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[...Damn. Of course she would ask about Koudou.

Suddenly regretting his earlier promise, Hijikata quickly runs through all the ways he could reply:

"He's dead, Chizuru. He was a bastard and a traitor and he died and he had it coming."

"And he saved you doing it. Wasn't just him, either. That battle took Heisuke and Sannan-san out all at once."

But he can't make himself say it. So he sighs and tells her not quite what she wants to hear, but the truth nonetheless:]

You aren't going to like it, Chizuru. [The look he gives her next clearly expresses that if she presses the issue, he will tell her, but is she sure?]