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- Tokugawa moves on the assassination of Hidekang Kōjo...
When Masayuki Maida asked me about the possibility, Yukimura Maida once flashed like an electric light in her head.
That's what I think of the executor.
- Wind Demon...
"Wind Demon" refers to a family of ninjas formerly operating around Kanto Ichiyuan, who are also said to have supported the takeover of Odawara Castle in Hokujo Hayayun, which in ancient times was named "Kunio".
They have since become their eyes, ears, and hands to support Mr. Hojo's luxury.
By its cruel and cunning modus operandi, they only heard the name 'Wind Demon', and their name burst into heaven until people shook up.
And after Shingen Takeda died and Seiyuki Takeda succeeded the Takeda family, when he was also actively involved in the Kofi invasion by Hojo, he made many Takeda soldiers the rust of his ferocious blade. Much of the assassinations and massacres, which were no longer the lords of Hojo, were so much stained with the blood of Takeda soldiers that it was not an exaggeration to say that the Wind Demon was involved.
At this time, Maida, who was on the battlefield as a member of the Takeda family, had repeatedly fought with the Wind Demon many times, but the course of history was no longer suitable for Takeda, and neither Maida nor the Wind Demon were allowed to do so again, forcing the defensive side.
But the wind demon also disappeared from the tabular stage of history with the demise of Hojo, most of whom fell into the bandits.
Wouldn't such a causal opponent be involved in this assassination...
That's not the only reason Yukimura intuited it was because they were in no way operating a brutal assassination.
That was because Hideyoshi Toyotomi had been told about the "mess at Okubo Mansion" that Hideyoshi Toyotomi had encountered during his visit to Edo.
At that time, it was indeed the weapon of the Wind Demon who buried the mastermind, Kubu Naoto, under one blow, and only one person, Yukimura, knew who could do all that.
It's...
- Wind Demon Ninja Building Liang... Wind Demon Kotaro...
It was that person.
It should be noted that the name Kotaro Wind Demon was inherited from generation to generation by the Wind Demon clan's wing beam, which continued until the fifth generation. But the fifth generation was already executed and not a man of this world, by a snitch to the shogun of Hinauchi Takasaka, one of the Koga Shinobi, who was in hostility with the Wind Demon.
In other words, Kotaro, the wind demon that Happy Village brought to mind, is not the fifth generation.
- Sixth generation, Wind Demon Kotaro... no way... does it really exist...
And who the hell is manipulating that wind demon in the shadows...
In fact, Yukimura Maida had made Rokuro Hozuki, who had high intelligence skills, look for the wind demon before this incident surfaced. As a result, they were pinpointing places like Negijo, so to speak, where they frequented in and out.
There...
Sagami Kokuni Tamaki...
The lord of the land...
- Honda Masayoshi...
Of course, Yukimura herself is well aware that this fact alone does not testify to the connection between Honda Masayoshi and Wind Demon.
But if this plot to assassinate Hidekang Noboru really happens, and if Hondo and Wind Demon are really connected...
It would not be strange to know the details from Genuine Honda, son of Integrity, who is invited to respond to Chung-hye Matsuhei, to Hidekang Nobunaga's entry into Shinano. If the matter is conveyed from the mouth of honesty to the wind demon, they must easily end Hidekang's life, like a raven (teasing) that captures a chick who has fallen to the ground.
Will that really be the time...
- Please be worried!!
Happy Village has been wishing that in my heart ever since I returned from Kudu Mountain.
But... such a wish of Happy Village would collapse even brittle...
That was on December 16, '11 (1606).
That is, the day after Hideyoshi Toyotomi instructed me to rescue Hideyokang Nobushiro.
Finally, the wind demon moved...
It was a reward from Izu that one of the artists had traveled west.
If that's all you ask, there's nothing to it.
It would appear to have appeared merely in a well-earned upward performance.
But when the beholder saw it, the slaughter of the beast, which was unleashed from among us without its flair, was not very concealable.
As soon as he sensed the movement of this throne, Rokuro Hozuki's hand began to follow them, as well as conveying the trend to Kyo, where Shinobu Maida is based around this time.
And...
Finally, it was time for Maida to move as well.
Celebration 11 (1606) Dec 18-
A room in a teahouse in Kyoto. There all ten brave men from Maida were about to kneel down and discuss exactly what was to come.
"Rokuro soldier (about Hozuki Rokuro). Report the Wind Devil's movements."
So cut out was their summariser, Sasuke Monkey.
Rokuro Hozuki began to talk in a tone that, when he nodded cocklessly, flowed unimaginably from his usual silence.
"The Wind Demon who left Izu will enter Ozhang on the 17th of the following day, and will enter Nagahama today"
"Nagahama..."
Nagahama is the first land to hold a castle when Hideyoshi Tai was once a minister of Nobunaga Oda. Located on the eastern shore of the Aquatic Sea, called Lake Biwako in future generations, it was also a place to connect the northern kingdom, including Echizen, where Hidekang Nobushiki is located, with the road that leads to Kyoto and even Edo.
"Apparently, Lord Echimae will be staying overnight in Nagahama, Itchy, His Highness. Hey, brother."
"Oh. Apparently so"
Three good brothers, able to make contact with the great names of the nations and their ministers, were exploring the itinerary of Nobunaga Hidekang to Shinano country.
According to that report they grabbed, Hidekang arrived in Nagahama on December 21, where he spent the night before entering Minokana Castle on December 22 and Shinano Kunikawa Nakajima on December 23.
"Rokuro. Now sum up about this later movement of the Wind Demon"
The same gaze we hear about Rokuro Hozuki and the Sanoko brothers gathers at Rokuro Haino, arguably the staff of Shinobu Maida.
Then Rokuro Haino spoke quietly with a sharp gaze at everyone.
"You will arrive in Nagahama today and will be carefully prepared in two days, tomorrow and the day after.
And the night Lord Echimae arrived, I wonder if it would be appropriate. "
Kosuke Kamiyama said with an invincible grin to Rokuro Haino, who summed it up so. And the word is followed by Hirohiko Nezu.
"Well, until Lord Echimae arrives in Nagahama, is it a battle?"
"So tomorrow or the night after tomorrow, it's time for a showdown with them."
The two early quarrels have already made the fighting spirit look like it's not just the two of them. Many of them wanted to burn their eyes hot, including Sasuke Monkey as a compiler.
But there was one person on the spot calmly sedentary enough to draw a line with them like that. And he threw words that watered the field.
It was... fog-hidden talent.
He asked Rokuro Hozuki.
"Rokuro soldier, by the way. How many of them are there?
"Approximately twenty..."
"You mean double this one"?
Sasuke bites into the cold language that obviously cuts off everyone's war will.
"Hey! Talent! What are you trying to say?
I didn't realize they had a lot of people. "
"No... that's not true.
But the other party is the wind demon...
Besides, if that number is twice as high as this one, if you get hit properly, how can this one be intact?
What are you gonna do about it?
"It's..."
Unexpectedly, Sasuke says to the utmost honesty. To help him like that, Rokuro Haino said in a gentle tone.
"I want to hit my head... that's all I have..."
"When the head..."
The tone without so much discouragement crushes the talent.
It was Sasuke who connected the words. He made the decree out loud as he raised his tongue with a nigga.
"If you're the head of the wind demon... the wind demon Kotaro... there must be only one!
We're only after Kotaro, the wind demon!
Yikes! If you decide to do this, it'll work right away!!
Everybody! No! To Nagahama!!
- Oops!!!
Together with the mighty hanging voice, the fire lights up again in the eyes of everyone except the talented.
Shigemitsu Maida and Kotaro Wind Demon...
Thus both began to move toward Nagahama, the land of the showdown.