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5 Years of Celebration (1600) End of October Sakai

Akashi Quandeng, who had departed from Kyo, arrived in the city of Sakami.

"It's still a busy city..."

Yes, so as not to resemble the vibrancy of the city, he muttered in a blurry and dark voice, and quickly decided to hurry to the place of destination.

place of his purpose… it was the mansion of a certain merchant. Because I heard that the first person he wanted to meet there had been there for a while.

"Ooh! Joan! Hiccup Day!

and greeted all the boards with a bright voice as if it were the sun.

By the way, Joan is the baptismal name of all the boards.

"Long time no see, Master Organtino"

and all the boards deeply thanked the big man who called him Organtino, who had waited for his hands wide open to give him a hug.

"Ooh... Joan is the inconvenient Death..."

And, Organtino drops his shoulders snugly.

This large man of the body called Organtino is one of the missionaries of the Catholic Church, of Italian origin and affiliated with the Jesuit Church. When he came to Japan in 1570, he continued his missionary service in Kyoto afterwards.

By the brightness of his time and his attitude of loving the Japanese so much, he was a very popular figure both in Kyo and in Sakaki.

Akashi Hideyoshi was a relationship since he was baptized and became a Christian, since the time he met his face during the execution of the twenty-six saints by Hideyoshi Tai.

There, the owner of the store came to them with a grinning smile,

"Akashi-sama is as serious as ever."

and offered tea to All Deng and Organtino.

This master was also a Christian, and during the battle of Sekigahara, he called on Sakami not to involve the organtino that was in Fushimi in the battle.

"... I don't know."

And, All Deng bows one bow to his master.

Then my husband had the same gleaming look,

"Well, Akashi-sama's place is something that everyone trusts."

Leaving, he left the scene.

And all the boards who also thanked the tea, Organtino, who thanked him round his big back to imitate it, contained a bite of tea so that he could breathe together.

And when All Deng corrected his posture and turned back to Organtino, Organtino was also staring at All Deng with some tense face.

"I'd like to speak to Lord Organtino."

"That's kind of scary Death... I hope it's not a bad story Death..."

and swallow gokuri and spit.

At that time, the crying of organtino at that time came to my mind in all the climbs.

That time he kept smiling at all times, crying out loud without staring...

- The Franciscan baterens try to invade the sun books, not the bad ones!

I don't need ears and noses for those guys! Scrape it off!

Twenty-six At that time I gave the ears and nose of the saint to Organtino at the direction of Hideyoshi Tai...

Probably what happened back then is on Organtino's mind.

All Deng moves his facial muscles desperately in an attempt to loosen his expression, making him worry. But without success, the extra organtino looked suspicious.

So all the boards, stop thinking about the extras, and bow their heads deeply,

"We need your help."

And when I cut it out, I told him that Hideyoshi was looking for a professor in a school that would proceed with construction, and that I wanted to ask those who had completed higher education in Western Europe to help me gather that candidacy.

Organtino doesn't seem to be alert anymore, but now he looks like he's in trouble.

Seeing how it was, all the boards understood, as imagined, that it was a difficult thing.

"Oom, that's a hard story Death..."

"... is that still true..."

Organtino, so to speak, that most Jesuit members who are visiting Japan as missionaries have a deep knowledge of theology and philosophy, but very little knowledge of medicine and agronomy, making it difficult to find them. And above all, it is difficult to think of them coming to Japan for the purpose of Christian preaching, to work in a school that has no direct connection with missionary work.

It should also be noted that Organtino himself would be able to teach or study theology, but when it comes to other things, he says that he only carries with him general upbringing and cannot help.

But Organtino is the owner of a personality who, if he sees someone in need, will reach out unexpectedly.

Organtino also looked in trouble at how all the boards were nagging like trouble.

"Joan, I'm in trouble, Masne... and I want to help Desne somehow..."

"... No, this is in the matter of what it does.

I can't let Master Organtino bother you. "

and answered in a clear tone, all the boards stood up and tried to leave the spot behind.

Organtino also stands up and pulls it off.

"Joan, wait! One last good desca?

"Why should I?

"Why is Joan trying so hard to fulfill Master Hideyoshi's ideals on purpose, Deska?

All Deng answered the query with a sharp gaze.

"It is the ideal of Master Hideyoshi, to enrich all the people...

I believe that it is up to the will of the Lord.

So I don't think it's a struggle.

I don't even think it's an ordeal. "

Organtino stares at all the boards.

All Deng was staring at Organtino again so that he could respond to it.

Organtino feels comfortable being sucked into the light of his eyes. The absence of lies and falsehoods in the words of all the boards, and its strong determination to turn a blind eye to its own interests, is questionable.

"If thou mayest bread the hungry, and fill the desires of the afflicted, thy light shall shine in darkness, and thy burning shall be like midday…

And, in the passage of the Old Translation Bible, Mass.

Give knowledge to those who hunger for it...

Moisturize and fill those who suffer from poverty...

Great deed, Death!

Great Death! "

Organtino held the shoulders of all the boards after clapping his hands.

For all the boards that are losing their surprise words, Organtino said,

"I'm going to help Hideyoshi!

and made a loud noise in the ears of all the boards.

"But Master Organtino has a job as a missionary…"

"I don't give a shit!

Dedicating yourself to what the Lord wills is what it does, Death!

Besides, if Joan brings researchers from Western Europe, there's bound to be a wall of words out there!

I'll leave that to you.

"But..."

Still against all the humble boards, Organtino, one step away from him, now bowed his head from that organtino to all boards.

"We missionaries have not come to invade the sun books…

Yes, I want Hideyoshi and everyone in Kyo to know, Death.

Don't let that kind of tragedy happen again... "

Such a tragedy… needless to say, would be the execution of twenty-six saints. The execution did not merely mean that twenty-six noble lives had been taken, but created a reputation for "the missionaries of Nanban are coming to invade Japan".

For this reason, it should be said that Hideyoshi Tai was not the only Jesuit face, starting with Organtino, who was not able to stand out for his missionary work, but rather because of his reputation.

It was only with knowledge, of course, that Organtino did not think that all the missionaries were coming to Japan in a pure spirit.

Still, he also understands that there are people who are putting their lives at risk in preaching and trying to give the Japanese salvation in a pure way. I want to do something about the reputation that is turning to them like that, that was where I felt strongly because Organtino himself had preached with purity.

All Deng opened his heavy mouth as he stared at the seriously-faced organtino at any moment.

"Dear Organtino, I'm glad to hear your feelings, but I'm not going to take that story"

The look on Organtino's face turned to surprise.

It shouldn't be a bad story, because I didn't think they'd say no.

Seeing how such an organtino was, all the boards gave their reasons.

"Earlier, the Jesuits will not look good in this story.

But it still has to be accomplished.

In other words, I think we have to ask the other congregations to cooperate, so it may be that Organtino's own actions would be contrary to what the Jesuits think. "

There are no words from the mouth of Organtino in the words of all the boards.

It was the thought of All Deng that he did not want to put extra effort and hard work on him, who was already over sixty years old and had a leisurely and comfortable afterlife.

Of course, if the Jesuits had been cooperative, they would have been happy to help, but now that they knew they were non-cooperative, they couldn't have let him and the Jesuits cross the dangerous bridge together that would have given birth.

All the boards, in a token of courtesy,

"Then I will go to Nagasaki and hang with my patrol officer, Valignano."

And I was left with a leftover spot.

Organtino, left alone in the room, could not move, and was struck by helplessness that could not be helped.

"That's the life of it... all the things that don't stay, Death..."

He wet his cheeks with a glimmer of tears when he leaked like that.

Now it is he who behaves brightly, but his life has been turbulent. Various bitter experiences, such as the painful preaching in Kyo and the demolition of the seminary he founded, are remembered in his chest.

And...

that in his life he most painfully caused him the helplessness of his own power…

It's not about the demolition of the seminary or the execution of the twenty-six saints, but it wraps his heart around something like an iron chain.

That, the brighter it behaved, the tighter it was, as it devoured the mind.

And now he feels as powerless as he was then.

"Isn't this the same as then..."

Organtino stays alone, it's totally dark around.

All boards will already be on the ship by now...

But there must probably be no hope beyond that.

"Do you repeat it again..."

That's how he stayed only vain and stayed that night even longer.