Okita Souji Alter Valentine's Scene

[1. Guda:
Eh? This is...

2. Guda:
That time's...?]

???:
...Who are you.

Guda:
Alt... eh? Who... are you?

???:
This is the interval of eternity. It is not a realm where people should be able to enter.
....
....I see.
....So, you're human.
It has been a long while since I have last seen a human, and so I was slightly at a loss.
Even so, for a mere human to be standing here...
........ No, there must be some reason for this.
----So there is such a thing, huh.

Guda:
....What are you doing here?

???:
...Hm? Me? I have continued to fight.
For a long... a very long time.
...I have fought for so long that I have lost all sensation.

Guda:
Why have you fought for so long?

???:
...Hm? Now that you mention it.
Why have I been fighting for so long?
Rather than thinking up ultimate moves, maybe I should be thinking about why I am fighting instead.
.........
........fumu.
I am sure there was a very important reason, but I have probably forgotten even that, too.

Guda:
Are you going to continue to fight from now on, too?

???:
...You say some very strange things.
No, Rengoku also said the same thing, I suppose.
..........
That is right. From now on, I will still continue to fight.
That is probably what I hope for.
...By the way, what is that you hold in your hand?
...Somehow, even though I do not understand it myself, it attracts my interest. I am attracted.

Guda:
...Why am I holding some oden, again?

???:
....!?
Oden... oden...!
What is that? That... indescribable call from my heart.
Something asleep within me is...

Guda:
...Would you like to eat this with me?

???:
Can I!?
Aah, my apologies. I just...
I do not understand why, but upon seeing that I just cannot calm down.
...Then, I shall feast on it.
....(biting)
....(chewing)
....(more chewing)
....(gulping)

Guda:
Was it nice?

???:
Yeah, it was very delicious.
...I see, this is what they call delicious. I think I have forgotten this for quite a long time. So this is what a delicious taste.
I have not had these feelings in a while. Thank you, Master.
.....?
I see... Master...

Guda:
Is it time to say goodbye?

???:
...That seems to be the case.
Even though I have forgotten even my own name, it seems that I cannot forget about you, Master.
Thank you for coming to see me.
Surely... I will keep on waiting.
Goodbye, Master.
---I hape that one day we will meet again at the end of eternity.

***

Okita Souji Alter:
...Are you awake, Master?
...Looking at your sleeping face, I forgot to say anything.
I kept on looking.

[1.Guda:
You kept on looking?

Okita Souji Alter:
Yeah, I don't get tired of looking at Master's face no matter how much I do it.
It is what that Nobunaga always says, wabisabi, isn't it? Wasabi.]

[2.Guda:
I can't remember it, but I think I had a dream.

Okita Souji Alter:
...A dream?
I am interested in what type of dream that Master would be having, but I see, you cannot remember.
...A pity.]

Okita Souji Alter:
Rather than that, Master, I have heard from everyone that today seems to be Valentine's.
It is a day to gift a present to Master for looking out for me every day.
Majin-san has also prepared some chocolate with the pocket money saved up from helping out.
Here, take this.

[1. Guda:
...O-Oden?

2. Guda:
...Ch-choco?]

Okita Souji Alter:
Yeah, by combining some delicious thing with another delicious thing, it has become the ultimate Valentine's chocolate.
...That's what it became. It seems.
....
...It's delicious. Yes. It's very delicious.

Guda:
Shall we eat it together?

Okita Souji Alter:
Can I!?
No, my apologies. I just...
........
Yeah, let's eat it together...
...Together.

***

Oden Choco

Valentine's chocolate from Okita Souji (Alter).

Prepared by Majin-san, this is a product of eternity, born from the meeting between some delicious thing and another delicious thing. It seems to have been made using the pocket money she saved up from helping out with cleaning the baths every day. For some reason, Rengoku was clattering and trembling when it was being made. Horror.

Despite how it looks, it doesn't taste bad. Actually, that miso dengaku-like flavour is surprisingly delicious. Good job, Majin-san.

---A fragment of a memory that remains unforgotten even at the end of that long, long path. Under that empty sky, it continues to stand.

[Still, honestly speaking, Majin-san has never once wondered whether beef sinew and crab would go well together. In fact they probably wouldn't.]