"Are you sure you want to give up Musashi Province just like that? You've held that position for so long."
Yae Sakura looked at Tanihara Natsu before her in surprise. The position of a provincial lord—she was just giving it up like that! This was too...
"It's precisely because I've sat there for so long that it no longer feels like much. Besides, I should have stepped down long ago. An ageless, immortal person like me has occupied that position for too long. Many people are dissatisfied, and rumors about me have been spreading below."
"So I'd rather travel the world with Lady Yae and the others. If it weren't for Sister Kikyo, the Hojo Clan would have unified the Kanto region long ago."
Shaking her head, Tanihara Natsu did not care much about the position of lord of Musashi Province. She was merely a woman, and not a girl with the heart of a female emperor.
"That works too! A mere lord's position truly amounts to nothing. If you want it, Xia Ji, I can even help you seize the next shogun's seat and let you usher in a new era of shogunate rule. What do you say?"
The emperor's throne was troublesome, but the shogun's position... no other methods were needed. One merely had to unify the land, take Kyoto, and force the emperor to acknowledge it.
Come to think of it, in actual history... despite going through the Warring States turmoil, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the Far East, he had still been able to gather an army of over a hundred thousand and cross the sea to attack Korea.
Though he failed to take Korea several times, the Tokugawa clan instead seized the opportunity. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, they swiftly took control of the entire country, established