As soon as Burning Sky arrived at the castle tower, he saw that Ma Hui had already walked out of the castle tower. The horse back also saw the burning sky with two flags behind him, he was stunned for a moment, and then stepped forward and bowed his head to the burning sky and said, "But the predecessors of Hiei Mountain?" After hearing this, the burning sky said to the man: "I am the burning of the Ming Shamen of Hiei Mountain, I don't know if you are?" ”

As soon as Nama Hui was about to speak, Kinoshita Hideyoshi walked out of the castle tower and said to Nama Hui, "Kankuro, you better go back and report the situation in Kita-Omi to the lord!" After listening to Kinoshita Hideyoshi's words, the samurai known as Kankuro bowed to Kinoshita Hideyoshi and Kamitsu, turned around and took the reins from the samurai next to him, turned over and ran towards the outside of Yokoyama Castle.

Then Kinoshita Hideyoshi said to the burning sky in front of him: "I was about to send someone to look for you, now that you are here, you don't have to bother with me, hurry up and enter the castle tower!" With that, Kinoshita Hideyoshi turned around and walked towards the castle tower, and after taking a look at Kankuro, who was urged to leave by Kinoshita Hideyoshi, he followed Kinoshita Hideyoshi into the castle tower.

After the burning sky entered, he found that there were already two people sitting in the castle tower, Suga Masakatsu and Takenaka Hanbei, and both of them had solemn faces. Burning Sky glanced at Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who was sitting on the top reading a letter, and didn't know how to speak for a while, and then sat next to the Takenaka half-guard, bowed his head to Kinoshita Hideyoshi and asked, "Kinoshita-sama, I don't know how Hideto-sama's injury is?" ”

Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who was at the top, put down the letter in his hand and said to Wasuka Masakatsu and Takenaka Hanbei: "Okay, don't think about it, although the lord said that he reprimanded me in the letter for being disrespectful to Shibata-sama, but he didn't mean to punish me, tomorrow Hanbei will go to Gifu with me, and Yokoyama Castle will ask Xiaoliu!" ”

After listening to Kinoshita Hideyoshi's words, Wasuka Masakatsu and Takenaka Hanbei said to Kinoshita Hideyoshi: "I'm afraid that Shibata-sama will say something unfavorable to Nobunaga's palace!" ”

It was only then that Burn Sky realized that it was Oda Nobunaga who had made a judgment on the previous dispute between the two, but Kinoshita Hideyoshi called himself in, did he regard himself as his ally or follower. Just when the Burning Sky speculated about Kinoshita Hideyoshi's plans, Kinoshita Hideyoshi said to the Burning Sky: "Koichiro is fine, but he still needs to recuperate for a few days, by the way, the lord has a letter, and the letter asks you to go to Gifu Castle with me." ”

After listening to Kinoshita Hideyoshi's words, Kinku asked Kinoshita Hideyoshi, "Can you mention in the letter how Zaisa returned to Gifu?" ”

After hearing this, Kinoshita Hideyoshi got up and said to the burning sky: "Mingshamen, the lord only said that you went to Gifu with me, and did not mention the recall. ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky bowed his head to Kinoshita Hideyoshi and said, "I'll go and prepare the things needed on the road later, I wonder if Kinoshita-sama has other things?" ”

Kinoshita Hideyoshi looked at the two people beside him, and then stopped talking about the burning sky. Burning Sky also looked at Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who wanted to speak and stopped, and there were many doubts in his heart. In the end, Kinoshita Hideyoshi still didn't make up his mind, and said perfunctorily to the burning sky: "It's okay, Mingshamen and return to Hengshan Cave are arranged, and I will return to Gifu tomorrow." ”

After Burning Sky slowly withdrew from the castle tower, the Takenaka half-guard said to Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who was meditating on the top, "My lord, wouldn't it be too inappropriate to let him go to Gifu with us unprepared without telling the truth about this matter?" ”

Kinoshita Hideyoshi sighed after hearing this and said: "With these few months of contact, I still can't fully trust this person, maybe let him be defenseless to get the result that both the lord and I want, I hope he won't hate me after this incident!" ”

The half-guard of Takenaka looked at Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who was sighing in front of him, and Wasuka Masakatsu, who was speechless on the other side, and the hands on his lap silently clenched his yellow-black haori.

After the burning sky returned to Gifu, he explained all the tasks of the next few days, and after the seahorse family learned that the burning sky was going to Gifu, he temporarily lent his beloved horse to the burning sky, and said to the burning sky: "The adults gave me almost all their annual salaries before, and tomorrow the adults return to Gifu City, how can they not even have a horse." After preparing the rice balls and other things for the journey, Ozora went to bed early, and prepared to go to Gifu Castle with anticipation to Oda Nobunaga.

The next day, Sakaku took the five good knives he had captured and some rice balls and went to Yokoyama Castle to join Kinoshita Hideyoshi and others. Since Kinoshita Hideyoshi already had a makeshift guard consisting of five samurai and twenty ashigaru, Yakora did not wait for a single soldier with him, and even Akiyama did not bring him, but asked him to improve his management and coordination skills by assisting Fushiwa Akijiro and Kaiba Yoshiya in managing the captives.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi saw the burning sky in the distance wearing a monk's robe riding alone, and there was a hint of hesitation in his eyes, but in an instant, this hesitation disappeared in Kinoshita Hideyoshi's somewhat protruding eyes. Kinoshita Hideyoshi said to the burning sky that came over: "Okay, Mingshamen, let's go!" ”

After saying that, Kinoshita Hideyoshi and his entourage left Yokoyama Castle on horseback, and Wasuka Masakatsu, who was inspecting the situation of Yokoyama Castle on the walls of Yokoyama Castle, looked at Kinoshita Hideyoshi who was far away, and said to Ashigaru beside him: "These days, everyone must always be on guard against the enemy troops attacking Asai and Asakura, and prevent those prisoners from rioting. ”

He hadn't gone far before Kinoshita Hideyoshi asked the burning sky behind him, "If Mingshamen is the commander-in-chief, and the enemy breaks through to the main camp when he engages the enemy, what will you do in this situation?" After hearing this, Burning Sky laughed secretly in his heart, isn't this the problem that Kinoshita Hideyoshi faced in this battle. After thinking about it carefully, Burning Sky said to Kinoshita Hideyoshi, "There are two situations that I want to ask Kinoshita-sama. ”

Kinoshita Hideyoshi laughed after hearing this and said, "Okay, don't ask, I'm just joking with Mingshamon." After that, Kinoshita Hideyoshi beat the horse and accelerated the previous run, no longer paying attention to the burning sky behind him, and similar questions Kinoshita Hideyoshi asked a few more on the way, and every time the burning sky wanted to answer or ask in detail, Kinoshita Hideyoshi would beat the horse and walk away, making the burning sky a little confused.

And when Burning Sky threw a puzzled look at Takenaka Hanbei, Takenaka Halfguard also shook his head and said that he didn't understand Kinoshita Hideyoshi's meaning, which made Burning Hollow very uneasy, what did Kinoshita Hideyoshi want to express? Or are you hinting at yourself something? The original excitement and anticipation of the burning sky suddenly disappeared, and the memory of this history in his head was also extracted by the burning sky in an instant, but for this stage of confrontation between the Oda family and many surrounding daimyos, the burning sky did not have much information in his mind, so the burning sky began to think about whether he was too worried.