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I'll be back in a little while.
I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and the Toyotomi Army decided to wait by the side of Toyotomi Street with my breath lurking.
The operation is simple: where Hoshikawa troops ran through the streets, they simultaneously slipped into the streets and fled with all their might.
Though hurried, the Ten Warriors of Maida took centre stage, letting the soldiers tap into the art of being hidden (quail) and completely erase the signs.
And at the behest of Naku Horiuchi and Apricot Yoshioka, he managed to secure a place for five thousand people to hide.
(Coming!
Princess Kofi whispers in my ear.
Her exhale tickled with raw warmth, but I concentrated on the sight in front of me.
As a warlord wearing brilliant armor passes by with a horse, the footlights then rush through with all their strength.
- Dodd! Dodd! Dodd! Dodd!
Listening to the footsteps as if they were a grunt, he said, "Don't find me! Don't let them find you!" He chanted in his heart many times.
And it was after a while.
- Waaaaaa!!
The feet of the soldiers of the Hoshikawa army stopped perfectly when I thought I heard a loud cry.
(You've finally begun)
I nodded small when I saw Princess Kofi's face nearby.
Needless to say, the clash between the Great Friend Army and the Hoshikawa Army brought the curtain to life.
(How much longer can Otomo hold up...)
I had a feeling there would be a large number of renegades coming out of the Great Friends Army at the time that Yoshitoshi Otomo decided to bump into each other with the Hosokawa Army.
I mean, I had an instinct that it was only a matter of time before the Big Friends lost.
Perhaps the orthodox knew that, too.
If it had attacked the Toyotomi army, it would not have spared a significant reduction in the seal, but it would not have led to a conversion, I suppose.
Now I can only say that I am bothering to destroy what I have piled up myself?
I still have no idea why he made the 'hostile to Tokugawa' decision.
Perhaps there is a large part of it that cannot be explained by reason.
Now while we were on such patrol, the march of the stalled Hosokawa army began to resume as soon as possible.
(Looks like the siege net's been lifted already)
Princess Kofi's twinkle tickles her ears.
I slightly distracted myself from the Hoshikawa Army.
Then he shifted his gaze to Yoshioka Apricot's face.
She is squeezing her mouth tight all the time and staring at the battlefield that is in turmoil.
The eyes were only slightly opened.
I followed her gaze.
Then he jumped into my eyes as a warlord with an eye-catching armor...
It's Yoshio Otomo.
Probably cemented his determination to go to the dead.
Running on the battlefield like a wind, he felt a falling meteor-like twist.
I glanced back at the apricot face again.
When I saw that face, I accidentally widened my eyes.
It was clearly there.
Pity and remorse......
And I had a hunch at this point.
Say goodbye to Yoshioka Apricot.
Now, back to the Hoshikawa army in front of you again.
Then finally the armies of the lord passed by.
When the previous sounds disappeared like lies, Toyoko Street was engulfed in a moment of silence.
I saw Princess Kofi's face next door.
She knots her mouth and nods at me.
When I breathed heavily, I ordered it out loud.
"Let's go, whoa!! We're going back to Osaka Castle!
- Ooh, ooh, ooh!
Toyoko streets to be filled with Toyotomi troops so that they can be replaced by Hoshikawa troops.
No line or order at all.
He ran eastward down the road successively in the fast-paced order.
"Wait hey!!
The voice of the general of the Hoshikawa army is coming from behind.
But he said, "Wait!" Would he who truly stopped have been left alone in the long history of Japan?
At least there was no one in the Toyotomi army who was such a strange person.
Instead, he kept putting his legs forward with little breath, so that he could be driven away by his fury.
Of course I'm one of them.
I looked around as I moved my hands and feet.
At the beginning, Reisei Kimura and Gideo Ono said, "I can't beat you alone!" and he runs like a pig down the mountain path with another boring stretch of intent.
Naku Horiuchi had managed to follow him as he was about to snap early, but Princess Kofi slapped him in the butt.
There are also Akashi Nobunaga and Masada Nobunaga. Apparently Yoshiji Otani is at the rear.
But...
No matter where I looked, I didn't see Yoshioka Apricot......
I can't stay or stop.
And you wondered how I behaved, Princess Kofi came next door and stopped on her feet as well.
"Ha ha... What's up, Lord Hideyoshi? Have you hit it yet?
"No... I was just wondering."
"Now just think about running away! Come on, let's go!
"Sorry! I'm gonna go for a second!
"Hey! Wait! Where are you going!
I started going back the way I came.
I can hear Princess Kofi calling from behind, but I'm also like, "Wait!" I'm not the kind of person who can wait.
I searched hard for an apricot figure while sending people.
At last, however, she was not found and reached Yoshiji Otani at the rear of the line.
"Dear Hideyoshi!? How did it go?
"He's not here!
"So, who is it!?
"No apricots!!
When he told Yoshiji Otani that he was surprised by my appearance, he looked behind his back.
Still no sign of the Hoshikawa army coming after us.
But I don't know where or what kind of battle is going on.
If something happened to her and she couldn't move...
But another hunch was stronger.
- Didn't she go with Otomo's brother-in-law and fate...
When I looked at Yoshiji, I nodded small.
And we both went back the way, trying to leave the Toyotomi army that was going before us.
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Back in front of Azu, we finally found an apricot figure.
How dare she not move a step from the first place she hid and stare at the battlefield.
When we approached her so that the enemy could not find us, we spoke softly to her.
"If you don't hurry, the enemy will find you."
She shook her head sideways and didn't try to move the spot.
I asked her honestly.
"Are you worried about Yoshio Otomo?
She still stares at the battlefield.
But a glimmer of tears began to flow from his eyes.
And she asked with a trembling voice.
"... what is loyalty..."
In a heavy word that shook the hearts of those who heard, me and Yoshiji swallowed their breath.
When she wiped her tears for a long time, she put her strength into her voice and told us.
"Thank you for your help so far. I have to go."
I couldn't say anything to her resolve.
And what the hell is she talking about 'loyalty', it kept scratching around my head.
A former master who betrayed himself and left him to die inside the battlefield goes to his place of death.
Is' loyalty 'what shakes my mind when I see it?
Isn't it normal to leave the scene with resentment?
I wonder why the hell she wept at someone she hated.
Apricots slowly off the spot.
Of course what she was headed for was Assou, who was in turmoil.
At a time like this, you can't even learn what to speak up about, or at school like that.
That's why I kept my heart open and spoke out.
"Don't die! Apricots!!"
She only shows me the side with her back turned.
The side of it is very sunny and...
It was beautiful.
Without chasing her back as she pulled out a slurry and an elongated sword and ran to the battlefield, I turned east again.
"Let's go! Yoshiji!"
That's how I started chasing Toyotomi's back again.
But......
Yoshiji didn't move.
I look back at him and stare at his face.
Yoshiji's harsh face reflected a firm determination.
I asked only one question.
"Can you swear you'll come back alive?
Yoshiji nodded loudly with his mouth tied tight.
And when I saw it, I slackened my mouth, and I said, "You're an idiot, me and your lord," and I followed the scene.
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Yoshioka Apricot, who entered the chaos alone, was screaming with his voice withered.
"The Great Friends are gathered to the Lord! You must not be fighting in bulk!
But in a battlefield where spears and spears collided and shouting and screaming flew, there was no one left alone, such as something that would lend ear to her voice.
Of course, the tip of the spear stretches from all directions against her.
As she calmly judged them, she approached them step by step toward the Otomo brotherhood.
Just follow the path into the battlefield, increasing the density of enemy allies.
The thin-bodied apricots were hard to move on because they were fighting over a slightly advantageous scaffold and hitting each other hard.
While doing this, the soldiers of the Great Friends disappear one after the other, and the flag of Hoshikawa is also flying where the Lord's righteousness would be.
"Auntie... Father... forgive me for my helplessness. Take one or more enemies on the road..."
She bit off too many lips of remorse.
Nature and tears convey to your helplessness.
And she said softly toward the sky.
"My name will be Yoshioka Apricot!! Whoa, whoa, whoa!!
He storms into the soldiers of the Hoshikawa army, screaming from the bottom of his belly.
Of course she knows her own powerlessness and understands that she will remain tragically the enemy's spear feeder.
But her determination was firm.
Just for loyalty.
Countless blades strike from around her.
She meditated her eyes all the time.
We're going to die like this...
It was the moment I decided to be ready.
- Dokaaaaaa!!
And I wondered if the roar burst in front of me, and all the blades that were supposed to pierce her body had disappeared.
"What...? What the hell is this..."
She stopped by surprise so unexpectedly.
It was the wide back that covered that sight...
"Is it something that makes you die so easily? Until I show you the top, I will never let you die!!
"You can't be..."
"Yoshiji Otani... I'm not saying I forgot."
"Why...? Why are you...?
"Details later! I'll take you! To Otomo Yoshio!! Follow me closely!!
When Yoshiji declared so, he pulled out a giant knife on his hips.
And when it was set up in heaven, it gave him a roar that plucked his liver.
"I am Yoshiji Otani!! Make way if you don't want to be the rust of the famous knife 'Bell Cut' under the sky!!
Nature and the soldiers of the Hoshikawa army take two or three steps backwards to too much force.
Then a path began to form.
"Whoa, whoa!
Yoshiji began a fierce advance so as to pave the way.
- Dosha!
- Zuga!
Yoshiji's back moves forward with the blunt sound of a blunt instrument, rather than the dry sound of slashing him with a very knife.
Apricot followed that back as he said, "The Otomo soldiers follow me!!" He continued to raise his voice.
The two advance on the battlefield like comets.
In the meantime, the murmurs on the battlefield disappeared more and more from the ears of the apricots.
But strangely, only Yoshiji's voice came directly into his heart.
"Apricots. What's" loyalty, "you heard?
"Yeah... but not if you're saying that now."
"Ha, that's right. But now's the only time to say it."
"Then let me hear it. What is' loyalty '?
"Justice in my heart, I think"
"Heh heh, that's a trick."
"Yeah, it could be a trick indeed. Still, I'm following the justice in my heart right now, so you can't help it."
"Justice in my heart...... what is it to you?
Yes, it was the moment the apricot asked.
When I thought it was suddenly open in front of me, the figure of Otomo's brother-in-law popped into my eyes.
Then Yoshiji, who had turned his back before, turned to her.
He's got a tough face with a sweat on his forehead.
When he smiled as he showed his white teeth, he answered her question.
"Justice for me is to help the weak."
Apricot eyes open wide.
But it also made her smile dazzling.
And if you take your feet just one step forward......
- Chuh...
And I talked to Yoshiji...
Yoshiji blushes with an unexpected round of eyes.
The apricot passed beside him as it was, he said with his back turned.
"I'm not weak. Because I took a bottle from Yoshiji Otani, the only one in the world."
Yoshiji said with a faint grin.
"Goodbye... I'll never say goodbye. Never come back alive."
"Hehe, even if you come back alive, Kodoyama is cold and poor."
"Don't worry. When you come back alive, the place where the Lord lives..."
Yoshiji steps forward to get away from her.
And at the end of the day I said it out loud.
"The next place your Lord will live is the 'Oya Mansion'!!
And...
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Yoshioka Apricot showed up in front of the Otomo Ordinary by putting together a large army of friends that had been scattered.
When the soldiers quickly consolidated the perimeter of the orthodox, the orthodox finally breathed a sigh of relief.
And she was in a situation of absolute desperation, and there was only one measure dedicated to her righteousness.
"Let's get out of here!
The brother-in-law returned the words to her when she smiled niggardly.
"Tell me, fool, so I can tell. How do we get through the battlefield in this situation?
She answered with seriousness, even against the spiral laughter of the orthodox.
"Given the center of gravity of the battle, there is a possibility!
"The center of gravity of the war? So as I can see..."
Apricots commanded the soldiers aloud, so as to block the righteousness that he had said so.
"Admiral Otomo, Yoshioka Apricot commands!! All armies!! Retreat south and continue west immediately!! The center of gravity of the enemy's assault is' East '! Proceed to avoid it and the road will always be cleared!!
"Wait a minute! Your Lord's duty has been solved…"
"Not if you care about such a tiny thing now! My lord, give me the order!
"Ooh...... Yikes! Just do as the apricots say!
Fewer than a hundred great friends have united.
But for the righteous, who had been alone until earlier, he was a thankful and comforting ally.
Some of them are directly from Tae-jung.
Of course Hatsutaro was included.
- Oh... what a fool I did...
Now when I realize the size of what I broke with my own hands, my chest hurts.
But on the other hand, I had no regrets.
I don't know why, but for some reason I even felt proud.
That didn't surprise me.
And one more thing. Something strange happened to him.
He asked the apricot to solve it.
"Apricots. Why did you come back?
Her shoulders tickle as she moves forward.
So after a while of silence, she answered with her back turned.
"To pierce the righteousness in my heart."
"You think it's justice in your heart? What's that?
"Hehe. Justice in my heart is to help the weak!
"hey...... what the fuck!? Then I guess I'm weak!
"Oh, in this situation, does the Lord consider himself 'strong'?
"Guru..."
The system of bending your mouth to the letter to, said by apricots.
But he wasn't going to question her any further.
Rather, my mouth loosened naturally when I could see what I was doing in my heart clearing up.
- The reason I was just a little proud... Is that because you did the justice in my heart?
He is helping 'weak' Toyotomi Hideyoshi and fighting 'strong' Tokugawa troops.
It is not in his knowledge what is right and wrong in the course of history.
However, being reached out to those who were suffering in front of you would shine like a grain of gem in a muddy life.
At the end he only told her one more thing.
"That's why you won't have to die with me! Take more care of your life!
"Heh heh, I'm not going to 'die' on this one either"
"What no!?
Then she looked back and told her.
"Because I have 'The Next Place to Live'!
Her smile was so full of 'dreams' that it was too dazzling for her in-laws.
But he didn't realize it.
His face staring at her is as clear as hers......
To shine like the stars the most.
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People are weak.
So people get lost.
So people make mistakes.
So people suffer.
But those who still move on......
Beautiful.