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From an early age, Tachibana Tachibana did not like Tachibana Somo.

But he is, so to speak, a perfect person, loved by no one but her.

If it was meant to be, you could be proud to be the wife, but she hated the "perfection" of it, like the mask he wore to repair it to others.

But behind her such emotions, both his fruitful father, Shao Luck Takahashi, and Tachibana Dao Snow, his real father and adoptive father of Zongmao in the Qian Dynasty, loved Zongmao.

She knows that Dao Xuexue and others are strictly instructed by his mouth, but praised him for Zongmao in the back, and as he was heavily used, he was diligently clinging to Sorin Otomo, the monarch of the time.

Known to the world as the "Undoubled Brave Men of Heaven," the great famous men of the Far East loved Zongmao, and Hideyoshi Tai, the heavenly man, was no exception.

In other words, he was the admirer of the man of the world, all in love with his martial arts.

And let's just say his popularity didn't just go to men.

His brave samurai and righteous face were also rumored to hold among the women in the back.

Every woman in the world wanted to be his wife.

At least so was the circumference of the Xu Chiyo.

That hasn't changed since Chiyo became his regular room, and that was one of the factors that made her feel neglected about him.

But in the battlefield he was "too kind" a man before the Chiyo, even though he was brave enough to be called "Undoubled Under Heaven".

In a moment of relaxation, he whistled lightly, loving flowers and animals, and his smile when he could play with the children in the castle was like a soft sunshine.

And whenever that smile can be directed at me, too.

That's what I couldn't help but hate about Chiyo.

Because she assumed that the smile was "fake".

She thought that his appearance, which was always calm and friendly to all, not just her, was a "figurine" he had created.

He wants to make the family name "Tachibana" our thing, but he plays the perfect person...

Because she was such a girlfriend, I deliberately treated him cold.

Still, his smile remained the same all the time, enveloping her.

Whenever I saw that smile, his presence in her became increasingly disgusting.

Nothing. She wasn't twisted.

Because in her, there was a "common sense" that the men of the warring world were all gutsy, proud, so soft smiles and other things they would never show.

What's more, basically she doesn't trust "others" or anything.

It was due to her birth.

She was the daughter of Tachibana Dao Snow, and until Zongmao was adopted by her son-in-law, she was the trace of Tachibana, and therefore the surroundings were overflowing with those who sought to take her in.

to false smiles, false sweet words, she always treated, but behind it,

- Oh, if Chiyo was a boy, Tachibana would have been cheap.

- No, no, no, if it's just temperament, boys lose their faces.

- Ha ha! Different!

Like,

- Tachibana might end up in Dao Snow Lord, too. In a stomach like that...

They had noticed the presence of pussies such as

Sometimes the public doesn't like it like that, and it's scattered among Zongmao.

The world doesn't just hate it. Born in Tachibana's house, tied to the name, she hated herself when she was furious.

But then, Zongmao...

I always hugged her.

- It's okay, Chiyo...

With a warm voice reminiscent of the spring breeze...

With a gentle smile reminiscent of the usual autumn sunshine...

Still, she didn't change. Rather, such a husband was depressing.

The name of Tachibana Dao Snow, so dubbed "Thunder God", and the Tachibana family that supports the Oomo family at sunset in the military were a burden of heart for her delicate.

I couldn't help but hate my husband Somo Tachibana, who looks like he knows all about her misery like that.

- I want to go somewhere already...

And when will she,

- The world is full of 'falsehood'. Especially not as trustworthy as those who smile against themselves...

And I started to think.

This idea had elevated herself to a strong, lonely being, strong enough to make her spiritually independent and finally carry the name of Tachibana.

It is about such a folding day.

She found the disease...

The disease made her understand.

"I've become a body that can't have children"

and…

But at the same time, she was a little confused by herself in relief.

Because

"Now you don't have to be bound by the name of Tachibana"

And because she thought.

In other words, Zongmao inherited the name of Tachibana, and for me, I can't leave my child anymore,

"People who are no longer worth anything"

And it seemed that as before, there were no such people as would sell their charm with a false smile.

"Now I can be alone..."

Having thought of this, she, of her own volition, decided to leave the castle of the Tachibana family.

Since she decided to leave, like every day, Zongmao looked lonely, pulling her back, but the more gentle he was, the more uncomfortable she became and more and more hardened her determination to get out of the castle.

She knew that Zongmao had always looked sad and dropped him off against the Chiyo leaving the castle.

Even then she hated it.

Then, Zongmao, her husband, welcomes two of the public houses out to the side room in order to leave the Tachibana family. The story also naturally reached her ears, but was not particularly heart-moving, rather she did not stop hoping that Tachibana's trace would be born as soon as possible.

That would make the 'weight' I hold lighter and, from around me, even less people…

- Come on, I want to be alone...

- I want to be gone from this world soon...

That is how she had lost hope for everything in the world.

In the meantime, this battle of the Willow River happened.

The place of death in her outfit came to her, as she stood for her heart in a robust mansion and thought, "It doesn't matter if she dies early."

Naturally, when she was joyful and brave, unlike her surroundings, which she feared, she commanded the slightest of people who were in the mansion willingly. And finally, the Hot Island Army attacked his mansion, the Palace of Miyanaga.

But the army, as she looked down at her, was a small soldier, and she wanted to be discouraged, and even such a thing was demeaning: "I am only worthy of this degree of soldier."

Thus, I expected the raided Hot Island Army to serve this side of the army by daring to repel it with bitter words, but it was also never visited at last.

I've been hunting her in there, a horse riding fast...

Its messenger, who bears the flag of the original lord, Otomo, was a face she also knew well, which seemed to her like a soul gall that did not alert her, and was not very interesting, but such a bare gesture and so on did not show any fine dust. She welcomed the messenger politely.

What the messenger told us was that the Otomo Indochi would lead his own army to the Palace of Palace of Palace to protect her, and it goes without saying that in the reward those around her boiled in joy at the same time.

But she did not change her complexion one by one, and in a stood up for Rin, she asked the envoy about the future.

The messenger said, after helping them, Yoshio Otomo is going to rendezvous with Somo Tachibana and confront Naomi Hot Island.

But I'm not seriously going to fight Hot Island, which means we're going to go ahead and negotiate with Tokugawa without opening a castle.

Many times its messenger has emphasized them as "to protect the House of Tachibana for one thing" because she thought that the term "House of Tachibana" was a place of inquiry.

But it no longer mattered to her, backwards of the thought of Otomo, such as the "Tachibana House," but rather the loss of the place of death was a heartbreaking account for her.

But she also understood that the choice to "refuse" was unacceptable.

Because she didn't want to make something for Tachibana House, but she didn't want to be like pulling Tachibana House's legs at the same time.

With such complicated thoughts, she waited quietly for that time.

But the people in the mansion, there is nothing that anyone understands as one, such as her feelings, are all snobbery about leaving the mansion with some sunny face.

He stared at such people with cold eyes somewhere, and by his discouraged feelings and advanced illness, he stretched out his heavy body desperately and did not even take off the armor he was wearing and vertical, he did nothing and sat without thinking.

I look at the long knife in front of me.

Father, the famous knife "Thunder Cut" left by Tachibana Dao Snow...

After my father died, there was always this knife on her side.

Whether it was because she was untrained in "Tachibana," or because she missed her late father, even she herself did not know that, but anyway, keeping that knife on her side is a strange thing because her heart always calms down.

"Father..."

Secondly, she called her father, who is not in the world.

Of course there is no one who hears the fine words and comes to the room.

It was already dark outside and a slight light of the moon had raised her side, blue and white, with increased transparency due to the disease.

By appointment, tomorrow, she'll be leaving here. And having lost her place of death, she will continue to quietly finish her raw life in Willow River Castle… so she will have a glimmer of tears on her cheek.

By the moonlight, it was a ray of light, illuminating the depressing room, reflecting the unstoppable.

Celebrating November 2, 5 -

Even at night, Tachibana Chiyo remained seated in the room without laying on the floor, but the noise of horseback and armor rubbing awakened her consciousness.

"Are you here..."

She lifted her heavy hips and, when she left the room, went to summon Utah Tabi Zhenju, a heavy minister of the Tachibana family who had accompanied her in a quiet foothold. He had also arranged for everyone to leave the mansion safely late at night, without laying on the floor again.

The great army of friends came right to the mansion.

It was just as the meeting had been in advance, and many, except the elderly and children, were awake and awaited.

"Well, let's pick up the user quickly."

Zhenjiu, who said so, when he called the young, instructed him to pick up the warlords of the Great Friends to the gate of the Mansion.

Though the soldiers had heard of five thousand, and would hardly put them all inside the mansion's premises, the famous warlords, including the commander-in-chief's brother-in-law Otomo, had been asked to spend the night in the mansion, and the next morning they were all supposed to leave here.

But...

It happened so suddenly...

Sometimes late at night, there were no meetings scheduled that day between Tachibana Tachiyo and the warlords of the Otomo family, and it was when she returned to her room to lie down.

"It's noisy outside..."

It was the first anomaly she felt.

However, her room is in the deepest part of the mansion and it is difficult to see with her eyes what is happening near the entrance where the noise is heard.

But at the next moment, it was clearly understood that something was going on.

"Smoke... is the fire rising!

I still don't know if that was due to a fire or if it was intentionally put on by someone.

But even then, the next information from her five senses was clarified.

- Tachibana Chiyo is in the back! Capture Chiyo!

- Ahhh!!!

When she heard the disturbing loud voice, she instantly understood what had happened.

"You cheat!!

The moment I uttered this word, I remembered that her body, heavily ill, suddenly became lighter as her hot blood swept across her body.

She wears a white vertical when she quickly wears a leather breastplate, which is right in front of her.

And wearing a helmet beside him, with 'Thundercuts' on his hips, and a spear on the wall in his hand, he quickly left the room.

She did want a place to die.

But losing her life through deception does not condone her complacency as a proud 'Tachibana samurai'. Even though I didn't think it was important to forget about Tachibana's house, I couldn't do anything about it.

Besides, she didn't neglect anyone but herself, but she was loyal to herself like that and protected the mansion, not falling apart enough to silently overlook the fact that ministers and ladies are being fought against by their enemies.

She ran through the mansion alone to help one or more people.

………

……

Let's not let the sweet mansion catch fire. But by the smoke coming in from the outside, your sight is never wide.

If you're still used to living in this mansion, it's easy for her to rush through even with her eyes closed.

As she proceeded into the mansion as if it were the wind, it came to her attention that soldiers with the flag of Otomo there were being attacked by women in the defenceless mansion.

As a thunder, she uttered a trembling voice in the room.

"Tachibana Chiyo is here!! You cowardly bastards, such as hands on defenseless women!! Chiyo will succeed or lose!!!

The moment he declared so, he was spearing one soldier to death.

Where in that thin arm is such power, he swung his spear bravely, knocking down the soldiers of Otomo.

And spoke up with the surviving women on their backs.

"Run to the sea!!

"But what about Chiyo?!? You can't leave Chiyo alone!

The women are well cared for by their husband, Chiyo.

But she was not exposed, for example, to the care.

"Just run!! Stay here, you're stuck! Quick!!"

Shouting so, all the women behind them began to cry uniformly,

"Please... please... only your life is taken care of... sorry..."

And he only pleaded for her safety and left the spot.

- There he is! Chiyo's still in the back!

- Make sure you catch him alive!!

From her front, you can hear the soldiers of the Great Friends.

"Ugh," she exhaled loudly, putting much more effort into her belly.

"Tachibana Chiyo... so easy to get caught by the lower bitch, not so sweet!!

So he told himself, and disappeared into the back of the mansion.