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Suddenly, I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, would not be able to explain that I am in Kyo the day after New Year's Day if I started talking about having two older "sisters".
Such a sister has great characteristics.
That's "Ekubo".
That round face, which always kept Nico smiling, always had a big eagle I loved.
And about "Ekubo," I was told a story from Mingguo, far from the temple.
- Do you know the story of someone who is very strong and full of love?
They say that when people die and gain new lives, they are supposed to erase all memories of their previous lives.
But some people say no to it.
It's people who have firmly sworn that they will always be reunited with their loved ones in the next life. They refuse to erase their memories in order to keep the memories of their loved ones they met in their previous lives.
So to those people, they were to leave one engraving on their bodies.
That's 'Ekubo'.
And the people with that 'Ekubo' are going to suffer a thousand years before they get a new life in the next life.
And so, finally, the people with Ekubo, who were born in the next life, depend on the memories of their previous lives to live strong enough to reunite with their loved ones.
Mother, what the temple says seems to be true.
Because my "sister" is a very patient, loving person.
Who has she been born into this world in search of...
And I wish.
Meet someone she should meet and live happily ever after.
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My sister's name is Fumiko Toyotomi.
Although it is Toyotomi's surname, her "mother of fruit" is not a temple, nor is it such a noisy thing as a hidden son of Hideyoshi Tai, which would be insane if the temple found out. In other words, she is the so-called "adopted child" and the temple becomes, so to speak, the "mother of upbringing".
As a matter of fact, until two years ago, under one roof called Osaka Castle, we lived very naturally as a family.
Without claiming herself, she was a very quiet sister who would not divulge a single one of my endeavors, unlike my free-running sister.
But let's just say her birth was unimaginably tragic from its serene character.
Her real father was Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the son of Hideyoshi Tai's sister, my cousin.
But she grew up unaware of her real father's face.
Because at that time when she raised her voice, her father fell ill in a distant land of Korea, becoming a man who remained intact thoughtlessly.
But with all this, it won't be a story that doesn't have to be turbulent.
That was when she was only 3.
The real tragedy will begin for her from that moment when her mother… i.e. the sister of the temple, Princess Jiang, is decided to remarry.
On Princess Jiang's remarriage, what a brand she was branded "something that doesn't exist".
More specifically, her mother of fruit, Princess Jiang, traveled to the distant city of Edo as a powerful man of time, the son of Jiayang Tokugawa, and Hideyoshi Tokugawa.
Leave the young Toyotomi Mitsuko alone at Osaka Castle.
What look did she have at that time...
I fall into the thought of myself being torn apart even if I just imagine it.
Of course, in order to further strengthen the pattern between the Tokugawa family and the Toyotomi family, I know that there was a late thought of Hideyoshi Tai wanting his new wife, the sister of Yodokawa, to be married to the next Tokugawa family owner, and I also intend to know the feeling of the great lord who hated the fact that the Tokugawa family's main office was with children.
And I know, of course, that the Temple, which has just begotten me, welcomed her as my son without any hesitation.
Still...
- Could there be such an irrational trick...
and creases her lips, because she was always so calm at heart that she didn't even feel the slightest dust of such a tragic birth.
And he was so quiet that he didn't feel that young age, he was always making me and smiling at us.
No matter how free-running and selfish I and Chihime were, they showed us who they were. When I saw it, no matter how hard I looked at it, Chihime and I got stuck and smiled, and even on that day when we were having a terrible fight, we made up quickly with my sister's arbitration.
That's just magical Ekubo.
Whenever I was about to screw up, when I lost someone I could count on and mourned, my heart was saved by her.
I'll never forget that.
My sister, who was kind, thoughtful, and listened well to the Temple, is a proud sister to me.
Still show it at the mundane times, the colour of eyes looking for something...
Only then did Ekuru disappear from her cheek.
Every time I see her side like that, I lose my word.
What an uncut color...
What a sad color...
But when my sister noticed me staring worryingly, she immediately changed the color of her eyes and made her usual eyeballs.
Her eyes dye that color on a cool windy day that makes you feel the end of summer, determined.
It's the season her mother walked away from her...
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Celebrating 12 Years (1607) Jan 2 Eh
On this day, I entered the capital.
Its purpose is "New Year's Greetings," but its opponents are not the big men in Kyo. Because I have been sending Yurakusai Oda as my nominee since the day before against the Great Place, Jiayang Tokugawa and the Emperor of Time and Emperor Houyang Cheng.
Yes, it's the person who greets you...
It was my "sister".
An eye-catching new mansion in an area lined with mansions inhabited by public houses. That's my destination to Kyo, or my sister's new family home.
In fact, two years ago, my sister, Toyotomi Fumiko, is married to the Kyujo family, a prestigious name among the public houses by the hand of the temple of stardom. And this magnificent new mansion was built by me.
When I was led inside the mansion by Komura Maida and a few others, I was led to a large room.
Then there...
I'm used to that...
The moment I saw it, I raised my voice bright enough to be played.
"Sister!! Congratulations! Long time no see!!
"Well! Hideyoshi! Happy opening. Nice to see you! Well, you look fine."
"Ha! Even if it stays with my sister, it doesn't seem to make a difference and I'm relieved!!
"Hehe, because he says he's coming suddenly. You look exactly like your father."
"Ha! Wouldn't that be good! Instead, I have to offer in advance to meet my sister, and I am grieved!
"Well, wouldn't you be happy to say this? I didn't have much to prepare, but please have some tea and sweets."
"Oh! This is going to happen again! Yum! Yum! Ha ha! That's my sister! You know my taste well!
It is not impossible for a conversation to play naturally. Because for two years since my sister married me, we haven't seen each other once.
Apparently, Takeshi is not the only "Osaka Away" created by Tokugawa Jiayang, but also has a strong influence on the public house, and the prestigious Kyujo family is no exception, and I was distanced from my sister and his wife.
But only today, I really wanted to see my sister.
So I asked Tokugawa Jiayang through Yurakusai Oda, through Sir Ozo, to get to the Atsu Bureau, and finally this day's visit came true. But still, he is my sister's husband, and later Kanbai, Kyujo Chungei (just in time for the lottery) is not here.
But I have a sister in front of me, and that was all I was satisfied with.
I stared at my sister's nostalgic smile.
"What's going on? Hideyoshi? Look at the face of a straw like that..."
And you wondered my gaze, and she frowned at me.
Even those strange words are comfortable enough to feel soft.
And I honestly told him what I thought from the bottom of my heart.
"My sister seems happy, and I can't wait to be happy."
and…
Her eyes open wide the moment that my words echo into the room.
Even that surprised look was dazzling to me.
Being invisible and having sad eyes from time to time. I can't forget those colors that keep my chest tight.
But what about my sister now?
Isn't happiness itself from anyone's point of view?
I couldn't wait to be happy about that.
My sister, who comes to mind with my words, is annoyed as if to say, "Hehe, it's something I've grown up with for a long time."
And I did one favor to serve the purpose of the day, pointing to symbols of her happiness.
"Sister! Could you let me stroke one of those bellies?"
Yes...
At this time, there was a new life in the belly of Toyotomi Mitsuko.
And to that wish of mine, she answers with a gentle voice, nodding small.
"Yeah, of course. If you let Hideyoshi stroke you, she'll be glad."
To bless that life, I really wanted to come here today.
I softly touch the big belly where I lived.
That was so hot.
And "Doc Doc" and something powerful is pulsating.
Sure, there's a new life sprouting there!
I just felt it, and I felt something coming in from behind my eyes.
"Cheer up... you're coming out fine."
"Hehe," she grinned at me, squeezing out her voice to leak, pointing her warm gaze at the place where my hands were placed, like the sunshine of this day in Haruhi.
The gaze was precisely "mother" itself.
Yes...
My sister will soon be my mother.
That didn't make me feel like she was going to be any farther away for me than she was going to be married.
So...
Soon before the birth of a new life… while Toyotomi Mitsuko was his "sister," he wanted to burn his eyeballs for the last time.
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How long will it be...
Maybe that was, like, really just a little time.
Or maybe it's been quite a while.
But now it didn't matter to me, like "time".
To my sister, who flirted with the turmoil and still kept giving me love and happiness without a blood connection, and the child who dwells in her belly, I kept getting all the blessings I could. She looks at me like that and smiles gently.
Only at this time, my sister and brother from those days we spent together in Osaka Castle.
I know.
If you miss this time, you can't go back.
But the passage of time is extremely cruel.
The look of Yukimura Maida bowing her head slightly outside the room comes into my eyes as a shadow.
The fact that it is a signal that will not be given in the words "it is time" is as indicated in advance.
Too bad...
I want to be here a little more...
With such sweetness and similar emotional buds, I lid with strong determination.
And when I stood up scratchy, I lowered my head one dust. And it was the last thing I told you.
"Thank you for today. Wherever I may be, I wish my sister happiness.
Please take care of yourself as the cold weather is still here "
"Hehe, that it's kind of an unreliable word. Yeah, I get it. I'll always show you my face again."
"Yes!"
Yes, I answered well and I left the room.
- Wherever you are, I wish you happiness...
My sister would only think of that meaning now to the extent that she was "even away from Osaka Castle and Kyo".
But I do.
That after this, in less than a decade, there is yet another sad goodbye to my sister from her family.
But I was under oath.
- Forget my sister Ekubo, wherever she is.
Even if it divides into this world and the rest...
He said he would keep praying that she and her family would be happy...
And I told her one lie.
innocent then. "Yes!" Reply.
That the reply promised to this reunion will no longer be fulfilled. So much so that Osaka Castle is no longer starting to isolate itself.
Yes...
The Kyujo family will be taken in by the Tokugawa family after this.
This is because "because Fumiko Toyotomi is the daughter of the General's regular room" is skillfully used by General Tokugawa's family to bridge the Shogun and the Korean court.
My sister, once abandoned as a "disturber," is now used for that position...
Such an irrational fate awaits her.
And by doing so, it is obvious that the Toyotomi can be kept away from the Jiu-Jitsu family. It had already begun when she married the Jiujo family.
I mean, now's the last time.
The last time I ever met the Kyujo family as a "family"...
I know that.
I shrugged one last time in my heart.
- Sister... please be happy.
And...
- Goodbye...
and…
I leave the mansion of the Kyujo family and look up into the sky.
This day is so calm that I don't think it's winter.
And I looked up at the high blue sky everywhere and thought one thing to my heart.
What if...
If I say goodbye from this world, the next life will be born with Ekubo.
And then we meet again.
To the people I don't love.
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Celebration 12 (1607) January 24th -
Toyotomi Fumiko gave birth to a healthy boy. His name is Tsurumatsu.
He is the later owner of the two households, Kangdo Nijo.
On the side of Toyotomi Fumiko, who turns her sobbing crane pine friendly eyes, there is no shadow of when she carried the birth of the tragedy.
You won't even show those sad eyes anymore.
Because she became a "mother".
And I met my beloved family in Ekubo.