in the rest area the different stages of her Saber spiritual base, and then slowly turned her head with Okita-kun to look outside the rest area, "Nobuyuki's Archer spiritual base, although the weapon is a matchlock gun... but her spiritual base also carries a katana, Oshikiri Hasebe."

“That’s it.”