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"Welcome aboard! Minister Toyotomi, right!

It was Tadashi Okubo, the lord of this mansion, the father of Tadashi Okubo, who greeted me with a loud crouched voice, and who became the first old man of the Tokugawa family.

The big musculoskeletal fitting neighbor of that voice is turning a nostalgic smile at me.

I was terrified by the feeling that something was going to happen, and the moment I saw my loyalty, I realised that my vigilance had completely iced off, as well as giving it back out loud to respond to his reception.

"Welcome, welcome! I missed you too! Okubo!"

My son's loyalty led me to a seat on behalf of a loyal neighbor who started laughing at me for making me feel unnecessarily better about my words.

The room is apparently the guest room of this mansion, quite large enough that it's not too small for ten or more adults to sit at a time at a glance. Still, there are only three people on this scene: me and Tadashi Okubo, and Tadashi Okubo, so I feel extra broad.

And Tadashi Okubo in front of me, but I'm impressed that this one has eyes that are regarded as confident enough to go on the ground.

Speaking of the Okubo family around this time, he was entering the core of the Tokugawa regime with momentum like dropping flying birds, and his loyal eyes were shining as they reflected the momentum in that house as it stood.

Furthermore, at this time he is supposed to be fifty-three years old, but is it also because of his often burnt black face on the day, the youthfulness and ferocity that he does not see in his very fifties is regarded from his whole body?

I stared at him feeling a little overwhelmed by the pressure of a different quality than what I felt from Jiayang.

And when Loyalty urged him to sit on me with a smile on his face without even caring about my gaze or anything, he himself sat down on the spot.

When I sit on the spot too, I immediately take a single letter from my nostalgia and faithfully give it away. Regardless, it's a letter addressed to him and his wife from Princess Turtle, a loyal stepmother.

Recent developments and other contents should not be much, and I finished reading it without breaking the loyalty I was seeing through, and the loyalty I received from the loyalty, or the serene expression.

And Loyalty gave instructions out loud when he saw his son's loyalty.

"Faithful! This must please your Lord's wife, too. Quick, take it and snack."

"But, Father. If you have a customer now, isn't it possible to stay within you?"

And when Loyalty gave his opinion on the instructions of Loyalty so that he cared for me, Loyalty looked at me and asked.

"Right minister! I'd like to reward my wife for this as soon as possible, but is it okay if my loyalty takes my seat off for just a little while?

Words are calm, but in such a compelling tone that I can't say "no," I don't think,

"Oh, oh, I don't mind. Loyal Hall. You should take it to the Lord's wife soon."

And he shook his head vertically several times and nodded.

Then Loyalty bowed his head lightly, and immediately afterwards.

But...

He changed the look on his face until then the moment his loyalty disappeared from the spot.

And with a rude look on his face, he looked at me all the time.

"What would be the purpose? Who told you what brought you here?

A loyal neighbor who turns from an earlier serene tone into something awesome. From that word, he seems to be poking both the blade of obvious hostility and vigilance down my throat.

I was the one who accidentally sweated cold on my back, but only that look answered keeping me calm.

"The purpose has only been to say thank you for the earlier letter and for the earlier Mrs. Hojo's hair. Nobody said anything to me."

A loyal neighbor staring into my eyes as if it wasn't in my ear.

Straight away, I take that gaze that just says, "I can't get through."

The way you control your opponent with one gaze is similar to what Princess Kofi has done to me many times.

- Don't lose with your eyes, Lord Hideyoshi.

I also stared back at him without turning away, calmly repeating her teachings like that with my head.

The stare lasts for a while.

Then Loyalty said, raising the corner of his mouth only slightly.

"Samurai Mikawa doesn't like to go around. Shall I make myself clear?

At whose direction did you approach us?

Of course he doesn't realize who I am and doesn't seem to think that a boy who doesn't know things has approached them of his own free will.

If this happens, the most unsuspecting person should be able to answer honestly. Because he's trying to read something in my sight, not in words.

"It's not an instruction from anyone. It is our own will."

"Well... the Toyotomi principals themselves, just one, have come to do this to the Tokugawa family minister's mansion?

"Exactly"

"You're incredible. Aren't you too cautious?

"General, Hideyoshi Tokugawa is my father-in-law. Therefore this Edo is like unto Us his garden. And always follow the Tokugawa family when you walk outside."

"It's something that can keep the Tokugawa family at bay."

"Okubo Temple. What does that mean?

Now turn to the one I ask.

Not losing his piercing gaze so far, but rather calmly dodging it and proceeding with the conversation, he only widened his eyes a little and revealed surprise.

And he answered my question all the time.

"The only minister who has not yet bowed his knees to the minister is the Right Minister of Toyotomi… you.

In other words, the house of Toyotomi is not yet among the tabernacles.

Have you forgotten that? Or don't you know?

I slowly shook my head to the side and said, lowering my voice even lower.

"Around, Lord Okubo"

"What do you mean?

I keep stepping into the cloudy words of my neighbor. It's better to push through here, but if you don't get extra alert, it's because you stepped on it.

"Let's get this straight. Tokugawa and Toyotomi are still in a hostile relationship since the role of Komaki (the battle between Komaki and Nagajo)..."

Loyalty seems even more surprised that two words emerged from my mouth: "the role of Komaki" and "hostility".

And he snapped with a crouched voice when he let go of the face that was closing in.

"Well... it doesn't seem like you're just an ignorant master."

I answered that word with my mouth up this time.

"is no different than being unknown to the public. I just know a little bit about the history of Toyotomi and Tokugawa."

Then he said something that he had no idea.

"After all, I thought you approached us with words from the Lord..."

When I frowned unexpectedly at the words, I asked honestly.

"What do you mean? Did you think that Lord Tokugawa told me something?

The neighbor nodded cocklessly and replied with a small voice, as usual.

"Should I say precisely the will of those who have blown something into the ears of the Lord..."

I open my eyes unexpectedly to these words.

And I honestly bumped into a boiling question.

"Already, Lord Hondo's will and... did you think so?

I would not have assumed that the designation "Hondo" would come from me there.

My neighbor's face changed from stunned to alert again.

- Shit! Too sudden to step in!?

I regretted it so much, but if this happens, I don't need to be stuck anymore.

I took a step further before I came out of his mouth.

"Lord Honta is pulling the thread behind this meeting, is that what you think?

… and it was then.

The neighbor, who opened her eyes slightly, suddenly stood up and held the spear that had been placed on the wall.

Totally lagging behind in that lightness, I look up at him as I sit down and stare at him.

"What are you doing!!?

And, I restrained him with words, but I know enough in my previous exchanges that he is not such a frightened man by my words.

However, I was obviously alarmed that I could only speak out without even standing up.

Then he shouted and drank like lightning.

"Fuck you!!!

I had no idea what he had said in the first place to those words that stumbled on my ear.

- First things first! I don't know what that means, but this goes first anyway!!

Only the expression, staring at him and keeping him calm, was completely confused in his head and fearful.

All of a sudden an angry, musculoskeletal man stands on a spear, and this one is completely round his back.

Just sitting in a flat position is enough to compliment you.

While he was thinking about that crap, he finally put up his spear,

"Whoa, whoa!!

and roared, as well as progressed...

- Come on! Ever...! Thousand, Mother! Forgive the scattered excellence!!

I close my eyes by accident.

And...

Ez-boo...

A dull noise stuck around the room...

But...

"Is that...? Nowhere hurts..."

Yes, I wasn't stabbed.

I looked up to my neighbor in a hurry.

Then he...

He was poking at me.

"Hey... what are you doing?

I didn't think, I asked from my neighbor's back, but he didn't answer it and quietly pulled the spear.

It was that moment. And suddenly a loud hole was made, and a loud noise was made.

And from the outside, a middle-aged man appeared, whose kimono had been torn by a blade.

"Here!! Neighbor!! Are you going to kill me!!

"Shut up!! There are so many women who listen to other people's conversations from across the street!

I don't think so much of the same Okubo person!!

"Say what!! Is it loyal to overlook that the Lord is chatting with his enemies amicably!

I am a true samurai who swore allegiance to Tokugawa before the Okubo family!!

The man who makes his nose rough and doesn't pull a step from his angry loyalty...

"No way... your lord is Hikoshimon Okubo...?

When I get up, I ask him in horror.

Then he said, staring at me.

"Bye! So what's wrong with you?

I would have dived into Edo well here, but this is not what summer bugs fly into the fire!

This! Loyalty!

It would be a different way to point the spear!

Hiroshigami raised his anger, but with the end of the word, I jumped at him like that.

"Ha ha!! Hikoshi Okubo!!

Hey! I'm so happy for this!!

I didn't expect to see you! Ha ha!!

Yes, he's one of the only great men I've ever known in a book who has stripped me of his animosity. I couldn't contain my excitement, and when I hugged him, I glanced at him and stared at his face.

Of course, I don't know what my circumstances are. From the angry look on his face earlier, he is surprisingly changing that face.

"Hey, what!? How do you know what it does!?

"Ha ha! It would be natural!

You don't know what your opinion number is under the sky and you want to do it!? Ha ha!

"And your opinion number under the heavens!? Is that it?

"Oh! Lord Hiroshigami is the number of your opinion under heaven, even if your opponent is a general, you will not tolerate bending! Ha ha!!

Of course it is long after this that he is called that way. But I was totally out of it, like that, and I was walking into a totally exciting snake and holding his hand, and I kept turning my joyful eyes at him.

Then he slowly lifted his guard, turning his face red as he looked at it.

"My opinion number under the heavens..."

"Oh! You're right!

"Feedback number under heaven..."

When he shrugged, embarrassed and excited, he started laughing with his nostrils wide open.

"Ha ha!! Whoa! Did you hear that? Loyalty!!

I'm your opinion number under the sky!

Ugh! I like it! Minister Toyotomi, right!

haha!! I like it!

"Ha ha!! I'm glad you like it! Ha ha!

A loyal neighbor watching the two of us laughing together shoulder to shoulder.

He snapped in a distracted voice, wondering if that had completely faded his anger too.

"Not at all... so I would have said from the beginning... that the Right Minister is not an enemy..."

I frowned unexpectedly at the words because one question turned my head.

"Hmm? What if your lords had a fight..."

Then Hiroshigami, who had been laughing until then, suddenly took a little distance from me and changed his expression to the original rugged one.

"Hmm! We had a fight over whether or not to let the Right Minister conquer this Okubo mansion!

Come on, you'll be happy to meet me!

Loyal neighbor, your guest is home! I'll drop you off!

The seed of the quarrel that Loyalty was struggling with arbitration was apparently "putting Toyotomi Hideyoshi into the Mansion or not".

It was easy to imagine that Zhongzhengmen would not have pulled off "the sincerity of the visit after inviting him in" if he had said, "Never forgive me for letting it happen again".

Against Hiko Left Gate, who gave instructions with his jaw, his nephew's loyalty blushed again and exploded his anger.

"Have you begun to mock me yet!! Yan Left Gate!! Are you saying you forgot that you were just brazenly saying 'I like it' now!!

"Shut up!! What I liked was the nickname 'Opinion Number Under Heaven'! Toyotomi, I didn't like the right minister!!

And towards my uncle, what is a call away!!

"If you say that, what is a call away to the elderly!!

Even if you like the nickname, you don't like the person who gave it the nickname, there's more to bigotry!!

Yes, actually, this Okubo Hitomen and Okubo Tadashi are seven years older in relation to their uncle and nephew.

Nice to meet you both in this day and age. The relationship seems to be complicated.

Standing between the two that caught fire again, I didn't even know what to do, but there was nothing better than to compare them alternately.

"What bigotry is about my uncle!! That kind of lord is the one who invites you into the room and asks threatening questions, etc...

Where did you learn that shady way of doing things that you can't even keep on the wind of the Mikawa samurai!!

Many books!? Did Hondo tell you that?

"What the heck!! I can't believe that my bowels are going to be the same as those rotten ones, this time, even if I'm next to this Buddha, I can't forgive you!!

"The ones with rotten intestines," Loyalty said, slashing and discarding Honta Masayoshi and his innocence.

Therefore, it was clear from this wording that he did not feel good about Honda's parents and children at this time.

I guess something like the so-called factional feud of the Tokugawa family has already surfaced as an open fact around this time.

In addition, there was one more thing that came to light at this point.

That's the difference between Tadashi Okubo and Honda's authentic personality.

A refreshing character of loyalty like cracking bamboo in everything and a pure sticky character like cake on it.

It will not be compatible no matter what you think.

- Are you saying that perseverance was inevitable...

And while history will cut the rudder to the death of Okubo Tadashi and the loss of Okubo Tadashi's legs, it goes without saying that this discerning and quick-fighting personality has been a disaster (on purpose).

Even with that in mind, my uncle and nephew didn't know that the mouth shot would stay, and the loyal neighbor was still poking at the spear, pointing his tip to the chest of Hiroshima Gate, while Hiroshima Gate also put his hand on the long knife with his hips, and if the loyal neighbor was to poke the spear, he had the killing urge to not bathe it with a single machete.

It was just a one-touch situation.

"Ha ha!! If you need anything, I'll make you say things to your fists right away. That your Lord is the 'Buddha'!? I can hear you!!

"Enough!! Yanko Gate! You've done this before, so get out of my mansion now and I'll save your life! Get lost quickly!!

"You mean kick me out!! My great-great uncle!! You thinner!!

I hear even dogs and animals take care of their families! Your Lord is no worse than a dog or animal!!

"Shut up!! The mansion of the Yakuza Gate would be that blurry mansion!! This is my mansion!!

There is no place in the Hiroshigami Gate to kick him out!!

When this word of loyalty was unleashed...

Am I to blame for the fact that, temporarily, a little loneliness seemed to have run into the eyes of Hiroshigami...

And in the meantime, Hiroshigami turned his back on us.

"Hmm... there's no place for me here anyway...

In that word. Oh, I see the nature of the Lord.

I'm not going to stay long in someone else's mansion like this!

And, with a blatant obstinacy, he tried to leave the spot behind.

And there appeared a man who would be loyal and his young wife, both eyes round.

In the hands of his loyal wife, a large basin. On top of this is served four tea and tea receptacle treats.

Apparently, he brought four of them, including the portion of the Hinko Gate.

The faithful wife looked at Hiroshigami and asked him in a gentle tone that blurred somewhere.

"Oh, Lord Hinko Gaemon? Are you out?

When he looked at his loyal wife, Yasuzomen, who stopped perfectly on the word, held one cup of tea abusively in his hand.

And when I drank it all at once, I told him to stand up.

"Hmm! I'm not going out! I'm going back to my mansion! Because there doesn't seem to be a place for me here!

"Oh? Aren't you sleeping in the back room every day? Isn't that where you are?

She was a loyal wife who subtly exposed that Hiroshigami was in a residential state, but that seemed to be a word out of her heart, without any other intentions.

But because it was an unpleasant word, did Hiroshigami seem unnecessarily serious to him?

He then, without saying anything, took one sweet on the basin and left the spot early enough.

And Hiroshigami's departure from Okubo's mansion will lead to further disturbances...

I didn't even know that at this time...