The Ambitions of Oda Nobuna Volume 1

Chapter 2 : As If

The Nobuna group was slowly marching on the highway north.

"Why should I have to look after you, dammit."

From above the horse, Shibata Katsuie had an upturned face saying that.

Yoshiharu was right now grabbing the horse's bit and accompanying as Katsuie's attendant.

After the Dragon God strife at the Ojaga pond, without even having the time to go back to the castle, Nobuna said "The appointed time is soon." and headed like that towards the border of Mino and Owari.

Nobuna seemed to have a principle of galloping on her own.

Her companions have to follow her while being flustered and shouting "Please wait, princess!"

After she left, Yoshiharu seemed to have collapsed like that on the footpath but for the time being he was going to accompany Nobuna's business as Katsuie's attendant.

Without even knowing the reason, Yoshiharu was thrown into the Warring States era where he doesn't even have time to rest.

The chance to find a way back to his own world, for the time being, doesn't seem likely.

"However, she too is a busy princess….No, since she's a feudal Lord, Tono-sama?"[1]

"Y-You! To refer to the princess as 'she', do you want to be beheaded?"

Despite being skillful, Katsuie kicks Yoshiharu's butt while riding on top of the horse.

"Hey Katsuie. Where are we going? What are we going to exterminate after the Dragon God?"

"Hey Saru. If you drop the honorifics with me again, then that time..."

"Woah! Don't brandish the spear!"

While nimbly dodging the tip of the spear. Yoshiharu pulls on the horse.

Katsuie gave a sigh of "haa"

"Seriously, you're an over familiar Saru. We are going to meet the Viper of Mino after this."

"After a Dragon is a Viper, huh…. What sort of spooky change is this?"

"You really don't know anything. By viper I mean it's the feudal Lord of Mino. Saitou Dousan. Nobuna-sama will take in Dousan's daughter as her step sister, and plans to have a relation of being relatives."

"Take in a sister? Isn't she looking for a wife?"

"Idiot! Nobuna-sama is a princess, like she'd look for a wife!"

"Ah, that's true."

"In the world of this Warring States, verbal promises are not as reliable as alliances. While forming alliances, if the feudal Lord is a male, then he takes in a wife. If it's a princess feudal Lord, she takes in a little sister. And then, they make relations as relatives, and an alliance gets formed."

Sigh. "A princess feudal Lord, huh. Are there many?"

"Yeah. If the first child is a girl, it was decided that that princess will inherit the family. A Saru like you wouldn't know but in the world of warriors, that much is common sense."

"Fuun. Now that you mention it, Imagawa Yoshimoto was a girl as well."

"What!? So you were a spy of Imagawa Yoshimoto! I'll give you judgement!"

"You're wrong! Lower your spear!"

In the middle of the road, the condition of Nobuna's surroundings was explained to him in simple terms by Katsuie.