"Iehiro, the Ryuzoji Clan with a yield of twenty thousand koku—how many tribesmen does it have? Hm, a great tribe of over ten thousand people?... Then your overlord, is he that 'general' from Kyoto?... Not the 'general,' but the Soni Clan with over a hundred thousand koku? A great tribe of a hundred thousand people?..."
"Yes! Chief Priest! The Ryuzoji Clan is a vassal of the Soni Clan, the shugo of Hizen, and controls the area around Saga District. Its subjects do indeed number around ten thousand. And right now, the one in charge of the clan is precisely my branch family, the Mizue Ryuzoji Clan—my younger brother Iekane... As for our overlord, the Soni Clan, they have over a hundred thousand koku, with many vassal clans. They can send out several thousand samurai and mobilize over ten thousand peasant soldiers! And above the Soni Clan, the overlord above them is only then the Shogunate's general..."
Faced with Zuwaro's questions, Ryuzoji Iehiro answered everything in full, with great care. As the main-line heir of a samurai house who had trained in a temple-shrine, he had seen and heard much, far surpassing the other Wagoku captives. And now, after personally witnessing the Lake Kingdom's wealthy "ten li Gold Mountain," its vast "ten-thousand-li territory," its mighty "millions of tribesmen," and its mysterious "Main God's prophecy," his faith in and worship of the Main God truly came from the bottom of his heart!
Of course, whether it was Zuwaro, Losanda, or Chimer, they all clearly knew that all faith was inseparable from the test of time, and would change with shifts in the outside environment.
At this current moment, before he returned to the heartland of Wagoku and seized clan power, Ryuzoji Iehiro, as a "priest of the Main God," was indeed carved