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Celebration 12 (1607) February 12th -

On this day, Tokugawa Jiayang was to taste 'Joy and Sorrow' at once.

The first thing I tasted was' joy '. It was brought from a letter of invitation to respond from his son Hidekang Noboru, who temporarily recovered from a medical condition that could be described as hopelessness and a miracle. All this time, it seemed to sneeze like a child who had been given a new toy, so much so that the bureau of Tea, who had been on his side by accident, wandered off.

It says what a day the correspondence is on the day of receipt of the letter, that is, February 12.

But Jia Kang was not a problem at all, such as the daylight saving. Instead, it wasn't 'fun' that the time had come to see my son's face. He stopped all the affairs and events scheduled for this day and quickly took them to support him.

Will I be able to eat normally already? If that's the case, you have to take your favorite stuff and do it.

My hair and beard have turned bright white, but at least if I keep it clean, my majesty as a father will be preserved.

I have to bring some souvenirs to his wife and sons.

When will it be the first time I have ever had my head around that or this in a positive future?

When has it been the first time I have given instructions to a hurried surrounding area with such a bright voice?

And when will it be the first time when you leave the mansion that you feel the sun shining...

The day is brimming with soft sunny weather that makes you feel close to spring.

Please, just this day, I want you to be the 'father' who celebrates my son's recovery.

Please, just this day, I don't want to be a 'heavenly man' who has to think of a way to even include his son's life and death.

This is how Tokugawa Jiayang prayed to the sun shining overhead.

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The city of Fushimi, lined up with the famous mansion...

Once, when Hideyoshi Tai was alive, it was noisily busy with many merchants, tea men and public houses visiting here. I remember Jia Kang not liking the crowd much more than the ex, and honestly frowned just passing through this place.

But what about now?

Now that many of them have moved their masters to Edo and become stuffy shells, there are few visitors and a quiet stretch of the city. When that place, which until a long time ago was noisy and hated, is transformed into something that is also based on silence, on the contrary, will I remember a bit of loneliness because Jiayang is too selfish?

But in it, Echimae Mansion is still alive with many lowercases.

It seemed to feel the temper of Hidekang Noboru, the master of this mansion called "Forget Your Majesty's Glory", and Jiayang Tokugawa even remembered his disgust. But now, at this time, it is strange because its vigour seems to bear witness above all else that his son is alive, and his breasts jump just to feel it.

Jiayang steps into the hallway of the mansion. From that leg comes the temperature of a limp floor.

But before the floor cools his body, he moves his legs forward.

- Hey, Big Lord. Your feet are fast. Please calm down a little.

Yes, I can hear the Bureau of Tea from my back, but that never came into Jia Kang's head.

Ahead...

Ahead, I have a son.

I have a son I love.

It just seemed that way, and his legs move forward regardless of his will.

No, rather, by his uncontrollable will, he moved his legs and body forward a little sooner, whoever could hold him back.

Then you can see the magnificent sumptuous sumptuous sumptuous sumptuous, which is withheld by sloppy, lined surnames just ahead.

At the end of that pocket.

In that room, Hidekang Nojo... must have my child.

After a long time of shortness of breath, Jiayang falls into a feeling of drunkenness. I feel comfortable floating like I'm in a dream.

I want to see you soon...

It was that one heart.

What a voice to speak to.

What shall we talk about?

I don't know what kind of 'dream' to talk about.

But...

The moment I opened it...

That sight jumped into Tokugawa Jiayang's eyes...

It was just 'pathetic'...

It was so painful for Hidekang Nojo.

The cloth is wrapped around to cover almost everything in the face, with the eyes, nose and mouth peeking slightly.

My chest hurts just to hear that sound of my painful breath echoing into my room.

Next to it sitting quietly, the two lowest names lean against each other with their backs supported.

I guess I can't even sit alone from that appearance.

Yes...

It was obvious from a glance that Hidekang Nobushiki was not so comfortable as to be able to respond.

Jia Kang's vision clouds with tears.

Somehow he sat down when Tea's Bureau gently supported his back, which was standing uncontrollably on his knees trembling.

- Back off already...! Back off, rest!

Yes, I'd like to say it, but the whimpering leaks before I say it.

Hidekang, staring at such a state of family well-being, was breathing painfully without saying anything.

No... "without mouth" would be wrong.

To be precise, you should say, "I can't say anything."

To represent the matter, his side, Shoji Imamura, sitting next to Hidekang, advanced to his knees and offered him a single letter in front of Jia Kang.

"I'm afraid I do. My lord, Nakanaka Nobushiro told me that he had a sore throat from the previous illness and would not speak up.

With this book, I would like to greet you and take your place. "

Jiayang wipes the overflowing tears with his back of his hand and receives the book with his lips trembling.

Hidekang also stared with a calm gaze at the state of its family well-being, which slowly opened with his hands trembling.

And...

There's a gnarly curved letter there.

The letter, disturbed so hard to read, was written by Hidekang Nobushiro as he squeezed his temper.

No matter how bent or hard to read, those words are fat and powerful.

I can feel it from there...

The noble will of Hidekang Nobujo...

But...

The moment I saw its contents...

Tokugawa Jiayang will be 'furious'.

What is its contents…

- The castle number of Fushimi Castle, which was offered by the Great Place, I am afraid I will resign.

That's what it was.

Yet Jiayang trembles as she stares at the book. But that doesn't come from the earlier 'pity', we're shivering at 'anger'.

Tears stopped and instead, under the influence of a boiling head at a time, his eyes and face were stained bright red.

What touched the inverse scale of family health so far?

Of course that's not because I decided on my own to dismiss the castle number of Fushimi Castle that I ordered. Rather, I didn't care about that now. The cause was something else, even simpler.

That was because Hidekang Noboru, who burns the lamp of life that is likely to disappear now but continues to sit with dignity, is on this occasion "as the son of the Tokugawa clan lord" rather than "as the son of the Tokugawa clan lord".

In other words, Tokugawa Jiayang and Noboru Hidekang will be face-to-face here as "subjects" rather than "parents and children"...

What that means...

That was nothing more than his strong indication of will that Hidekang Noboru only saw Tokugawa Jiayang as his "master" during this period.

And that's Hidekang Nobushiro's "minute".

It also came from Hidekang's calm gaze at Jiayang, who trembled in anger.

Tokugawa Jiayang was furious about the matter. And it was pathetic.

But the spearhead of that anger was never directed at Hidekang Nobushiro.

Instead, the end of it is towards my chest.

Because Hidekang created the kind of "now" where Hidekang chooses "subordination" rather than "parent-child relationship" because no one else, Tokugawa Jiayang himself.

But Jia Hang must have noticed that their relationship as a "parent and child" had already died. Still, on this day, only at this time, was he leaping his chest that he wished to be a "parent and child" and that Hidekang would respond to it as well.

He was disappointed that it didn't work and that the cause was on him.

Still, if that was all, he wouldn't have been furious enough to forget me.

But at this point, he had a certain imagination.

It's...

What would Hideyoshi's letter have been if it had been Hideyoshi Tai, not himself, sitting on this occasion...

I'm sure it's there.

- Don't worry. Father.

Didn't it say...

That may just be a household health assumption. But to him, who was flushed by emotions, it seemed too real to me and I didn't feel like I had lost to Hideyoshi Tai, who was no longer in the world.

And I couldn't wait to regret it.

Jiayang squeezed the letter in his hand.

"This is what these conceited public houses do, such as hide the flaws and defects caused by the disease!!

If your Lord is also a samurai, be square without wrapping cloth or anything!! You bastard!!

and struck that anger somewhere completely different from his will, and took his seat as it was.

Still turning his back on Hidekang Nobushiro, who keeps sitting there without a single physical movement, he said, "Enough! We're leaving!! He threw up and left the room behind with a big crotch.

Jiayang left the mansion behind without even turning around as it was. I put him outside in the waiting cage, and when I got in somewhere, I said, "Get out right away!!" and commanded the bearer with a thunderous voice.

To the sudden order, without straying, the bearer proceeds to the cage.

In the shake, Jiayang became desperate to calm himself while chewing on his thumbnail, but in the end, the emotion never subsided until he entered the mansion of the two Articles.

Thus the meeting between Hidekang Nobushiki and Jiayang Tokugawa ended with very few moments.

It gave Tokugawa Jiayang all of his' joy and sorrow ', and all he had left was' disappointment '.

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And the day after that, that is, February 13, the 12th (1607) year of the Celebration -

One boy came all the way to the front of the Echimae Mansion without even getting in the cage, what a walk, smiling at the people around him.

- I'll be seeing my brother soon!

Just like yesterday's Tokugawa Jiayang before entering the Echimae Mansion, the boy fills his heart with two things: 'joy' and 'pleasure'. His footsteps are as light as bouncing to express that feeling.

It was Hideyoshi Toyotomi.

But...

Wasn't that just something I was working on...

Because he's a 'know the future' man.

And you should have noticed in that corner of your mind.

That this will be the last time I spend time with Hidekang Noboru.