Itaya and Liu Bang, and Tanaka.

"Lord Tanabe, what do you say? It's nose pain meds."

"No, I don't want any more booze today"

Tian Yong declines the liquor recommended by Liu Bang.

Liu Bang, who was turned down, makes his mouth pointy like a bore.

"I guess it's like the Lord earned it. What a shame to swallow. Tanaka, the Lord will swallow. Here."

That's what I say and offer you a cup.

You had such a troublesome boss in this world... You're the guy who gets extra tangled up when you say no, this.

I don't mind drinking anymore, either.

"Ha... let's just have one drink"

I take the cup with a sigh.

"Kakaku, you don't have to."

Liu Bang pours alcohol into the cup he happily received.

Oh, I put too much in there! He said he'd spill!

"By the way, why did Lord Liu Bang go to Ryu?

I put my mouth on the cup and ask Liu Bang as I wipe my wet hands.

Pour liquor into my cup with a beautiful flowing Zhang Liang sitting next to Liu Bang.

... I said just one drink.

Liu Bang gave me a bad look when I asked him.

"Oh, that, that. I'm here to borrow a soldier."

Hmm? Is Pei's governance not working?

"It cannot be said that Pei's forces are still significant. In order to avoid isolation, it is clear that we must also fight somewhere to expand our forces. We first visited King Chu, closest to Pei."

Zhang Liang, who placed the liquor bottle, starts explaining ahead of Liu Bang.

Hmm, you mean that?

I'm saying we fight together, but borrowing soldiers would mean standing under the wind.

I wish you'd come with us, but we've been turned down before.

"Lord Pei offered to borrow a soldier to measure the vessel of the landscape pawn named King Chu"

Hmm, even though that Qin Jia (Shinka) is ruling Pei, can he lend his soldiers to the still unknown Liu Bang? Than that......

"Pei was originally the land of Wei. Didn't you think of entering Wei?

"I'm not going with Wei."

Liu Bang's voice goes low.

"Wei ignored Lord Pei and pressed each Yi to return in order, already engaged, hostile. I managed to repel it, but when will that hand reach out again"

I see...... Are you saying that Wei's invasion led him to consolidate his determination to get under some umbrella?

But I haven't talked about Zhang Liang.

It feels like you're not lying, but you don't respond until you hear it. Are you trying to keep it as small as possible and not give me unfavourable information?

"So, you met Jingpao, and the soldiers were borrowed?

Tatsuyoshi asks about the outcome of the meeting with Jingpao.

Liu Bang laughs with a happy nose.

"That's a decoration. On top of that, Chancellor Qin Jia (Shinka) doesn't have a nose. Instead of lending them soldiers, they told me to send them over. You can't do that."

Qin Jia, of course, still doesn't seem to be a person of good quality.

"So I'll borrow a soldier elsewhere?

"No, there happens to be a known man named Ning-kun under Jingpao. Ning summed up the conversation and led the soldiers to rendezvous."

Liu Bang moistens his mouth with alcohol and continues with a slight silence.

"Ning heard rumors of Chu and entered, but he didn't seem to think much of it. He wanted to distance himself from Jingpao and Qin Jia. They said it was a great opportunity because I was here."

Did Liu Bang's strong luck and the breadth of his face still play a role here?

"So you're going back to Pei?

"Right. Not many, but the soldiers got it. In the meantime, we can continue to soothe the area around Pei."

Toyota? Liu Bang's hiding something, too.

But this...

"Does Lord Liu Bang mean to join Jingpao's forces?

I ask questions.

"Hmm, no? Ning borrowed soldiers from Jingpao. Not me. I didn't even tell you to follow me. He offered from the other side. There's no reason to go down there."

Oh, wow - rationality...... Well, I guess that reasoning matters.

"Under Jingpao, let's narrow the sky of Pei Gong. We must look for a new sky to greatly expand the wings of Lord Pei."

Zhang Liang smiles and exhales.

You weren't there when I met Liu Bang during this time, so it shouldn't have been long since Liu Bang and Zhang Liang met.

Yet he seems to unquestionably believe in Liu Bang's king vessel.

Liu Bang seems to trust him quite a bit too.

Are you saying these two met each other in order to meet each other?

By the way, why are you here?

Now this one has a bitter look.

"... it's a clan rub. I don't want to say any more."

Tatsuyoshi responds reluctantly.

"You were apparently unwell, too."

Zhang Liang guesses from Tianside's reply and laughs bitterly.

"Well, I could see the crowd of Qin Jia and I could grasp the atmosphere of Chu as a whole. You don't deserve to fight together."

Instead of fighting together, I was hostile.

Zhang Liang nodded,

"You should distance yourself from this force. I feel like I can disappear not far away."

We will then exchange information to the extent that we can talk about it.

As Liu Bang said, Zhang Liang seems to have spies all over the place and is quite familiar with them. I knew most of what we knew.

Oh, yeah. I forgot the first thing I was going to ask.

"By the way, do you know about Lord Zhang Liang, the young man who had an arm wrestle with Lord Yokohama?

I kept getting poured. I don't know how many glasses. Swallow the liquor. Ask Zhang Liang.

"Hmm, I've never seen you before, but I have no idea what you're guessing from what you look like."

Are you still as famous as Zhang Liang knows you are?

"I made a friendship with his uncle, Uncle Tsung, and stayed away for a while."

Ho, a fellow extremist aiming to overthrow Qin. That paragraph......?

"Perhaps he is the nephew of Uncle Tsubaki-san and Leung Tsubaki-san, Tsubaki-san."

"Buhaha!!

"Hey, dirty Tanaka. All of a sudden, I spit alcohol. Dirt your nose, too."

"What's up? You got it?

"Gofa! Gov! Shh, sorry. Come on, into the trachea...!

Oh, oh, calm down. Zhang Liang suspects me. Oh, if he sticks me in there, I'm going to be bored...!

I take a big, deep breath to get my coughing breath together.

"Phew, but it's okay now"

Itaeba...... was it? Is that it?

Sure, he seemed strong with a sharp eye, but he also apologized for hitting Tianxi, and he was a good young man to talk to!

Is that the man called the merciless and ruthless King who buried hundreds of thousands of them alive?!

Tatsuyoshi beat you to the point of passing out, but are you okay?

No, no, no, that's the first place I hit you.

You won't be stubborn about this later...?

"Are you all right? Suddenly you look pale. Sweat is terrible, too."

Zhang Liang asks me worried. but the back of those eyes don't know what they're thinking.

Well, it's another extreme of confusion. I don't think I can even fix it.

"Looks like I drank a little too much...... I'd like to apologize for this for today. Horizontal Palace"

"Um, I'm tired of boulders, too. Let me go back to the inn. Lord Liu Bang, Lord Zhang Liang, and sooner or later"

We'll take our seats and say goodbye early.

"Well, I don't have a choice. Well, we'll see each other again. Lord Tian Yokoshi, let's eat slowly then."

Liu Bang responds with a smile he likes.

"Looking forward to seeing you again"

Zhang Liang smiles loosely.

With both smiles on our backs, we left the liquor store.

All right, let's go to sleep today! Think tomorrow! A lot more......

I'm tired of having too many things......

◇ ◇ ◇

Ask Zhang Liang as Liu Bang tilts the cup at the liquor house where Tanaka and Tianye left.

"How did you see those two?"

"Tatsuyoshi is a hero with enough qualities. I don't know Tian Yi or Tian Yi directly, but I can't help but think that Tian Yong would be King Sai."

"Hmm, is it far from the throne coming around? But as a general, it would be a delicacy. So, the other one."

The look on Zhang Liang's face reveals a rare and confusing color.

"... he really doesn't know. If you think you have superior insight, your emotions quickly come to your face. I thought you were weak and timid, the audacity to break in between the two giants. I see two conflicting sides. Besides, I was surprised when I heard the name of Lord Itaba..."

Liu Bang laughs unexpectedly.

"Cuckoo. That would be an interesting one. No, you blue-faced me the first time you saw me."

"Oh, really? … maybe he has something to identify the qualities of a hero"

Having learned all sorts of paranormal techniques, Zhang Liang feels something beyond the knowledge of the man.

"Wow. So that young man named Itoya is also a hero?

"I don't know, but the fact that Xiang Yu showed up here means that Xiang Liang, Xiang Yu's uncle, is going to cross the river and join this rebellion."

The two do not know that Xiang Liang has already come as far as the lower one while absorbing the forces on the road.

Xiang Liang's army was moving forward so quickly and neatly.

"Do you mean the price of a Jingpawn named King Chu? Son of General Xiang Yan, Xiang Liang and his nephew, Xiang Yu? Sounds better that way, and you look strong. I wonder if it would have been that way if I had relied on it."

"If Toyoyi falls in the borrowed soldiers, shall I visit you?"

"Come on, don't say anything bad about it. I'm afraid it's going to be true, Lord says."

Liu Bang made a bitter laugh and vacated the cup again.