Shadow-The-True-Self

Last Request Ichimura Tetsunosuke sat quietly as he watched vice-commander Hijikata write. He didn't know what he had been called for, but it was probably something related to the war. Ever since their retreat to Hokkaido and the founding of the Ezo Republic there had been little else in the way of errands. He supposed it was good in a sense. Keeping busy kept him from thinking too much. This way he didn't have to think of Kondo-san, beheaded like a criminal, or Okita-san, consumed by his tuberculosis. Didn't have to think of Harada-san and Nagakura-san, who had left the Shinsengumi a long time ago. Most of all, he didn't have to think of T