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Volume 3 Chapter 2 Part 4

(Ehhh…ehhhhhhhhh?! B-But J-Juubei-chan’s perfect image… her perfect image… it’s a lie?! Girls… can girls… really be such a terrifying creatures?!)

「Er. No, no… It can’t be! Juubei-chan, you’re not such a two-faced girl, right? 」

「No, I am not. Towards seniors and humans, I will give my respects, but when it comes to gorillas like you, I believe I do not need to show you any respect at all. Not to mention that you are annoying as all hell! 」

「A-Annoying? 」

「Don’t you understand? 」

Mitsuhide mercilessly awarded Yoshiharu with a punch to the stomach…

「Ouch… What the hell are you doing?! 」

and when he bent forward, she whispered into his ear.

「Gorilla, if it wasn’t for you, the one accompanying Nobuna-sama would be me, Akechi Mitsuhide! Ever since I first met Nobuna-sama in Masanori Temple, I have decided to give my life to her, and that I would do everything in my power to make her accept me as her retainer. That’s why I wanted to help Nobuna-sama if she couldn’t go to places like Kyotom Sakai or Echizen. I wanted to go to these places in her stead and help her by using my knowledge and intelligence gathering skills for her. But just as I thought that my plan would go without a hitch, I had to be intercepted by such an annoying gorilla like you. 」

「Ouch, ouch! But haven’t I worked hard for Nobuna’ sake too?! What’s wrong with that now?! 」

「Once I came to the Oda clan, I understood! Nobuna-sama has been covering for you whenever you would screw something up! That, and I have heard, that the one who saved that blasted Imagawa Yoshimoto in the first place was also you! 」
「Ah…Ahhh. So that’s it… But how is that… 」

「Imagawa Yoshimoto lost to Nobuna-sama at Okehazama, which means that she shouln’t have any more parts to play in history. After completing her role in history, she should have been executed quickly and fade into ocscurity! It’s all because of you, this parasite that keeps staying by her side, why things have become like this! Besides, there’s tons of substitutes who could have inherited the Shogun bloodline! Even if I, Juubei, were to declare myself a Shogun Candidate, there probably wouldn’t be any problems with it! 」

「No. From lots of perspectives, there would be lots of problems with it. 」

「I had planned to push Ashikaga Yoshiteru-sama’s sister, Yoshiaki-sama to be the Shogun! Though she was the same type of willful princess like Yoshimoto, since she is still young, she would have served her purpose as a good puppet! 」

「…Juubei-chan, your ways are really unexpectedly cruel. 」

「What dumb stuff are you saying now, Gorilla? For Nobuna-sama’s dream, to reach the goal of her Tenka Fubu, some sacrifice are bound to be necessary. After we conquer the world, all we have to do is just build shrines around Japan to worship them. 」

「Uhm, I can see that you thought about this idea quite seriously… but no matter how I think about it, it’s a bit wrong… 」

「I had prepared myself for this; a sacrifice of roughly 3 million people is nothing to me, Akechi Mitsuhide. 」

「Oi, such a number cannot be considered small anymore! You’d be committing a straight-up genocide! 」

「You are really irritating, Gorilla. Because you have saved Yoshimoto, all my plans have been shattered. You have no idea how much trouble it was to squeeze that Yoshiaki-sama who was screaming ‘I want to stay in Kyoto to be the Shogun~~’ into the cabin of a ship that took her away. But what’s even more troublesome is the fact that currently the position of Shogun has not even been given oit to Imagawa Yoshimoto yet, once again, because of you! 」

(Ah, it’s true that history has strayed from its intended course because Imagawa Yoshimoto is still alive… )

Yoshiharu thought. Assuming Imagawa Yoshimoto had met Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Kyoto, both of them would have fought it out for the position of Shogun. And, judging by Yoshiaki’s personality, her willful ways are definitely comparable to Yoshimoto… If she went on unchecked and did whatever she felt like doing all the time, the whole Kyoto might’ve been engulfed with yet another civil war.

Once Yoshiharu thought about this, he felt that he had lost his stand.

「And, you even offended that Kampaku Sakihisa Konoe. What the hell are you planning to do now, huh?! 」

「That matter is all that bastard’s fault for looking down on people just because he is a noble. I wasn’t in the wrong there! 」

「Hmph. He is wrong for looking down on people, but if the target of his ire is a Gorilla, then there aren’t any problemsthe way I see it! Hmpf! 」

Mitsuhide turned her face away from Yoshiharu.

Distinguished, graceful and elegant.

If all these adjectives were to solidify an image of a single person, then that person would without a doubt be a beauty like Akechi Mitsuhide… Yoshiharu can’t help but realize that as he looked at the profile of her face.

Even Yoshiharu, who was born into a modern day society and had no qualms on family status could see that her looks and actions were all those of an esteemed lady, and that only served to infuriate him even more, especially since Mitsuhide’s enormous forehead was a clear sign of her equally enormous intelligence. It was so big and shiny, and he could almost hear it whispering to him:

「Flick it! Flick me! Come on, we bohknow that you want to click me! 」

Just when Yoshiharu was hesitating about whether he should flick Mitsuhide on the forehead or not, he was once again assaulted by her sneers and cold words.

「Ahh, I almost forgot. If you dare to report to Nobuna-sama that I called you a Gorilla, then I will accuse you of pushing me down and playing with my breasts. 」

「Uwahh, dark! these words of yours are too dark! 」

「This is the 17th out of the ’72 ways of bullying’ that I, Juubei have learned, the ‘False Accusation Bullying Method’! 」

「This isn’t just bullying anymore. It’s a devilish technique of destroying one’s life from false accusations and baseless slander! 」

「At the end, if anyone tries to interrogate me about it, I will just cry and say it isn’t intentional! I will also weep at your grave a little if it makes you feel better. 」

「And why do I have a hunch that you crying over my tombstone would be the most dishonest act in the world? 」

「Huh? A tombstone for a gorilla? Don’t get too full of yourself. For someone like you, just some rotten wooden plaque would be enough. 」

「Damn… This is too shocking… To have seen the two drastically different faces of a single girl, this is too great of an impact for me! 」

Maybe it was because he had thought that they had a good relationship going on before now, but after this revelation of how Mitsuhide truly felt, Yoshiharu could only cry to himself silently.

(Don’t tell me by following this reasoning that Nobuna, who was always full of weird ideas, could actually have been tye good girl here all along?!)

「Hmmm? What are you guys doing? Are you quarreling? 」

With an innocent face, the furisode-clad Nobuna came over with some fried squid in her hands.

「This looks quite delicious. *Chomp!*, Here, I have already eaten a bit of it, but if you don’t mind, have a bite of it as well, Saru. 」

「…Thanks, but I’m not in the mood to eat… *Sob! Sob! Sob! Sob!* 」

「Uwahhhhh! 」

「What? What happened? You two, why are you crying together? 」

「Yes! I know the reason for why I am sad, but what the hell is making you cry, Juubei? 」

「Uwaahhhhhh! Ojou-sama! Just now when Ojou-sama left, Sagara-senpai pushed me down and played with my breasts! 」

「Ehhhh?! But I did not say anything to Nobuna! 」

*Pop!*

One of the veins on Nobuna’s head popped loudly, and her entire face turned red like a freshly erupting volcano… or at least that’s how it looked to Yoshiharu right now.

「Heh, serves you right… This is the 35th way in the ’72 ways of bullying’, ‘Breaking the Promise’! 」

Mitsuhide sneered evilly at him behind Nobuna’s back.

「S-S-S-Saru…! Did you really change to a monkey!? W-W-What is this?! Why did you suddenly touch Juubei’s breasts behind my back!? Answer me, damn it! 」

Nobuna was really furious. If not for her ordinary girl attire, she would have probably unsheathed her sword and slashed off Yoshiharu’s head in an instant. But regrettably, she didn’t have any weapons on her right now.