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Celebrating 7 Years (1602) September 1 -

In the inner castle of the land of Satsuma, roughly 10,000 large armies waited with their necks long, now or now, for the decree to appear.

All that appearance was of the benign samurai, and it was not an exaggeration to say that in Kyushu, or in Japan, it was the strongest army.

Leading that elite unit is Shimazu Yoshihiro Shimazu, the Shimazu family owner. He was also such a good fighter in his military skills that he was also called "Tsujima Tsu". He is preparing among the castle lords to appear before the soldiers.

But besides him in that room, another, a man, was protesting his appearance with a bright red face.

The man was Tadahiro Shimazu, son of Yoshihiro and entrenched in the next Shimazu household owner.

"Father! Please reconsider!! If you fight Tokugawa like this, that would be the end of the Shimazu family!

Yoshihiro glanced at his son, who pleaded desperately to stop him from coming out.

As a matter of fact, Yoshihiro has always looked down on Zhongheng, even though he is his real son. Because Zhongheng felt that he lacked the instrumentality of the Shimazu family as the masters.

But unfortunately, all Zhongheng's brothers had lost their honorable lives young, and it had to be this Zhongheng who succeeded the governor.

However, Yoshihiro could not truly be his rightful successor to Zhongheng, who had been drowned in kicking and drinking more than he had been before. Now is the time for Zhongheng to concentrate on the politics of the realm, but I don't think his heart is changing.

Just staring at the evidence like this now, Zhongheng trembles and his face, dyed bright red until earlier, is blue without the shadow of its sight.

"You coward..."

And when he accidentally leaked his stupidity, he deflected his gaze from Zhongheng and resumed preparations for his appearance at best.

The moment that Yoshihiro's horrible gaze hit him, Zhongheng began protesting Yoshihiro again.

"Hey, tell me! How can you resist Tokugawa so hard!?

It's decided that the heavens belong to Tokugawa!

Then Yoshihiro answered, now with a cold gaze.

"What's wrong with that? Am I supposed to win the war? I don't know what that means, but it doesn't matter."

"Hey, what are you talking about!?

If Tokugawa cares about it, he can take 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers and crush our house!

If that happens, no matter how many fathers... "

"As much as I... what?

and strengthen our gaze on Zhongheng. Then Zhongheng was frightened and stopped carrying on the two sentences.

"A wretched man... and Han (my cousin) doesn't just move with 'Lee'.

Profits, disadvantages and advantages, disadvantages...

Regardless of that, Han (cousin) moves in "righteousness".

Great justice, righteousness, righteousness...

If we lose these things, there will be no real Han in the Sun Book...

Even if I persist in righteousness or lose, fight by those who inherit righteousness. "

"What are you talking about!? If your father's stubborn attitude makes your house crumble, it's the women and children who cry!!

I've seen a lot of women who lost their husbands in the Korean army with these eyes!

You can't let a woman think that!

It's hard for kids to see the future!

What am I saying is so wrong!?

With anger at all times, Zhongheng theorizes. Seeing him like that, Yoshihiro narrowed his eyes.

"There is no mistake in what the Lord is saying"

"Bye!!

"But that's if you think about it with your head."

"Is...? Where else do you think things are, besides your head?

Yoshihiro, smiling niggardly, pointed around Zhongheng's chest with his index finger.

"Isn't it up to your heart? You can't call that a Satsuma Han! Ha ha!

And when Yoshihiro laughed off, he left the room with his big crotch as it was, ready for the surroundings.

Left alone in the room for a while, Zhongheng nagging. He looked out, twisted by helplessness.

There, a glance at my father Yoshihiro and the appearance of the soldiers cheering enough to sound like the ground. In it, my father, who progresses across the horses with prestige...

He remembered how dazzling his father was and how jealous he was of his chest.

"Whatever I say or do doesn't change anything..."

Zhongheng had arrived at something like one answer with his close look at his great father Yoshihiro and his uncle Yoshihiko. It's...

- There's a handful of people who can change the world... and ordinary people like me have nothing more to live for than that handful of powerful people...

And that's the thing.

And now, once again, let me say that I let myself prove that the idea was right.

That is, Yoshihiro, my father, is a man who deserves to manipulate 10,000 elites and move this Shimazu family, and no matter how he hits what he thinks is right, he can't move anything in the end...

Unless you're a person on the other side of this far too high wall, no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you try, you've seen a reality in which nothing in the world will ever change.

But that wasn't the first time.

Once, in the role of Korea, I thought of the tragic women who had lost their husbands and resolutely opposed a second march, but in the end, as Hideyoshi Tai had to fight.

Even shouting loudly at the destruction of the Ikaido family, who was a rebel against the Shimazu family and a bud of family disturbances, the ruling of the Tokugawa family had to be completed with reconciliation.

And this one thing...

He could not even move his father-in-law, Yoshihiro, when he praised Tokugawa Jiayang for pulling his bow.

"Anyway, I..."

Such despicable thoughts had dominated his chest and prevented him from raising his face.

And unconsciously, he spanned the horses, aiming for a place.

………

……

Fukuma Castle is ahead of Zhongheng Shimazu, who was disappointed. Needless to say, it was my uncle Yoshiku Shimazu's castle.

Zhongheng, almost unconscious, came all the way before Shinji. Uncle who always reads books and doesn't even look at him or anything. He is also a mighty man, so to speak, a being on the clouds. It was well known that nothing could be done more than that his father had led the army out, but he felt compelled to take his feet here for some reason.

And I finally came to the front of the room where I had been for a long time. Open up here and you'll have a long time...

But as usual, you must welcome Zhongheng with your back turned even when he enters the room. And no matter what he talks about, he'll just be flushed out like a willow tree and eventually let down even more and leave the room behind...

In that way, he opened his temper with humility again.

But...

There was a suspicious sight waiting for Zhongheng.

"Nice to see you. I've been waiting for you, Zhongheng."

"Uncle...?

What a welcome for Yoshiku in the form of facing Zhongheng. And beside it sits Princess Turtle Shou, wife of Zhongheng and stepdaughter.

"Hehe, you sound surprised."

And, Yoshiku's eyes so narrow that he doesn't know if they're still open or closed, he's smiling at his mouth.

"And Turtle Shou... why...?

"I called you. Bring the armor of Zhongheng."

"My armor? What's this all about?

"We'll talk about that later.

First of all, I think you broke a lot of bones about this one. Thank you very much. "

And, since Yoshiku rarely praised Zhongheng, Zhongheng wrinkled between his eyebrows saying that he was unnecessarily suspicious of something. And Yoshiku went on.

"As a reward, Zhongheng. I'll tell you one thing."

"Ha ha... thank you"

And, speaking of gratitude with no feelings at all, Zhongheng bowed his head lightly. But Yoshiku went on without worrying about it.

"What do you think we should do to make the world... No, move your house?

Zhongheng answered the sudden inquisition with confusion.

"I was wondering if there was more to it than telling them the right path..."

And when Zhongheng answered, Yoshiku slowly shook his neck to the side.

"That's not enough, Zhongheng.

People can't just move words.

In other words, words and strong thoughts are not enough to move the world. "

"So what do we need to do now...?

Long after the inquiry, when he loosened his dust and mouth, he answered in a gentle tone.

"It's an action. It's not just words, but the world can't move if we follow them and act concretely."

"Ha..."

Zhongheng doesn't know the prolonged words as a real feeling. On the contrary, the meaning did not even come with a pin.

Seeing how Zhongheng was like that, Yoshiku went on.

"There's only one more thing I have to say and put down.

I told you not to stick your neck in this one. "

"Yes, but it would be important for your home... to be there or not..."

"Let's just praise that temper. But more than just sticking your neck in it, I'm guessing you're pretty prepared for that, huh?

Even in such protracted language as could be taken as that intimidation, now Zhongheng felt nothing, his heart was so sore.

"No... I'm not ready. I just stopped my dad, that's all..."

"Well... but more than we've come this far, let's get it done through to the end"

"Huh... to the end? My dad's out of line already. What more do you want me to do?

In response to that unwilling inquiry of loyalty, Yoshiku replied by turning the smile of his mouth into a niggling laugh.

"I would have said. He says it's not words, it's actions that change the world.

Zhongheng. Now is the time for your Lord to act. "

I said that for a long time...

- Bam!!

And I opened it all at once.

From that room, the top floor of the castle, you can see the view under the castle. The landscape was astonishing.

There...

"Hey, what is it!? That one!"

Oh, my God, isn't the Great Army neatly aligned?

Zhongheng was overwhelmed by the sight.

Standing beside such loyalty, Yoshiku put his hand on his shoulder with Pong.

"Lead this soldier and stop Yoshihiro.

If Yoshihiro still can't stop... "

I'll talk to you there for a long time. Seeing such a prolonged expression, Zhongheng felt fear and swallowed the gokuri and spit.

"Take this soldier and attack Yoshihiro.

In case there's an 'accident' like a stray bullet hitting Yoshihiro...

Heh heh, that's what I have to do. "

"Hey, what...!?

Before Zhongheng, who was so blue-faced of surprise and fear, Princess Kameshou, who had the exact same face as Yoshiku, approached when she did so.

"You. This one is in the armor. Put this on and you'll be ready to go."

Zhongheng compares Yoshiku to Princess Turtle Shou.

"Wrong... this way is wrong!!

And, he said, he ran after the room.

Parents and children of Yoshiku and Princess Turtle Shou left in the room.

After a while of silence, it was Princess Turtle Shou who opened her mouth.

"... Are you sure? I let Zhongheng go like this..."

In response to the inquiry, Yoshiku answered with the same smile.

"It's fine. He's about to peel right now.

To become the Han you deserve as the Shimazu family owner...

If things change here, he'll get what he deserves… that's all. "

With that said, Shizuku sat in the usual place and began to read the books.

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Just around the same time, even in Mortar Castle in Toyoko Country, he was ready to make his appearance.

As a side-general supporting the general's brother-in-law Otomo, one girl entrusted with an army was now walking early through the castle, dressed in bright armor knitted with white thread and a crimson vertical, towards the castle where the soldiers waited.

Its mouth tightened tightly and its big eyes seemed straight forward to show her sad determination to fight. It was the circumstances in which the Otomo family was placed that made her face so hard, for a reason.

The other day.

On the occasion of his last appraisal, our Lord Yoshio Otomo pronounced himself surprisingly vociferous.

It was supposed to add to the anti-Tokugawa what until now had been based on the assumption that he would be on the side of the Tokugawa family. The reason for this was simple: a rebellion against Jiayang's public announcement that the Tokugawa family would keep the heavens on behalf of the Toyotomi family.

Regardless, a lot of objections arose from all over the house. Especially the one who raised his voice of anger was Tae-jung, arguably one arm of the orthodox.

- Have you forgotten the great grace you received from Lord Tokugawa!!? To whom was this mortar castle and the possession of Toyoko's country given!

- Yeah, shut up! Tokugawa was just putting that shack down as a hindsight of the young Toyotomi Hideyoshi! But it's just a hindsight! It would be speechless, such as making the heavens his own!

Without pulling a single step, they were still compelling their opinions to fight each other like slaughter, but at last Tae Yee forgot me in anger and tried to impress his righteousness, and Yoshihiro Toshiyuki and Yoshioka Apricots, the elders, came in between to control it.

- So the lords are good to pull a bow on Tokugawa!!?

- That's up to you, the Oomori family owner! It's not just a minister. It's not what Lord Tae-gi says!

- You bastards! I don't know if you regret it!

And, although Tae-jung eventually pulled back reluctantly, there was no doubt that a lump remained in the house.

Of course, in view of the situation in the world today, it can only be described as foolish to poke at Tokugawa Jiayang.

But they believe that it is their duty as loyal ministers to obey them more than our Lord's law dictates.

Thus we celebrated the day of our departure.

The warlords, who led the 10,000 soldiers of the Great Friends, also ran horses with anxiety in their breasts.