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Volume 9 Chapter 1 Part 1

Chapter 1 : The Battle of Harima, Part 1

「I’ve heard that Takenaka Hanbei-sama has contracted an illness that got her bedridden. 」

「Hanbei, huh? 」

「Yes. 」

Within Harima’s Mount Shozan, in the underground prison of the camp where the Mori clan’s vanguard’s, Ukita Naoie’s army was stationed. Originally, Kuroda Kanbei, also known as Simon, was planning to persuade Ukita Naoie to defect from the Mori clan and join the Oda clan, but unfortunately she made a grave miscalculation and was captured and imprisoned by him instead. Now, Kuroda Kanbei was whispering softly to the two visitors who were separated from her by the iron bars.

Kuroda Kanbei was born in Harima, yet in spite of her youth had already become the master of Himeji Castle. Furthermore, due to her extraordinary talent, she, along with Mino’s Takenaka Hanbei, were both called the 「Twin Genius Strategists」, or 「The Two Bei’s. 」.

But now she was