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Celebration 11 (1606) April 1 -
At noon that day, I, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the rest of the line ended my short stay in Edo and headed back to Osaka Castle.
"Oh, my God. Ah! Yeah yeah!!
Chihime has been crying since this morning and is stuck with her mother, Princess Jiang.
Since then, she has lived in Osaka Castle, so to speak, as a "hostage to Toyotomi," but she has begun to stare in her mother's stead, and her samurai, such as Takanagi's daughter and Aoyagi, also treat her like a true family.
Still, the love she receives from her real mother must have been extraordinary for her.
Her mother, Princess Jiang, also said with her thin arms away a thousand princesses clinging, floating hot in her eyes.
"Ochiya. If you just cry like that, you'll all be in trouble. Don't stop smiling at all times."
"Ugh... gu... yes, oh mama..."
Princess Jiang tells me to cry.
Watching how it went, I thought it had nothing to do with this exchange.
- These two look a lot alike...
Sometimes Princess Jiang is a child's face, but I could easily imagine that this mother and daughter's face would be exactly two melons and that Princess Chiang would grow into a woman as adorable as this Princess Jiang.
Compared to the slender and stretched tall starch, the more luxurious Princess Jiang, unlikely to have come from the same parents, overlaps with the Chihime.
- But... I think we met somewhere...
And even though I wondered about the perception I had felt since I first saw Princess Jiang, I spanned the horses.
"So let's go!
It is Chongchang Itakura who has spoken so energetically. As always, he is smiling in a light condition, and he is to offer us another offering on his way home with his brother's heavy ministry.
And I nodded so lightly at his voice that I spoke to the people who had dropped me off from the horses.
"Bye! Gentlemen! Thanks for your help! See you again sometime!
Everyone on the spot smiles at my bright voice.
Among them, my father-in-law, the general, Hideyoshi Tokugawa, did not appear, but the heavy ministers of the Tokugawa family, the "Okubo faction", who was the Lord, were there, including Tadashi Okubo.
When will we meet again?
And where is the meeting place?
Some of them may be in the line of Osaka, split into enemy allies and face each other on the battlefield.
Of course I want to change it if it's something that can change such a future.
But the gear of history will continue to turn toward the Osaka formation without even looking at my aspirations or anything like that. Still, I couldn't help wishing for the smiles of the Tokugawa family who had just dropped me off.
"The Right Minister of Toyotomi! If there's anything inconvenient up there, you can always count on me! I'm sure you can help!
And Tadashi Okubo is speaking to me with a very different serene expression than when he met me.
I guess by "inconvenience up there" he is referring to the "Honda" people who work for the Tokugawa Jiayang who are, needless to say, in Fushimi.
And yes, it may be an inexorable story for him to say.
Because in the case of last night, the alleged mastermind, Kubu, was murdered by someone, but the "unwanted" used for that killing was apparently something that was commonly used by a group of ninjas called Wind Demons.
The Wind Demon clan was hired by the Hojo family of Sagami more than the former, but when the Hojo family was destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they were said to have lost their home and separated. However, there are rumors that some of the people considered to be the Wind Demons were in and out of Tamara Castle these days. Its Tamagano Castle is home to Honda Masayoshi, and it is likely that the Honda family is manipulating the Wind Demons clan behind what should have been discrete.
In other words, it can be inferred that the directive "If you are concerned that it will be discovered depending on the matter, then obliterate the parents" could have been issued by Hondo.
If at that time the blade tip was facing me instead of my parents...
I guess it wasn't just me and Princess Kofi who chilled the liver, but also Tadashi Okubo.
"Thank you! Then the loyal lord is also a master!
When I replied so briefly, I pointed my horse's neck towards the main gate of Edo Castle.
Now it is good to this extent. No, I rather felt comfortable with this visit to Edo because I was able to have a good relationship with their parents and children too well.
When I left the main gate, now Kiyoshi Kato and some of the other big names from all over the country are dropping me off.
"Dear Hideyoshi!! How are you?
To purity, yet wet its cheeks like this raw goodbye, but I feel like exaggerating that on boulders.
But I remembered what he was saying in this year's New Year's greeting. That's with Rushui Kuroda. He casually dropped him off, but said he was very sorry that he couldn't live up to being reunited.
Given that, his current feelings will not be foolish enough.
I went down from the horse and took his hand and exchanged goodbye greetings.
We line up to advance the horse again.
As you enter Tokaido and continue along the outer moat of Edo Castle, you pass by the side of Okubo Mansion, which you took care of yesterday.
There was Hirohiko Okubo, full of bruises, who was coming to see me off as he allowed his sides to be held by Tasuke and the apple.
I called out in a panic about the situation.
"The Hinko Gate Hall! Don't be impotent! Weren't you injured yesterday..."
But Hiroshigami answered loudly when he shook his head beside him.
"It's not a samurai thing to do when a benefactor leaves Edo to show himself off!
"Oh... was it..."
"Oh! I really wanted to take care of this one! Let me just say thank you!
"Yeah, but I didn't do anything!
Until everyone in Okubo's family, including Lord Hiroshigami, did a praiseworthy job!
Thank you so much for being able to see the real Three Rivers samurai!
"Ha! After all, Lord Hideyoshi is a strange man!
Next time, I'd like you to come to my mansion, not to my neighbor.
"Ha ha! Did I see a man so wild as to visit a hot mansion in his newlyweds! Ha ha!
In my words, the face of the apple and Hiroshigami turns red. And the Yashizomen bowed their heads and dropped me off.
Thus my visit to Edo with Chihime came to an end.
For me, I was satisfied that I had not only fulfilled the face-to-face meeting between Jiui, Okubo, Okubo and the important figures in the Shogun of Edo, but that I had been able to deepen the relationship.
If you try to be a thousand princesses on the other hand, treating her flesh parents like Princess Turtle and Princess Jiang must have been a very valuable experience.
As an indication of that, I wasn't trying to get away from Princess Jiang, even though the bomb statement didn't just pop up saying that if I did poorly, "I want to stay in Edo like this".
But without saying that, perhaps she unexpectedly went into the cage to return home because she understood something like her role as a person.
Still, she's just a young girl under ten.
It is a natural story that does not change that we are about the age when we are hungry for love from our families.
Still, I sent her a compliment in my heart, and I wanted her to live happily ever after, wherever she was.
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Celebration 11 (1606) April 8 -
"I'm back now ah!!
With a boyish and energetic voice, I shouted at the people who picked me up at the big gate in Osaka Castle.
Aside from my mother, Takimura, and for some reason Yukimura Maida, who is in the mood for Yamato, it seems that there are dozens of samurai from Hiroshi Gui, Sir Ozo, Yurakusai Oda, Lao Dogsai Oda, Nikitori and Yuan, among the seven-handed groups, who are in charge of the gatekeepers of the day, and even my lowest surnames, Reisei Kimura and Jitoku Ono, as well as Suzuku Horiuchi and Chihime, who are always picking me up.
"Welcome back, Hideyoshi. And a thousand. Did you come back unchanged?
"Yes! Mother!
"Yes! Dear Odd! Thousands are back in good health!
A starch smiling with joy at how we are like that.
They're all smiling at us. Look at that.
"Oh... it still calms me down here..."
And I accidentally leaked my relief voice.
The starch reacted immediately to the words.
"Hehe, you bet, Hideyoshi. This is where Hideyoshi returns."
"Where to go... or..."
It was the parents of the original world who swooped my head at the word "place to go".
And...
"Asako... how are you..."
And for some reason, I couldn't stop thinking about her as a child tamer.
I felt a cold gaze staring at me with white eyes when I was fumbling in my thoughts like that.
"Hideyoshi? Aren't you thinking about your stomach again?
"Chi... no! Nothing about this..."
"Bye! Explain it! What is' mariko '! What is' Maruko '!!
Besides, during the journey, you would have thought about stomachs like bruises!
With a wife named Thousand!! Hideyoshi always thinks about other stomachs!!
Thousand princesses pointing their mouths as they swell their cheeks plumply.
To that appearance, it was the temple that moved Pickle and the frown.
"Oh, Hideyoshi... don't do that... my mother didn't send Osaka Castle to get Hideyoshi's hands on the other stomachs this time."
Purple creepy air wraps around the starch.
"Give me a minute! There is a misunderstanding! There is a misunderstanding!!
I tried to say the same thing over and over again because it was important, but it didn't seem to make sense.
"You're in the oozing room... Hideyoshi"
"Ghaaaa!! Ji De! Shuku!! I asked for this place!!
I try to jump and rush towards the gate I just came through.
But the temple couldn't have allowed me to do that.
"And Yuan!! Yuanjiro!! Get Hideyoshi!!
As I was begun by the voice of that starling temple, when Kirikitori and Yuan and Yukimura Maida blocked my way, they grabbed my arms with disappointment.
"Me!! I just opened Osaka Castle for a second, did you turn around! Yukimura!
"Dear Hideyoshi! This is for the Toyotomi family too! Forgive me!"
"No! Ha ha ha!!!
My screams cling to the sky stretching over Osaka Castle.
Is it my fault that the person who should have returned thus appeared to be happy without heart or castle?
Whatever it was, everyone in the castle was relieved and smiled at Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Chihime's safe return to Osaka Castle.