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- Didn't you see Chihime?!?
- I can't be in any room!!
- No way... are you alone...
- No! Chihime!!!
- I won't disturb you!! Just look!
The 8th of July (1603) of the Celebration was enveloped by the disappearance of the lead role, Chihime, from the soothing air celebrating the wedding of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Chihime, in a pressing air like that in the battlefield.
Her disappearance was kept secret at first among some of the samurai, but by the temple of Yodo, who realized the seriousness of the matter, she developed into a major disturbance involving not only the ministers and surnames on Osaka Castle, but also the great names and merchants who were visiting the celebration, and even the Tokugawa family.
The expressions were all uniformly blue, and some of them had even begun to come out to tears in anticipation of the tragic end.
I was blinded by a letter sent from Rushui Kuroda by myself in the top floor room of Tenshoku, where no such noise could even be reached.
- Dear Hideyoshi, Since my departure from Osaka Castle, the season has shifted as early as possible, and morning and evening have become cold days for me, but is there any change...
That writ that begins with this offering. When I finally could read many words around this time, the moment I saw the beautiful font as it flowed, I felt a clear stream appeared in my mind, which was rough.
And Rushui Kuroda, who wasn't supposed to be here, was feeling as if he was standing next to me and reading and making me listen to the contents of the writings out loud in his ear.
- First of all, I must apologize to Hideyoshi.
As you know, I have not focused my efforts on Hideyoshi's name as Kyushu Brokerage, but the times have not been good enough to proceed as expected. Therefore, please forgive me that I am unlikely to be able to complete this task. And I can't help but go back to Osaka and see Hideyoshi with a face that doesn't eat.
Please allow me, with this letter, to report the termination of my mandate.
And I took my eyes off the script once here, and spoke in my heart to the waters that lay beside me.
- I have no forgiveness or forbearance... even if I failed in that task of making Toyotomi's side in Kyushu, if only he would have shown me a alive and healthy face, I would have done so...
But Rushui did not reply to my words, and he did not change his serene face.
- And unfortunately, people have their own ruler of life.
Apparently, my ruler is almost there. By the time Hideyoshi sees through this letter, the ruler will be exhausted.
That's the inevitable fate of a man named Rushui Kuroda.
I apologize for going ahead without saying goodbye...
- Have you been sick for a long time... then if you'd told me so, I wouldn't have forced you to...
With such a sinking face on my ass, Rushui goes on.
- In the end, I couldn't leave Hideyoshi with anything... that's all I care about.
… Please forgive me for that, too
I raised my voice in my heart against the water, which I apologize for even in my letter.
- That's not true! How the presence of Lord Rushui has become more than my heart! So... no more apologies...
Whether I wet his face with tears or not, it didn't change the look on his side, and he kept saying the following words.
- I'm here now, carelessly. But that's not grieving for my life. It is not mindless to be on Hideyoshi's side before this!
- Then...! Then come back! Rushu Palace!!
I wish in my heart for an aspiration that could never be fulfilled.
Then…
Tears streamed from the eyes of the water lying beside me.
And obviously in a different tone than before, keep going.
In a strong, intense tone.
- I wanted to see it with these eyes!
Hideyoshi and Chihiko's, look clear! Give me Osaka Castle to boil for the wedding!
There's a sharp pain running through my heart, like a thick nail piercing me.
The water that stood in front of me when I was out of line continued.
- I wanted to see it with these eyes!
At His Royal Highness's Seven Tabernacles festival, dance and dance people and see the city of Kyo rock!!
- Don't... I... I...
The sad cry of water drew blood from my face, and I accidentally blocked my ears.
Still, Rushui continues to tide its face, which is weeping as a tear.
- I wanted to see it!!
A great man named Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who enriches the lives of all the people of the Sun Book!!
"Stop, whoa!!!
I didn't think, I really shouted in my mouth.
And all he caught in the phantom of Rushui Kuroda in front of him, he exposed his chest.
"To you... what do you know about me!!
Say whatever you want to push your aspirations!!
I can't even do it!!
I am a normal person!!
If it's not Hideyoshi Toyotomi, it's not Jiayang Tokugawa!!
He's a normal guy, like everywhere!!
I'm scared of the death of one loved one, I'm afraid of failure, I've given up everything, there's no way I can do anything!!
But Rushui doesn't run away.
As if that was how I had a feeling I would suffer, Rushui continued.
- Master Hideyoshi is still young.
Sometimes you will get lost in the journey until then, or you will escape.
But that's not a big deal.
Hideyoshi's father... His Royal Highness, etc. struck the road many times, sometimes turning back, and, as far as I know, escaped more than ten times, weeping over the fear of waiting for him to go...
"Still, Father... Your Highness has moved on!!
I can't move on!! I don't have the courage to take that step!!
- And His Royal Highness Tai was never the one to turn all the way forward...
"Lies!! The person I know, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, should be a positive person everywhere, without giving up, who ran through until he became a heavenly man!!
- I have never seen a man more timid and fleeing than His Highness Tai!
"Then why did you climb up to Heavenly Man... why..."
My voice drops.
And Rushui said it out louder than ever.
- Still, His Royal Highness Tai was made a heavenly...
- Because you didn't give up on making the person in front of you smile!!!
Something in my heart made a noise and broke into those words...
I don't know why.
I felt like the words knocked up something that kept me asleep deep inside my heart.
I shuddered in a trembling voice.
"Smile the person in front of you...?
Of course it's not supposed to answer that question. Like water.
Still, he was trying so hard to put words on my mind to light a fire that would never go out.
- His Royal Highness Tai was, as far as I know, an ordinary man everywhere.
But if he asks me to name only one thing that is different from others, I will answer, 'Where I will never give up on making others smile'.
"I won't give up on making others smile..."
- His Highness Tai Chi worked desperately to make Lady Ning... i.e. smile her wife first. As a result, it became a country of great names.
The next thing I knew, I was desperate to make ministers like myself smile. As a result, he became a leading warlord of the Oda family, with great possession.
And finally, he was desperate to make all the people in the Sun Book smile. As a result, he became a heavenly man.
It's all about the result of wanting to make someone smile in front of you and never giving up that 'dream'!
In this word, a despicable self who once lurked the figure, comes to his face again.
"I don't know... I can't possibly do that..."
But even that was foreseen, Rushui continued his words.
- Dear Hideyoshi... Hideyoshi may not have been noticed, but I expect that Hideyoshi has the power to do so.
That never means power.
Simply because of the power that Hideyoshi has at his disposal.
I shook my neck sideways, as though I were going to resist the last word.
"Don't say the right thing! What's mine to you..."
But Rushui continued without waiting for my words.
And that last word finally gave my heart wings...
- For starters, try smiling at one person... who is waiting for Hideyoshi in front of you!
Start there for me!!
This Kuroda Rushui.
Even if this life is exhausted, I pray that Hideyoshi smiles one or more people and Hideyoshi himself smiles!!
And I believe I can do that!!
Even if that doesn't change history, I'll keep an eye on that view of Hideyoshi's surroundings filled with smiling flowers!!
Until then... please master!!
Okay, bye...
So the water in front of him disappeared.
When I'm alone in the room again, I'm surrounded by silence.
I was immersed in the aftertaste of Rushui's words for a while.
There was no decoration in the words of Rushui.
I don't even feel fine dust, such as a ploy to move others according to my intentions.
There...
I could only feel a great deal of love, purely wishing for my future.
I repeated such words.
"From the point of making one in front of you smile... or..."
I was wondering myself.
Its winged heart is light everywhere and I feel like I can fly to any place.
Until earlier, I no longer look ugly, like a chunk of self-loathing that I had hoped to "go home to the original times"...
No... in the near future, every ability to fall into self-loathing again and again will be visited more than I am Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
Maybe even if it's because I'm back in the original world, this time the pain with no escape could strike me.
Still, when I remembered these words, I felt like turning forward.
"A life that only thinks about making someone smile in front of you... isn't that bad either..."
That's what I decided. I was already out of bed.
And he took a step forward when he opened his room to do what he needed to do now.
... and one person appeared in front of me like that.
No... is that really a 'person'...
That's even suspicious...
And the man spoke to me.
"Long time no see... how have you been?
"Oh... you..."
You showed up in front of me...
The mysterious woman in the hood...
He was the one who put me in this world...