My personal opinion on Gensokyo

"Well, I still have work to do, so I'll leave for a while."

At this time, Kurama Touma stood up while speaking, walked over, helped Okita Mitsuha lie down, covered her with a blanket, and advised her with concern.

"Don't eat spicy food anymore, it's bad for your health."

Hearing this, Okita Mitsuha couldn't help but smile cutely after lying down, and complained in a tone that sounded like a complaint.

"I see. I'm not that stupid~"

Kurama nodded with a smile, turned and walked towards the door of the room. When he was about to go out, he turned back and spoke calmly.

"Then I'll leave first and come back."

Hearing this, Okita Mitsuha smiled and nodded, watching him walk out the door. After he left, the gentle smile on the chestnut-haired woman's face naturally disappeared, revealing a slightly lonely look.

Suddenly, the sound of plastic packaging shaking interrupted Okita Mitsuha's thoughts, and when she subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound, what she saw was a hand reaching out from outside the door, holding a bag of super spicy snacks.

Immediately afterwards, a man with silver curly hair leaned in from outside the door with a triumphant smile on his face.

Seeing this scene, Okita Mitsuha couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Amazing! It turns out anything can be done if you ask Mr. Sakata for help."

"Because I'm a jack of all trades."

Upon hearing this, Sakata Gintoki answered proudly while casually placing the plastic bag filled with various common spicy snacks in his hand on Okita Mitsuha's hospital bed.

"Okay, don't eat too much, there's more to come."

Having said that, Sakata Gintoki turned his head and picked his nose while speaking.

"Hey, Mr. Shang Yilang, who only knows how to do small business, please bring in the things you bought."

"My name is Shangyang, and I can only buy ordinary goods, Sakata-kun."

While complaining, Shang Yang walked into the ward with Shana, holding a cardboard box covered with strange words and patterns.

"Purchasing these snacks from various planets is no easy task."

"Oh, Mr. Shang Yang, Ms. Shana, you two are here too."

Okita Mitsuha, who had sat up again, looked strangely at the handsome young man holding a strange cardboard box and asked in confusion.

"what are these?"

"A variety of super popular spicy snacks in the universe."

Hearing Okita Mitsuha's question, Shang Yang patted the cardboard box proudly and explained.

"Freshly baked, delivered by the first space cargo ship that arrived at Edo Spaceport this morning."

"Wow~"

Hearing Shang Yang's words, Okita Sanye's eyes revealed an unconcealable surprise, but she soon asked worriedly.

"This should be very expensive, Mr. Shang Yang, how much does it cost..."

Before Okita Mitsuha could ask about the price worriedly, Shana interrupted her and explained softly.

"There just happened to be a shipment of goods that our 'commercial house' handled that was shipped from another planet to Edo, so we've included this box of things along with the shipment. Don't worry, Ms. Okita, these are just common snacks in space."

"Don't worry about this guy. How could a businessman let himself suffer a loss?"

Sakata Gintoki also walked to the chair next to the bed and sat down. He picked up a banana from the fruit basket on the cabinet, peeled it, and handed it under the bed.

"Hey, how about you have some too? There are bananas too."

"Ah, thank you, but no thanks."

A familiar voice came from under the bed, and a hand holding a sausage stretched out.

"When we Shinsengumi spies go on secret missions, we usually carry sausages with us."

A few minutes later, on the rooftop of Oedo Hospital.

Yamazaki Tai, whose ambush was directly exposed, touched the big bump on his head, took a bite of the sausage in his hand, and explained to Sakata Gintoki and Shang Yang beside him.

“…That’s basically the situation.”

When Sakata Gintoki heard what Yamazaki Tai said, that Kurama Touma was engaged in the business of smuggling weapons to the extremely dangerous Ronin, he did not show any surprise, but just asked lightly.

"Does the woman in the ward know about this?"

"Oh no……"

Taking another bite of the sausage, Yamazaki explained.

"The deputy director won't let me tell anyone."

"You don't look surprised at all, Sakata-kun."

Shang Yang asked casually after glancing at Sakata Gintoki, who had an expressionless face.

"Could it be that you have already made similar mental preparations?"

"Tsk, you're still the same."

Hearing this, Sakata Gintoki scratched the back of his head as if annoyed.

"The fact that your peers are engaging in illegal business is not surprising at all."

"You can tell at a glance."

Hearing this, the young businessman with gray and shaggy hair waved his hand and explained casually with an expected calm expression.

"Besides, I noticed something else."

"If the owner of the karaoke barn truly loved Ms. Okita and wanted to marry her, when Ms. Okita Mitsuha apologized for the delay, he would have graciously said he didn't care, but he would have also expressed some regret, rather than his own indifferent attitude."

"This attitude is too strange, and the most likely possibility is that the owner of the Tibetan market doesn't care about Miss Okita Mitsuha herself."

Volume 4: Edo Chronicles: Chapter 216: A Young Man's Wish

Oedo Hospital, Okita Mitsuha's ward.

After chewing and swallowing another piece of super spicy rice cracker, Okita Mitsuha, who was leaning on the hospital bed, turned her head slightly and spoke softly to the petite girl sitting in the chair next to her, who was slowly biting a green and red jujube.

"Come to think of it, I haven't had a proper talk with Ms. Shana yet."

"There's nothing we can do about it."

Miss Shana casually put the date pit into the trash can beside her and spoke softly.

"Once arriving in Edo, Miss Okita met people who had so many things to complain to her the moment they saw her."

“…It seems to be true~”

Hearing this, Okita Mitsuha couldn't help but chuckle with her hands covering her mouth.

"So, after meeting Ms. Shana, did you also have a lot to complain to him?"

“…That’s the person.”

Hearing Okita Mitsuha's curious question, Miss Shana's calm expression disappeared completely. She crossed her arms over her chest and spoke to Okita Mitsuha in an angry tone, as if complaining.

"He loves to act cool, but also loves to play dumb. He always says things that make me mad and irritate me. He also does a lot of random things. He always makes us worry, and he always blames me for a lot of things. He's just terrible!"

Looking at the petite girl in front of her who was complaining to her about someone like a bamboo tube pouring beans, Okita Mitsuha couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Ms. Shana is really working hard~"

“Yeah, it’s really hard.”

Hearing this, Shana snorted softly and turned her little face away.

"He's the worst."

"Oh, by the way, Ms. Shana, please call me 'Mitsuha'."

After finally stopping her smile, Okita Mitsuha asked softly.

"Miss Shana's last name is 'Xia', right? Can I call you by your first name?"

"...No, I don't have a last name. 'Shana' is my first name, so just call me that."

After hearing Okita Mitsuha's question, Shana paused for a moment and then explained softly to Okita Mitsuha.

"Shang Yang's surname is indeed 'Shang'."

Having said that, Shana paused slightly, sighed softly, and muttered to herself in a low voice.

"Although as his 'item', I can also add the surname 'Shang'..."

Shana naturally made sure that Okita Mitsuha didn't hear the last sentence. When Okita Mitsuha heard Shana say that she didn't have a surname, she didn't have much doubt. Instead, she became quite interested in what Shana said about the "Shang" in Shangyang and asked questions curiously.

"Eh... 'Shang', Mr. Shang Yang's last name is really rare."

"This is a Chinese surname, and it has a very long history."

Seeing that Okita Mitsuha was very curious, Shana explained Shang Yang's surname to Okita Mitsuha in detail, as if she was showing off something.

At the same time, in the Shinsengumi camp, inside the training ground.

The sound of wooden swords clashing continued to ring out in the training ground. In the training ground, Hijikata Toshiro and Okita Sougo, each holding a wooden sword, were competing with each other.

Although their foreheads and bodies were already soaked with sweat after a long period of fighting, neither of them had any intention of stopping and they were still competing in swordsmanship seriously.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Okita Sougo asked while panting as he swung the wooden sword as hard as he could to hit Hijikata Jushiro.

"Can you please stop ruining my sister's happiness from now on?!"

Using his own wooden sword to block Okita Sougo's wooden sword, feeling the tremendous force that Okita Sougo exerted on the wooden sword, Hijikata Toshiro was silent for a moment, and still spoke lightly in a calm tone without any fluctuations.

"Tenkaiya is suspected of secretly collaborating with radical anti-foreignation ronin to engage in large-scale smuggling of banned weapons. He is a black market dealer who sells smuggled weapons to the anti-foreignation ronin at high prices."

"Your sister's husband is our enemy."

After hearing what Hijikata Toshiro said, Okita Sougo, who had already felt that things were going to be troublesome, felt his mood sink to the bottom.

In fact, it was more trouble than he expected.

However, even after knowing this, Okita Sougo's expression remained unchanged, and he continued to speak softly in a calm tone.

"Mr. Hijikata, no matter what weapons the Ronin have, we can just kill them. It's a piece of cake, isn't it?"

Forcing Hijikata Jushiro to take a step back once again, Okita Sougo continued to argue in a tone that sounded calm but was essentially argumentative.

"If you don't have a broad mind and tolerance for both good and bad things, how can you do business? Besides, you've seen the character of that man. He loves you from the bottom of his heart and will definitely make you happy."

　Hearing this, Hijikata Toshiro narrowed his eyes slightly, pushed away Okita Sougo's wooden sword, and asked in a deep voice.

"Are you asking me to turn a blind eye to him?"

Hearing this, Okita Sougo asked calmly.

"Don't you understand what I'm saying?"

After a brief silence, Hijikata Toshiro put away his wooden sword and walked out of the training room without looking back.

"...I'll pretend I didn't hear what you just said. This practice ends here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hijikata Jushiro subconsciously turned sideways and barely avoided the wooden sword that Okita Sougo stabbed from behind.

"I haven't finished what I want to say yet!"

Taking two steps back, Hijikata Toshiro frowned, bowed slightly, and made the gesture of drawing his sword as he heard the young man's impatient words.

"...Did you lose your mind during sleep? You're hanging out with that kind of villain. Do you really think your sister will be happy?!"

Clang.

The sound of a wooden sword falling on the wooden floor.

Hijikata Jushiro, who originally wanted to continue scolding Okita Sougo to wake him up, was stunned after seeing the boy's appearance at this moment.

"Not much... It seems she doesn't have much time left..."

Rubbing his chestnut hair, the young man, the captain of the Shinsengumi's First Division, forced a bitter smile.

"I can't stand it. You've been busy taking care of me since I was little, but you've put your own affairs aside and even delayed your wedding. I finally had happiness in my hands..."

"...At least, I want her to enjoy the happiness of an ordinary person before she dies..."

Having said that, Okita Sougo turned around, looked at the silent Hijikata Jushiro, and made a sincere request.