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The second day of Fukuoka's stay...
The weather is still good today. During an overheated, stabbing sunshine, he slowly headed with his horse on a slight journey from Fukuoka Castle to Chongfu Temple, where there was the Tomb of Rushui Kuroda.
In the meantime, I remember the interaction with Rushui as vividly as it was yesterday.
Only one letter, I suppose, inspired you to meet him face-to-face.
- Who is your lord?
Almost when I was stuck with a question like that on the encounter, it really freaked me out enough to think that my heart would pop out of my mouth.
His eyes were so sharp and awesome in tone.
But the innocent smile like that boy when he revealed his identity and spoke of my determination is Kuroda Rushui again.
- Kakaka! I like it! I'll ride that idea!
The character that burns as much as the target is huge.
- The other guy is that Tokugawa! No shortage for them! My chest has never trembled like this!
Character I enjoy as much as it is adversity.
- Kakaka! This is hilarious! It's been a long time since I've been given such a challenge!
Sometimes he seemed like a heartfelt uncle.
- Kakaka! Didn't you grow taller again!?
That's the last 'dream' he entrusted to me...
- This view... If Hideyoshi has a child, and if he has a grandson, show him.
He wants my kids and grandkids to see the view from Osaka Castle.
In other words, he entrusted me with the prosperity of the Toyotomi family from generation to generation.
If everything went according to historical facts, his wishes would not come true.
It's about him, brilliantly foresighted.
At that time we must have already seen the coming of Tokugawa and the demise of the Toyotomi family.
And even if he risked his life to fight it, the same future...
Still, he entrusted me with a 'dream'.
But will I live up to his expectations?
While I was thinking about that, I was knocking around the temple gate at some point.
And he took to the tomb of Rushui Kuroda, encouraged by the temple's residence.
There was one runaway woman quietly holding hands.
As she approached us, she stared at this one with gentle eyes and lowered her head gently.
"Are you Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
It's a tone that feels as strong as a single core has gone through in tenderness.
I answered her with my head down.
"Yes. My name is Hideyoshi, Minister Right of Toyotomi. If you'll excuse me, may I have your Lord's name?"
My name is Mitsu.
"Lord Kwong... when it comes to..."
"Yes, I am the wife of Rushui Kuroda, who sleeps here"
She shifted her gaze toward the grave.
When I moved my gaze so that I could follow him, I stared at the grave of Rushui.
Normally, when it comes to graves, even if they're big, they're about the same back length or a little high as me.
But it is as tall as it looks up, and it has a long width and depth.
It was like a small tower, if you ask me, and it was magnificent.
The light turned his eyes round to me and said with a slight grin.
"Hehe, let's be the tomb he always deserved, whether the dream or the castle is bigger or not?
"Oh. Great grave."
The light opened its mouth toward the tomb as it joined hands in front of the tomb again.
"You. Thank goodness Lord Hideyoshi came all the way here."
I became her too and lowered my head in front of the grave with my hands together.
But I can't think of what to call you at a time like this.
I couldn't help but meditate on my eyes.
Quiet time flows for a while.
The sound of the cicadas heard from far away had to be cut, like a soul song.
And the light of anticipation took my hand with a natural gesture.
"Please stop by a little closer"
I take my feet to the right side of the grave as she tells me.
Then it came to pass in the eye that the tomb was staggeringly engraved with letters.
"What the hell does this say?
"Heh heh, that guy's life is written down."
"The Life of Rushui Kuroda..."
When the light puts its thin hand on the grave, it begins to glimpse the letter in a loving way.
That still seems to recall his whole life.
"He rarely praised people. Instead, there was nothing to do."
"Did you?"
"Still, when it comes to His Royal Highness Tai, you were excited as if you were back when you were a boy. Heh heh, it still sounds like my voice will echo back then in my head"
A light that slowly walks around the perimeter of the tomb through the letters of the tomb.
I have no idea what it says, but I guess I've read it so many times that if I tried it on her, I could do Sorajiru.
Because his whole life, written here, is a trajectory he walked with his beloved wife.
And she stopped at the point where she was about to go around.
"Here, touch me with Lord Hideyoshi's hand."
She takes my hand again and puts it on the letter of the grave.
Nature and expression tighten as the sensation of a limp stone and the irregularities of a forcefully carved letter are transmitted.
As she narrowed her eyes to how I was, she continued in a soft tone.
"I will meet you who will inherit the will of Our Royal Highness. There's never been a better day."
"Huh..."
"I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what Heaven has just given me once to dream about my life, which should begin with His Highness Tai's dreams and end with dreams"
Tears propagate their own cheeks at the words of light as if there was him here now and he was speaking to me.
Always with an invincible grin, a sharp gaze to look deep into your heart.
Big love and kindness still felt from the whole thing.
The light reading the letters in front of me was just Rushui Kuroda himself.
"It was a life in which I entrusted myself to the stream of water, but the end of the great river was the ocean. I am proud to be a drop in the dreams of the infinitely spreading youth. If you will, my Lord Chancellor, and Lord Hideyoshi, there is no great gospel."
Her words end.
That meant the end of a sentence written on the grave.
The whimper...
I can't stop...
The light softened my back with gentle, warm hands.
"Lord Hideyoshi. A famous warrior under the heavens, you were there before the end of Rushui Kuroda's life. Would you please let me ask you to be proud of it and to continue to live with your chest stretched?"
"Ugh... yeah, yeah..."
I feel sorry for myself for being speechless and just being able to snort.
But the light softened his expression more and more.
"Oh... now the man in heaven will be pleased."
Something glowing was also floating through the eyes of the light that I told him to leak so.
It will be silent again.
The only sound coming in from my ear is the voice of a cicada playing a soul solving song, as always.
As I entrusted myself to the voice, I was engraving in my heart the words written in Rushui's tomb.
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Finally, the time has come to get away from the grave.
When I finally cried and Dawn calmed down, I once again joined my hands in front of his grave.
And he started saying things to report to him.
"One last battle is coming soon"
Needless to say, "Meeting with Tokugawa Jiayang at Nijojo Castle", and "Osaka Formation", which breaks out by making sure to pour in if the historical facts are correct.
"So I will surely triumph and try to fulfill the 'dream' entrusted to you by the Lord! So..."
I'll cut the words there.
And he grinned at his nigga and mouth.
As he once did.
Like him who was never thwarted in any adversity.
"So with your father in heaven, watch carefully! the future of those whom the Lord has entrusted with 'dreaming'!! Ha ha!!
A big laugh that goes in with nature.
My emotions move so much that I cry, laugh, and even laugh at myself today.
Perhaps that's also because I'm soaking up a bath of Kuroda Rushui's tense measures.
It must be about him.
You must have known I'd come to the grave like this even after I died.
And he's trying.
What I look like and what I look like and leave.
Come on, what do you say! Rushui Kuroda!
Toyotomi Hideyoshi will leave here weeping for the Lord and laughing out loud for him!
Fuji's words are remembered.
That's the last word I spoke to him at Osaka Castle.
- It was a good farewell.
I had no idea what that meant then.
But now I know very well.
When I finished laughing, I squeezed my expression.
And with a slight smile, he followed the scene with a powerful foothold.
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And the month of two years passed.
Celebrating 15 years (1610) March 28th -
"Dear Toyotomi Hideyoshi, You have just arrived!!
I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, dressed in tattooed feathers, am now walking down the corridor of Nijo Castle in Kyo.
At the end of his gaze is a luxurious mess.
Ahead of that is the Great Place, Tokugawa Jiayang.
In other words, it is no exaggeration to say that the Toyotomi and Tokugawa families are going to decide on the future, and the "Nijojo Castle Meeting" was about to open soon.