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6 Years of Celebration (1601) October -

Early in the morning of Kyo, where winter footsteps follow, the sky is still half dark at night and half rugged at dawn.

During the day, the vibrant Toyota School is quiet and secluded.

Two people, Akashi Chuen Teng, who finished preparing for the journey there, and Souyoshi Ishida, who dropped him off, were slowly walking inside the premises of Toyokuni School to keep pace.

And when he came to the front gate, which was the entrance to and exit from the college, Zong Yong stopped his legs, and all the boards proceeded a little more than one person, and looked back toward Zong Yong.

Just the same sight as a year ago.

But all the boards standing in front of Zong Ying are as if they were someone else. Those eyes shine with confidence and a sense of purpose.

"Okay, I'm coming. Thank you for the rest."

and all the boards bow their heads gently.

Soo-yong turned his serene smile to all the boards the same as last year.

"Yeah, I'll take care of it... but the awkward monks just keep an eye on you..."

and Zongying stared at a number of the temple houses and other buildings behind him.

"No, it is located in Toyoku School, where the Zongyong Temple is located.

Everyone who learns, teaches, and researches here has feelings for the character and passion of Lord Zongyong, and he stays here. "

"Heh heh, that's just too much.

This Toyoku school was built under Hideyoshi's high corn, so it was the corn that inspired your heart. "

Soo-yong humbled himself so much, he turned again to all the boards.

The look on the face of all the boards has no hardness or feelings like before.

And Soo-yong said as if he had evoked something.

"With that said, I've heard about it lately.

Anything, one former Daimyo was targeted for his life by Lord Tokugawa as a sinner and fallen person after the battle of Sekigahara. But one of his ministers found out more about the crisis and risked his life to appeal directly to Lord Tokugawa to help him. "

Of course the matter is clear about Hideyoshi Uchita and All Akashi.

All the boards thought a lot about why I would say things around it.

Soo-yong continued in a quiet state.

"You've been told where that story came from.

It has spread to the townspeople of Sakaki and Kyo, and is now a major topic of beauty. "

"Oh my... did you..."

All the boards were relieved to know that the matter of Hideya was well communicated to the townspeople. But did Soo-yong bring up this topic for that...

"While all the temples were not in Kyoto, the story was also passed on to this Toyokuni school. Hon Ami Hideyoshi told the dancer you know named Akuni, and she sang and danced about it...

It wasn't just the townsfolk, it was the famous ones. "

"Huh..."

Zong Yong continued smiling at Nicoli there.

"The dance seemed to resonate with the hearts and minds of many of the great names, and the plea for the lives of the great names caught rose from the townsfolk and from the great ones."

"It's..."

The body of all the boards trembles.

"When the story grows to this point, it doesn't necessarily mean that any noise will occur if you plead guilty to death, much so to say, Lord Tokugawa.

At last, Lord Tokugawa decided to reduce the sin of his former Otema to the first degree and to commit the crime of leeward to Yashima. "

All Deng bows his head naturally and deeply against Zongyang.

There were no words there, just hot tears and trembling.

"Lord Akashi... your head is lowered in a different direction."

And, Zong Yong gently said, pointed in one direction.

"He said the castle in this direction was where the first story came from.

The chatter-loving lord told me it was leaked...

Heh heh, it's just a rumor. "

That direction Soo-yong pointed...

Ahead is Osaka Castle...

Its lord is Hideyoshi Toyotomi...

Tailoring and spreading the story with All Deng as a beauty story so as to spare Hideya from the crime of death was it according to mere "chatter of the lord of Osaka Castle"...

And after it was passed on to Kyo, who moved Hon Ami Yue...

Is it inevitable that Hideyoshi Ukita's death sentence was created by mere gear of history after fulfilling...

Or did the little force drive that gear crazy...

That may no longer be either way.

Because one man named Akashi Omotesan can 'dream' of a future in which he can fulfill that promise to return the one red umbrella he carries...

"Ooh! Joan! Wait, Dace!

A loud voice of organtino was heard from behind Zongyong.

He didn't plan on dropping me off, but it was the outfit that surprised all the boards more than that.

It looks like it's easy to walk with a big bag...

I don't care how you look at it, it's not just a drop off...

"That's what I offer you!! So wait, Dace!

Organtino, who ran and came here, as he came to the front of all the boards, breathed with his shoulders and laid his hands on both knees to nag. All the boards shouted surprises at him like that.

"Dear Organtino!? But how about preaching in Kyo?

"Why not... in the first place... if Jesuit missionaries can work in Toyoku schools, we can't do preaching in Kyo...

And... "

"And?"

"Joan can't speak exotic language, Death.

I don't like Joan getting in trouble in an exotic country, Death!

"But... tell me the words at the temple house..."

At that time, Soo-yong pinched his mouth.

"The Japanese who said Constantino, not Lord Organtino, will tell you about it."

"Uh... that's..."

"Anything Lord Valignano fills the hole in Lord Organtino... and you nominated him immediately...

Lord Valignano said that the Japanese had no right to stop the Jesuit general from teaching things to the Japanese. "

"Dear Valignano..."

All boards turn toward Organtino,

"Then Master Organtino. Thank you very much."

And he bowed deeply.

"Bye! Departure Day!!

With the shoulders of all the boards, Organtino shouts out loud yes to heaven.

Soon, there was no darkness in the sky, covered in rugged colors.

In the clear autumn sky, where there were no clouds, all the boards and organtinos forcefully proceeded to the shipyard in the port of Osaka, where the finished ship was located.

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6 Years of Celebration (1601) October 3 -

This day has become an historic one for me… i.e. Hideyoshi Toyotomi.

Oh my...

Oh my...

It was the first time we were going out of Honmaru in Osaka Castle!

No, I had exited Osaka Castle to stop the battle of Sekigahara to be exact, but at that time I couldn't help myself, and at the end of the quote, I had been punished so terribly by the starch, my mother, that my spine iced just to remember.

But not this time.

With the permission of his mother, the temple, all this day, Honmaru of Osaka Castle was to leave the castle.

Of course there's just a reason to go outside. That's to drop off all Akashi boards leaving for the exotic country. Therefore, he is to leave in the morning and return to Osaka Castle by evening time.

Still, it was such a pleasure for me to call it exactly the anniversary.

In fact, it was his daughter, Akashi Regina, who first pleaded for it to Princess Kofi.

It was precisely on this day that she and her family wished to leave Osaka Castle and go to the shipyard in the port of Osaka to drop off her father, Akashi Akashi Akashi.

To that end, I hitched a ride… No, I asked Princess Kofi and the Temple, along with Regina, to leave Osaka Castle just a short distance to the shipyard in the port of Osaka for the reason that I wanted to accompany her and her family and labor all the boarding, my minister.

………

……

"But... Mother... isn't this number a little too much..."

And before the gate that leaves the main circle of Osaka Castle, when I saw that group gathered by the temple, I sighed unexpectedly and said to the temple that came to see us off.

How many hundreds of castle-packed soldiers were gathered as my escort.

"Oh, Hideyoshi. That's not true. Maybe less.

"We're just going to go to the shipyard in the harbor of Osaka and come back… Besides, they're supposed to escort us to Lord Yukimura and Lord Kofi instead of just seven-handed..."

"Hehe, the number of soldiers is like the size of my mother's love... I can't believe there's too much of it...

You still haven't thanked Hideyoshi for this mother's affection... "

I have a feeling this is going to be a rough development...

That's what I decided.

"Thank you! Mother."

And he decided to put on the mood of the temple with an extraordinary smile he could do now.

But there were boys who looked at me like that and raised their voices from the side.

"My lord!! There is also this Kimura Reisei! Your Highness's life will be protected by it!

"My lord, there's also Gideo Ono! I'm good enough!

"Dear Hideyoshi! I will also go to Naku Horiuchi!

And three boys who didn't say their names from my mouth, pointing their mouths and claiming that they would escort me too. They are also supposed to accompany us to the shipyard in the port of Osaka.

I'm more worried about them getting lost than I am about the rearrangement of the solid.

That said, going out of the castle with my good friends should still be called "back in the day" … still difficult to describe, but anyway, I felt close to the "excursion" I had experienced "back in the day" and I was in the mood for a tremendous chest dance.

"Hideyoshi. Ah!

The voice calling me, a girl who was more heavenly and more fragrant than that, stuck to the autumn sky in the morning.

When I saw that voice, I saw a thousand princesses coming this way with Regina's family.

She's supposed to accompany us again.

Yesterday I found out I was going out of the castle, and she cried.

"If I didn't take a thousand, I'd tell my uncle (about Tokugawa Jiayang)!!

And I wasted it.

Afraid of things that were somewhat unsprinky, Yukimura and I asked her to take her mother's place in the temple to accept it "conditionally".

What that "condition" is, he said, was exchanged between Yukimura and the Temple, but Yukimura, who returned with a blue face without a pattern,

"This is also for the Toyotomi..."

And it was just a crush, and they never revealed it at last.

Well, such a thousand princesses are now turning their naive smiles to this one, like the wind blowing all over them yesterday's cry and all that.

But I looked at the big baggage that didn't fit that little body, and I rounded my eyes.

"Hey, a thousand! Why are you so packed?

And when he asked me a lot, Chihime answered with a pointy mouth, as she said, "Outside the heart."

"For Hideyoshi's sake, don't you have to say it like that, even though it turned out to be such a big package!

"What? You think it's for me?

"Yes! Let's start by gripping for Hideyoshi when he's hungry. Besides, for when Hideyoshi wants something sweet, for the competition, for when Hideyoshi is thirsty, with water..."

And, Chihime explains diligently as she fingers.

I sighed and controlled it.

"Where the hell are we going... then it's like going exotic..."

Then Chihime looked strange at me and stumbled on me.

"I've never been a thousand outside Osaka Castle. So I'm not sure, isn't it something exotic?

I heard these words and they made me feel better. [M]

- Well... maybe the Thousand Princesses of Historical Facts were feeling this way too...

Trapped behind Fushimi Castle or Osaka Castle, like a prisoner for a long time, I guess she never knew anything about the outside of the castle.

She can't help but think of things outside the castle as "exotic."

And that, if she were now just a four-year-old girl, might not be anything unnatural or anything, but if it hadn't been for anything like today, she might have been supposed to follow such a fate as a "hostage to the Toyotomi" for years to come.

No, it's more than likely it was in historical fact.

When I thought so, I suddenly felt a chest ache in her condition, and I hit her head.

"Hideyoshi?

"You can't bring such big baggage to your stomach"

And I tried to take the luggage she was holding from her hand, and I lifted it.

The weight on my hand felt like "love", not starving, which made my chest tickle.

And finally, when I get out, I don't have a prepared cage (basket), but a horse with Komura hanging on his back and riding, and all the other boys seem to be letting other adult horses ride along.

Thousand princesses wanted to ride the same horse as me again, but due to the persuasion around them, they reluctantly went into the cage (basket) with Regina.

And...

"Alright! Let's go!

And when I made the decree out loud, I took more than a hundred offerings and took Honmaru of Osaka Castle out of the front with dignity.

It was the moment when an inspiring step was taken for me.

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"Mmm... kind of different from what I was expecting... something like this?

Mr. Horiuchi's shipyard, which was built in a place near Osaka Bay, made me utter what could be described as discouragement.

That is the word that commanded him to build a ship that would drain his liver, and put the finished ship in front of him.

As far as I'm concerned, I was expecting a super huge sailboat over 50m long and 10m wide, plus a bunch of cannons, which totally betrayed that expectation, probably about 20m long and still huge, but I got the impression that it was somewhere snug. But even in the eyes of the amateur, there was no wasted decoration, and I was sure that I felt reliable about the atmosphere that seemed to sail faster.

"Gahaha! Father! You look surprised that it's not what I imagined!

And Mr Horiuchi, the head of this shipbuilding, has still spoken to me with a lavish grin.

"Hmmm... a little more... because I imagined a dokan like this"

Then Yoshiji Otani, who was also in charge of shipbuilding there, approached me, smiling and explaining to me why it wasn't huge.

"Actually, I had a plan to build a giant ship, but in the first place I would make a deal… I mean, it's not a voyage aimed at putting more loads on, so I thought about building a faster, smaller, more robust ship than its size"

"I see… is it the same thing that Columbus once preferred the Pinta or Niña, the smaller traveled carabel ship, rather than the Santa Maria, the carac ship he boarded…"

"Konbusu?

"No, it's nothing. I see... if that's the case, I can't help it!

No, it would rather be the perfect ship for sailing all boarding halls!

Well done everyone!!

And I gave my deepest thanks to the people involved in shipbuilding, and I worked aloud.

Everyone cheers and rejoices in that voice.

I also saw a brand new ship completed at my behest, kind of steeped in strange emotions with a twinge in the back of my nose.

And when the ship was given the name "Toyokuni," the time for the departure of all Akashi boarders was finally approaching.

So I actually decide to be a "giver" for all the other boards.

The "person" came to the shipyard.

"Whoa! Master Rushui told me where I would take the ship until I dumped 10,000 stone possessions!

The person appeared refreshed when he thought his voice approached him, as if he had difficulty in his predisposition.

There is a knife wound on his cheek that tells the story of the man being a samurai who has lived on the battlefield.

Then, similarly, Rushui Kuroda, who had brought Kiyoshi Kato and Hiroshi Gui to see off all the boards, scolded the man.

"Hey! Soldier again!! You! After being late, what are you talking about?

"Whew! Father... No, Master Rushui!!

"It's not! Besides, that behavior in front of Hideyoshi!! Had I been a hard-headed Sakichi, I would have been ready to fight for him immediately!

Keep your head down!! And apologize for being late!

The man, reprimanded, when he came before me sober, turned small and bowed his head.

"My name is Koji Goto. Sorry for the delay."

Yes, this man's name is Goto and he's a soldier. He is a fierce warrior who later plays a great role in the Great Slope formation.

Around this time, I can't say that things are going very well with my lord, Nagata Kuroda, who, on historical facts, runs away a few years later and falls into misery.

This time before that, I asked for the guards of all the boards through Rushui in anticipation of his martial arts.

"No, no, it's good. Instead, I said I couldn't, and I'm sorry I had to get you out of Tsukima's possession!

You cared about my words, and the guards stretch their chests.

"Guard of Lord Akashi! I'll take care of it! If you're a Southern Barbarian, but redhead or something to do harm, let it chop you up with a knife of your hand! Hahaha!!"

"Hey! Soldier again! That's why your lord hates you from the chancellor!! Totally, a little restless!

And when Rushui added a drink to the appearance of the soldiers, it was Shun again, and the soldiers entered the ship with great personage.

And there was another person there who was late.

It is Soyo Ishida.

"Suddenly I wanted to shop at Sakami, why not?

And when the North Administration suddenly said that he was an escort, he was nominated by her, so he began to participate in the drop-off.

Seven general stars aligned here in an unscheduled manner.

Rushui Kuroda, Kiyosei Kato, Souyoshi Ishida, Quandeng Akashi, Shinshin Horiuchi, Yoshiji Otani, Hiroshi Gui...

Their movements built schools, built ships, built castles, and made many allies.

I will not be grateful enough for the "star" kind of work that shows the way to go on my voyage of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life, which began precisely in the dark.

I bowed profoundly to nature and to them.

I can see they are all surprised with their eyes wide open. I honestly exposed my mind to them like that.

"On this occasion, I would like to thank the Lord once again.

Thank you so much.

It is only a year since the Lord gathered with me, but it is not an exaggeration to say that the actions of the Toyotomi family… are creating the future of the people of the Sun Book.

It is precisely what can be called the Seven Stars of Toyotomi.

Now I'm ashamed that this is how I can only reward you for that labor with words.

However, we will continue to make Toyotomi... the star that illuminates the Sun Book, and we will not stop hoping to shine. "

Kiyoshi Kato and other words that I sincerely think are not decorative come to my attention. And all the others, like one another, bowed their heads with a strange face.

It was Hideyoshi Toyotomi's life, which can also be said to have begun with adversity, but if they were there... no, they weren't the only ones, Yukimura Maida, Hideyozo Misty, Princess Kofi, Reisei Nikitori, and Yusei Kimura, Jitoku Ono, and Minatouchi Horiuchi... if everyone around me was there, their future would be bright, I felt that way at this time.

And...

All boards sailed to Nagasaki's harbor.

What the hell will he meet and see at the end of the wide sea?

That would be the same thing in my life to come.

How much will I go through in the future in Hideyoshi Toyotomi's life?

And I wonder what lies ahead.

And I'm not the only one who can say the same thing to all the people who have been given life in this world.

In the middle of that voyage, sometimes grief will strike us.

Still, we all live hard because we believe that 'dreams' await us beyond.

Yes, I believed it at this time...

But I didn't know where the ocean was going at this time, that some people had nothing but 'despair'.

As a result, the "Toyotomi's Seven Stars" will all be aligned, which will be the first and last…

And beyond the voyage of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life, there is only deep despair waiting…

Who could have guessed at this time...