Ii Naomasa.
The name was not unfamiliar to Uesugi Tetsu. Though she was not one of the Imagawa Clan's most central retainers, her status was far from low.
—Clearly, even though Imagawa Yoshimoto had purged all those Elder Council members who occupied their positions without doing their jobs, and had learned about the world's revival in advance and prepared accordingly,
the Imagawa Clan had still been defeated at Okehazama in history, losing once again to that Sixth Heaven Demon King, Oda Nobunaga.
Perhaps after reading this memory orb, she could glimpse the true reason history had not changed after her own departure.
Uesugi Tetsu brought the orb before her with a palm formed from lightning and said, "I'll use these orbs now."
"Go ahead."
The Onmyoji opposite her regarded the palm Uesugi Tetsu had conjured with the Five Thunder Technique with considerable wariness. With a sweep of her sleeve, she retrieved all the remaining memory orbs.
The fox-masked woman merely smiled without a word, then knelt directly on the wooden floor and waited quietly.
[Read the memory orb of Ii Naomasa of the Imagawa Clan?]
"Yes."
[Reading...]
The noisy, lively sights and sounds of Hanafuda Market gradually faded away.
The feelings that surged into Uesugi Tetsu's heart were astonishment, calm, and mourning, one after another.
These three emotions, building layer by layer and drawing toward profound negativity, became the dominant tone of the memories contained within the orb.
—It was probably because the memory orb was not of particularly high quality, while the timeline it contained was too long.
The fragments Uesugi Tetsu saw were therefore disjointed and broken, while certain parts were somewhat blurry.
"March to Kyoto!"
After opening her eyes as Ii Naomasa, the first words Uesugi Tetsu heard were those.
The voice was