Death Lists Piled as High as Mountains, Tetsu Had No Weaknesses! Noon on the Sixth Day-the Final Ten Li!

Uesugi Tetsu did not respond, merely listening in silence.

He more or less understood. Perhaps Imagawa Yoshimoto was saying this to herself, or perhaps to Oda Nobunaga on the distant mountaintop.

In any case, she was not saying it to him in the carriage.

During the brief silence, Uesugi Tetsu could not help glancing again at Oda Nobunaga, who stood quietly on horseback in the freezing wind, her face and eyes utterly unchanged.

Uesugi Tetsu thought,

If Imagawa Yoshimoto had not disguised herself as Ii Naomasa and personally come to Watari Village to recruit me, I would have left the village and gone to Owari Province to find the only daimyō I had ever heard of at the time—

Oda Nobunaga.

If things had happened that way, how many changes would this world have undergone? Would the wheel of fate have turned in another direction?

It was rather interesting to imagine.

Still, the past could not be changed.

Uesugi Tetsu calmly withdrew half his gaze and continued carefully regulating Imagawa Yoshimoto's blood and qi. At a glance, her blood and qi did indeed look roughly normal.

In truth, however, it was merely falsely vigorous blood and qi. Imagawa Yoshimoto's body was still declining uncontrollably.

Uesugi Tetsu was doing his best to delay the arrival of the end.

After the army marched on in silence for another two minutes, a short man wearing light armor and possessing a monkey-like face came running out of Oda's formation, trembling slightly.

He stopped in front of Two-Shaku-Sama and Okabe Motonobu.

"Hm?"

From within her heavy iron helmet, Two-Shaku-Sama snorted through her nose. She was just about to manifest an illusory hand and grip her halberd when Okabe Motonobu pressed her down.

"This fellow doesn't look like he came to fight."

"I am Kinoshita Tōkichirō,