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Volume 7 Chapter 1 Part 2

Even during the time when she wanted to burn the base of anti-Nobuna forces, Mount Hiei, which was regarded as one of Japan’s spiritual mountains, there was a logical reason for it too.

First: if they conquered Mount Hiei, all disadvantageous situations at that time would have been overturned.

Second: though Mount Hiei is a holy ground for Buddhists, the monks who resided there were always focused on nothing but fighting, and Nobuna thought that as a strength to pacify people’s hearts, religious factions who arm themselves and fight with the warriors are going against their own aims and principles.

Third: Nobuna does not believe that there are Gods or spirits living in this world. Even if there’s really some kind of higher being in the world, Nobuna firmly believes that those Gods or spirits who go against Nobuna who wishes to end this chaotic Sengoku era aren’t the real Gods, but