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- Mother... I will see you again in the wake of the end of this battle, under the tree "Nantian near left"

With that word in his chest, he lived every day.

That is the word that Sakichi Ishida left her before the battle of Sawayama Castle, the third son of Souyoshi Ishida, who was also the third son to us.

For us, the word is the living, and we have lived the day when it will come true in our 'dreams'.

But she has lived long while secretly hidden behind the Inui mansion.

In her days spent for no reason, she no longer even knew the hope of living, but just kept crying in prayer that someone would notice her pity.

That's all I could do anymore.

And now at this time...

By the emergence of one boy who embodied the "hope" of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, it was about to change from a "dream" to a reality.

How joyfully her heart trembled.

Grateful but ungrateful thoughts still only come out as tears.

But...

Destiny is cruel, but therefore, it may be called destiny.

That her warm tears turn into a cold one of sorrow again, etc...

There was no one in the line headed to "Nantian, near the left."

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The rain is getting a lot weaker.

With the light of the sun ahead of the clouds diminishing the colour of the clouds, it should soon be possible to take a peek at the refreshing scenery of the rains.

Perhaps I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, should have predicted something in the rain that I still keep shaking.

Leaving the mansion of the Iyi family, I, Iyi Naoto, Iyi Naoto, Shouxing Kitamata, Princess Kofi and the six of us, smiling at each other from time to time, were aiming for Kiyohara Temple, right next to the mansion.

This Qingliang Temple was originally the place where the mansion near the left of the island was located, and the temple was built by the Jiui family after the mansion turned into dust.

But everywhere the burnt mansion was used, and the large gate, which did not suit the temple, was the mansion gate.

- WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

"Whew!!

Suddenly I was overwhelmed by the roar from the gate.

Princess Kofi asks the question with an eyebrow about how it looks.

"What's the matter with you? Lord Hideyoshi."

"No, just now, the gate would have roared!?

"Ha!? There's no way the gates will roar! Totally... tell me the joke is off!

And Princess Kofi drank it all, but I do feel like the gate roared...

And more, "Don!!" I can't even hear the drums, "he said," or suddenly a big tree looks like a crying woman, "and all I can say about this temple was" there's something "was attacking me.

But they all seemed like something no one else could understand, and in the meantime, I was completely treated like a "stranger," so it wasn't a hoard.

… and it was then.

Suddenly he appeared…

That Soyo Ishida has two young monks...

A few steps ahead of us in a row...

Seeing that, I screamed unexpectedly.

"Lord Zogi! Your Lord will be Lord Sakichi Ishida!!

A young monk smiled nicely at the call. I feel like it.

The look on his face seems to be smiling, crying, something very strange.

But...

"Hey! Lord Hideyoshi!! There's nobody here! Still joking!?

and Princess Kofi asks me with a sword screen that seems angry.

"What are you talking about!? Aren't you staying right there!? Ah! He's over there!! Wait for me! Lord Zogi!!

I turned my back and walked out. I ran out to chase after him.

But all I can think of is that he's slowly on his feet, but he can't catch up at all if he's desperate to catch up.

"Ha ha! What the hell!!?

And I thought a lot about how it was, but I tried so hard not to lose him anyway.

And...

"That!? Where'd he go?

Neglectly he disappeared.

I look around, but there's nobody there.

And in front of him was Ogi showing his face.

"No way... is this' South Heaven Near Left '...?

I go around the tree making sure he's not around.

Of course I still couldn't confirm his appearance.

And I touched the great tree with a pebble, but of course there's no place to hide in the tree.

"Where have you been...?

I couldn't help but wander around, confused by strange phenomena.

"What are you doing!? Lord Hideyoshi. I thought you ran off on your own and wandered around..."

In doing so, not only Princess Kofi, who took our hands, but all of them came all the way around that big tree.

"I was definitely here! Lord Sakichi!

I said that with a pitiful smile.

"Dear Hideyoshi... I'm all right now. Because this is how I got to the tree I promised her. That's enough."

Our care hurts my heart.

- I did walk so far... how could you...

And the thought of putting it into words no longer distorted my face.

"It's still raining, and we should get back to today. If your body breaks down, I'll take care of it.

After tomorrow, let us anticipate when the weather will be pleasant, and it will take our lord.

It would be a good change of mood if you could even go out there. "

Everyone but me was trying to get that leg to head over to the mansion in Jiui when Jiui Naotsu suggested it this way distracting him.

It was then.

"Sometimes it's unusual for people to come to places like this."

And one young samurai has spoken to us.

Isn't he serving somewhere now? I can't say I'm very wealthy, I'm wearing a qualitative outfit, a casket full of holes.

But from that standpoint, it was discernible that he was quite skilled in swords and spears.

I just don't know the name of the samurai. It wasn't just me, apparently, and everyone in this room was suddenly getting a lot of gaze at the young man speaking up.

But the samurai is also the owner of a lot of courage, and he looks closely at the faces of each and every one of us, without even looking at the sights and sights of such war-ravaged things as Princess Kofi and Naoto Iui.

And...

It was when the gaze moved to us.

"Ooh... the Lord's words were indeed right..."

And when it leaked, he suddenly wet his cheeks with large tears.

The man came right in front of us, without worrying about us.

"Hey... I don't know who it is, but if we get any closer, this Narita Kofi won't be forgiven."

And if Princess Kofi is awesome, Naoto Iui and Shouxi Kitamata also consolidate their sides.

I stood quietly behind him and wanted to see how it looked.

Then he...

And when he sat abruptly on the spot, he bowed his head deep.

"Ma'am...! Long time no see! Tsuda Kiyoshi is the man... there is one for Mr. Tsuda Takashi! Thank you for waiting so long!

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Tsuda Kiyohiro is a person who has Nobunaga Oda as his great-uncle, and his lord has been working as a minister of Masahiro Ishida since he moved with Nobunaga Oda and Jiayang Tokugawa, during the Sekihara match.

And Takashi Tsuda is the man who served Masahiro as well according to his father. At this time he was less than thirty years old, but his face is engraved with many deep moats that would have been carved by hardship.

When we found out that he was a former minister of the Ishida family, who had no hostility towards us, but rather supported her, we decided to de-alert and rent a room in the main hall to talk from her residence.

Where each sat in his favorite position, Takashi Tsuda slowly opened his mouth with a sad face that seemed elusive to say somewhere.

And he says,

Shocking facts...

"Today is just the day of death... of the Qing Ghost..."

To that heavy word, I uttered a word, wondering, trying to conquer him.

"Do you mean the Father of the Lord...

That's sad for the Lord...

My condolences. "

Then Mr. Heavy told him to whine naggingly.

"No... no..."

"What's the difference?

"My father is alive.

It's in another pure ghost... "

With these words, one thing dominated my head.

And that all seemed the same, uniformly blue-faced.

Seeing how it went, Mr. Heavy said he was ready…

"Qingyu... It is found in the issue of Sakichi Ishida, the third son of Koji Ishida..."

The moment that word is uttered...

- Uhhhhh!!!

Together with the scream, we began to cry.

Likewise, Princess Kofi, with tears in her eyes, is holding her shoulders tight and desperate.

But our cry continues.

How thoughtless...

And it came to pass, when he had visited the promised land, that he was informed of the death of his son.

She must have been sent back to despair like she was plunged into a deep valley bottom.

I kept crying.

That's when her sobbing voice finally subsided a little, when Mr. Heavy opened his mouth again.

"I would like to talk to you about Qing Yi... from the time I left you.

I think that's what Clear Ghost wants and will provide for him, so... "

I was bowing my head slightly to the way he looked.

"Regards, Lord Tsuda"

And he started talking slowly.

That was the continuation of the battle at Sawayama Castle, where we were saved from the mansion.

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5 Years of Celebration (1600) September 18th -

Half a day after Tokugawa's onslaught on Sawayama Castle began. Finally, the date has changed.

Still, the war situation gradually leaned in favor of Tokugawa's forces, which boasted a slightly more than five-fold difference in power, and the Honmaru, on the summit of Mount Sawa, was finally about to be in crisis.

In the meantime, during the evaluation of Honmaru, the Ishida family of heavy ministers had gathered to discuss the future.

"Oh my... I didn't know Shokichi Hasegawa would turn around..."

So crushed was Masayoshi Ishida, the father of Sansei Ishida.

And it was Masahiro Ishida, Mitsune's brother, who came to report the incident.

After he was broken through the major gates, he fought intensely with Hideaki Oyagawa's army in a cut through the road leading to Honmaru, but Shokichi Hasegawa, who came from Honmaru to reinforcements, fell back on the Tokugawa forces, allowing him to break in from the cut through.

Still, when he managed to stop his enemies at the castle gate in front of him, it sunset there, and Tokugawa's attack on this day was stopped once.

... and there, two warlords expressed themselves during the appraisal.

One is an old martial artist and one is a young martial artist's parent and son. But more than represented by the two letters "old" and "young," the brave atmosphere these two emitted was telling the truth that they were not the only ones.

That's Tsuda Kiyoyuki and Tsuda Takashi's parents and children.

They, led by a few soldiers, were hitting the defense of the water M.O. Gate.

Yoshimasaki Tanaka's army had been overwhelmed at that location, but the breaking of two main gates and cutthroats took the form of being poked behind the back by the Koyakawa army.

And when the modus operandi gate of the water was opened, it took the form of a complete enclosure with the Tanaka Army and the Kowakawa Army from behind.

Still, they slashed into the creek army behind them, and as they broke through there, what a retreat to the two circles while taking a named general of the enemy soldiers hostage.

And they knocked down the enemy soldiers that pushed them into two circles, and shut the gate firmly.

But it was Kiyohachi, who boasted such unrivalled strength, but when he sat in his seat, he said in a low voice to Masayoshi Ishida.

"Apparently, this is the tide.

Now that the Governor has been defeated, there is no choice but to stand in this castle and make more sacrifices. "

To the words of Kiyoshi, Masahiro Ishida rebutted with a reddish face.

"But even if Major Jibu loses, Lord Maori Huiyuan is still withheld from Osaka Castle!

If you can return to Osaka, you should be able to start over!

"Already, I hear that Huiyuan Maori left Osaka Castle"

"Nah... what...

And yet, Tokugawachi Prefecture's troops have also been hit considerably, so they won't be attacking us so far!?

"Unfortunately... Tokugawachi's army is intact.

And I came right there and set up my own team. "

"Hey... what..."

that it was such a desperate situation that the flashy Zhengcheng

"Never again..."

And he was noticing and spilling tears on the floor.

The room is wrapped in thoughtlessness with the sobbing voices of the heavy ministers.

Masayoshi Ishida opened his mouth in such heavy air.

"Lord Tsuda... I wonder if you could ask me for one..."

"What? If I can..."

And, Qingyu clouded his verbal butt.

Because at this point, I somehow figured out what the positive succession was trying to rely on him.

And the positive successor bowed his head toward such a clear ghost and said.

"I want you to tell Lord Tokugawa that you will give me the castle."

"... on condition...?

"The belly of this Masahiro Ishida"

"That... Masahiro Ishida will also cut his belly!

"Father! This Ishida Dynasty Cheng will continue too!

Instead of Sansei Ishida's father, brother and three nephews cutting their bellies, he wanted the soldiers and children left in the castle to promise the women their lives.

"It's a very difficult thing to ask."

And, Qing Yi sighs loudly.

But to their gaze as they stare at the Qing Ghost with great expectations, Qing Ghost, who, as he gave up, retightened his mouth,

"The Tokugawachi Prefecture and I are better friends than the former.

Why don't we just do it knowingly? "

And he answered with a sigh.

And...

"Mr. Heavy! Follow me! Let's go!"

"Ha! Father! Are you going to be here without me?

In response to Mr. Heavy's inquiry, Qing Yi said with a nigga and a grin.

"At the headquarters of Tokugawachi Prefecture!

After this, Tsuda Qingyu and Mr. Heavy's parents and children took the captive general as a shield in the earlier defensive battle, and only two of them reached the headquarters of Tokugawa Jiayang as messengers.

And, as Masayoshi Ishida hoped, he made a brilliant effort to save the lives of the children and women who remained in the castle, subject to the self-harm of the three, including Masayoshi, and the dawn of the castle.

The dawn of the castle was determined to be the noon of that day, and it was settled that the messenger of the dawn would now be sent by the Tokugawa family.

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It was some time after Tsuda's parents and son left Honmaru in Sawayama Castle...

In a single room in the castle, more than ten children, still young, slept easily.

They were children of the Ishida family.

Among them was the figure of Sakichi, roughly ten years old.

Only he, unlike the other children, woke up alone and looked out the window at the moon.

... and two young men came into the room there.

The young men who found Sakichi awake alone spoke to him in a small voice so as not to wake the others.

"Oh... is that Sachi there?

"Is that voice... in Lord Morning Cheng...?

Sachi stares relying on the light of the moon through the darkness. At the end of his gaze was the appearance of his cousin, Akiuchi Ishida. And next door, Mr. Takashi Tsuda, who has just returned from Tokugawa Jiayang.

Apparently they came to see how the kids in the room were doing, sneaking up to Sachi's side so they wouldn't make footsteps.

And Morning Cheng starts to whisper.

"It's Saji. Can't you sleep?

Then Sachi said with a bitter laugh as illuminated.

"I'm worried about my mother..."

In the room, Sakichi sees the mansion at the foot.

At this time he knew the smoke was rising from a place in the mansion. And the same was true of Morning Cheng.

Morning Cheng spoke out to reassure Saji.

"I'm sure your Lord's mother is safe. Yes, that seems like it."

Morning Cheng can only make unfounded assertions. But such a voice of encouragement seemed pleasant to Sakichi, to whom Sakichi replied with a serene face.

"Yes. That's what I think, sir. Because I promised.

When this battle is over, I will see you under the tree "Nantian near the left". "

"Well... my mother always wants to keep her promises with a disciplined man.

If you promised to do so, you would surely still think about it somewhere and be revitalized. "

Sachi repaid the words by lowering his head slightly.

Morning Cheng also smiled at the look on his mouth,

"Tomorrow is early. With the dawn, everyone in this room, including Sora, is supposed to be taken out of the castle by Lord Takashi Tsuda here.

So you should get some sleep. "

And I gently spoke up and gently left the scene behind.

Two people, Akiuchi Ishida and Takashi Tsuda, walk away from the room.

And it was at that time when the great moon went out into the corridor, which looked beautiful.

When Morning Cheng suddenly waved, he took Mr. Heavy's hand.

Strong... hands gripped hard.

Tears are transmitted on Morning Cheng's cheeks, but from his eyes he expresses the color of determination darkly.

"About Sagi... Regards...!

He's a kind man. Can you protect him so he can be reunited with his mother...

It's a wish because I'm your friend, the Lord... please!

Mr. Heavy became confused by the heavy words, but if he did not respond to the final request of Morning Cheng, his best friend from a very young age, that would not be the bloody one.

Mr. Heavy nodded forcefully,

"Oh. I'll take care of that. Be sure to reunite your lords like Sachi."

I replied.

to that word. Morning Cheng wept

"Thank you... thank you..."

and I have thanked him many times and bowed my head.

And after a while, he snapped at Mr. Heavy so he couldn't say anything.

"And one more thing..."

Mr. Heavy said in the morning Cheng smiling at Nicole.

"What? It's time for you to ask me anything."

Did the words lose the strength of his shoulders, Morning Cheng bowed his head and did another favor.

"Dear Toyotomi Hideyoshi... about the person whom it has served since the day you were born...

Please, don't protect these people...

It's rude talking, but it's like a pretty little brother to me.

That innocent woman, who knows nothing about the world, is pathetic and loving.

Oh, if I had two of these, I'd run west right now and protect myself...

Please, can you protect me in the Lord's hands...?

Mr. Heavy nods with a smile.

"If something happens to Hideyoshi, it will always help."

Even to the words of Mr. Heavy, Morning Cheng, who bowed his head deeply, when he looked up at the moon at the end, chanted a sentence.

- I don't care. I don't care. I don't care about the moon.

Quiet night...

Just a few moments until dawn, only with the last peace, people were dawning on each 'dream' …

But...

It was sudden...

- Enemy attack!!!! Yoshimasa Tanaka's army!! We are setting fire to two circles!!

and the castle made a fuss to the left to the right when he thought he heard an audible sight.

And this...

It was the beginning of Sawayama Castle's "Hell" time -