Gin was carefully watching the flow of people coming and going. Hearing Vodka's booming voice, he snorted. "Stop talking like some nouveau riche."
"..." Vodka silently shut up. He had wanted to flatter Gin, only to kick the horse's hoof again—he had actually wanted to use the value of the Thousand-Gourd to tactfully convey that this mission was important, and that the Boss had assigned such an important mission to Big Brother, which indirectly showed that the Boss still valued him greatly.
...Unfortunately, perhaps he had been too tactful. Gin could not be bothered to seriously analyze it.
As Vodka thought about it, he could not help sighing.
When Brother Gin was in a bad mood, people like them who did the grunt work suffered first... Damn Uzo. If he had not plotted against Big Brother and nearly made him shoot Suzuki Sonoko by mistake while sniping Sherry, Big Brother might not have been sent by the Boss on vacation to recuperate.
Vodka: "..." And if he had not gone on vacation, Big Brother's mindset would have been as calm as before, and Vodka would not have to tread so carefully... Although Anonymous had also caused trouble in the matter of Gin's vacation, judging by the timing, no matter how he looked at it, it had all been Uzo's fault from the start!
Beside him, although Gin disliked Vodka's jumpy tone, what he had said did pique his interest in this mission.
The Thousand-Gourd had been Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Uma-jirushi during his lifetime—an Uma-jirushi was something used to mark a commander's location amid the chaos of a massive battle.
Most people used banners as their "Uma-jirushi," but some were more unusual, such as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had used the "Thousand-Gourd" as his Uma-jirushi.
There were many accounts of the Thousand-Gourd's