Sengoku 16

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vol. 16 The Messenger To Nobunaga

pg 131
Box: 1568 (Eiroku 11) July, the outskirts of Kyoto

Tatsuoki: Hello, Ochou-dono

Ochou: What do you mean, Ochou-dono? Please drop the honorific.
Ochou: Since you are someone who is with Saitou Tatsuoki-sama....

pg 132
TO: Oho
TO: I tried speaking like a Kyoto noble but... am I no good?
Ochou: I was joking... I truly am grateful to you, Tatsuoki-sama

Ochou: When Inabayama Castle fell, and when we escaped, you said that the women should go first
Ochou: It is thanks to Tatsuoki-sama's kindness that we women are living peacefully like this now.

TO: It is women who are the foundation of the world, so it's really natural to help them first.
Txt: Saitou Uhyoue-taihitsu Tatsuoki
Box: Tatsuoki, who had been chased out of Inabayama Castle by Nobunaga, was the son of Saitou Yoshitatsu, who had killed Saitou Dousan, known as the greatest villain of his time. Now he is a wanderer, followed around by his retainers, and is living as a guest near Kyoto.

pg 133
Ochou: That is so but.... I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

TO: You've become quite the Kyoto woman

TO: That sweet, husky voice gives me strength as a man....

TO: Urgh
Oino: Wait, my lord, do you intend to get your hands on all of the ladies-in-waiting? Your reputation in Kyoto will fall.

TO: What's this, Oino?
Oino: Really

Oino: Even for a famous ladies' man like Tatsuoki-sama
Oino: Loving Ochou is dangerous

pg 134
Oino: Can't you see the passion hidden in her eyes?
Oino: She's a woman who would do anything for love, even die

Oino: If some man approaches her for a mere flirtation, he's going to get his dick cut off.
TO: Ha ha ha. Scary... I'm retreating

Txt: Thank you Oino-neesan

Oino: Really, girl, you feel a debt to that dull, unreliable Sengoku
Oino: Gonbei, Gonbei, you keep on saying... We don't even know if that guy is dead or alive

Ochou: He's alive..... That guy.... He he he

Oino: Ochou
Oino: To find a powerful man, and stick to him, is what a woman must to do survive....

pg 135
Oino: If in this era of civil war you marry an incapable man, the only thing you have to look forward to is death...
Ochou: Hey, Oino-neesan

Ochou: I've heard it said that love is a sad thing
Oino: Yes?

Ochou: If you believe in each other, it's a happy thing
Oino: Hehehe, you're also a fool

pg 136
Box: Eight months after the mock battle. Toukichirou's manor near Gifu Castle

HY: Koichirou, is Nene gone?

HY: Hyoh! Yessss!
Txt: Kinoshita Toukichirou Hideyoshi

HY: I'm going in!!

HY: I'll make love to you with these six fingers

Note: Six fingers: According to the missionary Luis Frois in his 'History of Japan,' Hideyoshi had six fingers on one of his hands. Maeda Toshiie wrote in his memoirs that "the Taiko-sama (Hideyoshi) had an extra thumb on his right hand" as well.

pg 137
?: Ahhh
?: Hahh
?: Aaaaaah

Box: Sengoku Gonbei Hidehisa, Age Sixteen
Box: His days are spent working up a sweat doing martial arts, and suffering from irrepressible impulses.

pg 138
Tora: What're you doing, Gonbei?

Tora: Eh.... It looks like you're working hard at something
Txt: Toranosuke Ichimatsu
Sengoku: Shaddup!!

Tora: Aaaahh, paper isn't free, you know. You shouldn't crumple it up...
Tora: or get strange fluids on it
Sengoku: You're fussy for a kid, Toranosuke!

Ichimatsu: Origami....
Sengoku: Ohh!
Sengoku: Do you know how to do it, Ichimatsu?
(small text): I'm surprised

pg 139
SG: Oh!

SG: That's it, that's it! That's what I wanted to make.
SG: Good job, Ichimatsu

SG: Hehehe

Txt: This brings back memories....

pg 140
Box: Eleven years ago. 1557 (Kouji 3) Mino Province. Sengoku is five years old.
?: Ouch!

?: This naughty boy... Even an adult can't handle him.

?: Alright, Sengoku
?: You are no longer a child of our... no, the Sengoku family

?: Be a good boy and go to your adoptive family. You were born the fourth son of a samurai clan, so you can't be the heir to the main branch!
?: If you don't go to another clan as an adopted child, you won't be able to live on.

pg 141
?: He doesn't eat anything, or sleep
?: Does he want to stay there until he dies?

?: He's a stubborn kid
?: I've never even seen him cry

?: Leave him alone and go back
?: Me and Ochou-chan are going back home too

Ochou: I'm going to play with Gonbei
Ochou: I'll stay here

Ochou: Ouch

Ochou: What're you doing, Gonbei?!
Sengoku: Go away!

pg 142
SG: Hurry and go home

Ochou: No!
Ochou: Come here, Gonbei!

Ochou: My home isn't any fun

Ochou: Above there's our lord, and I hate him. Below, there are the retainers, and they can't be trusted
Ochou: My house is dark and gloomy, so I hate it
Ochou: I'm jealous of you, Gonbei, because you're leaving your house

Ochou: Come here quick!
Ochou: I'm scared of the dark!

pg 143
Ochou: Quick
Ochou: Quick, over here...

Ochou: Ha
Ochou : What a stupid face

pg 144
Ochou: Gonbei
Ochou: You don't want to leave?

SG: No one
SG: No one needs me

SG: They don't need me

Ochou: No... Gonbei
Ochou: I hate the dark, and people crying

SG: Sob
SG: Sob

pg 145
Box: The next morning--- His stubbornness finally broken, Sengoku leaves for his adoptive house

pg 146
Ochou: Gonbei!

Ochou: Here, take this!
Ochou: Live brightly
Ochou: If you do that, I'll try to live brightly too!


Ochou: I need you
Ochou: I need you, Gonbei, cause you've always making that sunny stupid face

pg 147
Box: Some months after, in Iyo Province. Sengoku's adoptive father, Hagiwara Kunimitsu's manor

?: Gonbei goes 'yeah, yeah' when the master tells him something, but this is not at all a good point.
?: He lacks obedience
?: He is a useless boy

?: We don't need you in our clan

pg 148
Box: Six years later, the Sengoku clan had lost its head, and all of his elder brothers in succession
Box: Then, Sengoku was called back, and succeeded to the leadership of the family

Box: After this, five years passed, and now in at present, it is 1568 (Eiroku 11)

pg 149
Box: July 11th
Box: Ashikaga Yoshiaki, of the Shogunate clan, who had been chased out of Kyoto, sent out a messenger.

Box: He requested that Nobunaga help him return to Kyoto and become shogun
Txt: Yoshiaki's messenger
Txt: Wada Iga-no-kami Koremasa
Txt: Oda Kazusa-no-suke Nobunaga
Box: According to the Shinchoukou-ki, at that time Nobunaga answered as follows "though I, Nobunaga, am but a weak and insignificant samurai, I shall labor loyally for the country," but within his heart.........

Note: Shinchoukou-ki: A work compiled by the Oda retainer Ota Gyuuichi. Is thought to be highly reliable as a source. [Translator's note: The title translates to something like "the Chronicles of Lord Nobunaga"]

pg 150-1
Txt: Hehehehehe.... Has it come already?

Txt: The clan of Ashikaga Shoguns, who are the leader of the Minamoto, have come to ask for help from my Oda clan, descended from the Taira, who now only control a small province....
Did Uesugi Terutora (Kenshin), Takeda Shingen, and Asakura Yoshikage decide to stick to protecting their own domains and refuse to go to the capital?

Txt: Making use of the previous Shogun's brother Yoshiaki is exactly the step I must take to lay the foundation for my dominion of the land....
I shall devour him thoroughly.........

Box: Oda Kazusa-no-suke Nobunaga (thirty five years old) is now at the peak of his talent and ambition------ He resolves to go to the capital

(Translator's note: The Minamoto (or Genji) and Taira (or Heike) are two great noble clans who descend from the imperial line. At the end of the Heian period, they fought a great war. Many of the samurai clans of the Sengoku era can trace, or claim they can, their ancestry to these two noble families)

pg 152
Box: The two of them did not yet know that today would mark the beginning of one of history's great convulsions.