Yu Qiuping had to admit that for Imagawa Kaede's answer, he actually had a faint premonition in his heart.

He wanted to tell Kaede Imagawa about his plan countless times, but he couldn't bear to open his mouth, he was worried about such a thing.

This independent girl has such a strong personality, and she is by no means a weak woman who succumbs to fate and follows her husband all her life. When a sweetheart does something that is contrary to her beliefs, she will not hesitate to make a change. Yu Qiuping understands, because she did it ten years ago.

But after hearing this answer with his own ears, it still made his heart twist - as desperate as when the two parted in the garden of Sunhouse City on that rainy day almost ten years ago.

"Feng'er, are you even going to leave me?" Yu Qiuping asked in a low voice in disbelief, "Are you kidding?" You're talking angry, aren't you? Right? ”

"Hmm." Imagawa Kaede was stunned when he heard this, and nodded slightly. But her reaction made Yu Qiuping even more panicked.

"Even if it's a quarrel, it's going to be reconciled, right?" Yu Qiuping, like a naïve child, tried to confirm something through verbal words, "We quarreled so much before, we were separated for so long, and in the end you came back, right?" ”

"Hmm." Kaede Imagawa still just nodded, but his eyes gradually filled with tears.

"Want to hear the truth?" Imagawa Kaede finally said the sentence that Yu Qiuping was most afraid of hearing, "When I said those words just now, I was serious. ”

"How is that possible, Feng'er?" Yu Qiuping panicked suddenly, and hurriedly smiled to try to save the atmosphere. He didn't care about the five big men around him, and actually said something a little insensitive: "We have been together for almost ten years, we love each other so much, how can we be separated because of this kind of thing!" And if you're gone, where can you go? What to do with our children! ”

"During the Warring States period, divorce was a normal thing for ordinary samurai families, and you didn't have to make a fuss." Kaede Imagawa smiled and whispered in a casual tone.

"But we're not an ordinary samurai family!" Yu Qiuping grabbed Kaede Imagawa's shoulders with both hands, stared into her eyes and said, "We are not the same as those political marriages, and I am not those ordinary samurai!" ”

Imagawa Kaede was stunned when he heard this, stunned for a moment, and stopped talking. After a long time, she sighed and buried her face in the shadows, tears streaming down her face.

"I also thought that you were different from those cold-blooded martial artists. I also thought that our marriage would not be the same as a political marriage. I also thought that I would have a different fate from those miserable women. Kaede Imagawa shook his head helplessly, "But in the end, what you did made me very sad." ”

"There are so many women in the Warring States period, and they have never heard of divorce because of their husbands' rebellion!" Yu Qiuping was in a hurry, and actually said in a somewhat stern tone: "Why are you so willful, Feng'er!" Besides, I am avenging your father! ”

"Because I'm different from other women, I'm who I am! I wouldn't fall in love with such a cold-blooded samurai! A samurai who will kill so many of his good brothers! A samurai who drew the people into war for their own purposes! I won't let myself live for others, and I will be someone else's red leaf for the rest of my life! Imagawa Kaede was not afraid to shout at Yu Qiuping: "Didn't you already know! That's the kind of woman I am! ”

"I'll go back to Imagawa's house, back to Sunfu." Before Yu Qiuping could organize the language, Imagawa Kaede had already said quickly: "The child's words... I will take the funeral away, anyway, in the eyes of a person like you who can involve tens of thousands of people in the war for personal revenge, in the eyes of a calm and snobbish person like you, a one-armed child may not be a good governor! That's what you thought at the time! ”

"I didn't! I'm not! Yu Qiuping shouted almost hysterically, "You don't understand me at all!" ”

However, Imagawa Kaede ignored him, and just said to himself: "You'er is here with you, and I won't be killed." But I'll take it with me, and..."

Speaking of this, Imagawa Kaede was suddenly stunned, and Yu Qiuping was also stunned.

And the unborn child in the womb.

Not just tacit understanding or some reason, the two of them stopped all at once, breathing rapidly, and looked at each other with complicated eyes. Kaede Imagawa's chest was extremely undulating, as if his heart was about to jump out at any moment.

"Feng'er." It was Yu Qiuping who was the first to speak, breaking the silence. He had already calmed down, and pleaded in a low voice in a somewhat mournful tone: "Didn't we promise to be each other's red leaves and accompany each other for the rest of our lives?" How can you break your word? ”

"Ping, you're the one who broke your word." Imagawa Kaede suddenly spoke, but his tone was a little sad, "Who promised me that I would do my best to save the people of the world?" And what are you doing now? If you want to kill your own good brothers, how can you be expected to save the people again? Haven't you always done what you say, how can you break your word? ”

"But I can't live without you!" Yu Qiuping's tears suddenly welled up in his eyes, crying and begging: "If you are not here, what should I do!" ”

"I'm just a woman." Imagawa Kaede shook his head, his eyes wandered, but there was an indescribable sentimentality, "You can even give up the most important thing in your life, let alone me?" ”

Yu Qiuping was speechless for a while.

"Do you remember the day you first told me about your ambitions in life?" Speaking of this, Kaede Imagawa suddenly smiled. She tilted her head slightly, as if she was thinking about some very good memory, "That was ten years ago." We went on an expedition to the mountains together, and I don't remember why we talked about it, but that's what you said at the time. ”

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"Although, a person like me, who has no rights in his hands and no great ability, will be a little arrogant to say such things to you," Yu Qiuping solemnly looked at the tearful girl, "but I am willing to promise you a promise to the family that has experienced misfortune all over the world." I, Yu Qiuping, will definitely do my best to save them, so that they don't have to go through life and death again. ”

"I'm Yuqiuping, and I do what I say."

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Kaede Imagawa repeated Yu Qiuping's words, and the tears still flowed uncontrollably. "To tell you the truth, I may have just had a crush on you before. It was only after you said these words that I really liked you and thought you were an amazing person. Because your life is not the same as the life of those samurai. In their lives, in pursuit of fame and fortune, they regard the people as mustard. But you, on the other hand, put the people of the world first and try your best to save them. ”

"If you are no longer such a kind person, if you give up your ambitions, what difference will you make from ordinary samurai? What's the difference with so many muddled samurai in the world? The reason why so many brothers follow you, and even the reason why Naoe-sama, Seming-sama, Amano-sama, Sanada-sama, and Takenaka-sama are willing to follow you, is it because you are a good person? If you have changed yourself and given up your original ideals, what is the point of your life? ”

Imagawa Kaede's words made the other five people present instantly fall into deep thought. However, Yu Qiuping suddenly smiled bitterly and shook his head slightly.

"Feng'er, my life is no longer my Yu Qiuping alone. I can't live selfishly for my ideals anymore..."

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Yu Qiuping's words made everyone stunned for a while, and they didn't understand what Yu Qiuping was talking about.

The latter didn't say much, but quietly took out the relic of Sena Shitoshi from his bosom, the rib that he had been carrying with him for seven years.

"My life was bought by His Highness Sena with his own life." As soon as Yu Qiuping spoke, a cry leaked out of his mouth, and Sena's voice and smile instantly appeared in front of him, "His Royal Highness Sena could have lived well... But in order to keep me alive, he used this rib to cut my stomach. ”

Everyone present more or less understood this matter and did not say much. Sena Yoshinori lowered his head suddenly, and he could see that he was also very sad.

"I know what His Highness Sena is thinking..."Yu Qiuping smiled bitterly, "Your Highness, he has been telling me not to blame yourself for the death of His Royal Highness. He was afraid that if I died like this, then even if I went to another world, my heart would be tormented by remorse and remorse, and I would not be able to live beyond life. ”

"So His Highness Sena exchanged his life for my life. He asked Yoshibei to bring me this rib, and told me that I had something to do. Yu Qiuping stared at the ribs in his hand, and the blood stains that had been stained on it seemed to be faintly visible. I know what His Highness Sena wants me to do—and that is revenge, to avenge His Highness the Governor. Kill Oda Nobunaga and destroy the Oda family, as a way to redeem my inner self-blame and remorse, and also to comfort the spirits of His Royal Highness Sena and His Royal Highness the Governor of the Family. ”

Yu Qiuping held the rib high in the air, held the handle of the rib with his right hand, and looked around at everyone present. At this moment, the expressions of Imagawa Kaede and Takenaka Shigeji were a little moved, and they were no longer as disappointed and sad as they were just now.

"That's why I said, my life is not mine alone for a long time, it was exchanged for His Royal Highness Sena. If I can't fulfill His Highness Sena's will, how will I face him? How can I live like no one else, and be the same rotten good person as before? How disappointed His Highness would be if His Highness Sena saw me like this! His Royal Highness Sena exchanged his life for me back, so that I could take revenge, let me redeem, and let me face the late Governor of the House Governor calmly under the Nine Springs in the future! It's not for me to live in peace! ”

After Yu Qiuping said this, his right hand slammed hard, trying to pull out the rib, pulling out the rib that had not been pulled out for seven years, so as to strengthen his determination to rebel and take revenge - just now, under the persuasion of Shigeharu Takenaka and Kaede Imagawa, he was already a little shaken. In his bones, he is really still the rotten good man, the good guy who crossed over, and the good guy who wants to save all the people in the world.

But His Royal Highness Sena took your life in exchange for you, and he didn't let you do this!

Yu Qiuping struggled, and the ribs were finally pulled out. However, at the moment when the rib cha was pulled out, what he saw was not a bright blade, but a piece of white silk that was slowly falling.

It was originally wrapped around the blade, but it was brought out as the blade was pulled out - no wonder this rib was so difficult to pull out, it turned out that there was such a piece of silk stuffed between the rib and the scabbard.

But why did His Highness Sena wrap such a piece of silk around the ribs used for his seppuku and stuff it back into the scabbard?

This thought flashed through Yu Qiuping's mind, and the hand holding the blade subconsciously twisted and caught the silk silk that was slowly falling.

It wasn't pure white silk, it had other colors on it.

Yu Qiuping took a fixed look.

On the white silk silk was black-brown handwriting—the color of the dried blood.

This is...

"His Royal Highness Sena's words."