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In my life, including the days before, the death of someone so close to me was an experience at the beginning.
That's a lie if you never felt a person's death at all, such as the death of a distant relative's grandfather or his classmate's grandmother.
But I know that Rushui Kuroda's death is rude to those who died, but the shock that struck my heart was something I had never felt before, and I was confused by the way it was treated.
He drew Kiyoshi Kato and all Akashi to me, and after the death of my father, Hideyoshi Tai, he put my sidekicks together, so to speak, as the lead elder, and sometimes as a father and dear friend for consultation.
It was utterly incredible that he closed that lifetime in such a distant land of Kyushu without my knowledge.
I dispatched Yoshiji Otani and Misty Hidden Talents to Kyushu to reveal their authenticity, but the truth remained the same even after they returned.
Yes... Rushui Kuroda is dead...
Details of the cause of death were unknown, but were considered morbid. Apparently it was a well-known fact to those close to him that he originally had some form of illness.
But it wasn't surprising to be seen as taking responsibility for the war and harming myself because of that fact that he died shortly after the Battle of Kurumi America, which I didn't know was breaking out itself.
However, since self-harm should not have been tolerated by the Christian, Rushui, it was assumed that he died of illness in the form of drawing the will of the deceased.
And by the death of Rushui, the fault as Kyushu Tachibana and the responsibility for the fact that he was guiding behind Tachibana and Shimazu did not extend to the Toyotomi family, just that he alone was responsible for it, everything was settled.
What's more, after Rushui's death, Tokugawa Hideyoshi, who entered Yanagawa Castle, brilliantly summed up Kyushu's disposition.
As a result, although all the Tachibana people, including Tachibana Somo, were helped, the Tachibana family reduced their territory to 10,000 stones in the Land and Ocean Country, and on top of that, our Lord Tachibana Somo, as the Miga people of Tokugawa Hideyoshi, was to serve its side.
Yoshihiro Shimazu, on the other hand, when he returned to Satsuma from the battle of Kurumi America, conceded the housekeeper to his son, Tadahiro Shimazu, as he was.
Zhongheng, who became the head of the Shimazu family, visited Tokugawa Jiayang in Fushimi when he left Satsuma immediately with the full-room tortoise life without resting even after returning to Satsuma.
So he roared the Tokugawa Jiayang as he rolled out the depressing earthly seat of the seer's heart, which was no longer synonymous with his. Regardless, before he received an apology from Zhongheng, Jiayang decided to relieve Shimazu's main office in view of his battle merit in the battle of Kurumi, but seeing its subsoil, he accidentally gave it a nearby knife...
Thus, all of Kyushu's arrangements, which were a memorial to Tokugawa Jiayang, were completed.
That was in December, when seven years of celebration (1602) was also twilight.
And...
The year has dawned...
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I didn't know that the death of someone close to me would strike my heart by now...
After receiving the news of Rushui's death, it was about three months early, but it remained as comfortable as a hole in my heart.
I've spent the last three months just as helpless and naughty.
Sometimes, of course, the Kyushu thing didn't go as we thought, and there was no hand to hit anything.
But more than that,
- If something moves again, you lose someone close again...
I was trapped by the thought that I didn't have the energy to think about it...
Celebration 7 years (1602) January-
I had received a New Year's Eve greeting from the elderly famous men in Fushimi.
But this year's greetings and so on are no longer just shapes, and no one tries to get into me.
That's just keeping my word from Jiayang Tokugawa...
I'm not willing to do anything about it, even if I'm not, and I wasn't going to lean on my meeting with them.
And I was still up in the sky this day, listening to that other guy.
"... that's why! Dear Hideyoshi!
Hideyoshi said something to your uncle!
"Yeah? Oh well..."
"Yeah? Oh, well...
Otherwise, wow!!
There, like Han, said, 'Leave everything to me!' Isn't that right?
Somehow this big name in front of me is strangely tangled up with me.
"If you also bow your head to the Tokugawachi Prefecture to forgive me,
"That's not what I forgive."
What...
That's not true!?
For all that you said, 'If the Lord makes me apologize, I'll forgive you', you won't forgive me the key place!
No, it's nothing, it's the key thing that has appeased the main government!
Would you say that's different from this...
... and Master Hideyoshi!? Are you listening!?
... and that daimyo peeked into my face. Its face, hard to say in flattery but colored man, is getting much closer, so it unwittingly turns away. Then that face followed me like I was chasing my face.
So I finally got back to me, and I decided to ask the key thing...
"Who is your Lord, by the way?
For a moment, silence flows like time has stopped...
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And Daimyo in front of me, dyeing that face bright red as he looked...
"Huh???
And he screamed.
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"Dear Hideyoshi... I was wondering if you should take the day off already..."
When I looked at the person who said that voice, Yukimura Maida, near me, was staring at me with a calm expression.
It was that expression that was as gentle as usual, but from its eyes there is a distinct colour of worry.
"Oh... let me do that...
But what was your first name? "
"It is located in the Shimazu Zhongheng Palace"
"Was it... I did something wrong to him..."
And I answered that with a voice without color.
"Don't worry.
I told Lord Shimazu that I was in a good mood, and at the end of the day, "Lord Maida is one of the best in the sun," he said with a laugh, so I came home... "
"Was it... then, after today, please say hello"
"My pleasure."
So I looked sideways at Yukimura, and I went back to my room from the moment I saw her.
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When I got back to my room, I lay right on the bed because I didn't want to do anything.
And as I meditated on my eyes, I decided to sweep into the fantasies I used to go to in the days before.
- It's kind of different than I imagined...
That was the first word that came to mind.
Life in this world, which I had 'imagined', was more glamorous and full of fun.
But what about reality...
Ever since I came to this day and age, I don't feel like I've always lived chasing after something.
And if you commit even one lethargy, you can't help but be afraid to do anything, even if you've achieved a lot by then, and you're a famous warlord, you have to live up to your responsibilities with that life.
Is that because I've been reincarnated into someone who ended that short life in adversity, even in historical fact, Hideyoshi Toyotomi...
No… even if the reincarnation destination was Tokugawa Jiayang, the comfort of this era should be no different.
It was like standing on thin ice.
I can't breathe...
Scary...
- This isn't supposed to happen...
Only such root and dark thoughts cover my heart alone, as if it were the sky before it rained heavily.
And...
One thought finally sprouted...
That's what I was most afraid of...
No matter how hard it is or how lonely you feel, it's a forbidden wish I've sealed deep in my heart...
But now that I despaired of the harshness and bitterness of living as Toyotomi Hideyoshi in this era, that seal was about to collapse with sound.
- I want to go home... in my time...
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Time flies, 8 years of celebration (1603) Feb. 1 -
It was exactly the same day as the historical truth...
Finally...
Tokugawa Jiakang was entrusted to General Tsukiya.
And...
The Shogun of Edo is open.
If you are Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who knows the history that followed, I was not at all aware of the crisis, nor was I even interested in that event, which should have had to be stopped at all.
Because these days, my interests...
- I wonder how I can get home...
Because that was all it was.
But I don't even see that thread, and I'm not sure how it came to this world in the first place.
- Can't we meet that mysterious woman again...
I kept my heart locked up in the presence of Hideyoshi Tai, who had to put me in this world, even before he was about to die.
And even more time flied.
The season was about one of those days when spring passed and the dazzling sun shone midsummer.
By this time, the archery of literature from Princess Kofi continued unchanged from before. Of course I couldn't possibly get into such an archery, I did what I was told without difficulty and just lived the days waiting for archeological time to pass.
And even this day, he finished his audition as usual, and was caged in a room to fantasize by himself.
In my room like that, without saying no, a girl came aboard slightly with a samurai named Takani Uchi's daughter, brought by Yukimura Maida from Kodoyama.
"Hideyoshi!! Look at that!!
I saw the owner of the high voice from the top of the bed, and it seemed dazed.
There was a thousand princesses there with a full smile and their eyes glowing.
"Do you think this yellow kimono or the peach kimono would look better on a thousand?
And when she asked me happily with a clear voice, she showed me two fabrics, one with a vibrant yellow embroidery reminiscent of sunflowers, which she had made the samurai hold, and one with a cherry blossom-like light peach embroidery.
I honestly don't care about such a thousand princesses now.
I answered her question in a tone of indifference.
"Oh... either way. If you want a kimono, why don't you make both"
In response, Chihime swelled both cheeks and protested against me.
"Isn't it decided that it has to be one or the other!!
It's totally irrelevant to me right now, like why she has to choose one, and I wanted her to leave the room a little sooner.
"Then why don't you choose who you like a thousand... and don't bother asking me"
"Thousand would like to be chosen by Hideyoshi!!
Thousand princesses still don't try to eat it down. I have no further idea that asking useless questions will not reveal myself,
"Then you should be peachy"
And, answering in an unchallenged tone, he pointed to the fabric.
But Chihime didn't like how I looked like that, she's shivering siftily.
- You're going to punch me in the face again... well, if that's what you're going to get out of here...
And I wasn't even going to look Chihime in the eye, ready for some pain or anything.
And...
"Hideyoshi, I hate you!!!
That dialogue of the dictates.
- Come on, hit him and run away like that...
But...
Thousand princesses never hit me, and ran away as they did.
without getting beaten up, I succeeded in kicking her out of the
- You're lucky this time.
I only thought about it, and right after she left, I twirled it into a futon.
Then the samurai, who was watching, leaked to throw away.
"Master Hideyoshi is a really shitty man"
- On the part of the samurai, disrespectful...
And, in a corner of my mind, it's been a long time since anger emotions have sprung up, but more casually, I never got out of the futon. That's what the samurai kept doing to me.
"Because of this, Chihime had desperately chosen a kimono that would be feathered for a change of color after her wedding with Hideyoshi without sleeping for three days or three nights... without even trying to find out about that, oh I can't believe she did it and threw it away...
You have to be such a man and a couple, I can't feel sorry for Chihiko!
And when she had said so, she opened and tightened her eyes roughly, and left the place behind.
- It's a political marriage anyway... what's the point of a shape-only wedding...
I was rotting everywhere at this time. I don't know what to say myself, but it was "scum".
I hate myself for being like this.
I can't tell you how naive I am everywhere and yet deserve a thousand princess husbands like the summer sun.
But I still thought it was good. Even if she hates me...
No, it's more convenient if you don't like me.
Because…
Even if I were in this age, knowing history, history would never change.
In other words, I know that after the Toyotomi period, she will live happily with another man.
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Celebration 8 (1603) July 28th -
It was also a hot and humid day in the morning.
Sun shines early and high in the sky, clear weather with no clouds in the sky. Precisely better than the day you deserve on a sunny day.
Yes, Osaka Castle finally celebrated the day when my wedding with Chihime would take place.
The sunny wedding of the Tokugawa family, who already ruled the heavens and the Toyotomi family, who once ruled the heavens, was a great topic of discussion, even among the people who were not at all interested in the situation in the world, and they all welcomed it.
On the other hand, they seem to have a sympathetic eye for us, to varying degrees, knowing that boys and girls who still don't know the right or left have to be husband and wife.
Still, many people were relieved and heartily pleased that this marriage was like a kind of ritual that marked the beginning of the world of heavenly Tahei.
But...
The incident took place in Osaka Castle, full of such an atmosphere of celebration...
- Chihime is nowhere to be found!!!
Oh, my God, Chihime, the star of this wedding, lost her appearance...
Osaka Castle was noisy.
But...
Even such a major incident did not move my mind, and I did not show any interest, so I waited in my room for the wedding to begin.
It was then...
One letter in my eye caught my eye...
- With that said, you didn't even look through the contents...
It's...
Rushui Kuroda wrote to me at the time of his death.
Because his death was so shocking, he hadn't even opened it, but now he's left it unattended and forgotten it even exists.
I took it without thinking.
- Is it going to be about free time...
I opened the letter only to that extent…