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Chapter 5 - Bishamonten 

“Come on Sagara Yoshiharu. Speaking of Kyoto snacks, these are Yatsuhashi crackers. 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.” 

“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 their third tea-house. 

“It’s that figurehead shogun.” 

“Why is she with Sagara-san?” 

“It’s surprising they can do that.” 

“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 that disposable 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.” 

“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 around 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.” 

“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.” 

“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 Honn?-ji 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 was 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 fairy tale-like features. 

That girl? 

She isn’t a Princess Knight of the Oda clan. 

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 unusually 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. 

“So. Sending the souls of the dead.” 

“Ah. Many soldiers died honorably in the rematch of Kizugawaguchi. The Oda 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 Bishamondo, 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 heaven 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. 

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 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 committed by my father.” 

“....Could you possibly 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. 

The quiet sounds of whips, rang across the night. Seen in the dawn, the fangs of a thousand soldiers For a grudge, I polish a sword for ten years In the light of the falling star, the long snake is missed 

“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. 

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. 

That time when she charged the stronghold Takeda Shingen as a single horsewoman at Kawanakajima, 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. 

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” [xxxi] - 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 Bishamondo. 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 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 Shinano-gawa. 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 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 Ojous win.” Murakami Takeyoshi yelled as he sprawled slovenly on board 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. She was completely clinging to Sagara as if he was her older brother.” 

“That’s not it. By personally sending Sagara Yoshiharu who regained his memory back to the Oda clan, Ojou has finally separated from her older brother. She recovered from the serious wound to her heart from losing Takamoto. It has become stronger and won’t break.” 

“Heartbreaking. That kid is a better Princess Knight killer than me. Instead of getting back together with Oda Nobuna as 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, that idea seems to be popular right now.” 

“One. The weakness of guys these days is deplorable, but this may be beneficial. What a thing to want.” 

“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. Kobayakawa-ojou 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 Ojou, Takeyoshi covered his face with a rugged palm. 

“Oh, that’s right Murakami. I forgot all about putting someone in the ship jail. 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!’ with that 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 young 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, Echizen, and Omi, while Takeda of Kai needs to remove Mikawa, T?t?mi, 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.” 

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. Aneki. 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, Aneki. 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. 

“Both were the same Sagara Yoshiharu. However, the time Sagara Yoshiharu spent in the Oda clan was longer. Regrettably, that difference emerged.” 

 

“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 Aniki. But at some point he became a greater existence above my Aniki 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 Aneki, Takakage murmured. 

“...Life is a dream.” 

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 seize it in your hand! You have to live in this world, that’s it!” 

“Aneki.” 

“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!” 

“I am going to have to take Sagara Yoshiharu from Oda Nobuna, Aneki.” 

“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!” 

This Aneki, you have a one-track mind when it comes to your imouto until the end, she has already forgotten that we lost the naval battle, such a troublesome Aneki, 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 [xxxii] , was jumping up and down and splashing. 



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