Kiso-Fukushima Castle ushered in its night.

As the sun set in the west, the Broken Intestine Man went to the end of the world, and the hard-working friends of Akiyama Nobutomo and Hoshina Masatoshi also retreated with the tired army.

After this battle, all the generals of the Takeda family no longer despised the combat effectiveness of the Sasa army.

Because of the casualties of the two reserve teams of Nobuyo Akiyama and Masatoshi Hoshina...... They also saw it with their own eyes.

Takeda Nobuyoshi ordered the whole army to return to the camp, and that night, he stayed up all night.

Early the next morning, Takeda Nobuyoshi, whose eyes were bloodshot, summoned the generals again, but sitting in Takeda Nobuyoshi's big tent, no one chirped crookedly.

"Are there any warriors who took the initiative to fight today?"

Xin Fan asked, like a mud cow entering the sea, without waves.

He sighed silently in his heart, and was thinking about his next move, when a close warrior suddenly walked in.

"Our army intercepted a passing merchant, who said he had come from the castle town of Kiso-Fukushima Castle."

"Huh?" Nobuhiro Takeda raised an eyebrow.

"Bring him up."

"Hay!"

A short time later, a tall wild samurai was brought in.

Behind him, there was a boy about 10 years old, and two beautiful girls.

"Villain Ikari Motodu, meet Your Highness!"

After Chengzheng saw Takeda Shingen from afar, he bowed down and made a big salute.

Behind him, Ah Chun, Ii Naoto, and Ah Shi also knelt down together.

"Raise your head, Ikari Mototo, isn't it? It's a rare surname. ”

Takeda Shingen just sat upright on the mazah, and he had a momentum of not being angry and arrogant, which made Chengzheng secretly appreciate.

"Returning to Your Highness...... The villain is Iwami, and his ancestors were given the surname for making silver ingots. ”

"Ikari Mototo" raised his head and explained the rare surname "Ikari" without humility or arrogance.

"Oh...... It turned out to be a Westerner. ”

Takeda Shingen gently put the folding fan in his hand and patted it repeatedly, and a pair of tiger eyes stared at Ikari Mototo up and down.

After watching Ikari Yuandu, he went to look at the two girls behind Ikari Yuandu, his eyes stayed on the hands of Jing Yi Naohu and Ah Chun for a while, and he had more doubts in his heart.

"Since you're from Iwami, why did you sneak up on the Kiso Valley?"

Takeda Shingen didn't speak, so naturally someone would ask what he should ask instead of him, otherwise it would seem that the Takeda boss would be faceless?

Although I didn't know that the Takeda Shingen in front of me was an impostor, "Ikari Mototo" seemed to really treat Takeda Shingen as Takeda Shingen and dealt with it meticulously.

"Back to your lordship...... The villain's father once told me a famous saying in the Tang Dynasty, called 'It is better to travel 10,000 miles than to read 10,000 books', the villain is 20 years old, but he has achieved nothing, and he is determined to travel in Japan, increase his knowledge, and find his own business. ”

Speaking of this, Ikari Motodu paused, looked up and smiled at Takeda Shingen.

"What's more, the villain passed through the Kiso Valley openly, and he didn't hide when he met your army, so why do you want to be sneaky?"

Listening to Ikari Mototo's explanation, Takeda Shingen also smiled.

It's kind of interesting, this businessman is kind of funny.

Shin Xuan nodded at an elegant-looking military general beside him, and the man suddenly pulled out his sword and landed it on Ikari Yuandu's neck.

The incident happened suddenly, the two girls behind Ikari Yuandu were shocked, Jing Yi Naoto's body seemed to be tense for a moment, and a pair of fists were clenched tightly, but by Ah Chun next to him, he pulled his sleeves, and Jing Yi Naohu immediately lowered his head again, motionless.

Ah Chun also looked frightened, only Ah Shi didn't know how thick the sky was, and stretched out his small finger to flick it on the body of the knife.

"Ding" sounds, very crisp, very good.

There was no change in Ikari Yuandu's movements, he didn't even move his head, just looked at the elegant military general, and stared at him quietly.

"Say! These two women have obviously practiced martial arts for a long time! Even your hands are full of calluses, what the hell are you! ”

The general shouted.

Ikari Motodu sighed, and his gaze turned back to Takeda Shingen's body, but there was already some helplessness in his expression.

"Returning to my lord, the villain is a businessman."

Then Ikari Mototo turned around and pointed at Ii Naoto.

"This is the fiancée of the villain, and her father is a low-ranking samurai of the Nizi family, and he has practiced spearmanship since he was a child. Next to this is the villain's sister, because our ancestors have been working in Iwami Silver Mountain for generations, so we also make some bamboo bows by ourselves to defend ourselves, and the little sister is like this, I won't tell you...... My little sister's archery skills are much better than mine, my brother. ”

When it comes to Ah Chun's archery, Ikari Motodu seems to be proud, which makes the generals of the Takeda family disdainful.

It's just a farmer in the mountains, what are you proud of?

"And this one...... It's the villain's younger brother, and he has been negligent in discipline since he was a child, but he made adults laugh. ”

Ikari Motodu smiled and was not nervous at all in the face of the menacing Takeda Army generals, which couldn't help but surprise Takeda Shingen.

"You're a very interesting businessman...... But if you're going to travel, it's enough for you to go on your own, so why bring your fiancée, sister and brother? If your answer is not satisfactory to me, you will not be able to leave here today. ”

When he said this, Takeda Shingen's originally sunny smile became a little cold.

Ikari Yuandu suddenly sighed, he raised his head slightly, and his face was a little more remembrance.

"Don't hide it from Your Highness...... Last year, Iwami Ginzan had an accident, and the villain's father was unfortunately killed in it...... Her mother didn't want to survive, so she committed suicide by hanging herself after her father was buried. After the villain buried his parents, he encountered a joint battle between the Niko family and the Maori family, and his father was also killed in that battle.

"Listen to the...... She had a relative who was doing business in Aizu, and the villain also wanted to see the Kanto Takeda, Imagawa, and Hojo clans, so she left her hometown and went to Aizu. ”

How can you win sympathy, how can you get a normal person to let you go?

Or, how can you stop an irrelevant person from getting to the bottom of it?

It's as simple as uncovering your scars and letting him see them.

Ikari Mototo died, his father died again, his mother died, and his father-in-law died, and he ran from Kansai to Kanto with his fiancée and younger siblings to join relatives...... This life experience is not bitter and hateful enough, but it is humble and desolate enough.

The generals of the Takeda family here know that such cases are all too common.

Well...... It can be regarded as the helplessness of troubled times.

"Wow Kata...... Why don't you give up going to Aizu and be my retainer? ”

A trace of sympathy flashed in Takeda Shingen's eyes, and he directly sent an invitation to Ikari Mototo.

Nani?

Ikari Motodu was stunned.