One of the boats appeared without warning.
"... hey, what's that?"
The first person to find the boat was a young man. A blurry shadow that can be seen from a distance. At first, I thought it was a log or something, but as I was approaching, the big picture began to appear clearly, and I knew that the sole was a boat.
However, there are doubts.
Why did the boat flow to Nakasu under these circumstances? Coincidence. It just so happens that the rope that was connecting the boat that was docked in the pier broke? Is there such a thing as convenience?
I'm worried. I'm suspicious. Maybe it's the enemy soldiers who got away and chased them. It may be more likely.
It's just...
(If you ride that, you can go home...)
There's a glimmer of hope.
"W-What? If we get in that thing, we'll..."
Shake the shoulders of the man sitting next to him while keeping his gaze aligned with the boat, as if he were in the light. He is a childhood friend who took part in this battle from the same village. He wants to go home as well as he wants to. I'm sure you'll agree with me. Yes, I thought so.
But it was an impatient reply.
"... nnh?"
Face like an abandoned person. Dead fishy eyes paint a circular spiral. The man turned his gaze to the young man once and turned his face to the young man pointing at him as he sighed. At one point, he would have made an amicus curiae to his childhood friend, the youth.
However, the man quickly detached himself from the boat.
"... I don't care about that kind of thing. It's none of our business anyway."
"...... ah"
Yes, mumbling and bowing down. There was no domination in his voice, and his eyes were dead as if he had given up everything somewhere, and there was strong mourning on his back. I don't want to raise my face just because I don't care anymore.
In the past, I wasn't a man with these eyes.
[I'm nothing but a farmer's three sons, and I'm just a slave to my brothers who stayed at home like this. Then I'll go out and live free! And one day, you will definitely be able to raise your martial arts in battle!!]
He was a man who laughed lavishly as he dreamed of a glorious future like that. By the way, I wasn't such an impotent person......
The young man was heartbroken by the changing appearance of such a childhood friend. I was reminded that a glimmer of hope was nothing but a fantasy.
"...... I guess."
And the young man lifted his eyes from the ship in the same manner, and crammed him into his lap.
"I wonder what will happen to us..."
”... I don't know”
”... can I go home alive?”
”... I don't know”
"... uu... uuu... how did this happen...?"... uuu... uuuu... dad, mom... "
"...... ah"
A sobbing voice. The young man remembered his family's face in his voice, desperately biting his hem and crying.
They were the people of Owari who fled to Nakasu shortly after the war began. He joined his childhood friend in the battle without being shed, and finally realized who they had pulled the bow from.
(...... Third Master. That Oda Nobunaga's grandson was the general over there. So, this general is Nobuo Oda, the ruler of Owari. Nobunaga-sama's son. An adult who could not be succeeded by a small child who succeeded the Oda family....... if we get this far, I don't even know how to learn)
I mean, the inner circle. The contest. A muddy battle. A man-made disaster that causes enormous damage to both sides because it creates an inexorable conflict. Nobuo Oda set up a kind of battle that my father told me never to get involved in. It was also pulled up to the Tokugawa family in Mikawa.
The young man bitterly felt his shallowness. I shouldn't have taken part in this fight. As usual, it would have been nice to play with the dirt while spilling the folly. That way, we wouldn't have met like this.
However, the young man turned to the river that was flowing in front of him, saying that he was still better than me.
It was dyed bright red.
Blood, blood, blood, blood. The turbid stream stagnates in red and black. A pile of corpses filling the river. Those who could not reach the river and died with their arms stretched to the river in agony. He who is pierced with arrows, and he who is slashed, and he who is trampled down. A swarm of eagles flying through the sky aiming at the sole and the others.
At that time, eight hundred people fled to Nakasu in disbelief, and among them, three hundred people died without reaching the other shore. Despairing of his own fate. While hating those who killed themselves. Unlike myself, he was jealous of those who managed to escape.
The young man whose eyes had met with that one spit out what was in his stomach while turning away from his face.
"--Oh, uh... ghee... ahhh... ohhhhhhhhhhh!"
She sheds tears as she drips her stomach fluids. That seems to be the end of me... "The young man suffered from severe pain that tightened his chest.
Honestly, I don't care which one wins anymore. I want to go home. I need your help. I want you to miss it, but that was the only part of the young man's chest.
But please don't blame the young man.
That's right, if you choose calmly, you will be the Third Master. He told me to run to Nakasu and gave instructions to the soldiers so that they could run. We betrayed the Oda family. Yet the third mage tried to save them.
If it hadn't been for that, I'm sure neither the young man nor the man would have been alive. It's a debt I can't repay after spending the rest of my life.
However, I couldn't even imagine the future with the youth of today. His heart sank into the deep darkness of despair, and he just kept praying to the Buddha to scratch his feet if he didn't want to die.
"I was already confident that I could only keep my ego by praying..."
At that time, the surroundings suddenly started to wobble.
……
Raise your face. Everyone was looking in the same direction. So that you can be attracted to Naniwa.
(What the hell happened...?)
Even though he was frightened by the unusual atmosphere, the young man naturally turned his face in the same way as everyone else.
"--Oh"
Breathtaking. Just beyond the line of sight is a boat that crosses a desolate river. I was just casually looking at the place that was coming this way.... No, it's not just one ship. It was not seen in the shadow of the leading boat, but there were a number of boats coming toward us, lining up behind it.
I see. Indeed, this is an anomaly. It is not surprising that everyone feels anxious. At any rate, he was a young man who was hooking up with Taka, whether it was an abandoned ship that ran aground with some kind of burst, but he realized that he was mistaken. It was definitely on its way to us.
At the same time, the young man was so terrified that his knees trembled.
(Please, please, don't come. Leave me alone......
Squat with your head in your arms. At first, everything in those eyes looked like an enemy. I'm scared, I'm scared, I can't stand it. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die.
However, I didn't even have the energy to resist it. You can't escape. Give up. Poor eyes. For a long time, the heart, threatened by the fear of death, was completely dead. I can't stand up on my own anymore.
And it wasn't just about youth. There are men who are friends with children, old people who chant Buddha like a child, and men who are crawling to escape from unfair things. Everyone was in a state of panic.
But that fear disappeared in an instant.
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The air in the parking lot has changed.
It's just that the man showed up.
A hull with many sharp marks. Whether it hit the rock or not, there was a large dent on the side, and it was strange that it was not sunk when it swayed violently each time it crossed the rough wave.
But no one can see the state of the boat. Without exception, the gaze was poured on the leading man.
Look! Look! Look at that majestic hero!
Look at the man loved by heaven more than anyone, while denying God!
Look how full of wisdom it is!
Behold the Proof of the Overlord that sows in the heavens!
Feel the King of Demons and his awe-inspiring domination!
Only he is allowed to call himself the only Overlord in the world.
Yeah, he's the one. He's the one.
"Let's go, let's finish this fight."
Whoa, whoa, whoa!!
It is Oda Nobunaga.