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"No... this can't be..."

When I heard the "sound," I stood at the foot of Sakao Mountain.

The morning mist is not completely clear yet, so my vision is quite blocked. Even if I don't, I'm still only as tall as my adult hips. There is no confirmation of the surrounding conditions.

But the "sound" was undoubtedly the sound of blowing the law snail (see) announcing the beginning of the match, which was not difficult to understand that the beginning of the battle had been announced.

And as if to show it, the surrounding adults rushed forward on their feet screaming.

"Dear Hideyoshi! This place is dangerous! Let's get out of here!

A talent zo standing behind me grabbed my arm and quickly put me on his horseback.

My butt was lumped in the hard saddle, but I haven't been able to keep myself to the point where I feel that pain.

Almost unconsciously, he emitted a voice of desire from the bottom of his belly.

"No! I still have to deliver this letter!

And I tried my best resistance on horseback, but the other guy is a grown-up talent. I can't help but flip his horse with my fluttering voice and arms.

But when my wish is dispelled by the wind of horses thrusting in vain, we pass next to Tianman Mountain into Higashiyama Road (now Nakayama Road) and continue towards Osaka Castle.

And it was precisely when I tried to get out of Sekigahara, which was the stage of the match.

Dos...

Along with the dull noise, I was thrown out of the horse with momentum.

The landscape that moves into your eyes with a fluffy floating sensation slowly reflects like a slow motion. There was a talented horse in it who suffered surprised with an arrow stabbed in his ass.

And as it fell to the ground, a shock ran that I had never tasted on my back.

"Guuuuuu..."

Breathing stops for a moment. Fortunately, though, he doesn't seem to have hit his head. Just because the air in my lungs faded, I turned my eyes.

And a unique iron flavor I don't have much experience with… apparently cut in the mouth.

My whole body hurts. Besides, I can't seem to stand without strength...

Oh... maybe he's going to die like this...

That's when I lost the power that was coming in too much from the tension.

"Dear Hideyoshi!

When Talent called to encourage me out loud sometime, he kept me on his back.

In a fading consciousness, I hear the angry voices of the miscellaneous soldiers.

"Enemy attack!! The arrows are flying! We already have enemies at the foot of the mountain!!

"Damn! The bastard of Kingo (about Hideaki Koyagawa) said he fell asleep on Tokugawa!

"The army of the Otani Prison Department seems to be holding back, but it's only a matter of time before they come this way."

So... silly... Hideaki Koyagawa... betrayed him right after the match started...?

I'm confused by "every impossible thing I can do" again in my head.

I honestly don't know what's happening anymore.

"Dear Hideyoshi! This can't be helped! We'll go a long way from North Country Street for the Great Slope!

Yes, Talent reported to me on his back in discipline, he flipped again and headed toward Tianman Mountain.

5 Years of Celebration (1600) September 14 -

In the history I know, the "day before" the main battle of Sekigahara breaks out...

The curtain of the battle was cut and dropped in front of me.

That means that history has changed.

Just one day, just one day… I started a war between the heavens and the earth without delivering a letter to Tokugawa Jiayang to stop the match.

But I don't know why this happened...

The answer was because, where I had no reason to know, one man's "fear" had driven his destiny gear crazy.

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I'll give you a little time back to figure out why Sekigahara's match was "a day earlier".

5 Years of Celebration (1600) September 10, Qingzhou Castle -

Tokugawa Jiayang left Edo on Sept. 1 before taking the time to reach Qingzhou. That goes without saying, partly because I was waiting for my son, Hideyoshi Tokugawa, to march on. But in addition to that, it could have meant a lot of room for enemy allies.

Anyway, he reached Qingzhou Castle at a slow march speed, as if he were going to do a tourist excursion.

But while he entered the castle as well, when he heard the report of one intermediate waiting for his arrival, his cool expression changed and he came up with something bitter.

"Kato and Kuroda are joining us and staying north...?

He accidentally bit his right thumbnail. displeasure, anxiety, dissatisfaction… he always has the habit of biting his right thumbnail when it comes to emotions like "dissatisfaction".

Lately, the habit has not emerged, so I chewed the slightly stretched nails out of the roots at once.

I had planned to relax for about two days at Qingzhou Castle, but he decided to leave there the next day immediately. That's because he wanted to stay a little closer to the front line so that if anything, he could act immediately.

At this point he had a certain anxiety. That must still have been a small one.

But even the little bud couldn't help but crush it.

5 Years of Celebration (1600) September 11 Gifu Castle -

Two men, Jiayang Tokugawa and Genuine Honta, pulled 3,000 soldiers and entered Gifu Castle.

Until then, in the castle, he was in a good mood with a smile on his face, but the rejection here seemed to hinder him. Without a glance at the man in the castle, he soon disappeared among the castle lords.

I went in between the castle owners, and I sat down a bit heavier, and I clawed my hair.

And to put an elbow on your right thigh and bite that thumbnail nail is exactly what the grump itself looks like.

Purity dared to ask me to step on the tiger's tail in such a manner.

"What is it that makes you so grumpy that you're going to be winning under the sky?

Of course this is the pure bad habit, but there doesn't seem to be enough room for home health to pay attention to that here. Turning away at his pointing, he exhales his feelings like a shin.

"Well, the young Yahachiro (Honta Genuine) doesn't know what it's like to be old"

I intuited that the innocence of the soot face was that the word was "I want you to know how I feel." Right there.

"Now let's see how this young man feels about you"

and make declarations in a mild tone that made people look like little fools.

The grumpy expression never broke, but its eyes stared at purity as if to complain about something just a little bit. When I glanced into those eyes, Purity continued without waiting for Jiayang's reply.

"The pavilion is afraid."

In a sharp word, like poking your chest with a knife, it looks like you've eaten some side of the house too.

My mouth, which was bent on the letter to, opened slightly with amazement.

"What might you be afraid of, let me guess?

"Enough! Put a lid on that dampening mouth!

Even the vast family well-being of the nostalgia just doesn't seem to stand for young people being told what they fear more than that. When he gave instructions to shut his mouth purely, he turned his face away and shut his mouth himself.

But it's not as pure as it gets there. When he stood up,

"Anyway, the Hall Master is going to be the one who bears the heavens. You have to show your surroundings quite a bit. There are people in the hall waiting for you.

Let's go.

We have to inspire everyone tonight as we surround the evening. "

And when I ruthlessly advanced to the family, I walked to the hall by myself.

"Well, he's a mean man."

Jia Kang, along with such a throwaway dialogue, lifted the heavy hips he had just lowered.

Jiayang was certainly afraid of one thing at this time.

What is it to hide Hideyoshi Toyotomi was trying to accomplish painfully, "East-West harmony". No, to be precise, it's "to reconcile before you beat Ishida Yakitori".

There are things he must definitely accomplish at the top of this list.

It is the solemnity of the insurgents that he obstructs in his pursuit of the heavenly people. To this end, he played the structure of the Upper Cedar Crusade, and in Fushimi, he sacrificed his belly-hearted Toriya Yuanzhong.

It was all a far-sighted way to bring out Jibe Ishida and those who supported him.

And if we list each other as "for the sake of the rich minister," it is obvious that Hideyoshi decides on opportunism. It is self-evident whose hand the heavens will first and foremost move to if we thus remove the Toyotomi and clean up everything.

But there's only one way to break his mind like that...

That's what makes it so harmonious before it's completely settled.

If, of course, that were a letter of harmony sent out by Sansei Ishida or Huiyuan Maori, it would be immediately torn away.

But if that was "harmony emanating from Hideyoshi Toyotomi"...

We will have to obey more than we have listed for the Toyotomi family.

In that case, the insurgents are very likely to remain in some way. In that case, it would be difficult for him to decide anything authoritarianly in the future. But even less interesting is the fact that "it was Hideyoshi Toyotomi who brought the harmony together".

Because this fact is a testament to the fact that Tokugawa Jiayang is still a minister of Toyotomi.

However, I intend to strike a variety of hands to avoid that happening.

It doesn't let them live... but it doesn't kill them...

Installing a promise of a turnaround from the Hiroshi Yoshikawa family and Hideaki Koyagawa, but not immediately pulled to this side, is part of it.

In other words, they were always making it look like they were in contact.

And Kyushu...

Here is Shimazu, arguably the greatest concern in western Japan.

It is simply far from Edo and the trend is difficult to grasp.

That's so much you don't even know if it's an ally or an enemy.

Indeed, several people, including Yoshihiro Shimazu, have come all the way to Kinki to fight as Ishida Fang. If it is sincere, then it is inevitable that it will become a later threat.

I used a somewhat forceful hand to suppress this, but I left Kiyoshi Kato and Rushui Kuroda in Kyushu.

But two anxieties grew in Jiayang's mind when information was coming in that both of them were marching away from Shimazu.

One is the concern that Shimazu will grasp Kyushu.

And the other is Kato and Kuroda's Maori attack.

If that concern becomes a reality...

Doesn't Maori want to leave Osaka Castle, putting together some harmony...

And even worse, if Maori and Shimazu join hands after harmony, will they stand before him as an even greater threat than Sansei Ishida and others?

That was the seed of his "fear".

5 Years of Celebration (1600) September 12 Gifu Castle -

When two pieces of news arrived at Jiayang, the fears he had were brilliantly centered, which also surprisingly distorted the genuine soot face of the boulder.

The reward is:

"Kato, Kuroda's coalition forces have entered China. And marching east."

"Maori Huiyuan moves from the west circle. Meeting with Hideyoshi Toyotomi at Honmaru"

were two.

"This has gone badly... Yahachiro"

While I seem so grumpy, do I feel pure as my voice plays at any rate because of the noise of blood as a plotter in unexpected developments, or is it ironic that I'm always glad that calmly deposited purity broke my expression?

And purity has been completely distracted by the great catch of the heart more than by the current situation, in which the possibility of harmony is imminent. It's

"Did you put Kato and Kuroda on it, Mr. Hall?

And, purity is about what I tried to calmly inquire about home health.

"Well, you're giving me instructions to push myself."

Jiayang argues, as is normal. This part is also of utmost concern to Jia Kang. I decided to go along with the question of authenticity, knowing very well that I had to lift my hips immediately.

"Then who the hell...?

Purity puts his hands on his chin. It's a habit he does when he thinks about something.

Few people even "disliked" this habit.

Anyway, he's young and he's got a lot of enemies.

"Come on... but it's hard to think of Maori. I won't let you attack my own territory."

"So, what about Ishida Metallurgy?

"It won't be there either. In the first place, in the words of the Metallurgy Department, I don't think the Comptroller's head or the water will move."

When Jiayang answers that much, he realizes that there is.

"Hey! Why am I always answering from earlier? Give me your opinion, too."

When I asked for an opinion purely so that Jia Kang could get along, I thought about it a little purely in a tone that would make Jia Kang even more uncomfortable

"Ishida Metallurgical Department and the Hall are the people who get the most out of harmony before they settle for a female male. And there's only one person who's influential enough to move Kato and Kuroda…"

"Yes! Don't put it on! Say that human name!

Of course, it's not so dark a home health that you don't realize it at this point.

But he asked for it purely.

That's because I wanted to believe that my "fear" was still a slight "concern".

If the person you think is different from the person you think is genuine… I thought it might appease you that it was a "concern".

But the names of those who came out of their pure mouths do not differ in dimension from his opinions.

"His Royal Highness Hideyoshi Toyotomi... there is only that person"

At this time, Jiayang remembered the shock of being hit in the head with a big hammer.

"If it really was His Highness... what happened to His Highness...? Or did the temple hire a better human being... um... it's not funny."

"Anyway, now we have to act before the 'letter of harmony' comes along. Master, when are you going to leave this place?

Already, the genuine face returned to the original soot face, and asked the family for the next instruction.

"Well, I know you don't have to tell me. Tomorrow, we leave here first thing tomorrow morning!

"Ha! Then I say so"

5 Years of Celebration (1600) September 13 -

From before nightfall Gifu Castle was rushed to the right and left by those in the castle. That is because I was contacted that "the Imperial Palace is leaving".

And Tatsune Moment (8 a.m.) - The Tokugawa main unit, led by Tokugawa Jiayang and Honta-Jun, began marching west so that it could be driven by something, and arrived at Mi-no-Akasaka at noon on the same day. In addition to the soldiers already waiting, Tokugawa's main unit swelled up to 32,730 soldiers.

It arrived "a day" earlier than historical facts.