Chapter 18: His Survival Challenge is a Bit Much
Yuan Ye’s curiosity was satisfied; at least he knew that “Owari’s Big Fool” was a bad pun. He pondered for a while longer how Oda Nobunaga evolved from a “Mad Crown Prince” to “Japan’s Number One Person of the Warring States,” but he hadn’t systematically studied the relevant history and couldn’t figure it out. He then turned to A Man and asked again, “Is there anything else about Oda Nobunaga? Besides these street gossips… well, street rumors.”
A Man was chewing on a tea leaf, seemingly curious about this luxury item, and casually said, “He’s full of gossip and jokes. The rest is just ordinary information. Do you want to know?”
“Of course.”
“Alright, I really don’t know why you’re so concerned about him!” A Man chewed the tea leaf and thought for a moment before saying, “He was apparently born in the third year of Tenbun. His childhood name was Kichōshi. At two years old, his father sent him to Nagoya Castle to be the Castle Lord. At that time, his father assigned him a group of retainers to assist him in managing state affairs.”
I won’t mention those messy people; the main ones were four Senior Retainers.
The first was Hirate Tōzō Hidesada, whom I mentioned before. He was his Head of Transmission Duty
