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Volume 1 Chapter 2 Part 5

「No! There’s one person who can understand it here! 」

A voice of a girl reached from them from the garden. It was the voice of the girl with a large forehead, Saito Dosan’s retainer.

「Oh, Jubei, You also got fired up when the things get heated, don’t you? However, it’s
still too early for that, so for the time being, stay quiet. 」

「A-As you wish, my lord! 」

Dosan pointed his hand held fan at Jubei, and she immediately fell silent. She seemed like a polite samurai girl, but then, Yoshiharu, who could be said to be the very opposite of polite, stood up as well.

「Oi, old man! Don’t forget that I am here too! 」

「Shut up, Monkey! Stop talking! 」

Nobuna was getting flustered.

「No I won’t stop! Old man, my name is Sagara Yoshiharu! My status is a humble foot-soldier of Oda Nobuna, however, even though I look like this, I came from Japan in the future! I know a lot about the future which you don’t know! My main objective right now is to find a way for me to go back to my own time, but before that happens, I will also lend Nobuna my aid to help her achieve her dream! 」

Right now Yoshiharu had goosebumps all over his body because of the emotions he was feeling.

(Dammit. Even though I thought she was a foolish girl, Nobuna’s amazing. I didn’t even think I could hear the words ‘The World’ in the Sengoku era! The scale is different! Her level is high! Well, she’s a bit cheeky and immediately gets violent, and her calling me Monkey 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 or anything! I am doing it as a single man who loves the Sengoku period…)

「……Ignore him, Viper. In the previous battle, this Monkey was hit in the head pretty badly, and he’s been like that ever since. 」

「Alright. As you wish, Nobuna-dono. 」

I was ignored by the two!

「Hey, listen to me! I am going to my previous world! I will go back! 」

「…Silence. 」

His neck was grabbed by Inuchiyo, and he was held down by her. Even though her body is small, she was unexpectedly strong.

「… Now then, I believe we were discussing that in order to conquer Japan, Mino is needed, Nobuna-dono. 」

「That’s right. That’s why I want you to give Mino to me! 」

「Although I am old, I am the man called known as The Viper. That’s why what you’re asking for is impossible. 」

「That’s right. I thought that would be the case, and naturally I won’t ask you hand it over to me for free. 」

「Fufufu. After understanding that you’re the no. 1 schemer among all the daimyo, I want to try and fight you on the battlefield at least once. Alright, I was asking about political things up until now, but now I want to try a battle of strategy. 」
「…….Hmph. I see, so that’s next. If you say that, then I’ll fight with you. 」

「Then, shall we start the war? 」

「With pleasure! 」

「Huh?! W-Wait a minute! 」

(That idiot Nobuna, ever since the 「Give Mino to me! 」bit, the conversation strayed in a strange direction! Your ambition is overflowing right now, so try to control it, why don’t you?!)

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

「I remember now! Hey, Old man! The Saitou Dosan over there! I know what you’re thinking! You think you can see Mino’s future, but don’t act like a stubborn old man! 」

「That’s rude, Monkey! Keep that mouth of yours shut! 」

Nobuna roared at Yoshiharu.

「How amusing, let’s hear what he has to say. 」

Dosan said.

「Kid. Do you indeed know what I am thinking about? 」

「Yeah. My knowledge of the Sengoku era that I learned from games may be uncertain in places, but this Shotokuji meeting is quite a famous historical event! 」

「Hmm. A Monkey who speaks barbarian language, huh? Very well, you may speak, but bear in mind that if you end up spouting nonsense, then my retainer, Jubei, will behead you on the spot. 」

「Idiot, stay quiet! Or better yet, apologize to the Viper, Monkey! 」

Nobuna scolded Yoshiharu once more, but Yoshiharu had a premonition that if he won’t do something about Dosan right now, these two stubborn people will start fighting in order to settle that little rivalry of theirs even though they get along. That’s why he would definitely not shut up.

「Dosan-dono, you’ll say this to one of your retainers after this: 「…I fear that one day my children will have to tie their horses to the gates of that fool. 」. 」

In other words, it means that Dosan himself predicted that his sons will lose to Nobuna and that Mino province will be snatched away from them.

「Wai… Monkey!. What rude things are you saying? Your mouth is worse than mine, you know? 」

Nobuna’s face was red with anger…

「What? 」

… But Dosan himself was frozen in place due to shock, because what Yoshiharu said was right.

Dosan was convinced that, even without him handing over Mino, someday after his death Nobuna would annex Mino by force. And so, his Sengoku blood got heated, because he wanted to try fighting with Nobuna as his opponent, and wanted to see the final flower bloom.

「B-Bratty bastard, did you read my mind? What sort of technique did you use? 」
「It isn’t a technique. I said it myself, right? I came from the future. And also, in that future you’re a famous person of the Sengoku era. That’s why I knew a bit about you. That’s all there is to it! 」

「Future… what sort of thing is this… ? 」

「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 wavering about it right now, but you’ll definitely write it! 」

「That may be so, but 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 lose all meaning! 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 your image. The society will laugh that at you, saying that you went senile. That’s why you can’t say it! How’s that, I hit the nail on the head, right? 」

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

「Nobuna-dono. If he was not with you, I’d say that he was trying to trick me. He might be nothing more but a lowly foot soldier… but he’s still not an opponent that I can beat. 」

「Eh? Viper? 」

「Brat! Thanks to you, this Viper was finally able to be true to himself in the end! I hand over my dreams to Nobuna-dono—No, to my daughter. 」

While alternately glaring at Dosan and Yoshiharu, Nobuna upturned her mouth.
「Nobuna-chan. Here and now, I’ll write the 「Handover of Mino 」 for you, and I’ll hand the Mino province to you and my daughter and retire. 」

「Viper!? 」

Nobuna, who would usually grimace in anger, looked like she was about to cry for a moment there.

If it’s the wise Saitou Dosan, , he believed she would understand why he made such a decision. However he didn’t think that Dosan would show thismuch of a defenseless favor to them.

「From now on Nobuna-chan is like a daughter to me! To hand over the province to his
daughter, it’s natural thing for a father to do! 」

「Is it really alright? 」

「Yes. Now you can show all the sceptics that there was a deeper meaning behind the capturing of Mino by the one hated as the Viper. 」

Dousan took out a brush, and with skillful strokes wrote 「The Handover of Mino」.

「Someday I will send a 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. 」