Oda Nobuna No Yabou Volume 11

Oda Nobuna no Yabou Volume 11
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Chapter 1
The Sengoku Era- .
Will the conqueror of the next era be the Osaka Honbyo Temple's large number
of Cat Sect followers, or Oda Nobuna advocating Tenka Fubu?
With Settsu as the stage, the decisive battle of the Honbyo Temple/Mori Allied
Forces and the Oda Force occurring simultaneously in the land and sea ended in
the landside victory on the Honbyo Temple side.
In the naval Battle of Kizugawaguchi, the Setouchi Pirates sided with Mori.
The Murakami Navy, using overwhelming agility and power by suicide
bombing, annihilated the Oda's Kuki Navy.
On the land, the gun mercenary group the Saika corps, engaged with Oda
Nobuna's troops in the first gun battle in the feudal states era, and the Oda had
been defeated with their inferior number of guns and skill.
The supreme commander of the Saika - Saika Magoichi had injured the leg of
the commander in chief of Oda Oda Nobuna with her followers Sagara
Yoshiharu, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Takigawa Kazumuzu, within a hastily
constructed fort from a ship that had run aground, had been encircled by the
Saika people and Murakami Navy by land and see and driven into a corner.
Oda Nobuna had never tasted defeat ever since the Retreat of Kanegasaki. In
fact, she had not lost so utterly even in Kanegasaki.
Around the fort, the Saika gun forces surround on three sides, along with the
large fleet of the Murakami navy on the river.
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There was nowhere to run.
To break through the encirclement, Nobuna herself, was having difficulty

moving from large amounts of bleeding.
There were no reinforcements. Each military unit of the Oda has been stuck by
the riot that was occurring everywhere.
As for Nobuna who was cornered in a ship fort, according to the advice of her
sister-in-law Gamo Ujisato, had no choice but to use a forbidden weapon the
Three Sacred Treasures of the Yamato Imperial Palace.
But the real nature of the Three Sacred Treasures, isn't a destructive weapon to
cut an enemy down, it was the key to open the Amano-Iwato that connects
this world and the world beyond.
Furthermore, in front of the stairs where the Amano-Iwato opens up to the sky
Im going back.
Don't Leave!
the hesitating forms of Nobuna and Yoshiharu was projected onto the sky.
Almost like a mirage.
The girl who idealizes Nobuna's Tenka Fubu, Gamo Leon Ujisato, using the
three sacred treasures, while everyone watches, in sending Sagara Yoshiharu
back to the world of the future, intended to ride out the crisis.
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It is in the rumors of the forbidden love with Sagara Yoshiharu, the vagabond
without social status that came from the future, that caused Nobuna to lose
public sentiment and lead to riots across the country.
Oda Nobuna is in love with this strange person and is going to destroy the class
system of the country, and angered the privileged class of Samurai and
powerful clans. Oda Nobuna is confused because of the social status that
doesn't allow romantic love and is going to take over the Yamato Gosho and
take Himiko herself, and is attempting to make Sagara Yoshiharu the
Kampaku was stated in an anonymous document distributed to the entire
country, causing unease with the senselessness of Nobuna.
The people also participated in riots one after another.
If the usurper of the Yamato Gosho, Nobuna, was to send Sagara Yoshiharu
back to his world in front of all the people, the false charges would clear.
Honbyo Temple would lose their greatest just cause to wage war.
It would calm the riots occurring across the country-
Believing this, Ujisato let Nobuna invoke the Three Sacred Treasures.
"Even if death separates us, my heart with always be with you, Yoshiharu. My
companion can only be you."
She never expected in her wildest dreams that when seeing Yoshiharu was
about to endure the pain and returned home, Nobuna would give him a kiss
with all her might.
Ujisato is a girl who doesn't know love.
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Admiring the Nobuna that charged forward towards Tenka Fubu, Ujisato was
not mature enough to understand the affection Nobuna and Sagara Yoshiharu
held.
She couldn't understand why the appearance of Nobuna and Yoshiharu kissing
made her shiver and cry.
It is at this moment that everyone in Japan was made aware that the rumor that
Yoshiharu and Nobuna fell in love was true.
Left behind, Akechi Mitsuhide could only watch the two people from the
bottom of the stairs.
And the bodies of Yoshiharu and Nobuna, which were about to go up the stairs
that extended to the heavens, were completely exposed to the gun expert Saika
Magoichi on the ground, holding the large gun Yatagarasu.
As a large number of the Saika clan approached Saika Magoichi like fireflies, she
adjusted the aim of Yatagarsu at the heads of the embracing and kissing
Nobuna and Yoshiharu and approached her decision. (Possible Name I'm
missing?)
Oda Nobuna and Sagara Yoshiharu's fate was in the hands of Magoichi.
Magoichi-sama!
Oda Nobuna said she will not throw anything away-
She said she will remain married for life with Sagara Yoshiharu-
She declared it in front of the whole nation!
Do you want to shoot or...
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The future of the country will be determined by Magoichi-sama's decision.
Saika Magoichi, the flawless heir of the powerful clan of Kii, had won this war
with the overwhelming might of the gun corps that Saika is proud of, but
realized she had lost to Oda Nobuna as a person.
I had just acted violently for sake of my own freedom. I am flawless. So I

believed, but I joined this war due to the friendship with Honbyo Temple, not
for the real feelings of Magoichi.
But Oda Nobuna is Oda Nobuna, for the sake of ending the century of chaos
and continuous wars and bring a totally new sense of values, resisted with all
her will while receiving every disgrace.
It brought home the difference in our caliber.
A love that goes beyond social status with Sagara Yoshiharu as well as Tenka
Fubu, for Oda Nobuna who transcends Japan's traditional values such things
are of equal value. It is a dream worth betting your own life.
(What a greedy woman.)
If this hero is buried here, this country's history will probably change. And I'm
afraid in a boring direction.
But if I turn a blind eye to Oda Nobuna, Nobuna will, without fail, make a
comeback. She will never give up. Nobuna will not stop until her life runs out.
This war will continue.
Magoichi-sama!
Magoichi could no longer hesitate.
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Magoichi wasn't the only expert who could accurately snipe at Nobuna from
this vast distance. There exists a person called the master of the impossible bow
and arrow in this Sout the Rokkaku Shoutei and his son Rokkaku
Yoshiharu.engoku Era. For example, Nobuna once destroyed the Rokkaku clan
of south Omi and chased
The Rokkaku parent and child that fled into Koka and had not been heard of
were the old masters of Gamo Leon Ujisato.
If it is the Rokkaku father and son, it is possible to shoot Nobuna's head from
such distance accurately.
!?
With an inarticulate cry, Magoichi fired the Yatagrasu.
From a distance, a single arrow was shot to pierce Nobuna and Yoshiharu's
head at the same time.
Magoichi used her arquebus bullet to blast away the arrow.
In the spur of the moment, she protected Nobuna and Yoshiharu.
It is not logical.
Of her own will, Magoichi's finger that had trained with the arquebus until it
changed into a part of her own body, protected the pair.
So strong from such a distance!
What on earth, was that Magoichi?
That's the sniper who shot Kennya and broke the peace between Honbyo
Temple and Oda! This useless war was staged by him...!
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In succession, more arrows were aimed and fired at Nobuna.
Yoshiharu hugged Nobuna to defend her.
Akechi Mitsuhide who had frozen in shock, panicked and began to go up the
stairs.
The pace of the arrow was faster and Magoichi shouted.
Hotaru! Yatagarasu Kai Second!
Second.
I'll shoot any number of arrows aimed at Oda Nobuna!
However, it was too late.
Magoichi fired the next arquebus to blast away the rest of the arrows.
That's because -
Damn. It's useless! They have two archers. I'm alone....!
Magoichi despaired.
Probably one of the shooters was the Daimyo that was ruined by Nobuna and
fled into Koka, Rokkaku Shoutei.
The man who participated in the siege on Oda while planning to make a
comeback, the genius that inherited his family's Hekiryu school of archery. The
master of the bow and arrow in the warring states.
Another one is the son of Rokkaku Shoutei, Rokkaku Yoshiharu.
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While young, it is said he inherited his father's skill with the bow.
Only these two people could shoot an arrow from such an unimaginable
distance.
Magoichi on the other hand is alone.
She couldn't prevent the simultaneous arrows shot by the Rokkaku father and
son.
Three arrows pierced Sagara Yoshiharu's back as he hugged and protected

Nobuna at the same time.
Magoichi saw Yoshiharu bare the brunt of the arrows, blood coming from his
nose and mouth as he continued standing to protect Nobuna.
Yoshiharu-han!
It was hopeless. Magoichi had been unable to save them.
As her consciousness faded, Nobuna pushed Yoshiharu's body away.
For the sake of protecting Yoshiharu from being a mark, it seems she tried to
choose.
Akechi Mitsuhide and Takigawa Kazumasu caught her body as she tumbled
down the stairs.
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Sagara Yoshiharu's body fell through the air and was swept away by the flood
behind the fort.
The Ama no Iwato that was his chance to return suddenly closed.
Sagara Yoshiharu's whereabouts were unknown after he fell into the bursting
torrent.
The rising water level may have been caused by Yoshiharu crashing into the
river embankment.
Ujisato lowered the barely conscious Nobuna to the deck and listened to the
high-pitched shriek of the Kampaku, Konoe Sakihisa.
All of you, pay attention to Himiko-sama's divine decree! Honbyo Temple and
the Oda forces are both to withdraw and make peace for half a year's time!
Temples and samurai must not wage war anymore! Together, you are the two
wheels that support Japan! That is Himiko-sama's will!
Konoe Sakihisa who had failed at forcing a peace talk, still had not given up on
a ceasefire.
It was not the time to immediately think about whether it was a genuine
imperial decree or a fake Konoe fabricated on the spur of the moment.
But Akechi Mitsuhide bowed before Konoe Understood, I will humbly receive
the imperial decree which was reflected onto the blue sky as Nobuna was laid
on the ship.
An imperial envoy rushed in towards the siege around Nobuna, and Magoichi
received the imperial decree immediately.
Magoichi sent off a large number of the Saika members all around the battlefield
to arrest the Rokkaku father and son who had disappeared saying I can't
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forgive them. But it was already too late and they had probably already fled to
Koka.
Koka is a ninja village. The Rokkaku father and son probably had experienced
ninjas as their guards.
Nobuna's fate would have come to an end if the heads of Honbyo temple had
rejected the imperial command. But today they didn't reject it.
As for many of the members of the Honbyo temple that had joined in the riots,
they had already lost the will to fight with the Oda clan.
They had viewed from the heavens the first great gun battle in human history
and they shuddered with fear and shock as the ghastly figure of Saika Magoichi
threw away the Honbyo Temples doctrine of laughter and became a god of
death, marching through a sea of blood and building a mountain of corpses.
The tragic love of Oda Nobuna and Sagara Yoshiharu that was blocked by an
impassable wall of social status.
Yoshiharu becoming Nobuna's shield and receiving an arrow in the back.
The form of Nobuna pushing away Yoshiharu to protect him from the arrows.
Even the guns and the miracle of the Ama no Iwato was overshadowed by the
forbiden love of Oda Nobuna and the man from the future.
They had an instinct that she would open up a new era in this age of confusion
and despair.
Saika Magoichi led the Saika clan back to Kishu and the Murakami Navy exited
the Kizu river mouth to return to the Seto Sea.
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The riots of the followers who had revolted simultaneously all around the Oda
territory all dissolved.
Only the various powerful daimyos and local leaders who had been
dispossessed of their assets by Nobuna continued their opposition.
The battle of the Honbyo Temple/Mori allied forces and Oda troops entered a
ceasefire for half a year.
The Oda clan just barely managed to escape from a quagmire where they were
surrounded by foes.
However, this is only for half a year.
And the whereabouts of Sagara Yoshiharu are still unknown.
The people were whispering Sagara Nobuna was standing for the sake of
guarding Oda Nobuna as a shield. No, Sagara Yoshiharu passed through the
Amano Iwato and returned to his world to let Oda Nobuna take over the
country.
A short time after the establishment of the cease-fire with Honbyo temple, the
retainers assembled from all around the Oda territory.
After the ceasefire, Nobuna went to heal her leg injury at Kyo's Honnouji
temple.
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Fortunately the bone is safe. By the grace of god you avoided a direct hit from
Magoichi's bullet. If the Yatagarasu's bullet had made a direct hit, you would
have lost your leg immediately. You can soon walk. Good, good.
Lying in Honnouji Temple, Nobuna got a seal of approval of recovery from

the noted doctor Manase Belchior that morning as he kneaded a remedy.
During the opening of the Ama no Iwato, I fainted and lost consciousness in
Yoshiharu's arms. I don't remember anything after that.
When I woke, I was on top of one of Honnouji Temple's beds.
The report that Sagara Yoshiharu had disappeared was like a dream.
I can't really feel it yet.
Yoshiharu vanished from the battlefield with that perfect encirclement as I

fainted on the verge of death. I don't understand how I was able to come back
from that hell.
Apparently we were barely saved by Konoe Sakihisa and Himiko.
Hime-sama. The cat sect's hostility no longer exists. Rather, in their hearts,
there seem to be many people who are Hime-sama's supporters. This is also
because of Saru's feat of volunteering his body to protect Hime-sama.
Next to Nobuna, the courageous general Shibata had won a fierce victory over
the temporary riots in Echizen.
The citizens, men and women alike, who saw your beautiful face for the first
time are crazy about you Hime-sama she said proudly, throwing out her chest.
Dearuka.
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When the figures of Saru and Hime-sama appeared in the sky, the men's hearts
were stolen by your beauty, and the girls shed tears and became supporters of
the tragic love between Saru and Hime.
I understand. Boys are simple.
Even with the first meeting with Saitou Dousan, that viper who was flustered by
my charming figure.Nobuna recalls the encounter with Dousan a long time
ago.
While it is worrisome that Sagara's whereabouts are unknown, by opening the

Ama no Iwato, Hime captured the people's hearts. It is a miracle. To Gamo, 80
points.
While drinking the tea that Rikyuu had prepared, Nobuna's substitute elder
sister Niwa Nagahide smiled sadly. Incidentally, Sagara's absence only earns
ten points.
Anyway, Saru is alive Nagahide. It is impossible for that guy to die without
permission.
Is that right marvelously katsuie. What a vulgar life Sagara has.
That's right. Before long that Saru will randomly return back. And at that time,
I will hit him for leaving without Hime-sama's permission.
...Mmm.
Silently wearing her tiger headdress, Maeda Inuchiyo nodded.
Everyone close to Nobuna believed that Yoshiharu is alive.
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Rather than acting to not worry Nobuna, everyone truly believed in his survival.
Hee. The world knows about your relationship with Saru at last onee-sama.
When Saru gets back, lets have a marriage ceremony.
Nobuna's brother, Tsuda Nobusumi laughed cheerfully as he gave an Uiro to

Inuchiyo.
That's impossible.~ If Mr. Saru comes back and breaks the law by having a
marriage ceremony, the Takeda and Uesugi clans that lost their reason to drive
out Saru and the Oda clan, will be given an excuse to invade the capital again.
In that case, the Matsudaira that has been a bulwark to Takeda will be erased
first~
Nobuna's younger sister Matsudaira Motoyasu who had rushed over from
Totomi shuddered in fear.
The Oda and Matsudaira clans are allies, but recently Nobuna's little sister had
completely become her vassal. And while the Oda family had expanded to the
west, in the east the Matsudaira clan was constantly under attack by Takeda
Shingen.
So because big brother isn't around anymore to have a romantic relationship,

people feel sorry for the popular Hime. So if big brother and the princess stick
together then they will be surrounded by enemies.
Yoshiharu's younger sister, Nene, asked Nagahide while happily eating Uiro.
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Nene had wailed when she heard that Yoshiharu had been killed at the Retreat
of Kanegasaki, but now she fully believed in Yoshiharu's safe return.
That is correct Nene. Setting aside the girls, the men probably would be. Since
they were fascinated by the princess' good looks, Sagara would be the envy of
all the men in the world if he stole Hime's heart. They would say Die Sagara
Yoshiharu! You bastard! 0 points.
My, my. In other words, most of the men in the country would become like the
Kawanami?
Of course the Oda clan's soldiers who are familiar with Sagara-dono are
different. Because they all adore Sagara-dono. However, people of other
countries don't really know Sagara-dono.
Sagara is a completely sinful man de gozaru. He is always flirting around

under everyone's nose. [TN: OH GOD GOEMON SLURRING WHY.]
Hachisuka Goemon who had returned from the ninja meeting made a sour face
while hanging from the ceiling.
...That's right, he had an affair. To have an affair with Nobuna....
Nobuna's right hand man, the master general of literary and military arts
Akechi Mitsuhide had recently been failing at her pistol's repairs.
In her spare time, she was polishing the pistol that she had purchased through
Frois from the Nanban traders.
....Broke our engagement. Even if he went mad on the battlefield, to steal

Nobuna's lips, that fellow's injustice and immorality is too much....
While Nagahide watches Mitsuhide with an anxious face. (Strange, it is too

strange, this state of affairs has already been too strange) (.Mother's disease is
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grave) (Its that. Its a woman's big day.) (Katsuie still can't find a husband right.
Ha ha ha.)
The Mitsuhide who still thinks of herself as Yoshiharu's fiance was muttering to
herself. The kiss is a mistake, some people go crazy on the battlefield. No, it
was surely an instant performance to win over the people's hearts.
Though Nobuna thought, (Juubei is strange. Was it the shock of understanding

that Yoshiharu was in a romantic relationship with me? I must talk to Juubei
sooner or later.) For now, they had to deal with the immediate issues.
To the east there are Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin who are not hiding
their ambition to proceed to the capital and take down the Oda clan.
Mori still obstructs us to the west, and in the center stands the Honbyo Temple
and the Saika mercenaries in Kii.
In half a year the ceasefire will finish and it will probably become a battle with
Honbyo/Mori Temple again.
If Takeda or Uesugi use that opportunity to invade the capital, the Oda clan will
not be able to last.
(Above all, there is nothing to be heard of Yoshiharu... I can't only rely on

Yoshiharu. I have to grit my teeth and bear it without him....even if he never
returns again.)
Yoshiharu may never return.
He may have died protecting me.
Sagara Yoshiharu died in battle.
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The likelihood was high.
Everyone in the Oda household had a vague feeling.
The Oda forces searched the battlefield thoroughly for Yoshiharu but he had
never been found.
(At least I hope you returned to the future and safely reunited with your mother
and father.)
Gamo Ujisato said that the spiritual power of the Three Sacred Treasures was
exhausted by the miracle. The Ama no Iwato can never be opened again, if
Yoshiharu returned to the future, then Nobuna is separated from Yoshiharu
forever.
(Even so, if Yoshiharu is still alive....)
Nobuna ordered from now on report the plans to the two young girl
strategists Takenaka Hanbei and Kuroda Kanbei who unexpectedly broke out
into tears after returning from their revival in the Arima Hot Spring.
While Takenaka Hanbei and Kuroda Kanbei were shocked by Yoshiharu's

disappearance, the strategists could only rack their brains to overcome this
crisis.
Sob. Sob. You'll have understood from the battle the other day, but it is
impossible to attack Honbyo Temple which is protected by the river, sea, and
land. Having said that, it is also impossible to make an expedition to Chuugoku
for a decisive battle with Mori while Honbyo holds control over the center of
Settsu. That will cut off our escape route. The reason the battle ended
temporarily is because the believers felt sympathy for Nobuna. Sob. Sob.
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Hanbei's eyes had been red and swollen since Yoshiharu's disappearance.
Kanbei, who had become Hanbei's closest friend, held Hanbei's shoulders to
support her and nodded.
Sim, if Honbyo Temple is not sealed, the Oda clan will have to maintain a
defensive fight. We have no choice but to blockade the river mouth and cut off
provisions and reinforcements from Mori.
Yes. It is as Kanbei says. Mori and Saika can't send troops to Honbyo temple if
the waterway is blocked.
But the Sakon's Kuki navy was scattered by Mori's Murakami navy at the
mouth of the Kizu river. The Murakami Navy is abnormally strong. It seems to
be true what has been said about the Murakami Navy dominating the Seto
Inland Sea and just barely took over Chuugoku.
We have a plan for Takigawa Kazumazu to defeat the Murakami navy. Sob.
Sob.
From Sakon? Come to think of it, Sakon and Leon didn't show up.
One of the Oda clan's Four Devas, Nobuna's little sister Takigawa Kazumasu led
the Kuki navy and was wiped out by the Murakami navy.
The distinguished daughter of Omi who was promoted from hostage to

Nobuna's sister-in-law, Gamo Leon Ujisato, saved Nobuna from her crisis by
releasing the Three Sacred Treasures but it led to the whole country knowing
about Nobuna and Yoshiharu's relationship. She had put herself under house
arrest after the ceasefire.
The two who had argued over the position of Nobuna's sister -
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The two of them are now working together on a strategy to come out
victorious over the Murakami navy. Especially Gamo Leon who is regretting
using the Three Sacred Treasures on the battlefield.
Kanbei tilted her head, saying But how did Leon obtain the third sacred
treasure?
Originally, this Simeon also intended on using the Three Sacred Treasures to
open the Ama no Iwato and send Sagara Yoshiharu back to the future. My
motivation was basically the same as Leon's. But the third sacred treasure, the
Magatama, was lost as it sunk into the Seto Sea during the Genpei War. The
Magatama should have been in the part of the ocean ruled by the Murakami
Navy so it shouldn't have been easy to obtain.
Dearuka. Leon said that the Magatama was sent by a Namban missionary. I
guess they had a connection as they are both Christian.
It was a missionary? Why would a missionary from beyond the sea know so
many details about the myth of the Three Sacred Treasures? Sob. Sob.
Sim. Even if he calls himself a missionary, he might have a separate job. Not all
people have being a missionary as their profession like Frois. Many are
merchants or soldiers. The missionary who baptized Simon was originally a
merchant who came to this country to trade.
Dearuka....Their goal isn't only to do missionary work like Xavier and

Frois...seems suspicious.
In any case, the missionary- Gaspard- is now in staying in Kyushu under the
supervision of the Otomo's Christian Daimyo.
I will fight against the Murakami navy and win.
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There is no other way to break through this siege.
Sob. Sob. Kanbei put together an outline of how to break through. Takigawa
Kazumazu and Gamo Ujisato who excel at naval battles will soon bring the
concrete proposal to Nobuna-sama directly. It will require a tremendous
investment from the whole Oda clan.
Well its only an idea, but only the best strategist in the world, Simeon, can
make this plan a reality. Hehehe.
It was surely the same plan that had dawned on her in Harima, Nobuna smiled.
Sob. Nobuna-sama showed everyone in the whole country a new way to live
by opening the Ama no Iwato. A new way of life that doesn't rely on the gods
and Buddha, where there can be pure love beyond social status. The public
sentiment immediately leaned towards Nobuna-sama. Because of that, the
Honbyo Temple's believers stopped rioting. Afterward, if Nobuna displays that
she possesses not just the will, but also an overwhelming military power, Tenka
Fubu can be achieved.
I didn't really intend that.....I wasn't fully conscious at the time....its a joke that
the whole country saw my kiss with Yoshiharu right...Nobuna turned pale and
then red as she spun the tea set she was holding round and round.
(OH GOD IT HAPPENED DIDN'T IT! I WANT TO FORGET IT ALL! I

COMPLETELY REMEMBER! I WANT TO DIE! SOMEONE KILL ME!)
I almost felt like crying that out, but its possible that Yoshiharu was already
dead and it didn't feel like the right mood to crack jokes. However, because we
were trapped, I did such a shameful act in front of the whole nation...if
Yoshiharu doesn't fall in love with me after all of that, it will seem like I have no
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backbone....kiss....in public...kiss....IYAAAA! Nobuna endured the vertigo

attack.
And then decided that that guy was in for a merciless punishment when he
returned.
However, because Sagara Yoshiharu disappeared from the battlefield shortly

after that kiss, Oda Nobuna won sympathy with the nation. At least that is the
impression I get from the men. If Sagara Yoshiharu returns, most of the
troublesome samurai and daimyos will become the Oda clan's enemies to
prevent Saru from starting the largest social upheaval in the history of the
country. Hehehe.
That's right Kanbei. People say that the only men who weren't shaken by the
divine figure of Nobuna-sama were the Uesugi clan generals that worship
Uesugi Kenshin as the avatar of Bishamonten. All of the men of Echigo seem to
be a bit special. Fufu.
Hanbei forces a smile, and Katsuie and the group of retainers suddenly erupted
in laughter.
Meanwhile, Mitsuhide sunk into a depression.
By any chance....will Senpai not return anymore?
She blurted out such a taboo thing while diligently polishing her pistol.
All of the members fell silent.
Ju, Juubei. Everyone isn't becoming depressed about Yoshiharu, thinking like
that is bad for Yoshiharu, nobody is pretending to put on a brave face. It is an
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admirable thing for someone as small as Nene. Read the mood once in a
while...
But. If Senpai isn't found, is Nobuna-sama going to continue to pretend that

Senpai lives for years and years?
Tch. How can Akechi not read the mood, 3 points. What a difficult child.
Katsuie began to panic.
Juubei!
This Juubei cannot bear it.
Nobuna and Mitsuhide glared at each other.
We all believe that Yoshiharu is alive. We aren't just pretending. Didn't

Yoshiharu perfectly return alive even that time in Kanegasaki?
When Zenki used the ninja art that time, the critically injured Senpai was only
saved miraculously by this wonderful Juubei risking her life. Its different this
time. Juubei was only able to watch....it is Juubei's responsibility. Is Senpai
already....at a place that Juubei can't reach....
Juubei? What's got into you? Cheer up!
Well. Its impossible that Nobuna and Senpai had a forbidden romance like
that! If Senpai really lives and comes back, what do you intend to do?! Are you
seriously going to have a wedding ceremony? If you do such a thing, the Oda
clan will be destroyed! Why...why Nobuna-sama....
....Juubei.
Even if you temporarily stem the drama with Senpai! Would you provoke
Takeda and Uesugi by declaring your love to the world?
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Don't the citizens of the nation support me?
Only because Senpai disappeared! All hell will break loose if he shamelessly
returns! No matter how much the people support us, its impossible to have
Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin as enemies.
Juubei? You seem to be losing your cool today. By any chance are you angry
that Yoshiharu and I kissed?
Th-th-th-that's wrong! W-W-Why, this Juubei is the descended from the noble
Toki Minamoto family. Ughh~.
I'm sorry. I seem to have gone a little too far.
Nobuna was considerate of Mitsuhide's feelings and stopped arguing.
Even if the person still stubbornly wouldn't recognize it, Nobuna had already
understood it clearly. Mitsuhide had been in love with Yoshiharu this whole
time.
In the beginning, they should have been feelings of friendship and respect for a
senior who fought on the same battlefield.
Over time, it had actually become love.
From what time was it, Nobuna thought.
Leon didn't understand my feelings for Yoshiharu.
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That girl is too young to know love, and wasn't able to take my feelings for
Yoshiharu into account. She never expected me to act like that when the Ama no
Iwato was opened. Because Leon is extremely immature.
But Juubei-
Until now, Nobuna had avoided this topic. No, it may be that she had been
crazy about Yoshiharu and hadn't paid attention to the troubles Mitsuhide was
having.
Now that Yoshiharu had disappeared, Nobuna may have been able to notice the
seriousness of the situation that she and Mitsuhide had fallen into.
Mi-mi-Mitsuhide. We don't have the right to interfere with our lord's love! In
the first place I don't have any problem having the one marrying Hime-sama be
this Katsuie!
For some reason, pandemonium and chaos is forming between vassals and
master. This is not a normal situation for the Oda clan. Five points.
Excuse me....the two of you must not quarrel....Yoshiharu-dono would feel sad.
Sob. Sob.
Is that right, Hanbei? He would be happy and put on a monkey face. He would
say something like 'oh its so sinful to be a popular man'.
Unyu. Its a problem that there is only one person in the Sagara family. If only
there was a technique to split Sagara-hon's body into two.
What do I do, I'm going to be bullied.
That's it. We can get a huge saw device and cut Sagara-hon's body in half.
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Saru can't die and leave things this way~
...I'm hungry.
Katsuie made a fuss and tried to restore the room's atmosphere.
....Well, because Juubei thinks of Senpai as only a monkey that uses human
speech, I can't excuse Nobuna-sama's bad taste anymore. But if Senpai
nonchalantly returns home now without an excuse, I'll kill him.
Nobuna thought. It seems Juubei can still not accept her own feelings of love.
So for now while we are still on good terms, we can walk together as master and
servant, two comrades that share the dream of Tenka Fubu.
Nobuna had a foreboding that at some point Juubei will say the forbidden
words I like Senpai and the relationship between her and Juubei will
completely collapse.
Perhaps Mitsuhide had the same premonition and was therefore forbidding
herself from noticing her own affection.
Although the hope that Yoshiharu is alive is fading away day by day.
Even so, I won't throw away this dream.
Nobuna thought. I won't give up until the very end, even if I am burned by the
flames of destiny, as long as I live, as far as this life goes, I won't give up this
dream.
I resolved myself, for the nameless soldiers who died on the battlefield, Viper
and Danjo, and now Yoshiharu who I owed my life many times, Nobuna
clenched her teeth and nodded.
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Anyway. I won't become the demon king just because Yoshiharu disappeared.
Yoshiharu lives. I believe it more strongly than yesterday. Ever resilient,
Yoshiharu wasn't inexperienced on the battlefield. Everyone- lend your power
to me. Particularly Juubei.? Because you are my successor if I fail, do not
hesitate about Saru's disappearance. I rely on you!
...Y, yes.
Nobuna stepped over to Mitsuhide and hugged her shoulders.
Please understand. Even if someone falls, if someone inherits their dream they
aren't truly dead. So Yoshiharu isn't dead. Juubei.
I'm sorry Nobuna-sama. I got too upset.
I am sorry as well.
In a low voice that only Mitsuhide could hear, Nobuna gave a heartfelt apology.
Nobuna-sama?
The present Mitsuhide still doesn't understand the meaning of those words.
At some point the time will come.
It may be at that time that all the dreams that Nobuna and Mitsuhide built up
will completely collapse.
Still, Nobuna raised up Mitsuhide's sinking spirits.
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As Nagahide sympathizes with Nobuna's heart she said laughing, The princess
has become strong again. Full marks.
Honnouji Temple soon had an unexpected visitor.
With his black teeth, the Kampaku Konoe Sakihisa, also known as Maro, came
with a big basket saying I came for Nobuna.
Nobuna had Konoe be shown into a small tea-ceremony room with the master
of 1000 tea ceremonies Rikyuu.
To Konoe the restoration of the Imperial Rule in other words the ambition to
restart all of Kyo's aristocrats. Konoe had shown hostility for a long time against
the samurai clan who advocated Tenka Fubu, but after Nobuna had grown from
the numerous trials, he surrendered himself.
Konoe. With the strategist you employed
Kennya was shot
By employing that shadowy strategist things went out of control, it became a

battle with Honbyo Temple, and Kennya got shot But out of consideration for
Himiko's imperial decree that brought about peace I won't demote you.
HOHOHOHOHO. Oda Nobuna must be in good health if such abuse can

come out of your mouth.
What's with the basket?
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....Between you and me, Himiko is in here. She came here secretly.
Oh. Ku, The empress in a basket. Aren't you most disloyal?
Yes, there were various things! Well, Himiko-sama. Oda Nobuna is speaking
directly to you.
....I understand.
The very young head of the Yamato Gosho emerged from the basket.
She was dressed as a pure white shrine maiden.
Rikyuu who wore the jet-black Nanban outfit let out a throb and shook
nervously.
However, the reason Rikyuu is called the Tea Saint is because she will never
make a blunder in a tea ceremony no matter how nervous she is.
....(Here you go.)
Mmm.
The tea was presented to Himiko excellently.
Oda Nobuna. This time was a mess.
Himiko-sama. I apologize for using the Three Sacred Treasures without

permission. I'm going to return the sacred treasures to the Yamato Gosho. I'll
discuss the particulars with Konoe after this meeting.
While you used it, the power of god wasn't used. [TN: Himiko's speech kills
my translators]
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Yes. According to Leon, the sacred treasures seemed to have used up the last of
their power to open the Ama no Iwato. It seems they are unusable now.
You were shown in person to the whole country.
Its embarrassing.
Himiko is young but intelligent.
When Nobuna used the Three Sacred Treasures and opened the Ama no Iwato,
she could have declared to the nation no to the whole world, that she was the
new God of the world.
But Nobuna didn't do that.
She openly revealed that as a person, as a young girl, she was in love with
Sagara Yoshiharu.
Nobuna refused to return to the Age of Myths and made the coming Age of
Humankind known to the whole world.
Himiko understood Nobuna's will perfectly.
Oda Nobuna. Sagara Yoshiharu is alive.
Yes. He is alive. I will wait for Yoshiharu's return forever.
However, while he is gone you must not give up your ambition of Tenka Fubu.
It will be a very difficult journey. And from then on when the peace ends, if you
are not able to make happiness with Honbyo Temple, you cannot continue to
fight at(?) Honbyo Temple [TN: ????]
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Unfortunately we are in a difficult position, but the Oda clan has Juubei and
Hanbei. Definitely.
To overcome this difficult situation, Oda Nobuna would have to gain authority
that exceeds Honbyo Temple. For example, the Shogun.
But Imagawa Yoshimoto has the rank of Shogun.
Mm. And you do not want to become a god-there is no easy way to end the
war-
Oda Nobuna. Himiko was going to try to hand over her rank to her.
She was determined to convey her will to abdicate.
So Nobuna could stand on the heights that far exceeded the head of the Honbyo
Temple-Himiko is an exceptional existence, descended from the gods and
outside Japan's class system-if Nobuna took the throne as Himiko there would
be nothing to stop her love with Sagara Yoshiharu.
When Konoe sensed Himiko's decision he stopped her in a panic. A-a-ah. What
are you saying Himiko-sama! You shouldn't say anymore!
With all due respect!
Himiko-sama. I have already chosen to live as a person. Besides-
Besides?
In the Namban lands, there is a religious authority known as the Pope in

Rome, it seems he rules above the royalty. The Yamato Gosho and Himiko are
needed to oppose the Namban history and authority. Without the Yamato
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Gosho, the strength of the Namban civilization will engulf us. If I who marched
to the capital from rural Owari usurped the position of Himiko, I would look
like a savage from the Namban viewpoint.
Is that so. Oda Nobuna. You even thought of something like this when you
decided on Tenka Fubu?
Yes. Beyond that point is my true dream.
I understand.
The Yamato Gosho was protected Konoe bowed his head as he ran out of
energy.
Putting Sagara Yoshiharu aside, I will try to do anything.
Thank you.
I absolutely can't swallow the malicious demand to have me adopt him and
make him the Kanpaku! ...Is what I would like to say, but rather than having
Himiko-sama abdicate I will swallow my tears and make Sagara Yoshiharu the
Kanpaku, Fujiwara Yoshiharu.
If Himiko is protected, even if the Fujiwara clan is finished, the Yamato Gosho
will recover later....I,I,I...Konoe shed tears while drinking his tea.
We'll have that talk when Yoshiharu comes back, Konoe. There is a twisted
rumor about that monkey usurping the Kanpaku.
The order to make Sagara Yoshiharu the Kanpaku isn't a rumor!
Yeah, yeah. Well, who is the shadowy strategist that split from you and the
anti-Oda clan group? Spit it out. He is the one who planned the assassination of
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Kennya and for me and Yoshiharu to get shot right? I can't leave this alone any
further.
That sneaky man is even able to use a noble of the Rokkaku clan like a pawn.
While having an unknown lineage, he has a fiendish personality, boasts an
inhumane strength, and has an even more wicked intelligence. And despite
being a vagrant he has gained a lot of money on account of Maro transferring
war funds to him....
Was there really such a person outside of Japan's Great Three Villains Viper,
Danjo, and Ukita Naoie? I had no idea. The man called the God of Strategy
Motonari Mori is already dead and while Hojo Ujiyasu is black-hearted, she is
still a young girl.
[cont] One of the Koga and Iga ninjas? If that is so, it would make sense to not
be aware of his name.
It would be awful to reveal the name in front of Himiko-sama. I'll tell you at
the next opportunity.
Why?
If things don't go well, it is possible for that man to harm Himiko-sama.
....That's crazy! Why did you lend war funds to such a person!
I have the deepest regrets. As to the matter of Kanpaku Fujiwara Yoshiharu, I

will take the time to review it positively.
Konoe Sakihisa seems to have decided to entrust the future of the Yamato
Gosho and Himiko to Oda Nobuna.
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(Kanpaku Fujiwara Yoshiharu. I only said that to Konoe half-seriously at first.

But now its becoming a real story- there may be a chance to truly get married
with Yoshiharu.)
However, the crucial Sagara Yoshiharu still hasn't been found.
Where on earth are you Yoshiharu? By any chance could the truth be Nobuna
wanted to cry when she thought of it.
Oda Nobuna. Is Sakon alright?
Sakon, together with Leon, is running about to defeat the Murakami navy.
You are you. Live your own way. It was good to meet you. I want you to tell
this to Sakon.
....Himiko-sama? You don't say. I did think you looked a lot alike.
D-d-don't say anymore Himiko-sama! You heard nothing Oda Nobuna.
Nobuna now understood why Takigawa Kazumasu was so shaken on the

battlefield.
(It is said that every ninja carries their own secrets but this?)
And that Kazumasu has already overcome her past.
The first time I saw my older sister, was when the Oda troops were starting to
proceed from Gifu and was starting the capture of Oumi, the Kannouji castle. I
was the heiress of the Gamo house which served the Rokkaku clan, and the
battle with Onee-sama was my first campaign.
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Not far from Honnouji in the Nijoujou castle garden, Gamo Leon Ujisato was
arranging a large number of books from a pile while talking about her meeting
with Nobuna.
The young girl listening on her knees listening was Takigawa Kazumasu.
She was dressed exactly like Himiko in a shrine maiden outfit.
She originally was a Koga ninja.
Leaving the the Koga, running out of energy in Owari she was picked up by
Nobuna, becoming her little sister. At that time, onee-chan's blitzkrieg tactics
took out Rokkaku Shoutei's castles one by one and he had to escape to Koga. In
the end, the main Honjo castle, Kanonji, was taken without a fight.
Kazumasu sulked as she did not participate in the invasion of the capital
because she was busy with the capture of Ise.
I was in despair over this Sengoku Era where I didn't know when I would die.
With the Ashikaga Shogunate losing power, not even the distinguished
Rokkaku clan that the Gamo house served had the force to push Asai Nagamasa
out of Oumi. The Yamato Gosho did not have the military force, and even the
armed monks of Mount Hiei and Kofuku-ji Temple that served the gods and
Buddha could do nothing. The citizens that were constantly being raped and
tormented had lost their spirit. The world was too chaotic. Even so, I was young
and no matter how much knowledge I gained from books, I was powerless and
couldn't save anyone. Even if I read the Bible, reality couldn't be changed even
in Gamo territory the fields were ruined from the constant fighting and the
people experienced misery. And yet I couldn't save them with books. I was in
such despair myself.
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Precocious. If Yoshi was here, he would probably say you had the chuuni
disease.
Knowing that the Oda troops were using the overwhelming strength of the
arquebus to capture Yamashiro with a new method, I believed it was easier to
die in battle and plunged into the front lines of the troops lead by Onee-sama. I
thought if I took an arquebus bullet I could escape from the hell that was this
chaotic period filled with suffering. I shouted 'Kill me'.
Its the same despair filled charge as Yamanaka Shikanosuke but for a
different.
I wasn't shot to death. I was dragged from the horse and scolded by Onee-
sama. Don't make such a childish joke such as escaping living! she scolded me
while beating me.
That seems like Onee-chan's style. She would be called an S in future speak. If
it was Yamanaka Shikanosuke, she would climax with emotion, get too aroused
and then suddenly die.
At that time, Onee-sama's figure was like that of a god who had descended to
earth in front of my eyes. In the form of a wild and beautiful goddess that had
come down to the land to destroy Japan. Her eyes blazed with anger. Certainly,
she was angry at the samurai, monks, and nobles that cannot control the
country in this eternally turbulent period.
In other words Ujisato was beat up and brainwashed by onee-chan.
Don't mix it up! I, who was glared at by those burning eyes of Onee-sama was
given the courage to live and the will to do what I need to for her as long as I
have life in me. I will never again mourn and want to die. I don't need to sulk
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and run away from my powerlessness. I will continue to live and fight for Onee-
sama.
Kazumasu wondered, it was very different from the encounter with the princess
Onee-chan.
Like that, it hadn't been gentle to somebody.
As there is a memory of night of the festival in Tsushima, Kazumasu can live on

regardless of what difficult hardships may befall her.
Perhaps Oda Nobuna shows a very different form depending on who she
encounters.
As for that tragic expression that wholeheartedly sought love with Yoshiharu, it
is only shown to Sagara Yoshiharu -
It is one of Nobuna-chan's most well known faces, that is truth of Nobuna-chan,

thought Kazamasu.
Well Ujisato differs from your two cute older sisters who are happy people.
Kuki is also safe. Next time we will crush the Murakami Navy for sure.
It is so. I must atone for the fact that my plan to use the Three Sacred Treasures
lead Onee-sama to be hurt and my thoughtlessness drove Sagara Yoshiharu to
vanish.
As for the cute me, next time I will wash away the shame of getting confused
and worn out on the battlefield and causing us to lose.
Doesn't it sound strange for a Miko and Christian to join forces? But let's do
our best.
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Oh, we'll join our powers together. However, what about the missionary who
sent the Magatama from Setouchi-
Gaspard-sama is a person truly concerned with the future of Japan.
Ujisato seems to be the sort of person who is tricked easily. The Namban are
suspicious. I have to ask you something directly.
Why are you putting your hand on me while being doubting overflowing love
for Onee-sama? Oh onee-sama. Onee-sama, Onee-sama, Onee-sama! Why is
Onee-sama so beautiful!? Gasp, pant.
This can be a double-edged sword when I cannot help hearing what I don't
want to hear.
Munch. There is a good plan for me. The reward can be ten year's worth of
Ise's mochi.
In the corner of the garden on the edge of the pond.
Eating a heaping bowl of dumplings, the blond haired armored female knight
Giovanna raised her voice.
This oddball warrior(?) is said to be of the Namban Knights of Malta.
Originally, she was the escort for a missionary ship.
Before you knew it, she had settled down in the Kuki navy under the
supervision of Takigawa Kazumasu who was well-known for being careless
with human resources.
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While it would be doubtful that a young girl could handle a sword with such
thin arms, the owner could run around while constantly in heavy armor, and
could almost eat endlessly.
It is said that most of the Kuki Navy's expenses are just the food expenses for
Giovanna.
At the war council Leon seemed to talk about the fall of Constantinople. The
historically famous event where the Ottoman Empire's forces destroyed the
ramparts using Orban's cannon.
Yes, I obtained that knowledge from some Namban books that were imported.
But Orban's legendary cannon has already been lost and isn't it probably
impossible to make it again?
The designs may be lost but it really existed. It can be built again. Yoshiharu's
strategist Simeon is a world-famous genius. Even if it is only halfway, Orban's
cannon might be able to be made.
Kazumasu shook her head, even if they were able to make such a large cannon,
they wouldn't be able to carry it to Honbyo Temple.
But Giovanna said Here is my idea while proudly stuffing her mouth with a
dumpling.
I'm not putting up appearances by bringing up the hopeless siege war against
the Ottoman Empire forces in Malta. In the battle for Malta, eighty percent of
the knights of our order died an honorable death in battle, but the order
accomplished the defense of Malta.
Malta was besieged by the Ottoman Empire army. Malta was the most
important location in the Mediterranean Sea, with the island being important for
both the Christians forces and the Ottoman army which planned to conquer the
Mediterranean Sea. That is why it became a rare battle for annihilation, I have
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heard there were innumerable victims for both armies if I compared it to

Japan, it was a ghastlier war than the battle of Kawanakajima. Ujisato nodded.
It is unexpected for that Giovanna that only lives by gluttony to have such a
gruesome past.
...Since I was in a severe starvation state for a long time, I became frightened of
being attacked by hunger and it reached the point where I eat ten times that of
other people...
Nya. Is that so?
And The reverse is true too, I am good at siege warfare. Hmm. Another
helping of dumplings!
I rushed to Honbyo Temple but we have still not been able to secure a land
route to Settsu for the army.
For Mori to use the land route in Settsu to march to the capital, they have to take
over Harima.
However one of Harima's largest bases, the Himeji Castle, was held by Oda's
Sagara Yoshiharu corps and blocked Mori's army.
But since then, Sagara Yoshiharu has not been heard of and the two great
strategists Takenaka Hanbei and Kuroda Kanbei are working out the plans for
the next confrontation with Honbyo Temple, leaving Himeji's Sagara Yoshiharu
Corps to be lead by the second in command, Yamanaka Shikanosuke.
Yamanaka Shikanosuke Izumo's Princess General. Originally the vassal of the

Amago house. The head of the Ten Amago Braves. Despite being a young
Princess General, she had already endured hardships several times greater than
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an ordinary person. Praying to the moon, Please give me the Seven

Misfortunes and Eight Pains, she had already endured a series of disasters as
the Amago clan was destroyed, Shikanosuke herself was captured, and she had
to escape through a manure reservoir.
It could be said that something in Shikanosuke was definitely twisted, especially

after escaping by pretending to have diarrhea and crawl through the toilet's
manure reservoir despite being a young lady.
Now, for the sake of restoring the Amago clan, she lead the Amago's remnants
to join the Sagara Yoshiharu corps and use her spear for the Oda.
For Yoshiharu who didn't have any retainers or proteges, the strong generals
representing Chugoku and the combat experienced Shikanosuke had become a
necessary existence....
Master went missing on the battlefield.....suddenly going away somewhere,

and leaving this Shikanosuke in the warring states world. Terrible. Too terrible
master. Did you abandon this Shikanosuke? What suffering, * pant pant *
This day, at the headquarters outside of Himeji Castle, hearing the report from
Goemon about Sagara Yoshiharu being unable to be found made her body
shake and twitch.
Yamanaka-shi. This is not the situation to be worrying.
It seems I was left by Master. Even if I live there is only despair. In addition,
Mori's army is before my eyes to kill me and scatter me like a flower.
Near Shikanosuke's headquarters, Kikkawa Motoharu of Mori had created a

perfect formation that was awaiting Shikanosuke's charge.
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Kikkawa Motoharu is the daughter of the first generation of the Mori clan, Mori
Motonari.
Along with her younger twin sister Kobayakawa Takakage, they assisted the
young third generation in managing the Mori House.
Kobayakawa Takakage is the Sanyo of the Seto Inland Sea side, while Kikkawa
is the San'in that captured the Sea of Japan side Since the Amago Clan was the
San'in of the Izumo's daimyos, it could be said that Kikkawa Motoharu had
viciously destroyed them.
For Shikanosuke who had dedicated her youth to fighting the Mori forces
without hope, Kikkawa Motoharu was her natural enemy.
Charging to our deaths is banned by Sagara.
It is so. As one would expect from Master, holding back this key point is
agonizing! Does Shikanosuke have no choice but to continue in agony alone?
Abandoned by master - * pant pant*
....While Sagara-hon is still not found, it is getting increasingly dangerous.
Under the supervision of Shikanosuke and Goemon doing a manzai, an

unbelievable report came in from one of the soldiers standing guard.
Master Sagara Yoshiharu has appeared close by.
Again. Even if my joy is short-lived and afterwards I am knocked down into

the abyss of despair I can't go on.
Cho. Sagara-shi who we looked for everywhere in Settsu and the surrounding
territories has been found in Harima? Is that real?
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Is that true....?
It is.
Say it quickly!
For some reason, master is at the front of the Mori forces.
Shikanosuke laughed.
I see. Master is purposely pretending to go over to the Mori side for the sake of
pushing me further into despair! As one would expect of Master, he will use
every trick to hurt this Shikanosuke's heart.
Cho. Yamanaka-shi. If this is true, this is a terrible situation.
I am going directly to the camp where Master is and bringing him back easily.
We don't know if its an imposter. Because its really easy to trick Shikanosuke-
shi....I say its a trap...
If it is a trap, I will want to meddle in this even more. In fact, it is Shikanosuke's

way of life to dedicate to the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains!
Wait a moment!This is suspicious in various ways!
Shikanosuke did not listen to Goemon's voice of restraint, and bravely rode into
the Mori camp alone while humming.
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Because she was excessively confident, the Mori foot soldiers were convinced
that Shikanosuke had to be an ally, and didn't attack.
However, even if all the soldiers attacked at once, its not like it could stop
Shikanosuke.
It surely was him.
In the Mori's camp, was the armored clad Sagara Yoshiharu.
With an extremely deep black sunburn, looking completely like a fisherman or

pirate, it is impossible for Shikanosuke to mistake Yoshiharu.
Master! I've come to meet you! Now, please curse and kick this toilet passage
girl!
And then.
Sagara Yoshiharu noticed Shikanosuke and tilted his head to the side.
Eh? Who are you?
EHHHH!? This master who forgets me is truly terrible oh oh oh oh.
No, I really don't know you. This is our first time meeting.
UAAAAA!? What is this unknown feeling I've never experienced before that is
piercing my insides!?
Shikanosuke, whose whole body had gone numb, collapsed onto the lawn.
One samurai leaped onto Shikanosuke's and began wrapping her body up with
a rope.
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The Tactician Daimyo of Bizen Mimasaka, the man who was presumed to have
been waiting to see how things panned out between the Oda Clan and Mori
clan, with assassination and poisoning as a hobby, was Ukita Naoie known
Infinite wickedness
Hyahaha! My plan worked! Yamanaka Shikanosuke is caught!
Hey, you are Ukita Naoie? You hurt your hip when you fell of your horse
during battle and should have been holed up in Bizen....and, didn't you have a
great debt to Master and were reforming your ways and working with Oda!?
You know! Listen! Oda completely lost the war against Honbyo Temple, and
because Mori has overwhelming superiority I stopped being opportunistic and
completely allied myself with Mori! That is Ukita Naoie's way of life! You are
the present to Mori as an apology for me being opportunistic.
Ku. The strong should help the weak...how vile! I will always be incompatible
with this guy.
Say whatever you want, wahahaha. The survivor of the Warring States period
will be me!
That means, this Master truly is an imposter you prepared?
Eh? This is the real Sagara Yoshiharu.
What!? Master! What on earth is this? Ha? I can't believe....that you wanted so
badly to sully this Shikanosuke in a dark dungeons, to secretly bully, tease, and
torment, that you would switch sides to Mori. If its for such a reason, you could
have bullied me as much as you wanted in Himeji Castle's dungeon! I have
already collected a variety of torture devices for my dazzling future with master
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over there....lots of rare devices such as the Iron Maiden and the triangle
wooden horse that I purchased from the Nambans.
Umm, Ukita-san? Because she is a girl shouldn't you stop treating her so
roughly. Be courteous.
And the tone of Master is a bit different then usual...ah! What on earth
happened, I who is only an Izumo countryman can't understand!?
You are on the mark. I only bully girls that I want to make my woman, I'll be
scolded by Kobayakawa and Kikkawa if our young daughter imitates that. I'm
entrusting the job of keeping you in jail to Sagara Yoshiharu. You should be
lucky that the Mori clan is at its core a Princess General family, Shikanosuke.
Shit. This Shikanosuke will not be pleased by being tormented by such a

vulgar man that does not have a warrior's spirit!
Sorry. Unlike in the past, there is no toilet passage for you to escape. This time I
prepared a person toilet in the jail that has nowhere to escape from.
What? Isn't that impossible?!
Oh, you can shit yourself. Anyway, I won't go near. I guess you'll lose strength
after being in jail for three days.
UAAAAAA. How do I get around this? Even for the Seven Misfortunes and
Eight Pains, this treatment is too unreasonable for a young girl! Master, please
help me, Master oooooh?!
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Well, Ukita-san. I will prepare a toilet....its too pitiful.
Master, a toilet is too good for this Shikanosuke.
Then a bedpan?
I have to do something about this hopeless girl quickly....that the index finger
of the me who took the nickname Princess General Killer wont move...
Thus, Yamanaka Shikanosuke tragically became the Mori's prisoner-
And in the Mori's camp, the strongly tanned Sagara Yoshiharu had joined for
some reason.
The sudden change in the situation was brought to Nobuna in Honnouji Temple
by Goemon who ran through Sanyo's roads at top speed.
Of course, Nobuna was completely confused.
Yo-yo-yo-Yoshiharu, defected to Mo-mo-Mori, eeeeeeh!?
What is this Goemon? That Saru that only pursues the world's most beautiful
girl can't betray the princess! Because the princess is the world's most beautiful
girl! Or are you saying that Mori clan has a Princess General whose beauty
exceeds Hime's?
This...Although Sagara-dono survived, to join the Mori. I did not expect such a
situation. One point.
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Sob sob. Yoshiharu-dono has joined Mori's side and captured Shikanosuke on
top of it. You have to quickly send reinforcements to Harima.
Don't do it! I-I-I know. Because that fellow likes breasts!
Sim. That Ukita Naoie is the worst! He has been watching the balance of power
between Oda and Mori, and after the war becomes a little advantageous for
Mori, he makes a fast break to return as a newcomer! As expected, I should have
killed him in Harima.
Possibly, it was the childish charm of the Mori Third Generation, Mori
Terumoto, who is said to still be a toddler. Yoshi was recently awakening to the
charms of little girls. Its an attack of the disease worse than the Kawanami
group. All of the fault is in the princess' innocence.
Nene is the cause. Because Nene slept in the same futon as onii-san and
repeatedly wet the bet and shared a bath together something probably broke in
onii-san.
.....If that's the case then it may be Inuchiyo's fault. Because Inuchiyo has small
breasts, history has been changed....
I-I-Its my crime. I tempt Sagara-shi with my blunders which should have been
impossible to overcome. [TN: ??????? Goddamnit Goemon.]
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You guys did this because you exposed yourself to Yoshiharu! Because eighty
percent of Yoshiharu's head is occupied with breasts. When he meets Frois or I,
his nostrils flare. Therefore that fellow has no interests in children.
Ah, Please don't talk about breasts Hime! I remember the nightmare of him
rubbing my chest!
In short, even if the breasts are grand or tiny, Sagara-dono doesn't care as long
as its a girl. How indiscriminate. I would want to receive it for either at least.
The biggest charm point for a woman is her thighs. A gentlemen whose eyes
only go for the chest is five points.
Nagahide does not need to have the experience of being attacked by that
Saru!
What's that Katsuie? Sagara holds back around me as the beautiful elder sister,
it should be expected that thoughts about what he wants to do as a boy should
be running around in Sagara's head. Three points.
Wait a second! Manchiyo wanted to have an affair with Yoshiharu? I will kill
even Manchiyo with my bare hands if you make a move on Yoshiharu! Even if
you haven't had a chance to get married!
Hime? Take care that you do not put me in the same position as Kuki
Yoshikata. Never. Never. Seven points.
The calm Gamo Ujisato yelled out to Nobuna who was getting confused in
strange directions.
agara Yoshiharu cannot betray the Oda house and Onee-sama. Everyone
understands that. SThere must be a deeper reason. In Mori there is
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Kobayakawa Takakage who inherited the first generation Motonari's strategic

ability, this is probably a plan by Kobayakawa to alienate each other!
Is that so...the number one womanizer of Japan....attacked by Riku's

disease....truly in love with somebody of the Mori house sob sob....all of the
Princess General retainers gave Ujisato a complicated look.
While they didn't doubt Yoshiharu's loyalty to Oda and love for Nobuna, all
had the strange conviction that Yoshiharu was flirting with one of the girls of
the Mori clan without Nobuna watching over him.
In the first place, there was the previous time when he became very popular
among the girls of the cat sect of Honbyo Temple.
Ujisato was the one person who didn't know about Yoshiharu's womanizing
habits, with innocent shining eyes she completely naively believed that He is
the destined person for Onee-sama, surely he must have been threatened and
can't escape.
There was one thing Ujisato didn't understand.
Nobuna didn't want to believe that Yoshiharu seriously betrayed the Oda
clan.
Therefore, she wanted to take the story in a different direction.
But, when she became calm and thought about it, it was clear that he didn't have
the intention to return to the Oda clan-
If he had been willing to come back, when Shikanosuke came over to the camp
Yoshiharu was at, he would have traveled back to Oda with Shikanosuke.
With Shikanosuke's military prowess, it should have been easy to escape with
Yoshiharu.
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....Yoshiharu....perhaps you are worried you will obstruct Tenka Fubu if you
are beside me.
Oh. It may be true! Alright. I'll sock him and bring him back to Hime.
Sob. Sob. Certainly if Yoshiharu returns to Oda, it would be the seed for bad
rumors. The gentlemen of the country who became captivated by Nobuna when
the Ama no Iwato opened, their love would certainly turn to hate if Yoshiharu
returns to Nobuna. But....this time I have an uneasy feeling that there is a more
complicated reason....
Dearuka, Hanbei.
Yoshiharu once said in the past that he was going to sacrifice himself to
Honbyo Temple for Nobuna's sake. Even if he seems tactless, he is a wise person
who won't make the same mistake again.
Is that so....more and more I don't understand....what is going on Yoshiharu?
Even if Yoshiharu returns, it will become the source for losing the people's
support for the Oda clan, and a much gloomier shadow has fallen over the Oda
house if Yoshiharu doesn't return-
Nobuna wished that she could hear Yoshiharu's reason directly.
However, Yoshiharu is with the Mori forces in Harima.
Its alright, its Yoshiharu. It is good that he is alive. I must think so...but it seems
there is no way! I have to believe, I gave you a kiss in front of the whole world!
Everyone, we will defeat Mori and recapture Yoshiharu! Such an incomplete
way of parting is impossible! What comes after that is after that!
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Oooh!
Meanwhile, left outside was Akechi Mitsuhide, who was muttering while
continuing her daily routine of polishing her pistol.
I understand. Everything became troublesome and you suddenly ran away

from your engagement with Juubei and your love with Nobuna. any argument.
Senpai.....when we next meet I will kill you without
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Chapter 2
The moment returns to Honbyo temple at the end of the war.
The rulers of Chugoku the Mori Clan was a small but powerful family that
was falling into obscurity in the corner of Aki, but within one generation, the so-
called First Generation Mori Motonari rose and conquered Chugoku, and now
is the greatest daimyo of the western countries.
These were the three children of Mori Motonari.
The eldest son, the Mori clans Second Generation, the virtuous Mori
Takamoto.
Takamoto's younger sister, the elder twin the brave general Kikkawa
Motoharu.
The younger twin, the skilled commander Kobayakawa Takakage.
After Motonari's retirement, the second generation, Takamoto, inherited the first
generation Motonari's crest while the younger sister Kikkawa Kobayakawa was
to govern the seaports and was expected to await the world.
However, the second generation Takamoto died before Motonari, and after the
death of Motonari, Takamoto's young child Third Generation Terumoto was
the only one left.
The sisters Kikkawa and Kobayakawa vowed together to aid the young
Terumoto; and the sisters of the Mori clan managed the Mori Twin Rivers
system.
Kikkawa Motoharu was good at land combat and primarily in charge of the San-
in district, while Kobayakawa Takakage commanded the navy to take charge of
the Sanyo district and the Seto Inland Sea.
In the Honbyo Temple battle, the Mori clan came along with the Murakami
Navy of the Seto Inland Sea who had been friends since the first generation,
which entered the war through the sea route consequently, the battle's
supreme commander was Admiral Kobayakawa Takakage.
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Kobayakawa Takakage and the Murakami Navy quickly demolished the Oda's
Kuki Navy by attacking with fire, sailed up the Yodogawa river to Honbyo
Temple, merged with the gun soldiers the Saika Corps of Kii that had destroyed
Oda in a land battle, and completely encircled Oda Nobuna by land and river in
and out of an isolated fort.
Everyone believed that Oda Nobuna was destroyed.
But the cornered Nobuna invoked the Three Sacred Treasures and opened the
Amano-Iwato in the distant sky.
Kobayakawa Takakage saw the forms of Oda Nobuna and Sagara Yoshiharu
appearing in the sky.
To return the time traveler Sagara Yoshiharu who was becoming the source of
the bad rumors concerning Nobuna, and the source of Honbyo Temple and
Mori's just cause, that was the thinking of Nobuna's sister-in-law Gamo Ujisato
in gathering the Three Sacred Treasures.
But, Nobuna did not let Yoshiharu go she restrained and kissed him.
It was the last kiss as they prepare for their own deaths.
While Kobayakawa Takakage briefly stared wide-eyed onboard the ship, the
figures of Nobuna and Yoshiharu on the heavens vanished as the Amano-Iwato
suddenly closed.
Ojou-chan, Oda Nobuna was prepared to resist against fate to the very end.
She declared to the world at the last moment that she wouldn't give up Sagara
Yoshiharu. She is a wonderful princess. What will you do?
The Pirate King of Setouchi who leads the Murakami navy, Murakami
Takeyoshi, whispered.
Kobayakawa Takakage understood what Oda Nobuna showed to everybody

and the new world.
I hesitated; for what reasons should I overthrow the Oda clan and this country
without a clear plan?
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Even Kobayakawa Takakage who inherited the terrifying ingenuity of Strategy

God Mori Motonari, had still been unable to create a vision to reform Japan's
wars.
I refine the strategy for commanders to lead the soldiers, I am not the general
that stands above others, or The commander of commanders, that was the
ability of our deceased older brother, Mori Takamoto.
However, in Oda Nobuna there is the unwavering will and clear ideal, the
caliber to stand above as the leader of leaders.
If I killed Oda Nobuna, the Mori House will have to carry the responsibility of
safeguarding the entire nation in the future-
This girl thinks too much. I've decided. If I fail this time, Oda Nobuna will
surely make a comeback and become a powerful enemy to the Mori clan.
...Understood.
Right as Kobayakawa Takakage was about to give the sorrowful command Kill
Oda Nobuna and her troops and order a full on attack, at that moment the
Kampaku, Konoe Sakihisa, burst into the battleground and brandished an
imperial decree from Himiko.
IT IS HIMIKO'S WILL! BOTH ARMIES HERE SHALL NOT SPILL ANY

FURTHER BLOOD! AND MAKE PEACE!
A messenger from Magoichi Saika said, We lost to Oda Nobuna. If we take that
fellow's head, that defeat will last a lifetime.
While the message was enigmatic, Kobayakawa Takakage felt the same as
Magoichi.
In betting her life, Oda Nobuna showed a new way to live.
On the other hand, the messenger from Honbyo Temple said Today when we
saw the ghastly battle between large numbers of guns 'The time when religious
sects take up the spear and battles has ended' we felt deep regret. In addition,
Oda Nobuna didn't used the Amano Iwato for the sake of escaping,instead she
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gave a kiss to Sagara Yoshiharu which was an immense shock.
Now, we just want to perform the mourning services for those who died in
battle in both armies. Most of the followers feel the same way.
It was conveyed that the fighting spirit of the Nekogami sect had vanished.
....The Kampaku, Konoe Sakihisa who should loathe the samurais is running
about; this time, it is Oda Nobuna's win.
This is the only choice Kobayakawa Takakage had.
Originally, this was a battle between Honbyo Temple and the Oda Clan. The
Mori clan was only helping the Honbyo Temple survive the siege.
Murakami Takeyoshi and the pirates yelled Just a little more! and stamped
their feet in frustration making the boat rock, but they were happy to end the
battle without plucking the flower called Oda Nobuna after seeing her cute face.
That which was called a man's instincts was complicated.
Soon the rumor that Sagara Yoshiharu died in battle after being shot with
arrows by the Rokkakus father-and-son duo began to spread among the
Murakami Navy as they began their preparations to withdraw.
It was said that right before the Amano Iwato closed, Yoshiharu became
Nobuna's shield and took several arrows to the back before falling behind the
fort and passing away.
Kobayakawa Takakage thought that if Sagara Yoshiharu disappeared from the

Oda clan, it means that the scandal around Oda Nobuna also disappeared.
People around the country felt sorry for Oda Nobuna for losing the man she
loved, Sagara Yoshiharu.
Oda Nobuna is the polar opposite of the impression of the Sixth Demon King
who sought to usurp the Yamato Gosho.
On top of being a bishojo Princess Knight, she gave the people a new sense of
values with a love beyond the wall of social status.
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The riots everywhere will probably lose their cause and calm down.
The Oda were already in an advantageous situation for the future of the war.
It was impossible to suppress these chaotic times with force.
The person who gets the faith of the people wins.
Kobayakawa Takakage thought that unexpectedly, when the Three Sacred

Treasures' spiritual power projected Nobuna's form across the country, it
resulted in drawing the public sentiment to Oda Nobuna's side.
If Sagara Yoshiharu did not die, Nobuna would be accused of aspiring to usurp
the Imperial Palace to marry Sagara Yoshiharu and run straight to ruin.
But the result was reversed.
Oda Nobuna carries the will of heaven is that really the case?
Rather, at the very end, did Sagara Yoshiharu went so far as to suddenly
sacrifice his life for Oda Nobuna?
It may be so.
The Saru of the Oda Clan maintained his loyalty to the very end. No, more
than loyalty....even as an enemy he was an admirable samurai. I will hold a
memorial service.
Ojou-chan.
....A good man died on the battlefield. In order to protect his lover, he would
willingly give up his life. As long as the Princess Knight stands on the
battlefield, this sorrow will continue forever.
Ojou-chan, even this filthy old man would kill until my last breathe. Or maybe
am I a good man?
I'm not saying that.
A large fleet of the Murakami Navy was quietly going down the Yodogawa
river passage, returning to Kizugawaguchi to scatter the Kuki Navy.
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The truce between Honbyo Temple and Oda was to last half a year.
Kobayakawa Takakage returned to the Seto Inland Sea and decided to make
efforts in Harima against the Oda front.
It is not a ceasefire between the Mori clan and the Oda clan. Fighting in Harima
is not going against the Imperial Decree.
It is so, Ojou-chan. By making a hole through Harima, there will be a land

route connecting to the capital. The capital of Kyoto is just one step beyond
that.
The pirates who rowed the scull discovered a floating body of a lone warrior
and raised their voices.
Boss!
This is a familiar face!
I thought it was a drowned body but he may be still alive!
Ah. This guy is Sagara Yoshiharu!
Wasn't this fellow kissing Oda Nobuna a short while ago?
Sink him!
So jealous!
With such a beautiful sweet princess knight....die!
'My companion is only you for life'....To make a pretty girl say such lines, gah!
Die, Sagara Yoshiharu!
All the men of the world became your enemy.
Wait, pull out the monkey and look after him.
Kobayakawa Takakage ordered the pirates.
Why Ojou-chan?
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The whole world already knew that Oda Nobuna is devoted to this monkey.
Even if I just behead him right now, I will only incur Oda Nobuna's wrath, but if
he is alive he is the best hostage. He will be useful for negotiations from now on.
Perhaps make her cede Harima. Furthermore, if this monkey surrenders to the
Mori clan, it will be a heavy blow to the Oda clan.
Is that so?
As one would expect from Ojou-chan.
Able to instantly make such a cool-headed judgement....
Different than the heads of us hot-blooded pirates.
Inherited the cleverness of the first generation.
Hm. The eyes of the Miss at the moment when we found the boy were a little
different.
Only the Pirate King Murakami Takeyoshi thought and had a worried face.
While feared as Setouchi's tyrannical pirate king, Takeyoshi considers the young
Kobayakawa Takakage as a little sister. But with his age, Takeyoshi was an
existence like a second father to Kobayakawa.
....Uh...oh. What is this?
On the futon in the cabin, Yoshiharu was brought back to life.
When he woke up there was a white cloth used as a bandage around his head
and upper body, and his whole body ached.
Stay still!
Because of the remaining pain, he was unable to rise.
As expected of the Murakami navy, it was dangerous but the treatment was
good.
This monkey face meets a genius. Is this kid useful Ojou-chan?
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Help him stand until then.
There were two strange people at his bedside.
A strong man like a giant with a copper tan all over his body.
The gigantic figure was entirely made of masses of muscle like a tiger.
The other person was petite girl.
The owner of a cool expression, but surprisingly well arranged so she seems
slightly feeble.
And both wore Sengoku Era-style armor.
Who are you? Where is this? Why do I hurt?
Yoshiharu couldn't understand what had happened to him.
Because -
Strange. I returned from school and should have continued playing

'Nobunaga's ambition' in my room. Where is this? Its shaking so by any chance
am I on a ship?
Yoshiharu had lost all memory from after coming to the Warring States period.
The reason seems to be a nasty blow to the head after being shot by arrows and
falling from the fort into the torrent.
Therefore the present Yoshiharu was not able to understand that he was
currently in the Sengoku Era.
Boy. What are you mumbling about, I don't understand what you mean at all.
Oh. This person, is he a professional wrestler?
This person seems to be talking in future language, Ojou-chan.
Somehow, it seems that his memory of the Oda Clan era has been lost.
Kobayakawa Takakage, while pulling Yoshiharu's cheeks, looked deep into his
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eyes.
Yoshiharu, had very little experience with a human girl getting so close.
He shrank back.
Wow. This girl is lovely...oops. I said aloud what I was thinking. The girls in
my class said this was my bad habit. Damn it, I am only a pure and simple boy.
Modern girls are tough.
Yeah, his intelligence is still the same, Takeyoshi.
Originally, this skilled commander was just an idiot. In this retrospect, there is
no change Ojou-chan.
Tch. Who are you? Where is this? By any chance did a Sengoku Cosplay
maniac fell in love with me at first sight and kidnapped me? That man that
looks like Lao knocked me out and kidnapped me? Something out of a galge
happened in reality....
Hmm. I don't understand what you are saying.
Bump, bump, bump, bump.
The present Yoshiharu was not immune to the close, innocent face of
Kobayakawa Takakage so he couldn't look directly at her.
Wait. Calm down. I learned this in light novels before. At times like this I
should count prime numbers. Oh, my scarce gal game experience. That was
basic in Sengoku SLG....wait when did I meet you? That looks like a genuine
military armor. Is this a Sengoku Era cosplay festival? But I'm not a cameraman.
Well this is embarrassing. I don't have the courage to ask a strange girl for a
photo.
Damnit, I'm thinking out loud again. Such scary eyes from girls because of this
habit! Yoshiharu felt like crying.
But Kobayakawa Takakage held Yoshiharu's cheeks motionlessly with cool eyes
and stared intently.
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Even as a monkey Yoshiharu realized Aren't you conscious of me as a man? I

was too self-conscious. This is the real world. A beautiful, yandere girl cannot
fall in love at first sight with a man whose only merit is Sengoku Era knowledge
and kidnap him. Ha. Ha. Ha. and settled down.
But the next moment,
The Saru, Sagara Yoshiharu. This is not the future Japan you lived in. It is the
world of the Warring States. I am the commander of the Mori clan's Sanyo army,
Kobayakawa Takakage. I am the daughter of the late first generation Mori
Motonari, and the Princess Knight that controls the Seto Inland Sea with the
Murakami navy.
Yoshiharu fell into the pinnacle of confusion.
Kobayakawa....T....Tabatake..!?
Not Tabatake. A Princess Knight. I see, does the future person not know about
the Mori clan? I am a renowned daimyo of Chugoku. The anecdote of the three
arrows should be famous nationwide....was the story of the three arrows not
passed down in the future....
Her eyebrows lowered a bit in disappointment.
Wow, she is lovely, Yoshiharu's heart stopped.
I do know it! I know the story of the three arrows and the Mori clan. The Mori
clan is super famous nationally.
I, is that so? You knew it. Good. Actually my elder sister broke all the arrows
on her own in that story, but then it wasn't an anecdote so we rewrote to get
across father's feelings and spread it around the entire country.
Even though her expression didn't change, Kobayakawa Takakage seemed

happy.
Wait a moment. Do you mean this is really the Sengoku Era?
That is what I am saying. You came here from the world of the future. You
probably passed through the Amano Iwato.
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Seriously!? Why, why me? Is this a dream from playing far too much
'Ambition of Oda Nobunaga'? I mean, why is Kobayakawa Takakage a girl? Is
this one of those Sengoku Era animes with girls that had been all over society
lately?
Is there a problem that I am a girl?
There is! According to the history I learned in 'The Ambition of Oda

Nobunaga', Kobayakawa Takakage is a man! His face is a man's and his voice
actor is a man!
Is that a future history book? However, it is unexpected that the history books
would alter the truth. Did I decide to have been a man....I'm somehow
disappointed. I was at least a little confident of my appearance.
Her eyebrows completely sunk. She seemed to be very disappointed.
Naughty boy. In your era, is this Murakami Takeyoshi passed down as having
a cute girl's figure? In that case, it would make me laugh gahahaha.
Oh, you are Murakami Takeyoshi. No, I remember from the game that you
were a gentleman. Yep.
Oh, that's what it is. Boring.let's make this guy shark bait. After all, didnt
this guy lost his memory of all his spear work in the Oda clan and is just a brat?
The future is a world without battle. He grew up spoiled. This guy has the
nerves of a jellyfish, he has no place to stand on a battlefield.
Eh? Yikes, Murakami-san. Please stop. Kobayakawa, stop this scary man!
Murakami Takeyoshi seemed to be able to twist Yoshiharu's neck with a single

hand and was emitting a savage aura like a wild animal.
Yoshiharu who had become a high school student again almost wet his pants in
fear.
You can blame your original world!
It is a pity Sagara Yoshiharu. There was a way to send you back to the future,
but the method does not seem to be usable anymore. In other words, it is
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regrettable, but you cannot return to the future anymore.
W, what? Mother, Kaa-san! Say its a dream and I won't play Gacha in online
games without permission anymore! I certainly love the Sengoku Era, but if I
can't use a spear or a sword won't it be impossible to survive if I'm abandoned!?
Someone help me!
See, Ojou-chan. Whining and trembling. Completely useless. If he had his

memory he could at least be used as a hostage in negotiations with the Oda clan.
That alone would be worth it. Its better to think that the Oda Clan's hero,
Sagara Yoshiharu, has already died.
Oda, Oda clan, why am I the hero of the Oda clan? I'm just a high school
student. Moreover, I'm a pacifist and weak in fights!
So...you don't remember the Siege of Kanegasaki either, Sagara Yoshiharu.
Kanegasaki? I've seen it happen in a game.
The Sunomata castle built in one night?
That is also something I've seen in a game.
Then the decisive battle in Tennoji with the Honbyo Temple and the Saika
corps? The sea battle of Kizugawaguchi?
Oh, there are even animations and games.....the Honbyo Temple is Honganji
right?
Kobayakawa Takakage seemed very disappointed and pulled Yoshiharu's ear.
She seemed extremely regretful.
Sagara Yoshiharu, you participated in those battles as a soldier of the Oda clan
and became a legendary hero by living. There is no one who doesn't know you
in Japan. Do you really not remember?
....detestable....I don't remember at all....Kobayakawa-san. To begin with I

shouldn't have that kind of ability. I am just an ordinary, powerless, high school
boy. My physical strength is average, my brains are lacking, and my goal was to
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find a comedy partner and make a manzai duo but was killed in the qualifier.
My only special skills are useless things like being good at avoiding dodgeballs
and playing Sengoku games. If I fought with Murakami Takeyoshi I would be
killed instantly. It was whispered that I was a 'breast beast' and I was ostracized
by the girls. About the only thing I can boast to other people is my face.
Your only weak point is your face, it is not plain but somehow it seems
monkey-like, you might be more beautiful in the outside world Sagara
Yoshiharu.
Ahhh! Even if the times had changed I though the evaluation of my works
would be eternal. There isn't a convenient story where I time travel to the
Sengoku Era for no reason and am popular for some reason.
Yoshiharu prayed somebody help me to the heavens while trembling.
Wake me up from this dream.
However, even after praying he didn't wake up.
Kobayakawa Takakage and Murakami Takeyoshi showed no signs of

disappearing.
And the wounds on his back were painful and a realistic pain that couldn't
come from a dream.
Ojou-chan, I took great pains to save him, but the hero Sagara Yoshiharu is
dead. It would be impossible to hire this as a soldier of the Mori clan. He would
lead our armies to destruction. And he doesn't even have value as a hostage.
Let's feed him to the sharks.
...However, I took great pains to save him. There should be some use. Will you
put Sagara Yoshiharu in the Murakami Navy as an apprentice pirate?
This guy? Ojou-chan is extremely sweet to this youngster.
Kobayakawa nodded, while remaining expressionless.
Yoshiharu thought seems Kobayakawa is trying to help me and tilted his head.
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The reason he has no memory was because of his severe head wound. He
never tried to run and forget everything. It wasnt his crime.
However, we cannot afford to let this spoiled brat as a fellow pirate for free.
The rules of piracy are rough. A 'gamble' is needed to make such a penniless
amateur a comrade, Ojou-chan.
I see, a 'gamble' ritual. Takeyoshi.
That is right. But I can tell you this brat can't do it. He'll piss himself and plead
for forgiveness and his life from the start. Even you'll be disappointed if a man
like Sagara Yoshiharu shows such a state, Ojou-chan.
What kind of terrible gamble can he mean? Yoshiharu was already feeling
uneasy.
However, his wound was aching and he couldn't stand up.
Murakami Takeyoshi pulled out three cups.
A golden cup, a silver cup, and a copper cup.
He poured liquor from a bottle into each.
Drink. One of the cups is poisonous. Boy, if you choose the poison you will
writhe in agony for three days and die painfully. But one of the cups is just
ordinary sake this is a pirate ritual. If you choose, you will be recognized as
our companion.
Tch. Old man. Wait, why do I have to!? Let me off the ship and I can plow a
rice field!
Don't act like a baby. You who drifted from the future, do you even have rice
fields? If you are released to land, a brat like you will be attacked by a night
thief and lose your head.
....Damn...is that so. This is a different world from the future....to make matters
worse, I came without relatives or social position....unless I put my life on the
line to become a pirate I can't survive...
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It was such an unreasonable game, Yoshiharu wanted to cry.
How have I survived up until now in such a harsh world? Its impossible!
While brushing Yoshiharu's cheeks to ease his tension, Kobayakawa Takakage

gave her order.
Sagara Yoshiharu. Choose. You either risk your life with Murakami Takeyoshis
gambling ceremony or become shark bait, its one or the other.
And if I choose a cup and fail?
According to Murakami Takeyoshi's words, at that time you will die.
This ritual is scary. I hate it and I don't want to do it.
Then you will be thrown into the Setouchi Sea and become shark bait.
In either case I die, it might be better to be thrown into the sea, Yoshiharu was at
a loss and couldn't bear making a high-stakes gamble He is just a high school
student that lacks courage like that.
Why am I here in the Warring States period? Yes, I wanted to time travel and
play a part as a Warring States period general, it was a dream in my head to
have an outstanding performance in the Sengoku Era, I always carried the wish
to live skillfully in the real Warring States Period.
But I know full well that the Warring States Period wasn't romantic and was a
harsh and severe era to live in. Its not a world where a kid like me who lacks
military experience can live.
But with the gaze of Kobayakawa Takakage staring into his eyes, he couldn't run
away.
For some reason, Kobayakawa seemed to be wishing for him to attempt the
ceremony and win.
Kobayakawa Takakage's was expressionless, but her eyes trembled as she

prayed to Yoshiharu in hope of something.
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Why is Kobayakawa-san a girl? I wonder if it was taught that she was similar to
a guy? In the first place, for what reason is there a weak girl among the men as a
military commander? It seems like such a thin arm would break. And yet why
does this Sengoku Era general Kobayakawa Takakage support the Mori clan?
While staring into the clear eyes of Kobayakawa Takakage...
Strange.
Yoshiharu's body stopped trembling.
.I felt like in the past I had promised something very important to someone in
this world....
I must live.
By any means I must survive.
To keep the promise that I had exchanged with someone-
This dazzlingly beautiful golden cup stands out the most. I have seen this
golden brightness somewhere, sometime before. This is it. This is the one!
When he held the golden cup in his hand, Sagara Yoshiharu was like another
person.
Even he couldn't understand why from his timid and cowardly mind, so much
courage was overflowing.
...If I let a girl like Kobayakawa go to war, as a man there is no way I can
tremble in the background. Even so. Because I am a man!
At the moment the cup hit his lips, he mumbled such words.
Unconsciously, he spoke the words he was thinking.
While watching Yoshiharu intently, Kobayakawa Takakage's thin shoulders

shook.
He drank it in one go.
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This alcohol is delicious.
Kobayakawa Takakage opened her eyes wide as she stared at Yoshiharu's smile.
Yoshiharu thought that even if Kobayakawa was not surprised, he was

surprised at his own courage. He might have already changed his attitude out of
desperation.
Right on the money. That one is just ordinary alcohol. It is your win.
Takeyoshi Murakami said with a bitter smile.
It was probably intended to be a blessing, but with a bang, his shoulder was
clapped with herculean strength! Yoshiharu vomited blood.
AAAAAAH! The wound is open!
Well, Sagara Yoshiharu. Are you alright?
I'm not okayyyyyy. It hurts, it hurts aughhh.
Ojou-chan, this guy is no good. For a moment he had the face of an Oda Clan
general, and now he has turned back into an ordinary kid. Is it useless after all?
It's because Takeyoshi attacked! Sagara Yoshiharu keep still. Its alright, I'll
treat it immediately.
I only patted him on the shoulder.
Its on the same level as a bear punch! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!
Kobayakawa Takakage firmly hugged Yoshiharu's agony filled shoulder.
As he smelled Takakage's hair, Yoshiharu's pain vanished in an instant.
Ojou-chan, it isn't right for you to hug this bastard. Wasn't that that man's
weak point? Its unreasonable.
No, it's fine, because Yoshiharu was like my No-sama that Im okay.
Onii-sama? Me?
That's right. My Onii-sama. (EN: I changed older brother to Onii-sama. It

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seems appropriate for Takakage to call him Onii-sama. To add some moe
points.)
Yoshiharu noticed Takakage's cheeks coloring slightly.
The older brother of Kobayakawa....if I'm not mistaken...it was. Was it Kikkawa
Motoharu?
Isn't Kikkawa Motoharu the strong general that was the representative of the
Chugoku region? I love peace so I don't think I resemble him.
Ojou-chan, don't stick too close to him. If this was discovered by my followers,
this youngster would be minced into the Setouchi sea.
Just a little more. Yoshiharu is in pain. Doing it this way seems to relieve the
ache.
....My bad feeling was correct. Boy, after this you are going to see hell.
Huh? What do you mean, Murakami?
Be careful to not lose your neck to Kikkawa-jouchan.
Eh? Kikkawa is a girl too?
Yes, she is my older twin sister.
Then, who is Kobayakawa's onii-san?
What is going on, Yoshiharu isn't sure yet.
After I barely won the life-threatening gamble, I was employed as a

probationary pirate of the Murakami navy and several weeks passed.
While the wound on his back still ached, the pirates drove Yoshiharu hard with
swabbing the deck and preparing the daily fish to eat.
Even as an injured person, he had to work and toil for his fellows. In fact, as the
bottom rung, it was the pirate code that he lives in hell in such a severe world.
It was too severe of an environment for Yoshiharu who had been living a
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leisurely high school life, but he had no room to complain.
(I must survive by any means.)
For some reason, that strong thought was supporting Yoshiharu.
Although his body screamed to give up, he endured it. In the beginning he had
been hit by nausea, but before long he grew used to seasickness. Though, it
didn't seem like he had been living the school life without a care just the other
day.
Kid, do you really not have your memory?
You are good at doing chores without complaining about your back injury,
you've got guts!
In addition, isn't this food good?
This 'mayonnaise' is the best when splashed on fried takoyaki!
To the pirates who at first complained, this guy is useless, shark bait, how
is he similar to the Ojou-chans onii-san, before they noticed, they had accepted
him as a member of the pirates.
Not only in the sea battle, but in their role as robbers the pirates were
considered bloodthirsty, but they were good guys to those they accepted as a
companion.
Yoshiharu thought that while the pirates at the end of the century mostly did
what they wanted and ran amok, the Murakami Navy had the boss Murakami
Takeyoshi and their master the Princess Knight named Kobayakawa Takakage
who kept order, so they could not commit meaningless violence.
On that day where I unusually go onto land, I was handed the dangerous work
of being a decoy in the camp of the Mori army which made an expedition to
Harima.
From the Oda troops who were confined in the Himeji Castle, the girl who calls
herself Yamanaka Shikanosuke nonchalantly entered the enemy camp alone to
get Yoshiharu for some reason, and was caught by the suspicious man, Ukita
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Naoie, claiming to be a loyal retainer of Mori.
Yoshiharu didn't understand what was going on, and was anxious about
Yamanaka Shikanosuke who was tied up and panting in various ways. So he
would not leave the custody to the self-proclaimed womanizer Ukita, and
Yoshiharu became responsible for monitoring her.
After finishing the work as an underling, he took a quick break.
Yoshiharu returned again to the Murakami Navy's boats the Setouchi Sea was
the home that Yoshiharu would return to.
While looking out at the white mist and innumerable small and large islands
across the Setouchi Sea from the deck, Yoshiharu muttered,
Seems like there is something to remember, but I can't. I wonder how I've been
living in the Sengoku Era?
I feel like I'm forgetting some awfully important thing.
Until I remember what it is, I will drink mud to survive, something inside of
himself was kicking Yoshiharu in the butt, and he half supported his broken
heart.
But his head ached every time he tries to force himself to remember.
Are you tired from work, Sagara Yoshiharu?
Oh, Kobayakawa-san.
To Yoshiharu's side as he stood on the prow gazing at the mist covered Setouchi
waters, Kobayakawa Takakage was beside him before he knew it.
You were extremely useful today. That Yamanaka Shikanosuke was the natural
enemy of the Mori clan. You have accomplished a distinguished achievement in
capturing Yamanaka Shikanosuke.
I was surprised that Yamanaka Shikanosuke was a girl. Killing is unpleasant.
That is your vassal. You can treat her how you wish. However
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However?
Ugh, like Ukita Naoie, calling himself a ridiculous title like Princess Knight
killer, a, and, doing strange things to prisoners....I won't allow it.
What? I can't do such horrible things!
Is that so? Good. Such horrible behavior is prohibited in the Mori clan.
She was a girl who would always have an expressionless demeanor, but her
kind personality would seep out of her words.
Yoshiharu who lacked any immunity to girls, would become tense every time he
encountered Kobayakawa Takakage.
Speaking frankly, she was cute.
Is it because she was from a different era or because she was born as a princess
of the Mori clan, there is a part that seems like a cold general but her heart was
naive and honest.
The pirates that cheered Our Ojou-chan! We will protect you!, I began to
feel like I understood them.
As she looked younger, Kobayakawa-shi would be done.
Somehow, if Kobayakawa was in school she would probably be a committee

chairman....I have to stop thinking that way, I still can't forget about living in
modern times.
Yoshiharu, sit down. I'll change your bandage.
Huh? Oh, it's fine. I can do it myself.
You can't see your back wound. If it becomes swollen it will become
bothersome. Trust me.
It was awkward for Yoshiharu to be shirtless in front of a girl, and to be

embarrassed would be a problem, but he can't say so if Takakage suggested it.
W-well then, please.

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While he blushed, he became compliant.
Takakage who had caught him was also embarrassed.
....Why are you so red.Don't be bashful or I'll get embarrassed.
I'm sorry. I'm not used to girls.
Used to?
Because I reached this age without getting a girlfriend. Is it because I was

always entranced by Sengoku games? And I have a bad habit of speaking
without thinking.
That's a strange thing to say. Speaking of the Oda clan's Sagara Yoshiharu, you
had a reputation of a peerless erotic man who leaped at women like a monkey.
Therefore, that is me and not me!
There was no way I could be such a riajuu, I'm different from that Kobayakawa,
Yoshiharu wanted to complain. (ED note: Riajuu in Japan means a social fag. A
person who was popular with people. You already know what that means if
youre reading this -_- )
Previously, you incidentally opened the Amano Iwato and kissed Oda Nobuna
in front of the whole country. Oh, that is, um, I, I was at loss. Should a child like
me see such a love affair between lovers....that.
I really don't remember! I mean, in the first place who is Oda Nobuna?
So
This Warring States period was slightly different from what Yoshiharu is
familiar with.
The existence of Princess Knights was something he heard for the first time.
If Yoshiharu's knowledge was correct, then even Kobayakawa Takakage,was

supposed to be a man.
And the advocate of Tenka Fubu that held the territories around Kyoto was
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Owari's Princess Knight, Oda Nobuna.
For this girl, Yoshiharu had never even heard her name.
When talking about the Sengoku Era commander that adopted Tenka Fubu, it
should be Oda Nobunaga. Though Oda Nobunaga was fair-skinned and
beautiful, and moreover had a high-pitched voice, he is clearly a man. After all
he even had a child. Well, even if the history books sometimes depict him as
feminine, there was a drama with the setting of a female Nobunaga...
There seem to be many members of the Oda clan that add 'Nobu' to their name.
There might be someone in the family that is called Nobunaga.
But I don't know a person named Nobunaga. It is Oda Nobuna that succeeded
the head of the Oda Clan.
This was getting strange, perhaps I am trapped in my own dream world,

Yoshiharu thought.
This world may be a dream that only I am seeing, and in reality I am still
sleeping in my room, and I suspect I'll wake up after all this time.
But, with the warmth of Takakage's fingers treating my back, the smell of the
beach where my hair was cut short, I can only think this must be reality.
Oh, that's dangerous. My hearts going doki-doki. This is no good. Normal

self normal self. (ED note: I changed it because it seems awkward and
inappropriate. TLC should look into this.)
....Your back was riddled with injuries Yoshiharu. Not just this wound, but
there are other scars.
Really? Because I can't see it I don't know. Or rather, I don't remember getting
injured. My only strong point in the old days was my dodging. I almost crashed
into the front of a car when I was racing my bike and lightly went into the air
and survived it unscathed. My bicycle was flattened though.
For a while Yoshiharu was proud and had the future prospects of joining the
circus.
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I don't know what a bicycle or car is, but your back, is a samurai's back.
With a white finger, Takakage softly stroked one the scars on Yoshiharu's back.
You risked your life many times on the battlefield to protect your lord. That
time when the Amano Iwato was opened, you became a shield for the arrows
that attacked Oda Nobuna, and did not avoid even one. If it was you, if you
wanted to avoid it you would have avoided it entirely.
Yoshiharu noticed that Takakage's voice had become muffled.
Um, Kobayakawa-san?
....My onii-sama was also like that.
Yoshiharu looked back without thinking.
The Seto sea breeze shook the short hair of the small and delicate Takakage.
With wet eyes, she looked up at Yoshiharu.
It was a face like an abandoned kitten.
It was completely different from the impression of the usual calm Skilled
General, Kobayakawa Takakage that was the pillar of the Mori clan.
Yoshiharu realized this was the natural Kobayakawa after taking off the mask of
a military general.
An ordinary girl not that much different from his classmates.
His chest throbbed again.
I, Yoshiharu. That...
This, Kobayakawa-san.
Eye to eye, they came close to each other.
Both became unable to move.
What are you trying to do to Takakage! Saru, your death has come!
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Whoosh.
The real Katana shot out, cutting a part of Yoshiharu's bangs.
I'm sorry Kikkawa-san! Forgive me! Please, I haven't done anything!
Silence monkey! If you lay a single finger on my innocent sister I will

immediately chop you into
Namasu! [TN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuai_%28dish%29]
It was Kobayakawa Takakage's older twin sister, Kikkawa Motoharu.
She was the Princess Knight of the warrior faction so she could easily cut
Yoshiharu if he approached Takakage .
Her appearance was just like Takakage, but seems like the type to show all her
emotions on her face and had a wealth of expressions.
And to differentiate herself from her younger sister she wore a headband
around her forehead with the rising-sun flag and Mori Elder, so Yoshiharu
was able to distinguish them soon after coming to the Mori clan.
Onee-sama, Yoshiharu hasn't done anything wrong. The rumor that he was a
monkey-like womanizer seems to have merely been a rumor. I.., Yoshiharu is
kind to girls.
That is the trick of womanizers, Takakage! The Princess Knight killer Ukita
Naoie humors with sweet words at the beginning. By not knowing that, you
carelessly fall into their hands.
Kikkawa Motoharu was cautious around Yoshiharu from the start, and would
burst in with her sword every time Takakage and Yoshiharu got close.
Kikkawa-san, that I'm a womanizer is a groundless rumor. I'm not boasting

about it, but I've made it to this age without getting a lover.
What? Don't act like nothing happened, Saru. What the heck do you think you
showed off when you opened the Amano Iwato? To show such a naive
Takakage....d, d, dirty love affair...Takakage's eyes have been stained. I won't
allow it!
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I don't even have a memory of it~! What kind of person was I to the Oda clan?
On one hand there were these shocking erotic legends! That wasnt me at all!
Kikkawa Motoharu explained-
While Sagara Yoshiharu was serving the Oda clan as a person without any social
status, he started to have an affair with his lord Oda Nobuna and previously
snatched Oda Nobuna's lips in front of the whole nation. This act of supplanting
his lord was the most shocking of his deeds.
Furthermore, even the Oda Clan's natural enemy, Honbyo Temple, worshipped
him as a living god, and let the female Nyansako sect follower serve him and
had nightly parties.
He seduced infamous Princess Knights and made them his vassals like
Yamanaka Shikanosuke, Takenaka Hanbei, and Kuroda Kanbei. Yamanaka
Shikanosuke was Sagara Yoshiharu's sex slave who had dedicated her flesh
and became a self-proclaimed toilet for Yoshiharu's personal use.
Finally, Yoshiharu's lust for woman passed thousands of miles across the sea,
and seduced the Nanban Louis Frois, and made the missionary fall from
Christianity for that reason.
He got engaged with the Oda Clan's leading genius commander the beautiful
and honorable Akechi Mitsuhide and immediately began fooling around,
leaving Mitsuhide's heart broken.
Saru, you are such a man. My younger sister is nothing but a naive child about
love, I will certainly break your evil designs. As the older sister of Takakage!
Huh. Kikkawa has been in love? As one would expect of the older sister.
That is, with the young nobleman that appeared in Taiheiki and Tale of the
Heike, I write down fake histories over and over again where inside I flirt.....the
passage where the beautiful noble Heike has his neck removed by the violent
warrior Genji, writing it gets me fired up. Oh, my body feels hot~
So, it wasnt real love.
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Well whatever, that is the way it is. Real men are disgusting.
She had an honest and clear-cut personality, indeed she was easy to understand
like a child, Yoshiharu thought.
Onee-sama that still writes the continuation of the Tale of the Heike selfishly
while grinning alone was beyond repair. You have to change such a
disappointing vice before you rot one day.
Takakage. It's better than you whose heart beats fast from a monkey's back.
Th-th-that isn't true, my heart isn't pounding fast!
When such a tsundere-like line came, Yoshiharu felt like he gained something.
Just a little bit, he reminds me of Onii-san....
Oh, again. Your eyes are getting wet. Wake up Takakage! Onii-san and this
monkey aren't similar at all!
His face isn't similar, but his nature was close. They are....gentle to girls.
Sagara Yoshiharu! What did you do to entice my little sister, the well-known
ice-cold general! My little sister that faces men coolly with an iron wall of no
interest! As expected, this man can't be allowed to live!
Why? Why did I suddenly become popular when I entered the Warring States
period? I don't remember anything. I don't understand anything, its really hard
to accept it!
Yoshiharu was screaming as he caught the dangerous katana that Kikkawa

Motoharu was wielding.
Ah, Onee-sama, Yoshiharu has forgotten his time in the Oda clan. You
shouldn't bring up his past history. If he remembers, he will return to the Oda
clan..maybe.
I don't mind particularly. Rather, he'll return to his masters as just a monkey
head.
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Wait wait! Please Kikkawa-san, listen to your younger sister!
This useless Onee-san. Yoshiharu should defect to this clan. It will lower the
Oda clan's morale. In the first place, Yoshiharu completed a distinguished task
in capturing Yamanaka Shikanosuke, and was already accepted as a Mori clans
commander I want to let Yoshiharu become a feudal lord.
This guy? A country, a castle? This isn't a joke! As for capturing Shikanosuke, it
was because of Takakage's plan! This guy just had to sit on a stool.
But its only because Yoshiharu was here that we were able to capture
Shikanosuke, after all she was onee-sans enemy that she couldn't catch.
Moreover, Shikanosuke became a faithful vassal of Yoshiharu, and won't flee as

long as Yoshiharu is here. If Yoshiharu works for Mori, Shikanosuke will soon
become a faithful dog of Mori. If possible, a commander should win over allies
rather than rashly killing, that was the tactics of Otou-sama and Onii-sama.
U-ugh. Your logic is really exceptional. In other words, Takakage is just pleased
with this monkey. Therefore, you specifically let the monkey be the head of that
feat. How long can he be gallant?
...Its not like I'm particularly happy....
Umm. I want an island more than a country. I'm fond of the pirate life! The
work is intense, but living on the unobstructed sea is the best! It agrees with
me.
Our country is an island too!
If you lay your hands on my sister you will be killed without question, despite
Kikkawa Motoharu pressing that reminder, Yoshiharu couldn't hold back his
heart throbbing when Takakage gazed into his eyes seeing him as her older
brother.
Ahem. The Shogun has come today Takakage. We'll have a meal with the
whole Mori clan.
The shogun? On this sea?

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Hmm. The Harima war front is a stalemate. Seems she has some free time.
Getting used to the sea is killing me! Because I crossed to Ming with older
brother!
On the top of the deck, all of the Mori Clan gathered and picked an iron plate.
The little child that had a space marked off by the iron plate was the Shogun,
Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
She is the legitimate shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate.
She is about seven or eight years old.
She is the younger sister of the previous official shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru who
went into exile.
While very young, a night attack by some traitorous vassals led the Bafuku's
downfall, while she was exiled abroad, and her older brother's position as
shogun being given away. She raised an army to return to her country and
revive the Ashikaga Shogunate, it was an unusual life full of disturbances for the
child shogun.
Right now, an extraordinary villain called Nobuna has elevated the false shogun
Imagawa Yoshimoto and taken over Kyoto, but the true family of the shogunate,
the Ashikaga, have not been destroyed! As for the wandering Shogun that
intruded into the Mori clan, I will carry out my promise with onii-sama to
restore the shogunate no matter how many years it takes! I also must fulfill my
responsibility for dragging Honbyo Temple into battle with the Oda clan. I ask
the Mori troops to treat me favorably!
Despite being a child, wearing a headpiece she made a splendid speech of the
restoration of the shogunate before the generals, it was really brave, Yoshiharu
admired Yoshiaki's perseverance.
Still, as expected of the daughter of the distinguished Ashikaga clan. Still, right
now she was waddling like a penguin due to the weight of the helmet, but she
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would become an immensely beautiful girl in the future.
Well, Sagara. Don't you expect the shogun will become a beautiful high class
lady? I would bet all the money in my domain on her growing into a beautiful
girl. Now we will need to win her with candy, she will be sweet when she is an
adult. I call it, Ukita Naoie's brutal Hikaru Genji strategy!
Thinking about the exact same thing, the person who had uttered such an
ambition that deviated from the path of humans, calmly picked up the
okonomiyaki next to Yoshiharu.
Ukita Naoie, whos drifting like a bat between Oda Nobuna and Mori at
opportune times, the daimyo who after hearing that Oda Nobuna was defeated
in the sea fight at Honbyo Temple instantly returned to the Mori clan.
A man that assassinates and seduces women to use. Through brutal methods, he
rose suddenly from a vagabond to become the daimyo that ruled over Bizen and
Mimasaka, one of the Sengoku Era's Three Great Villains. And, as two of the
three villains had already exited the stage of history, it was correct to say that
Ukita Naoie was the Sengoku's most heinous person. While originally a good
man, a life of brutal assassinations was sending his destiny down the highway
to villainy at least he was expected to, but for some reason the circumstances
had become strange.
If you are heard by Kikkawa-san, you will be scolded Ukita-san.
Hey brat. 'Ukita-san' gives me a chill. Your character is a wild monkey that
doesn't know etiquette.
I'm sorry. I don't have any memory...
Just 'Ukita' is fine. Using polite language despite being Sagara was creepy. But
don't call my daughter by her first name. With Hideie, call her name properly.
I see.
Perfect. As your neighbor, why don't I eat the last okonomiyaki. I would like to
take my revenge now, but Lady Kobayakawa would make me commit seppuku,
and moreover now that you have lost your memory of last time I won't feel
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gratified if I kill you.
Eh? Did I do something to Ukita? Despite not knowing it, I'm sorry.
That feels gross!
Huh.
So. The generals will become delicious sooner or later, of Kobayakawa-jouchan

or Yoshikawa-jouchan, which are you aiming for, Sagara.
To think of aiming at my lord is nonsense! The Mori clan only found a reason
to employ me?
Hey. Truthfully who are you? An impostor? If you give up on them I'll woo
both of them. And then all of the Mori clan will be mine!
Please wait a minute, hogging both of the twins was too much. If pushed I
guess I would have to say the gentle Kobayakawa....she is iincho-like. (ED note:
Iincho= class president. Really, you went this far without knowing that?)
Iincho? Well either way. Therefore my favorite is shogun-chan. That child will
become an absolute beauty, I think her form will become even more beautiful
forever! She is the cutest! Shogun-chan is completely like the Maitreya
Bodhisattva!
She certainly is cute. I am a boob lover and I certainly don't have a lolita
complex, but I feel like the door to a lolita complex opens when I look at
Yoshiaki. Somehow I fell into a delusion that I once took care of a young girl in
the past. But I shouldn't have a younger sister.
I see, so the man from the future has had his spirit infected. Well my spirit is
fine like that! I got tired of eating adult women! They aren't pure and are
smeared in greed and self-interest! In that way, my daughter Hideie is too pure
inside, I reached this age and seemingly learned the way of life to love
children!
Nice! Lolita complex is peace! Love and peace!
Innocent children gaze and admire without self-interest....the first time I saw
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her immersed in an idle act, my spirit felt tranquil! I saw glimpses of my mother
in the eyes of a child! Lolicon soul banzai!
What a clear expression. That there was such an aspect to Ukita who was said
to be one of the 'Three Great Villains' of the Sengoku Era, you have to come to
the Sengoku era to understand. Thank you lolita complex! Forever lolicon!
Ukita and Sagara were completely impressed by the influence of lolita and
became kindred spirits, the unity of the Mori clan deepens, and Ashikaga
Yoshiaki opened a folding plan and let out an Oh, ho, ho laugh.
It seems she didn't understand the meaning of lolicon soul.
What is with these creepy guys. I must kill them both Kikkawa Motoharu
who was in charge of the cooking growled said so with a scowl while flipping
the okonomiyaki on the iron.
Kikkawa Motoharu believes the Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki was the supreme

cooking. Upon reaching Kyoto she would abolish the false Kansai-style
okonomiyaki, and had the ambition of making the Hiroshima-style
okonomiyaki traditionally.
Yoshiharu secretly thought that because this early era doesn't have cabbage, the
okonomiyaki was covered in Chinese cabbage which gave it a delicate taste.
Ukita Naoie. If you betray us again we will take your head without question.
Kobayakawa Takakage glared at Ukita Naoie with ice-cold eyes.
This is Takakage's basic attitude to men.
The exceptions were her substitute father that she adored, the Pirate King
Murakami Takeyoshi, and Sagara Yoshiharu.
Takakage is sweet. Ukita will betray again anyways. Now oneself is here!
Onee-sama will use Ukita as an anti-Oda force. Ukita who cannot betray Mori
twice will fight to the death.
Kobayakawa-ojousama. How can you say such a cruel remark in front of the
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person in question? My delicate heart is hurting.
You are noisy, shut up. Such a scoundrel does not have a human heart. Work
hard and die for Mori.
Well, Sagara. Now you have seen her cold gaze that looks at insects.
Kobayakawa-jousama was quite splendid.
Being scorned by such a young Princess Knight was surprisingly pleasing.
I, is that so? Ukita-san is a complicated ladies man.
Though I did not understand it well since Kobayakawa did not turn such eyes to
me, but if it was me I would be in bed with shock for three days if told such
words, Yoshiharu thought.
Takakage, until the Osakas Honbyo Temple's battle resumes, we will be

aimless. Let's overtake Harima for a land route. If we kick out Himeji Castle's
Oda troops it will release our allies besieged in Miki castle and suppress
Harima. Without depending on Honbyo Temple, Mori can advance
independently from Settsu to Kyoto.
Onee-sama, now that Honbyo Temple has stopped, Oda can focus its combat
troops in Harima again. It will be difficult to overtake them with brute force. I
will develop a strategy to secure a supply line to Miki castle with the Murakami
navy. I want onee-sama to lead a land troop to check the Oda troops stuck in
Himeji castle in Harima. Moreover, the shogun is currently sending a large
number of letters to the eastern countries of Takeda, Uesugi, and Hojo. If
Harima comes loose, the eastern countries can band together in the name of
Ashikaga. I can advance the main force of Mori in the next Honbyo Temple
battle if we can secure a land route from Settsu to Harima. The number of
people that can help from the sea are limited, but if its from the land-
Kobayakawa Takakage then paused to take a breath before informing Murakami

Takeyoshi.
During this peace, the Oda will rebuild its navy and plan on coming back with
renewed strength. Oda Nobuna has already seen the strength of the Murakami
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navy's tactics. But if you win at sea once more in the rematch with Honbyo
temple, the people's hearts will turn from the Oda clan. In order to win the
Murakami navy must not be careless and train vigilantly. You cant use the same
trick on Nobuna twice. It would be good to devise tactics that are different from
the previous time.
Kobayakawa Takakage doesn't put in her own emotions, and is able to easily
make strategies as if playing Shogi. Kikkawa, Yoshiaki, and Yoshiharu could
only be impressed by the commander like Akechi. Moreover, Takakage was
modest about her wisdom and doesn't want to take credit for her feats.
So then, Sagara Yoshiharu. This Ashikaga Yoshiaki will give you a reward
directly. It is wonderful that you gave up on the Oda clan and came here.
Furthermore, you caught Yamanaka Shikanosuke immediately. That guy who
preached about reviving the Amago Clan and fought against the Mori clan
obstinately. Regarding restoring the Ashikaga shogunate while burdening the
Mori clan, as the owner of a similar will, she was in any case a formidable foe.
Excellent, excellent.
The reward granted by the vagrant shogun that didn't hold any territory was a
head pat.
Of course since she couldn't reach his height, Murakami Takeyoshi who was as
close behind her as a bodyguard elevated her. A hand was extended to
Yoshiharu's head.
Excellent, excellent. That Kobayakawa will present you with an island. You can
choose an island to your liking.
Oh, yes. Thank you.
Having his head petted by an excellent little girl made Yoshiharu feel great for
some reason.
Hah. Being petted by Yoshiaki was healing.
Is that so, is that so? It is healed? Maybe this could also be called the shogun's
authority! I'll brush you more.
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Hah. Thank you for this happiness.
This is dangerous. I wonder when I awoke to a lolita complex? As Yoshiharu

himself, it is really mysterious.
Yoshiharu has no memory now of living together with his sister called Nene in
the Warring States period.
Oh, that is good. I hope the remarkable shogun will present that grand reward
to this Ukita.
You ran away from the battlefield feigning illness in your back and pain in
your butt in Harima, to you I give nothing.
Ah, that I fell of my horse in the battlefield and hurt my hip is true. Thanks to
that the gold hip of the lady-killer.... just shaking it a little as as a test sent pain
like I was about to die,...ugh damnit! Am I completely useless as a man? But it is
already okay because Hideie is cute! Having my young daughter nurse me
while bedridden is the best! If it was a son its the difference of poison and
honey!
Um? Kikkawa, Kobayakawa. Hasn't Ukita been weird since before he was
bedridden...before he was spilling with killing intent, but now he feels like he
would hug and kidnap a kid somewhere.
He probably also hit his head when he fell.
He doesn't resemble older brother at all.
Ukita Naoie's personality had changed a bit after being nursed by his daughter
Hideie after being bedridden due to the pain of his hip injury.
Of course, he will probably change back to a man of unlimited wickedness, but

it is unlikely during the Oda clan and Honbyo Temple's ceasefire.
Anyways, the brat has completely adapted to the Mori clan. Despite being a
kid from the future, he readily grew used to the harsh pirate life. He is also liked
by the pirates. Even without a memory, you are still the peerless Sagara
Yoshiharu.
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Murakami Takeyoshi laughed while carrying the shogun on his shoulder.
This man, who could smash oyster shells, made Yoshiharu tremble.
Because father was always abroad for work, I liked ships and airplanes. Being
on top of the sea is strangely thrilling.
Ahh. The sea is more fun than the land youngster. Once a person rushes to the
sea, they are free. You can even go outside the country.
That's right. I want to go to the Ming Dynasty! A lot of the Ming's food was
extremely delicious.
That's right. But can I still not go back to the future....
Yoshiharu looked up to the blue sky where the seagulls were flying.
Kobayakawa Takakage gazed at the lonely Yoshiharu anxiously.
As for Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
Hmm...Sagara is remembering his family.
Yes.
I also remember my older brother practicing the sword morning and night in
Ming China. Older brother possessed a mastery of the sword, and he was
deeply ashamed that the shogunate collapsed because the power of his sword
was not enough, and he shut himself in a Ming mountain temple in order to
become the strongest in the world. The dream of restoring the shogunate was
entrusted to his younger sister. I don't know when older brother completes his
training, will we be able to meet after fulfilling his ambition.
Yoshiaki-san.
....If you live, you may see each other again. Until you abandon living that's it.
To serve the Oda clan or to serve the Mori clan, even if it becomes a painful
dilemma, never rush to death, Sagara.
Yes.
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There is surely a reason you were called from the future to this era. Someone in
this era needs you. Perhaps it is me.
Someone in this era...
Yoshiharu suddenly felt like he was going to remember something.
Hmm. Surely it is me. The influence of the shogun opened the Amano Iwato.
That the shogun became extremely big through this battle moved Kikkawa
Motoharu to tears, and Ukita muttered I want you to stay small.
Only Kobayakawa Takakage who stared at Yoshiharu's back had a difficult

expression.
Okay. Eat more Miss Kobayakawa. Next is the earthenware pan baking of the
Murakami Navy. If you don't eat you won't get taller!
Murakami Takeyoshi heartily threw a large variety of caught Setouchi fish onto
the iron pan.
Ahem. Its about elder sister and Yoshiharu.
After the feast is over-
Kobayakawa Takakage and Kikkawa Motoharu talked together in a small cabin.
While it was expected to be about future strategies, that the talk was
immediately of Sagara Yoshiharu made Motoharu worried.
Takakage. You are too manic for that monkey. You are looking at him as if he
was your real older brother.
....T-that isn't it. Such a thing...
So if we give that guy an island, what is next? Are you going to let the monkey
persuade Yamanka Shikanosuke and form a Sagara Corps in the Mori clan?
That was already requested of Yoshiharu. Yoshiharu is persuading

Shikanosuke right now. The Mori clan and the Amago clan are old enemies.
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The Vassal of Amago, Shikanosuke, was incompatible with her sworn enemy the
Mori clan. It is difficult, but if Shikanosuke goes down with Yoshiharu, the
stalemate on the Harima front will be settled in a victory for the Mori clan.
Ho, Takakage is serious. Ugh, I'm worried. A human man's kiss is completely
different than the nobleman of the 'Tale of Heike.' Moreover, its Japan's number
one womanizing monkey. Takakage who was such a serious and straight-laced
person, why do you lose your head over that one.
Wha, as for me, nothing, particular about Sagara Yoshiharu, I'm, not losing my
head....right.
Takakage is a girl who fell in love at first sight! This is adorable....no this is
different. Wake up Takakage. That guy is not older brother. Older brother is
never going to come back to life....
...Elder sister
Kikkawa and Kobayakawa, Mori's twin rivers had an older brother named
Mori Takamoto.
Mori's first generation, Mori Motonari's, heir, (in the Mori clan's own
terminology, heiress), that received the family crest was the second generation.
But Takamoto was already dead and the first generation Motonari passed away.
The position of third generation went to Takamoto's orphan child Terumoto,

and management of the Mori clan went to the pair of sisters.
By all rights, either of the sisters would have been appropriate to succeed as the
Mori clan's head, but the pair deeply missed their brother, Takamoto.
Therefore, in Takamoto's memory, they made an oath to raise Terumoto as the

legitimate third generation of the Mori clan.
Takakage. I'm not telling you not to fall in love with a man, but you had better
not overlap the image of older brother with that monkey. That guy was
originally in love with Oda Nobuna, and there is a difference in social status for
you who is the senior princess of the Mori clan. It would be difficult to be
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officially married. In any case, Takakage will be hurt in the end.
Oh, older sister talks to me as if you are a person talented in love, but doesn't
all of your talk of love come from the love story of the Heike man from 'The tale
of Heikie.' In other words, the dream must be in older sister's head -
Ugh. You don't need to say that Takakage! Although it is a speech from the
middle of the 'Tale of Heike', you are determined to think of a strategy for the
Mori clan completely around a man you more or less don't know!
Hmph. Older sister doesn't know him either. The boy who appears in the Tale
of the Heike is just a character. Ink written on paper.
Aargh. A character you say! You who I call little sister!
At any rate, while the two are praised as the beautiful representatives of the
Chuugoku region, neither has yet had experience falling in love because even
if they kept an eye on a man, they would consider him inferior to Takamoto.
However for Kikkawa Motoharu, she says that real men are boring and do not
equal older brother, and in the end the result was she became obsessed with the
ancient Taira nobleman of the Tale of the Heike.
As for Kobayakawa Takakage, she was embarrassed by her older sister's hobby
and was worried she would rot, and couldn't have anticipated that such a
thing to happen to the general's honor.
Takakage was not accustomed to love and was terribly confused and halfway
to losing sight of herself.
Elder sister. I only wanted to speak to you in confidence, recently I am every

day thinking of nothing but Yoshiharu. In addition, I don't have an appetite.
And then unexpectedly I want to cry without reason.
Oh my god. Th, that is nothing besides love!
And just recently at today's feast, when I saw the image of the shogun petting
Yoshiharu's head, I got extremely angry.
I wanted to make the shogun hold a boulder and sink into the Dannoura, such
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a bad idea occurred to me without a meaning....elder sister, I don't understand

what is happening to me.
Motoharu could only say a troubled Ah.
T, Takakage. That is jealousy.
Jealousy? But today I ate pan fried okonomiyaki. [TN: Is this a freaking pun?]
The monkey was becoming emotionally attached to a child. It was jealousy

because the shogun and monkey were sticking together like close friends.
Takakage seemed dissatisfied and pouted her small lips.
N, never. The shogun is still just a child. To be jealous of a child....for this

Kobayakawa Takakage feared as the Wise commander to be that immature.
However the man of the future has been attacked by the diseased called the
lolicon soul and greatly loves little girls. The monkey always bares his lolicon
soul. Even those who cannot be dealt with with ordinary means and are
incompatible with people, the two schemers Kuroda Kanbei and Takenaka
Hanbei, get along with each other and serve Yoshiharu, therefore the lolicon
soul is good at successfully flattering very young girls.
W, what? Elder sister.
Or should I say you are the latest one, Takakage.
Wha, I am not a child anymore elder sister. Ah, I am an adult woman. I, I guess
I might have a childish appearance.....b, but I can already bear a child.....maybe.
M, moreover I have read all the books we have and gained knowledge.
She puffed out her cheeks. She seemed extremely unhappy.
But you don't have knowledge of love. You are naive, and you are regarded as
feed for the lolicon soul.
Its, different. I am an adult.
An adult woman doesn't put the face of her older brother on the boy she
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loves.
Please work with me elder sister.
Eh? With what?
If Yoshiharu has already been attacked by the lolicon soul, and makes
unpleasant movements towards the shogun, he will have to commit harakiri.
Since I first saved Yoshiharu, it will also be my responsibility. I must cure
Yoshiharu's disease. Nonetheless, t, this is completely for the Mori clan. I don't
want you to misunderstand.
Embarrassed about her obvious real intention, Motoharu smiled wryly at the
manner of her exceedingly naive little sister.
Takakage. You must put a stop to saying such things. Love and war are the
same thing. You win by attacking fiercely forward. Victory goes to the one who
makes the first move, you must push forward!
...But, my older sister is not in love. A, As for me I, ah, like Sagara Yoshiharu as
a person like older brother.
How. In that case this thing is like a disease. Takakage soon, you will have to
get over older brother.
What should I do, how can I do that. I don't understand myself. Guh.
Ah, don't cry! This Takakage who won in the land and sea and was on the
brink of taking Oda Nobuna's head, completely becomes like a child when it
comes to that monkey.
As your older sister, I'll lend a hand to Takakage so you win this battle.
At that time when Oda Nobuna was overrun and on the brink of defeat,
Takakage decided on being cautious on the battlefield saying, I don't know
what sort of strategy or direction to guide the country and was in a funk.
Kikkawa Motoharu had said think about such a thing after we have attained a
victory, and clapped the back of the younger sister who takes things too
seriously, but now noticed that her younger sister's confusion over Sagara
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Yoshiharu came from the same source.
Even someone as wise as Takakage can't draw a diagram for the future of Japan
without Oda Nobuna. Takakage's heart, just like the time after losing older
brother who held together the Mori clan and was supposed to rule all of Japan,
has been lost. I can't give my consent to a monkey who is so far off from the
Heike nobleman, but if younger sister is released from the phantom of older
brother by gaining a new life-style called love-)
For Motoharu personally, it was like time had stopped that time when they lost
their older brother, Takamoto.
However, because Motoharu's role is to act in a rage without thinking on the

battlefield, she was not worried.
The only thing necessary for Motoharu, was courage.
It was Takakage who carried the difficult role of having to think about the future
of the Mori clan at all times.
Takakage had to worry alone all this time, the Mori clan's third generation was
still too young to conquer the world, and none of the Mori clan were followers
of the Honbyo Temple's Nyansako sect. At the moment, it was difficult for
Takakage to break the Oda clan that touted the grand ideal of named Tenka
Fubu, up until now Motoharu had been worried about her younger sister that
rarely showed her expression or feelings.
Ah, thank you. Please let me rely on you older sister.
Mmm. I'll say again, the one who makes the first move wins, Takakage! Now is
a good opportunity while the monkey has forgotten Oda Nobuna.
....Y, yes.
Oh you are so embarrassed. Its so cute, Takakage.
Sh, shut up.
Haha. How many years has it been since Takakage has been annoyed and told
me to shut up.
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...uuu.
(Oh. While I personally fought it earnestly, why did I volunteer for the role to
help with younger sister's love. I myself saw the kiss as Oda Nobuna and the
monkey risked their lives, perhaps that is when I began thinking about genuine
love.)
Those two people showed something unthinkable to the people of this country
that had constantly had nothing but war at all times for over one hundred years,
and the hearts of the people began changing, even Takakage's, Motoharu
thought.
Ho-ho-ho. I heard your discussion. This child Shogun excels at plotting using
her power. I will find a means to get Kobayakawa and Sagara Yoshiharu
married despite the two's difference in social position!
Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who had been eavesdropping with all her heart, forced her
way inside.
For some reason she had a smug face.
Sho, shogun? Th, this is well.
Her body is too small and I didn't notice.
Ho-ho-ho. There is a wall since Sagara Yoshiharu doesn't have any social
status. In that case, as Oda Nobuna and Yoshiharu tried get the Kampaku Konoe
Sakihisa to adopt Yoshiharu in that case I shall take him in as the adopted
child of the shogun! The vice-shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiharu.
Adopted child? A, As expected.
The age doesn't match. Furthermore, this is an imitation of Oda Nobuna's

plan.
So? Then shall I make Yoshiharu my older brother? With this, if I make
Yoshiharu a relative of the shogun, there shouldn't be any public issues! More
than that, I cannot meet with my older brother in Ming and am lonely, in this
situation I can take advantage of Yoshiharu as my onii-chan. Every day we can
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take a bath together and sleep together. Yoshiharu's loyalty to me will also rise.
Huhuhuh.
Shogun-sama, we must decline. Its not allowed.
Why not Kobayakawa? Wh, why do you have a cutting expression like you
want to sink me at the bottom of the Setouchi? And your tone is scary.
...Younger sister has a bad illness. Her stomach is hurting, Shogun.
As for the problem person, Sagara Yoshiharu, was in the ship jail.
He was not arrested. He was ordered by Kobayakawa Takakage to persuade the

prisoner, Yamanaka Shikanosuke, and had personally boarded the jail where
Shikanosuke was held empty-handed.
Master really doesn't remember anything? How you stab this Shikanosuke.
Now that Shikanosuke was aware that Yoshiharu was truly in the Mori faction,
she was not intending on escaping. Because she had agreed to follow Yoshiharu
forever.
No. Because Yamanaka is said to be a good person, I wouldn't stab a hostage?

Ukita Naoie seems like he might drug you if you are careless.
Heavenly happiness. I am the thing that wants to be drugged in this prison.

When I can't move in a place like this because of the drugs, Master will swoop
on me like a hungry wolf, and in the future will become a brutal savage who
will persuade my body by force!
While Yamanaka is a cute girl with such a short speech she changed into a
extremely unique individual, Yoshiharu wondered.
While this fellow was continuously losing to the Mori clan, her original training
was showing results, Kikkawa Motoharu told me in secret.
My lord, 'You should teach this girl's body. Your mouth says no way but you
already are like this.' I would like you to curse at me with vulgar words like
that. Of course the only in the world I can ask such a disgraceful thing to is you
master.
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Yamanaka-san. I have no memory of serving the Oda clan. When I fell into the
muddy stream and hit my head suddenly, I seem to have forgotten everything.
Really? In which case, all of the memories of treating this Shikanosuke as a

plaything night after night.
Ehh? I was such an wicked master? I'm so sorry!
It is a lie. I'm sorry to say that master, in spite of being a womanizer without
principles was a strangely serious gentlemen in regards to this Shikanosuke.
Perhaps you purposely neglected this Shikanosuke to show a new world.
It's a lie? Good. What would have happened if Kobayakawa heard such a story.
From now on be careful what you say, or Kobayakawa may cut off my head in
anger.
Whether is be Kobayakawa Takakage or Shikanosuke, would scowl at him

coldly.
When I asked that taciturn fair-skinned girl about master, for some reason she
put out a nice feeling. As for me, even if I feel disappointed in changing to the
Mori clan, I will follow Master to hell. Oh!? Perhaps you joined my bitter enemy
the Mori in order to cast this Shikanosuke into deeper suffering.....haa,haa,haa.
Yamanaka, please calm down without biting your nails.
Master is so cold. Please call me Shikanosuke. Otherwise I won't surrender!
Shikanosuke's mouth repeated such an M-like statement, only when asking

Yoshiharu for this did she seem like the leader of the Amago Ten Braves, and he
can't oppose it.
U, understood. Well, Shikanosuke. Will you surrender yourself to the Mori

clan?
I'm sorry. I have dedicated my life to Master, but I am unable to serve the Mori
clan. It was the Mori clan that destroyed my lord, Izumo's Amago clan. If I give
in and surrender, I will shame the honor of my companions who fought and
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died to revive the Amago clan.
When Shikanosuke spoke with such a serious expression, she was so attractive
he was at a loss for words......the type to serve as the captain of the volleyball
team and get a love letters from the girls. When Yoshiharu was carelessly
thinking about the school life he left, he stared at Shikanosuke's beautiful
features.
Only this command from Master I cannot follow. Now, please punish this bad
girl Shikanosuke with all your might, Master. For the time being, Master can
make use of me as this ship jail's installed toilet.
There isn't any punishment! At this rate will you continue to be in the bottom
of this prison ship? Because you can escape again if you are sent on land,
Kikkawa isn't going to let you off the ship. I understand, when you were
previously captured by Kikkawa, you insisted you had a stomachache and
crawled through the toilet reservoir to escape.
Uuu...Master... completely forgot all my gallant achievements...and was only

informed by the Mori of my embarrassing disgrace?
Only, only that story, as expected....please forgive me!
Such a beautiful girl, talking about such a miserable experience....oops. I got a

little excited. Isn't this attribute worse than the lolita complex, wow I can't
control myself.
Master?
Oh, I am alright. I have this bad habit where sometimes I have a slip of the
tongue. So I'll speak before thinking. Because of this, I was given cold stares by
the girls in my class. However, even if that passed I wouldn't have been
popular!
Ha ha. It is alright Master. In this era girls like honest gentlemen. Because there
are great numbers of bad and wicked men who only have base desires like
Ukita Naoie.
Is, is that so.

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Yes. I like Master's honesty!
Thank you. It feels like the first time a girls has said she likes me. Even so, am
seeing a dream?
Again with your modesty. Even of the Oda clan's numerous legends that have
been forgotten, Master is a peerless lady-killer. After all, even that cold hearted
arrogant lass, Kobayakawa Takakage, loves Master as an older brother.
That's right. Kobayakawa is extremely kind to me however, even if I am

troubled by the past with the Oda clan I am completely with the Mori, even now
its unbelievable to me that I served the Oda clan, but Kobayakawa is my
savior...Yoshiharu had unintentionally revealed his painful feelings to
Shikanosuke.
So you are in a dilemma. Poor master. Its painful to be caught in between. I'll
comfort you with my chest. I look slender in clothes, but I am quite big!
What am I stuck between? In addition, I can't go back to the future anymore.

Dad, mom, my school friends, can I never meet them again? Unexpectedly its a
small blessing in disguise that I never got a girlfriend, I have nightmares in my
dreams enough.
...do you dream of your mother?
My mom doesn't appear often. My dad sometimes appears too. But, in this
world so many people have lost family in battles over succession, and
Kobayakawa has already lost her mother and father, and even her older brother.
I think that grieving about not being able to meet my family, feels a bit childish.
Did an ordinary high-school student like me really survive in the Sengoku era
all this time?
Master had a lot of good friends. Not just the people in the Oda clan, but the
Nanban missionaries and Sakai merchants, and even the Oda clan's bitter
enemies the people of Honbyo Temple and the Takeda family trusted Master.
Everyone has been struggling to not let Master die, Shikanosuke grabbed
Yoshiharu's hand and smiled.
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Do I have such value? I was raised spoiled in a world without war.
There is. Therefore, I will wait forever for Master's return.
Even if my memory doesn't return? I can't imagine betraying my savior

Kobayakawa. Kobayakawa is shouldering the whole Mori clan on her small
body, it is incredibly excessive and dangerous, and she could break at any
moment. I can't leave her.
Even after losing after her Master lost his memory, Shikanosuke seemed happy.
Up until now, for the sake of Oda Nobuna, you have been running at full power
for your Oda clan comrades. In predicaments where an ordinary man's spirits
would break and he would fall, they were overcome again and again. I also
acted unreasonably. Therefore, for now its good to take a little rest. Please think
about it.
....Shikanosuke is a nice person.
Yes. Because I am Master's loyal vassal. I will definitely take care of Master.
Yoshiharu grasped Shikanosuke's fingers and blurted out a Thank you very
much.
The people of this world, in particular the Princess Knights, always live on the
very limits of the border of life and death, and they must look so dazzling, I
thought.
For everyone, is there something I can do-
Oda and Mori's front lines in Harima, glared at each other for a long time.
The Oda's side's base is the Himeji Castle in the center of Harima.
The Mori side's front line was Mii Castle in the east of Harima, but Miki castle
now is isolated by the Oda's power, and was being besieged by the Oda troops
from Himeji castle.
The land routes to bring in food for Miki castle, had been completely cut off by
the positioning of the Oda troops.
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However, now that the commander of Himeji Castle Sagara Yoshiharu and the
second in command Yamanaka Shikanosuke had fallen into Mori's hands, the
Oda troop's moral had presently fallen.
Kobayakawa Takakage had a plan to send in provisions via the sea route to their
allies in Miki Castle, and lead the Murakami navy to depart to Harima.
In the middle of the navy, was the figure of Sagara Yoshiharu.
The Oda troops suffered a severe blow in the previous battle. This is the time to
bring in provisions to Miki Castle. If things go well, it is Miss' plan to break the
Oda's siege and free Miki castle. But unfortunately, the Oda side has already set
up camps on the shoreline. Despite losing Sagara Yoshiharu and Yamanaka
Shikanosuke, the army corps is still getting commands. As expected.
The Murakami Navy's general, Murakami Takeyoshi, while looking at the

eastern coastline of Harima through a telescope, was in the middle of instructing
Yoshiharu in pirate training.
Boy. Is the landing point Takasago or Akashi? Or is it Suma? In any case, Miki
Castle is on top of a hill. We first have to secure a base on the coastline. At that
time, the pure white beach will look like a bright red blood pond. Don't piss
yourself.
Indeed I think I nearly wet myself. I don't have any experience on the
battlefield. My leg is already shaking even though the start of the battle isn't
happening soon.
Haha. This veteran hero is overwhelmed.
I don't have any special abilities, and I'm not a hero wielding a holy sword.
And yet I know instinctively. I am a soldier.
That's it boy, there is a woman you should protect and that will bring out your
power. You who are from a peaceful world, are a man facing this war-torn
country where Princess Knights cast their lives away on the battlefield.
A woman, to be protected.....Princess Knights give their lives on the

battlefield....ugh, my head.
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Again.
Yoshiharu who was about to remember something, held onto his aching head.
Boy. I'll tell you the reason why Miss Kobayakawa and Kikkawa are still so
attached to their dead elder brother. Even if I tell you, this is a secret.
The older brother of those two was the Mori family second generation Mori
Takamoto, right?
Ah. That man was my sworn brother who I exchanged sake cups with.
Therefore the two Misses are like younger sisters to me.
Murakami Takeyoshi spoke.
Formerly, the Mori clan was a small powerful family in the Chugoku district,
sandwiched between the two major powers with Harukata Sue ruling over
Sanyo, and the Amago family ruling over Sanin, it was a humble power that
somehow managed to live by running between the two families, acting similar
to how Ukita Naoie acts while being caught between Mori and Oda.
The feudal lord which had been running errands for years was the first
generation, Mori Motonari, decided to become independent before he reached
old age. The Sue who boasted of having ten times the military power were
subjugated, and the Amago were destroyed, and he naturally became the ruler
of Chugoku. But that guy didn't have a naval force. In order to become the
supreme ruler of Chugoku, he needed to win over me, the King of the Setouchi.
Of course, who could I become subordinate to. Your aren't a pirate if you aren't
free. Otherwise there is no value in living on the sea. As for the Murakami navy,
we didn't originally want to get involved in a squabble over such a small area of
land.
It wasn't possible to incorporate the freely living Murakami navy as vassals of

the Mori clan. But you could be tied in an alliance. For the sake of becoming the
supreme ruler, he wanted the power of the Murakami by any means. Was that
what Mori Motonari thought?
That's right, boy. And then Mori Motonari challenged Harukata Sue in the
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'Battle of Itsukushima'. The Mori clan would be ruined if they lost. The odds of
success were one in ten thousand. Only if I provided assistance would there be a
slim chance of success. But I boasted that I wouldn't ally with anyone. For
Motonari, the Battle of Itsukushima was a one-in-a-lifetime gamble.
When the Mori clan was still the lord of Aki.
Born in the house of a small daimyo, the genius first generation Mori
Motonari rose the Mori clan in one generation from hardship and vagrancy to
rule over Aki, and kept complaining before the decisive battle with the
Chugoku's daimyo Sue Harukata.
Sue lead a huge army and Mori only had a handful of troops. Although
previously there were the three siblings it was not enough. Back then there was
a lot of chaos. They thought they needed to increase the Mori clan's land.
The worst strategist of Chugoku, the big boss of Aki, Motonari who was once
called the strategy god, scared the hell out of the neighbors and wanted him
killed, and they repeatedly attacked the leader with bullets and before anyone
knew it he was an old man.
By all rights he was already at the age to retire.
But to the west was Chugoku's big boss Harukata Sue.
To the north in Sanin was the super warrior faction, the Amago clan's large
army.
The Mori clan was stuck between the two major powers and fought all the time
not knowing if they would live to see tomorrow, so Motonari would not retire.
How. It would be dangerous for the Mori Clan as long as Sue Harukata lives,
Motonari got impatient that everything would end if he died, and decided to
challenge Sue to a decisive battle despite being at an overwhelming
disadvantage.
Well, his strength was to his wiles to deceive every single person, and was
successful at luring out Sue's main force to the Itsukushima sea, because there
was such a vast difference in military power the Mori clan launched a surprise
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attack at Sue in Itsukushima and completely destroyed his main army.
If they had carelessly attacked and invaded Itsukushima from the Aki mainland,
the Mori clan would have been finished.
They drowned in the schemer's plan. Can you expect to win against me?
Hey. It was entrusted to it myself. We rode to Itsukushima to Sue Harukata!
Despite being a little girl Kikkawa Motoharu had an honest eagerness to kill, she
would unsheathe her famous Eager princess and get fired up,
Wait. The older sister is a daredevil warrior without wisdom. Their father left
everything up to the young genius Kobayakawa Takakage.
The childish Kobayakawa Takakage gave a negative introduction to her elder

sister.
The Mori clan was severed and hardcore battles coming and going were a daily
occurrence.
Motonari's twin daughters, Kikkawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takakage, had

been entering and leaving the battlefield together for a long time, Motonari's
plot was to invite Chugoku's warrior faction under the Kikkawa clan and
capture the Kobayakawa clan through inheritance, and the young Princess
Knights had been through scenes of carnage and the sisters had received a so
called Spartan education in the warring states.
Motoharu inherited the military might of Motonari and Takakage inherited

Motonari's resourcefulness.
Gah. Shut up Takakage! The useless words of a bookworm can't win a war.
A fool hmph. Does elder sister think she can beat 10,000 soldiers alone?
I can win with fighting spirit!
Haa. That is why you are a daredevil.
I ate three portions of okonomiyaki before, and I have tremendous strength. So
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if I eat thirty portions of okonomiyaki, I'll have the strength of ten thousand!
...Strength of a thousand men, elder sister. This Takakage can't stand to look at
the foolish face of a liar. Go away.
The older sister is a higher position than the younger sister fool! The older
sister is superior to the younger sister~
Here you are. It serves you right.
Guwaaa. Today your head falls!
Its noisy, shut up.
The two sister's character and abilities were completely incompatible. Whenever
they met they would usually insult each other.
Motonari's eldest son, Takamoto, was a plain and mediocre general who didn't
resemble his father and sisters that were filled with unusual talent and
abnormal determination, was bad at war and had no talent for plotting, and
didn't stand out.
He had an elegant manner, and noble looks, but the handsome man was no way
outstanding at war and didn't seem likely to succeed the Mori clan.
Therefore he didn't even have a say in the important meeting to inherit

Motonari's headship as the second generation.
Takamoto. Younger sister is scolding me.
Yes. Both of you get along well.
Shut up, good-for-nothing.
Go away, incompetent.
Father. It was no good.
....Takamoto....you are called a man...yes.
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Listen. Please listen to the complains of this old man. Now as we fight the large
army of the Sue in Itsukushima, you three siblings must work together. My
wish is that the Mori clan will not suffer from a traitorous vassal, and obtain a
warm happiness by being surrounded by family. And yet, even so. Ahh, why is
Chugoku in a state of carnage? Instead of of greetings we cut each other off,
killing and killing until our last breath is taken by a bullet, losing my wife and
your mother before me.....and finally my children are on appallingly bad terms.
Your father is going to become a priest.
And now father's annoying complaints begin. My stupid older sister is to

blame.
Shut up, Takakage. This is because you boast about your talent with that self-
satisfied look!
My younger sisters. You must get along.
Shut up, good-for-nothing.
Go away, incompetent.
Father. What should I do?
If older brother is in charge the Mori clan will end. When you pass on, you can
leave everything to Aki's and Shima's Kikkawa clan.
So noisy. After father has died, the boss of Aki will be the Kobayakawa clan.
Shut up Takakage. Well anyway, at least it isn't older brother.
I feel like dying but unfortunately I have to agree with my stupid older sister.
Motoharu and Takakage are still childish. They saw Takamoto as their
unworthy elder brother and despised him so they couldn't imagine him being
Mori's second generation.
Even if Takamoto was verbally abused by his two younger sisters he would not
stop smiling gently, and the abuse had never stopped.
Right now the fate of the Mori House Is on the line. To you three siblings, this
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father will prepare his final greatest sermon. Listen carefully. Please hear it.
Motonari began to take out a nearly three meter long letter of complaint and
began to read it out loud, and with a it starts again the young sisters faced in
opposite directions and didn't listen.
Hm. It seems words alone are useless.
Well, we are tired of hearing your complaints. Anyhow, reminiscing about our
late mother's miso soup, saying a warm family is important, the Mori clan is the
best, dad also wants older brother to be important, a flower can only bloom once
in this world, its just endless nonsense.
Even without reading what is written, the clever Takakage understands it all.
Oh, my heart....! But still! Its not done. I am the strategic general. This time I
prepared some tools to get you three siblings to get along.
Motonari handed over an arrow to each of the three siblings.
How about it? Its a large and strong arrow. Try to break it.
Oh. This is a piece of cake.
I broke mine father.
...Oh, oh. It won't break.
Takamoto, did you pretend not to break it? I racked my whole brain to prepare
this speech.
I understand, father.
W, well now. Even if its made strong, a single arrow will break easily, but
what if you bundle three arrows this way?
This lecture was devised by Mori Motonari who was anxious about the friction
between the three siblings, now known as The Three Arrows.
One arrow is easy, but three arrows will not break. Do you know what I am
saying?
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Oh well. Such a thing is easy to break. There.
Motoharu easily broke the three arrows in one go, thus ending the lecture that
Motonari had bet his life on.
GYAAAA! My three arrows ahhhhh! Mori's future! A small happy family!
How about that! Within this small body, Motoharu boasts herculean strength!
As expected, I am disgusted by this older sister who doesn't think about

anything. Such an undutiful child should go away.
What!? The younger sister is inferior to the older sister! Today your head will
fall.
Next to his quarreling sisters, Takamoto unusually stopped their talking.
I have received my father's feelings. So how about I lure the Sue army to
Itsukushima.
Oh, Takamoto. If the Sue army was lured to the narrow Itsukushima, yes the
Mori forces could exterminate their army. Especially with the strength of a
navy. Therefore to be a match in this war, we cannot gain an edge without the
assistance of the pirates of the Setouchi, the Murakami navy.
Even if we won, Sue could escape with his head by sea on an island, if he isn't
killed the Mori family will be destroyed by the difference in the military power
of the Sue, and so will the Mori clan small happy family....ahhh, ahhh....how
long will we have to continue being torn in all directions, I would be fine if
parents and children got along well, an overwhelmed Motonari began to
complain again.
Saying It's difficult, Kobayakawa Takakage frowned.
Father. I have already called on the Murakami navy as the Sue is already
landing near Itsukushima. Unlike the Mori, the Sue has amassed large amounts
of wealth from trading with the Ming. A large sum of money is needed to move
the pirates who are not samurai of the land.
I'll go to the negotiations. I'll win by killing and cutting up the Murakami
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admiral.
You are noisy, shut up. If older sister opens her mouth the negotiations won't
be finished. My older brother is out of the question. I who inherited father's
genius will be the emissary to the Murakami navy's admiral, Murakami
Takeyoshi as I am the best at negotiations.
What's that?! Draw a sword, have a bout here Takakage! The survivor will be
the messenger!
Father, what would you like to do.
Hmm. I will personally be the emissary to Murakami Takeyoshi. We may not

have an intimate relationship. No, it may be possible to call it old friends. Write
it as strong enemy, as well, that kind of relationship. *Cough*
Worthless father. If our strategist father who is unpopular and has no

credibility boards personally, you will be unjustly suspected and won't be able
to reach the negotiation table, furthermore father will be taken as a hostage.
What. Takakage, how can you look at your father like that. Ahhh, ahhh, as
expected I can't live any longer.~
Hey. If copper coin is necessary, gather it up from Aki's merchants, that is to

say borrow money.
Motoharu. That trick has already been used, I already used that strategy to
swindle them repeatedly therefore the merchant houses don't trust me. I can't
even borrow a cent.
What? In that case if the merchants won't lend you money set them on fire.
You must not! The money won't come even if I burn the merchants. On the
contrary, if we abandon the merchants that pay a protection tax, the Mori clan
that invests a lot of money military strategies will go bankrupt.
Hmm. Its difficult to maintain the house while fighting.
That's obvious. Go away elder sister.
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Shut up!
Be quiet.
Motonari continued to consider it for a long time, and he had a flash of

inspiration and said ok.
Then....since we don't have enough money being successful is going to become

risky, I will entrust this to Takakage.
Leave it to me. Its a wise choice father.
Ugh. The younger sister is more excellent than the older sister....Takakage, even
if you fail the negotiations and cry I won't help!
Hmph. I will nobly help older sister commit seppuku.
Younger sisters, you should get along better. That seems to be what father
wishes.
In this way, the young Kobayakawa Takakage was left with the difficult
negotiations with the Murakami Navy
The Seto Inland Sea's marine ruler, the Murakami Navy.
The pirate boss that leads the Murakami Navy, Murakami Takeyoshi.
Even if the land was ruled by a powerful samurai or even a wealthy merchant, it
was impossible to cross the Setouchi sea without Murakami Takeyoshi's
permission.
You have some nerve. Without any money, I should help Mori.
The large build of Murakami Takeyoshi was on a folding stool wearing a

crimson wool haori that he had stolen from a Nanban ship, while easily
wielding a Seiryuu sword in one hand stolen from a Ming Dynasty ship, glared
at the young emissary of the Mori clan, Kobayakawa Takakage.
The Sue's army 20,000 have lined up in the Itsukushima Shrine presently. My
father and elder sister are soon going to come under the cover of the typhoon
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from the Tsutsumigaura mountain and launch a sneak attack and scatter the Sue
troops in Itsukushima. As for me together with the Murakami Navy, we will
intercept and annihilate the Sue troops that try to escape to the sea. The Mori
army only has 3000 troops, but we can win with the assistance of the Murakami
navy. The battle that will change Chugoku's supreme rule Sue to Mori will be
finished in a day.
While Takakage said this as though filled with pride, the pirates who rejoice in
the freedom of being on the sea have no interest in who is the ruler of the land.
Girl, that is cute.
For us pirates, we will not be vassals of the samurai on the land.
Sorry fella.
The pirates are bad-tempered.
Even for a very young Princess Knight, they would not be lenient.
While being surrounded by violent pirates, she still had her voice.
I have heard that Sue Harukata forbids the Murakami Navy from taking a toll
from its ships. The Mori clan has no such thoughts. As before, the Setouchi Sea
will be left to the Murakami Navy.
But, Takakage wasn't able to suppress the shivers of her body.
Ojo-chan. Such a thing isn't for you on the land to decide. The King of the
Setouchi Sea is me. It is for us pirates to decide if we will tax your ships.
Murakami Takeyoshi is a tremendous existence that emits an intense heat and

pressure before him, the other party understands that clever words won't win.
To move this anchor-like man, theories and logic weren't enough....Takakage

realized she had no power to get Murakami Takeyoshi to act.
As the boss said. We serve no one. If you want to borrow our power then take
out the money.
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This girl is arrogant.
The world of the sea is different from the land.
We hate being ordered by those guys on the land.
If there isn't any copper, you can bet your life.
Life?
Takakage's small shoulders trembled a little.
Chief. Do you wanna do the 'gamble'?
That is a cruel speech from such a young girl, pirates do not work for free.
As the pirates all yelled together, Murakami Takeyoshi said I will let you do it
and nodded.
Listen Miss Kobayakawa. In this world, wisdom isn't enough. Especially on the
sea.
Bu, I, wh, what to do you want me to do?
There are three cups of sake here.
In front of Takakage who cannot move under Murakami Takeyoshi's stare, cups
filled with white sake were prepared.
A golden cup, a silver cup, and a copper one.
If you drink the poisoned sake cup, you will die. If you choose the cup without
the poison, you win.
Drink this?
Choose one. Miss Kobayakawa, if you are as exceedingly wise as it is said, it

will probably be be easy for you to pick the cup without poison.
...Wait. There is no guarantee there isn't poison in all of the cups.
Such a thing is impossible to do here.

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!?
Pirate law. It says if there isn't money, I can test your manly spirit with this
'bet'. Well, Miss isn't a man.....if you are the child of the samurai are you ready.
Wait. As for winning?
Well. You might die after drinking. Depends on my mood.
If I refuse?
Without our help, the Mori will be destroyed.
Even if drink the poison and die, will you still assist?
At that time, Miss will die in vain.
Such a thing. Then what happens to the Mori clan if they are all poisoned.
Father...!
Do you not understand yet? I am testing you, Miss. On the sea, I am the king. It
is Miss' right to choose.
I, I...
Don't think badly of me. Making little girls cry is not my hobby. But this is the
law on the sea, hell is separated by a single plank Miss. Therefore the rules are
absolute to a pirate.
Takakage is an exceedingly resourceful girl, who always considers things

carefully before advancing.
She was personally lacking in the courage to stake the Mori clan's fate on this
kind of reckless gamble.
My life is important. This is also for the sake of the Mori clan. But, if I abandon
the Mori house. Father, older brother, and older sister will all die.
Takakage couldn't choose.
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Motonari grumbled, Both my father and elder brother drank themselves into
an early grave and forbade the family from drinking alcohol. So the young
Takakage had never even drunk the New Years amazake let alone the sake an
adult drinks, on the contrary it was rare for her to even see sake, thus she
couldn't tell the difference between the sake even by comparing the cloudiness.
This gold cup. Or the copper. No, the silver.
Takakage decided to take the silver cup.
There wasn't a reason.
You could dare say process of elimination. A person would be captivated by the
dazzling gold cup. It was most likely to be a trap. Having said that if you did the
reverse and chose the copper, you might be tricked by a reverse trap as well.
The likelihood of hitting the inconspicuous silver in the middle was high. That
was the extent.
But the hand that extended shook more and more, and couldn't pick up the cup
by any means.
If all three of them had poison.
Suddenly this feeling called, I don't want to die, welled up inside Takakage's
chest.
The fear of death that should have been discarded after the first campaign, had
been revived.
The suspicion that this death bet may be completely meaningless, this thought
was too much and was eroding Takakage's heart, and made her recall the fear of
death that should have been sealed by reason.
Takakage was ashamed of herself and large tears spilled out like rain.
...I,I....my wisdom....was it something of this level?
Once the tears spilled out, her sobbing couldn't stop.
Suddenly the pirates burst into laughter.

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You. Do not laugh at the young Miss. When you were brats around that age,
would you have the courage to come at me with your bare hands?
When Murakami Takeyoshi roared, the pirates were dejected and fell silent .
Ok. Choose. If your body is shaking, I guess I will give it to you.
The...silver one...
Murakami Takeyoshi had look of great pity as he looked at Takakage.
Miss. It is regretful.
I put too much confidence in my wisdom and will die here,and the Mori house
will also be destroyed because of me, Takakage despaired.
...Oh...uuuu...
Somebody help me, Takakage was shouting out in her heart.
You! You are not permitted to put your hand on my younger sister!
Rushing in on one small boat into the Murakami Navy's fleet, crashed into the
flagship that Takeyoshi and Takakage were on.
With a rising sun flag headband with Superior Mori wrapped around her
head Kikkawa Motoharu yelled Princess Cut and sliced the deck.
The oarsman of this reckless boat was unexpectedly the older brother Takamoto.
...Older sister...older brother!?
That the youth did that kind of absurd thing even caught the pirates by surprise,
What is that? Its a one boat suicide attack? Something is wrong. they
panicked and couldn't respond.
Still they were a battle-hardened mass of pirates. One way or another they
simultaneously regained their fighting spirit and rushed in a crowd to capture
Motoharu,
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Nuoooooo, get away get away get away! Takakage! That's my drink!
Motoharu screamed while kicking the swarms of pirates one after another into
the sea, where does the power come from this small body? When the
surrounding pirates grew scared and broke apart, she jumped in front of
Takeyoshi to protect Takakage.
Elder brother Takamoto, said thanks to Motoharu's back while she rampaged
and went ahead.
That one. Miss Kobayakawa and her look like two peas in a pod, but such
terrible swordsmanship.
Don't mistake me for my younger sister! The one with the Rising Sun
headband is the elder sister, Kikkawa Motoharu!
For the pirates they yelled, this one is like a runaway horse, and were amazed
by Motoharu's vitality.
Motoharu sat down in front of Takeyoshi with a thud, I decided! The gold sake
cup is the winner! she grabbed the cup with a yell.
Oh, Elder sister. Why the gold cup?
Just a hunch! The shiny light is the one!
Such a thing. Oh, wait.
I won't wait! I don't have Takakage's wisdom. At a time like this I cannot be
silent and let you throw away your life!
Elder sister...! Its useless. This is my job. I will drink.
Shut up noisy Takakage, are there younger sisters that die before their older
sisters!?
Elder sister! Your intuition isn't right. Let me choose the cup....
I'll choose it! If you fail, you who think too seriously will mourn for the rest of
your life!
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Motoharu shook off Takakage's arm that was trying to restrain her with all her
might.
She couldn't match her in brute strength. Takakage stumbled from Motoharu
and fell down.
There was no use arguing.
The present Motoharu is not thinking of anything but saving the life of her
younger sister.
Takakage had her breath taken away from the bravery that poured from her
older sister's whole body, and could do nothing to stop her tears.
My elder sister who had nothing to say up until now, I who was powerless had
been protected by older sister all along, I finally realized.
King of pirates, keep your promise.
Motoharu had few words.
Quickly Takakage restrained her again, just as she was about to bring the sake
cup up to her clear smiling lips.
The wise Kobayakawa, the brave Kikkawa. Are these Mori's two rivers?
The heart of Murakami Takeyoshi was shaken.
But it wasn't permitted for the King of Setouchi to break the law either.
You must not help the land samurai without copper.
To fairly distribute the copper among the mass of pirates according to their
achievements, that was the work of the pirate king Murakami Takeyoshi.
And for Takakage and Murakami Takeyoshi, they did not expect that man to
make his proclamation in this place.
Wait a moment younger sisters. There is copper. I have raised it.
Mori Takamoto.
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The son of the first generation, Mori Motonari. The blood older brother of
Takakage and Motoharu.
He who was supposed to succeed as the Mori Clan second generation, this
young noble was inconspicuous.
Completely lacking in battle skill or tricks, who on earth is this man.
It's copper!
At the bottom of the boat, piled up in a mountain!
Boss! It's treasure!
Takakage and Motoharu said That's impossible. There is no way there was
that much copper in Mori.and stared.
Because Mori Motonari is a schemer he has no credibility. The merchants would

not lend it.
Takamoto had raised a massive amount of copper with an innocent look.
I apologized to the merchants, and borrowed. That is how, Murakami

Takeyoshi.
Takamoto had accompanied his pair of younger sisters and stood in an

imposing stance before Murakami Takeyoshi who asked Who on earth are
you?
Me? I am the Mori second generation, Mori Takamoto. Hidden in the gulf
between my excellent father and younger sisters, an ordinary man with no
merit.
Just a man, it should be impossible to imitate such an outrageous thing. How

did you collect the copper?
So, I went around to the merchants, apologized, bowed and scraped, and
begged.
You are outnumbered, it is a likely defeat for the Mori clan, why the hell would
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the clever merchants lend so much copper without a benefit! Moreover, even if
Motonari wins the battle that man may fail to pay his debt!
Aah. It would be too much to use father's name for something insignificant as
borrowing. I borrowed it in my name. If we lose this round and can't return it, I
will cut my stomach.
You bastard, you are trusted by the land merchants to such a degree?
I am considered an ordinary, idiotic, easy mark. Therefore that is the reality.
Takamoto would not retreat even one step while facing Murakami Takeyoshi,
rather he was pushing Takeyoshi with the fighting spirit hidden inside his body.
Wise Kobayakawa, brave Kikkawa. Then is your weapon virtue? Only that was
not from your father.
Takamoto sat cross-legged and showed white teeth.
It was good to be in time. If you had harmed my younger sister, I would have
had to kill every one of you pirates.
With a fierce expression while laughing, he raised his eyes and glared at
Murakami Takeyoshi.
Takakage who realized that her older brother seemed to say it seriously
shuddered.
Motoharu seemed to feel the same.
Massacre us?
If you put even a single scratch on my sister, I would not forgive you. Actually,
I am unusually furious now. Murakami Takeyoshi.
What, that we tried to test the Miss with the sake cup? It is the law!
Murakami Takeyoshi, Takakage and Motoharu, could not see the extent of
Takamoto.
This older brother was serious.....while Takakage felt her chest tighten, the
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sisters looked up at the profile of the older brother they had constantly called
foolish.
Listen, pirates. I am an ordinary man with no talents, but I am still a man. You
pirates that spread lawlessness as it pleases you and put up a front, are not
men.
The mass of pirates had no words.
They were overwhelmed by Takamoto's spirit and only stood dumbfounded.
Only Murakami Takeyoshi, had the guts to argue with Takamoto.
As a man I cannot ignore that. Now the copper is here. If you lower your head
obediently, it seems I will assist you, monk.
I refuse. To you who are not prepared to risk your lives to go to war in
Itsukushima I will not bow my head.
Are you ordering us pirates to fight to the death for the Mori? Is that not
tyranny!?
After tormenting my younger sister, you discard it and move only for profit,
Murakami Takeyoshi. You have to stake your life on this fight, too.
Monk, do not get carried away!
Elder brother? Takakage was surprised again.
Murakami Takeyoshi! Pirates! You have seen the desperate forms of my

younger sisters. While these young Princess Knights have been running about to
calm this era of war, don't you feel shame as a man!? What is freedom, what is
allowed!?
It is a difference of position! Samurai and pirates live in different worlds!
Pirates or samurai, such things don't matter! We are all the same people of
Japan! Is it a man that lets women and children make war while you live lazily!?
Not to mention, this older brother who cannot endure calmly sending his
younger sisters to scenes of bloodshed!
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Takamoto took the gold sake cup.
I have left the fighting and scheming to my younger sisters, and have always
been ashamed of my mediocrity.
He drank it in one gulp.
So for my younger sisters, I would die. My weapon is only this life.
Takakage and Motoharu didn't have the time to stop their elder brother.
Pirate king. You should also drink one of the three. If you say there wasn't a hit
from the beginning, you will shame yourself. This 'bet' is my victory.
In front of all the dumbfounded people
Listen pirates, in the battle of Itsukushima you will change into real soldiers
and fight to the death!
Takamoto in succession, the gold cup, the silver cup, and the sake in the copper
cup was poured into his stomach without any hesitation.
Such a? Ah...ELDER BROTHER!
UWAAAAH! ELDER BROTHER AHHHHH!?
Takakage and Motoharu hugged each other and trembled.
For the first time, they saw Takamoto's caliber.
As for the love of the older brother they embraced, and his matchless chivalry,
they became aware for the first time.
To lose their elder brother the moment they understood, without being able to
say a single word of apology to their elder brother they had despised so far, the
sisters were terrified.
Until now, the hearts of the pair of sisters had never been together.
However, Takamoto did not die.
Murakami Takeyoshi had not poisoned the sake cups from the beginning.
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Mori Takamoto...you...
Ha ha. It appears that I am still alive.
Rules are rules. Some people pretend to be tough, and I kill them. But even if it
thins and withers, I am the King of Setouchi. The strongest pirate king in this
country's waters. I would not be able to poison the young Miss who boarded
here.
It seems so, Murakami Takeyoshi. You were a man. I was wrong. Forgive me.
Murakami Takeyoshi bent his large body and knelt before Takamoto.
The Mori clan is my friend. We will lend the assistance of the Murakami Navy
at any time.
Will you fight under Takakage's command?
I will protect Miss Kobayakawa and Miss Kikkawa. If it is your request. In

accordance with the law, I will accept this copper. I will accept it and give it all
to you. Buy a hair ornament for your younger sisters.
Murakami Takeyoshi. It is truly regrettable for a man like you to remain a

pirate.
Hmph. No, you are too valuable a man to remain as a samurai.
At the same time, the two men grinned.
....I seem to be weak to liquor....it is prohibited by father, I drank for the first
time since I was born this evening. Let me collapse for a short time.
Takamoto's body collapsed into Takeyoshi's big arms.
Snoring.
Takakage and then Motoharu embraced such a Takamoto and cried aloud.
Mori two rivers. For the first time the hearts of the sisters that have the same
face became one.
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Murakami Takeyoshi was hitting his head while yelling toward the ocean.
Motonari. It is vexing, but your son has the capacity to reign over the whole
country.
The battle of Itsukushima, it ended in an overwhelming victory for the Mori that
won over the Murakami navy as an ally. The defeated Sue Harukata committed
suicide and the Sue clan was destroyed.
Kikkawa and Motoharu, Mori's two rivers, overwhelmed the Sue forces in
successive battles, while Mori Takamoto completely stole their land. The Mori
clan, contrary to the first generation Motonari's wickedness, was actually very
hospitable all of the nation's powerful clans recognized Takamoto's
benevolence and streamed into the Mori clan one after another.
In this way, the Sue clan was destroyed and Mori Motonari became a great
daimyo, and faced the next formidable enemy, the Amago clan, in battle, but
just before that decisive battle the second generation who succeeded the
founder, Mori Takamoto, died.
By a vassal who communicated secretly with the Amago and held a grudge
toward the first generation Mori Motonari, he was poisoned.
It is said that Takamoto drank the sake cup with poison placed in without any
doubt. Mori's two rivers were aware that Takamoto was dead, especially
Kobayakawa Takakage's confusion, afterwards, it became a black history that
must not ever be mention in the Mori clan.
Incidentally, while Motonari and Kikkawa Motoharu received a shock to a

degree they could never recover they just barely managed to stand their ground
on the battlefield and stave off the collapse of Mori troops, it was said that
Kobayakawa Takakage was nearly completely broken and confused and had to
be rescued.
Motonari together with Kikkawa Motoharu exhausted all methods to restore

Takakage's spirit and barely managed to save her from the grip of darkness, and
right after destroying the Amago clan and removing a powerful enemy of his
daughters, in order to chase after Takamoto he fell ill and died.
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The Mori clan became Chugoku's conquerers, but rather than Kikkawa or
Kobayakawa, Takamoto's orphan baby Terumoto succeeded as third
generation - it was the solid will of Mori's two rivers.
Murakami Takeyoshi ended his long recollection with this.
When Takamoto died and Miss Kobayakawa broke, how Motonari and Miss
Kikkawa save that girl I don't know. Only a little was revealed, its hard to
distinguish between dreams and reality, and she was no longer able to stand.
That child is so delicate that she doesn't suit being a commander in these
warring states. It was a grave time when Motonari died, but she must gained a
sense of purpose from protecting the third generation, Terumoto. She must not
break again and leave her elder sister alone without assistance, that just barely
supported Miss Kobayakawa. But Miss Kobayakawa is constantly frightened
after losing her father and older bother.
She is frightened?
Her enormous ingenuity, who should she devote it to, she can't see it. Oda
Nobuna adopts her clear ambition called Tenka Fubu. But, in the present Mori
clan without Takamoto, is there a will to make Oda Nobuna the enemy, I don't
think there is one, only the second generation Takamoto had that will and.
When we annihilated the Oda navy in Kizugawaguchi and won completely,
Miss was terribly frightened. In response to the request from Honbyo Temple
and with the assistance of the Saika, Oda Nobuna, Mitsuhide Akechi, Takigawa
Kazumasu, and Sagara Yoshiharu all of the renowned commanders the Oda
Clan boasts were entirely defeated, but I'm scared about what to do after this.
She is such a child.
If Miss Kikkawa has ignored Himiko's suspicious imperial decree I probably

would have killed all of you right there, whether that comes with good fortune
or comes with bad fortune, Murakami Takeyoshi said with a broad smile.
Boy. In some respects you do resemble Takamoto. You may have lost your
memory and become uncharacteristically humble, but when the time comes for
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the sake of a woman you are a man who won't hesitate to smile and die. Even
without your memory, Sagara Yoshiharu is Sagara Yoshiharu. Your soul hasn't
changed. The only one who can do something for Miss Kobayakawa is you.
...Kobayakawa-san...
Though the wound on his chest should have already been closed, Yoshiharu's
chest ached intensely.
(Kobayakawa-san, even now you are still chasing after the illusion of your older
brother. Will you continue to pursue a phantom forever? Having to suffer
without being able to create an image of the future?Will that be fine? I don't
think so. Because of Miss Kobayakawa I'm still alive.)
Yoshiharu muttered.
I want to be a man that can support Kobayakawa-san.
However, for the present Yoshiharu who is struggling to find his own reason to
exist in this world after losing his memory, the reality before his eyes was too
harsh.
Boy. It is a notice from Miss Kobayakawa. With tomorrow's daybreak,

disembark on the Akashi shore and begin the battle. The commander of the Oda
troops whose camps line the shoreline is Akechi Mitsuhide, but the foot soldiers
are mostly the guys from the Sagara Yoshiharu corps. Are you ready?
In other words, that means he has to fight his former comrades.
But still, Yoshiharu has decided to go to fight for Kobayakawa-san.
By the way, Murakami-san. In that case when I chose a sake cup, did none of
them have poison in them from the beginning?
Huh? Did I say such a sweet thing? You are a man. Two of the three were
poisoned. At that time you were a great guy.
Seriously? In addition, two were poisoned!? Then the probability of dying was
high! Dangerous ahhhhhh!
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Gahahaha. I understand why Miss Kobayakawa is attracted to you.
While Takeyoshi smacked Yoshiharu on the back, he felt his lower body lose
strength.
With the daybreak, we disembarked on the Akashi shore to begin the battle.
The first battle for the present Yoshiharu.
The enemy, the former friends who pledged their lives to me.
That night, I had a nightmare while taking a nap in his bedroom at the bottom
of the ship.
I woke up drenched in sweat.
I don't clearly remember the contents of the dream.
I feel like it was a dream where I returned to the future and happily reunited
with my friends and classmates.
Though it should have been a happy dream, my entire body was shaking as if I
had been attacked by a horrible nightmare.
My chest was so painful I couldn't catch my breath.
Its because I had a fleeting dream that can never come true.
....haaaa, haaaa, haaaa....
Yoshiharu whose breathing only got worse as he turned onto his back, realized
that he had been crying in his sleep.
Yoshiharu. Are you alright?
Kobayakawa Takakage was wearing a thin nightgown and kneeling next to his
bed.
Kobayakawa-san?
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The battle is tomorrow. I came to see how you are doing.
Its bad. To show you this miserable appearance. Only a hopeless dream. Now
that I am awake I won't make any complaints don't worry.
....There still may be a means to return to the future.
Eh?
Yoshiharu once used the Three Sacred Treasures passed down by the Yamato
Gosho to open the path to the heavens, the 'Amanoiwato', to try to return to the
future. The Three Sacred Treasures are the country's most ancient treasured
tools, and have been passed down since long before onmyodo was introduced
to Japan, rather than rely on the power of the earth and sky, it instead creates
spiritual power on its own. When your comrade, Kuroda Kanbei, visited my
country in order to search for the sacred treasure, the Magatama, that sank in
the Dannoura, I learned a lot about the Three Sacred Treasures. Kanbei was
unable to find the Magatama, but afterwards, when the Nanban missionary
from Kyushu Gaspar was a prisoner of the Murakami navy, it seems he put
them to good use and pulled it out. From the missionary's hands, the Magatama
was passed to Gamo Ujisato of the Oda clan.
Kanbei Kuroda? Hideyoshi Toyotomi's strategist, Yoshiharu nodded. Takakage

gently wiped his cheek with a cloth.
When the Amanoiwato was opened during the previous battle, Kanbei and the
others said that the Three Sacred Treasures spiritual power was exhausted and
dried up Yoshiharu.
In the dim room, only Takakage's eyes were shining.
Y, yes.
In the Amago clan's former fief, Izumo, that is now the Mori clan's territory,
there was an area that was bisected by the gods and the Yamato
Gosho,Toyoashihara Mizuho country. Izumo's Kizuki shrine, is the home of
the Izumo gods and the spot the Yamato Gosho carried out Nation Transfer -
in short it is said there may be traces of the moment of surrender.
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Kitsuki shrine?
Yoshiharu realized it was the Izumo-taisha shrine.
Once, it is boasted that when the Izumo dynasty existed the Izumo Kizuki's
main shrine was 32 shaku tall.
I learned the units of this world while living as an apprentice pirate. Isn't 32
shaku nearly 100 meters!?
One hundred, meters?
That's an absurd height. To the main shrine that towers so high in the air, how
would you climb up?
From the ground, it seems there was a long, long stairway that literally reached
into the heavens to the main shrine.
Impossible. Such technology in ancient times...no, there is the example of the

Egyptian pyramids that used lost ancient technology?
Why was the main shrine above the heavens, why was there the long, long
stairway from the ground to the floating sanctuary?
I didn't understand the meaning but when I saw the Amanoiwato opened, I
understood. The Kizuki shrine's main shrine was a building to open the
Amanoiwato.
...It was connected to the world beyond?
The gods that supervised Izumo, by building the Kizuki shrine which soars in
the sky, I wonder if they opened the Amanoiwato to leave to a different world.
To pass through the Amanoiwato beyond the heavens, I'm sure a process was
necessary to climb that high. Even if the Three Sacred Treasures won't work, If
we could reproduce the way to reach the main shrine-
Yoshiharu should be able to return. The reproduction of the lost shrine would be
be difficult but if the Mori clan searched all over Izumo and clarified the details
of the main shrine, and the construction was left to the peerless genius, Kuroda
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Kanbei it might not be impossible, Takakage said.
Do all that just for my small wish to return...
It would be difficult to get, but I think there may also be a method using the
Nanban sacred treasures. Murakami Takeyoshi said, when the missionary
Gaspard retrieved the Magatama from the Dannoura, he spoke of a Nanban
sacred treasure which holds the same power.
Kobayakawa-san. The Mori clan is in a serious battle with the Oda right now.
There is no room to spare effort for my sake.
However if your family is alive, in that case wouldn't you want to see them
again? I lost my both of my parents and my older brother and can never seen
them again. But Yoshiharu's parents live in the world of the future.
Takakage's pupils were wet.
Yoshiharu swallowed the words I want to return that he almost blurted out
instinctively.
Suddenly, an extreme urge rose up in him.
I want to remain in this world.
Yoshiharu? Why?
While girls are fighting, as a man I cannot flee. I want to protect Kobayakawa-
san.
But you aren't a human being of this time. You don't need such a sense of
duty....I, and I, I don't want Yoshiharu to die.
Kobayakawa-san.
Before he knew it, the small Takakage had dived into his arms.
While Yoshiharu gently stroke Takakage's hair, he soothed her calling her little
sister.
If I leave Kobayakawa-san without doing anything, I will regret it for my

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whole life. I won't be able to be proud of myself anymore. Then it is the same as
dying even if I am alive. Right now, such words are coming from the bottom of
my heart. Probably before losing my memory, I would be complaining to the
current me.
Yoshiharu talked about his memories with his parents to Takakage.
On that day I, got involved in a fight with this bad-tempered guy who was
always picking fights. But I nimbly dodged, escaped from that place, and
returned home. While I'm weak in a fight, I can at least quickly run away. Well, I
wonder why so many guys have such a hot-headed nature.
While running, from behind came the jeers, Scaredy cat! Don't run away!
Still when I got home I felt depressed.
The girls in class saw me in such a shameful state, I'm useless, since I was a kid I
didn't have the courage to fight and only ran away quickly.
On days like this I at least could play SLG's best Sengoku game The Ambition
of Oda Nobunaga, unify the country and at least feel like a winner in the game,
I wasn't used to that feeling.
I fell into a depression and was lying down and screaming into the living room
couch, when my dad and mom unusually returned at the same time.
Because dad is based abroad, in other words he is usually working in a foreign

country, he is rarely at home.
Its my dad's job to fly to foreign countries and construct tremendous buildings.
To describe it in this world, he would be an expert at finding places to construct

castles.
That day, my nonsense overlapped with the rare time he returned home.
Yoshiharu. What's the matter? Why are you lying face down lad?
Once again, I ran away without accepting a challenge....my record has been
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updated with a loss by default again.
Yoshiharu is a kind child. You don't like useless violence~
I'm just ashamed of myself, mom.
Hmm. Yoshiharu, what was the reason for the fight?
The same as usual, dad. For some reason they don't like me, isn't that a suitable
reason to fight?
Is that so. You don't need to accept such a meaningless fight. The correct
answer is to escape, Yoshiharu.
But dad.
There is no need to be ashamed of yourself. For example if you turned a blind

eye to a girl being bullied and escaped, then I'll sock you you don't have the
personality to fight for something meaningless like your own vanity or
reputation. But Yoshiharu. Yo probably have the nature to become strong to
protect somebody. Right now that time hasn't come yet.
Such a time won't come, this country is peaceful, I muttered.
The main point is to be like your dad, I plan on risking my life alone for my
work.
Wait, wait. Just because dad flies abroad, doesn't mean that you are completely
isolated. I had insisted on such things like that when I was young.....you met
mother after all, weren't you blessed back then? Because you are protecting the
house, I can pour all my energy into my work without worry. In that sense dad
is relying on Yoshiharu and mother.
Oh dear. Father is a slick talker just like the old days.
Don't praise me so mother. Ha ha ha.
Isn't there a rumor you are taking mistresses in various foreign countries and
establishing a global harem?
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Th, that is just a rumor, mother. Anyways Yoshiharu. Even if a person thinks
they are living completely alone, the truth is you are always connected
somewhere with somebody. Even in the buildings father constructs, if nobody
works in them they are simply a box. Even if dad draws a design, if there aren't
any people to work hard and assemble the materials the building would be
completed. Even if a generous person with funds places an order, if there aren't
any people using it then there is no point men can't live in isolation. For this
reason there is a meaning in my work.
At that time I didn't quite understand the meaning of dad's speech.
In your dad's case, he didn't feel he could find meaning in working in Japan,
and after wandering all around the country he eventually flew abroad. At that
time for most Japanese companies, everything was decided by your academic
background and various cliques. That mood didn't suit your unconventional
father.
And then you are going to gain mistresses in various countries around the
world, father? You really were an unconventional person long ago~
Mother, its different, please don't begin sharpening the knives. Its a
misunderstanding! Your father finally found work overseas, but in the end the
place I returned to was my birthplace in Japan. The bluebird of happiness is in
fact at one's feet. It was mother!
Oh. You have always had a clever mouth.
Or, even as I entered puberty and was unpopular with girls and worried
endlessly they would not hesitate to flirt in front of their son, a curse on Riaju
couples, was the thought I usually held.
Yoshiharu. There is something like an opportunity for a man. Don't be in a

hurry, that time will come at some point. And when that time comes, don't run
away.
Won't that time never come?
When I thought there was any way to match my caliber in this country, father
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flew to other countries.
Unlike father's times, now the world is small. Because everything is connected
by the net. If at that time I go abroad I can't find it, what do I do then?
That's right. Why don't you go to a different dimension or even to the world's
past or future?
Father wrote a Sci-fi novel but its wild contents couldn't be debuted and it was a
black history, but sometimes he would propose such things.
Well since constructing buildings got him more fired up than novels, I guess its
okay.
In fact, even Sagara Yoshiharu harbors the soul of a legendary hero, and the
seal on the warrior's soul will suddenly be released when he goes to a different
dimension and he will be unparalleled. Hahaha.
Isn't that a stereotypical middle-school student idea that you will go to a

different world and become invincible, father? Reality is crueler.
If I jumped to a parallel universe with my garbage fighting strength I would be

instantly killed.
Good grief! Despite being a child, you are strangely harsh, Yoshiharu has
matured.. Despite being in the middle of the age of worldly desires, in your case
you just want to decorate your desk with a figurine of Saito Dousan? First of all,
why Saito Dousan? Usually it would be Oda Nobunaga right?
I like Saitou Dosan because he transferred Mino to his son-in-law Oda

Nobunaga before he died. With an old man's back, he entrusted his dream of
taking the world to the young Nobunaga and died a noble death. That is really
cool.
Dear me. Despite being a man you have a father complex....but I thought the
recent trend was siscon.
Father is sinful. Does Yoshiharu need a younger brother or sister~?
That isn't it! And I haven't matured, dad is just a child.

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Hey. Father is an eternal boy~
That I retreated into the Sengoku Era as a hobby might have been a reaction to
my father's habit of strange sci-fi every so often.
Father's hot blood flows through Yoshiharu. When the time comes you will
suddenly change into a hot-blooded boy. Yoshiharu. When you meet a girl you
want to protect, you are sure to change. Instantly.
A person grows, because they must overcome a wall, at that moment of truth,
and then father laughed.
At that moment I thought that Father was still spouting irresponsible things-
I thought that I desired to go back to the future and see my father and mother
and classmates again. But, in my mind there is another voice calling. Don't run
away. You must not flee on your own and leave Kobayakawa and Kikkawa on
the battlefield. I might be a good for nothing, but still.
...You aren't useless. Yoshiharu.
You can just stroke my head in this way, and I am saved, Takakage in a low
voice whispered while blushing.
Yoshiharu's heart that had been filled with anxiety since losing his memories of
his time in the Sengoku Era, was filled with warmth.
These feelings.....while I never thought of the small Kobayakawa as a younger

sister, Yoshiharu is confused.
I, Yoshiharu. You are similar to my older brother, but you aren't my older
brother. A different man.
O, oh. Th, that is right, but, Kobayakawa. What is this suddenly?
...Ahem. Wait a minute Yoshiharu. I, with that, I don't know what I'm
thinking....un, until now I haven't had this kind of experience.....let me wash my
face and calm down.
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Eh?
Takakage, becoming shy and embarrassed, rushed outside the room.
....After she washes her face and calms down is she going to come back to my
room again?
What is Kobayakawa-san planning on doing, suddenly I don't know! Wasn't I

taking the role of Kobayakawa-san's older brother? We aren't different, isn't that
what she clearly said? Never! Crap, what should I do!? This is feeling
dangerous! Father, have I come across the wall I must overcome? Wait, wait, I
feel like I'm forgetting something important.
Left alone, Yoshiharu was acting suspiciously on his futon, mumbling and
rolling around.
If Father Sagara said This too is a wall to overcome it might have been useless.
Just confused me more.
What should I do? What should I do? Do I decided to be Kobayakawa-san's

older brother with a smile. Or maybe after washing her face Kobayakawa-san
will calm down and return to her usual deadpan face. The situation I was eager
for is now reality, isn't the worry about a girlfriend a delusion of high-school
aged virgins. To begin with, I wonder if this world itself is no more than a
dream I am having as I lay in my room. I...what do I do? That's it. It is a save
point. I have to save! If I fail this choice, for some reason I feel that a bad ending
awaits! Please go to sleep obediently Kobayakawa-san! No, that would be sad in
its own right. Either way, I can't sleep again before the battle! Aah, I have the
feeling that somebody is staring at me! It feels like someone is watching me! I
feel like the eyes of an extremely jealous woman are monitoring me!
To Yoshiharu who was continuing to roll around in confusion, a person's voice

came from the ceiling.
Whew. It was such a feeling that night when Nene-dono was seen as a little
sister.
It was the voice of a very young girl.

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I, I really was being watched!? Who are you?
Tch, by the way, I was not particularly jealous.
Another one.
Even the cute me was able to come. Its good to return to being a shinobi every
so often.
Another voice of a cheeky little girl resounded from beneath the wooden floor.
The little girl appeared hanging from the ceiling, was wearing a shinobi outfit.
The little girl who jumped out from underneath the floor had the appearance of
a miko.
From the ceiling and under the floor two little girls at the same time....is there a
kindergarten here...?
I am the shinobi who has pledged her life to Sagara-dono, Hachisuka Goemon.
If I speak more than thirty characters, I will bite my tongue so I will be brief.
The shinobi Goemon that was hanging upside-down, bit with all her strength.
This cute girl is one of the big four of the Oda family, Kazumasu Takigawa.
While I am a girl with this appearance. I am a former shinobi. So Yoshi, you
really forgot this cute girl?
Takigawa Kazumasu dressed as a miko put her hand on Yoshiharu's forehead.
Ah. When I injured my head on the battlefield, the shock seems to have made
my memories of serving the Oda clan disappear. Or rather, why is Takigawa
Kazumasu a miko and a child?
This cute girl is not a child! I, I'm just a little small! Tons of dust will come out
if you bring up the past, let's say I am a girl with her own troublesome
circumstances?
I also have my own circumstances. For shinobi, we are all burdened by our
past.
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After the young girls said, woman's circumstances, one after another they
gave a triumphant look, Yoshiharu became troubled.
But to rope such young girls into becoming shinobi and military commanders,
what exactly are the men doing in this Sengoku Era. Tormented by war since
she was a baby, the Shogun Yoshiaki-chan is enough!
You should quickly cut ties with the Oda clan and go to kindergarten! That's
good right? For adorable kids like you, its best to be innocently laughing and
giggling and be brought up healthy!
Um. Sagara-shi.
We aren't children.
Really, but you two are so cute~! I would want you as my little sisters.
Takigawa-shi. Sagara-shi really has lost his memory. Moreover, he has gained a
creepy look in the meantime.
Looks like this method has been too effective. You don't need to speak about all
your excessive true feelings, Yoshi. But it is not a sin to awake to the charms of
this bewitchingly beautiful princess.
....Bad. I withdraw that suspicious statement. For some reason since I came to
this Sengoku Era I have had an irresistible wish for a small younger sister....is
this a disease of the mind?
Surely, its a result of faintly remembering Nene-dono, without a younger sister

you can't calm down, Goemon smiled.
Nene?
Sagara-shi's little sister. Nene is waiting for Sagara-shi at the Oda house.
I, have a younger sister? In this era?
She is a very cute child. Realizing that Yoshi who came from the future was
lonely without a family Nobuna made the smart move and gave you Nene.
Yoshi always takes baths and goes to sleep with Nene.
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What. I received such treatment from the Oda clan. Isn't that perfect!?
Everyone in the Oda clan is like Sagara-shi's family.
Yoshiharu's heart wavered indecisively.
It was frustrating that he couldn't remember, but somehow I had previously

completely fit in with the Oda clan.
In the first place Sagara-shi, you took the place of Toukichirou Kinoshita, who
died for you, in the Oda clan. If it wasn't for him, you would have been
nowhere.
Toukichirou Kinoshita? Later Hashiba Hideyoshi? Me?
So it is. Kinoshita-shi protected Sagara-shi from a stray bullet on the battlefield,

and you came here.
I thought it was odd I didn't hear the name Hideyoshi....because I came to this
world Hideyoshi died as an ashigeru? Is that so, before I lost my memory did I
fight the Mori clan in Harima? In place of Hideyoshi.
If we assume that, I have to act as the substitute for Hideyoshi Hashiba in the
Oda clan, if I don't do so then history will become inconsistent. As a Sengoku
Era fan, or even as a Japanese person Yoshiharu was confused.
Sagara-shi. If you return you will be able to remember at some point. Just
return to the Oda clan.
I mean. If Nobuna-chan seriously kisses him then he will return to normal.
But, why should I trust some children I don't know....head of the Oda clan is
Nobunaga, right?
Nobuna-chan is Yoshiharu's lover. The forbidden relationship between the two

of you is already been exposed to the whole country from harbor to the inlet, it
is useless to hide it.
When the figures of the two of you kissing appeared in the sky, even I became
embarrassed.
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When Yoshi returns to serve under Nobuna-chan the whole world will turn
into an uproar, but because the two of you will support the Oda house it is
needless to worry.
Should I return to the Oda clan where my former comrades, little sister, and
lover are waiting?
Or should I remain in the Mori clan with Kobayakawa-san who saved my life,
and the young Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiaki who as entrusted with the dream of
reviving the shogunate by her older brother?
Or else go back to my original world should I look for a method to return to

the future.
I, I...
Sagara-shi. If we stay any longer we will be detected.
The answer is to immediately return to the Oda clan. Please
Yoshiharu decided.
Listen to me, both of you. I must choose the world I will live in with my own
will.
In other words?
What will it be?
Give me a little more time. As I live in this world, the moment when I will
make up my mind will surely come. What is missing in the me that has lost his
memories of the Oda clan, is the courage to resolve myself. I returned to being
an ordinary kid high-school kid from the future world. But it seems like the past
me who fought with the Oda clan, had the courage to be resolved to throw away
my life at a moment's notice. Why I was able to do such a thing, even now I
don't know.
Goemon and Kazumasu listened to Yoshiharu's words in silence.
When I woke up after losing my memories, I had to make a bet to join the
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Murakami Navy as an apprentice pirate. It was a bet that if I failed, I would die.
Although I thought it was impossible for me to be able to do that, for some
reason, I suddenly had the resolution to die, and I won the bet. But it was only
for an instant, and that reckless courage vanished. That guy with that courage, I
think he was lost along with my memories of the Oda clan. And then while I
was spending productive days as an apprentice pirate, I felt like my heart had a
big hole. I no longer seemed like me.
...That's harsh.
Its a testing time, Sagara-shi.
Ah. I will regain the courage I lost. I really am sorry, but wait a little bit more I
want to continue working as an apprentice pirate of the Murakami Navy a
while longer. I seem to have lost what I risked my life fighting to obtain in this
world, but I want to crawl up on my own again.
I see you have made your decision Sagara-shi. However, the Oda clan and the
Mori clan are fighting.
Its true. If you die before you can make a decision, everything will have been
for nothing.
I'm sorry to say something so selfish. The biggest difference between the
present and the future is the presence or absence of battles. If I join the
battlefield, I may regain my courage at the last minute.
Kazumasu also suggested it might be as simple as seriously kissing Nobuna-

chan again, but Yoshiharu said, No, that is unpleasant....I don't want to kiss
some girl I don't know and declined.
What are you embarrassed. Yoshi was more of a womanizer. Why are you
hesitating.
It was so. Look to the West and grab big breasts, look to the East and rub the
butt. That was called your frank way of falling for girls.
Uwaa. Why did I seem to be so repulsive? I was originally like the present me!
Since I was born I never had a girlfriend!
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Therefore, she is your lover. The world's most beautiful girl.
Hmm. Yoshi is not a beast anymore. By forgetting the bloodshed you survived
through, you lost your tusks. If he is thrown onto the battlefield and is about to
die, he might wake up.
Uuu. I don't want Sagara-shi to fight. I don't want to fight.
This cute girl agrees, should we kidnap him against his will? Yamanaka
Shikanosuke can remain in the ship's prison and die.
If that girl is left in the ship jail, she will be overjoyed.
That's right, I completely forgot that Yamanaka Shikanosuke was in the ship
jail! That girl said she was my vassal. I can't leave her behind and escape on my
own! Abandoning a girl and escaping on my own, I can't do it after all! Well,
but, I don't remember what kind of relationship there was between us, was it
really master and servant...? Erm.
As Sagara-shi changed from admirable nature to indecisive, and was completely

peace-addicted, he was glared at by the two girls.
I want to abduct Yoshi, because we are child ninjas.
We can't possibly take out this large amateur Sagara-shi.
How about we remove his limbs and neck and fold up his joints?
If Sagara-shi doesn't die from the intense pain, we can transport him to town?
Its all or nothing.
Wait a minute you two! Your eyes are scary.
....Yoshiharu. Who are you talking to? Is it the Oda spies by any chance?
On the verge of being kidnapped.
Kobayakawa Takakage returned to the room.
Scatter!
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Don't run!
When Takakage pulled out her sword and stepped into the room, the forms of
Goemon and Kazumasu had already disappeared into the mist.
Takakage murmured the battle has already begun and put her sword in its
scabbard.
To sneak in here requires great skill....I wanted to talk with just the two of us
Yoshiharu until dawn, but we can no longer afford to spend the night together.
The fog has come out on the sea.
Do we absolutely have to fight, Kobayakawa-san?
The Mori's ally is besieged in Miki castle. I cannot abandon them. As there are
many upstarts in the Mori family, we are only trusted by our allies because of
our creed of honesty.
The reputation as an honest person is the fortune that elder brother left the Mori
clan, Takakage said.
Nevertheless, the one who allowed ninjas to infiltrate Yoshiharu's room, is the
commander of the army of all people.....it seems that I haven't been
concentrating on the battle. I, inexcusable.
Takakage's face as her shoulders dropped was very remorseful.
No no no! It was my fault! I could not completely reject the invitation to leave
the Mori clan! Though the ones who snuck into the room were unknown girls,
when I saw their faces I got a little homesick! I'm sorry!
....That is really it. Eventually I will be overwritten.
Eh? Kobayakawa-san?
Its, its nothing. Then Yoshiharu, tomorrow morning -
Kobayakawa-san. What were you about to say?
...Don't go. If you stay in this world, you, you can stay by my side. J, just that.
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As she left, Takakage was frightened by the words she left unsaid.
Along the Akashi coastline, the Oda clan had put together a long line of
encampments.
The main force is the Harima region's Sagara Yoshiharu corps, but because
Yoshiharu and the second-in-command Yamanaka Shikanosuke were absent,
Akechi Mitsuhide was leading the corps along with her own unit.
In addition, the Oda clan's head, Oda Nobuna, had personally rushed to the
headquarters leading a large number of the shogun's retainers.
The Mori's naval force that planned to bring provisions to Miki castle filled the
sea.
Late at night.
A deep fog suddenly enveloped the Akashi coast.
Oh.
While it was covered-
According to the report of the spies, the landing operation begins with
daybreak. Nobuna-sama, we have arranged a large number of guns, and will
shoot the enemy soldiers as they try to come ashore from the coast.
Dearuka.
We may be weaker than the Murakami Navy on the sea, but we can win if we
hit them as they are rushing toward the beach from the sea. The pirates are
unaccustomed to fighting on the land, and to run on the beach they won't be
wearing heavy armor. Its a good target for the arquebus.
Kobayakawa Takakage should have predicted this much. At Kizugawaguchi,

we saw Kobayakawa's tactics first-hand. That girl always reads the battle's
future ahead of time....rather, she is able to not only look down and see the big
picture of thee battle but also the immediate state of the war. Moreover, those
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Murakami Navy guys seem to be willing to die for Kobayakawa's sake at any
time. Difficult.
If the navy is here, we can catch them in a pincer attack from land and water.
The Kuki Navy that was completely thrashed, right now is currently being
reorganized by Harima (Kuroda Kanbei) under Kuki Yoshitaka. We have no
choice but to intercept them on the land. But...
Kobayakawa Takakage wouldn't do an impossible attack if there was no chance

of winning.
So. The Harima front is stuck in a stalemate. Kobayakawa is going to try to

capture Harima from both directions, land and sea. I already sent Riku and
Manchiyo to Himeji Castle as reinforcements. But reached a stare-down with
Kikkawa/Ukita of Mori and haven't come to Akashi.
When I noticed, Himeji Castle's siege, Miki Castle siege, and now this Akashi,
the Harima front continues to expand.
With great pains Shibata Katsuie-dono, Niwa Nagahide-dono, and Tsuda

Nobusumi who have all been gathered on the Harima front, got bogged down
protecting Himeji Castle, and only we can guard Akashi. This might be
Kobayakawa Takakage's expectation.
Because of Kobayakawa's tenacious attitude and Mori's strong unity, as time

passes it will become disadvantageous. We have to bring this to an end in a
decisive battle here.
Yeah. Because Sagara Senpai and Yamanaka Shikanosuke are held there. There
are many vassals who have become disturbed knowing that Senpai switched
sides to Mori. There might be a rebellion underfoot.
With the Honbyo Temple and Saika people moving again, it has become
troublesome. I can't keep Himiko releasing imperial decrees. Before the truce
with Honbyo Temple ends, if we can beat their ally Mori and take over Harima,
we can break this stalemate.
While Nobuna and Mitsuhide were investigating the Mori side's movement to
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work out Operation Counterattack, Goemon and Kazumasu rushed in without a

sound.
I am back.
Dearuka. Saru?
Regrettably he has lost his memory Nobuna-chan. He said he wants to regain

his courage to be determined to live in this world.
In other words, Sagara-shi is torn between the Oda clan and the Mori clan, and
is incapable of making a decision yet.
He was awfully concerned about Kobayakawa Takakage. She seems to have

treated him extremely kindly.
I mean, Kobayakawa-shi creeped into Sagara-shi's room at night. And with

that, we were found.
What's that? What will happen to my position? AAAAAHHHH. Even though I

was made to babble out such embarrassing words in front of the entire nation,
and although we kissed, right after he lost his memory and has already changed
to another woman?
Crack, the sound of something snapping in Nobuna's forehead could be heard.
....Gah, that foolish saru....he only has a pretty mouth! What courage! What
resolution! Before that fellow speaks such words, he should have the resolution
to be cut to death!
So for that guy, Nobuna almost blurted out those things, and yelled at Akechi
Mitsuhide earlier.
That double-crossing Senpai! If you won't wake up this late in the game, then
you deserve certain death! I'll kill you!
Ju, Juubei calm down. Why are you beginning to prepare your pistol?
I merely without thinking until I was tired to Senpai. Senpai is already dead,
Nobuna-san. Now that guy who calls himself Sagara Yoshiharu is Kobayakawa
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Takakage's lover! He stole Nobuna-sama's important lips, annulled his

engagement with this Juubei, and quickly ran to Kobayakawa Takakage, he is an
enemy of women!
Akechi-shi's eyes are like swords, Goemon shivered.
Perhaps she is troubled inside that her love rival is ahead, Kazumasu yawned.
Nobuna thought (if Juubei finds him first she will cut him to pieces) and was
perplexed, the scout's highest ranking soldier entered.
They have come! It seems the Murakami Navy's advance guard lead by
Kobayakawa Takakage has started to land!
It's still night, dawn hasn't broken yet. Besides, you can't see in front of you in
the fog right now. In the spy's report, it was with daybreak....
It's the fog Nobuna-sama. Perhaps when she saw the thick fog that enveloped
us suddenly, she thought 'The guns won't be able to used with so much
moisture' and made a snap judgment.
That vixen! She seems slow to act, but when the moment comes she is as quick
as Uesugi Kenshin!
But for Uesugi Kenshin her unpredictable surprise attacks come from flashes of
insight from divine possession, this prompt decision is based on Kobayakawa
Takakage's inherent geographical advantage of being familiar with the area.
Even in Kizugawaguchi she sensed the change in the wind's direction and
instantly attacked like lightning. As one would expect of the one who picks a
fight with Juubei by calling herself by the alias Wise commander, she is
formidable. [T/N: Wise in this case is read as Akechi. So she is stealing Juubei's
name in a way.]
Nobuna was outwitted by Kobayakawa Takakage again.
Was this the state of mind that Shingen Takeda was in when she was confronted
by Uesugi Kenshin, when she sent her forces down the mountain in the middle
of the fog during the Battle of Kawanakjima? Nobuna gnashed her teeth.
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The schemer Kanbei Kuroda who was raised in Harima wouldn't have made
this kind of error - it was regrettable, but Kanbei couldn't move due to
undertaking the great task of rebuilding the Kuki Navy for the forthcoming
rematch with Honbyo Temple.
But, the Oda clan that advocated Tenka Fubu could not be permitted to make a
blunder and lose to the Mori clan a second time.
When we extract Sagara Yoshiharu,we have to show the whole country that the
Oda clan's military power is still strong.
Juubei! Intercepting them with guns is canceled, we have to change to a

defensive plan due to the rainy weather!
It also seems to be a mistake to scatter our military force in various places

across Harima, Nobuna-sama. If there were any of the Katsuie or Nagahide
units!
It cannot be helped! We'll fight and take Saru back!
Miss, many of the Oda clan's soldiers are inexperienced with the unfamiliar
Akashi weather and terrain. To immediately take advantage of the darkness of
night and the white fog to launch a sneak attack, as expected.
The Murakami Navy's leader, Murakami Takeyoshi, was laughing while eating
an oyster shell.
Riding the flagship, Kobayakawa Takakage and Murakami Takeyoshi did not
participate in the landfall battle personally, and were watching the state of the
war on board to making instantaneous decisions moment by moment.
Kobayakawa-san, I want to appear on the front lines as well. While I have been
an apprentice pirate, I don't have any combat experience yet.
Although Yoshiharu was popular, but Kobayakawa said It is impossible for

you be effective at night with low visibility. Moreover the main troops will go
ashore, when the sun rises and the view clears up and held Yoshiharu back.
The Oda people will be prepared to endure without fail. But they won't be able
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to concentrate their military power since they lined up their camps along the
shoreline, and will become exhausted. At that time my large number of
shogunate vassals and the elite pirate corps lead by Takeyoshi, will land at the
spot where the defenses are weak, and will break through one point in the Oda's
battle formation and deal a fatal blow.
Miss, I don't intend to let you join the confused battle when the it clears up and
the Oda can use their arquebus. It will become a dogfight and the pirates who
have landed will have a chance of winning, boy.
....Kobayakawa-san is amazing. Even though I have trembling legs. When the

sound rings out, and the soldiers of both armies roar, to be honest its incredibly
scary.
Yoshiharu. Even I am shaking. Really, I who make both armies exchange their
lives, am scared. Now, I, Yoshiharu....I want you next to me.
Kobayakawa-san...
Takakage's thin arm entwined with Yoshiharu's arm.
I understood that her small back was trembling.
Kobayakawa-san does not like war. You just happened to be brought into the
Mori clan by chance.
I, Even I am a girl, isn't that natural Yoshiharu.
I hope we can bring this battle to an end soon. They may be something I can
do.
If you are by my side, it is good.
But I want to do something more. For Kobayakawa-san.
....Yoshiharu
Hey, what are you staring at? This is getting embarrasing, Takeyoshi looked
away.
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I'm going to run a little wild. I'll be a nuisance for the young couple that don't
understand they can be ended at any time by a stray arrow.
Unable to endure being tactful anymore, Takeyoshi carried a harpoon on his

shoulder and transferred to a small boat, while heading to the front lines-
Yoshiharu muttered while staring at the fierce battle that was unfolding on the
beautiful Akashi coastline.
Though I understand this is reality, it doesn't feel like a real event when I see
the battle before my eyes like this. After all, I must wield a spear on the
battlefield or I won't wake up.
Takakage cuddled up next to him.
In fact I am already dead, isn't this the world I dreamed of when I as alive, I
think. Because I always longed for the Sengoku Era. While in the middle of this
exchange of lives, its impudent. I almost feel like I'm about to wake up, its
irritating. When I wake all of this was a dream, its scary that it might end like
that. This Kobayakawa-san next to me is also a dream....
Yoshiharu. I also had a time when I was possessed by such a belief. That time
when older brother was poisoned and father died of illness. If elder sister didn't
support me, I don't think I could have returned to this world.
Immediately to the side of the two people, a stray arrow flew.
The flagship was approaching the coast.
In the darkness and fog, visibility was low.
It wouldn't be funny to be hit by a stray arrow and die.
The pair had entered that critical situation.
Kikkawa-san is a good elder sister. When I remember my younger sister, my

whole body is filled with courage. Your elder sister will die for Kobayakawa-
san's sake at any time. I'm ashamed that despite being a man, I was scared of
war.
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Well. She is too good of an elder sister for me. When I lost older brother, I was
'Living in a dream' and was said to be possessed. There is only myself in the
whole world, its only a transient dream, and there is no beginning to this world.
It seems I was trying to protect myself from the reality of older brother's death.
Living in a dream...I feel like I've heard something like that somewhere....those
words.
Elder sister hit me so many times, and I was brought back to this world. And
now the words 'Living in a dream' have a different meaning for me.
Different meaning?
Because this transient life must end someday, I will live without regrets, I
believe I need to live my life to its utmost. And when I met Yoshiharu and my
heart fluttered for a boy besides my older brother, the words took on a new
meaning in me again.
New meaning-
It's...that I was able to meet you this way, complete, seems like a dream, I....
Takakage buried her face in Yoshiharu's chest and fell silent.
Kobayakawa-san just clearly confessed to me, Yoshiharu realized.
This is a battlefield where they might die in the next moment.
(It is as Kobayakawa-san said. Sometime life will certainly end...even while I do

this, I go towards the end. I must advance forward. Even if I have lost my
memory, I can't use that as an excuse to stop. I have to live in the reality of the
moment.)
Even if I am embarrassed and ashamed, I can't hesitate.
Yoshiharu put a hand on Takakage's hip and hugged her.
I wish to protect Kobayakawa-san who was saddled with a harsh destiny.
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Kobayakawa-san.
Takakage closed her eyes and stood on her tiptoes, and brought her small face
close to Yoshiharu.
I will kiss Kobayakawa-san, Yoshiharu decided at that moment.
The dim morning sun shined on the sea, in the white fog, a brilliant golden
gourd was shining faintly.
It was displayed by the Oda camp, it was a gold flag. [T/N: Sennari was the
word used. I can't find what that means.]
The gold leaf put on the gourd reflected the morning sun, glittering and shining.
Over the short head of Takakage, the gold gourd shined like an illusion.
The moment he saw the glittering gourd.
Suddenly, intense feelings, and an unbearable excruciating pain, overflowed

from the depths of Yoshiharu's heart.
Oh, that....? Why am I crying?
Takakage noticed Yoshiharu's unusual state and slowly opened her eyes.
The clever Takakage, understood everything, and became scared to a pitiful

extent.
I, I'm sorry. I'm beaten. Because I haven't kissed a girl, I was overwhelmed and
my eyes got moist. Moreover, with such a beautiful girl as a partner umm
...Yoshiharu.
Probably some rubbish got into my eyes! I'm sorry I look so pathetic. L, let's
start again.
....Understood.
While Takakage stared at Yoshiharu with imploring eyes, her hand extended to
his cheek.
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Even though we are so close, it so far. Yoshiharu, it feels like you are going
away.
This, Kobayakawa-san. You are thinking too much. I'm not an illusion. I am
here. Right in front of Kobayakawa-san.
...Please. Please stay here under me. Please don't leave...
Its no good. Kobayakawa's heart is shaken, because I was confused by the gourd
battle-standard, Yoshiharu became flustered.
But why did I become choked up when I saw that gold gourd shining?
What is that?
Did I forget something I must not ever ever forget after all?
While Yoshiharu struggled with trying to close the invisible distance with
Takakage.
Miss! A messenger came from Miki castle!
Murakami Takeyoshi came back to the flagship with a message from Miki
Castle.
Thank you. The Mori defenders stuck inside Miki Castle aren't hungry!
The appearance of the messenger certainly had a good complexion, and didn't
seem to starve from the siege.
Eh, me? Yoshiharu raised his voice.
After Sagara Yoshiharu went missing, the Oda person who took over command
of the siege army seems to have continued to observe Sagara Yoshiharu's
instructions. When the soldiers of Miki Castle heard that the honored Admiral
Kobayakwa was commencing a desperate landfall in Akashi to bring us food,
we wanted to report to you that we are all right, and sent me as a messenger.
....Yoshiharu. Is that so. Yoshiharu is kind.
What should we do Miss? I don't know what intention the boy had at the time,
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but at this rate it doesn't seem like Miki Castle will fall easily.
Um. That they are spending so many troops on the Miki Castle siege at the
moment, Mori benefits.
Takeyoshi was halfway astonished. Such a strange battle from the outset, that
you will expressly support the enemy while besieging their fortress
Miss. Right now the supreme commander Oda Nobuna is on the battlefield.
The need to hurry to bring provisions to Miki Castle has vanished, but shall we
use this chance to break the enemy army's battle formation and defeat Oda
Nobuna?
It will become a fifty-fifty bet. Besides, the fog has cleared sooner than I
expected. When their vision clears, the Oda people who are accustomed to land
wars will have the advantage even in close combat where the arquebus can't be
used.
Indeed. But Miss, victory can't be grasped if you do not take a risk.
Takakage did not nod at Takeyoshi's suggestion.
Now that we know that the Miki Castle soldiers are safe, we can change our
strategy. To ensure our victory, we can fight a naval battle that the Oda people
are weak at after all. When the Oda force clashes with Honbyo Temple again, we
can rush into Kizugawaguchi again and destroy the Kuki navy. At the same
time, the Saika corps will shatter the Oda's land troops. Even if Oda fights many
times, they can never beat the Saika corps. As long as the Saika corps has the
goddess of the gun, Saika Magoichi.
Well, if it is a naval battle we don't need to worry about losing even ten to one,
and they won't be able to use imperial decree to run again, it will be settled in
one go this time. Miss, aren't you paying special attention to that Sagara
youngster as well? Obviously that boy doesn't want the Mori clan and Oda clan
to fight. It seems that guy was thinking of that sort of thing even before losing
his memory. Otherwise, he wouldn't give that crazy order to not starve the Miki
Castle soldiers.
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Th, that is not the case. I, putting my personal feelings in the war, it, it isn't
done.
Is that so.
Y, yes!
Isn't Miss scared of hurting the boy's feelings and having him return to the Oda
clan? Didn't you propose withdrawing the troops for the sake of currying favor
with the boy?
I, it's different! I am not such a coward. Don't misjudge me!
Ko, Kobayakawa-san.
...Wrong. Wrong. Wrong...!
Takakage turned so red that it was painful to look at, and hid behind
Yoshiharu's back with tears in her eyes.
However, she was only hidden for a moment.
When she reappeared, Takakage had a spirit like her twin elder sister, Kikkawa
Motoharu.
Living in a dream.
At the same time as she whispered that in a low voice behind Yoshiharu's back,
Takakage resolved herself completely.
Yoshiharu, Takeyoshi. This landfall battle in Akashi is suspended. But we won't

run away. We will break the Oda clan decisively in the next battle of
Kizawaguchi without fail, and plant Mori's flag in Kyoto! The shogun will
proceed to the capital, and the third generation will be designated the conqueror
of the country!
What? Is that so Miss? Finally you have decided! That is right, without going to
war that youngest can't conquer the world!
...Kobayakawa-san.
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Yoshiharu. I understand your feelings of not wanting to fight the Oda clan. But
until somebody unites the country, this war will not end. Please lend your
power to me....please.
Kobayakawa-san mustered up her courage and is trying to advance forward.
If I refuse her now, Kobayakawa-san will break, Yoshiharu knew.
Yoshiharu was still confused due to not understand what significance that
shining gourd on the other side of the fog had.
His assistant Yamanaka Shikanosuke and former comrade Goemon were

waiting for the day that Yoshiharu regained his memory of the Oda clan.
If they return I cannot go back to Kobayakawa-san, it was too late to meet,

someone was shouting in the corner of his heart.
Still, Kobayakawa-san that released her full power, cannot be avoided.
Yoshiharu nodded his head.
All right. I will fight for Kobayakawa-san.
If we win, it will be the place for you. All the time, next to me. Until then, I will
wait for your answer.
Ah. I will do as you say Kobayakawa-san.
Takeyoshi covered his face saying God I can't watch.
This man with the tough body of an ogre, seemed to be pure of heart.
Thank you. With this, I can win. I will win. Everyone, lend me your power.
Please.
Takakage's shy smiling face.
Adorable, Yoshiharu said without thinking.
The pirates who saw the whole thing from a distance, cheered all at once.
Even without saying it, I'll do it!

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You are too cute. How many years has it been since Miss has had such a
smiling face!
I saw it for the first time!
But didn't that boy come from the future without possessing any social
position, and was stuck with Oda Nobuna first?
Right. How will she do it?
Somehow manage it with wisdom. After all Miss is the wise commander!
Oda Nobuna is the Oda clan's supreme commander, but although Miss has a
blood relationship, she is a vassal serving the third generation. Because she isn't
the lord, the wall is lower. It isn't impossible in this situation if you push the
envelope!
You're right! The lord of the Mori clan is the toddling third generation! You
have an intelligent head!
Because Miss manages the Mori clan together with her elder sister, I was
completely convinced that Miss was the head of the family, but its as you say!
Good!
While preparing to withdraw from the Akashi front, the pirates were excited.
Meanwhile, as for Yoshiharu, he raised his voice. OH!?
He suddenly realized.
This Honbyo Temple was a strange name given to the Honganji-temple,

because I didnt know that battle had happened before the Akashi landfall, now
I know there hasn't been a divergence from history anywhere....did the Battle
of Kizugawaguchi occur!? I have seen this battle in the Ambition of Oda
Nobunaga!
So.
Mori and Oda's decisive naval battle, the Battle of Kizugawaguchi.
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Yoshiharu already knew that this battle occurred twice.
As expected I am a boy who came from the future. I should have noticed it
earlier.
Mori wins both times right, Yoshiharu?
The first time, the Murakami Navy completely decimated the Kuki Navy and
Mori won. This battle has already occurred. But Kobayakawa-san, the Kuki
navy annihilates the Murakami Navy the second time! Mori has a crushing
defeat!
Stop with that unpleasant joke, boy. We, the Murakami Navy, is wiped out? To
the Kuki Navy? First, the Miss is here-
It's true Murakami-san. I don't know about this Oda Nobun, but in the case of
Oda Nobunaga destroyed the Murakami navy in the second decisive battle! The
Japanese people develop a new device even the Namban haven't seen, and put it
into use immediately at Kizugawaguchi!
A new device even the Namban haven't seen?
Did you mean this? A compass that you put a direction magnet on? This is
something I got from the missionary Gaspard in exchange for the Magatama.
Takeyoshi showed off the latest compass, The needle always points towards
Polaris.
Murakami-san. While this is certainly a required item for the Age of Discovery,
it is not the Oda's new weapon. Even that missionary will not have seen what
the Oda has developed.
That. Such a thing.
Takakage was troubled and lowered her eyebrows. Even I am incapable of

dealing with that kind of unknown weapon.
Not only losing Yoshiharu, but to be informed of the dark future of the fall of
the Mori clan, her expression seemed about to cry.
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Then, I....the pirates following me....the Mori clan...
Kobayakawa-san, it's okay. I know it. I know what new device Oda Nobunaga
is developing. If a person knows about it beforehand, Kobayakawa-san can
work out a plan. I have decided to change history, and let Kobayakawa-san
win!
...Yoshiharu.
The enemy is certainly powerful. But looking at Murakami-san's compass, I

suddenly came up with a thought. Although its going to be a tight battle, there
is a way to win!
...Thank you.
Yoshiharu, overcome with emotion strongly hugged Takakage's shaking body.
My whole body is fired up, Yoshiharu noticed.
The fear of battle, and the anxiety of being adrift in the Sengoku Era, was gone.
Is something wrong, such an ill feeling doesn't just fade away. However, for the
first time since losing his memory, Yoshiharu actually felt like he was alive.
Father, I understand. The place where I belong is this world. I am now alive, he
muttered.
Chapter 3
The six month truce between Honbyo Temple and the Oda clan had ended.
It was Oda Nobuna that made the first move.
Focused on the reorganized Gokenin, they departed from Gifu Castle, and
advanced towards Settsu and Osaka's Honbyo Temple.
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To support Ashikaga Yoshiaki's march to the capital from Aki, Kai's Shingen
Takeda and Echigo's Uesugi Kenshin shelved their past grudges for the moment
and it was said they had recently cooperated to make an anti-Oda campaign.
Before the pair's alliance formed, and to make Honbyo Temple quickly
surrender, they had no choice but to stop Mori's advance to the capital by
defeating the Murakami navy in a naval battle.
After being stained with the shame of the previous defeat, in which Nobuna
was robbed of her chief retainer, Sagara Yoshiharu, by Mori, the postponement
was over.
If they are defeated in battle again, the Oda clan will be ruined.
The whole country was paying attention to the rematch between the Oda Clan
and Honbyo Temple.
Kii, Saika's base.
While Kii is an important region near the capital, it is another world surrounded
by majestic mountains and the sea.
The Saika Corps so far had held the natural stronghold called Kii, fought many
battles to the east and west as the Sengoku Era's strongest mercenary group
without belonging to any daimyo, and lived freely.
But their only deep friendship is with Osaka's Honbyo Temple, and previously
the Saika corps had sent reinforcements from the sea route to Honbyo Temple
and smashed Oda Nobuna.
To the Saika (manor?), the previous head of Honbyo Temple, Kennya, had
fallen.
The Saika corps' leader, Saika Magoichi, greeted Kennya a quick What's the
matter?.
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My younger sister today is taking responsibility for beginning the world war
with the Oda Clan, and has resolved herself to perform one last decisive battle.
Samurai and religious sect. As long as neither falls, this confused world will
never become one. Even if the Honbyo Temple is temporarily defeated it won't
fall, as the elder sister even in the worst case I wanted to survive. And I want to
perform the original duty of the sect to hold services to those who have fallen in
battle.
Is that so. You might finally experience defeat, Kyonya.
Yes. Honbyo Temple's allies are the Saika corps and the Murakami Navy, the
strongest on land and water. However, many of the believers no longer want to
fight against the Oda clan.
Aha. Nobuna and Yoshiharu aren't hated. When the miracle of the
Amanoiwato opening happened, everyone watched the heavens.
Yes. Nobuna-sama unexpectedly showed firsthand a new way to live to the

masses who suffer from a life of battles. Already, many of the followers are
thinking hard on, if I fight and die I can go to Cat Paradise. Especially the girls.
....Paradise, could not be found in that hell. Those two were saved the moment
they kissed each other. In reality it was just for that moment....
While Magoichi was absentmindedly emptying a sake cup, she blinked her eyes.
Among the followers, love stories have become popular. Although two people
are about to die, for just an instant they are able to save each other.
A mere moment. Its heartrending. But if you can't go to paradise when you die,
that story is gloomy throughout.
Among the female followers, reading The Tale of Genji has become a daily
routine.
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What is that story about? We are country bumpkins and don't know it.
Okay. The story is about the adulterer Hikaru Genji who takes mistresses one
after another. Although Hikaru Genji's had a beloved woman named Murasaki
no Ue, a little after he was banished to Suma he eloped with his neighbor Lady
Akashi and had a child.
Hmm. Akashi? That reminds me of Sagara Yoshiharu, he is now on the Mori

side, and was previously trying to assault Akashi. By now he has surely taken a
mistress and conceived a child.
R, Really.
Anyways, if he left the Oda clan, he can come be my husband. Well I guess I
don't have the pettanoko of a young girl. He has become open about the lolicon
spirit disease. Even without his memory, he won't forget his lolicon spirit. Why
is such a philanderer to that degree, such an irritating guy.
Because the followers have likened Sagara Yoshiharu to Hikaru Genji, who will
be Akashi no Kimi and Murasaki no Ue is a major battle in Honbyo temple over
Sagara Yoshiharu.
Really. It seems that its another battle. Everyone can no longer hate Oda
Nobuna from the bottom of their heart.
When you are shown such an admirable figure, all the young girls will become
like that, Magoichi sighed.
I also saved Nobuna, We won the war but lost to Nobuna's caliber. As a loser of
a woman, I was defeated by Nobuna. In addition if the Rokkaku arrows killed
Nobuna, the reputation of Magoichi's gun would have plummeted. From that
moment, I temporarily had a reason to save that fellow's life, in the end I
couldn't bring myself to let Nobuna die.
Then, Oda Nobuna became too pitiful, it was tragic.
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Again I lost to that woman, Magoichi felt annoyed.
Morale also fell, Magoichi-san changed in the last battle, and as a result many
warriors were shot to death by your gun. Everyone who saw that appearance,
tasted hell while alive, such a Magoichi-san is wrong, we cried.
That's okay. The battlefield is hell. It isn't a child's playground. But, Oda
Nobuna made Paradise appear in hell powerful.
Kennya-han, rest at the Saika manor for awhile. We will go to battle for a time.
Magoichi said in a loud voice as she stood up.
Even so, you will still go.
Yes. I want to win against Oda Nobuna by any means.

Now, if Oda Nobuna loses, the wars in the country will not end. Don't you
think so?
Still, I want to return this debt. I must overcome that fellow at any cost. There
is just one person, the strongest enemy that the Yatagarasu failed to kill. If I
don't bring down that fellow, we will lose our freedom. At this rate, I'll become
toothless.
...Magoichi-san is aiming at the strongest. You are destined to fight against Oda
Nobuna. A manzai won't be able to calm your wild spirit.
Be patient Kennya-san. I am a woman possessed by the gun.
At the very least, unite with Mori.
I want to win with my own power. If I accept the help of Mori, I can't call that a
win.
Kennya could no longer restrain Magoichi.
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Magoichi called together the Saika people, and flew to lead the fleet on the
rough seas of Kii.
Oda Nobuna has come to Settsu again. Before that guy enters Kizugawaguichi,
we will grab the Sakai port.
It is said that the Oda army is again trying to intercept the Murakami Navy and
the Saika people joining with Honbyo Temple.
This time, before attacking Kizugawaguchi, let's attack Settsu's largest trading
city, Sakai, Magoichi decided.
As long as we don't suppress Kyoto's largest trading port and the Oda clan's
base for gun production, the Oda army will revive no matter how many times
they are beaten.
In addition, Sakai is on the sea routes from Kii to Kizugawaguchi.
Attack the merchant city. It was Magoichi's hated style, but even though it was
six months from their great defeat, but it is said that the Oda clan's armaments
were improved from before. It was a terrifying economic strength and
production capacity. The Oda clan's strength was assuredly supported by Sakai.
Even if I go back to Honbyo Temple and slay the Oda army time and again,
this war will not finish. Even if I crush and defeat the Oda clan, they will recover
by the power of money. I will open with a surprise attack on Sakai, for the sake
of settling this battle.
The opportunity to directly shoot Oda Nobuna won't occur again, Magoichi
predicted.
Even if Nobuna wants to appear on the front line, if Magoichi joins the battle,
her close advisers will prevent it.
It will be hard to settle this by sniping Nobuna.
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It put her in a bad mood, but it was a necessary strategy to win.
That Oda army's largest supply base was a trade city facing the rather than
inland there was no one who wouldn't take advantage of this.
In addition.
The Oda troops were mass producing some kind of new weapon hidden in
Sakai's port, Magoichi gained this information from a shinobi source.
There is the gun factory in Sakai as well. Or perhaps they have increased
production of the ships they lost in the previous battle with their abundant
wealth.
If we don't hit Sakai, we can't win.
Thus, Magoichi's eyes were fixed on Sakai.
Magoichi-sama. We should wait until joining with the Murakami Navy before
attacking.
Lightning tactics, Hotaru. It isn't a surprise attack if we wait for the Murakami
Navy to arrive. [T/N: All the translators used Blitzkrieg tactics but that
wouldn't be period accurate.]
The Oda people may have already put up a line of defense around Sakai.
Even if that's true, it will divide their military between Kizugawaguchi and
Sakai. It won't be a problem if it's half.
In the case that the whole Kuki Navy is in Sakai?
It will become a free-for-all, Nobuna doesn't know that the Saika folk are
pirates as well as a gun troop. Even on board a violently shaking ship, the Saika
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folk can freely operate their guns. The forces over their don't have that kind of
skill. We will win.
The Saika folk's fleet went north straight to Sakai -
But this Sakai, was the bait to hunt the tiger called Magoichi.
In terms of strategy, Magoichi was a mere mercenary commander, Oda Nobuna

who had torn down countries one after another as a daimyo in the Sengoku Era
far exceeded her.
Oda forces are concentrated in Honbyo Temple while Nobuna spread that
around, she established a siege around Honbyo Temple, and lead her personal
Gokenin into Sakai.
A marching speed fast as the wind.
The Saika folk's fleet will advance on Sakai. Spreading the rumor that the Oda
clan was developing a new weapon in Sakai has succeeded.
Dearuka. Well the story that I am gathering a new weapon isn't false. Because it
isn't a lie, this rumor became bait to catch the tiger.
When she heard the information, Nobuna was at Imai Soukyu's beachfront
manor drinking tea with Sen no Rikyu.
Undaunted, they held a tea ceremony.
The Kampaku Konoe Sakihisa, the wealthy merchant Imai Soukyu, and the
missionary Louise Frois had been invited by Nobuna.
So Today, you are going to show us some extraordinary something or other.
When you turn Sakai into a sea of flames, Hime-sama. In the town of Sakai, the
takoyaki are strange.
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What more can you show us? Nobuna-sama no longer even needs the
teachings of the Lord. When the figures of Yoshiharu-san and Nobuna-sama
exchanged a kiss, you were like a God to me no pretend you didn't hear that. I
would be sentenced to heresy if it was known in Rome.
Nobuna screamed UGH and dropped the tea set which was worth a country
or castle without thinking.
Sen no Rikyuu immediately caught the tea set.
Please don't talk about kissing that guy! Ugh, To be seen. In this half year I
have been patiently developing a new device to hunt the tiger of Sakai! And
after hunting the tiger, Kobayakawa Takakage take him back!
It is Yoshiharu-san, Frois smiled.
Yes. Even if he has currently lost his memory, Yoshiharu will certainly return to
the Oda clan. Because this place is Yoshiharu's home therefore we must fight
and win. Against Saika Magoichi, the Murakami Navy, and Kobayakawa
Takakage.
The Ashikaga shogun and the Imagawa shogun, which is the legitimate
shogun must also be settled.
Yeah. With two shoguns the world's chaos won't ever finish. Both the Ashikaga
shogunate and Honbyo temple must submit to the military power of the Oda
clan. Though it seems I showed the whole world a new way to live, we cannot
end these wars with love. Power is necessary. Because I was weak, Mori stole
Yoshiharu. The person who reigns over the world must show overwhelming
military power. It isn't the Saika corps or the Murakami Navy, but the Oda clan
that will prove itself as the strongest army in the Warring States!
During the six months, she held down her violent passions while doing nothing
but enduring and bearing it. Nobuna's blazing and glittering eyes, they are
terrifyingly beautiful Frois looked up and stared.
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Just looking at them, its almost like my own eyes will burn out, dazzling.
Thoroughly defeated in battle, personally suffering a grievous wound, and even

being robbed of Yoshiharu after dedicating my passion to that extent.
Despite receiving a wound so severe that an ordinary human being wouldn't be

able to stand up anymore, the present Nobuna, was even stronger and flared up
even more furiously.
From the beginning, she didn't rely on either God or the Buddha, and had a
strong will to carve our her own destiny by her own power.
Nobuna, by having her only weak point, her forbidden love with Sagara
Yoshiharu, revealed to the whole world, no longer had anything to be afraid of
any more.
The people will probably raise a clamor again if I take Yoshiharu back to the
Oda clan, but by winning this battle while flaunting our overwhelming military
power, the gossipy bunch will quiet. I will obtain the world and Yoshiharu. So
its decided.
Its impossible to stop anyone anymore.
Already it felt like a God had descended to the surface, Frois couldn't help
looking at Nobuna with something like awe.
Ohyii-sama, What is the new weapon? You have invested an absurd amount of
money, what is the important thing, you haven't informed us.
That's right. What on earth is it?
I've been building it in absolute secret in the Ise port. The Kuki navy is reborn.
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Soon, it will appear on the sea!
Nobuna pointed ahead on Sakai's bay, a huge jet-black fleet appeared -
An enormous fleet consisting of seven vessels.
About 23 meters in length. About 13 meters in width.
Furthermore, the hull was completely covered in massive thick iron plates, all of
the parts including the iron plates were painted black.
Also extending up the length of the turret was jet-black.
Those unusual ships became the fleet, and were calmly floating on the sea.
It was like a sea fortress.
When I saw Yoshiharu run the Kuki ship aground to become a sufficient fort, I
was inspired. Conversely, if I have a fort on the sea that cannot burn I will win.
In addition Harima was basically thinking the same thing, finished designing it,
and it was built in a rush.
Most of the Oda clan's savings was poured into these 'Iron Armored Ships'!
No way. I haven't seen this kind of ironclad ship in Europe or the Ottoman
Empire! Frois screamed out in a loud voice.
An iron-clad ship? Unbelievable. How is such a heavy ship floating on the

sea?
Imai Soukyu tilted his head in confused, and still didn't understand.
Iron, iron shouldn't float on the sea, what did you do to build it ohii-sama, he
growled while continuing to stuff his mouth with takoyaki.
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Transferring my dream of taking the world to Oda Nobuna was the right
choice, Konoe was convinced.
Oda Nobuna's dream of Tenka Fubu, such a large ship is made just for you.
Truly, this age of wars may be pacified....
Your praise does nothing, Konoe.
Even when you are defeated, you will bounce back, with manly strength. And
to create such a fantastic ship....like the Ame-no-torifune the god of thunder
boarded to press Izumo's Okuninushi into abdicating his region. [T/N: In the
Descent of the Heavenly Grandson Takemikazuchi scares all of the terrestrial
gods into giving up their land to Amaterasu while riding a flying ship.]
Just a minute. I'm not manly at all! I'm a girl!
While Nobuna puffed out her cheeks, the tanned brown petite girl strategist
with a Namban Hat Don Simeon Kanbei Kuroda appeared after a long
absence, and received a tea set from Rikyu.
Without depending on the power of God, win the battle with human power,
that is the way of Oda Nobuna.
Kanbei, who was originally tanned brown in Harima and Hakata, was tanned
even more today.
I have completed the iron armored fleet, and returned from Ise harbor. For
such a large ship, it was hard to sail without the Mori people suspecting, but
Kuki Yoshitaka is as expected. She managed it splendidly.
Dearuka. Such a huge iron ship doesn't exist among the Namban either. How
wonderful that it was completed in only half a year. As expected of Harima.
Hehehe. It was finished thanks to borrowing the power of the pirate Kuki
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Yoshitaka who is familiar with ships. Well, the new age to come is the age of
man, let's make our battle known to the whole world.
Such an unsophisticated girl built that ship, Konoe was amazed.
Even as a child, you are able to make such a thing. Frois nodded and wasn't
particularly surprised.
If you lose and all these ships sink, my store will go bankrupt. Imai Soukyu
frowned.
The peerless genius, Kuroda Kanbei,
With this I have truly surpassed Takenaka Hanbei! Finally, this Simeon is the
greatest strategist!
While breathing roughly, she quickly drank the green tea handed by Rikyu.
Ueh. Bitter! Another cup!
Because I can be sniped by Magoichi this time, I can't boldly board a ship in
this battle...doesn't Harima need to get into a boat? Aren't you the tactician?
It isn't necessary. A true strategist achieves victory from the front, with a new
weapon that is so perfect. Hehehe.
Nobuna, after seeing Yoshiharu's clever scheme of beaching a ship to make a

sufficient fort, went with the reverse the secret plan to do the reverse and
create a floating fort on the sea which can't burn to protect against the
Murakami Navy's fire ships, Kuroda Kanbei who was recovering in the Arima
Onsen had the same flash of inspiration.
Because the pair were comrades as Namban culture lovers and new weapon
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enthusiasts, their discussions quickly came to this. Against the other genius
Takenaka Hanbei, With this I'll win. Besides just winning, it will be possible to
show the people that a new era has truly come to Japan. I will unveil this and
show off to everybody in Sakai. and got the authorization.
In a hurry to make peace with Honbyo Temple, Kanbei quickly dispatched the
Kuki Navy admiral, Kuki Yoshitaka, to the Ise harbor, and successfully build the
iron armored ships in secret.
Kanbei would draw up blueprints, make a model, and let the pirate, Kuki
Yoshitaka, who had experience handling ships make modifications.
How can a heavy large ship float on the sea, remain stable, and possess a
driving force strong enough to be used in war.
For this difficult problem, Kanbei's knowledge of Namban sciences and Kuki's
experience as a pirate came up with a brilliant answer.
Kanbei and Kuki Yoshitaka together are the main owners of the taste called
ship lovers, work together unexpectedly well, the iron armored ships were
completed at the last moment just in time for the decisive rematch.
Now, as the flagship of the strange iron armored ship fleet, the Oniyadomaru,
appeared in Sakai's sea, Takigawa Kazumasu, Kuki Yoshitak, Nobuna's sister-in-
law Gamo Ujisato, and the knight Giovanna were on board.
I'm surprised. How could the craftsmen of Zipangu make such a strange
thing.
I'm also surprised. I can't believe it is completed and can already be sailed. I
absolutely thought it would be too heavy and would sink in the sea.
Such a fitting strategy for Nobuna-chan. Without joining with the Murakami
Navy, the Saika corps will attack Sakai on their own. This is also thanks to to
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Kukki wonderfully bringing the iron armored fleet to Sakai in secret.
Again Hime-sama. To tell you the truth, I'm embarrassed.~
No, it really is a great thing. No matter how perfect the design is, and even if
the craftsman makes it splendidly, without a person to operate them these iron
armored ships are just iron boxes. Munch munch.
If we break apart the Sakai corps and defeat the Murakami Navy, Honbyo
Temple will be without reinforcement and have no choice but surrender. In that
case we just need to negotiate with the Mori clan for the return of Sagara
Yoshiharu afterwards for a complete victory. Even if he has such a face, Sagara
Yoshiharu is older sister's dream. I will completely win!
Gamo Ujisato who had created the opportunity for Yoshiharu to leave the Oda
Clan, was risking her life on the battle's rematch for her own ablution.
I leave the operation of the second hidden weapon to you together with
Giovanna-chan.
Yes. Leave it to me. Watch, Saika Magoichi and Murakami Takeyoshi. Elder
Sister's trump card isn't only the iron armored ships.
Um. Oda Nobuna is outrageous, but for actually finishing manufacturing the
weapon Kuroda Kanbei is just as terrifying. Such a prodigy isn't in either
Europe of the Ottoman empire. Another helping of mochi please. Munch
munch.
Look, Hime-sama! The Saika corps' fleet! The numbers are larger than last time,
it seems like almost all of the Saika corps' members are participating!
In addition, they are fully loaded with arquebuses. We can't let them land.
If the Saika corps' gun unit lands, Sakai will fall in an instant.
However, we who have holed up in this iron armored ship fortress, do not
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have to fake it. Munch Munch. Seconds.
Well. The princess is not confused anymore. We will meet the enemy!
Everyone to your places! Put up the beacon of the Kuki Navy's revival! With
Kuki Yoshitaka's shout, the pirate girls of the Kuki Navy all entered a frenzy at
once.
Even if she rampages, Boss has missed her marriageable age.
By all means, we will absolutely win!
You guys, don't talk about my marriageable age!
The Saika corps' fleet clashed with the revived Kuki Navy on the sea.
What is that? A ship of black iron!? Is that the new weapon of Oda Nobuna!?
Magoichi-sama, it is a fake.
Such a huge iron boat cannot float on the sea.
The Kuki Navy's fleet consisting of seven iron armored ships lined up in a
straight line, and linked together to create a strange long battle formation
exposing the side of the ship's hull, blocking Sakai's port.
While putting such a large thing between Sakai, Kuki Yoshitaka ordered,
Magoichi was shocked.
It was mostly expected that the new weapon was a new ship, but I never
expected a monster-like ship.
Magoichi and the Saika corps, although they did pirate work, their strong point
was still their guns.
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Their steering skills were inferior to Kuki Yoshitaka who lead the female pirates
to go wild on the rough Toba sea.
Oda Nobuna, did you circulate the incomplete intelligence on purpose to to

catch us? This is a trap to hunt our clan.
What should we do, Magoichi-sama?
Retreat from Sakai, and after joining with the Murakami Navy shift our attack
to Kizugawaguchi?
Magoichi's animal instincts were saying, Dangerous. Turn back. Magoichi

wasn't an adult that could run with her tail between her legs in front of Oda
Nobuna's unleashed trump card.
Rather, her fighting spirit was boiling the stronger the enemy, the more
Magoichi's body was fired up.
It wasn't hatred, but the pure fighting spirit overflowing towards a strong
enemy.
She wanted to sink the iron ships sent out by Oda Nobuna at all costs.
Something so huge will move slowly. They probably lined up their ships in a
row before exposing their vulnerable side, because it takes time to set up their
battle formation.
Yes. Originally this naval strategy was to form a battle formation like
expanding crane wings to await an enemy attack.
So.
Until this day, even if it was the crane wing formation or fish scales formation,
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pointing the bow of each ship at the enemy in the vertical formation was
common sense for naval battles.
It was unthinkable to line up the ships in a line exposing the weak flank to the
enemy.
The Saika corp's fleet doesn't have the speed of the Murakami Navy, but we
have our guns. Arquebus. We'll close in on the stomach of those huge things at
full speed, and let them eat our arquebus on the swaying sea.
But can we pierce those think iron plates?
Seems that ironclad will defend against being destroyed by the fire of the
Murakami navy. That is why that was built. Even if it is difficult to pierce with
the arquebus. However, there is the Yatagarasu. This guy is specially made. If
we get close and shoot the general with this guy, it will be our win.
Magoichi carried the large black gun, the Yatagarasu, that nobody else could
operate on her shoulder lightly, and ordered an all-out attack.
At this moment, the direction of the wind was favoring the Saika corps.
Tighten the sails! Before that huge thing finishes pointing the bow to this side,
we'll shoot all our guns at the flank at once! The admiral that commandeers the
flagship will be killed by the Yatagarasu!
OH!
All at once the Saika Corps' fleet aimed at the revealed side of the iron armored
ships and rushed in.
With the masterful gun performance shooting at the iron armored fleet from
point blank range, Magoichi would kill the Kuki Navy admiral with the
Yatagarasu during the confused fight.
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In the previous battle of Tennoji, the tactics of certain kill blows was only
possible for the goddess of guns, Magoichi Saika.
To be able to use this tactic with the unsteady sea underfoot, Oda Nobuna
wouldn't think of it. However it is possible, regardless of how stormy the sea is I
won't miss my mark, Magoichi's own gun skills, her ability, the confidence from
a gift granted by divine possession.
If I bring down the leader, the unit will collapse. It isn't only on land. It is the
same even on the sea. No, the morale will collapse even quicker on the sea.
In a moment, the distance to the iron armored fleet shortened.
Finally, the Saika corps started shooting from on board.
The roaring sounds like the world was ending resounded on the sea.
The first time the roaring sound was on the Uemachi plateau, and the second
time on Sakai's sea.
Oda Nobuna and Saika Magoichi's second life or death struggle came to an
end.
The Saika townsfolk cramming the roadsides, facing the canal watched
breathless.
The iron armored fleet moved slowly.
Magoichi stood calmly on the ship's prow as bullets flew past her and aimed at
the Kuki Navy's admiral with the Yatagarasu.
There. The tanned woman in the flagship's tower, Kuki Yoshitaka. The strained
features of an overripe virgin burns. The small miko next to her is her partner
Takigawa Kazumasu....so cute, to shoot such an adorable child is so cruel....yes,
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we decided to never again fail in gun jobs.
Magoichi-sama. I heard Takigawa Kazumasu's signature move is to dampen

her enemy's fighting spirit with her adorabe miko outfit. Two sets, three sets, the
gun is loaded.
Ahh. Now that I have come close, I have to consider that both armies have
together left countless corpses mercy is useless.
'Hell is certain, in the home'-
While Magoichi sang a sentence from the sutras to herself, she tried to pull the
trigger of the Yatagarasu many times.
But she couldn't shoot at the childish head of Takigawa Kazumasu no matter
what.
The image of scrambling for the ball against Kazumasu during the Namban
Soccer Match flitted into her head.
No good. Of all people. Even such a child is the commander of a whole army.
The time is lost.
Then.
A huge mass of burning iron flew at an incredible speed at the ship Magoichi
was riding and split the hull in half.
It was a cannon.
Oda Nobuna equipped the iron armored ships with several huge Namban style
cannons inside, and the cannon gunports on the ship's flank all opened up and
the cannons all fired at once.
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What? There are several cannons on the side of the ship? And such huge
ammunition is possible!?
M, Magoichi-sama! All of the iron armored ships deployed with large numbers
of cannons!
I can't believe it! The cannon balls are filling the sky!
The cannons are being shot one after another, this ship-
We are completely a target. If this situation continues we'll be scattered!
Its hopeless. The Yatagarasu can't be fired if the ship sinks! We have to gain
range!
When Magoichi jumped off the sinking flagship, the flying cannon balls
exploded the surroundings and she changed to the back of the ship.
Escaping with the huge Yatagarasu on her shoulder was an impossible task, but
as far as Magoichi was concerned the Yatagarasu was like part of her body.
Get down everyone! Its over! The seemingly defenseless column was a battle
formation to fire the cannons hidden in the hull! Oda Nobuna set up a double
trap! Withdraw for a moment before we are annihilated!
It's useless, Magoichi-sama!
The range of the iron armored ship's cannons are so long its unbelievable!
Even if I run away and escape, I will be targetted and sunk!
The range is longer than the Yatagarasu! Moreover that power is

overwhelming! How did you manufacture such a huge gun, Oda Nobuna!
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That's right, the only way to defend against the Murakami Navy's fire ships and
the arquebus bullets was to stretch iron across the hull. But rather than merely
defend, Oda Nobuna devised the plan to carry the absurd cannons onto the sea
for the sake of completely exterminating enemies. In order to load the huge
cannons the enormous iron armored ships were necessary, Magoichi was
shocked by Nobuna's devilish fighting spirit and realized her whole army was
in danger.
If this had been a land war, the Saika Corps' superior gun skill would have
allowed them maintain their battle formation and continue fighting.
That they were weaker in naval battles compared to land wars was the cause of
their defeat.
When their boat foothold was sinking, the guns couldn't be fired.
Besides escaping at full speed out of the area there was no way.
However, even if they escape and run away, the far-reaching range of the that
the cannon balls boast will pursue them.
The Sengoku Era's strongest mercenary unit, the Saika Corps, tasted their first
defeat and was sinking into the sea.
Magoichi clung to a thin plank with the Yatagarasu on her shoulder as she
floated on the sea.
If she had discarded the Yatagarasu, it would have been possible to switch to a
different ship and escape.
But, Magoichi sent her close aides Hotaru and Kosuzume on a ship, and chose
the path of sharing her destiny with the Yatagarasu.
The destruction of the Saika clan's fleet no it already wasn't a fleet anymore -
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Magoichi could only stare dumbfounded as a wave engulfed her.
....Oda Nobuna ambitions in advocating Tenka Fubu, did this much. This
much....
Why was I defeated?
The water was suddenly sapping Magoichi's body temperature.
As her consciousness faded away, Magoichi was thinking hard on why she lost
to Oda Nobuna.
(While we were fascinated by the Namban guns, Oda Nobuna created her own
original powerful weapons that was the difference. While we were obsessed
with the gun, and united with the gun, the Oda Nobuna that lost to our guns
continued to face further into the future of the gun.
What genius. Is she a god or devil?)
That Nobuna had a different caliber as a commander then myself, I already

understood that when I failed to kill Nobuna in Tennoji.
But Magoichi who wanted to be the strongest free spirit, couldn't help fighting
the huge existence called Oda Nobuna.
(But, to dream of such a ship and cannon, you can really build something like
that? By some fortune, such an empty dream is possible?)
She couldn't preserve her consciousness anymore.
(For our childish pride, I let many of my comrades get killed in action. Kennya,
I'm sorry.)
Before long, in her intermittent consciousness, Magoichi became aware that her
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body was being brought onto land.
Wearing a velvet cloak and a Namban hat over her eyes, the Princess knight
looked down at Magoichi.
Dazzling.
Dazzling, it was as if staring directly at the sun, the owner of those fiery eyes.
The Knight Giovanna and Leion spoke of the legend of the fall of the
impregnable Constantinople by the 'Orban Cannon'. I let Harima produce a
prototype based on the Franchi cannons Giovanna brought in that were loaded
on the Namban ships, and mass-produced it in Omi's Kunimoto village. To win
against a monster like the Yatagarasu, my only choice was to use a monster even
greater than the Yatagarasu right? Giovanna and Leon operated the hard to
handle cannons perfectly.
I don't understand what you are saying, I'm not good with Namban language,
speak in Japanese, Magoichi was frustrated.
In the siege of Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire blockaded the strait with a
large fleet inside the bay, and it is said they used clever scheme to carry it to the
bay using a land route. I used Giovanna's advice and did the reverse. By
building a huge ship that won't sink while carrying the cannon, the huge Orban
Cannon can float on the sea. If this was a land war, it wouldn't be successful.
The cause of your defeat was that you thought like a schemer, and tried to seize
Sakai and sever the Oda army's supply. You should have left such a clever
strategy to Kobayakawa Takakage.
She is considerably angry that Kobayakawa Takakage stole Sagara Yoshiharu,

that spirit would have been sufficient to end the war with Honbyo Temple last
time, Magoichi realized.
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The reason you lost to me today is because I was not furious in the last battle.
In Tennoji, after Kyonya recklessly gathered the followers and began the
thoughtless war, you were angry at the assassin that tried to assassinate Kennya
who went Honbyo Temple as an envoy of peace. Even if your gun arm is
possessed by god, you have to have anger to kill in this turbulent period. Even
though you should have been able to kill Sakon without question, you hesitated
to kill a child, failed to shoot, and revealed your original nature. So, when
Kennya left for the Saika manor she took away your ability to get angry, and I
have won.
.....Is that so. We are, angry in these chaotic times....
Magoichi finally realized. So Oda Nobuna was the hero that manifested out of
the anger at the chaotic times that will not end, and set her eyes on the new
power that came from the Nambans called the arquebus. To that extent, we are
the same. However this fellow differed from us, and was aware of her anger.
Aware of it, she made it her own power-
To set such a child as the commander. You didn't think I would mercilessly
shoot Takigawa Kazumasu?
Saika Magoichi. You are not such a person. I had faith in you.
....
After this I will shatter the Murakami Navy and force Honbyo Temple to
surrender. I have no reason to fight with you anymore.
It is our loss, Oda Nobuna, Magoichi muttered with a bitter smile.
Why did you commit a double suicide with the Yatagarasu? Although it would
have been good for you to be a drowned body, I helped you. Here, I have paid
back the debt from the time when the Amanoiwato opened. Even if I beat you
on the sea, this isn't a true victory. Saika Magoichi.
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I picked up a group of the Saika corps that fell into the sea, gather up the
luggage and go back to the Saika manor, the Princess Knight with eyes that
blazed like the sun said curtly.
Stop. If you release us, I will attack you again. I know you are so much
stronger. There is no reason. To the end, I have such a troublesome nature.
Nobuna laughed fearlessly.
Dearuka. At that time, I will crush you again. This time, on the land.
This fool blazes like us, and is even more of a fool than rumored, Magoichi
thought.
Oda Nobuna, revival.
The Kuki Navy destroyed the Saika corps with iron armored ships equipped
with unparalleled cannons.
This became remarkable.
That invincible Magoichi-han, was suppressed by military force.
Even if its a war on the sea, they won't be stopped.
Finally the world is Oda Nobuna-han's.
Even without the man from the future, Sagara Yoshiharu, the Oda clan is the
strongest.
As before the Oda clan will rise and take the world with Oda Nobuna-han's
own power.
While the excited townsfolk of Sakai let out a huge cheer, Nobuna personally
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boarded the flagship of the iron armored fleet, the Oniyadomaru.
Hurry to Kizugawaguchi! The Murakami Navy is drawing near!
She gave the departure order and the one by one the sails were hoisted.
If Magoichi's arrival in Sakai was late by a few days, Nobuna could no longer
defend Sakai and Kizugawaguchi at the same time, and her popularity would
have taken a serious blow.
It was a dangerous gamble, but it wasn't a coincidence. Nobuna fully

understood Magoichi's nature and and moved to win.
Kobayakawa Takakage senses the danger of the Saika corp's presence, and is
advancing the Murakami Navy at a godlike speed. Although the iron armored
ships' speed is slow, we can get there in time somehow! The enemy's whole
army is six hundred ships.
The iron armored ships are too big to enter the river. If they enter
Kizugawaguchi first it will be troublesome!
To Takigawa Kazumasu and Kuki Yoshitaka whose spirits had risen after
obtaining the huge victory, Nobuna climbed up the tower with Mochi gathered
from Ise.
I understand the agreement, Nobuna-chan. You can leave the steering of the
iron armored ships to Kukki.
Leave it to me! Including this new Oniyodomaru, I can freely move the iron
armored fleet at will now!
...it was extremely terrible daily special training.
Yes....that time when we were swallowed by the stormy Kumonada, I thought

we were dead....
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Both of you, this is a great thing. A tea whisk for Sakon. For the one who is too
late to get married, I'll give a small gold reward!
I'm not truly too late to get married? Argh, I am still young!
Then I will give you a husband for a reward. Who would be good? My
Gokenin are all girls...
A husband shouldn't be treated as such a thing! A wedding shouldn't be given

until after falling in passionate love from a fateful encounter.
Even if you have already missed your chance to be married?
A tea whisk is too stingy, Nobuna-chan! A tea set! Why won't you give me a
tea set! Unless you give me a tea set I'm going to rebel!
Dearuka. Do as you say. Also to Leon and Giovanna who worked as cannon
instructors, I want to give you a reward.
Why is Hime's tea whisk the desired reward of the two people?
Leon, also known as Gamo Ujisato, crawled onto the deck with the knight
Giovanna, and had become covered in black soot.
Older sister. As for me I desire the Izumo Fudoki, a rare book concerning
Izumo.
Leon is as refined as ever.
Yes. About the mystery of the Amano Iwato, I want to investigate a little. What
is the theory to open it, it is possible there is a key in Izumo that was ruled by
Okuninushi's independent dynasty.
It may be possible to open the Amano Iwato again.
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Amano Iwato? You intend to open it again? You want to send Yoshiharu
away?
I understand, older sister. But now that the power of Onmyoji has disappeared,
I think that the Amano Iwato that was left as the country's last miracle could be
useful!
...I don't intend to depend on the power of God anymore. Oh well. The older
sister will give it if it satisfies the younger sister's curiosity.
Thank you very much Older sister! You are so kind...ah....happiness
If Yoshiharu is fooling around with Kobayakawa, it is good to open the Amano

Iwato and drop him alive into hell!
Yes that is true. There is also that sort of use, older sister.
While her stomach made a Guuuuu noise, Giovanna cleared her throat
unnaturally.
Ahem. I am fine with receiving food. Let's shake on eight portions for a
century.
How much do you eat? I'll distribute it for three years.
I should have my desired reward. I thought of the plan to carry the cannons on
board.
Oh, where is the strategist Kuroda Kanbei? Kazumasu realized.
She designed this iron armored ship and cannon. In spite of being a child, such
an unthinkable genius. She should be thanked for this huge victory.
Aren't you also a child Sakon? Harima was assigned the mission to escort my
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Gokenin unit to Sumiyoshi through the land route.
Sumiyoshi?
An old port town just south of Kizugawaguchi. As the Tennoji fort was too far
from the sea, I built a new stronghold in the Sumiyoshi harbor. By deploying
this iron armored fleet along the coast from Sumiyoshi to Kizugawaguchi, the
cannons will rout the Murakami Navy. Magoichi has already left, and at last I'm
personally aboard the flagship!
The iron armored fleet rushed to Sumiyoshi at full speed.
On the other side, when she heard the messenger say, the Saika corps attacked
Sakai where the Oda clan was building a new weapon, Kobayakawa
Takakage's decision was to have all of the Murakami Navy's six hundred ships
depart immediately, and attempt to arrive in Kizuwaguchi at war speed.
Damn. Because Yoshiharu taught the anti-Oda Nobuna plan secretly, Magoichi
Saika didn't know about the Oda army's iron armored warships and strange
cannons, and was tempted by the bait called Sakai. They have probably already
lost.
Kobayakawa-san. Even though I have never met her, if its the legendary Saika
Magoichi she will not die even if she loses the battle. Though it is bad for
Magoichi-san, instead the Oda clan will believe they have the momentum and
can win against the Murakami Navy. But I have created secret countermeasures
that the Oda people are not aware of.
True, it is as Yoshiharu says. If it is a long distance, they will learn of our plan. I
must confront the Oda on the sea immediately, or we will miss our chance at
winning.
On the deck of the ship, three people, Kobayakawa Takakage, Sagara Yoshiharu,
and Murkami Takeyoshi, stared in the direction of Settsu's shore through a
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telescope.
Miss, I see it! Ohh, yesss! In front of Sumiyoshi's harbor, there is a group of
Oda's huge black ships lined up in a column!
Oh, is that, a ship? How can such a huge lump of iron float int the sea? Even
though we were informed in advance by Yoshiharu, it is suddenly unbelievable.
Moreover, that strange formation.
As expected. The battle formation to fire a volley from the cannons installed in
the flank of the iron armored ship's Single column, Yoshiharu slapped his
knee.
Boy. Normally, exposing the flank of the ship to the enemy would be
considered a poor plan. In particular, when going against our Murakami Navy's
superior fire charge.
That would be the story with a ship without cannons? The times have changed,
old man.
Say. But Sagara Yoshiharu, now it is not a mistake that you came from the
future! Such a crazy thing, it can't even be imagined by people of this era.
No. The Princess Knight called Oda Nobuna was able to actually make these
iron armored ships. Oda Nobuna, I now understand that it seems like she is the
owner of an imagination equal to the supreme ruler of the Warring States, Oda
Nobunaga.
Does that mean she is the possessor of a mind equal to that of the man from the
future? A difficult enemy.
Technology had not caught up with Oda Nobuna's crazy thinking is what you
would normally think, but I have heard there are many talented Nambans in the
Oda Clan. And for Harima's Namban tactician, Kuroda Kanbei, she may be able
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to make the impossible possible, Kuroda Kanbei is probably the iron armored
ships' designer, the idea of the column battle formation to display the full power
of the cannons is also Kanbei's, Takakage guessed.
Takakage and Kanbei were friends, and in some ways, had an extremely deep
relationship.
During the time I was worrying endlessly Kanbei became famous around the
country, Takakage acknowledged Kanbei's abnormal talent.
If you set the cannons on the bow, only one can be loaded per ship. But if you
put them on the side, you can load several cannons on one ship. That way, it
improves the firepower overwhelmingly did they devise this new formation
for the sake of the firepower? If it is the common sense of battle, the previous
formation, this battle formation reflects the existing battle formation.....
Of course, it was also shocking that Kuki Yoshitaka and the pirate folks were
able to learn the steering technique and manipulate such an unparalleled ship.
The Kuki navy's female pirates were able to far increase their skill from the last
battle.
Takeyoshi. As Yoshiharu said, the whole boat is covered in black iron.

Extraordinarily large iron armored ships, seven ships. And dozens of cannon
gun ports. The Saika corps has already been routed. Neither the Murakami
Navy's specialty of ramming with fire ships or fire arrows will be effective. It
won't be burned by any means. The iron armored ships will suppress the
Murakami Navy's fire tactics. Besides, it has the absurd cannon hidden in its
hull.
It seems so, Miss. However that boy Sagara has already seen through Oda
Nobuna's plans. Men, the time to change the disgusting history where the
Murakami Navy is defeated by the Kuki Navy has come!
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OOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!
Everyone, I'm sorry. If we win this battle, the Oda clan will have no choice but
to withdraw to the Capital. Once again, lend your power to me.
While the Murakami Navy's fleet piled up in a long line formation, they charged
the iron armored fleet charged in the opposite direction.
In other words, the Murakami Navy's fleet also formed a column, they
advanced at full speed in a straight line to the head of the iron armored fleet, the
Kuki's flagship the Oniyodomaru.
Nobuna who had gotten ready for battle by climbing the tower of the flagship
Oniyodomaru with Takigawa Kazumasu and Kuki Yoshitaka, knitted her
eyebrows in surprise and lost time hesitating.
They didn't step into the trap on our exposed flank! No way, they intend to
crash directly into the front?
It is unexpected that we would crash into each other's columns. A cannon

wasn't set in the bow, it will be hard shoot accurately.
Nobuna-chan. It is possible,that Yoshii who came from the future bestowed his
knowledge to Kobayakawa. That the Oda army would invest in iron armored
ships and cannons to oppose the Murakami Navy's fire tactics.
It think it is as Hime says. Thus the Murakami Navy might not charge at the
flank like the Saika corps did.
Yoshiharu!?
Nobuna checked the whole Murakami Navy through her telescope.
No, already the other side was at a range where a telescope was unnecessary,
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and the two sides were drawing closer.
The source of the Murakami Navy's respected mobility was the medium sized
Sekifune. They accounted for 70% of the fleet.
The Seikfune formed the core of the column formation, dotted around the
Sekifune were small Hayafune to help the Sekifune, and then at the center of the
formation there were six large Atakaebune ships stretched lengthwise among
the six ships, one of them was the Murakami Navy's flagship.
All of the Atakabune are hoisting the Murakami Navy's well-known Circle
top, only one ship has the 'three magatama' -the flag depicting the Kobayakwa
clan's family crest. That is the flagship.
Hime-sama. Nobuna-sama. I see it. The three Magatama, the Princess Knight
on the deck-
That figure. Short trimmed hair, a slender body, and a cold gaze. I have heard
the rumors of Kobayakawa. No doubt. Sink the flagship Kobayakawa is riding.
If you sink the general's ship, the fleet of six hundred ships will lose control!
Even when an unexpected situation was before her, Nobuna would not stop.
No matter the hours, when war was before her her eyes would harden, it would
lead to defeat.
Even when it appeared I had the perfect preparations, Kobayakawa took the
initiative again, but the power of the iron armored ships and cannons are
overwhelming.
Even if there was six hundred boats versus seven ships, the power different was
still like that between an ant and an elephant.
All ships prepare for bombardment!
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Nobuna shouted a command and both navies clashed.
Rematch of Kizugawaguchi' Or the naval battle's conclusion will be handed

down as the The Second battle of Kizugawaguchi.
With Nobuna riding the flagship, the Oniyodomaru, the seven iron armored
ships of the Kuki navy took up position as if it was a train on the rails. The
Murakami Navy's fleet of six hundred small boats took up position in a line and
collided head on with the iron armored troop the flagship which bore
Kobayakawa's emblem, the right head magatama, was located right in the
center of the line.
The distance between each of the lead ships decreased as they approached, and
just when it seemed like they would collide.
While being jolted by the waves, Kobayakawa Takakage looked at the huge iron
armored ships without changing her expression, and calmly raised her right
hand.
Hard port. Before the enemy leader can counter, form a wall with the 600 ships
of the fleet and pin down the Oniyadomaru.
Hard port fellows! Murakami Takeyoshi yelled.
Right in front of the iron armored fleet, the Murakami Navy's fleet changed
course turned perpendicular in front of enemy, extending in a line against the
iron armored fleet, taking a form to block the course of iron armored ship fleet.
To succeed against the unreasonable intellect of the enemy, the battle formation
of the both two navies became the form of character.
is the Murakami Navy, is the Kuki Navy's iron armored fleet.
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As the heavy iron armored fleet was slow, the Murakami Navy's ships were
light and fast.
The speed difference between them was their only hope.
Yoshiharu who was shivering nervously next to Kobayakawa Takakage let his
voice leak out.
If the 'T strategy' fails, we'll be annihilated. We only have a few hours to
counter their leader. How long will Oda Nobuna hestiate? To maintain the T
shape, how many of our ally's ships will be sunk by the iron armored ship's
cannons-
Though I personally suggested this, and this is the only way for the Murakami
Navy to win against the invincible iron armored fleet, however it is too
dangerous and the sacrifice is too large....the trembling of Yoshiharu's body
wouldn't stop.
Kobayakawa Takakage who competes for the world as the effective prime
minister of the Mori Clan. The determination to protect this girl, it is so heavy,
and such a severe thing, he finally realized.
Kobayakawa-san. It is impossible to completely defeat all seven ships. But if
you sink the lead ship, the Oniyodomaru, Oda Nobunaga....no, you'll defeat the
general called Oda Nobuna and win. To accomplish the miracle, assume the T
shape to catch the head of the iron armored fleet the Oniyodomaru, and then
there is no choice but to make a concentrated attack on the Oniyodomaru with
all of the warships lined up. If the Oniyodomaru wasn't in the front, this plan
would be suicidal, but it seems our gamble succeeded.
Yoshiharu. You said. If the Princess Knight Oda Nobuna was equal to the hero
Oda Nobunaga, she would certainly lead with the flagship. Everything so far
has followed your predictions.
The other reason is that it is likely easier to command the single column with
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the flagship in the lead. But I wonder if we can win against such a huge fleet
with Japanese-style ships made of wood. Even if we win, how many victims will
be lost on both sides? Kobayakawa-san, my reckless plan may take away your
precious people as well as a large number of soldiers and pirates.
Takakage quietly grasped Yoshiharu's hand.
I was able to meet you. Everyone entrusted their life to you. The outcome will
be luck this time. No matter what sort of conclusion we meet, I won't regret it.
At this time, Takeyoshi who was behind the couple laughed, Maybe it would
be better if I wasn't here. He personally threw himself into rowing and turned
the front personally.
Boy. The T shaped strategy of turning in front of the enemy and revealing our
defenseless flank, I wouldn't dare think of it. But, after the theory was explained
step by step, this is the only way to break the iron monster. Preparing the T-
shape by turning the head of the ships in front of the enemy, its a high-stakes
attack on the flagship that sticks out at the head of the enemy line before all of
the warships can rearrange their battle formation. There is little time. An all or
nothing match.
I didn't think up the T-shaped strategy. I'm just a high school student. I don't
have that sort of knowledge, talent, or experience. The theory is the originator of
the T-shaped tactics in the Sengoku Era, was the veterans who boast combat
experience as pirates of the Murakami Navy, Murakami-san.
Huh? Us? What's going on?
In the masterpiece about modern battles, SLG's Admiral's Decision, Meiji

Volume the T tactics were talked about in this way. The combined fleet lead by
Togo Heihachirou, fought the Russian Baltic fleet to decide the fate of the nation
in a naval battle on the Sea of Japan. A navy staff officer from Iyo, Akiyama
Saneyuki, read the strategy books left behind by old Warring States Murakami
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Navy, and devised the T strategy. And he used the Murakami Navy's tactics
in a modern battle, and won against the Baltic fleet.
No, wait a moment boy. I don't remember writing the T strategy and the like in
a strategy book?
Well, I guess you can write it now. In fact, aren't you executing it now?
Is that so, that's right. Wait, wait! That wouldn't be it. Isn't this the strategy you
just suggested? Yeah, I don't understand anymore.
Come. Its flying, Yoshiharu.
Takakage squinted and looked up to the sky.
The cannonball and gun bullets.
They were shot from the iron armored fleet lined up behind the Oniyodomaru.
It was a force that seemed like it was covering the sky.
The enemy is also only aiming at this flagship. The numbers of the Murakami
Navy is becoming a hindrance. Therefore the general, in other words Oda
Nobuna predicted that she will win if she takes me out, Yoshiharu.
Even so, that is within my and Kobayakawa-san's calculations. Sink the

Oniyodomaru first. Until then, I'll try to support you.
While holding Kobayakawa's shoulder, Yoshiharu shouted.
To accurately shoot the cannons installed in the side of the ship at a forward
enemy, the iron armored ship column has to break its line and show its flank.
But, it takes time for the slow and heavy iron armored fleet to change their
battle formation, the Kuki Navy put all their effort into practicing the new
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column plan. They are sure to be unprepared for different formations. While the
other side is taking time to turn, the Murakami Navy that excels at mobility can
move and complete the T wall and sink the Oniyodomaru!
But, The T tactics has to turn in front of the enemy the iron armored fleet may
deal with the scheme by responding with a new clever scheme, Yoshiharu and
Takakage were seeing farther into the future.
Oda Nobuna to be precise it was Kuki Yoshitaka who first noticed, While
turning at full speed, the enemy is completely defenseless. She immediately
made a judgment, and ordered the Oniyodomaru at the head of the column
formation to aim at the Murakami Navy's flagship, the Atakabune that flew
Kobayakawa's right head Tomoe flag.
Because the prow was facing the enemy fleet it was difficult to shoot accurately,
nonetheless the iron armored ship was proud of its strong firepower. Before it
finished turning around, they will use this tremendous firepower to sink the
Murakami Navy's flagship that Kobayakawa Takakage was riding, Nobuna's
target narrowed down to this point in an instant.
What is that. That ridiculously large bullet! What kind of person is Oda
Nobuna, boy!?
Its destructive power is too huge! Damn. Even if the line of fire misses the
flagship, the bullet that missed will blow away our ally ships one by one!
Formidable. Certainly this is hell! Before we finish turning, we might be torn

asunder and completely destroyed, boy!
The iron armored ships fired and showed off its excessive destructive power.
The explosive sound, the gigantic sea spray like a tsunami, black smoke,
everything gave off a strange feeling that seemed like it wasn't from the real
world.
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The pirates who lived with a small threshold between life and death, with hell
below a single thin plank, turned pale.
While we are forcibly bending their course, we can't do anything.
You are done for if you are that monster's target!
First off, the iron stretched over the ship means we can't use our fire kamikaze
suicide charge, because it cannot burn. This is it...
It was advantageous for us, against the Sue army in Itsukushima.
By defeating the Saika corps on the sea, that fellow Oda Nobuna makes us
pirates of the Murakami Navy tremble, this fellow is an outrageous woman,
Takeyoshi was astonished.
This Princess Knight who was covered with blood and injured so badly that you
couldn't bear to look at her at the opening of the Amano Iwato. In spite of the
boy she loved to such an extent changing sides to the Mori, she charges towards
Tenka Fubu without regard, transforming herself, and became rather thrilling.
She is a great woman. In just six months, she became strong like a different
person!
Takeyoshi scolded the pirates that were starting to waver.
You all, I believe in Miss! So, I believe in the boy Miss believes in! Guys, show
your guts! Clench your teeth and defend your post for Miss until the end, if you
are a man then endure!
...Please support me everyone....sorry...
Takakage linked the fingers of both hands in order to pray, praying for the
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pirates whose ships were being sunk one by one.
Its still hard for Kobayakawa-san to watch people die in battle, what a gentle
child, Yoshiharu realized again.
We must win at any cost.
If we lose this battle, Kobayakawa-san's heart -
We finished turning the front, switch to attacking, Takeyoshi shouted.
Guys, show the results of your training! One target! The flagship at the head of
the enemy fleet! The Oniyodomaru is just one ship! There is little time left,
hurry!
The Oniyodomaru at the head of the column formation found itself facing the
Murakami Navy's large fleet that changed to a T formation.
The Atakabune of the Migi Mitsudomoe was located in the center of the fleet.
Such absurd tactics, its impossible, and yet the pirates are turning all at once
while keeping their order!
As one would expect of Japan's strongest pirates. Nobuna clicked her tongue
while standing on the top floor of the black tower watching the progress of the
battle with blazing eyes.
Cannons, guns, fire arrows, aim at the Migi Mitsudomoe and fire them all!
Aim only at Kobayakawa Takakage!
Although the iron armored ship and the Atakabune were both flaghips, the
difference in size, weight, and defense was equal to that of an infant and an
adult.
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The weight of the fire ships can't reach the deck of the iron armored ships. And
the fire ships can't reach the deck because they are hindered by the iron armored
hull. This is the reason why the iron armored ships boast such a height.
Now that the Murakami Navy's specialty Hourokuyaki, suicide charges with
fire ships, was now made completely powerless by the absurdly tall iron
armored ships and the thick iron armor, the Murakami Navy only earned some
time before being destroyed with their strange T strategy, Nobuna believed.
However, Kobayakawa's flagship is the center of the T, right in front of the

Oniyodomaru. Its the location most difficult to aim at for the cannons deployed
on the sides of the ship, Nobuna-sama.
The guys in the T, they surely predicted that we would take up column
formation. In that case, Sagara Yoshiharu is the enemy's strategist. Kuki
Yoshitaka said. She blinked her eyes as Nobuna crushed her feelings for
Yoshiharu.
If I don't win this fight in front of us, it will be impossible to regain Yoshiharu.
Although the enemy is focusing on the Oniyodomaru, they don't have the
power to sink the Oniyodomaru. If we had equipped the bow with a cannon,
they would be easy to kick about the thought that we could win by making a
column and shooting a volley was too sweet. But I'll hit you some way or
another.
Nobuna-chan. Something flew from the enemy fleet!
Sakon, its worthless. The thick iron armor stretch around the hull of the
Oniyodomaru will block the fire of the hourokuyaki. It is impossible to burn the
iron armored ships.
Nobuna was not shaken.
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But what the Murakami Navy fleet threw wasn't hourokuyaki.
It's a stone!
They are bundling up small stones and throwing them at the armor one after
another?
Six hundred ships all threw stones at the same time. Moreover, they are only
aiming at the prow of the Oniyodomaru.
What stones?
A large number of stones sailed through the air and continued to strike the bow
of the Oniyodomaru.
What are they planning? Such a tiny possibility that these small stones can sink
the iron armored ships.
Nobuna-chan! The stones that hit the armor, they are stuck and aren't falling!
They aren't falling? That's impossible.
This is a magnet!
The magnets will stick to the iron? Are these used in compasses?
All at once, innumerable magnets covered the prow of the Oniyodomaru.
Kuroda Kanbei who reigned over Namban science wracked her whole brain
with all her might, only barely managed to get the huge iron armored ships to
float with a last minute calculation. When the side of the prow was receiving
magnets one after another, it was beginning to throw off its balance.
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Not good! The hull is slanting! No way! With such a tiny thing....
Nobuna-chan, the dust is also accumulating. Magnets are barely mined in

Japan. How did they gather so many?
Even if all the magnets coming from Hakata were collected it wouldn't be
enough! To begin with, its impossible to come up with this plan if you don't
know that we were building the iron armored ships!
Everyone, shake off the magnets sticking to the armor!
It's useless boss. We can't keep up!
New magnets are flying before we can brush them off...
Then, throw away the baggage in the ship's bottom with the usual method! If
we only throw away the baggage near the bow, the ship will stabalize!
That is not possible!
In the bottom of the iron armored ship, something like luggage practically
hasn't been loaded!
The space under this deck is occupied with the cannon and gun stations!
Yes. Because we loaded the cannon, we didn't store extra baggage!
Uwaa! You're right! Kuki Yoshitaka tore at her hair.
It's unavoidable, dump some of the cannons located near the bow!
That's impossible, it is too heavy to lift!
Even if it could be lifted, it would be necessary to break a large hole in the ship
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wall and it would be a huge loss to lose the cannon...
In that case, water would enter the whole and we would sink!
Nobuna stood in an imposing stance as the tower began to tilt significantly, and
clicked her tongue while staring at the Murakami Navy's large fleet deployed in
front of her.
I lost never, not to a magnet. The iron armored ship which combined the
quintessence of the new Namban science, will sink by tiny stones.
This exceedingly absurd iron armored ship was built at top speed. They weren't
able to come up with countermeasures in case the hull tilted and this ship that
was loaded with cannons and had iron attached to it was at its limits trying to
float.
It isn't Kobayakawa Takakage that came up such a monkey-like plan. It's
Yoshiharu. That time when Hanbei Takenaka trapped the Oda forces in the
Stone Sentinel Maze, Yoshiharu, without even trying to look for the exit to the
maze, destroyed the stone formations and erased the maze itself. In the first
place, a human being that knew that iron armored worships were being released
wouldn't be able to think up anti-armor measures.
Kazumasu stood next to Nobuna and suppressed her emotions by biting her
lips. By all rights, this iron armored fleet can't be defeated by the Murakami
navy. Yoshii is probably trying to change the future personally, she murmured
unconsciously.
Nobuna-chan. Even if he loses his memory, Yoshi is Yoshi. After all that guy is
the incomparable womanizer. In order to protect Kobayakawa Takakage, he
won't hesitate to change the future.
Yeah. He is that kind of guy. Yoshiharu already....won't come back.
Do you seriously believe that? Kazumasu asked while jumping onto

Nobuna's shoulder, and putting her hand on Nobuna's forehead.
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...No, I won't have that.
Nobuna's heart that had nearly broken, flared up again with these words.
Even if the partner the present Yoshiharu met first in this world is Kobayakawa
Takakage, Yoshiharu really met me first! He promised me when he pledged
himself, that guy will remain in this world until my dreams come true! I will
never let him say he forgot it! Never! There is no way that he can completely
forget it!
After screaming that, Nobuna said damn and closed her mouth.
Kuki Yoshitaka who was leading the hopeless work of shaking off all of the
magnets sticking to the prow one after another fell into a depression. I'm
jealous, I want that kind of burning love.
Truthfully, the first Princess Knight Yoshiharu met in the Sengoku Era was
actually Yoshimoto Imagawa, but Nobuna didn't know that. Further, Yoshiharu
first signed a master and servant contract with Hachisuka Goemon, but this also
wasn't known to Nobuna. If she had known, she might have done something to
those two in her jealousy.
Ah. What did you make me say, Sakon!? Aren't we in the middle of a battle
now!?
Hoho. Still. In the end Nobuna-chan won't give up Yoshii. Before the
Oniyodomaru sinks, we'll win if we sink the atakabune that Kobayakwa is on!
Slowly the iron armored fleet that had formed a single column formation began
to break apart.
Somehow a cannonball can hit the Atakabune with the Migi Mitsudomoe.
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All though the speed was as slow as a turtle, the cannons of the iron armored
fleet were beginning get an angle to aim and fire at the Atakabune with the
Migi Mitsudomoe.
From the cannon dock under the deck, there is a messenger from the cannon
instructor Gamo Ujistato! We have succeeded at turning the front of the
Oniyodomaru!
The 'Migi Mitsudomoe has fallen within the range of the cannons loaded on
the side of the ship!
Wait. If Yoshiharu is aboard that Atakabune with the Migi

Mitsudomoe....considering that guy's character, he should be riding with
Kobayakawa. I didn't come across him in the telescope earlier, but he might
have left his position by chance.
Nobuna suddenly hesitated about attacking.
But if Yoshiharu regains his memory he might scold, Did you lose the decisive
battle of Kizugawaguchi for the sake of one person, got a large number of my
comrades killed, and destroyed the Oda clan. Are you still Oda Nobuna? He
would surely be disappointed that I wasn't strong, Yoshiharu was that kind of
guy and changed her mind.
Yoshiharu will surely survive, even until now that Dodgeball Yoshiharu thing
until my dreams come true, Yoshiharu-
If it was the former Nobuna, she would have been swayed by her emotions.
Many times she had been swayed by her emotions, shed tears, and lost the big
fist.
In order to rescue Saito Dousan who was alone in Mino, she didn't kill
Nagamasa Asai and Yoshikage Asakura despite wining the battle of Anegawa.
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But, now, it was different.
I believe in Sagara Yoshiharu.
In this case Yoshiharu would always yell Shoot without care, and believe.
Even if you lost your memory, even if you forget your memories of me, even if
you are under Kobayakawa Takakage -
All warships, shoot! Aim at the 'Migi Mitsudomoe'!
Nobuna gave the order for an all-out attack.
At this time, the Oniyodomaru's hull was already tilted to its limit.
On the top of the inclined tower, Nobuna watched.
The large ship at the center of the Murakami Navy's fleet, the Migi
Mitsudomoe Atakabune, one shot, two shots, the cannonball finally hit.
It hit! The bow was blown away by the tremendous power!
Please look! The Migi Mitsudomoe is beginning to sink! With this the
Murakami Navy lost its commander, its a last moment victory for your friends!
....Dearuka.
(Yoshiharu, survive) Nobuna closed her eyes and prayed.
But right away, she noticed something odd.
No, something odd wasn't happening.
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The Murakami Navy's pirate group which should have lost the flagship that
their commander was aboard, were not shaken at all.
They were in perfect order as if nothing had happened, they continued to throw
the magnets one after another at the Oniyodomaru's bow that was in the middle
of sinking.
What? Despite the Migi Mitsudomoe sinking? What does it mean? Who is
commanding the huge fleet?
Its possible...Nobuna-chan. We may have been taken in by Kobayakawa-san.
Taken in? What do you mean, Sakon?
Kobayakawa wasn't aboard the Migi Mitsudomoe from the beginning. She put
her identical twin on the Migi Mitsudomoe. In addition, it would become the
target for the cannon, and it would nine times out of ten, be the duty to die a
real older sister!
Kazumasu who is also a younger twin sister was convinced. How cold-blooded
of a commander, to do such a truly heartless plan.
So, while anyone in the situation could see through the plan of using a twin as a
body double, It's impossible to do such a thing, that assumption became a
blind spot and she didn't notice.
However, Kobayakawa Takakge, did that.
The Kobayakawa Takakage that was standing proudly on the Atakabune with
the Migi Mitsudomoe that took the cannonball and was sinking it wasn't
Kobayakawa Takakage.
Ha. It isn't the younger sister. I am Motoharu Kikkawa!
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The warrior gave her introduction while roaring with laughter
You were caught! In this large fleet, where is my younger sister, the Oda clan
don't know anymore! When you find her, the Oniyodomaru will already be in a
watery grave. With this, the battle is Mori's victory!
The one who took off her Japanese flag headband, and continued to pretend to
be expressionless, was Kikkawa Motoharu.
It wasn't simply bravery.
Her whole body was like a clump of courage, rare even in Japan's Princess
Knights.
Because Kikkawa Motoharu is also a human, she still has the feeling of fear.
However, it is possible to conquer that fear with courage.
While boarding the Atakabune with the Migi Mitsudomoe as a body double
of Kobayakawa Takakage with the assumption of being sunk from the
beginning, Kikkawa Motoharu didn't have an expression of fear for even a
moment when the hull took the cannonball, and kept up her expressionless iron
mask like her younger sister.
When the Atakabune was successfully hit and began to sink, Motoharu who
knew that her role in this battle was over, gave her name and laughed
unconsciously.
Motoharu's courage which doesn't know limits, and the strength of the bonds
beyong life and death that connects the Mori Twin River sisters, it was outside
Oda Nobuna's calculations.
Despite receiving a cannonball of that size to the hull, older sister is alive. Its a
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miracle. No matter what, I'll accommodate it.

Kobayakawa Takakage and Sagara Yoshiharu boarded a shabby Hayafune at the
end of the line of the T formation.
Murakami Takeyoshi that boarded the true flagship with the two was
personally rowing the oar, because it is a small and light Hayafune.
If this ship was a large Atakabune, the oar rowers would be squeezed into the
cabin under the deck.
The Oda people are disturbed. They suddenly lost their attack target. Their
formation has also collapsed. Before I am found, the Oniyodomaru will sink,
and the Oda people will lose their morale and flee. This battle is Mori's victory
with another push. Older sister. I will certainly rescue you.
She is a good elder sister, Kobayakawa-san. Without hesitating, she

volunteered for the role of Kobayakawa-san's body double. I am not such a
qualified person.
That's right. Elder sister always disregards her life and continues to protect me.
Older sister is too good to me.
Well it was a good decision. It was a good plan for Kikkawa-san to stand as the
body double, and to buy an enormous quantity of magnets from Hakata,
Ryuku, and the Ming dynasty. Kobayakawa-san's courage is also amazing. If the
iron armored ships were just a bit more stable than I guessed, the magnet plan
would have failed.
I must have that determination or older sister would scold me for being a
coward.
He understood that Takakage's body was shaking.
Yoshiharu quietly hugged Takakage's shoulders.
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They just needed another push and the Oniyodomaru would sink.
The Oniyodomaru's tilting hull pitched forwardand the the bow began to slowly
sink.
Miss, Takamoto protected you.
Murakami Takeyoshi was convinced of of their victory and watched the

Oniyodomaru's huge build sink.
...These Mori Twin Rivers. It is my loss.

In the Oniyodomaru's tower that was currently tilting almost vertically, Nobuna
wasn't able to stand any longer and fell to her knees.
The wisdom and courage of the Mori Twin Rivers, and Yoshiharu's future
knowledge. The cause of our defeat is that the three gathered in the Mori clan.
Completely like three arrows. Yoshiharu is already...
Nobuna-chan, you cannot give up yet!
The shinobi Kazumasu grabbed Nobuna's body so she didn't fall out of the
tower.
T-t-t-that's right. On the assumption that Yoshiharu knew about the contents of
this battle in advance, I prepared one last hand for such a time.
Until now, it seems to have been hidden in the ship's bilge.
The pale, petite Princess Knight that climbed the tower said, I ordered each of
the ship's captains to open a small pouch I gave them in case an unlikely danger
visited the Oniyodomaru. I'm sorry I'm sorry. She clung to Nobuna's waist
while apologizing. Since the hull was tilting and shaking, her steps were
unsteady.
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It was the young genius tactician, Takenaka Hanbei.
Hanbei? Where have you been hidden until now? When did you board? What
is the small pouch?
I'm sorry. That...the sea is scary so I was trembling with closed eyes at the
bottom of the ship. And I felt that this secret plan must not be leaked to anyone
in advance, so I was silent until the last moment. In addition, it would hurt
Kanbei who was pleased and said Fufu we can win with the single
column....please don't bully me.
Dearuka. You are able to reverse the situation?
Yes. I can do it!
How?
The small bag that was handed to all of the ship captains, they all have
instructions. We will change the formation! The six iron armored ships have
already begun to change into a new formation! This Oniyodomaru does not
need to be able to move! Soon our certain victory formation will be completed!
But Hanbei. Aren't you unable to use your specialty Onmyodou techniques
anymore?
Yes! This formation isn't the Kimon Gates of Onmyodo. This formation we are
building now, is a future battle formation.
Future...
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Yes. I am the strategist that serves Yoshiharu-san. Even if he is far away, I know
what Yoshiharu is thinking. I can predict what Yoshiharu will surely do, and
planned beyond that.
Somehow Hanbei's proud smile made Nobuna remember her jealousy a little.
Chapter 4
The Murakami Navy pirates that was convinced of their victory were boiling in
excitement but soon change their expression.
Before they noticed, to protect the Oniyodomaru with its bow that is beginning
to steadily sink, the six iron armored ships advanced slowly and finished their
new formation.
The six ships drew an arc centered on the Oniyodomaru and slowly built a
circular defensive formation.
Each iron armored ship turned to a sideway position and took out their loaded
cannons outside to aim.
It was a circle of certain death that could fire its cannons in every direction for
360 degrees.
In the slightest chance that the Murakami Navy were to focus all its effort to
sink the Oniyodomaru alone, Hanbei will exquisitely reverse the situation.
The Oniyodomaru became protected in the center of the circular formation and
the magnet stones couldn't reach it anymore.
Thats the ring formation!
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Yosiharu leaned forward unconsciously.
Ring formation?
Kobayakawa-san. That is the formation which should be devised in the 20th

century to protect a flagship from airplane aerial bombardment. Why is this
formation in the Sengoku era I can't believe it!
Yoshiharu. Perhaps someone among the Oda clan could predict that you
would try to sink the iron ship using magnets.
In this era of Japan, there should be no one who would think something like a
magnet to sink a ship like that. Is there somebody who can follow the way I
think to that extent?
Previously Kuroda Kanbei, studied a Namban knowledge called

electromagnetic science from a Namban scholar in Kyushu. She should also be
familiar with the properties of magnets.
Wha-, then she is-!?
But, Kuroda Kanbei most probably had her hands full in designing the iron
armored ship, the cannon and inventing the column formation. Kuroda Kanbei
may certainly be a quick witted fellow but her biggest flaw is she is ignorant of
the subtleties of another person's heart. So it's probably the Oda clan's most
prominent strategist. It's most likely that Takenaka Hanbei devised this ring
formation after predicting your thoughts.
And that Takenaka Hanbei that could go this far is also a proof of the deep trust
that was built between you two.
The Oda clan that was able to ally with both strategists. Kuroda Kanbei and
Takenaka Hanbei, as expected they are truly a fearsome
combination. Takakage murmured.
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Takenaka Hanbei's true role was just to be traditional onmyouji strategist that
was destined to vanish. But it seems that by meeting a person like you that came
from the future, her talent further bloomed even more than before.
Takakage understood her army had already lost.
The Murakami Navy that was beginning to fall apart from the cannonballs fired
by the iron armored ships that is in a ring formation.
Thats why battles never made me bored! Murakami Takeyoshi roared while
rowing the oar to move the small Hayafune avoiding cannonballs to protect
Takakage.
One section of the Murakami Navy's fleet has started burn.
Fanned by the wind, the flames were spreading one by one.
Takakage and Yoshiharu hadn't thought about any measures to counter the fire
that is spreading in the fleet.
By imitating the iron armored ship's iron, there might be a way to defend
against the fire.
However the Mori Clan and the Murakami Navy didn't have the technology to
penetrate the iron to a ship.
Kobayakawa-san. Wait a sec. Takenaka Hanbei should have died during the
siege of Miki Castle right? So why is it, that that Takenaka Hanbei is alive? This
is so different from the history I know!
Sagara Yoshiharu, you saved Takenaka Hanbei from her destiny. You changed
her fate to let her live.
Me!!??
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There were various twists and turns, and various people that put all their effort
for the sake of saving Takenaka Hanbei who had a fatal fate. However, she
would have certainly died if you hadn't put all of your effort to save her. So you
can proudly say that your devotion and passion saved Takenaka Hanbei.
As Yoshiharu heard Takakage's shocking words, a sharp pain ran through his
head again.
I, why did I do such a thing. To change history recklessly-
You once said that you would protect me. So it might be the same reason. No,
there isn't any reason. You are such a man by nature. If a Princess Knight fell
injured in front of you, you can't help but protect them. Your body will probably
move before you notice
...I Wait what? Takenaka Hanbei is a Princess Knight?
Yes. She once served the Saito clan, but when she met you she left the Saito clan
and until this very moment is serving the Oda clan as a strategist. But rather
than being a strategist directly under Oda Nobuna, she became Sagara
Yoshiharu's strategist.
....Takenaka Hanbei...
The plan that Yoshiharu and Takakage thought up using the T formation and
magnet to attack and sink the Oniyodomaru, was now broken.
Just because that that Takenaka Hanbei was alive.
Wait, you said Hanbei is an onmyouji strategist, right, Kobayakawa-san? But if

she is an onmyoji, the 8 gates of the Stone Sentinel maze should have been used
right? But instead, this ring formation that is a future battle formation that was
developed to respond to aerial warfare was used.
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Well, Yoshiharu. Takenaka Hanbei who you gave another chance to live might
have abandoned the onmyoji beliefs and let it perish quietly, and she probably
decided to advance to the future as long as she lives.
Did I just lead the Murakami Navy's to its defeat?
Don't cha worry about it, kid. You just saved a Princess Knight called Takenaka
Hanbei. That's the way of life of a man should be, so that's that.
ya vermins, retreat! Swim or row as fast ya can leave da area ya critters! Don't
cha dare die here! Murakami commanded the fleet that was beginning to fall
apart.
Kikkawa Motoharu who served as a body double, was seated safely in a

different Hayafune.
But, as long as it remained in this area of the ocean, its destruction was certain.
...Sorry, Kobayakawa-san. The me of now lost his memory, but it looks like the
previous me in this world done something here and there. No, I already
changed history itself . Being that reason, we lost.
Its fine, Yoshiharu. You are a good man. That's why, I
This might be the end. Takakage quietly put her body in Yoshisharu's
embrace.
But on this battlefield where the Murakami Navy was facing a terrible crisis and
collapsing, Takakage wasn't shaking.
But if I am defeated by you, I am satisfied.
The words didn't come out.
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Yoshiharu embraced Takakage's shoulders with all his might.
In this sea where the people and ships fought each other intensely, a group of
small dolphins were jumping.
Heh, will ya look at that, a finless black porpoise. Among us scaliwags, we call
that a zegondou. Ha ha, That critters kinda look like Takamoto ya know.
Takeyoshi cheered.
Strange. In this blazing battlefield where we just lost, I feel like I had hugged a girl like
this. Yoshiharu realized.
At that time, my power wasn't enough to protect that girl, I had a feelings that I
couldn't expressed in words, even if I have lost my memory now, it has been stuck in the
corner of my head all this time, and it never left me at all.
Don't cha worry, kid. You didn't let the 2 ojou-chans die. If youre da kid that
changed the history, then change it again with a blast! As long as we are alive
and kicking, we can brawl against the Kuki navy again and again!
Even after suffering his first crushing defeat of his entire life, somehow he
wasn't even slightly agitated at all and even if the fleet that he taken cared off
was almost completely annihilated.
But, the flames that was fanned by the strong wind was now approaching the
Hayafune that Yoshiharu was aboard.
Whether Takakage and Yoshiharu could somehow survive, it would be tough.
Yoshiharu. Because a large number of our ships are crowded together, once
one burned the others burst into flames one by one. After losing the battle of
Akakabe due to fire, did Cao Cao see such a scene?
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It's all right Kobayakawa-san. I will protect Kobayakawa-san to the end. In

addition, the Oda army doesn't know which ship Kobayakawa-san and
Murakami-san are riding on. And even if they find our location and know that
the 2 of you guys are on this boat, Murakami-san can steer the ship out of the
way of the cannons.
hell yeah. Cause I am the one that is rowing this damn oar with the best that I
can give. So protect ojou-chan kid! Be her shield when an arrow flies over here!
Roger that, Murakami-san! But I wish I could put Kobayakawa-san on the back
of the dolphin.
But before Yoshiharu could say But I will still going to be your shield to protect you
from the arrows Kobayakawa-san. he heard something.
And in the same time, a sharp pain assaulted Yoshiharu's head again.
Ugh...at a time like this, again. I think I'm remembering something.
Yosh-, Yoshiharu. Are you fine?
Im-, I'm alright! Please hold onto me.

They can't escape, and it's shaking while they can barely escaped sinking. In the
Oniyodomaru's tower which was in the safe zone protected by the iron armored
fleet, Takenaka Hanbei was revealing the trick to Nobuna.
*sob sob* The iron armored fleet that made a huge circle centered on the
flagship, the Oniyodomaru. It's a formation that can fire cannons in all
directions. I suppose you can call it a ring formation. The Oniyodomaru can't be
reached by the magnet attacks anymore when it is protected in the center of the
ring formation.
The single column that Harima devised is to utilize the maximum firepower of
the cannons, but Yoshiharu saw right through it and prepared something
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beforehand, but you prepared a trick beyond that. As expected of you.
Yes. I didn't serve Yoshiharu-san for a long time for nothing. Even if Yoshiharu-
san is familiar with the Sengoku Era, I thought about obtaining knowledge of
the future battles beyond that point. In order to break the iron armored ships
that boast of being invincible on the sea, Yoshiharu-san who came from the
future would surely aim at the Oniyodomaru that is at the head of the single
column.
So you are saying that he would surely use magnets?
A bold idea that defies usual battle tactics is characteristic of Yoshiharu-san.

When I previously created the 8 Gates Stone Sentinel Maze trap, Yoshiharu-san
beat the stone maze by the ridiculous means of destroying the maze itself, I'm
sure he will use magnets. Even if he can't raise a sufficient stock of it in Japan, he
would just send ships to Ryuku and Ming dynasty to gather it, that's why the
Mori had a fleet for that reason. *sob sob *
Kazumasu who had been listening to Hanbei's lecture let out a cry of
admiration, To read Yoshi's mind to that extent, its like youre already a
married couple. Pachi~
A vein in Nobuna's temple twitched.
Dearuka~, you do beat Harima in the number of days serving Yoshiharu so it

is given, right Hanbei?
I-, I-,I didn't do such a thing like beating Kanbei-san! But surely right now,
Kanbei-san that is at Sumiyoshi's port is now saying 'Magnet! Iron is attracted to
magnets is the basis of electromagnetic science! Simeon who is a strategist who
studied Namban science! I let my rival Takenaka Hanbei become famous again!'
and will be downhearted! If possible, I didn't want to use it. So I stayed hidden
until the last moment. Sob. Sob.
Oh, I see. But the flags of the First class black official that filled Sumiyoshi's
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port until a while ago have all gone away.
What kind of revenge will be done to her by Kanbei later, Hanbei was
frightened.
But when did you made the ring formation? We and the Murakami Navy's
girls weren't aware of it you know?
While originally the iron armored fleet would arrange itself into a single
column formation, there was no need to stand still and could slowly advance.
When the Oniyodomaru that was at the head was sinking and stopped
advancing, only the following iron armored fleet would continue advancing
forward at the speed of a turtle. At this time, I was able to spread the order to
the following fleet to the left and right to construct the ring formation. In the
eyes of the Murakami Navy, it looks like the single column formation is
collapsing but I only made it look like the iron armored fleet was falling into
chaos in order to slowly encircle that Oniyodomaru.
So your saying that they got hit with a surprise attack on both sides huh. You
really saved us there. Even though you lost your onmyoji powers, Hanbei is still
a peerless genius strategist.
Yoshiharu-san deserves those praises, I was taught to advance to the future by

Yoshiharu-san.
Hanbei, I don't believe that Yoshiharu will die in this war.
Yes. Because there is a person who can't read the mood who gave up their
work in Harima to kidnap Yoshiharu-san. They will surely take advantage of
the situation to bring him back.
Is that so .... Don't tell me?
Yes. A serious source of chaos was produced, but we can't deal with an urgent
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situation without making sacrifices Hanbei nodded.
The Murakami Navy's fleet made a quick turn, and began to escape from the
iron-armored ships.
A violent sea sprayed broke and soaked Yoshiharu and Takakage's bodies.
In addition to the aggressive turning, whenever a cannonball landed in the sea,

a wave rose making the hulls slant seriously.
When Yoshiharu and Takakage embraced each other to support their bodies and
to not fall from the deck and into the sea.
Is that the hated Sagara Yoshiharu over there!? You shall not escape, I will
murder you!
From the other ship which was in flames, a Princess Knight unsheathed her
katana and jumped into the air, landing in front of Yoshiharu and Takakage.
Disheveled long black hair and the short sleeved kimono that had discarded its
armor to jump from ship to ship, the whole body was releasing a terrible
bloodlust as she glared at Yoshiharu with a bloodcurdling gaze.
Yo-, you are?
This girl with a wide forehead and a seemingly unyielding spirit, Yoshiharu
surely remembered her.
Where did I meet her?
Did you really forgotten about me! It is I, 1 of the Oda clan vassal, lord of Omi's
Sakamoto castle, commander of the Tamba region, Koretou Hyuga no Kami!
Akechi Juubei Mitsuhide! Desu~!
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Akechi Mitsuhide!?
Akechi Mitsuhide, the rebel that killed Nobunaga in Honnouji?
Somehow, I had an image of a middle-aged salaryman that is exhausted from the

harassment he receive from his bullying boss, but who would have think that its a
beautiful raven black-haired Japanese beuty?
Hu hu hu, Leaving Harima without Nobuna-samas permission was the right
choice. Because I predicted that the schemer Kobayakawa Takakage would use
the leader of the Harima front, Kikkawa Motoharu, to serve as her body double!
But unfortunately, this will be the end for the both of you!
This is reckless Akechi-san! And besides, won't you be punish for violating
commands from the higher ups? But first of all, how the heck did you find us in
the middle of this large fleet?!
Fuhuhuh. I brought a dog with a useful nose!
Mitsuhide put on a refreshing smile, and lifted a small child wearing a tiger
headdress by the neck.
It seems that there was another figure hidden behind Mitsuhide's back, another
animal, no, another Princess Knight had boarded.
....sniff, sniff, its Yoshiharu's smell, no doubt.
It's a tiger!? No wait, its a little girl that is eaten by a tiger costume! But more
importantly, don't bring kids in the battlefield!
....Mu. Not a tiger, its Maeda Inuchiyo. In addition, Inuchiyo is an adult.
Hahahaha. This handy fellow is able to pick up Sagara Senpai's scent even
from far away, it was the right decision to take her from the Himeji camp, as
expected of the wise Juubei!
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...I have been completely forgotten by Yoshiharu. Annoyed. The memories of

our intense nights have been tarnish.
Your Inuchiyo even though your tiger girl? But wait a sec, what's with the
intense night thing!?
...That white, syrupy sticky medicine was so hot. My body flushes

remembering it.
Don't say something confusing in front of Kobayakawa-san!
Inuchiyo became moody, ... Hmph, You didn't infiltrated as expected. But, until
Yoshiharu is captured, no pirate boats will come near. Carrying her scarlet
spear, she jumped onto the ship that is trying to come close to Takakage's ship.
So agile. But why would Inuchiyo be eaten by a tiger?
This irresponsible senpai must be silenced, while you have this fianc called
Juubei, you committed infidelity with your master Nobuna-sama, and then you
throw it all away and flee to the Mori clan! Your crime deserves certain death!
No more excuses, give me your life!
Eh? Wait a minute Akechi-san!? You were engaged with whom!? What are you
talking about!?
That's right. Sagara Yoshiharu's lover should have only been Oda Nobuna.
Takakage who was protected behind Yoshiharu babbled it out unconsciously.
Kobayakawa-san. While I don't remember any story like that, but if there is a
major eyewitness then it must be true. But, this is the first time I have heard
about being engaged to Akechi Mitsuhide.
All the of that stories are in the past. Yoshiharu's present lover is me.
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....Ko-, Kobayakawa-san....
Pachi~.
The figures of Yoshiharu and Takakage who were about to enter a world for
themselves in front of her, blew away Mitsuhide's last bit of reasoning.
MUUKIII~!!! How dare you two play with a maiden's heart!
Akechi-san, calm down!
Whats with this 'Akechi-san'~!? Although I was able to endure it because the
person you had an affair with was Nobuna-sama, but now my patience has
already fallen out to the bottom.
Please wait! I can't apologize if you don't explain it step by step!
Sagara Senpai, my hatred for you is 100 times bigger than my beauty! Please
die!
Mitsuhide again entered a sword stance, and rushed in the direction of

Takakage who stood behind Yoshiharu.
Such swordsmanship with violently shaking footing! Takakage exclaimed

without thinking.
I can't evade on such a narrow ship, its too dangerous! Kobayakawa-san will be
skewered if I dodge!
Regrets like you're in a ship, means nothing to me!!!
Kid, protect ojou-chan somehow! Murakami Takeyoshi shouated while he

was rowing at full strength to evade the cannonballs.
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Yoshiharu protected Takakage unconsciously, and leaned towards Mitsuhide

with outstretched arms.
He was prepared for his body to be pierced with the sword. No, his body
moved without thinking before his mind was ready.
Akechi-san! Just stab me! Ignore Kobayakawa-san!
It was the same as that time when I drank the sake from the cups of Murakami-san's in
the ritual, there is another person inside of me, a man totally different from the fellow
who spent his days going to high school, who can put his life on the line without
thinking to protect a girl. Yoshiharu was surprised by himself.
Yoshiharu!
Takakage.
....Sagara Senpai...!
As for Mitsuhide who was in a sword stance, she also rushed towards
Yoshiharu's chest.
... His Still the same, Senpai is still Sagara Senpai.
Behind the hayafune, the roar of a cannonball exploding resounded.
Mitsuhide tosses her sword and jumped into Yoshiharu's arms.
Akechi-san!?
Juubei loves Senpai!
Just like that, she pressed her lips to Yoshiharu's lips.
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Takakage who was almost shaken off the Hayafune by the encroaching blasts
and waves, raised her dubious voice eh? without thinking for a moment.
Yoshiharu couldn't dodge something that was beyond his expectations.
Mitsuhide that was in the midst of the enemy's teritory, in front of Kobayakawa
Takakage, with Murakami Takeyoshi who is riding the same boat, everything
was forgotten, she wanted Yoshiharu this Yoshiharu, nothing had changed
from the Yoshiharu that entered the service of the Oda clan, the moment she
realized it was the same man, something that had been damned up in Mitsuhide
this whole time overflowed.
Yoshiharu. Do you not want to return to the dream world anymore?
While being kissed, in the crown of Yoshiharu's head, it was whispered, a shock
like he had been struck by lightning ran through him.
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This voice-
These words-
I, at that time, I felt like when I was wandering between life and death, I was called back
by the voice of my mom.
That-
At that time, the person who pulled me back into this world-
Wasn't mom-
Do you still want give it a try in that dream world? You need to keep your
promise to protect Nobuna right?
Mitsuhide recognized the reality that was hard to accept.
She spoke the words she must never must be spoken.
The words, the words that were necessary to wake Yoshiharu again, she realized
it instinctively.
Sagara Yoshiharu at that moment that these words were whispered in his ear.
Came back.
Everything was remembered.
Sagara Yoshiharu, pledge your allegiance to me as your master, and swear

your loyalty.
Tenka Fubu, that night my heart was stolen by the girl that continued to fight alone
and dreamed of rushing into the world beyond the sea.
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I also to make you shine upon the world, want to protect you.
That night when the sickly crybaby onmyoji swore her loyalty to me.
I vowed to myself. I came to this era for your sake. I will never make you sad. I
promise.
In order to rescue Nobuna who is cornered in the Battle of Kanegasaki, I personally

volunteered for the sacrificial duty, ready to die and made Nobuna cry huge tears.
Yoshiharu did his very very best. He is a courageous and very strong child.
When I fell wounded on the battlefield, and was at death's doorstep, that night I was
saved by the warm words and soft skin of someone.
Will Mr. 'Santa Claus' come to 'Christmas' next year?
If you are a good child. But there will be no present if you burn down Eizan
OK?
That winter day when I exchanged a kiss with my master for the first time.
Uwa.....WHOOOOOOAAAAAAAHHHHH!
That night when I was stricken by my powerlessness and continued to run carrying the
small girl that was awaiting death on my back.
And then.
Even if death tears us apart, my heart will forever be together with you
Yoshiharu. My companion in this life will only be you.
That's right.
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While the whole world watched, we kissed.
Even if we lost our lives in that moment, there were no regrets because we were
together.
At that time, the Amano Iwato which was connected to the future was open overhead.
However, only one person can pass through it.
But I did not go back.
Because it was wrong to leave Nobuna.
Surrounded by the enemy siege, Nobuna had already been shot in the leg, there was no
place to flee.
It was already impossible for Nobuna to climb the Amano Iwato without any help.
Nobuna, stay alive. Even if I disappear, you can still live. Don't look back.
Advance forward. I love you.
...I love you...
This is the first and last thing this mouth will speak. Don't forget. You are not
alone.
Yoshiharu, watch out!
Until the end, I became Nobuna's shield, and with an arrow in my back, I sensed that I
was hit by two more.
Then my sight went black.
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.
.
Why did I forget that!
I am 1 of the Oda vassal, lord of Oumi's Nagahama castle, the commander of the
Chuugoku region, thats me, Sagara Yoshiharu!
No, more than that, I met Oda Nobuna in this world, served, and loved Nobuna this
much.
When I was told to drink a cup of sake by Os-san Murakami, the reason my courage
surged suddenly and choose a cup, rather than my own power, it was my devotion to
protect Nobuna.
I can't do anything alone. I'm powerless, I'm timid, I'm not good at fighting. I'm
really just an ordinary high school student.
But for Nobunas sake, I changed.
For her sake, I am bestowed with inexhaustible courage.
Yeah.
Why did I forget about it!?
Why did I suspected that this world is just a dream?
It is not a dream!
thats right, this is not a dream.
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This is the real world!
Why did I suspect that it was a dream?
Everything is real.
I am alive.
More than that, I am not alone.
I lived as Sagara Yoshiharu, came across paths with Nobuna and ran for her sake and
almost always lost my life many times, and each time, I was rescued by my comrades
and continued to live.
The voice of my mom who called me back when I was half dead in the Retreat of
Kanegasaki, it was Juubei-chan's voice. Yoshiharu realized it for first time.
And this time when I lost my memory, I was forcibly pulled back by Juubei-chan
again.
The reality that Mitsuhide loved him so much, Yoshiharu has finally prepared to
accept it head on.
It might pave a way to the catastrophic Honnoji Incident.
But the present Yoshiharu was aboard the Murakami Navy's ship with the
schemer Kobayakawa Takakage.
Yoshiharu realized that he was completely torn between the Oda clan and the
Mori clan.
Juubei-chan! When we have a match with the Mori in this Kizugawaguchi,

Nobuna didn't die in the battle in Honbyo Temple right!? She is alive right!?
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Senpai? That's right, Nobuna-sama is alive! At last, you remembered!?

muchuu~
You, why are you trying to kiss me? Wait a sec, stop it! Were still on the
Murakami Navy's ship!
Oh God, Buddha, Hachiman Daibosatsu, and neko-sama! Senpai has at last
understood Juubei's love and a miracle occurred! I won't let go anymore!
Wait wait wait!
I won't wait! Do you still think you can still be bound with your master, you
annoying man! Senpai's wife is this Juubei! Even if Senpai is obssess with
Nobuna-sama, Juubei will comfort Senpai without fail! Even if it takes years!
Eh, Juubei-chan? This is Strange. That Juubei-chan who shouldn't be able to

recognize my relationship with Nobuna now recognize it!? What happened to
make this messed up situation after I lost my memory!?
Juubei's love will overwrite Senpai's heart! Now, we must go back to the Oda
clan!
Then stop trying to kiss my face! Don't give me a hickey! I'll get killed by
Nobuna!
So noisy and fussy! I can't stand it anymore! While its mortifying to say it,
Juubei yearns for Senpai! I'll turn a blind eye to Kobayakawa Takakage, so come
with me quietly! And then we'll get married!
I refuse! And how the heck will we go?
For such a time, I carried horuyaki on my back. We will blow up together!
Uwaa! When Juubei-chan broods, her personality runs out of control aahhh!
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Oi kid! Cause I have my hands full running from those damn cannons so I can't
help ya! Murakami Takeyoshi yelled at a loss.
This man, despite his rugged looks, was naive when it came to relationships
between a man and woman.
I'm completely useless when it comes to bloody battles between men and
women. What to do, ojou-chan? If we interfere with this girl poorly, she'll
seriously blow us up! Her eyes are serious!
....Yoshiharu....
Ah, it's like that.
Kobayakawa-san is right behind me.
Yoshiharu regained all his memories of the Oda clan, but he didn't lose the
memories he spent with Kobayakawa and the Mori clan.
I decided not to make any excuse.
No, I just can't.
I want to protect Kobayakawa-san who has been burden with the Mori clan after losing
her older brother, in truth I made an oath, those were all my true feelings.
Even now, the feeling of wanting to protect Kobayakawa-san had not changed in any
way.
However, I already met Nobuna, but because I had no memory, it's not only friendship
that bloomed between me and Kobayakawa-san, she already took a small part of my
heart.
I could never do such treacherous thing like leaving Nobuna behind.

Yoshiharu wanted to explain, but what was done is done.
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Yoshiharu can't choose either of it anymore.
He can't abandon either the Mori or Oda.
A man who once exchanged a promise to protect a girl, even if he die can't make
reasons to not keep it. If I break it, then I die as a man. What should I do? What should I
do!?
In this way Yoshiharu can't choose either them, caused once he choose, the one
who is not choosen will lost its will and have their heart crushed.
But.
....Yoshiharu.... You betrayed me. Not only did you had Oda Nobuna as your
lover, but it also seems you have enticed Akechi Mitsuhide....and now your face
says you want to go back to the Oda clan.
In an emotionless voice, Takakage murmured.
hmph. What is it with this woman? He is not betraying or turning traitor,

rather youre the one who is trying to steal Senpai! You are the wrong one!
Juu-, Juubei-chan, calm down a little!
Although Juubei is so compassionate and tolerant, the only one I can recognize
as Senpai's adulterous lover, is only my master Nobuna-sama.
Juubei-chan, don't look down on love triangles! The Oda clan will descend into
bloodshed!
....The rumors of being the number one womanizer might be true. Sagara
Yoshiharu.
Kobayakawa-san is going to kill me.
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Yoshiharu prepared himself.
Rather than dying valiantly in a battlefield protecting Nobuna, it seems like this will be
my last moment.
However.
The action that Takakage took in regard to Yoshiharu was unexpected.
She forcibly pushed Yoshiharu off the ship.
Because it was such a calm movement, Yoshiharu and Mitsuhide were caught
off guard.
Eh? Kobayakawa-san, why...?
Eh, Senpai? I'll rescue you now!
Mitsuhide quickly jumped into the sea and held Yoshiharu underwater.
Ko- Kobayakawa-san.
When life has become a dream...idiot. You weren't my Onii-sama.

Kobayakawa-san. What are you saying?
The person I was looking for was older brother. You are different from older
brother. Unless you are my older brother, you aren't a vassal of the Mori clan. A
man of Oda. In the first place, my older brother didn't have such a habit of
careless infidelity. I'm disappointed in you.
That wasn't it, Kobayakawa-san should be saying I'm a man different from her
older brother while being embarrased, even though it was the same words, the
meaning was different-
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I don't want to see your face anymore. Go back to the Oda clan.
For the sake of the me who can't choose between the Oda Clan and the Mori
clan, Takakage adopted this attitude to send me back to the Oda clan, Yoshiharu
realized while drifting in the sea.
(Bad acting, Kobayakawa-san. I saw through it. Because...)
To part forever with Kobayakawa-san in this way, was too sad, Yoshiharu
thought.
So, while in the middle of drowing, he screamed with every last bit of his
power.
Kobayakawa-san! Somehow I'll meet you again!
There was no answer. No, the boat Takakage had boarded had already gone
forward, and he couldn't hear her voice anymore.
I will protect Kobayakawa-san! I will never forget that promise! Even if I have
regained my memory of the Oda clan, even if I come back to the Oda clan, I
won't throw away the promise we exchanged!
After all I....I...
Senpai. Please do not cry. She can't hear you anymore.
Floating in the sea and being rocked by the waves, Yoshiharu kept shouting as
Mitsuhide hugged him from behind.
Takakage's figure became smaller and smaller.
The Murakami Navy's fleet had fled.
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Even when Yoshiharu was feeling like immersing himself in the sadness of
parting with Takakage forever...
Reality is harsh.
Yoshiharu and Juubei were still alone in the sea.
The Murakami Navy's fleet had left the area at top speed, because its movement
is slow, the iron armored fleet had been slowly advancing the whole time.
Because Kobayakawa Takakage and Murakami Takeyoshi had become targets

for the cannons, there wasn't any time to prepare a way to send Yoshiharu safely
to the Oda people.
In other words.
Ah, we have been left behind in the Osaka bay!? Achoo! Juubei-chan, my body
has gotten cold. If you don't take off my armor, I'll drown!
Juubei is the same too! The waves are so high, I can barely loosen it without
drowning. So I can release my hand, please tread water by yourself!
Bad. To tread water while wearing armor is impossible.
Oh, this future monkey is useless! It can't be helped, we now will share the
same fate! Death! I, its getting colder...in this situation we can't put our skin
against each other...ahhh. That time when Senpai was warmed by this soft skin
in the cave, a bond of everlasting love was born between among the two of us
You know. My energy is being drained steadily. Us?
Aaaa. We seemed to have entered a current. We are steadily getting farther

away from the iron armored fleet. It is already the end! We are being sent into
the rough Kii sea!
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There was a scene like this in a disaster movie I saw long ago. Abandon me
Juubei and live on. Doesn't it look like you can swim to the iron armored ship if
you are alone?
Not now Senpai! It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Juubei as born into
this world for the sake of taking care of this unreliable Senpai! Since I am
replacing Senpai's mother, you can act as a spoiled child as much as you like.
Especially, now that you have had such a sad farewell with Kobayakawa
Takakage, will being wrapped in Juubei's love be effective?
I, I can't say anything.......since now I have realized that that phantom of my

mother in the Retreat of Kanegasaki was actually Juubei-chan.......when I think
about it I have been continually taken care of by Juubei-chan......when I
remember my time in the Oda house, I was too dim.....I'm sorry.
Whappu. One of my legs was cold and cramped! Well, we are together to the
last, Senpai. If I release my hold, I'll drag you into the sea and kill you! A forced
double suicide....wappu. Gurgle, gurgle.
Ju-Juubei-chan, hold on! Damn, while I learned to tread water from old man
Murakami's pirate training, I don't remember how to swim, a failure of a
lifetime!
Guh. Then, Senpai, are the two of us going to drown together? Is that why you
are hugging me? Release me! Let go ugh!
If possible, I wanted to return and live under Nobuna.....do you think I have a
character to be allowed? If I abandon Juubei-chan here?
...I didn't think. Even if you have lost your memory, Senpai is Senpai. But the
Senpai I hadn't seen for awhile got suntanned and became strong. Your body
has become athletic-like.
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Ah. It is because of the pirate training. I can tread water....glub.
Your last moments are not with Nobuna-sama but together with Juubei, I'm
sorry. Senpai.
Good. If I had met Juubei before Nobuna, I surely.
You also said that to Kobayakawa Takakage didn't you. You are truly the
greatest womanizer.
What, did you say? How? Well, I might have thought it. There are too many
girls in the warring states who are shouldering a harsh destiny, I can't help but
want to help them....glub.
Glub, glub....Senpai....it seems like it is already useless. A sense is alright,

please say, I love you...kuh, blug.
That is...I already to Nobuna.
It doesn't matter if I'm the second or third. Juubei, Senpai....love you! Juubei
also can't help protecting the lonely Senpai who was sent to the Sengoku Era
from the future! I don't need to be Senpai's number one! If a a human can be
reborn again, next time besides Senpai...glub.
J-Juubei! Hold on!
Senpai. Senpai already knew Juubei's dark future right? Because the eyes that
Senpai stares at Juubei with are alwayss too pitiful and bitter...are you fond of
Juubei....I misunderstood....it wasn't like that, the reason is that the worst future
awaits Juubei....but you pitied this pathetic Juubei ..... Senpai really, a cruel
guy.....
It wasn't like that, Yoshiharu wanted to cry.
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No, Juubei-chan! The future I know is completely dark! A fat that is too cruel!
But what you decide hasn't been determined. The history of this country, the
history of this star, everything can be changed. So as to not tell you all about the
dark future, I was waiting.
....Still.... that's right .. since Juubei has a habit of acting recklessly....
Therefore, I might have let you die. But I decided that I would absolutely
rescue you! Fate isn't decided! If we put in all our effort, the future can be
changed! Hanbei who should have died in the middle of the siege of Miki Castle
was saved by the effort of all my comrades in the Oda clan!
Senpai, I'm glad.... in the end . please say the words. Then, Juubei will be
saved.
Juubei-chan. For everything until now, thank you. You rescued me many times.
I, you....
Before he could finish saying the words, both of their bodies sank under the sea.
Yoshiharu was prepared to die, and hugged onto Mitsuhide's thin shoulders as
he sank.
In Yoshiharu's vision as he looked up to the water's surface from under the

water, the big head of a tiger that was advancing on the surface of the sea
suddenly appeared.
(W, what is that? The entrance to the afterlife?)
Inuchiyo's headress, did that girl also drown, Yoshiharu realized.
...Hold onto this.
The tiger headdress was floating instead of a boat, Inuchiyo was sitting on the
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headdress and thrust the vermilion spear into the water.
...The headger is convenient. As such a time it becomes a substitute boat.
The Rematch of Kizugawaguchi ended in an overwhelming victory for the Oda

clan-
Control of the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea, from the Osaka Bay to the
Harima Nada was transferred from the Mori clan to the Oda clan.
And Sagara Yoshiharu and Akechi Mitsuhide who had been floating around the
sea clinging to the tiger headdress Inuchiyo was riding, were discovered by one
of the small Hayafunes that was flying the Oda flag.
Nobuna's sister-in law, Gamo Ujisato, had steered the ship for Yoshiharu's sake.
I found you. The devil's luck is strong in you Sagara Yoshiharu. With this I can
apologize to older sister finally.
The iron armored fleet that was led by Nobuna returned to the Sumiyoshi port
that Kanbei was defending in triumph.
Sagara Yoshiharu, who regained his memory in the middle of the sea battle,
returned to the Oda clan at this time.
When the reinforcements that were called from the Saika clan and the
Murakami Navy were repelled by the iron armored ships, the isolated Honbyo
Temple completely surrendered to the Oda clan. They accepted the conditions
of the Nobuna side called the Osaka withdrawal, and disarmed.
From the start, after the opening of the Amano Iwato, the Honbyo Temple
followers had already lost their will to fight.
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A letter received from Honbyo Temple and Kyonya told the surprising truth.
Just before the cat ears and tail fell off older sister, in truth, Kyonya's cat ears
fell off too. I recognized the opportunity to steal the seat of the head of the
household from older sister and make war with the Oda clan, while hiding that
fact the whole time. That is to say, it was a deception.
In other words, Kyonya and the followers had already lost a reason to fight Oda
Nobuna.
When Hanbei and Zenki severed the dragon pulse which flowed through the
country, the spiritual power given by the cat demon's bloodline to Honbyo
Temple was lost.
Even though Honbyo temple was a developing religion, the source of the
Honbyo Temple's spiritual power was carried by the household in the form of
the living god, a remnant of the old world where people and monsters lived
together.
Nobuna-sama, when you caused a miracle using the Three Sacred Treasures
that were older than onmyoji, and refused to take the world for yourself with
the Three Sacred Treasures. And showed the way to live as a human being to
the end. All the followers who can't go to cat heaven even if they die, if there is a
heaven, then it is in the middle of this hell-like present world they were
informed.
I also have to thank Saika Magoichi who showed the followers the horrifying
new era of war with her own actions, the letter ended with those words.
In the banquet hall of Sumiyoshi Castle's tower, the honors ceremony was
quickly performed.
In the castle, the Oda clan ashigaru, Sakai townsfolk, and local fisherman, all
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celebrated the Oda Clan's great victory!
Sagara Yoshiharu returned! There was an uproar over the good news.
At Nobuna's hand was the Namban globe.
Almost all of the Oda clan's chief vassals had gathered in the hall.
The one who gets the most credit for this battle, is certainly this Juubei. While
this foolish Senpai fled to the Mori clan, I was fighting to the top of the ladder,
Kihihi!
...In addition, I also saved Yoshiharu. My headdress is supreme.
While it is intolerable that older sister and that saru are together again, with
this I can finally sleep soundly.
While they acted on their own, Akechi Mitsuhide, Maeda Inuchiyo, and Gamo
Ujisato received the credit for rescuing Yoshiharu.
Um. There isn't a feeling of satisfaction for Hime leading the Kuki Navy to
victory.
No. The iron armored ship, cannon, single column, and finally the ring
formation that suddenly ordered by strategist-dono. Us pirates of the Kuki
Navy mastered an entirely new field of weapons and tactics that didn't exist in
this world until now. Our reputation has exceeded the Murakami Navy!
That's right, Hime and the Kuki Navy have become Japan's greatest pirates.
Right? It was worth Hime damaging her skin from the effort.
I feel relieved too, now the search for a husband can begin. I'm not asking for
much. First he needs to be a beautiful virgin teen, have long white legs,
beautiful deep black hair, eloquent speech, be a noble of the Fujiwara clan
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lineage, with a six pack, I don't care anymore!
.....Finding a husband for Kukki is going to be difficult. So I don't become like

that, I'm going to have to get a husband early.
What do you mean Hime-sama!?
The commanders who lead the iron armored fleet to a huge victory, Takigawa
Kazumasu and Kuki Yoshiaki.
I was a lucky person to participate in the most unique naval battle in history.
By the way, the reward will be thirty years worth of Yatsuhashi crackers. Munch
munch. [T/N: ????]
The one who was struck by the idea of equipping the iron armored ships with
cannons, paired with Gamo Ujisato in developing the cannon and had the
significant achievement of operating them in an actual fight, the knight
Giovanna.
....sniff....sniff, sniff, sniff....I let Takenaka Hanbei become famous again....half a

year of Simeon's great effort....WAAAAAH!
Sob, sob. I only lent a little assistance, this victory is Kanbei's achievement.
Don't placate me! Didn't Simeon learned about latest electromagnetism studies
under the Namban scholar William Gilbert who visited Kyushu? And yet,
despite this, I didn't realize that magnets would be the iron's weak point!
Originally I didn't know about these things either. Its because I heard the
stories about electromagnetism from Kanbei-san, I assumed that Yoshiharu-san
would make anti-armor measures....I just happened to notice. Sob, sob.
Kuroda Kanbei who developed the iron armored ships, cannons, and came up
with the idea of the single column formation was depressed and was grinding
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the head of Takenaka Hanbei who was being covered in praise as expected of
the present Koumei for unleashing the secret ring formation at the last
moment. [T/N: Another name for Zhuge Liang, the genius chinese tactician.]
Guuh. This time it was Hanbei whose head was stroked by Sagara Yoshiharu
and was praised! No matter how you look at it Simeon's achievements were
bigger, but Sagara Yoshiharu favors you.
Sob. T, that isn't it. Didn't Kanbei-san not get patted because Kanbei-san said
Don't touch! and kicked Yoshiharu-san in the jaw?~
Simeon is no longer a child, it would be a disgrace to have my head stroked!

But the war between the two of us has just begun! Someday I will surely obtain
the position of the greatest strategist in the world! Look out soon, Takenaka
Hanbei!
Yes. Do your best! Sob.
Aargh, why do your eyes looks like they are full of compassion?
The two strategists Hanbei and Kanbei were as close as ever.
Following Osaka's Honbyo Temple, Harima's Miki Castles also surrendered.

The Mori army has begun to withdraw from Harima. With this, the Oda clan
can shift from defense to offense. It has finally become possible to march to
Saigoku. Full marks.
Nagahide. I understand that Kikkawa Motoharu who was in the Harima front
went out to sea to serve as a body double for Kobayakawa Takakage, but why
was Ukita Naoie missing from the front? Wasn't Harima virtualy lost?
Katsuie-dono. It's Ukita Naoie's nature, when it was expected that the
Murakami Navy would be defeated in the naval battle, it seems the Ukita Navy
went to rescue the escaping Murakami Navy. Even if he stayed on the land and
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maintained the Harima front, if the Mori's Twin Rivers, Kobayakawa and
Kikkawa were defeated in the naval battle, since he attached himself to the Mori
people he would have no choice but be destroyed.
Hmm. He is a schemer. But that frivolous, traitorous, loose-tongued monkey

should have predicted all of our tactics in front of Kobayakawa, why would
Ukita guess that the Oda would win?
Well, to go that far. Or, he wanted to bet on both the Mori clan and the Oda
clan and wanted to sell a favor to both sides.
Is that so? He saved Kobayakawa and Kikkawa from being routed on the sea,
although Oda obtained Miki Castle and was able to subjugate Harima. I see.~
That guy skillfully did a favor to both sides, that man is as unreliable as the
monkey.
Niwa Nagahide and Shibata Katsuie also hurried from the Harima front to
Sumiyoshi, and had relieved faces for the first time in a long while.
Hime. In the first place with Miki Castle, the soldiers of the Sagara Corps that
were surrounding the castle obeyed Do not starve the soldiers to death, and
when a starving castle defender came out of the castle, because they were fed
and struck by the benevolence, it seems they were going to surrender anyways.
The surrender was delayed for six months, because Sagara-dono transferred to
the Mori clan, now that Sagara-dono has returned to the Oda clan, the
opportunity to surrender finally came.
While I am still in the middle of finalizing the negotiations for the Mori's
surrender, such a strange siege, there is no example in history. Sagara-dono's
actions swayed the heart of the soldiers without attacking the castle, full marks.
Dearuka. Now that we have captured the cornerstone of the Saikgoku

suppression, we can move to Chuugoku that Mori rules it seems the time has
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come to slice northern San'in and soouthern San'you. But....
For a fleeting moment, Nobuna glanced at Yoshiharu who was sitting cross
legged at a farther seat. [T/N: Possibly he is in a dogeza? Had two options.]
...Ah
If possible, Yoshiharu didn't want to fight Kobayakawa Takakage.

Even if his memory of the Oda clan was recovered, he didn't lose his memory of
serving the Mori clan.
Nobuna understood Yoshiharu's true feelings well.
Because Yoshiharu is like that, my heart was stolen.
Let's think about that later. We have to celebrate now.
In any case, Nobuna and Yoshiharu had their reunion after half a year.
....(Please)
Sen no Rikyuu made tea and handed a tea set to Yoshiharu.
Nobuna and Yoshiharu were smiling.
Welcome back, Yoshiharu.
Ahh. I'm home. I thought you would sob the moment we reunited, you have
become stronger.
Well I admit but my tears didn't dry up. I have to endure my tears, until the
time that the two of us are alone together.
Nobuna. I lost my memory, and understood. When I came to this world as an

ordinary high school student, how I instantly became a man accustomed to the
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Sengoku Era how I was able to have the courage it is because I met you. The
moment I looked at you, I changed.
Nobuna nodded silently.
Y, you know. Even if I speak such embarrassing words, you won't cry? Not
even 'The welcome home kiss'?
Ugh, already. Rather, with the vassal corps I have to endure it! What is a
welcome home kiss~!
Haha. Still, its better for Nobuna to get angry like that. You laugh, cry, and
make noise, that expression suits you.
Ugh, you are noisy...idiot.
I thought that would flare up intensely, but they are both good, Katsuie tilted
her head, Nagahide gave a bitter smile. Now is the time to 'save it'. When this
honors ceremony is over and its just the two of them, they'll both flare up so its
needless to worry.
If anything, the relationship between the two of them is already like a married
couple that have been together for years. That they can have such a harmonized
conversation, they understand each other completely, its proof of their
unwavering trust, sob sob. The strategist Hanbei seemed to be analyzing it.
Yoshiharu? Because it was you, I believed you would return anyway. In the
end, you couldn't forget me after all.
Haha. Thank you for bombarding me with your cannon relentlessly. You were
extremely trusting of me Nobuna.
Huh? 'Dodgeball Yoshiharu' you aren't a guy who will die in battle from a
cannonball, it was a clear decision since you are that kind of man.
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Even saying such hateful things, you have a smiling face. Your feelings for me,
I gratefully received them.
W, what. When I haven't seen you for awhile, I can't be flexible like that. It can't
possibly with you and Kobayakawa Takakage t, th, this, th, th, child making,
a ,a, a, to have become an adult....in, in that case, for your sin of treason,
decapitation!
Wwwwwwe didn't do such things! B, because my memory disappeared, w,

with Kobayakawa-san, w, we were about to kiss, but something that was
infesting my heart distrubed me and we couldn't do it after all. Somehow, the
shadow of an oni-like woman is always watching me from the corner of my
mind....
Fu~. I, it is the effect of the spell I put on you. I prayed every night that you
would never be able to flirt with a girl or you would undergo a punishment of
agony until you were half-dead for the rest of your life! It is a safety net!
Careless, I want you to stop the punishment~. Wasn't it you who said you
wanted to bear my child?
Ch. I I I I didn't say it! W-w-w-what are you saying in front of all of the
retainers!? If I give you a bit of leeway, its not cute!
Is that so? When I lost my memory and was in the Mori clan, I think I returned
to being an innocent high school student.
You have completely returned to being a saru, no, you have an even nastier
composure than before! How dare you say such heretical statements regarding
your master! This transformation!
Sorry, sorry. I recovered from my habit of saying too much. Hey, its wasteful to
throw tea sets.
Both of them already look so happy, oh if I could be let into that circle a
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little....no I am alright sob sob, Hanbei was moved to tears

However the one who directly rescued you was Juubei, but I exhausted all of
the money of the Oda clan to build the iron armored ship and cannon to help
you, idiot. Even in the whole world there is no one who thinks of their vassal so
much, thank me.
It's different. I wasn't rescued by you. I came to save you!
S, stop that! S, such a thing, say that when we are alone, idiot!
I'm not going anywhere, Nobuna. I'm sorry. I promise.
...All right.
Sagara-dono who spent half a year in the Mori clan, became slightly more
mature, Nagahide nodded.
For older sister, Sagara Yoshiharu is an indispensable person. Older sister who
lives isolated without believing in Buddha or God, she seems so much happier
now. Gamo Ujisato said.
Finally she accepted the love of the couple.
And, in the face of the drawn out flirting between master and servant being
displayed in public, Mitsuhide had been silently maintaining her pistol for some
reason.
That's right, Nobuna. Where is Nobusumi? Without seeing the figure of that
guy laughing his Wahahaha while eating uiromochi, it somehow doesn't feel
like I have returned to the Oda clan.
Kanjuurou just arrived at Sumiyoshi a short while ago. He should be coming

soon.
There wasn't that type of cute boy in the Murakami Navy. To the left and right
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there were only sweltering muscle men.
Wait a moment. You couldn't possibly have been used as a plaything for the
pirate's unmanageable lust on the ship, and awoken to homosexuality?
That's not it idiot! The world's number one ladies' man won't awaken to
homosexuality! There weren't any men with such tastes in the Murakami Navy
anyways! However, Kikkawa liked that kind of stuff.
I wonder. When you first came to this world, when you suddenly met
Kanjuurou who was cross-dressing, you might have awakened?
At that time, you saw Nobusumi's changed face and asked, Is this your
sister? ! There is no doubt! In fact, that guy's older sister was the most beautiful
girl in the world!
....Nothing will happen even if I say the truth....?
You seemed so embarrassed while saying so. Thank you for the meal.
H, hey I didn't say that....idiot.
The two of you are becoming annoying, three points, Nagahide cleared her
throat.
Hey hey. Older sister, Saru, everybody, long time no see! Though I was on
vacation for awhile, Oda Nobuna's younger brother the supreme uiromochi
noble, Tsuda Nobusumi is now here!
The delicate boy who it felt like had grown a little taller, Tsuda Nobusumi,
nickname Kanjuurou, rushed into the large hall while laughing cheerfully.
Her real younger brother who came from the same parents, while his features
are very similar to Nobuna, but his happy-go-lucky personality was the exact
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opposite of Nobuna.
Possibly due to Nobuna's preference, most of the Oda clan's chief retainers were
Princess Knights, and male generals were rare.
For Yoshiharu, he was his trusted best friend.
Gee. When the riot happened in Ise Nagashima I already thought it was
hopeless, but when Saru and older sister opened the Amano Iwato and showed
off their kiss, the cat sect girls discarded their weapons. Such a strange battle. I
was really saved that time, hahaha!
Ah? When I didn't see Nobusumi, he became quite manly.
Saru got tanned and well built too.
I became a member of the pirates and was built up. Was there something like
that for you?
Yup. There was! I accomplished it! Oichi, please come in!
Okay.
Nobusumi beckoned his wife named Oichi.
Oichi previously, the cross-dressing Sengoku Era commander Asai,

Nagamasa, the young woman who spent all her time fighting.
Now she had discarded the life as the Sengoku commander Asai Nagamasa, and
now lives with her beloved Nobusumi as Nobuna's younger sister, Oichi.
While she was officially with Nobusumi as an older brother and younger sister
or and older sister and younger brother, this is because Nobuna took advantage
of the fact that Nagamasa = Oichi when she destroyed the Asai clan that had
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become hostile to the Oda in a last resort due to the inevitable situation.
The sequence of events, Asai Nagamasa first proposed a political marriage to

Nobuna, when Nobuna rejected this, Nobusumi was made to cross-dress and
sent to Lake Biwa as Asai Nagamasa's wife...it was quite complicated. When
the Asai was destroyed, Nagamasa died in the fall of the castle, but sent his
beloved wife Oichi back to Nobuna was the plot Nobuna imagined and
Nagamasa was allowed to live as Oichi, putting it simply that was the truth.
Because there was the history where the Asai clan suddenly betrayed the Oda
Clan they had allied with and attacked from behind, it wasn't possible to spare
Asai Nagamasa as Asai Nagamasa since Asai Nagamasa was a man rather
than a Princess Knight.
But after that when Yoshiharu ran away to the Mori Clan, To be honest, Oichi
is a sister-in-law and is not related by blood to Nobuna and Nobusumi. Nobuna
who didn't have a true younger sister to send to the Asai clan to complete the
alliance, trained a beautiful girl who she found in the town of Owari to be a
younger sister-in-law. This was the story that Takenaka Hanbei and Kuroda
Kanbei prepared and diligently disseminated around the world, and they were
finally able to publicize her marriage with Nobusumi to the world.
So now Oichi has been elevated from a sister in law to my spouse!
Really? Why were you in such a hurry?
It's that. Oichi, introduce our children to Saru.
Yes, Kanjuurou.
Ch, children?
So.
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While Yoshiharu was gone, Oichi gave birth to Nobusumi's child.
FA!?
Yoshiharu let out a stupid shout.
I heard you had a baby but....bastard Nobusumi!
Furthermore.
Chacha. First. Bay. All three of them are girls.
It is kind of a problem, to have triplets. These children who were born of the
union of the beautiful bloodlines of the Sengoku Era, the Asai clan and the Oda
clan, will no doubt in the future become transcendentally beautiful girls.
Hahahaha.
Hie~!
The babies were triplets.
Chacha on Oichi, Shiyo on Nobusumi, and Yoshiharu's younger sister, Nene,

was hugging Kuu.
Welcome back older brother! Look! While you were careless, Nobusumi got
ahead of you!
Oh, Nene! I wanted to see you! My younger sister is still too cute!
While Yoshiharu was stroking Nene's head, he unintentionally had a creepy

face.
During his time in the Mori clan, half of his lolicon soul seemed to have opened.
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Older brother needs to make a successor to the Sagara family soon too! If you
are happy with Nene, I will give birth to older brother's baby anytime!
No, a child cannot have a child right? Why on earth was Nene giving me a
flirtatious look just now....
The time for Yoshiharu-san and older sister to get married should come soon.
Although it will be difficult, when he becomes the adopted child of Konoe and
assumes the office of the Kampaku, there should be a way.
While cradling the newborn Chacha, Oichi had a soft smile.
I don't think Asai Nagamasa who seemed to be a gallant noble was like
that....Yoshiharu was puzzled.
It was a completely motherly expression.
Just seeing it, your heart is healed.
How do you like it Saru, my proud bride and children. Hahaha!
Ah. The best. Using a future word, you have reached the pinnacle of riajus
Nobusumi! I also feel I understand the reason why the infinitely wicked Ukita
Naoie became spineless due to his daughter Hideie.
You think?
I guess?
Yoshiharu had an indescribable feeling.
If Nobuna gave birth to a baby would it also have a face like this, but when will
that moment come, it's irritating.
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The oldest daughter Chacha especially looks like Nobuna. I wonder if Nobuna
had a feeling like this when she was a baby.
Ngya!
For some reason, Chacha opened her large eyes with a hoe and met
Yoshiharu's gaze, and then caught Yoshiharu's nose and twisted it.
Ehhhh? For some reason I am hated by this child? I haven't evolved to become
a devil that is interested in babies? Why is that?
Ngyaaaa!
Wait. Wait. What happened to Chacha? There will not be such a plan in the
future either.
Hey, Chacha. You shouldn't bully Yoshiharu-san.
Chacha's temperament is similar to older sister's, hahaha. When you saw Saru
you wanted to bully him.
To be bullied by a baby, as one would expect of older brother! With this

brother can be tamed!
Is that so, Nene?
Older brother is the owner of the virtue of being attached to children!
When you say it like that, there are many child retainers in my corps.....
Nobuna who was sitting quietly at the head of the table commanded, Leave it
at that. The conferral of honors will begin now. Although she feigned
indifference, her shoulder was shaking eagerly.
I desperately want to hug the baby, Yoshiharu noticed.
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Hey, wait a moment Sagara Yoshiharu. Simeon is not a child! I am a princess of

a respectable age! Rude!
Sob, sob. Yoshiharu-san....I am not a child anymore either....I'm sorry for my
childish appearance, forgive me.
Hanbei and Kanbei who were at a delicate age, protested against Yoshiharu.
Sorry, sorry. But even Goemon looks like a child. All of the ninja's ages are
unknown. Oh, wait?
That's right.
In the Sagara corps that was just like a kindergarten, wasn't there a Princess
Knight that looked like an adult?
That's right, Shikanosuke Yamanaka. I completely forgot Shikanosuke

AHHHHH!
Tch. Yoshiharu. Where is that strange woman that wants to be bullied right
now? I know she was caught by Mori.
She was locked up in the Mori's ship jail! Uwwaaa, I'm so sorry Shikanosuke!
When my memory was suddenly returned, I was confused in various ways, and
I was dropped underwater in the blink of an eye......I completely forgot!
Hey~! That's your vassal right? To leave her behind, how terrible!
Sob. Let's make that a condition of the bloodless surrender of Miki Castle.
Instead of sparing all of the soldiers of Miki Castle, the Mori people will return
Yamanaka Shikanosuke-san unhurt. Because the Mori clan is faithful, they will
give up their nemesis Shikanosuke-san for their castle soldiers.
Hanbei revealed her wisdom right away. Yoshiharu was saved from the
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unprecedented error of Leaving behind your trusted retainer.
Well, because it is Shikanosuke, 'My lord left me to go to the Oda clan....what

inhuman treatment. This is unbearable, pant pant' I think she might be excited.
No, no, Kanbei. Because Shikanosuke spent her child with too much of the
Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains, there was no helping it. She was originally a
good child. I have to help that girl.
Imprisoned in the ship jail....that has an obscene ring to it. Yoshiharu did you
possibly put a collar on her. Now please punish me master she urged and was
left to the momentum of the situation....that guy and the owner of that obscene
body with huge breasts!
If it is a ship jail, no one will come to disturb you!
Don't draw your sword! You are over-thinking! The me that turned back to an
innocent high school student could never do such a thing! Oh, the present me
might give into the momentum.
I've decided. I'm killing you now!
Yoshiharu still say too much, Inuchiyo muttered with an amazed look.
After that disturbance occurred, the honor ceremony finally began.
The Mori withdrew from Harima, and Harima finally became a united country
under the Oda clan, but the opinions of the retainers were divided over whom
to give Harima.
I am not interested in the land. I should receive a tea set. You should give
Harima to Yoshi, the Chuugoku district commander. To make his own corps
larger, more fiefs are needed.
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Kazumasu who lived in the sea recommended giving Harima to Yoshiharu.
That is so, but Sagara-dono didn't gain any achievements in this battle. Because
he lost his memory, Sagara-dono taught the anti-iron armored ship tactics to
and the Oda clan was in danger of being defeated. From that logic, Harima
should be given to Takigawa Kazumasu-dono and Kuki Yoshiaki-dono who
lead the iron-armored fleet magnificently.
Nagahide, who had the position of common sense advocate in the Oda Clan,
recommended the Kazumasu master and servant with a logical reason.
Mitsuhide might be good. Though she abandoned the Harima front arbitrarily
in her usual manner, the achievement of rescuing Saru was probably the biggest
for Hime? Mitsuhide has been gathering reinforcements everywhere without
being able to complete her main duty of pacifying Tamba, she will soon be a
daimyo with multiple prefectures? Oh, no, I'm not particularly saying to not
give Harima to Saru.
Holding back her true feelings, Katsuie recommended Mistuhide.
Everyone. In the first place, Honjo, Himeji Castle, is the possession of this black
official, Simeon. Before I knew it, it was being used by Yoshiharu as he pleased,
I'll add the whole country of Harima as interest and you can return it to Simeon!
After all, not just the iron armored ships, but even the cannon was designed by
Simeon!
Sob, sob. Because Kanbei is the retainer of Yoshiharu who is a retainer of the
Oda clan, how will you leave your master Yoshiharu-san to become an
independent daimyo when he is still confined as the daimyo of the northern half
of Omi. You are a strategist in the first place, you have become so obsessed and
dazzled by fame and land that your eyes have become clouded over with your
work.
Takenaka Hanbei, I won't be compared with a false hermit like you! Simeon
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wants a castle! I want a country too! I want to be praised! I will hoist the flag of'
First Class Black Official' around the whole world!
So, you have such a wicked heart, as a strategist....
It's not a wicked heart! It is a modest dream! To you who are praised as the
greatest strategist, you don't understand the sorrow of those people who are
branded as second-rate!
I, I'm sorry. But I can't hand over the position of the ideal strategist. Sob, sob.
Mrph! It seems that I have to settle this here!
Kanbei and Hanbei were arguing again without agreeing.
Harima is at the entrance of the Chugoku district, the most important base in
an attack on Chuugoku. I think it would be better to make it a territory under
older sister's direct control. It is also good to strength the corps under each
retainer, if we do not strengthen the Gokenin under her direct control, we might
be tripped up from an unexpected place.
It was a typical opinion of the completely honest Gamo Ujisato.
....Hungry.
And Inuchiyo said that with a serious expression.
Everybody's opinions don't come together easily. Then I can take Harima, and
when my children increase, it won't be costly. Hahaha.
So as we ignore Kanjuurou's opinion, what about Yoshiharu and Juubei? What

do you want?
Yoshiharu who had been asked shook his head. Because I became the strategist
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of the Mori people, it's fine this time, I decline.
As is expected, its an offense to leave and return to the country. If Oda Nobuna
shows favoritism, the reputation in the world will become worse. Besides.
Besides?
I promised Kobayakawa-san. That I would always protect her. Even if that

promise was exchanged when I lost my memory, a man can't revoke a promise.
Please don't destroy the Mori Clan.
Well. Wherever you are, Yoshiharu is Yoshiharu, I understand your feelings.

But it is impossible to defeat the Mori Clan without trouble like Honbyo Temple.
Samurai, for Samurai it is their job to fight, saying it in future language, war is
the meaning of their existence. The great daimyo that rules over Chuugoku, the
Mori Clan, it is impossible for them to surrender without fighting.
I understand the theory, Nobuna. The Murakami Navy that Mori sent out
suffered a massive blow and fled. Mori has already suffered a crushing defeat
by Oda.
Their land forces has not been cut down. The Murakami Navy are pirates, they
are essentially a partner in an alliance with Mori. If you do not whittle down the
Mori clan territory, they won't submit to the Oda clan.
Hanbei began to talk.
Sob, sob. That is how it is, Yoshiharu-san. But because Yoshiharu-san has
become the bridge between the Mori clan and the Oda clan, when Oda wins a
decisive victory against their large numbers,
Mori will sit down for submission conditions.
I hope that is right, Hanbei-chan. Anyways, the fact is we have to take some of
the Mori's territory in battle.
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In addition to not leave a grudge, without letting any people die if possible.
Yoshiharu-san can do it. Kanbei and I will do our best to help.
All right. Anyway, the promise from Nobuna that the Mori clan will not be
destroyed is the best reward for me.
Dearuka. Then this time Juubei should be given the best reward. Juubei, you
had the achievement of rescuing Yoshiharu. I will treat you today to a feast. I
will let you pick anything as your heart's desire.
With this everything works out, perfect score, Nagahide was going to breathe a
sigh of relief with everyone at that moment.
The incident occurred.
Akechi Mitsuhide of course couldn't read the mood from the beginning.
Yes yes yes! Well then, Nobuna-sama, I will take my reward without
reservation.
I understand. The whole country of Harima?
I don't need Harima! The reward is Sagara Yoshiharu Senpai please!
Don.
Don.
Don.
The large hall was frozen in horror.
I will only say it once more, Juubei. The reward....is H a r I m a?
Juubei does not need a country or money! Love, if there is love I don't want for
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anything else! Give me Sagara Senpai as my groom! If I can have Senpai, I will
work for Nobuna for free until I die!
Yoshiharu immediately looked for a way out of the grand hall.
Only at such a time was Goemon not here, he became close to tears.
Oh...Juubei? Yoshiharu doesn't love you? Isn't that your wrong impression?
Yoshiharu's lover is me. And, I also like Yoshiharu. When I opened the Amano
Iwato, even you should have already understood? There is no need to force
yourself to get married with Yoshiharu.
I understand that, Nobuna-sama.
Okay, that's good. This has been settled without a rude strike.
Nevertheless, I have understood something more important. It is that this

Juubei's heart has been stolen by Sagara Senpai!
Don.
Again, the grand hall was frozen in horror.
If Akechi talks anymore, the grand hall will become a sea of blood, zero points,
Nagahide was flustered.
Nobuna-sama said I could pick my heart's desire! Therefore, I will have Sagara
Senpai!
Tch. Juubei? What did you do now with Yoshiharu, isn't this situation worse
than before!
I, I am sorry! I don't understand it well, it happened before I realized...
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It wasn't like that Senpai! You have to take responsibility for stealing the heard
of a maiden! Anyways, Nobuna-sama and Senpai are in a relationship where
they can't be married, you owe this to Juubei!
Juubei is the legal wife, if Nobuna wants to pursue the womanize Senpai its
alright if you are one of his lovers! Since Juubei is a tolerant woman unlike
someone, I will tolerate his infidelity!
.....Yoshiharu, you......even if the matter with Kobayakawa Takakage can be

overlooked since your memory was missing....this....this cannot be allowed?
Well, well Saru. You are done~, Katsuie looked up at the sky.
Nobuna-sama. Senpai's legal wife is this Juubei. All right.
.....That can't possibly be all right? Are you selling me a fight?
No. This Juubei can wrap up Senpai who has been washed here from his own
world in the love he needs. In that respect, does Nobuna-sama think only she
can be loved by Senpai.
....Dearuka. Somehow or other, Juubei....until now it was a long

relationship....if you don't withdraw, I'll kill you...
Withdraw? At the same time you draw that sword at your hip, Juubei's pistol
will fire? The bullet is faster than a sword?
Whether or not the bullet you shoot hits me, you won't know until you try?
Tch. You guys. Nobuna. Juubei-chan. Wait a second! Why is this happening!?
Calm down, calm down!
It is your fault! How could you make Juubei lose integrity, what did you do
behind my back?
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That is right, Senpai is awful! Because you keep promising to protect and save
girls everywhere without thinking, that is the reason this happened!
Little Juubei. It's not just anybody! Yoshiharu only loves me!
No. This Juubei's heart has been moved by his devotion. In the first place,
Senpai only regained his memory because ths Juubei kissed him. When we get
married and have a child, Senpai's heart will be Juubei's.
Mukiiii! Who did you kiss without permission! This kumquat! I will shut up
this impudent mouth forever!
Somebody help me, this isn't Honnouji, this is Sumiyoshi, Yoshiharu was sitting
on the verge of fainting.
Sob, sob. Everyone, please be quiet. If Nobuna-sama and Yoshiharu-san get

back together again, I fear the power of the anti-Oda forces will revive again. If
you try to force the wedding that isn't permitted, you will be subjected to the
rumors that you are going to usurp the Yamato Gosho again.
The wise Takenaka Hanbei, entered to separated Nobuna and Mitsuhide and
presented her theory.
The still childish Kuroda Kanbei let out a slight yawn. What is so good about
Sagara Yoshiharu, I don't understand. The rare chance for the black officer to
prove her wisdom was ignored in this way.
When the Amano Iwato was opened, public opinion was divided. The faction
that wanted to support the forbidden love between Nobuna and Sagara
Yoshiharu was mainly girls. Die Sagara Yoshiharu! The faction that was
shedding tears of blood and wanted to interfere and disturb the couple, was
mostly guys. The old powers such as the rural samurai and the daimyos are
mostly men, they originally hated the Oda clan due to destroying their vested
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interests, if the couple gets back together, it will be like pouring oil on the fire.
The power of Honbyo Temple's riots suddenly weakened, its because the
fighting spirit of the female followers disappeared when they saw the Amano
Iwato opening, Nobuna murmured.
After the follower's rebellion faded, because Yoshiharu-san disappeared from

the Oda clan, they became quiet. But, now that Yoshiharu-san has returned to
the Oda clan in this way, will those that are opposed to the Oda clan riot again,
it is not an exaggeration to say that we are being watched with breathless
interest.
...It's impossible to take the world with only military power, I have to grab the
hearts of the people. I understand.
S, so, as an expedient before achieving Tenka Fubu, if you don't mind a play,
why don't we let Yoshiharu-san marry someone other than Nobuna-sama, it
might be a good plan..... no matter how much love there truthfully is, once
Nobuna-sama takes the world, I think I may be able to do something.... just be
patient until then.... rather I think a riot will occur again in many places if we
don't do it quickly . if we are then attack by Takeda-san and Uesugi-san, it
will be the Oda clan's destruction... sob, sob.
Hanbei? Until I take the whole world, you want me to give Yoshiharu to
Juubei? I said I won't give up either?
Ah, n no, hiiiii! No, hime. A,a,a Akechi-sama because its her it won't be a play
and will bring about a terrible source of evil, this is the, I am a loyal retainer of
Yoshiharu-sama and harmless so I should be suitable right....I'm sorry, its
nothing....
The last was said in a voice that almost seemed to vanish and nobody heard it.
Nobuna was frowning in silence (The logic is perfect and I can't object. If Juubei
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hadn't now said I like Senpai I would be able to accept Hanbei's plan.....now
that it has become this way, we can't even afford to have a play wedding
between Juubei and Yoshiharu. Well, I can't finish the play. What should I do.)
Her frown hardened.
Maeda Inuchiyo who had stayed completely silent until now, suddenly..... stood
up.
Oh. That Inuchiyo is incredibly brave, though that fellow is one of few words,
sometimes she will give a serious statement, what kind of wise saying will you
give to us this time, Yoshiharu blinked.
Inuchiyo said it straight out.
....Inuchiyo will take the role. I'll be Yoshiharu's wife.
DON.
One more, the vassals trying to strike a deal increased. A vein in Nobuna's
temple twitch.
Hey! Wait Inuchiyo! Why are you confusing the situation! Why does a child
want to get married!?
.....Yoshiharu, Inuchiyo is an adult. Only small. I am different from Takigawa

Kazumasu.
Oh, if it is a dog, the men won't be jealous so that might be good? Katsuie nods.
A fake wedding. Sixty points. But there aren't any other plans at the moment.
Nagahide acknowledged it reluctantly.
Rude. I am not a child. That's right, with such a cute princess, it will be no
wonder if I steal Yoshi from Nobuna-chan. Everybody in the world will think
'Even Nobuna-sama cannot resist Takigawa's charm' and be convinced. Fu..... I
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will hear your request Nobuna-chan.
Hmm, if its Sakon I don't have to worry about Yoshiharu being stolen, but
because you are still a child it's no good. That's right, Leon..... though you are a
little young, you are at the age where you can find a husband.
Bikuu! Ujisato was so pitiably scared, she hid behind a pillar.
E, even if its older sister's order, it cannot work. If, if you order me to get
married with that man, I will perform seppuku on the spot and die.
Leon, you are Christian right? Christians cannot commit suicide.
Th, then I'll clog up my throw with Uiromochi and die!
To hate it to that extent, the extremely prideful Ujisato was crying raggedly
while shivering.
It seemed to be impossible.
Well. Even if it is a temporary play, a wedding can be given to Kuki Yoshiaki!

Once is fine! Whatever, I want to savor the feeling of being a bride uuuuuu!
There was one person, there was a female pirate who became excessively
enthusiastic and let out a cry of blood, and everybody decided not to have
contact with her.
Fuun. As one would expect of the world-renowned genius, Takenaka Hanbei.

Then it is decided that until Tenka Fubu is achieved, this Juubei will be Senpai's
play wife!
Wait a minute Juubei! You are surely thinking of using this chance to make it
real by giving birth to a baby!
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Yes, of course!
Zero points, Nagahide sighed.
I'm not stupid? Hahhh, we can't do such a thing, please tell me! Good grief,
you are useless! Yoshiharu should be with a partner he won't fool around with!
Hmph. There isn't such a person. Senpai gets involved with every girl Nobuna-
sama. The only companion whom Senpai hasn't laid a hand on is Nene-dono.
Th, that's right.... ugh. Now that is has come to this let's make Kanjuurou cross-
dress.
Hey. Older sister already used that trick before. And I have Oichi and my three
daughters.
....Ha? If I give Kanjuurou to Yoshiharu, because he is a guy with endless sex

drive he might awaken to the charms of guys. No, no. I would want to
decapitate my younger brother!
Hey, calm down Nobuna! You are becoming kind of strange.
It's your fault Yoshiharu! Oh, no. That's right! Even if Yoshiharu wants to lay a
hand on her, there is a girl that he can't meddle with in the Oda clan!
Ha? Was there such a Princess Knight who decided to be a maiden for their
whole life in this family, Hime-sama?
Katsuie tilted her head.
Because they were linked with neck, Katsuie's huge breasts shook, and when
Yoshiharu was staring, Katsuie rushed over and started hitting him silently.
Riku. It's you. You keep on hating Yoshiharu and boast of being the strongest
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in the Oda Clan, even if Yoshiharu tries to sneak into your bedrooms you can
repel him right? Until now, only Riku and Manchiyo haven't had a suspicious
relationship with Yoshiharu. But because she is a goodhearted person,
Manchiyo might give in if she is thoughtlessly approached by Yoshiharu. So.
The best candidate at this time is Riku who detests men, let alone Yoshiharu!
Tch. Nobuna. Wait.
HIIIII? Hime-sama, I'd rather you give this Katsuie the order to die!
Nobuna-sama that is cruel! No matter how you look at it, Katsuie is wrong! It's
true that Senpai and that one can never have a loving relationship, but these
fellows are two different! No one will believe such an absurd marriage!
Sob, sob. No matter how you look at it, this combination is too sudden and it
stinks of being a fake, at this rate no one can be deceived, Hanbei sobbed while
looking puzzled.
That's right Nobuna. Besides, Kobayakawa-san will be hurt. When I regained

my memory it became a dilemma for choosing between the two families of
staying with Kobayakawa-san or returning to Oda right?
I understand. Then let's do it this way. I'll give the whole country of Harima to
Yoshiharu for the achievement of the Miki Castle's surrender. I've decided that
I'm leaving the diplomacy and battle with Mori to Yoshiharu. If you are the
opponent, if I leave it to you there is the possibility that you can get them to
surrender without destroying Mori. Is that fine?
O, oh. It's good but, still a wedding with Katsuie. It is hard to give up on those
breasts.
HIIII? Saru, do you have a grudge against me?
Fu fu! I've got it! Rather, why don't we have a wedding between Sagara
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Yoshiharu and Kobayakawa Takakage. It seems they will agree immediately,

and then we can get all of the Mori Clan's vast territory without fighting!
Kanbei suggested this plan with a proud look, and Nobuna silently hurled a tea
set at Kanbei.
Why? Why is Simeon's plan rejected, and only Hanbei's plans are accepted!
Muu....chests are merely for decoration...
While Inuchiyo was sulking, she began stealing uiromochi from the hands of
Nobusumi who sat next to her.
I'd rather die here than get married to the monkey! While crying, Katsuie had
changed into white clothing and was beginning the seppuku preparations, and
the situation was becoming increasingly urgent.
Ohohohoho! It seems you are in trouble again, Nobuna-san!
The figurehead Shogun, Imagawa Yoshimoto, was wearing a luxurious twelve-

layered kimono and tottered into the hall.
Imagawa Yoshimoto? What did you come to do? I didn't call for you today?
Nobuna-san? There is a use for this figurehead Shogun. To make use of her is
the correct answer.
Yoshimoto was smug for some reason. She opened a fan with the
wordbrilliant written on it, and pointed at Yoshiharu.
Sagara Yoshiharu, I will now make you my husband!
Whaaaaaat? Me? Why?
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Just a minute. Wait, what do you mean by that!?
It. Is. A. Play. Even if he gets married with Shibata Katsuie, Sagara Yoshiharu's
status as a military commander will not rise. Wasteful, wasteful, wasteful. But if
he becomes my husband-
Hanbei hit her knees with her hands and raised her voice.
That's right. With this, Sagara Yoshiharu will become the clear person that can
inherit the shogunate, and when Tenka Fubu is achieved, he can get married
with Nobuna-san. I am the head of all of the samurai. Unlike the method of
becoming the adopted child of Konoe and assuming the role of Kampaku, it
won't be suspected as an usurpation of the Yamato Gosho.
....Yoshiharu? Your? Husband? Don't say such absurdity. You are the leader of
the samurai families? The Shogun? Your social status is too different from
Yoshiharu...
No. Warawa I am only a shogun in name, I have fallen as a third rate compared
to the rule of the whole country, Nobuna-san. When this figurehead Shogun
surrendered to the Oda Clan and survived, everybody thought that. Well,
actually this beautiful and talented noble has been counsoling and helping
Nobuna-san from the shadows, but that isn't known to the common people.
Furthermore! Sagara Yoshiharu rejected the offer of becoming my samurai, and
was immediately thrown out of the Imagawa's camp right? I offered him the
position of samurai earlier than Nobuna-san. In other words, it never became a
master and servant relationship with Sagara Yoshiharu!
You did such a thing? Nobuna scowled at Yoshiharu with a terrible look.
You didn't come to me first? If its a girl, anyone is good?
No! I was convinced that the present head of the Oda clan was a man named
Oda Nobunaga! I wasn't even aware you existed!
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Even in Mori, you were alright with Kobayakawa Takakage....
Nobuna, calm down!
Nobuna-san? Even if the social status is different, it never became a master and
servant relationship, and I surrendered to the Oda clan. This marriage is just
barely possible.
For some reason, Yoshimoto's eyes were shining.
Yoshimoto-chan. Why are you like this suddenly?
This is my debt for saving me in Okehazama. I am repaying the favor, Sagara

Yoshiharu. Without thinking too deeply, please accept my marriage proposal.
Peta, Yoshiharu who was embraced by Yoshimoto, was frozen.
Nobuna and Mituhide's gazes had become demon-like.
Sagara Senpai. What on earth is this?
....Yoshimoto. You are acting strangely lively, by any chance to Yoshiharu...
Ohohoho. I am always this lively. Nobuna-san, you will get old if you think too
hard right? Come Sagara Yoshiharu, we shall march to the Capital immediately
and trumpet our engagement! Please prepare the guard soldiers, Nobuna-san!
Tch. Yoshimoto-chan. Someone stop her!
But this may be a good idea. Because it's the figurehead Shogun that doesn't
know anything, its a clever scheme that no one could think of.
So. If the partner is the figurehead Shogun who already fell with the Imagawa
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Clan, it isn't as unreasonable, and it shouldn't provoke anyone now. Besides, the
people are under the impression that Imagawa Yoshimoto is so fat that she can't
even ride a horse. The men won't be jealous of Yoshi.
While stopping Mitsuhide who was shouting that she would murder the fake
shogun, Kanbei and Kazumasu nodded at each other with a uh huh.
....For some reason I'm getting very angry.... Yoshiharu, Yoshimoto. This play
will only last until Tenka Fubu. If it becomes an odd thing, both of you will be
quickly decapitated! When the time comes, I will become the Demon King of the
Sixth Realm!
I understand Nobuna, please don't glare at me with such a terrible look,

Yoshiharu trembled violently.
Well. Sagara-shi's women trouble, seems it will affect the destiny of this
country. What on earth will happen now?
Goemon who had been hanging from the ceiling of the large hall the whole
time, sighed while biting her tongue.
Chapter 5
Come on Sagara Yoshiharu. Speaking of Kyoto snacks, these Yatsuhashi
crackens. Oh, please.
Y, Yoshimoto-chan, don't stick too close in public.....
We have to convince the people of Kyoto that this marriage isn't a play. Come
on, eat some Yatsuhashi crackers without reservation.
Again. How did this happen. However if I'm reserved, the spectators will be
suspicious....yes, to hell with it.
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That's right, in this way, say ahhhhhh
Cough, cough.
Yoshiharu and Yoshimoto were parading around the capital while Nobuna's
Gokenin watched from afar.
Now they were seen having Yatsuhashi cracknels in the third teahouse.
It's that figurehead shogun.
Why is she with Sagara-san?
It's surprising they can do it.
What is Nobuna-san planning.
I have heard that when Sagara-san was in the Mori clan he had an intimate
relationship with Kobayakawa Takakage.
Aha. To fool around with the enemy general, and now is selling the figurehead
Shogun?
Those two are flushing so much. Unexpected.
Surprisingly, this might be a play.
That's right. The rumor of usurping the Yamato Gosho will now fade away
completely.
At any rate the effect of the Amano Iwato is extraordinary. Japan's number one
beauty Oda Nobuna-sama fell victim to the difference in social position and
Sagara Yoshiharu died. The guys have gone insane with anger all over the
country.
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Really, I'll watch.
The Kyoto townsfolk, were curious, and watched the two who were flirting in
the tea house.
The people in the capital are sharp as expected, living in the town built by the
government, I am already being doubted, Yoshiharu was worried.
Akechi Mitsuhide was charged with guarding the couple. The rivals for
Senpai's love increased again. Do you possibly want to be killed by Juubei?
Because Yoshiharu was being stabbed by the distant gaze, it was difficult for
Yoshiharu.
Anyway, if you reserve the whole shop, ordinarily only guests can enter. It will
be widely known, since this shop is usually overflowing with people.
Yoshimoto-chan is unexpectedly bold.
It is to spread the word. In addition, even if something should happen, Sagara

Yoshiharu will guard me right?
I wish I had that much faith.
hhhoih You are already the number one man I acknowledge. I will never forget
your kindness when you risked your life to protect me when my neck was going
to be cut by Shibata Katsuie in Okehazama.
Thanks to that Katsuie is bearing a grudge for the rest of my life, my body just
moved without think. It doesn't mean you need to be particularly grateful.
Giggle. That seems to be like you. When I rejected your offer of being an
officer, it was decided that the Imagawa clan would be defeated by the Oda
clan. However, it seems to be my victory regarding Sagara Yoshiharu. He that
fights and runs away may live to fight another day, is the common saying.
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Y, Yoshimoto-chan. W, what do you mean?
Don't think too deeply. Next, you need to eat the yatsuhashi crackers. Ahhn.
Juubei-chan's eyes....
The so-called Honnouji gauge was at MAX, Yoshiharu was crying in his heart.
Don't be so reserved. It is for Tenka Fubu? Look. Ahhhhhhhn.
....worthless....
In the corner of the tea house that was surging with people, Yoshiharu as being
made to be fed yatsuhashi crackers by Yoshimoto.
The store was not only visited by Kyoto townsfolk, but it also seemed to be
visited by crowds of Namban merchants from Sakai and warriors from the Ming
dynasty.
Among them, there was a neat Princess Knight calmly playing the lute on her
own.
...It's a biwa.
Long silver hair, deep red eyes, and skin that was as white as snow.
Although a Japanese person couldn't tell, she was different from the Nambans.
She was beautiful as if she came from a story book, but she was a girl with
fairytale-like features.
(That girl?)
She isn't a Princess Knight of the Oda clan.
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He saw her face for the first time.
Indeed, she had a peculiar appearance.
Besides her crimson eyes, her whole body was as white as a rabbit.
As if she wasn't a person, but was a god.
Even her expression was completely calm, and looked slightly lonely.
The sorrowful tune the girl played on the biwa, Yoshiharu was strangely
touched.
(Is she possibly not a Princess Knight? No, I can't even think of her as a human
from this world. As if she fell to earth from some distant star....possibly.)
The people who were pushing their way into the store to watch Yoshiharu and
Yoshimoto, in time, the sound of the biwa from the unusual hard to approach
girl stole their hearts.
The only one who wasn't taken was Imagawa Yoshimoto that was fascinated by
the yatsuhashi cracknels.
Before he realized, Yoshiharu sat next to the girl with the biwa.
It is such a sorrowful tune, as if it is mourning those that died in the war.

The girl smiled gently.
It was a crystal-clear smile that wasn't from a human being of this world.
Yes. Sending the souls of the dead.
Ah. Many soldiers died honorably in the rematch of Kizugawaguchi. The Oda
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troops rescued as many of the escaping pirates whose ships sunk as possible,
but we were unable to end the war without casualties.
Even more people will die going forward. It is the fate of the Sengoku Era.
Why are you playing the biwa?
Because I can gather my courage when I strum the biwa.
Courage?
Because courage is needed to go to the battlefield.
As expected this girl is a Princess Knight, Yoshiharu realized.
In the center of her red eyes, there was fear.
Because I am a coward. When I become too scared to face the battlefield, I

always shut myself in Bishmondou, and play the biwa in this way. To send the
souls of those who will fall in battle. And I remember my fate.
Fate...as a Princess Knight? It is your fate to fight on the battlefield?
It is my heavy destiny. My father was a heartless brutal man. In order to obtain

power, he killed the lords and citizens of territories one after another. I am
shouldering my father's karma, and have fallen from heavne to earth.
From heaven to the earth....
The words didn't feel strange, when spoken by this unusual beautiful woman
who seemed like she wasn't from this world.
Her body didn't have any pigment.
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She really seems like a person who fell from heaven, Yoshiharu thought.
On this ground that has fallen into chaos, I fight to realize the lost justice, and I
will die for this justice. I live to fight and fight to die. To love a man is also not
possible. If my heart is stolen by someone, at that time, I will die. That is the fate
that was imposed on me by the crimes commited by my father.
....Could you possible be.
Shingen Takeda who exiled her father and took the role as the family head, I
promised that it wouldn't be permitted. But now, Oda Nobuna that promised
that she would obtain love and the world in front of the whole country, has
become my greatest final enemy. The two roads are incapable of coexisting. The
way of the god and the way of a person, you cannot walk both at the same time.
It can only be performed by the person who sacrifices everything to justice. If
you do not keep a lifetime vow of celibacy, you cannot carry out a fair and
impartial justice. Oda Nobuna is wrong. Her selfish desires are too deep. It is far
more unforgivable than Takeda Shingen's lust for power. It denies my entire
way of life. It absolutely cannot be permitted.
Is that. You your real nature.
The girl sang while strumming the biwa.
Sounds of whips rang across the night,

Crossing the river, the army looks to the start of light.
Sharpening the sword with hatred through the years,
The snake moves forwards with a frightening blur.
This time, I won't miss the long snake like that time in Kawanakajima. Because
I will surely die in this battle. Nothing is scary anymore. In the coming war,
Demon King of the Sixth Realm I will return to heaven with Oda Nobuna.
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Nobuna was seen walking into the shop that was crowded with people, wearing
her Namban hat.
Her expression changed.
Juubei! That girl! That girl is Echigo's Uesugi Kenshin! Kill her!
Y, yes! Gun corps, fire!
Uesugi Kenshin stood up and jumped at the same time.
Towards the white horse.
Innumerable bullets were shot at Kenshin's white body.

Kenshin's thin body danced through the air gracefully, and completely avoided
the bullets.
No, they weren't avoided.
In the downpour of bullets, Kenshin was exposed.
And yet, not a single bullet hit.
As if the bullets avoided her out of fear of hitting Kenshin's body.
This is Kenshin's courage, Yoshiharu muttered unconsciously.
One horseman at Kawanakajima, that time when she charged the stronghold
Takeda Shingen built, not even a single scratch was inflicted on Kenshin.
Useless. You will never hit the Bishamonten with bows and arrows or guns.
Kenshin's expression as she sat on her horse changed. From the face of a meek
and neat maiden, to the face of the divinely possessed Princess Knight.
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It was the expression of the Bishamonten that was sent from heaven to destroy
evil.
Nobuna and Mitsuhide were glared at by the red eyes of Bishamonten, and
could not immediately move.
Kenshin made a proclamation as she rode her horse.
Oda Nobuna, I came today to declare war. 'Kou Aikoshi Ichiwa - Uesugi
Kenshin of Echigo, Takeda Shingen of Kai, Hojo Ujiyasu of Odawara, a tripartite
military alliance was formed of those that fought over the Kanto region. There is
only one goal. To kill the conqueror of the world, Oda Nobuna. Takeda Shingen
and I are bitter enemies who have joined forces, and we are simultaneously
starting a war to reach the capital. Meanwhile, Ujiyasu Hojo will hold back Date
Masamune who is aiming at Kanto independently.
What's that? An alliance with Takeda Shingen? That's impossible.
Kenshin, no, the Bishamonten, ran like the wind while splitting the crowd in
half by her divine spirit.
I saw a dream in Bishamondou. I saw the future of this country. Your Tenka
Fubu will not dominate. A human being has nineteen years, an empty dream,
the glory of a lifetime. The Bishamonten and the Demon King of the Sixth Realm
will return to heaven together. It is our fate.
Is that true Yoshiharu? The future that Yoshiharu knows-
As Kenshin ran past, Nobuna could finally talk and clung to Yoshiharu's arm.
Yoshiharu was at a loss for words.
If it is that Uesugi Kenshin, it might really be possible for her to see the future in
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a dream, I almost believed.
Why is it that not a single shot hit from that distance? Impossible.
Mitsuhide's body didn't stop trembling.
How do we defeat that divine inspiration? Did she really already form an
alliance with Takeda Shingen?
It looks like it Juubei. When I opened the Amano Iwato, it seems I antagonized
the tiger and the dragon together. Kenshin resents that I decided to live as a
human while using the power of a god, and Takeda Shingen recognizes me as
the strongest enemy The impossible alliance has miraculously been formed.
But who on earth was the intermediary....Uesugi and Takeda are mortal
enemies that surround Shinanogawa. Uesugi and Hojo are also bitter enemies
who compete for hegemony over the Kanto region. The alliance between these
three parties is impossible!
I don't know. But surely the instigator who painted this picture was Ashikaga
Yoshiaki. Although she is still a child, she was born and raised in the Ashikaga
family to inherit the shogunate. For me who doesn't have lineage or authority,
the Ashikaga shogunate may be my greatest opponent.
Nobuna-sama.....
If I am the human being that came from the future, Uesugi Kenshin may really
be a goddess that came down from heaven, Yoshiharu thought.
.....That girl is the Dragon of Echigo, Uesugi Kenshin....the incarnation of

Bishamonten.
In the Setouchi Sea, there are an innumerable number of big and small islands
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where the ancient pirate companies formed.
The Murakami navy that was defeated by Oda's iron armored fleet in
Kizugawaguchi, while losing nearly half of their ships, had barely managed to
escape.
The leader who abandoned the Harima front, Ukita Naoie, lead his personal
fleet to rescue the Mori Twin rivers of the Murakami Navy, Kobayakawa and
Kikkawa, and they just barely escaped certain death.
Sorry Takamoto. I couldn't help the Miss win. Murakami Takeyoshi yelled as
he sprawled slovenly onboard next to Ukita Naoie.
Well. I freely did a favor to Mori. For a worthless daimyo like me sandwiched
between Mori and Oda, it was a crucial moment to survive. What will you do
now?
Hey, wait. Do you intend to betray the Missus now?
Am I not Ukita Naoie? Ally of the strong, I help the strong defeat the weak. I
only support the side that seems likely to win. Well the present Oda, due to
Ashikaga Shogun-chans' letter of attack, has been surrounded by Takeda,
Uesugi, and Mori from the east and west, and is at risk of being destroyed. It's
because the capital is in the center of Japan, enemies can attack from the east
and west. It is difficult to protect. Nevertheless, there is no room to go on the
offense.
Leave it.
In other words, it is a good plan to stay with Mori for the time being. However,
I hope Kobayakawa's heart hasn't been broken from losing that brat Sagara. You
were completely clinging to Sagara as if he was your older brother.
That's not it. By personally sending Sagara Yoshiharu who regained his
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memory back to the Oda clan, Miss has finally separated from her older brother.
She recovered from the serious wond to her heart from losing Takamoto. It has
become stronger and won't break.
Heartbreaking. That kid is a better Princess Knight kill than me. Instead of
getting back together with Oda Nobuna was I expected, now it seems he is
getting married with that false shogun Imagawa Yoshimoto.
What did you say? Is that true?
Oh, it will be a political move. That girl who showed her beautiful looks to the
whole world, Oda Nobuna is still a maiden to the end. The gap between that
guy who does not have a household, and Oda Nobuna's image as a goddess,
seems to be popular right now.
One. The weakness of guys these days is deplorable, but this may be beneficial.
I want one too.
Imagawa Yoshimoto, Akechi Mitsuhide. If he picks a side, there might be some

infighting among the Oda clan that prides itself on its monolithic unity.
Murakami. You are straight-laced so you probably can't understand, but when a
Princess Knight becomes enamored with a man, that is a weak point.
That kid should at least remain married with Oda Nobuna. Miss Kobayakawa
will be too pitiful.
I think the opposite, Murakami. Until those two get truly married, there is still
time. The Mori should march to the capital until then. However for me, I will
decline taking the herald position in the war marching to the capital.
Huh. Sagara Yoshiharu for now is with Imagawa Yoshimoto. I can't tell this
story to Miss, Takeyoshi covered his face with a rugged palm.
Oh, that's right Murakami. I forgot all about putting someone in the ship jail.
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Did Yamanaka Shikanosuke return to Oda safely?
'That's impossible. I didn't dream that I would be left behind when milord
regained his memories!' she fainted in agony in her cell, but I've been told to
send her to the Oda clan in exchange for the Miki castle defenders. 'I was not
forgotten' she muttered unexpectedly quietly as she went back. That fellow is a
strange one to the end. She is a beauty, but will she be able to find a husband
with such an eccentric character?
Despite appearances, she becomes bizarrely strong when in battle. When a first
class Princess Knight is prepared for death on the battlefield she becomes far
stronger than any incompetent man. I don't want to be her opponent.
Who is the partner that I should entrust my only younger daughter Hideie to,
Ukita Naoie was still thinking about this.
To substitute for their sunken flagship, the Mori Twin Rivers, Kobayakawa
Takakage and Kikkawa Motoharu were riding the new flagship prepared by
Ukita.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki followed Ukita to encourage them, My Kou Aikoshi Ichiwa

plan to revive our advance was successful! Don't lag behind Uesugi and Takeda,
hurry to Kyoto! We will be the first people to reach the Capital! She was in high
spirits.
For Uesugi of Echigo, Noto, Echzen, and Omi, Takeda of Kai needs to remove
Mikawa, Totomi, and Mino. Even though Mori lost their bases in Harima, we
are still the closest to the capital. Even if we were defeated in the naval battle
and lost the control of the Gulf of Osaka, and Honbyo Temple also went down
to Oda, the Mori's land army is intact.
That's right Takakage. People are saying that as soon as Sagara Yoshiharu
returned to Oda, he got married to Imagawa Yoshimoto. Even if you are
knocked down, don't mind it. You are alive.
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Kikkawa Motoharu wrapped the Japanese flag headband around her head again
and was in high spirits.
Only Kobayakawa Takakage turned away and looked at the Setouchi sea.
Shogun-sama. Older sister. The Oda clan is strong. I lost.
Accidents piled up, Takakage. The Princess Knights of the Oda clan moved
separately! Akechi Mitsuhide abandoned her post and ran out of control as she
pleased, and Hanbei Takenaka made the iron armored fleet move in a ring
formation without permission from Oda Nobuna and Kuroda Kanbei. In that
respect, we only lost control at the end. It was bad luck.
That's not it, older sister. While at first glance it looks like the Oda clan's people
are moving as they please, but actually they share the same will. They aren't
rampaging out of selfish desires. It is precisely because they are all facing the
same future, even if an individual acts on their own, it will eventually bring
victory to the Oda clan. Personally my talent as a commander is to judge the
state of the battle, adapt to changes in circumstances, and move, this increases
the uncertain elements. Even for me, how much can I not read.
We have this one uncertain element here called Ukita Naoie. We were narrowly
saved with that.
He is too uncertain. In the first place that man does not move for the future of
Mori....the Oda clan's encirclement is not monolithic. It is clear even with Saika
Magoichi's independent attack on Sakai, it is difficult for Takeda, Uesugi, and
Mori to come together for one purpose. Because each moves for their own
purposes.
This battle was the battle between Sagara Yoshiharu of the Oda clan and Sagara
Yoshiharu of the Mori clan. Takakage summed up the battle.
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Both were the same Sagara Yoshiharu. However, the time Sagara Yoshiharu
spent in the Oda clan was longer. Regrettably, that difference emerged.
...Takakage.
Though I can't imagine the shape of the coming world and am only an
onlooker in this era, it seems my avarice emerged when I met Sagara Yoshiharu
who completely lost his memory of the Oda clan. Yoshiharu was similar to my
older brother. But at some point he became a greater existence above my older
brother for me. Still, should I keep father's request to have the Mori clan not
desire the world?
Sagara Yoshiharu, Takakage. Was he your dream?
Everything in this world is a transient dream older sister, Takakage murmured.
...Life is the space between dreams.
Younger sister is trying to turn into a hermit again, Motoharu seems to have
noticed.
When she spent her time together with Sagara Yoshiharu, younger sister was
different.
You must not, she raised her voice.
Takakage. Precisely because it is a dream that will certainly vanish someday,

you have to sieze it in your hand! You have to live in this world, that's it!
Elder sister.
This Kikkawa Motoharu will take the lead. If the sea route is closed, than we
will go to the capital through the land route. We are going to Kyoto and will
retake Sagara Yoshiharu!
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I am going to have to take Sagara Yoshiharu from Oda Nobuna, elder sister.
Wrong, Takakage. That Sagara Yoshiharu that promised to serve the Mori clan
and protect you, is the real Sagara Yoshiharu that came from the future. He
wasn't a fake! If you fell in love with Sagara Yoshiharu so much, if you loved
him so much that you couldn't stop your tears when you lost him, you have to
bet it all and snatch him!
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This elder sister, you have a one-track mind when it comes to your younger
sister until the end, she has already forgotten that we lost the naval battle, such a
troublesome older sister, Takakage felt like giving a bitter smile.
This Ashikaga also supports this, Sagara Yoshiharu is my faithful servant, he is

our comrade, he is a really good man, the child shogun thrust her chest out
proudly next to Motoharu.
I, I am not crying. I'm just troubled by the careless manner of my elder sister
and am laughing.
From the time you pushed Sagara Yoshiharu into the sea, you kept crying on
and on and on and on and on! What are you doing! The courage you gained to
send Sagara Yoshiharu home when he regained his memories! Cry, cry! Raise
your voice and cry! If you don't want to live alone anymore, you can't be an
onlooker in this era, if you want to take back Sagara Yoshiharu, cry and scream
obediently! Then this older sister will help you!
N, noisy, shut up!
Ah. Takakage finally laughed, the child shogun cheered.
The Setouchi Sea was shining.
Behind Takakage, a zegondou, was jumping up and
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The Sengoku Era- .

There was nowhere to run.

To break through the encirclement, Nobuna herself, was having difficulty

The people also participated in riots one after another.

It would calm the riots occurring across the country-

Ujisato is a girl who doesn't know love.

Oda Nobuna said she will not throw anything away-

She declared it in front of the whole nation!

Do you want to shoot or...

The future of the country will be determined by Magoichi-sama's decision.

I had just acted violently for sake of my own freedom. I am flawless. So I

It brought home the difference in our caliber.

(What a greedy woman.)

Magoichi could no longer hesitate.

With an inarticulate cry, Magoichi fired the Yatagrasu.

Magoichi used her arquebus bullet to blast away the arrow.

In the spur of the moment, she protected Nobuna and Yoshiharu.

So strong from such a distance!

What on earth, was that Magoichi?

In succession, more arrows were aimed and fired at Nobuna.

Yoshiharu hugged Nobuna to defend her.

The pace of the arrow was faster and Magoichi shouted.

Hotaru! Yatagarasu Kai Second!

I'll shoot any number of arrows aimed at Oda Nobuna!

However, it was too late.

Damn. It's useless! They have two archers. I'm alone....!

Another one is the son of Rokkaku Shoutei, Rokkaku Yoshiharu.

Magoichi on the other hand is alone.

Three arrows pierced Sagara Yoshiharu's back as he hugged and protected

It was hopeless. Magoichi had been unable to save them.

As her consciousness faded, Nobuna pushed Yoshiharu's body away.

Yoshiharu becoming Nobuna's shield and receiving an arrow in the back.

However, this is only for half a year.

And the whereabouts of Sagara Yoshiharu are still unknown.

Lying in Honnouji Temple, Nobuna got a seal of approval of recovery from

When I woke, I was on top of one of Honnouji Temple's beds.

I can't really feel it yet.

Yoshiharu vanished from the battlefield with that perfect encirclement as I

Apparently we were barely saved by Konoe Sakihisa and Himiko.

I understand. Boys are simple.

While it is worrisome that Sagara's whereabouts are unknown, by opening the

Is that right marvelously katsuie. What a vulgar life Sagara has.

Silently wearing her tiger headdress, Maeda Inuchiyo nodded.

Everyone close to Nobuna believed that Yoshiharu is alive.

Nobuna's brother, Tsuda Nobusumi laughed cheerfully as he gave an Uiro to

So because big brother isn't around anymore to have a romantic relationship,

Sagara is a completely sinful man de gozaru. He is always flirting around

...That's right, he had an affair. To have an affair with Nobuna....

....Broke our engagement. Even if he went mad on the battlefield, to steal

While Nagahide watches Mitsuhide with an anxious face. (Strange, it is too

Though Nobuna thought, (Juubei is strange. Was it the shock of understanding

(Above all, there is nothing to be heard of Yoshiharu... I can't only rely on

Yoshiharu may never return.

He may have died protecting me.

Sagara Yoshiharu died in battle.

The likelihood was high.

Everyone in the Oda household had a vague feeling.