Sengoku 33

[Reserved for Illuminati-Manga.]

Pg 61
Box: 1570 (First year of the Genki Era) May 22nd. Nobunaga's room in Gifu Castle.

Txt: Oda Danjou-no-Chuu Nobunaga

Txt: Vol. 33 The Scramble for Takekurabe in Sakata

Pg 62
Note: Azuchi Castle: This was not the same as the Azuchi Castle of the Tenshou era. At the time it was just a small fort. (Translator's note: The reason why the author bothers to note this is that Azuchi Castle eventually becomes Nobunaga's palatial residence.)

Nobu: Mori Sanzaemon at Usayama Castle

Nobu: Sakuma Uemon at Nagahara Castle

Nobu: Shibata Shuri at Choukou Castle... Nakagawa Hachirouuemon at Azuchi Castle.

Nobu: With this, the safety of the route between Gifu and Kyoto is assured...
Nobu: My "defense" agains the Asai clan is complete.
Map: (the script is kind of unreadable, and isn't really relevant anyway... So I'll just translate the regular text) 浅井朝倉方勢力範囲=Territory Controlled by the Asai and Asakura Forces　琵琶湖=Lake Biwa　織田方勢力範囲=Territory Controlled by the Oda Clan

Pg 63
Nobu: However..
Nobu: My "attack" is insufficient.

Nobu: Between Asai Nagamasa's headquarters Odani Castle, and Sawayama Castle, protected by the Isono Army, the strongest within the Asai clan, is Sakata....
Nobu: That point is exactly what I require for my "attack."

Txt: If it falls, then my "attack" on Nagamasa shall fall into place!

Pg 64
Box: Takakurabe, Sakata County--- "Asai Bizen-no-kami allied with the Asakura, and built a fort at Takakurabe, in Sakata County in Omi."--- Shinchoukou-ki
Box: The area of Sakata was the domain of the Asai clan retainer Hori Jirou Hidemura, only fourteen years old.

Note: Shinchoukou-ki: A work compiled by the Oda retainer Ota Gyuuichi. It is thought to be highly reliable as a source.

Txt: Asai clan retainer, Head of the Hori clan (Translator's note: No relation to Hori Kyuutarou. )
Hori Jirou Hidemura
Jirou: So this land of ours is guarding the center of the Asai domains? ....

Higuchi: Be at ease, my lord!
Txt: Chief retainer of the Hori Clan, Higuchi Saburoubei Naofusa
Higuchi: My lord! This old man Saburou will protect you, young master Jirou!

Pg 65
Jirou: Uh...
Jirou: Um....

Higuchi: That's the Isono clan's.... what's he doing?

Higuchi: Hey. It's great that you've come all this way to watch, but we're building a castle
Higuchi: What are you thinking, killing the carpenters?

Pg 66
YZ: Be calm, elder
Txt: General of the Isono Army, the strongest in the Asai clan.
Yamazaki Shinpei Toshihide
YZ: This carpenter... He was stealing a nail, so I cut off his ill-mannered arm.

YZ: I will cut down all those who are disloyal to the Asai clan
YZ: Be they a child, or an old man, I'll show no mercy.

Pg 67
YZ: Young noble...
YZ: And aged minister....
YZ: This Takekurabe is the most strategically important point in our war against the Oda. Be resolute in your protection of it...

YZ: Both of you have become shields of the Asai clan...
YZ: I, Yamazaki Shinpei, am the one who rushes first into battle... I must take Oda Danjou-no-chuu's head....

Higuchi: Umm....
Txt: Yamazaki Shinpei, the brave general, whose ability to wield a spear on horseback makes him the pride of Isono Kazumasa's army, the strongest in the Asai clan...
As long as he is our ally, our lives are safe.....
Higuchi: But....

Pg 68
Note: Returning from Sakai: Toukichirou had been procuring supplies of gunpowder from the merchant Imai Munehisa in Sakai (Osaka) (Translator's note: Entirely different kanji here from Sakai the person)

Box: Taga in Omi—The headquarters of Kinoshita Toukichirou
Nene: Welcome back
Nene: Darling~

HY: Puff... And now right after this we've got to go out on the next errand..
Nene: Eh~~~~~ Even though you just got back from Sakai?

HY: The battle's already begun....
Txt: Kinoshita Toukichirou Hideyoshi

SG: Toukichirou-sama
SG: Shouldn't you say it in a way that won't make Nene-sama cry?

Nene: Hey, hey, more importantly, a guest had come, come on up
Txt: Toukichirou's wife, Nene
?: A guest?

Pg 69
Sakai: Yo, Brother Gon!
Sakai: I was waiting for you
Txt: Sakai Kyuuzou

Both: Kyu-Kyuuzou, what are ya doing here?
Sakai: Welcome back, Kinoshita-sama....

HY: Your father is okay with you being here?
Sakai: I'm going to study many things here until there's a battle again.

Nene: Cu~~te~~~ Like a girl
Sakai: Hehe
Sakai: Hey, wait a minute! Where are you going!

Pg 70
Sakai: I'm wounded, so walk slow for me
Sakai: Take this well-informed Kyuuzou with you. I'll be useful somehow

Note: Shot at by a sniper: While Nobunaga was returning from Kyoto, Sugitani Zenjuubou shot at him, but he escaped unharmed. Rumors that Nobunaga was possessed by a demon spread.

Sakai: Anyway, that Akechi-sama isn't human.
Sakai: Right after he got back from that hellish retreat, he set out for Wakasa.

Sakai: Nobunaga-sama is even more amazing....
Sakai: When he was returning to Gifu from Kyoto, a sniper shot at him, but he wasn't hurt.

Sakai: I really don't know anything about what happened, but since then, our lord has worn foreign armor...
Sakai: Indeed, in this age.... Are you listening to me?
Koroku: Heeeeeeeey! Kinoshita!

Pg 71
Koroku: Hic... I can't believe it
Txt: Hachisuka Koroku Masakatsu
Koroku: You really came back from that hell alive.

Koroku: If I hadn't been passed out drunk, I would've also gone with you~~~
HY: You're drunk as usual, Koroku

Koroku: Eh? Wha?
Koroku: Kinoshita, did you get a little bit bigger?

HY: Hehehe, you're seeing things.
HY: You're just drunk....

Pg 72
Koroku: Anyway, yer gonna go see a god on the orders of Nobunaga-sama, right?
Koroku: Hic... Lemme come with ya, I'll worship the god too.

Sakai: ...Brother Gon... A god? ... What?
SG: Well now, what is it... well-informed Kyuuzou-sama?

HY: A god?
HY: What.. It's just my friend

Sakai: Wait, aren't we in Asai territory now? Dangerous...
Sengoku: (pokes)
Sakai: Gyaaaaah! Ouch ouch ouch. Don't touch my wound, Brother Gon!
HY: Be quiet
Koroko: We may be in enemy territory, but with me, Koroku-sama, there's nothing to be scared of

Pg 73
Box: Border of Gifu and Omi. Within the territory of Asai clan retainer Higuchi Naofusa

HB: .....
HB: I had thought you would be coming around now..

Pg 74
HY: It's been a long time, Hanbei...
HB: Hehehehe.... I've heard of your retreat from Kanegasaki. To think we would be able to meet again....
Txt: Takenaka Hanbei Shigeharu

Sakai: Hanbei? That Hanbei? The legend who took over Inabayama Castle? Takenaka Han...

Sakai: Yeowch!
SG: Quiet...

Koroku: Ah..... Please go in before me

Both: There's nothing scary there... Maybe the more wild a guy is, the more scared he is of smart people.

Pg 75
HB: Say, Kinoshita-san
HB: I must be seeing things but....

HB: Have you gotten a little bigger?

HY: He he he. Humans usually grow bigger.
HY: As long as they are living....

Pg 76
HB: Let's see.... "As long as they are living?"
HB: I too am living, though.

SG: Toukichirou-sama said
SG: "Living" is "overcoming death."

Sakai: That's sly, Brother Gon
Sakai: Talking to Hanbei-sama like that. I wanna talk to him too

SG: Go ahead.
HB: You are....

Pg 77
HB: You are....
HB: That Sengoku Gonbei?!

SG: Thank you for helping us in the mock battle, Takenaka Hanbei-sama.
Sakai: Wha?
Sakai: You know him?

Pg 78-9
Txt: Is this what is meant by living?
Txt: Does battle make humans this strong?

Pg 80
Txt: Does that mean I am not living, since I have renounced the world, and shut myself up in this hermitage?

Txt: My heart is becoming passionate