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Celebrating 11 years (1606) March 29th -

At the time Toyotomi Hideyoshi entered the waiting room of Tokugawa Hideyoshi, Genuine Hondo near him was visiting the mansion of Tokugawa Jiayang in Kyou.

Purity has been immersed in "certain things" these days, and it seems to have caught its eye. But he had not come to the report, because the matter was not at the behest of Jiayang, and there was nothing else to know than the one of his children.

Humans, by the time they were past forty, it would be normal to add roundness and weight to both their appearance and character, but in his case, like a sharp blade, they had been polished by the dangers that seemed even sharper and cut just by touching them.

When he enters Jia Kang's room like that, in addition to Jia Kang himself, next to him are two people from Nankuang Fang Tianhai.

This heavenly sea, but I am increasingly on the side of Jiayang by the way.

Regardless, two years ago now, the fact that a woman named Fuku Saito, brought by Tianhai, has become the nanny of the Tokugawa family light, still known as the Takechiyo, may also be affected.

It should be noted that this woman named Fuku Saito is the daughter of Rizo Saito, near Mitsuhide Kachi, and later becomes known as Haruhi Bureau.

And after Hideyoshi's death, there is also the help of Tianhai, who holds such tremendous real power as to fully control the Edo regime while in the great back, but that's another story.

Now when the purity came into the room with a clear face as usual, I cut it out from Jiayang's side.

"Hmm! I thought I'd finally come up with a face that I was complaining about..."

As pure as it was, I was going to have the same look as usual, but it seems that I know how it feels to take it into my hands for a long-time relationship with Jia Hao.

Neither purity on the one hand, nor in response to such a pointer of a star, is as if to no surprise, but rather only to the extent that it saved me the trouble of explaining it.

"Yes, I came here today because I wanted to ask my lord something."

"What? Please don't go around.

At this age, I can't blame you for anything. "

Tianhai always has no mouth at all for such a subordinate exchange. But instead he stares into the eyes of Jiayang and his opponent.

It's like looking through your mind. Purity doesn't always make that gaze funny, but he's not the kind of guy who even mouths that every bite.

Purity quickly cut to the point when she formally grinned at Jiayang's story.

"Then I say.

My lord, are you sure? Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been entrusted to you. "

To its pure words, Jiayang moves her eyebrows perfectly to the look of crushing the bitter bug.

"What do you mean?

"It means as it is. I don't know what Hideyoshi's intention was to visit Edo every time in the first place."

"Hmm! The wedding payback and showing my face to my stepfather... so you're saying it's not enough?

"Such superficial reasons…"

Purity cuts words there. All I'm saying is, "You don't have to tell me what's going on."

Jia Kang leaked her sigh, "Huh," she said slowly, choosing the words.

"Lord Hideyoshi is not a thirteen-year-old child. It's not as old as working shallow wisdom.

Besides, this time, it's not like I'm getting paid in advance. "

"Besides, the great lord saw the son of Seiichi Itakura... that is, if Hideyoshi is going to make any disturbing moves, it will soon be known to the great lord..."

"What the hell are you up to in such a situation?"

"Ha... what the hell..."

Jia Yang's father, the shadow of honesty, flickers at the blurry words somewhere pure.

Anyway, this parent and child can't wait to read behind people's backs or to make fun of them.

Young Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Chihime have even turned their suspicious eyes to that seemingly healthy journey of taking their feet to Edo to meet their parents, and if they do poorly, they may even advance to that obstruction.

If Jia Hang now agrees that he is "suspicious," he should not have felt the danger that he might harm Hideyoshi.

It is the opposite of his father, Honda Masayoshi, who goes about everything as peacefully as possible.

Of course, Jia Kang herself doesn't have anything to think about this visit to Edo by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

But now that the incomparable staff member named Rushui Kuroda has died, Osaka Castle is just a bone drain situation.

Though Jiayang is old, he has the pride that it doesn't work for him, such as the neglected temple and Lord Ozo to the public, as well as the shallow carelessness of people who would hold real power around outstanding circles such as Governor Ono and Yukimura Maida, who have little political experience.

I decided that I didn't have to worry about this one, so I'm not going to override it in pure words.

But still, there was definitely a small snag in the corner of Jiayou's mind.

Jia Kang himself has no idea what the hell that catch is.

Still, he felt sick as if something had caught him in the back teeth for the past few days, and he kept the heavenly sea at his side to calm his mind like that.

Purity approaches Jia Kang as she scratches around what has thus been deluded.

I looked at Jiayang, who shut his mouth like shellfish, and now exhaled louder in purity, this one also said slowly.

"I don't know whose wisdom to put in… Still, it would be normal to assume that Lord Hideyoshi's visit to Edo has some intent"

"Then what..."

As for the answer, Jiayang had actually noticed thinly.

But I've put a lid on my heart, not to mention my mouth.

But purity opened it up.

"Didn't you go and push yourself just in case you were 'family'?"

- Giggly.

Jiayang accidentally bit his right thumbnail hard on the words.

This is a sign that more anxiety is out front than grumpy.

Purity saw how it was and went on convinced that we had earned it.

"More importantly, Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is a son... and..."

Purity cut words there.

This was followed by words even pure with a night fork in his heart.

It's...

- It is the son of Hideyoshi Tokugawa and the brother of Chiyo Takeshi...

There's only one thing that means that...

- Hideyoshi's qualifications for succeeding to his next general position also lie with Toyotomi Hideyoshi...

Silence persists for a while.

Soon only the sound of rain scattering the flowers that had descended could be heard from the outside.

In the mean time...

The next thing I know, I opened my mouth...

It was Nankuang Fang Tianhai...

"Your Highness. Isn't it time to speak to Lord Hondo?"

The usual household health makes me uncomfortable with words and behaviors that flatter or encourage my actions, but it was different at this time.

Jiayang, who had lost his shoulder strength as he had given up somewhere, told him to leak it...

His honest feelings...

"It's pure. I can't help but think of me as stupid.

But I made up my mind... "

Purity also knew not to hear the continuation of the word.

But still, he wanted to hear it from Jiayang's mouth.

Jiayang continued in a heavy tone, as if he had deduced such a pure heart.

"I will make Chiyo Takeshi the next general..."

Honta Genuine, in the words, had goosebumps all over her body, and she was happy to jump in her heart.

Because…

Honta Genuine wanted...

A big name for what he's about to do...

He has lived his life to date, reading behind his enemies, and falling foes.

But now that the heavens had settled down, he was feeling inadequate that its viability would be lost.

Instead, if it's not worth living, it's people's instincts to starve.

His "impulse to ruin people" had become difficult these days.

And what Tokugawa Jiayang meant by Honta's pure disclosure that "the next generation of generals will be in Takechiyo"...

It was clear…

- Toyotomi Hideyoshi has no choice but to...

It was nothing more than that.

And Honta-jin turned his tongue in a light tone in an attempt to get more ink on Jiayang.

"But then, let's break the promise to the late Tai Chi that" Hideyoshi will give up the heavens to Hideyoshi "in the wake of his adulthood.

It seems that those who make a scene will necessarily strip Tokugawa of their fangs, but what about them?

Jia Hang answers nothing with her eyes open.

Instead, Purity began to answer her own questions.

"Then there's nothing more to it than to do something before you make a scene...

Still, it's not a good feeling to take the toothed for a hand.

I hope you get sick soon... "

To the words, Jiayang opens her eyes.

The purity...

I was laughing niggardly...

"With that said, my lord... did you know?

Diseases that cause blistering death seem to infect others… "

"Lord... what are you thinking..."

"Hehe... no, I don't have anything to think about.

I just wish I could have a bad disease for someone who messes with the heavens...

That's just what I thought. "

"I just thought..."

"Yes... just what I thought"

After the words, when purity stood up, he moved toward the chamber to exit.

And finally, he inquired about Jia Hao, whose eyes were still wide open.

"By the way, does Master Takechiyo himself know about the alleged handover of Master Takechiyo?"

It was Jia Kang, who could not determine what the pure intent was that asked the question, but honestly shook his head vertically.

"Oh... I've already told him"

"So what did your lord say about that?

"Proceed as I wish."

He blurted and crushed at the end as more and more joyful colors appeared on his genuine face at the answer.

"Now you can move on without worrying."

What the hell is going on… Soon after Jiayang asked such a question, Purity followed the scene.

………

……

Genuine Honta walked away and Jiayang, who was once again two with Tianhai, stared at the wall as if somewhere out of his mind.

Silence persists for a long time...

And it was again in the heavens and seas that the silence was broken.

"How about...?

In that short inquiry, Jiayang frowned and inquired.

"What do you say, what do you mean?

The look on Tianhai's face is a clear mirror water stop as usual. It's as if you've dived through all the training grounds as if you were the opposite of Jiayang, who continues to suffer.

And Tianhai answered in a completely different tone.

"Though unintentionally, I once said to my master that I was in the mood to pull that bow on the house..."

The words opened Jiayang's eyes again.

And I answered in a sticky tone that whilst still hated it.

"Come on... whatever... isn't that better understood by the Lord? Temple of Heaven and Sea"

"Kakaka, don't be funny! I'm a monk, and I can't possibly tell what's going on."

"Hmm! If I were to say that, I wouldn't remember pulling a bow on my master!

"So what is Toyotomi going to do?

Jiayang did not answer the question.

Because it is also true that we did not have the answers together.

But ultimately, there are only two options left.

- "Survival" or "snatching"...

Of course there are things about my grandson, Thousand Princesses, and I don't want to imitate them too rough.

If Tenshita Tahei is to be promised, "the arrangement in the east is Tokugawa, and the arrangement in the west is Toyotomi," isn't it?

But was it Jia Kang's own heart...

It was also well understood by Jia Kang herself that something ugly in herself is repeatedly disappearing when it emerges and disappears when it emerges again.

It would have been, for one thing, greatly due to his experience and talents that his mind was not dominated by something that emerged at this time.

Still, he was prepared until he said, "This disease of the heart will no longer be cured".

Because by this time he was finally able to have one thing.

It was something he was never allowed to have in his tumultuous half-life.

But he was also one man: therefore he greeted it with all his heart.

That's what...

Tokugawa Jiayang's dream...

I mean...

- Those to whom the blood of the Tokugawa family was connected, that is, the Tokugawa family, will continue to make this Japanese Tahei Tenshita...

This was the answer to the 'dream' that Jiayang finally headlined as he plugged into the end of his short life ahead.

He quit hesitating to make that 'dream' come true.

Still, he intended to bring all of the experience he had built up into the realization of this' dream 'in order to be an aggregate of his life.

It was precisely, 'moving everything forward carefully'.

Never let it pass. Preach the opponent with reason and control the opponent in the name of the great name.

This was the strength above all that a man named Tokugawa Jiayang had developed.

In other words, he had no answer to the question, "What shall we do with the Toyotomi?"

Tianhai called it a long time ago.

"Waiting for the Toyotomi to come bowing their heads rather than what the Lord will do… Is that what you mean?"

"... If so, what would you say...?

Jiayang asked Tianhai for the answer.

Then Tianhai answered, loosening his mouth.

"That will be a painful journey. But not in the most logical way.

Your Highness. "

"Hmm! I don't need a compliment"

"But..."

"But... what?

Tianhai narrowed her eyes and continued with an unprecedented ruthless look.

"It's also the most brutal way to do it."

"Cruel... then...?

"Yep... so much so that you torture them and make them confess the same.

If someone with eyes who sees things correctly sees them, they must look at them unintentionally. "

Jia Kang himself knew that.

The position of the Toyotomi family will become bitter every moment if we keep the Great Names away from the Toyotomi family, and also tightly control the artillery and other weapons, and let them spend their wealth on repairing the Buddhist temple in Kinai.

It meant trapping the Toyotomi family in a small birdcage called Osaka Castle and feeding them and killing them from time to time, such as "government positions" and "weddings".

For Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who is still young and has a future that extends to any extent, and his wife, Chihime, just imagine how much the affliction the matter will inflict, Jia Hang relieves nausea.

But still, he decided to do so for his own 'dream'.

In other words, by the life of Jiayang Tokugawa, Hideyoshi Toyotomi was going to go to Nijojo Castle and do whatever it takes to make Jiayang sit in his seat bow his head.

Five years from now...

The fact that it was a "meeting of the two castles" in historical fact was not known by Jiayang at this time.

Such a firm determination of family well-being seemed to have been passed on to Tianhai as well, and he made one piece of advice a family well-being.

"Make a copy, Your Highness.

While I'm doing my scriptures, my mind is washed. And you will be free from suffering. "

"A transcript..."

It may be a sneezing pain relief on the spot, but Jia Kang nevertheless decided to routine her scriptures from the next day.

Not so long ago had he himself been cornered by the gear of merciless history.

And Tianhai concluded by saying this at the end.

"There will be painful times for Tokugawa and Toyotomi, but never be in a hurry.

When you have put everything in the world on your side, let Toyotomi bow his knees.

Don't forget that there is a precedent for hastily missed heaven... "

Jiayang shrugs against Tianhai, who bows his head and tries to leave the scene when he says so.

"Does having a dream mean suffering..."

And Tianhai said as she came to the front of him, looking back quietly and in a gentle enveloping tone.

"Awkward monks wonder if the scenery they see when it's done is beautiful because it's painful until it's done.

Don't lose, my lord. "

With those words, Tianhai left the room behind.

Housekeeping left in a single room.

Looks like rain outside, as usual.

Is it because the rain has become stronger that the sound is being heard more and more? Or was it because Jiayang's nerves were sharpened?

The housekeeper has a sharp gaze against the wall, as if someone is still in front of him.

And he snapped in a harsh tone.

"Something to lose… my life, let me win and finish it"

and…

At this time, who was it that Jiayang was looking at in his heart…

Only Jia Kang himself will know about it.

And...

Moves by Tokugawa Jiayang to consolidate "Under the Heaven of the Tokugawa Family" were finally accelerating from this time on.