When night had completely faded and the sun once again ruled the earth, a coup had already taken place among Kyoto's upper ranks.
Of course, Hebe did not see it that way.
How could this be called a coup? It was clearly the Great Return of Political Power.
After all, the shogunate's power had now fallen away, while the Shogun and the Imperial Monarch were stationed at the Singular Point of the fifteenth century. Hebe naturally had both the right and the ability to set the wayward shogunate back on the proper path.
Though the Mimawarigumi's equipment was excellent, they were utterly helpless against the Shinsengumi, bolstered by Hebe.
And when Sakamoto Ryōma and Kondō Isami led their troops into the Imperial Palace, the Tokugawa magistrates failed to organize any meaningful resistance.
Sakamoto Ryōma had long prepared a series of countermeasures. By the time Hebe arrived at the Imperial Palace, everything had already been settled.
By the time the Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance learned of this, two days had passed.
Takasugi Shinsaku saw the messenger off with a smile, then flew into a rage inside his study. From the policies Sakamoto Ryōma had enacted, he could sense that the man's talent far surpassed his own. With Sakamoto Ryōma in the shogunate, it would remain unshakable for at least two hundred years.
And once the shogunate had fully consolidated its strength and freed its hands, its next target could only be the Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance!
Takasugi Shinsaku bit his thumbnail and decided to begin the attack on the borderland of Otogiyama ahead of schedule.
According to Inari Grand Shrine's previous estimates, the location where Otogiyama would manifest this time lay around Toba and Fushimi on Kyoto's outskirts.
What a coincidence. In Hebe's previous life, the decisive battle between the shogunate and the anti-shogunate forces