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"Could you tell us about Lord Ishimi's 'dream'?"
This inquiry by Souyoshi Ishida seemed to shine a light on the "shadow" that was still stirring at the bottom of Changan Okubo's heart.
Chang 'an himself knew well that it was no longer a circumstance that could be escaped. Still, in his emotions, haste and suffering do not come to a boil, because he must not seem that way to this man now before him that he may expose himself to his "shadow".
That may also be because Souyoshi Ishida is also a man with a "shadow" in his heart, and he felt something like a strange sense of union.
And this inquiry of Zong Ying.
That's a question that can also be called "What the hell are you planning to do by saving so much gold and silver treasure?"
Soo-yong dared to say, "What is your dream?"
Chang 'an felt due concern for the matter.
If this man in front of you, even if it were the same Souyoshi Ishida, was from all over the Tokugawa family, Changan would not have felt this way.
It was because to him the Toyotomi man instinctively perceived that he could not be an enemy, that is, that his enemy was all those who had sworn allegiance to the Tokugawa family, let alone Tokugawa, who were supposed to be allies.
In other words, under the logic that "enemy enemies are allies," he was releasing his mind indefensibly into Zongying's clear eyes.
With some of these mind movements, he began to talk pompously about the thoughts in his chest.
It was about half-life, which never came to light in his historical facts.
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Tianzheng Jiu (1581) Summer -
The city, known as the thousand Kurokawa houses in Kofi, was still smiling this day.
This was a very important place for Seiyu Takeda, who ruled Kofi at this time. Because the city was the gateway to Kanayama Kurokawa, which underpins the Takeda family's finances.
And many gold diggers and their families lived together in the name of a thousand houses.
One of them also had Chef Okubo.
Regardless, at the time, he was still not the Okubo surname, but named Toya Shinobei, and was assigned to the land as a service overseeing the development of Kurokawa Kanayama.
Formerly he was performing a dance in front of Shingen Takeda as a monkey musician, but he was bought the talent of the economy, and as a service to Shingen, he represented the headline.
And he used to be more in entertainment than he was in the past, and he was a quality person who very much liked to please others and see others smile.
That was a major strength in building the city. In other words, he was good at handling people, and his surroundings were drawn to his charm, and he worked well.
Prior to his arrival, this already abandoned Kurokawa Golden Mountain had also regained a little vitality since he became a service, and now the whole city was in the world of warring nations, so busy that it felt somewhere gorgeous.
"Dear Ten Soldiers! Is this the year you're coming to see me?
At this time it was one girl who spoke so to him, a young man still under the age of thirty.
"Oh, it's your time. I promise I'll go see it this year."
And when Cheung An answered with a smile, and the face of the girl, whom he called time, was brightened up like the sun,
"Ugh! Now we have more fun! Oh, I don't know if autumn's coming soon."
And, taking a small leap, he left the spot.
A girl named this time is also one of the people who lives in a thousand Kurokawa houses. But that body was not wealthy.
Because her father was one of the feet of the Takeda family and had been suffocated in a battle with the coalition forces of Tokugawa, the earlier Oda.
And by this time, the Takeda family had already followed a path of decline, and their income was no longer guaranteed, even if they were the survivors of soldiers who had died of anger because of their homes.
When she was pessimistic about the future, her mother also overlapped that she was sicker and weaker than her ex, leaving her young girlfriend and two of her sisters behind to go to her father in other worlds.
I mean, you and her sister, they lost their parents at a young age. Still, young sisters have to live. And that meant that you had to earn food by your sister's hand.
For that reason, the job her sister chose, it was...
She was a playgirl.
At this time, your sister is sixteen years old. He managed to earn a living by selling himself to Kanabori.
And a playgirl like her was never unusual.
Some of those who lost their family workers and had daughters of their age were forced to sell them.
There were roughly fifty such daughters here in Thousand Kurokawa.
Still, people are smiling innocently, as you do, because it was formed as common sense, so to speak, that as a natural dish that can wait for the weak, it is very normal.
Also at this time, Chef Okubo had so little sympathy for his sister's condition that he didn't want to do anything about it.
But still, Chang 'an's face, staring at his back when he made a small leap to joy, was by no means superior.
That, needless to say, was affecting the situation in the world around this time.
The fall of the Takeda family was apparent from anyone's eyes since the battle of Nagashiko, the war ahead.
However, here in Chikawa Kurokawa, there were imitations from Shingen Takeda, the former Takeda household owner, who had been exempted from various services.
It wasn't just military service, what an exemption to the obligation to pay taxes. Given, of course, that gold mining is a condition, it goes without saying that paying gold equals paying rice. But nevertheless, if you make it to those who live in a thousand Kurokawa houses, it was a major factor in sparing life and a driving force in bringing a bright atmosphere and vitality to the city even when your home is in distress.
In other words, no matter what happens to the world, if the Takeda family is safe, the land is also peaceful, and the famous family, the Takeda family, had no idea that the people living in the thousand Kurokawa houses were on the road to annihilation, even in dew.
Only Daikubo Nan, who had just been working out countries as monkey musicians since he was a little girl, was rightly seizing the moment.
And around this time, we also knew that the grievances of the warlords of each spectrum bill had been greatly solicited by the new headquarters, Tsukijo of Shin-fu Castle, ordered by Takeda Kazuyuki Maida to become popular.
If this seed of dissatisfaction is in the hands of Nobunaga Oda...
Then it won't last long...
If this Black River Thousand houses crossed into the hands of Oda and Tokugawa, the lives of the people today could not be guaranteed.
"Oh... I hope you have it at least until autumn..."
He felt like praying just to get past this one season.
And it's autumn...
The anxiety that had covered Changan's chest had fortunately ended up off, and the city was about to have one feast on this day.
It is a red leaf hunt that took place every year in a place that overlooks a small waterfall known as the Shigeko Valley.
The valley was on a cliff, and beneath his eyes the stunning red leaves covered the valley with red leaves.
Then he sets the stage to slip out of the cliff, standing on top of it and the young ladies dance gracefully.
The city of Golden Mountain and all the thousands of people in the Black River were looking forward to this feast, which felt somewhere gorgeous.
Chang 'an Okubo, who began his service and had various affairs, could not afford enough time to attend this feast each year, except this year.
That's not because I promised to join the banquet with the girl of your time.
It was simply that it was in the doomed Takeda family and that there was no longer a bureaucratic administration left behind.
Thus the feast raised the curtain.
The enthusiasm of the feast culminated when one after the other the ladies took to the stage and performed a magnificent dance.
But only in that and Chang 'an was letting the darkness fall behind his smile.
- This may also be the last time this feast is held...
If you think so, nature and your heart sink even in the midst of a glorious feast.
It was in that.
- Wah!
And I wondered if there had been a loud cheer, and one little girl, one of the ladies, went to the center of the stage.
It was your time.
Daikubo Nan looked out for him.
The girl, who is still less than ten at this time, wears a luster as if she were a heavenly woman, attracting people only by her standing.
And when the whistle of the player and the sound of the drum sounded in the dry air, he began to dance.
If she waved that arm, she was surrounded by fresh air like a fresh stream, and if she took a leg, the scenery swayed to its brilliance.
Everyone on the spot was blinded by her dance, giving herself up to a strange feeling as if time had stopped.
If time were eternal, the affair would have continued without end, and it would have continued to lead people to the extreme of happiness.
But as the flow of time showed to be abnormal, when the hand of the player ended, the dance also stopped moving again.
The season was a chilly air that made you feel the beginning of winter, but as if you had been exposed to spring sunlight, your cheeks are red and a large amount of sweat shines on its forehead.
And above all, the full smile of bounce did not let go of Chang 'an's heart as an eagle, even after he had finished dancing.
- Waaaa!!
A great cheer wraps the valley.
The red-leaved trees flickered down their leaves in the autumn wind, but the excitement of the people did not fall, and the feast continued until the sun went down -
"I want to dance again next year! At that time, Master Ten Guards will come too!
When she smiled innocently, Chang 'an felt like she smiled again and returned some words.
He doesn't remember much about it.
That's simply because he was more than twenty years ago, and I can also make an excuse.
But to tell the truth, I remember, because the "shadow" of my heart refused.
What that means…
It's...
This smile was the last time I saw it.
At the dawn of the year, the Tenjong Decade (1582) March -
When the talk of Takeda Katsushi blading himself in Tianmeyama was conveyed, Shin-fu Castle fell into the hands of Nobunaga Oda and the Takeda family perished.
And from April of the following month, the hand of the devil has finally reached the thousand houses of the Black River.
It's...
It was the beginning of Takeda's remnant hunt by the Oda Army -