June, Tensho 9: White Lily Corps, Fifth Class, Camellia
The sun has long since set and darkness covers the sky. While a man would be holed up in his dwelling and breathing in his sleep, I'm running along a field road, relying on the faint moonlight.
When passing through a gate, I would take advantage of the gap in the soldier's consciousness and pass through in a single breath. They run across mountains and fields, filling their bellies with the minimum amount of food and quenching their thirst with spring water.
The rest is minimal, just get this letter back to the Lord. For that is my mission, and I will be more than happy to be of service to you!
We were saved by Tono. He rescued us from that hell. Even now, when I close my eyelids, I recall those happy days and the events of the day we lost it.
The village we lived in was quietly located at the foot of a mountain. It was a small village with a population of only two hundred people, but it was a wonderful village where everyone was kind and proud.
I was born the youngest of a family of five, and I was an apprentice, devoting myself every day to my dream of becoming a full-fledged shinobi and serving Lord Shingen as my family did.
The training center in the village was a place where the retired became the master and the apprentices were subjected to rigorous training, and in a typical year, only about five of them could graduate.
However, it was said that the seniors' generation had an unusually good harvest in recent years. Twenty people, led by the master's daughter, ■■-sama, the only daughter of the master, were expected to graduate, and all the villagers decided to hold a celebration party.
I was in the mountains with my classmates, gathering fruit and wild vegetables. I hoped my seniors would be as happy as possible.
You got a lot of them! Seniors, will you be happy?
Yeah, you'll love it.
Baskets full of fruit and wildflowers, we all walked down the mountain with smiles on our faces. I'm sure the adults will be happy with this, and they will praise us for it. Our little wish was fragile, but it fell apart.
When we came back from the mountain, we were just stunned by the scene in front of us ...... village was on fire.
Why, why, why ...... no, we must save our precious family and friends in the village!
I ran, I heard a voice behind me calling out to me, but it didn't matter. I had no choice but to run.
I ran and ran and ran and ran ...... believing that everyone was safe, but the reality was that everyone was dead. It's not just that they're all dead, my father, my mother, my brothers and sisters were all submerged in a pool of blood.
It's a good thing that you're not going to be able to find out what's going on.
All I could do was hold my mother's corpse and cry out. How could I let this happen? What was I doing when my family was going through this!
"Hey, hey, there's still a survivor.
"You should just kill it.
The next thing I knew, there were strange men in front of me. These men killed my family.
These men are the avengers of my family! And yet, strangely enough, I didn't feel the urge to kill. Maybe I wanted to die already. Let me go to my family as soon as possible, please kill me.
"Hey, hey, hey, girl. If you hate me, you hate yourself for being born lowly.
The blade is closing in, oh, this will make it easier. So I closed my eyelids and waited for the moment.
But even as I waited, there was no pain. When I opened my eyelids, I saw the familiar back in front of me.
You're going to be able to find out more about ......?
"Get out of here! Run away with the survivors!
"Get out of the way you old bastard! Move out of the way!
The spear that had pierced the body of the master teacher had stopped at the tip of my nose. The spear, wet with blood, told me that the spear had pierced the vital point of the master teacher.
Nevertheless, the master is desperately holding back the spear to keep me alive and confronting the men.
'Run away ●●! Get away from it!
I followed my teacher's voice and ran away at once. I ran desperately, my face wet with blood and tears. Another important person had died. Still, I couldn't stop. I would flee with the survivors, because that was the wish entrusted to me by my teacher.
By the time I risked my life to enter the mountain and reach the emergency shelter, there were fewer than 20 survivors. Our daily routine had fallen apart in a day.
The tailor was Takeda, someone had told me.
Three days, five days, ten days passed and we were back in the village. The people who had attacked our village were probably gone, and more importantly, our families were not yet buried.
There were only thirteen of us left. Little children had died from their injuries. The tears had dried up long ago.
Then I met them. They claimed to be of the Oda family and wanted to take us under their wing.
But there was nothing we could do to help under these circumstances. We explained what had happened to us, and to our surprise, they wept.
How unreasonable ...... and we decided to believe, just one more time, that they were the ones who had mourned and built our families' graves together.
There were more surprises. They led us to meet the Three Dharma Masters. As soon as the Master learned of our situation, he shed tears and hugged us.
He hugged us and said, "S-San Dharma Master, we are all unclean! Dirt on your clothes: ......
Where is the dirt? This is a testimony of what you have lost, a testimony of what you have lost in the past. You have never been burnt, and you have done well to come here. You have done well.
You must not be sorry that you have grown older. It is a blasphemy against those who helped you.
And I am glad that you have survived. Thank you, thank you very much for staying alive.
"......! Ku...... ahhh!
We were at a loss for words. We were just happy that the Three Dharma Masters had warmly embraced us with such shabbiness. We couldn't stop crying.
Oh, we were saved. I let go of my consciousness with that thought.
Since then, Master Sambodhi has given us many things. He gave us a restful house, beautiful clothes, and a new name.
"From now on, you should nurse a camellia tree.
"Haha thankfully happy
"You have lost the precious things. But it was born out of necessity. You who have survived have a chance to be happy. Do not forget it.
"Haha!
I died that day and was given a new life by you. You are the sun, and serving you is what makes me happy now.
And now you have arrived in Hamamatsu. This is what you need now more than anything else, I can be of service to you! You're sure to get a compliment!
Run and run and run and run, and finally we see Tono! Oh, I was in time.
"Spitfire! What happened to you, such a battered mess: ......
"And ......-dono, this is a statement from ......-dono.
I held out a sentence from my pocket, and Tono didn't take it but hugged me.
'Silly thing! Such a battered and bruised! How much more unreasonable!
I am more than happy ...... to be of service to you .......
Oh Lord, please don't cry so much. I'm all right, I'm more distressed that you're sad.
"Dear sir, I hope I was ...... useful to you.
"Oh, of course! Thank you, Tsubaki, you've helped me. Get some rest. Well then, let's put the soundtrack to the Sagami, it will be a good way to get rid of the noise. Come with me.
"Haha ...... thankfully happy ......
Ah-dono was pleased with me. He praised me. I am happy now.