Oda Nobuna no Yabou volume 1 chapter 2

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'''Chapter 2 : Dearu ka!'''

The Nobuna group was slowly marching on the highway north.

“Why should I have to look after you, dammit.”

From above the horse, Shibata Katsuie had an upturned face saying that.

Yoshiharu was right now grabbing the horse’s bit and accompanying as Katsuie’s attendant.

After the Dragon God strife at the Ojaga pond, without even having the time to go back to the castle, Nobuna said “The appointed time is soon.” and headed like that towards the border of Mino and Owari.

Nobuna seemed to have a principle of galloping on her own.

Her companions have to follow her while being flustered and shouting “Please wait, princess!”

After she left, Yoshiharu seemed to have collapsed like that on the footpath but for the time being he was going to accompany Nobuna’s business as Katsuie’s attendant.

Without even knowing the reason, Yoshiharu was thrown into the Warring States era where he doesn’t even have time to rest.

The chance to find a way back to his own world, for the time being, doesn’t seem likely.

“However, she too is a busy princess….No, since she’s a feudal Lord, Tono-sama?” (T/N: Tono means Lord)

“Y-You! To refer to the princess as ‘she’, do you want to be beheaded?”

Despite being skillful, Katsuie kicks Yoshiharu’s butt while riding on top of the horse.

“Hey Katsuie. Where are we going? What are we going to exterminate after the Dragon God?”

“Hey Saru. If you drop the honorifics with me again, then that time...”

“Woah! Don’t brandish the spear!”

While nimbly dodging the tip of the spear. Yoshiharu pulls on the horse.

Katsuie gave a sigh of “haa”

“Seriously, you’re an over familiar Saru. We are going to meet the Viper of Mino after this.”

“After a Dragon is a Viper, huh…. What sort of spooky change is this?”

“You really don’t know anything. By viper I mean it’s the feudal Lord of Mino. Saitou Dousan. Nobuna-sama will take in Dousan’s daughter as her step sister, and plans to have a relation of being relatives.”

“Take in a sister? Isn’t she looking for a wife?”

“Idiot! Nobuna-sama is a princess, like she’d look for a wife!”

“Ah, that’s true.”

“In the world of this Warring States, verbal promises are not as reliable as alliances. While forming alliances, if the feudal Lord is a male, then he takes in a wife. If it’s a princess feudal Lord, she takes in a little sister. And then, they make relations as relatives, and an alliance gets formed.”

Sigh. "A princess feudal Lord, huh. Are there many?”

“Yeah. If the first child is a girl, it was decided that that princess will inherit the family. A Saru like you wouldn’t know but in the world of warriors, that much is common sense.”

“Fuun. Now that you mention it, Imagawa Yoshimoto was a girl as well.”

“What!? So you were a spy of Imagawa Yoshimoto! I’ll give you judgement!”

“You’re wrong! Lower your spear!”

In the middle of the road, the condition of Nobuna’s surroundings was explained to him in simply terms by Katsuie.”

There are a few subtle differences but, this seems like the Warring States Japan after all.

It was more or less matching the knowledge learnt from the Sengoku games.

Nobuna was the ruling feudal Lord of Owari after all, the next successor of the Oda clan.

She seems like the “Oda Nobunaga” who appears in history textbooks or the Sengoku games.

In the previous year since she had lost her father, she had succeeded the house even though she is a princess.

While Owari is a big province receiving benefits of trade from the harbor it holds, the soldiers are weak, and is surrounded by enemies.

Above all, the one who held the name of no. 1 of the Tokaido region, the feudal Lord of Suruga, Imagawa Yoshimoto is boasting that he would someday rise to the capital, and assist the declining Ashikaga Shogun clan and start his own conquest of Japan.

The small country neighbouring east of Owari, the Matsudaira clan holding Mikawa as well, for some time they were obeying Oda but they became Yoshimoto’s followers.

Unrelated to it, inside the Oda clan, there are many who don’t have allegiance to Nobuna who even has the bad reputation of “The Fool of Owari”, they’re not in any condition to fight Imagawa.

If the entire Imagawa starts proceeding towards the capital, it was clear that Owari would be crushed like an ant.

So Nobuna is wanting to form an alliance with the Lord of the great province sharing the borders in the north, Mino’s Viper, Saitou Dousan.

“That viper, he is calling himself Saitou Dousan right now but it seems he was an oil merchant from the capital.”

Katsuie has a sour expression. It seems like she doesn’t trust Dousan.

“A merchant got promoted to the Lord of Mino? A retainer supplanting his Lord---.”

“He exiled the previous Lord and took over Mino. Not to mention, even though he’s a former merchant, he’s strong in battle. That’s why he’s known as a viper and feared. Her father, Nobuhide-sama has fought Dousan countless times as an enemy. For her to have a meeting with that man, I am worried about Nobuna-sama.”

Katsuie once again let out a sigh.

“If you’re worried, then why not think of a plan to oppose Yoshimoto without forming an alliance with Dousan?”

“Don’t make it sound simple! If at least inside Owari everyone became one under Nobuna-sama, we may be able oppose them but…they aren’t doing it at all. Haa~”

“Hey, Katsuie. If you worry too much, wrinkles will show on your face.”

“I said not to drop the honorifics, Saru! I am still 18, there are no wrinkles on my face.”

Whoosh Whoosh, from above the horse she brandishes the spear. He dodges it magnificently. This restless Saru! Katsuie’s face gets redder and redder, she gets serious and tried to violently stab him with the spear.

“Don't try to stab me seriously, it's dangerous!”

“Haa Haa Haa….I-It isn’t hitting….!What a nimble Saru…”

“Being left behind by Nobuna is pretty dangerous. Is the province in a dispute or what.”

“Shut up. Che. Why did I leak the princess’s shame to Saru, if you talk about this conversation, I’ll have your head!”

Yoshiharu thought that bringing up the subject on her own and then getting angry about it is cruel.

“Hey, Katsuie, isn’t it fine for you to just silence those opposing Nobuna. The chief retainer or whatever?”

“…..I- I am in actuality her younger brother, Nobukatsu-sama’s retainer. The chief retainer serving Nobuna-sama suddenly got busy due to overwork, so it’s just that today I am serving her instead…”

Was that a pun perhaps? To Yoshiharu who murmured that, she glared at him with eyes as if she saw a maggot. (T/N: Both Chief retainer and overwork are pronounced as Karou, so it sounded like a pun)

Kuh, she looked down upon it, Yoshiharu was trembling with disgrace.

“We’ll soon be arriving at Shoutokuji. Saru, you go to Nobuna-sama. Don’t leave her for even a second.”


Shoutokuji.

This is a town built around a temple on the borders of Mino and Owari (The town where the influence of temples started), a neutral zone where both provinces’ military could not enter.

As a location for the meeting of Nobuna and the ‘Viper’ Saitou Dousan, it was the most suitable.

Nobuna would take in Dousan’s daughter as her little step sister depending on the meeting’s result.

If by chance Nobuna shows her usual foolish attitude, Dousan would be disappointed and would be reluctant to hand over his daughter or, may even assassinate Nobuna in this place.

Regardless, the one feared as the viper is a baboon geezer who’s a war veteran.

She’s sitting on the horse with a melancholic looking face with brows knit. Her hair is swaying in a brown bun. It’s her usual foolish appearance.

With an ageing looking bath robe, maybe because of the heat, one sleeve was one. Shouldering a arqebus on her shoulder, a rope tied on her waist with a lot of gourds hanging, and rare articles, and a tiger’s skin on her waist. And also, “You know, you must have mistook the age.” Is what Yoshiharu wanted to say. In the side where the sleeve was not present, near her white chest region, no matter how you look at it, there was a ‘showing bra’

Only her breasts are pretty, only the breasts, is what Yoshiharu reluctantly recognized besides Nobuna.

However, what would be the meaning of a chicken drawn in the back of the bath robe.

No matter how you look at it, she doesn’t look like a Warring States feudal Lord.

She is a real idiot after all! Is what yoshiharu resigned himself to.

“Huh. You were still here?”

She glared at him with a gaze like looking at a monkey.

“I am here! Now keep your promise of hiring me as your foot soldier!”

“Good work. There, carry my gourd.”

“Woah…..fugyuru!?”
While he was trying to lightly catch the gourd that was thrown at him, this time she stepped on his head.

Turning around once nimbly on Yoshiharu’s head, Nobuna landed down magnificently in the town.

“Alright! I am fired up!”

“Don’t use people’s heads as a pedestal!”

“…..Princess, reporting in that Dousan-dono has already reached the main temple building.”

A small built little girl looking like a page was reporting while bowing to Nobuna.

“Dearuka. I have to change as well.”

“Huh? You’re going to change?”

“Why are you making a surprised face, Saru?”

“I think it’s useless though. Well, there’s a saying of Fine clothes make the man.”

“Hmph. A Saru is in the end a Saru. Meh it’s fine, a foot soldier like you shouldn’t come into the main temple building. Wait in the garden alongside Inuchiyo.”

The page called Inuchiyo nodded without any words.

A little younger than Nobuna. It was a little girl with a face like a doll.

“Inuchiyo. If the viper tries to do anything funny, immediately cut him!”

“……Understood.”

“At that time, it’s fine to use that Saru as a ‘Monkey shield’.”

“At least say it as a ‘Human shield’!”

“…..Understood.”

Bam.

This time suddenly, the straw sandals that Nobuna took off hit Yoshiharu’s face at ferocious speed.

“Carry that as well!”

Yoshiharu was regretting it~ do foot soldiers have this tough of a job~ while on the verge of tears he said that.

The main temple building of Shoutokuji.

In order to avoid conflict, the soldiers of both armies were very far off from the main temple.

Yoshiharu and Inuchiyo were in the large garden completely visible from the main temple building.

Furthermore, there was a girl samurai of Mino who probably had been given the same duties of a page as Inuchiyo.

She was an intelligent looking bishoujo, it bothered him somewhat that her forehead was strangely large.

He lightly greeted her with his eyes but he didn’t converse with her.

For the time being, shall we exchange phone numbers, Ah, but there are no cell phones in this world, is what Yoshiharu was thinking when

“….Private conversations forbidden.”

He was rebuked by Inuchiyo.

Already in the main temple, the viper of Mino, Saitou Dousan was seated on his seat.

Like a Warring States feudal lord with a long military career, a magnificent presence.

Although he’s aged, there’s no lose place in his body, he was solidly built, a powerful old man who seemed to be screaming “If I strip, it’s going to be awesome, Gah!”

He seemed like he could break 10 tiles stacked with his bare hands.

However well, he was bald, he seemed strong in fights but somehow he seemed like a lecher, he’s surely a baboon geezer is what Yoshiharu thought.

However, even though it was an important meeting, he was wearing informal clothes and was opening and closing his handheld fan.

(The opponent is Oda’s foolish princess anyways)

That sort of attitude could be seen.

(Shall I cancel the agreement. Should I kill Nobuna here. No, going as far as killing isn’t required.)

That sort of troublesome feeling.

But well, I feel the same, Yoshiharu nodded.

It seems like Dousan saw Nobuna in her foolish garb while coming to the temple from somewhere.

So if Nobuna is going to come in that dirty appearance then wearing a formal attire would be stupid, is what he must have been thinking when he entered the main temple building while wearing his informal attire.

“That Nobuna is late.”

Dousan did a big yawn as if bored. It was then.

“Mino’s viper! Sorry for making you wait!”

Suddenly, Nobuna appeared in the temple building.

Dousan spurt out the tea in his mouth.

Yoshiharu as well, his mouth open as if he really had become a monkey, his gaze fixed on Nobuna.

Those weird nonsensical, punk or mistaken goth loli clothes or whatever they were, any case these clothes weren’t the strange ones she wore till now!

That sparkling brown hair was let down, that appearance of wearing a top class kyouyuuzen kimono beautifully, she was surely Owari’s feudal  Lord, the Oda clan’s princess.

Her soot faced filthy face up till now had no make up as usual but it was white like a ceramic and her smooth skin was exposed.

Rather, for someone having this pretty skin, cosmetics were not required.

And her non make up face, it clearly surpassed all the 2 D, real bishoujo girls Yoshiharu had seen uptil now,-----her long eyelashes, her straight nose, her small lips, it was a perfect balance.

She was beautiful.

No, just the word beautiful is insufficient. Even in cuteness, she was higher classed than anyone, surely a princess feudal Lord.

And from those eyes full of confidence, without making people scared, an impenetrable powerful glitter came from her eyes.

(Oh, Oh, Oooooooh?)

How should he speak, to Yoshiharu who had little vocabulary of a modern person, words didn’t come out.

Dadada, while letting out a groan, those who were taking in Nobuna’s brilliantly charming appearance, they could only continue gazing.

And also, Saitou Dousan in the temple building as well.

“U……Uooooooh? W-W-W….What a….bishoujo!?”

Exactly the same impression as Yoshiharu, he shouted it out.

While Dousan was roaring “Uo—o—ooooh”, with elegant steps Nobuna was moving inside the temple building, and sat opposite to Dousan.

“I am Oda Kazusanosuke Nobuna. My childhood name is “Kichi” but I don’t want to be called Kichi by you. Mino’s viper!”

“Ah, y-yeah. I am Saitou Dousan….”

Unbecoming of his age, Dousan was blushing, and he couldn’t look directly while he was in Nobuna’s eyes.

While brandishing the hand held fan and muttering “It’s shameful”, he started turning the tea cup on his palm.

“Dearuka.”

With a girl like high pitched voice, Nobuna said that.

“Y-Y-Yeah….”

With an expression as if Dousan was lost somewhere like in the border of ecstasy, he gives that reply.

That Nobuna, in order to make Dousan surprised, she must have purposely had the appearance of a fool till now----A frightening child! Is what Yoshiharu thought.

Tug, his school uniform was pulled by Inuchiyo.

(Wrong. It’s not purposely. The clothes before were her usual wear.)

(I see. So her inside is a fool after all.)

Although I say that, if a foolish barbarian fashioned soot girl suddenly changes to a high class bishoujo, both Dousan and Yoshiharu can’t control the thumping in their chests.

Even now, and in the past as well, men have been weak to clichéd developments, huh, Yoshiharu nodded to himself.

(Che! I-It’s just Nobuna! M-My heart isn’t throbbing!)

They repeated that tsundere words in their chests where no one could hear.

Nobuna was “ The gazes of men are annoying. Especially the Saru in the garden.That’s why I hate these sorts of clothes.” While shouldering her hair, she said that and drank a cup of tea.

That drinking style as well, her manners were perfect.

This is bad, it’s mortifying that I was taken in by her for a moment, Yoshiharu grinded his teeth.

“Viper! I need your power right now. You’ll give me a younger sister right?”

However, the Warring States Feudal Lord, the one feared as Mino’s viper, Saitou Dousan was:

While blowing the heat off the tea, he had recovered from the damage of the headstart he took from Nobuna, and with his eyebrows raised, he returned to his fully intense serious face.

“Now then, I wonder about that. Oda Nobuna-dono.”

Amazing! He recovered…..this old man is frightening….without thinking Yoshiharu began shaking.

“Rather, ‘Owari’s foolish princess’. I have to test if you really are worthy to form an alliance with me or not.”

“Hmph. What do you want to test?”

“Your ability, I have a few questions about it.  I have heard of the fame of the fool who can’t even unite Owari.”

His words are meek for a ‘viper’but that piercing gaze, that deep voice, and even now attacking Nobuna,  the fearsome fighting spirit that’s like an atmosphere that will swallow you whole.

“Depending upon your answer, I may take your life as well. Kukuku.”

He finally said it! It’s come! While naturally laughing he declared his killing intent!

(T-T-This is ‘Mino’s viper’ Saitou Dousan…….scarrrrrrrrrrrrrry!)

Yoshiharu thought: In this pressuring interview, even I would break in 3 seconds.

This isn’t an alliance meeting…..it’s like a battle.

This is a battle between Saitou Dousan and Oda Nobuna, a 1 vs. 1 battle.

However, even while being threatened by the beast like viper, Nobuna doesn’t step back even one bit.

“If it’s you, you should be able to understand my true power with just one look.”

“I don’t judge commanders with just their appearance. Even I right now may be a balding old man but, in my young days I was a handsome young man…..using my appearance, I became close to the Lord. However, in my heart, from those days I was a venomous viper.”

“I see. You can’t even imagine it looking at your baboon geezer appearance right now.”

“Fufufu, once you age, the insides show in the outside as well.”

He wasn’t an old man who would be melted by Nobuna’s bishoujo attitude, huh….Yoshiharu grinded his teeth.

“Now then, is it fine to inquire about a few questions from the foolish princess?”

“It’s fine, what might they be?”

Nobuna and Dousan with a serious look glare at each other from a small distance.

It was so fierce that even now you would think that they would go for each other’s necks.

In front of the crafty old man ‘viper’, Saitou Dousan’s sharp eyes who would make normal girls start trembling at once, without even shaking a bit, Nobuna was there with her chest full of confidence.

Rather, it looked like she was looking down on Dousan haughtily.

This girl, although she is cheeky but maybe she’s really amazing…..Yoshiharu murmured.

At last, their verbal battle began.

If she can’t meet Dousan’s expectations, the talks of alliance won’t begin. No, she may even be killed.

“First question. Why are you known as the ‘foolish princess’ from your people and your retainers as well?”

Immediately to the main point! She can’t give any excuse for that!

Yoshiharu covers his head but Nobuna doesn’t move.

“It’s the opposite! The retainers around me are the fools.”

She glares at Dousan smiling fiercely.

“However. You roam around the streets in a foolish getup.”

“You’re wrong. While heading out, I am just wearing efficient clothes.”

“Hou….?”

“No matter how much I am a female commander, if I wear a noble’s clothes and ride the horse to battlefield, my mobility will decrease right? Wearing a lady’s ceremonial dress like Imagawa Yoshimoto is out of the question. It will just result in failure in battle!”

“Also, is that bamboo whisk bun of a hair like commoners also for efficiency?”

“Yes, that’s correct. Isn’t it a waste of time if I tie it neatly? I am busy anyways!”

While pointing towards the gourd Yoshiharu was carrying, Nobuna continued.

“Even the gourd on the waste has functionality and is useful. Even without  having to wait for my pages every time, I can immediately take out the necessary things. Even the arquebus is right now being thought of as rare toy of the barbarians, however, from now on it will become the leading part in battles instead of spears or swords! Even the weakest of Japan, the Owari’s warriors, if they hold arquebus, they’re the strongest!”

“I see. However, a single or two guns isn’t much useful.”

“That’s right. It’s the same as bow, numbers are required.”

“With a large sum of money, just how many of the scarce Arquebus were you able to buy? 10, or is it 20?”

“500 guns!”

500 guns!? How many times of my army!? Moaned Dousan.

Yoshiharu realized Dousan’s handheld fan started shaking.

“And, how were you able to provide for that many arquebus? Does Owari have that much revenue?”

“It’s true that the Oda clan’s fortunes are small. However, you know, I am controlling the trade port, Tsushima. I bought them by having the merchants pay for the war funds.”

“I see. You’re not a normal feudal Lord. You’re like a merchant.”

“You’re originally a merchant as well, right, Viper? In order to win battles, war funds are necessary! In order to raise war funds, you gather merchants and make trade prosper. This is the most important.”

The fool of Owari and the Viper of Mino were while probing each other, were having a clash of their real intentions.

I really came to the Warring States era after all….while feeling that, Yoshiharu’s body was shaking.

(….Are you scared?)

(Wrong. I am shaking with excitement.)

He barely managed to say that to Inuchiyo who was gazing at him without an expression.

“I see. I have realized that you’re not just an ordinary fool, but an outrageously huge fool. There’s one more thing that I want to ask.”

“What is it?”

“Why did your father----the late Lord Oda Nobuhide, while knowing that he could not beat me in battle, attack Mino countless times?”

Nobuna puffed her chest and replied.

“I don’t know my father’s thinking. However, if I had to attack in the east, it would only be Mino!”

“Hohou. And why would that be?”

As if really enjoying it, Dousan was pursing his lips and leaned forward.

As expected of a man of the Warring States, he seems to really like this sort of conversation.

“That is, Viper, the same reason you originally targeted Mino.”

“-----Mu?”

“Viper! The idiots of society will call you as the ‘Viper who attacked Mino’ but in reality you wanted to capture Japan, right?”

Capture Japan.

In other words, from the north to Kyuushu, the whole nation.

The Ashikaga shogun which had made it’s imperial palace in the capital in the Warring States era, it’s Muromachi Bakufu was declining, it was an era where all the feudal Lords of Japan were quarrelling, an era of huge wars.

However, there a lot of feudal Lords aiming for the capital, but there’s no feudal Lord up till now who has tried to defeat the Ashikaga Shogun and claim Japan for themselves.

That is, this era’s, this world’s established fact.

“Nobuna-dono. How can you say that I was aiming to conquer Japan?”

“The one who controls Mino (Present Gifu prefecture), controls Japan! Mino is Japan’s centre! In the west, it connects capital city, in the east it is connected to the fertile plains. If you build an impenetrable mountain castle in Mino and gather soldiers, and lie in wait. And once the time comes, repress the warring world in one go, and make Japan a peaceful country. A country where merchants are freely able to trade, make a bountiful country like that. That was your ambition, right?”

While shaking, Dousan somehow nodded.

His expression changed suddenly into a cheerful one.

“I am beaten…..I am beaten, Nobuna-dono! Even though you’re young, you saw through this old man’s strategy, which I hadn’t ever talked about with anyone? Man, I am beaten!”

While nodding, a cheerful laugh leaked from his throat.

That Nobna, she completely made the Viper of Mino as her ally----Yoshiharu coiled his tongue.

However, once Nobuna says her intention, she can’t stop.

“You’re a magnificent strategist for having laid your eyes on Mino first, viper. But unfortunately you were not a warrior, but a trader-----that’s why, even you who had so much wisdom, it took your entire life to completely take Mino. The heavens are unfair, right.”

“Oh, it’s as you say.”

“Viper. If there’s something as a heaven,then I myself am the one loved by the heavens. I am a princess feudal Lord since birth. Compared to you, a high class beauty who can’t be compared by you, a baboon geezer. Also, I have been governing the neighbouring province to Mino, Owari, since the age of 16. I still have time!”

“Yeah. That may be true.”

“That’s why, viper, I’ll someday annex Mino. Your life’s dream, the ambition of unifying Japan, I’ll fulfil it!”

“A country where merchants can trade freely, you will fulfil it?”

“Not just merchants. Farmers, samurai are the same as well. The old systems which made Japan disorganized like this, I’ll destroy all of them, and make a new country that can compete with even those barbarians! What I'm looking at isn’t just Japan. It’s ‘The World’!”

Dousan let out a big laugh.

“I finally understood the reason why you’re called a fool in Owari. Even for the wise me, conquering the nation, in other words Japan was the limit of my wisdom. However, Nobuna-dono. You have already crossed Japan, and had set your eyes on ‘The World’ one without a destination.”

“Viper, for the time being, let’s stop the conversation here. It’s a conversation which only you and I can understand. If it’s heard by others, you won’t just be called a fool, but a mad person, you know?”

No. There’s one who can understand! A voice of a girl reached from the garden.

The large foreheaded girl, Dousan’s follower.

“Oh,  Jubee, You also got fired up in the heat without thinking. However, it’s still early. For the time being, stay quiet.”

“…..B-By your will.”

Dousan pointed his hand held fan and made his follower silent.

She seemed like a polite samurai girl.

However, Yoshiharu who wasn’t aware of words such as polite, suddenly stood up.

“Old man, I am here too!”

“Wait, Saru? Stop talking!”

Nobuna is getting flustered.

“No I won’t stop! Old man, my name is Sagara Yoshiharu! My status is a humble footsoldier of Nobuna, however, even though I look like this, I came from the future Japan! I know a lot about the future which you don’t know! Looking for the way back to my previous world is for late, I will also lend my strength for Nobuna’s dream!”

Right now Yoshiharu had goosebumps and a deep emotion.

Dammit. Even though I thought she was a foolish girl, Nobuna’s amazing. I didn’t even think I could hear the word ‘The World’ in this Warring States era! The scale is different! Her level is high! Well, she’s a bit cheeky and immediately gets violent, calling me Saru is irritating as well but if it’s her, it’s fine to have her conquer Japan! B-But, it’s not like I have fallen for her! I am doing it as a single man who loves the Warring States to the end-----

“……Ignore him, Viper. In the previous battle, this Saru was hit at a bad spot on his head, and became like this.”

“Alright. That’s right, Nobuna-dono.”

I was ignored by the two!

“Hey, listen to me! Even though people were finally moved and had gotten heated up! I am going to my previous world after all! I will go back!”

“…..Silence.”

His neck is grabbed by Inuchiyo, and was held down by her.

Even though her body is small, she was unexpectedly strong.

“……Now then, so were discussing that in order to conquer Japan, Mino is needed, Nobuna-dono.”

“That’s right. Give Mino to me.”

“Although I am old, I am the man called as the viper. That’s an impossible consultation.”

“That’s right. I thought that would be the case. I also won’t ask you hand it over to me for free.”

“Fufufu. After understanding that you’re the no. 1 master mind, I want to try and fight you once on the battlefield……After the political question and answers, I became wanting to try a battle of strategy.”

“…….Hmph. I see, so that’s next. If you say that, I’ll fight with you.”

“Then, shall we start the war.”

“Same here.”

Wait a bit!

That idiot Nobuna, after saying “I’ll take Mino”, didn’t the conversation strayed in a strange direction! Your ambition is overflowing right now, control it!

While he was being held down by Inuchiyo, Yoshiharu once again raised his voice.

“I remembered! Hey, Old man!The Saitou Dousan over there! I know what you’re thinking! Even though you can see Mino’s future, don’t act like a stubborn old man!”

That’s rude, keep quiet, Saru, roars out Nobuna.

“How amusing, let’s hear what he has to say.”

Dousan says.

“Kid. Do you indeed know what I am thinking?”

“Yeah. The knowledge of  mine of Warring States from games may be uncertain but this Shotokuji meeting is a quite a famous event! I finally remembered!”

“Fumu. A Saru brat who speaks barbarian language, huh….however if you spout the nonsense, although you may be a brat, my page, Juubee will behead you.”

Idiot, stay quiet. Apologize to the viper, Saru! Nobuna once more scolds him however, Yoshiharu had a premonition that “If I don’t startle Dousan here, these two stubborn people will even though they get along will start fighting in order to compete their obstinacy and wisdom.”. That’s why, he would definitely not shut up.

“Dousan, you’ll say this to your retainers after this! ‘My children will tie their horses in front of the gates of Owari’s fool.’”

In other words, it means that Dousan himself predicts that ‘My sons will lose to Nobuna and Mino will be snatched away.’.

“Wai-. Saru. What rude things are you saying? Your mouth is worse than me, you know?” Even Nobuna’s face color changed.

“What?”

Dousan’s expression was frozen.

It was right.

Dousan was convicted that, even without him handing over Mino, someday after his death, Nobuna would annex Mino with her forces.

And so, the Warring States blood got heated (In that case, I want to try fighting with Nobuna as my opponent, and want to see the final flower bloom)

“B-Brat! Bastard, did you read my mind? What sort of technique did you use?”

“It isn’t a technique. I said it, right, I came from the future. And also, you’re a famous person of the Warring States era. That’s why I knew a bit about you, that’s all there is to it!”

“Future----that sort of thing is----”

“Old man, you realize that your sons can’t even compare to Nobuna! That’s why after returning to Mino, you’re planning on writing ‘The handover of Mino’ and sending it to Nobuna! You’re still thinking right now but you’ll definitely write it!”

“However, as the viper of Mino, it’s my true feelings that I want to fight with Nobuna-dono in a brave fight!”

“No! In reality you don’t want to fight with Nobuna! Since it’s only Nobuna who can succeed your dream of ‘Uniting Japan’!  If you don’t hand over Mino to Nobuna, your life till now become useless! That’s why you want to hand it over! However, if the Viper of Mino who betrayed his Lord shows compassion to others then it will hurt his image. The society will laugh that you went senile. That’s why you can’t say it! How’s that, I hit the mark, right!”

For some time Dousan had his hand on the tip of the sword and trembling but, he let out a sigh.

“Nobuna-dono. For him to be not a samurai in the Oda house, I was tricked. Even in foot soldiers, for people like him to be present-----you’re not an opponent this old man can beat.”

“Eh? Viper?”

“Brat! Thanks to you, this viper, was finally able to be true to himself in the end of the end! I hand over my dreams to Nobuna-dono---No, to my daughter.”

While alternately glaring at Dousan and Yoshiharu, Nobuna upturned her mouth.

“It’s for Nobuna-chan. At this place, I’ll write the ‘Handover document’. I’ll hand the Mino province to you----my daughter and retire.”

“Viper!?”

To Yoshiharu’s eyes, Nobuna who would as usual have her lips turned in a bad temper,  for one moment it looked like her eyes were wet.

If it’s the wise Saitou Dousan, if he told him his intention, he believed he would understand. However he didn’t think that Dousan would show this much of a defenceless favour to them.

“From now on Nobuna-chan is my daughter. To hand over the province to her daughter, it’s natural as a father.”

“Is it really alright?”

“Show them that there was a deeper meaning behind in the capturing of the Mino by the one hated as the Viper.”

Dousan takes out a brush, and with skilful strokes wrote the ‘Document of handover of Mino’.

“Someday I will send one daughter of mine as your little sister to Owari. I will talk with my retainers in the province, and will prepare for Nobuna-chan’s entry to Mino.”

The Mino which he wagered his life on and stole, Saitou Dousan easily handed it over while smiling to  the old enemy, Oda clan’s daughter, Nobuna.

And with her mouth upturned, she took the handing over document without any thanks, without even reading it kept it in her pocket.

This baboon geezer, wasn’t just a perverted old man after all…. Yoshiharu (although he was still being held down by Inuchiyo) got a nice feeling.

This is it.

This is what’s Warring States era is.

However, that Yoshiharu’s feelings were immediately turned to nothing.

“…….With that, would allow me to touch your butt a bit. My daughter…..fugya?”

“Why do I have to have my butt touched by someone like you, you perverted geezer!”

As soon Dousan who had tried to sexually harass, Nobuna had stood without hesitation on one side of his face was strongly turning her foot on it.

So he really got intoxicated by Nobuna’s bishoujo like behaviour and handed over the province, so he’s just a perverted geezer, huh….Yoshiharu rethought that.


The meeting was finished safely with Dousan kept on drawing near Nobuna countless times saying “Won’t you let me rub your breasts.” being kicked, hit, thrown with a Gigantic Swing into the garden.

Many times, the follower of Dousan who waiting in the garden reached her hand to the hilt of her sword saying ‘T-That’s way too rude.”. Well that’s natural as well, during those times she was coerced by Inuchiyo’s quiet stare and gave up on drawing her sword.

The alliance of Owari and Mino was formed, Dousan even wrote the handover document ‘Handover of Mino’ and promised Nobuna.

(Can it really be handed over without anything occurring.)

Yoshiharu who had with that much attitude to be the replacement of Toukichirou was somehow able to get employed by Nobuna, he was a bit worried but even now in his chest, there was something hot burning.

He admired the Warring States games, he read the Warring States manga, the Warring States dramas had become his dreams.

However, no matter what one says, the real presence is different.

An overwhelming impact.

The real, the genuine Saitou Dousan, and also a bit full of mistakes, Oda Nobuna who was dreaming of wantint to suppress the wars for the people of the whole nation.

Since I don’t know the way back, I guess it’s okay for me to help in Nobuna’s dream for the time being.

Her mouth is bad, she’s violent, I don’t know when I’ll be beheaded but he knows that if she stays quiet, she’s a kind of bishoujo he’s never seen.

N-No, he’s not really fallen for her. He hasn’t really fallen for her.

“Shit, w-why I can hear my chest beating! This is mortifying!”

“What are you screaming about like a monkey for, idiot Saru. We’re returning, return my gourd and straw sandals.”

While waiting at the gate, Nobuna appeared wearing the newly developed present day armor.

The light weight armor that Dousan developed, it would probably even protect against gun bullets.

“Straw sandals? Ah, you mean these.”

Yoshiharu took out Nobuna’s sandals from the inside of the upper part of his school uniform.”

“I-It’s not like I had warmed it for you. I-It’s not because I didn’t want your feet to be cold that I kept them in my pocket and warmed them!”

Peh, Nobuna spit out as if annoyed.

The high class bishoujo has been brought down to nothing.

“D…..Disgusting!”

“What did you saaaaay?”

For some reason seemed to Nobuna was raging.

Her face kept turning from red to blue to pale.

“You wanted to smell my straw sandals and hence kept it in that pocket! Could it be, you’re a man who gets excited by straw sandals? Uwah, it’s my first time seeing this sort of high level pervert. Showing him my beautiful was my life’s mistake after all. However, well, it’s going to be ok if I behead him here, don’t come near me.”

“Huh? What the hell are you saying? It’s a huge mistake!”

She drew out her sword.

From the first time he met, he knew Nobuna was high danger, maybe because she stopped her act of a fool, and the fact he made the meeting with Dousan a huge success, his heart was dancing.

Or maybe, she got used to shouting with Yoshiharu, whose the haughty attitude that doesn’t befit a footsolider.

And so Inuchyo was observing the two with no words.

“Pervert! Brute! Super lewd Saru! For a Saru to rut to a master’s straw sandals, you’ll get beheaded here for rudeness here!”

“Wait a bit! Y-You know, in reality I thought that I shouldn’t let your feet get cold.”

After letting out one breath, Nobuna once again started shouting like a Machine gun.

“Huh? It’s not like you heated them up or anything? Isn’t that what you said yourself? You said that, right? Which means that you felt the warmth of sandals and went “Haaa, Haaa”! What else reason is there?”

“Uooooooh, since you showed your true self to Dousan, you’re giving strangely reasonable abuses! Getting simple kicked or abused was better! It isn’t cute~! After thinking that you were a beauty, your attitude was even worse than a foolish girl!”

“Hmph! I may be called a fool or whatever, even then my brain is good! I can even use the abacus!  I am even good at mental arithmetic!”

“Hohou, you think you can compete with the best education kingdom in the world, I, who graduated from present day Japan’s compulsory education in mental arithmetic?  Then, what’s 2+3x4?”

“14!”

“Nooooooooo! Wrong! Idiot, idiot! Foolish princess! The correct answer is 20!”

Bam, bam, bam.

With the grip of her sword, she hit with the hilt around the area of the frontal lobe 3 times.

Becoming too fired, it seems Yoshiharu has even forgotten to avoid attacks.

“It hurts! Don’t hit me too much, I will really become stupid.”

“It’s 14! Are you really stupid? After questioning full of confidence, what’s with that?”

“……..Eh……Wait a bit…..Ah, I see. I had to first multiply 3 and 4 and then add 2!”

“I am shocked. The one who asks the questions gives the wrong answer…..”

“Which means, the current answer is 16?”

Bam, Bam, Bam!

“I have been saying the answer is 14! You run your mouth saying you came from the future, in reality isn’t it that there’s some part working strangely?

“The fact that I came from the future is the truth! I learnt the knowledge of Warring States via games(everything he knows)! In other words, I am the man who can see the future (very little)! I will be useful (a bit) to you! Be a bit grateful to me!”

“You’re noisy, noisy, noisy! Acting all cocky, what’s a ‘no technique’!  In reality aren’t you just a useless rice eating mouth!” (T/N: pronunciation same as game)

“Wait, you’re probably misunderstanding!”

“Don’t say ‘you’! Ah geez, the no.1 people I hate in this world are idiots and those with a huge attitude! Sarusuke, you fulfil both.”

“Don’t add a ‘suke’! It’s more like a real name!”

It was a master and servant without common sense, without even when they would be exhausted, a fool and a monkey whose foreheads were colliding and while groaning with a ‘fufu’, they were shouting at each other.

Without even realizing it, the page Inuchiyo without saying anything was standing in the way of Saitou Dousan and his follower, and looking at her master and the new compaion’s comedic act, had a gaze as if saying “This is the first time I have seen the princess with such an amusing face”

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