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Volume 1 Chapter 1 Part 5

No one other than Oda Nobunaga can consolidate this chaotic world. If that didn’t end up happening, then Yoshiharu didn’t know what would happen to Japan, but since he liked the Sengoku era games, he knew that it would definitely be nothing good.

And above all else, the atmosphere of the real Sengoku era was making Yoshiharu’s blood boil.

The one who was apparently General Oda Nobunaga was surrounded on all sides by the suicide squad of the Imagawa clan’s army.

Imagawa’s suicide unit. Yoshiharu, despite being somewhat weakened after all the fighting he was doing for the past hour, resolutely charged in in order to save him, and knocked down the spear that came flying towards the helmet of the general with his own.

(I was able to save Nobunaga’s life by a hair’s breadth! Someone like me? Saving one of Japan’s biggest big shots?! This is one of those moments that’s going to be immortalized in history! How amazing that can be?!)

Although he was moved by what he managed to achieve, it didn’t change the fact that they were still surrounded by enemies. He wanted to at least look into Oda Nobunaga’s face, but there was no time for that right now. If he’s to survive this, then he must become a wall that’s going to block the enemy’s advance towards him.

「Ronin samurai, Sagara Yoshiharu has arrived to faithfully serve the Oda clan! 」

「It’s a new soldier of the Oda clan! 」

「It doesn’t matter! It’s just one person! Finish him off and kill the enemy’s general! 」

One of the Imagawa soldier’s said, but in order to defeat the general, they have to remove Yoshiharu who had resolved himself to protect Oda Nobunaga’s life with his own.

The Imagawa soldiers simultaneously attacked Yoshiharu from all directions.
「Ora ora ora ora ora! 」

Despite his determined dodges, Yoshiharu was feeling more than a little distressed now that the adrenaline rush died down. Not only was the headquarters of the Oda clan’s small, the enemy’s numbers were just too many for one foot soldier like him to handle.

(This is bad! If they get any closer, I won’t be able to avoid their swords!)

His dodging abilities that he trained during high school dodgeball classes were tailored for long & medium range attacks. They’re not meant for short-ranged attacks performed from a radius of under 1 meter, which was basically the same as a point-blank range.

「If you come closer, you won’t survive! Uoryaaaaaaa! 」

While shouting in a loud voice to try and sound intimidating, Yoshiharu randomly rotated the spear in his hands. However…

「This guy’s just an amateur! 」

「Surround him from all sides and stab him with spears all at once! 」

「Damn, I was found out so fast, huh? 」

Well, of course he’s be found out. It was only a matter of time.

At that moment, when Yoshiharu thought that he was seriously done for this time, a smokescreen suddenly erupted from beneath his feet accompanied by a loud sound of an explosion.

While his vision was obscured by a white smoke…

「Guoh! 」

「Uwah! 」

「Fugya! 」

Screams started to come out from the side of the Imagawa soldiers. And then, the smoke was blown away by the wind, and Yoshiharu’s vision finally cleared to reveal that all of the suicide attackers of the Imagawa clan have lost consciousness and were now lying at Yoshiharu’s feet.

(I see. Goemon swooped in and saved me, huh.)

He has heard that it’s more difficult to have the opponents faint in battle than to actually kill them, because If there isn’t a great difference in strength between you and your opponents, then on a regular battlefield you normally don’t have time to be considerate like that.

(Which means that child ninja, even though she’s a lisping horribly, is actually really strong?)

As Yoshiharu stood there in place with his mouth widely opened, he heard the sound of horse
hooves closing in on them.

「My Lord, our army and its allies achieved a splendid victory! Are you unharmed? 」

It was the brave girl commander who had led the cavalry to an assault on the front lines a bit earlier. She was around the same age as Yoshiharu, and he thought the girl’s eyes, which were radiating a strong sense of will and determination, were actually quite pretty.

(Hm?)

Not only that, but the part around her chest was strangely expanded, even for a piece of armor, which could only mean…

(N-No way! A pretty face AND big tits to match it?!)

He started staring at the girl’s chest without thinking, and unsurprisingly, when the girl commander on the horse seemed to notice his perverted gaze directed at her, she let out a short 「Kyaa? 」shout.

「W-What is wrong with you, you lecherous bastard?!E-E-Even though you’re just a lowly foot soldier, you dare stare at my breasts!? 」

「Ah, I’m terribly sorry, ma’am, but since it was the first time I saw a real girl with such huge
tits, I just… 」

The girl commander’s face was flushed bright red, and while her entire body was quivering with uncontrolled rage, she grabbed the handle of her sword and removed it from its sheath. From the corners of her eyes, which had previously were shining with pride in her victory, tears of shame started coming out.

「I-Insolent mongrel! I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD FOR THIS TRAVESTY!!! 」

「Eek! Sorry! I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to! 」

It was in that moment that Yoshiharu, without thinking, turned the other way and started to fleeing for his life. The general who had been sitting on the chair of the headquarters, however, spoke up, stopping both Yoshiharu and the female commander in their tracks.

「Stop, Riku! No matter what kind of a degenerate he might be, that guy saved my life, so at the very least I have to give him a reward for that. 」

「What? Is that the truth?! 」

「Yes. He saved me as I was about to get stabbed to death by the enemy’s spears. And also, I couldn’t really see it all that well, but he used some kind of strange technique to defeat the soldiers of the Imagawa clan who tried to ambush me. 」

「…..I-Is that so? Very well, as you wish, My Lord! 」
That’s right. The Oda clan’s general was in the headquarters. His life was in danger, and Yoshiharu managed to protect him.

Oda Nobunaga.

In the chaotic world of the Sengoku period, in the times when the daimyo who were like demons on the battlefield were fighting amongst each other for supremacy, he was the man who aimed to unite the entire nation by force, the one who was called 「The Demon Lord of the Sixth Heaven」and a dictator, so there is absolutely no way that even someone like that would become a girl in this world, so Yoshiharu turned to him, bowed as deep as he possibly could and shouted:

「Nobunaga-sama, please make me one of your retainers and let me fight for you as a foot… 」

*BLAM!!!*

Yoshiharu couldn’t even finish his sentence, because his face was kicked in by the incredibly hard sole of a straw sandal, which was launched towards him at astonishing speed.

「Fugya?!!! 」

「You imbecile! Who are you calling Nobunaga? My name is Nobuna. No! Bu! Na! 」

「EEEEEEEEEHHHHHHH????!!!!! 」

「What’s wrong with you? Are you really such an idiot that you would mistake the name of the daimyo you’re trying to work under, you moron?! 」

While having his face stepped on with great force, he looked up to properly see the figure of this foul-mouthed general.

Her brown hair was done in a clumsy manner which made it reminiscent of a poorly tied bamboo whisk, and she wasn’t wearing any armor, or even a helmet.
Her cheeks and forehead were black with soot. She wore her robe with one of her shoulders exposed, the sleeve hanging limply at her side, and at her waist were a katana and a wakizashi tied together with a thick straw rope. She also had a gourd tied to her hakams with a string, and over said hakama, she wore a tiger’s skin as if it was a loincloth.

And finally, she had a long, black gun – an arquebus – rested against her right shoulder.

If this was a modern day, she would be called a delinquent at worst, and an eccentric at best, because of how eye-catching her clothes and equipment were. However, there could be no doubt about it: this was definitely how 「The Fool of Owari」, Oda Nobunaga, used to dress himself in his younger days…

… Is what Yoshiharu thought to himself.

However.

「What are you staring at like an idiot? I am Oda Nobuna! The daimyo and the Protector of Owari, the head of the Oda clan! 」