With a wavering heart, Togoro suddenly let go of his hand, which was at a loss for where to go, and suddenly hit his knee.
“You’re right. In order to wash away the dirt that followed the traitor, let’s follow your suggestion to abandon small reason and develop a great cause.”
Donpei rejoiced as he enthusiastically agreed, whispering to each other and consulting hastily.
Around this time, Sadakane Yamashita, still hungover and unable to get out of the inner parlor, let the girls attend to his left and right, leaned against a pillar, and blew his shakuhachi flute intently. .
Then, Donpei Iwakuma put Tsumadate Togoro in front of him, shouted, “One big deal, one big deal!” This was followed by the soldiers a little behind.
Sadakane stopped the sound of the shakuhachi when he saw that Dunpei and his friends were rushing towards him.
“There is bad news for a family that has committed many years of evil deeds. All the people in the castle have turned their backs, and since they have pulled in their forces, there is not much time left until the castle falls. Now, eat your bellies. We will Let me help you and give it to you.”
While saying that, Togoro pulls out his sword and dances to slash him.
“Don’t be obtrusive”
When Sadakane caught it with a shakuhachi flute, the flute was cut diagonally from the center and the tip flew far away. Togoro unintentionally misses the first sword, and is timid when thinking of his former master, and is trembling and unable to move forward. Sadakane lifted his wide-eyed corners,
“Now then, you guys have plotted a rebellion and come to take revenge on me. That’s annoying.”
When I tried to stand up with a ferocious breath, I slipped under the blades that Togoro and Donpei attacked incessantly and parried them, and the sharply cut shakuhachi flashed like the tip of a hand spear. But other than that, there are no other weapons.
Sadakane jumps back and throws the flute as a shuriken. A bamboo shuriken shoots Togoro through his right arm and, screaming, drops his blade from his hand and falls on his hip. Sadakane rushes over and tries to pick up the fallen sword, but Donpei’s cutting edge flashes behind him and slashes him sharply from the tip of his shoulder to his back. Without even having time to steal the blade, he shoots off Donpei’s blade. The two grappled, going up and down, trying to resist for a while, but Sadakane was finally injured. The momentum had already weakened, and even though he was lying on Donpei’s lap, he kept calling people out.
To the right of Donpei’s turn, Tsumadate Togoro is lying on the ground, with a bamboo flute stuck in his body. Pulling out the bamboo, he pierced Sadakane’s throat with fierce resistance. After the bamboo was pulled out, Togoro immediately regained his consciousness, woke up and saw the current situation, picked up the dropped blade, and handed it to Iwakuma. rice field.
By the way, many of the soldiers were put on Donpei’s mouth and came to the next room, but they didn’t help because they didn’t know if they would win or lose. However, as soon as he sees that Sadakane has been killed, he hurriedly strikes the shoji screens and fusuma sliding doors and raises a battle cry.
The girls who had been waiting near the master were frightened and ran away from the garden.
By the time the close retainers who received the report showed up from the station, it was already over, and many of them were killed by the soldiers attached to Iwakuma and others. The wives just cried, and Donpei ordered Tamazusa and everyone else to be captured alive, looted the gold and silver treasures, and ran off to the main hall.
There are times when the heavenly man is punished, and the degree of severity is the result of karma. Sadakane used his cunning to the fullest, undermining his lord, taking his possessions, and amassing wealth like a floating cloud. But in less than a hundred days he himself was killed by his retainers. The fact that Donpei Iwakuma accidentally used a bamboo flute with a sharp cut edge instead of a blade when decapitating him is reminiscent of the bamboo spear punishment.
Tsumadate Togoro, who had received Sadakane’s favor, was also struck by a bamboo flute shuriken and fainted for a while. This is also the death penalty for defeating the master, even though he is a villain.
Donpei’s guilt, in particular, is incomparable. When he was Jinyo’s horse herder, he poisoned his master’s horse for Sadakane’s sake, knowing it was a conspiracy. Also, after serving Sadakane, he was more and more aggravated in his evil deeds, and utterly harassed the people with cruel treatment. And now when bad news befalls him, he tries to escape and strikes his master again. In the end, he helped a good man, but will he prosper in the future? It is said that long ago, Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty of China appointed his slave son Mi, who had killed the betrayed minister Peng Chuan, as an illegitimate marquis. It would be better to end up as an ordinary person without committing any unrighteousness, rather than gaining a title for committing an unrighteous act. The author always sighs deeply when he comes across such passages every time he reads a historical war chronicle. That’s why I’m making this comment. In addition, Sadakane YAMASHITA was mentioned in the old military record, and although the details are not clear, it is certain that he was a rogue who harmed his lord, Jinyo. There are still ancient ruins in the area.
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