Non-Honmaru Inner Honwan [Comprehensive]

Akechi Mitsuhide came back after January.

Simply going back and forth does not need to take such a long time, but in order to obtain the relics of Master Nichiren from the temple, Akechi Mitsuhide still spent a lot of effort.Fortunately, no matter what method he used, he finally took Suzumaru Kouji away from Kuonji in an open and aboveboard manner, and wore it with him until he arrived at Gifu City.

As soon as he came back, he couldn't wait to meet Saburo.

Since Mitsuhide Akechi had obtained the permission of Mitsuhide Akechi to live in Honmaru temporarily, Saburo was quite friendly to him, and was even willing to assign soldiers to him—if nothing happened, those people would directly belong to Mitsuhide Akechi. Akechi Mitsuhide only accepted 20 of them - so he was taken directly to where Saburo was.

Saburo is discussing matters at this time.Akechi Mitsuhide didn't bother, he just stood on the side of the corridor and waited quietly holding the newly acquired sword.Soon, the sliding door was pushed open, and a young man with a calm expression but with a melancholy temperament similar to a poet retreated from inside. When he turned around, he happened to see Akechi Mitsuhide who was waiting.

After looking at Akechi Mitsuhide's attire, the young man said, "If I'm not mistaken, you are Akechi Mitsuhide. I'm Takenaka Hanbei."

"Yes." Soon he recalled that Takenaka, who was originally a minister of Mino, had already lived in seclusion. Akechi Mitsuhide was a little confused about the reason why the other party appeared here, but he quickly stretched his brows, "Mr. Takenaka is finally willing to be used by His Highness." "

"Yes, from now on you and I will be colleagues." Hearing Akechi Mitsuhide's words, Takenaka seemed to have noticed something unexpected, and looked carefully at Akechi Mitsuhide's only eyes that were exposed, then lowered his eyes and whispered Said, "His Royal Highness is still waiting inside. I will take my leave first."

Watching Takenaka leave, Akechi Mitsuhide subconsciously touched the face towel to make sure it was still on his face, and immediately suppressed the psychological discomfort caused by the scrutiny at that point, and strode into the room.

Inside, Saburo was propping his face with one hand, and yawned long.

Akechi Mitsuhide carefully closed the sliding door, and then sat cross-legged opposite Saburo.Before he had time to speak, he first saw a young man slowly walking out from behind the screen. Whether it was the blue-green eyes or the unusual pink hair, they were even more strange than the white-haired and red-eyed Imaken.

This strange appearance made Akechi Mitsuhide suffocate, but he still tried to calm down, captured the few words of Saburo from his memory, and said lightly: "Your Excellency is Sosan Zuowen, right?"

Zong San Zuo Wenwen just looked at him with a strange look, and said softly: "Can you...see me too?"

""

Akechi Mitsuhide intuited that there was something hidden behind Sosan's words, but the pink-haired youth seemed to just want to confirm this matter, and quickly strode past him, opened and closed the door, and left the room Room.The moment the sliding door opened, Akechi Mitsuhide could still hear the slight sound of clogs stepping on the veranda-ordinary clogs would definitely not make such a slight sound, probably because Imaken was outside the door before.

"Zongsan is going to guard outside, and Xiaoguang doesn't want to be seen by others." Regarding Zongsan's behavior, Saburo just explained casually, "But Jinjian is going to find the 'Time Traveling Army', because Xiaoguang seems to have something very important, he will report it to Zongsan later."

"... Sanlang seems to have gotten along well with them."

"Well, there's no other way, because the time retrograde army ran everywhere in Gifu. Although it didn't do anything, it scared a lot of people." Saburo said, "What's the matter with Xiaoguang?"

"It's nothing important." Akechi Mitsuhide didn't comment on Saburo's dangerous behavior of getting along with Fusangshin, but just took off the Taidao from his waist, put it in front of his body with both hands, respectfully Said, "Fortunately, I didn't disgrace my life, and I brought Shuzhuwan Hengci for you."

"Hey, isn't that what Xiaoguang wants?"

"It was brought for you. Fu Sangshen is really hard to be trusted. I think the Buddha knife may have a suppressing effect on them." Akechi Mitsuhide said gently, "Please accept it."

"Is that so?" Saburo frowned, but soon loosened his tightly locked brows, and his attitude became casual again, "Well, since Xiaoguang brought it for me specially, then I can't trample on your kindness. "

As he spoke, he stepped down from the main seat, stopped in front of Akechi Mitsuhide, knelt down and picked up the Shuzhuwan Hengji.

——Almost instantly, a tall and thin young man appeared between the two of them.

The young man was wearing purple clothes, and because of his long legs, he looked extraordinarily tall—in fact, he was also very tall.On top of the coat, he also wrapped a white shawl.The long hair hangs down softly behind him, presenting a wonderful gradation of color, from black to snow white, as if to imply the youth and aging of a person.

After he appeared, a sword that was exactly the same as the "Shuzhumaru Koji" in Saburo's hand spontaneously appeared in his hand, but this young man with wonderful hair color only held it in vain, and the sword was wrapped more tightly in his hand. The black and white bead chain that spreads down is exactly the same as the long prayer beads hanging on the neck.

As if aware of being watched, the young man's long and dense eyelashes trembled, he opened his eyes slightly, only a little bit of dark pupils could be seen, and then whispered to the two of them: "My name is Shuzhuwan Koji. In the long time when the value of the world has changed several times, I have been searching for what Buddhism and Taoism are."

Saburo: "Oh, it really is a Buddha knife."

Akechi Mitsuhide: "...Will there be Fusangshen in the Buddhist sword?"

Akechi Mitsuhide, who can only read because of his weak body, carefully recalled "The Story of Fusangshen", in which there are indeed Fusangshen transformed from rosary beads into Taoism one after another... Therefore, it seems that it is not difficult to understand that the Buddha knife can be transformed into Fusangshen things

However, it was originally intended to shackle other Fusangshen, and it turned out that there was indeed another Fusangshen... This strange development made Mitsuhide Akechi shake his head, but seeing the calm expression of the Buddhist sword so that it was almost empty, he reluctantly I chose trust—although the hair color is too weird, but this color from youth to old age is much more normal than pink hair, but it just matches Suzumaru Koji's young face, which will bring a sense of absurdity to some extent That's all.

"Then I will leave the number of beads to His Highness." Akechi Mitsuhide said.

"Oh, no need." Saburo looked up at the tall and thin Fusangshin, and directly threw the relics of Nichiren Master Mitsuhide Akechi Mitsuhide worked so hard into Mitsuhide Akechi's arms. It was because the sword affected me that I went to Shuzhuwan, and since Zongsan and Jinjian are Fusangshen, I only need Shuzhuwan as Fusangshen."

After a pause, Saburo added a sentence as a matter of course: "And I brought Yoshimoto Zuo characters, so I can't bring another Taidao."

"...Is that so?" Using Fusangshen to deal with Fusangshen, what Saburo said made sense, and Mitsuhide's face was also shaken for a moment.He quickly straightened the Shuzhuwan thrown at him, and after a moment of concentration, he responded, "Yes. I will treat this knife well."

Fu Sangshen, whose name was Shuzhuwan, had been determined face to face, and his pale face was still lifeless.He quietly turned into sitting on his knees, and did not remind the two of them that Fusangshen's ownership was decided from the beginning.

Only a "spirit judge" can have the sword to pay the mourning god.

But among these two people, Saburo seemed to have heard of it but didn't care about it. To him, the appearance of Toujian Fusangshen was just a simple matter of giving him a few more surnames or a few more retainers, while Akechi Mitsuhide was I don't know at all, and there is still only a vague concept of "the government of Tokira wants to communicate with Nobunaga-kun".

Putting the Taidao by his side, ready to hang it back on his waist when he leaves later, Akechi Mitsuhide spoke again: "Actually, apart from presenting Shuzumaru Tsuneji, I have one more thing..."

"Um"

"The Miyoshi family who was defeated in the previous battle and returned to Awa seems to be showing signs of reorganizing the army." Akechi Mitsuhide said, "The remaining troops of the Miyoshi family are not enough to fight against the Oda family. Therefore, I suspect that their goal... is Kyoto."

The Oda family's control over Kyoto is mainly tied to Ashikaga Yoshiaki.If something happened to Ashikaga Yoshiaki, then the Oda family's trip to Los Angeles would not only be in vain, but even after the Miyoshi family regained control of the Jingzhong forces, they might suffer a fierce counterattack.

Saburo quickly said "oh", and said calmly, "Hannei said the same thing before."

"Mr. Takenaka?"

"Well. The main force of the army returned to Meinong, the capital is empty, and the general is afraid that the general will be restrained—probably this is what it means." Sanlang said, "But since Xiaoguang said so, then there must be a change in the Miyoshi family. However, the Miyoshi family The road to Shangluo should be under control."

Akechi Mitsuhide lowered his head silently.

"Since the army has been reorganized, it should have opened up the joints. However, I don't know what the route is, and it is difficult to fight now." Saburo concluded by himself, "We will know when they take action."

"Yes."

"And the new year is coming soon—I hope you can have a good year." Saburo said, "and for the sake of the general... I will trouble you to go to Kyoto to celebrate the new year."

"Follow your orders."

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Things don't go as expected.

In the first month of the 12th year of Yonglu, Saburo, who was being greeted by everyone in the New Year, received a battle report from Kuaima, a retainer in Kyoto.

Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Saito Ryuko raid the Honkokuji Temple where Ashikaga Yoshiaki temporarily lives in Beijing!

"Ah—it just happened to be during the Chinese New Year." Saburo just sighed in trouble, and quickly summoned Hanbei Takenaka, who had speculated about Miyoshi's family's intentions early in the morning, and put on his armor.

When Takenaka came, Saburo was ready to mount his horse and go to Kyoto to fight at any time.

"So to cut to the chase, Hanbei has found out the route of Miyoshi's family to Beijing?"

Hanbei Takenaka just folded his hands into his sleeves habitually, but soon he found that because he was also wearing a battle armor, his sleeves were tightly wrapped around his wrists, so he could only put down his hands and said succinctly: "Izumi country .”

"So that's where we started from." Saburo nodded, "There's no other way, let's go to Shangjing to rescue the general now."

"...Now" just came from outside, Takenaka Banbei certainly knew that it was snowing heavily in Gifu City at this time, and it was no longer a question of whether it was suitable for the army, it was simply difficult to start.

But he also understood the general's meaning to Oda, so he quickly stood up and said calmly, "Then I'll send an order to assemble."

"Then I will trouble you." Saburo said, "Xiaoguang and Tokichiro are still left in Kyoto to serve as the governor of Kyoto, and they also have a lot of troops. Well-at least they can last until I come."