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Kyugi Kalong and Horiuchi Shinsen-
They are only nine years old apart.
Though following their ancestors would have been separate from the same Kumano, their encounter was much later, when they were relative around Miki Castle in Kii.
Back from the battle of Sekigahara, more than twenty-five years ago.
"What is that..."
Having seen it, Mr Good's life was such a shock that it was not an exaggeration to say that it began precisely at this time.
It's a huge army of ships.
And when it came to the hosts, it was but five ships of cheap dwellings, and one of them had plucked him from the throne.
I accidentally said that at first sight,
"It's a castle... there's a giant black castle looming..."
Mr. Sunshine is also a sailor who leads the Kumano Navy.
He lost his word and even made him forget to blink, so let's wonder how "unusual" the ship was.
That is not known from the front in its length, but it has a width of six (about 11 m) and is definitely a fairly large cheap boat even then.
But it is that appearance that surprised him.
The outer plate is covered with black iron, and what a double layer of "black heavenly guard" stands on top of it. Its height is such that the top cannot be seen without looking up from a little further away.
"I've never seen a ship like this..."
The black giant ship, gently advancing through the blue sea, even made him forget that he was attacking the castle, blinking its eyes.
"My lord! That is now on the banner of Lord Jiugu Kalong, who has been subordinated by Lord Bullet Chung Oda (about Nobunaga Oda)!
"Ku... the Nine Ghosts..."
Originally, his name was Kii, and he had heard of him as a sailor.
But I've never even heard of it, such as having a giant black ship in front of me right now.
In the first place, this kind of thing was still incredible to him, even though he saw it with his eyes.
One of the ministers raised his voice and tried to wake him up against him, who was overwhelmed by the ship, not that castle, with the castle of goal in front of him.
"My lord! Now let's focus on the castle attack! No matter how huge the ship is, my army in the hinterland can't handle it!
I couldn't hear him now, such as the words of such a minister.
"It's outrageous to sell a fight against an army that can build a ship like that... I can't... I'm leaving once"
Yes, he was intuitive.
How foolish it is to fight an opponent with both strength, skill, and strength to build that giant black ship without ever having to be attacked by a ship…
And
"Don't fight!
And it was his instinct that made him decide to withdraw temporarily.
Once he left the army to the nearby castle, Mr. Sun invited Jiugu Kalong, who had been facing each other as an enemy until earlier, to the castle.
In doing so, Mr. Sun sent a letter detailing how surprised he was when he saw Kalong's ship.
Far from it, I can hardly worship its appearance, but I just closed my eyes and the figure of a giant ship emerges with the excitement of that time. And as it touched him, he put something hot in the brush, and put it into the book.
I wonder if that conveyed his passion, and a while after sending the letter, Jiugu Kalong came to him with a few.
Kalong was more well-dressed and looking than you can imagine from the alias "Pirate Daimyo".
Mr. Sunshine was completely distracted by Kalong's appearance, which was very different from his greedy self.
Even if I took one way to say hello, Kalong seemed to make me feel it in the city, and Mr. Good felt something less interesting.
But… Mr. Goodness will soon realize that such an impression is a temporary "outer surface".
They had several other ministers from each other present, but Karon quietly demanded payment and also acknowledged Mr Kin with a chilled look at it.
And it is the moment when they are alone in that room.
Suddenly Kalong approached him and asked him to whisper with an innocent smile like a boy, wondering if he had shouldered with Mr. Goodness.
"That ship... scared?
Surprised by the sudden leopard weirdness, Mr. Goodness can only nod.
Then Kalong, as satisfied, kept his shoulders together,
"Ha!! I bet you are! Even I made it, I was scared when it was done, and I lost my hips!
And laughed loudly.
From that expression is a voice filled with satisfaction and full of the joy of being able to share the emotion.
Mr. Goodness's heart was also defused by the way it looked.
When he breaks his face, too,
"I'm not scared! I can't tell people, but it might leak a little!
"Ha ha!! This is what it was worth! That's still a prototype! I thought you were still a long way from using it in action, but you seem to have unexpectedly made war effort!
If Nobunaga asks, "You scared the other general, you made him tickle," he must be very happy!
haha!!
To that great laugh, Mr. Goodness makes his face red in embarrassment.
And asked him to ask about the ship.
"That black ship is a prototype...?
"Oh, that's a prototype that covered the whole thing with iron to stop the damage caused by the fire arrows.
We haven't improved yet, and it's too late to move on.
Only in three more years, I'll be able to use this in action!
"Ha, what is only three years..."
"Ouch!" Dream "doesn't make any sense! It's my dream to use that in three more years!
"Dreams..."
"Exactly! It's" Dream ", sir. Good Lord!
What is your Lord's 'dream'?
I can't believe it's just a dream to drop a tiny castle there, can I?
Mr. Goodness shut up about the inquiry.
They didn't even think about it anymore, such as being asked "dreams".
And he looks back on his half life.
But it was really bloody, something that had been a little feud over and over.
But it was the black giant ship that burned in his eyes that covered all of his life like that.
And he quickly realized he didn't need to think about it.
"My dream is... I want to build a ship like the one your Lord built..."
And, like a toddler, he answered, getting smaller.
But Kalong shook his head sideways at the answer.
"Let it be small!! More!"
Mr. Goodness was astonished by the words and opened his eyes.
Then Kalong went on to supplement it.
"Do you have more dreams?!? Take a look at your figure. Listen to your dreams!
In the provocative words of Kalong, the eyes of Mr. Goodness are lit by fire.
"Well, then, I'll build you a ship bigger than that one! What do you say!?
Mr. Sun embarked on Kalong as if to challenge him.
But Kalong won't pull it off. Instead, he sprayed it even harder so as to stick his face out.
"Ha ha! Not yet!! Let it go! Let it go!
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
All of them!
It's not just the samurai! People, horses!
I'll make you one!!
Finally, he clamped his forehead, staring at each other, and declared that Mr. Goodness was exalted.
But don't be timid, but rather more pleasantly, Kahlong said.
"Ha ha!! Are you satisfied with the sun books alone!?
I'm not satisfied! Look at this!!
and spread rough and large paintings.
Mr Goodness who sees it as eating in.
"Ko, is this...? What? The picture of this ship..."
There was a painting of a giant ship there.
But it's not like a cheap ship.
Mr. Goodness didn't understand what kind of ship this was.
"This is a transcript of a Nanban ship. That's what my lord gave me! What do you say!? That's amazing!
Mr. Goodness without words in his appearance, which is very different from the creation of the ship he knows.
When I saw that, Kalong whispered.
"It's not just the sun book. The fools fascinated by the sea..."
Mr. Kin looks away from the painting at the Kalong.
They look pure like boys to each other.
Caron continued.
"Nanban, Ming... don't you think that everyone in this world would try to build a ship that would surprise you?
But I don't need to think about answers.
"Oh... try to make it..."
"Okay! Then it's settled! Let's make it with me! Let's make something awesome that scares everyone we see!
Mr Goodness made this moment 'Dream'.
And it was also the moment of his rebirth, when the excitement came out in words unexpectedly.
"Uncle..."
"Ahem? I said now!? You and I aren't that old, are we?
Kalong looks surprised.
But Mr. Goodness did not prevail.
"No! Now at this time, I am reborn!
Thanks to Lord Jiugu Kalong!
So let me call you Uncle! You're right!
And I lowered my head deeply.
As troubled by it,
"Okay! All right, so keep your head up already!
And, Kalong urges.
Then Mr. Goodness sparkled his eyes,
"So you can call me that!? Uncle!"
And I asked happily.
Karon, who looked a little troubled, pounded his knee,
"Okay! Here's what we're gonna do!
There's a daughter at my place who's lost her closeness.
I'll officially make her my daughter, so you get her.
That way, we're really not parents and kids!
haha! That's good! "
And I made a proposal that was too fancy.
Mr. Goodness was unwilling and speechless.
But he never cared about him or anything like that, and when Karon stood up and rounded up the painting he spread, he offered it to him.
"This is so important. I can't take it! Please don't, Uncle!
Waving both hands, Mr Goodness refuses to do so.
But Karon smiled delightfully,
"I didn't say anything small!
If you take it from us, it doesn't matter which one has one of these pieces of paper!
More importantly, we had a partner chasing 'dreams' together.
I hope you think this is something I'm thankful for sending you. "
and half forcefully handed him the painting.
Still bewildered Mr. Goodness, Kalong turned his back on him, trying to stay behind the scene.
And keep it up, Mr. Goodness.
"Okay. Don't forget." There's no point in dreaming... "
When I told him that, Kalong left the room behind with a big crotch.
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It was actually two days after he left Shinmiya Castle that Mr. Horiuchi and his family reached Kyoto Castle.
Even the castle is very simple to make, cut through a large rock and fenced, a small scale thing.
It was originally a castle built to suppress North Mountain Road to prevent enemy marches from Yamato, and since Hideyoshi's unification under heaven, it has been of little use now.
Mr. Sun, who quickly entered a room in the castle, thought of him by spreading the paintings of the Nambarian ship he had deposited from Kalong.
"Uncle... I..."
This painting still reminds me of the sight of 'Dream' in my mouth at that time.
But for him now, it was also a heartache.
Because he had forgotten until recently the fulfillment of the 'dream' he had sworn at that time.
No, the expression "I forgot" would not be correct.
To be precise, while keeping that 'dream' in your chest, you have only thought about making your home bigger without making any moves towards realisation or anything else.
There was a clear reason for that.
That was because he had his first child.
What a child he was finally made of after forty years.
For that cuteness, he forgot me and immersed himself in your home.
And this battle...
I push off the opposition of the ministers around me and ride the invitation from Sansei Ishida to "increase to eighty thousand stones". In other words, they have made the choice of hostile to the Tokugawa family and wasting their desperate efforts so far.
That choice meant that it was not just the destruction of your home, but that it would surely result in the ruin of his own self, forever losing the opportunity to fulfill the 'dream' he swore to when he was young…
"Uncle... I'm sorry..."
I can no longer regret it.
I regretted making a foolish choice filled with greed for my lovely son.
And above all, it was now even more so that he was attacking him because of the intense chest pain that he had left alone his sworn 'dream' with his stepfather, Karon.
Tears fall on the painting, creating stains.
And at this time, he remembered something.
"My uncle came to me then. Now it's my turn to pick you up from me!
At first glance, the branch rupture.
There was no point there.
But his heart asked him to go see Kalong.
It seemed like a sort of instinct, so to speak, for migratory birds to return to their homeland.
When he stood up so determined, the tide of blood from his forgetting youth began to circle through his body.
This feeling of even nostalgia ignited his dying passion and turned it into a force to move forward.
Already your home will be in distress and you will no longer be chasing 'dreams'.
But still, if I see Karon, I feel like I'll be reborn again.
There his wife… i.e., connected him to Kalong, Kalong's adopted daughter, came to see how it was going.
And against him, who burns in passion, he said, sending a chilling gaze.
"You... are you going somewhere?
The strong desire to protect his mother's children is expressed in a tone that blames him for his goodness.
But Mr. Goodwill's determination never wavered.
"Oh, I'm coming to pick up my uncle. I asked for the rest."
Mr. Kalong's daughter gave him a surprise look at the moment, but immediately broke the look and bowed her head.
"Welcome"
"Coming"
Such a short exchange was enough.
Her cheeks, raised, are just a little red stained.
Is that because of Mr. Goodness's passion, or did her husband, who has lived "small" these days, suddenly feel dazzled that he looked "big"... which she doesn't even know herself.
The only thing I can say is for sure that she was firmly determined to protect the land and her children on behalf of her husband.
Thus he eliminates the worry of his hindsight, and when he straddles his horse, he rushes out in the direction where he came from North Mountain Road.
Like chasing the rest of 'Dreams' back then...