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Volume 12 Chapter 2 Part 9

Yoshimoto muttered:

「Sessai wanted to go to Kyoto, but his life ended before he could reach it. That is what fate wanted for him. 」

For Yoshimoto, who was not considered a successor to the Imagawa family and was raised in a temple from the time she was old enough to understand her situation, Sessai was both her teacher and her father. It was because Sessai led Yoshimoto by the hand and spent her childhood in the capital of Kyoto that she learned about the aristocratic culture of Kyoto.

The black-robed prime minister who supported the Suruga Imagawa family, Taigen Sessai, was a monk and remained single throughout his whole life. He showed talent in Buddhist training and scholarship and had no interest in politics or battles, but he was appointed to look after the young Yoshimoto, and Yoshimoto unexpectedly became embroiled in a struggle for the succession of the Suruga province’s