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Celebration 7 years (1602) September 12th -

At Hidekang Nobushiki's mansion in Fushimi, two people from Tokugawa Jiayang and the side room Atcha bureau came with a meagre offering, all together.

Hidekang, on the other hand, welcomed the two to the Mansion Gate, along with his first name and his main room.

"A Tea Palace to Father. Welcome aboard."

And, Hidekang bows his head deeply. And then Jia Kang peeked at Hidekang's raised face. The look is somewhat stiff.

- You're determined to do something...

Jia Kang couldn't imagine what Hidekang would do, but seeing that face with considerable determination, the face of nature and Jia Kang also became stiff.

Tea bureau pushes the flank of Jiayang like that all the time. In addition to its strength, Jiayang accidentally raised his face.

"What are you doing!

And Jia Kang whispered and complained to Tea's Bureau, leaving a gentle smile unbroken, Tea's Bureau said.

"I was invited to respond, but you don't have to look so scared."

Hidekang, who was still watching such an exchange between the two, with a hard look,

"Then I'll show you"

and led them to a place of response.

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"Uncle! Welcome aboard!

And it was Nagayoshimaru, Hidekang's eldest son, who had just turned seven years old, who welcomed Jiayasu into the place of response.

"Oh! Nagayoshimaru! Before I saw it, it grew a lot bigger!

and the expression of the stiff household health earlier turned into something soft so as to melt. And Jia Kang started Nagayoshimaru's head gently. To that appearance, the bureau of Tea said gently, pulling out the strength of his shoulders as he was relieved, turning to Jia Kang's back.

"Hehe, the power of the child is stronger than anything else."

When the atmosphere was soothing, Hidekang's response began with a smile on his face.

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When the connection ended, the room was filled with parents and children, only Hidekang Nobushiki and Jiayang Tokugawa, sitting face to face with liquor.

The area was completely darkened, and the sound of insects heard from the garden was what made the season feel.

Unlike the earlier liveliness, some of the rooms surrounded by tranquillity still have little air.

It seemed to depress the current parent-child relationship between the two.

And I cut the story out of Hidekang's.

"Can Father leave Kyo tomorrow?

Again, the voice feels slightly nervous. Jiayang tried to answer peacefully.

"Well... I'm leaving tomorrow and I'm not leaving Osaka the day after tomorrow."

"I see… were you…"

Hidekang, who told him to divulge it, opened it up for a little while and gave Jia Kang an audience. Jia Kang also returns the offer afterwards.

During that exchange, we were both silent and only the sound of bugs was heard from the garden.

Hidekang, who took a sip of alcohol, said to Jia Kang in a tone that was only slightly different from the one he had just had earlier… it was only a tone with a little strength.

"Then let's defend Edo Castle, where there is no Hideyoshi or Father."

After that word, silence reigns over the place again.

And Jia Kang told me to spit it out.

"I see... that's how it comes..."

Silence reigns again for a while.

Meaning of the word… it was Hidekang's threat to stop Jiayang in this ambush. In other words, if Jiayang moves, the army of Hidekang Noboru, one of the anti-Tokugawa parties, enters Edo Castle. That meant taking the people inside Edo Castle hostage.

That was the purpose of Hidekang's beating and his response.

In the heavy air, it was Hidekang who cut out the story again.

"Father, what are you going to do with my 'brother'... Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi...?

A truly straight, decorative inquiry.

Jia Kang's chest was struck like a wave with dokun and slapped with something like a blunt instrument.

- This is inevitable again...

And, Jiayang pounds his tongue in his heart.

And I answered slowly so that I could bite it off.

"The heavens... the steering wheel, Tokugawa will keep for a while. That's all I can say right now."

Hidekang's gaze at Jiayang turns into something as sharp as a stab. Jia Kang had been taking it for a long time.

Silence to visit again.

When Hidekang takes the liquor, he mouths it.

The sound of putting the heel down.

"Is Father going to visit Osaka Castle?

Jiayang blinked once and he also included booze in his mouth.

"What do we do... what does that mean?

Hidekang's cheeks stain faintly red.

"It means that one day... you're going to take it down..."

Jiayang laid eyes on him and put his strength into his belly.

"I don't mean to... hairless now"

"Now let's change the question. If, even at the time of Hideyoshi's birth, how long does Heavenly Hideyoshi intend to return it to Toyotomi?

Jia Kang was also at ease with Hidekang's relentless inquiry, which seemed to slightly step in at the earthfoot.

Maybe that's because Hidekang was his own son.

"It is no longer I who decide that. Both Lord Hideyoshi and the man he was born to are sons of Hideyoshi.

It's up to Hideyoshi to decide that. "

Hidekang's tone only strengthens his heart.

"Do you think Father, to his brother… Hideyoshi, has the amount of equipment that can decide that?

Slash each other...

While a real parent and child, the conversation was exactly what the word fitted in perfectly.

But it seems that his son Hidekang unilaterally punches in, and his father, Jia Kang, continues to take it with dignity, not wandering around.

"The amount of instrumentation that just determines it to Hideyoshi...

I guess not now. "

And finally, something in Hidekang's chest blew the fire.

"Then why entrust it to Hideyoshi!?

As it is, you know for sure that Hideyoshi will become a puppet of people like Hondo, Toi, and Okubo!

And they're from Tokugawa... no, for their own benefit, it's more obvious to move to eliminate Toyotomi than to see fire!

Hidekang thinks of the Toyotomi family, that painful feeling slashes into Jiayang's heart.

But Jia Kang still took it peacefully.

"O Hidekang... if you listen carefully, your Lord seems to think only of 'protecting the house of Toyotomi'"

"The Toyotomi family has a great grace for it's nurturing and even for people's parents.

No... it's more of a 'real' family.

Is it strange to try to protect that family?

To the words of Hidekang, Jiayang pulled out his shoulder strength.

"Hmmm... I don't find that particularly strange in itself..."

"If so!

And, where Hidekang had embarked on himself, Jia Kang raised one hand to control it.

And quietly, but always more and heavier, he pierced the word into Hidekang's heart.

"Then I can't feel the great 'keep the peace of the people' there"

Hidekang lost his word to this word.

Hidekang was in a hurry. That's because I don't feel like the actions I've taken so far, the numerous ploys I've stretched out with Rushui Kuroda and Chang Yuki Maida, are about to collapse even by this one word.

But when I managed to stay on my feet, I told Jiayang.

"Lord Hideyoshi has the goal of 'enriching the lives of all people'! Don't you think that defending His Highness is the same as upholding that noble goal!?

Still, is Father going to keep the Toyotomi company!?

Even the words of the feverish Hidekang do not move Jia Kang's heart.

Everywhere I said quietly, calmly, to persuade Hidekang.

"I never remembered Lord Hideyoshi... or more importantly, the Toyotomi.

If Toyotomi and Tokugawa really confront each other, I'm not going to keep Ozaka Castle for a thousand.

But look at it.

In the past, Ishida Metallurgical Department, now Kuroda Rushui and others such as Maida Yasukakusho, have caused unwanted strife over Lord Hideyoshi's childhood. "

"That's all, trying to protect the Toyotomi..."

Jiayang finally changed his attitude toward Hidekang, who still tried to eat down.

"I'm telling you the idea is stupid!! You bastard!!!

For the first time in his life, Hidekang touched his father's scales and rounded his eyes. Towards him like that, Jiayang spoke again quietly and in a pale tone.

"Look... peace, peace is best for the people.

It has nothing to do with them, whether Tokugawa stands or Toyotomi stands.

But what are we doing now to protect the lives of our people?

Some are desperate to take Tokugawa under the sky.

Some are desperate to reclaim the world of Toyotomi.

Of course, some people act solely on their own interests.

But how many eyes will there be to see the people...

Shall we not see the people, and let the peace of the people be preserved, who keep the statutes of the heavens?

To reward His Royal Highness Tai... the words do sound good.

But that's just a delusion that's caught by those who only think about what's going on.

Okay, Hidekang. If the LORD is also of Tokugawa… no, he who bears the house of Toyotomi, he must not be caught at the moment.

Look beyond.

Remember the landscape you showed His Highness the Great Sakaki Castle from Tenguchi.

What did you see there?

The people are smiling and making the city, didn't you see such a sight?

So Jia Kang cut the conversation.

If a man named Hidekang Nobushiro is the man Jiayang expected to be...

With such anticipation and anxiety in mind, he awaited Hidekang's next words. But that one word of Hidekang did not meet his expectations.

"That's what... I still want to protect my 'family'..."

Hidekang with regrettable lips. The condition admitted that the words of his father, Jiayang, were the best, but on the other hand, his strong determination seemed to continue to stand, even though he was dying.

"That's the same for me.

Lord Hideyoshi is also a part of my family... because he is going to daughter-in-law me a lovely thousand.

And of course... "

The color of Jiayang's eyes changes.

Those eyes...

Be gentle, strong, wrap everything up, protect those you love...

It was my great father's.

When Hidekang stares into his eyes, nature and tears catch his cheek.

Jiayang, such a brilliant man, had finally spoken his true heart, which he had never been able to speak of before.

"The Lord is a part of my family to protect."

That's what Hidekang Nobushi has been waiting for.

That's not from Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'father', or from the North Administration, the 'mother', but from the mouth of Jiayang Tokugawa.

What he wanted, more than any expensive tea utensil, more than any wider possession.

Now, in Hidekang's mind, there is neither Toyotomi nor Tokugawa.

What's there is his family all tied their hands and wrapped him with a smile. Wasn't that what my father, Jiayang Tokugawa, wanted to tell him most?

That's how it seemed then...

Hidekang Nobujo and Jiayang Tokugawa became family for the first time at this time -

"Whether it's Tokugawa or Toyotomi, you can try that in broad heaven... what's there..."

and Hidekang remains fluffy and floating, crushing.

And to follow the words of Hidekang, Jia Kang connected.

"A heart that cares for people and wants to protect them.

That's the power.

He who is in his power is worthy of the heavenly people.

Don't you think?

Hidekang asked Jia Kang again when he was depressed as he had noticed.

"Will my brother, Hideyoshi be equipped with that power...

Does my brother have enough power to protect his family... "

That eye of Hidekang, who raised his face, shows a strong feeling, worrying about his brother Hideyoshi. When I looked into his eyes, something hot crept up in Jiayang's chest as well.

Jia Kang, in other words, said to squeeze out words like that somehow.

"It is my duty as a father to let you build on that strength.

And about Kyushu this time... this is what he wants to do with his big wings. "

To the words, Hidekang's eyes were opened bigger than ever.

"No way..."

I can't say much of a word about housekeeping to my surprise. That's when Hidekang realized.

What you are thinking after this in Tokugawa Jiayang.

And so I finally got to the point. Why didn't you accompany the Great Famous People of the East as an addition...

Jiayang tied his mouth to a single letter and stared at Hidekang. From his eyes the colour of an extraordinary determination appeared.

Hidekang exhaled deeply when he managed to calm down and then asked Jia Kang severely.

"Your father is not going to Kyushu..."

and…

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"My lord, you have a good face again."

Tokugawa Jiayang, who finished drinking with Hidekang Nojo, decided to stay at Hidekang's mansion that day and entered the room. There, after Tea's bureau had prepared the bedding, he welcomed Jiayang in.

The first voice she uttered when she saw Jiayang's face was an earlier one.

"Hmm! So it's like I haven't looked very good before"

And Jia Kang distracted himself from the Bureau of Tea and told him to swell. But it is well known to the Atcha Bureau that it is a shade of light.

She answered with a gentle smile on her face.

"Oh? Didn't you see that for yourself?

If the conversation was about Hidekang, he would have looked so ugly... "

"Hmm! How dare you say to me, ugly, etc! Wherever you look around the world, the Lord is the only stomach that says that to me!

"Thank you very much."

"What are you thankful for..."

"Hehe, because the words seemed to acknowledge the friction as' family '. Different?

So cut off the words, the bureau of Acha peered into Jiayang's face.

Jia Kang glances at her face and blushes.

"Hmm! Congratulations..."

"Congratulations, my lord."

"Hey... what are you saying!? What do you want from me?

Then Tea's bureau just put the amazing Jiayang in the bed on his ass.

"Come on... what is it? I thought you had something to congratulate the lord on tonight, but don't you think the lord is the only one who knows what it is?

Come on, let's get some sleep.

Will the lord be leaving tomorrow?

"Hmm... I don't know about that... I've decided to stay down for a while now. Because Yasuo Maida and the Great Names of the East have to make suspicious moves or keep their eyes open."

To the words, Archa's bureau turned a gentle smile as she woke herself up from her bunk.

"Ha-ha-ha, did you"

"What? Lord... it feels like you knew I'd been stuck for a while."

"Oh, I don't know about that."

"So why stay calm like that?

"Hehe... I thought that would happen somehow..."

Jiayang's complexion changes to the words of the Acha Bureau.

"Since when...?

"Since the departure of Hideyoshi before His Highness."

"Hey... what..."

"Come on, let's get some sleep. Too late, it's poisoning your body."

And when she lay on the bed again, there was no conversation between them.