Ordinary Honmaru Chronicle

"Ah-choo! Kamekichi... so, so cold!"

When the first ray of sunlight in the morning dimly reflected on the paper window, Urashima Torato, who had been sleeping badly and kicked the quilt all night, woke up from the cold.With his eyes closed, he shivered and retracted his feet that were exposed outside the quilt. He accidentally rubbed against the turtle that was kicked to the foot of the bed by him unconsciously in the middle of the night, and was instantly shuddered by the cold shell , completely back to God.

He opened his eyes suddenly and sat up sleepily.Seeing that Hachisuka was still curled up in the futon breathing evenly, Urashima lowered his voice instantly.He rubbed his eyes, brushed his hair, and grabbed Kameichi and put it on his head.So he sneaked up and wrapped himself in his inner clothes.While wearing it, he whispered doubtfully:

"Why is it so cold..."

After Urashima quietly closed the sliding door and walked out of the cubicle, he couldn't help but sneezed again.He seemed to have thought of something, and opened the door of the small hall with some surprise and even more excitement:

I saw that the courtyard was all white, the plants of various colors were covered by snow, and a thin layer of crushed ice formed on the small pond.When Urashima was happy, he heard a mess of footsteps, and saw a group of Fujishiro in inner uniforms laughing and jumping into the yard full of snow from the opposite corridor, followed by Minghu watching The nephews laughed and disturbed the people, happy and helpless.

Hearing the joyous noise of Toshiro and the others, the swordsmen got up one after another.When they got out of the house and saw the different winter scenery from the past, they were all shocked.Seeing the attendants California Kiyomitsu and Yamato Shou Anding coming over to arrange tasks with today's internal schedule, the busy and fulfilling day of the swordsmen kicked off.

"Go to the Dragon Palace to get the jade box... Hey, I'm just kidding~ My lord, Big Brother Hachisuka, I'm going out now!"

After breakfast, it was Hachisuka's turn to work as a valet today, dressed up carefully, and stood beside his aunt shining brightly to send the expedition troops out together.Seeing his younger brother Urashima turning his head and waving at him before stepping into the teleportation formation, his reserved expression moved slightly, and his shallow smile suddenly became cordial:

"Well, the elder brother and the lord are waiting at home for your return."

Unlike the cold-resistant men with swords, the aunt beside Hachisuka had already changed into a soft fleece coat.Hearing Hachisuka's different gentle reply, she couldn't hold it back, turned her head and snickered a few times, the fur ball on the coat trembled a few times.

Seeing Hachisuka looking back, she coughed a few times and regained her serious expression: "Then Hachisuka, come with me to deal with the official documents. According to the email sent by Foxnosuke, it seems that the retrograde army has recently There's a new trend."

"Yes, my lord." Hearing the aunt's narration of the message from Foxnosuke, Hachisuka Kotoru straightened his expression, lowered his head slightly, and followed her back to the small attic.

After handling today's official duties neatly, and carefully reading the information sent by Foxnosuke, the aunt frowned:

"So, is the real Osaka Castle under the Osaka Castle the target of this march?"

Fengsuhe refilled the teacup for her, and after careful consideration, Fang cautiously said: "From the intelligence point of view, it is so."

"The mission will start immediately after one week, and we need to march ten floors in a row... a total of one hundred floors..." Seeing the aunt's face change slightly, Hachisuka looked at her worriedly, sat quietly on one side, and comforted softly:

"My lord, I will definitely work harder when I wait for the famous sword... Please don't worry too much."

The aunt recalled that there were less than four teams of swordsmen in the maru, sighed slightly, and took out the blacksmith book:

"It seems that the matter of forging must be put on the agenda."

Hachisuka Kotoru accompanied his aunt to the forging room, and placed three piles of 350 pieces of material in front of the fire, and the blacksmith immediately appeared.He accepted the materials and handed over the three hourglasses, and Hachisuka naturally stepped forward to take them.

Seeing the words 25 minutes, [-] hours, and [-] hours and [-] minutes displayed on the hourglass, the aunt took out the blacksmith book and looked at it, thinking:

"It looks like a short sword, a katana, and a tachi...uh..."

She glanced sideways at Hachisuka, as if inadvertently said:

"According to the forging timetable, it seems that Nagso Ne Kotoru's forging time is three hours."

Hachisuhe pursed his lips, and the hand holding the hourglass trembled slightly, but he didn't say anything.

Seeing that he still refused to let go, the aunt sighed, changed the subject with a smile, and said, "With so many knives, it may not be Nagasoni Kotoru... that's all, Hachisuka and I will go to see the progress of the inner episode together." Bar."

"...Yes, my lord."

Onlookers watched the progress of the episode, and the appearance of the protagonist greatly encouraged Honouchi's enthusiasm for work.After returning to the attic, I discussed with my aunt about the emergency training for next week's Osaka Castle mission. After the arrangements are made, the time for casting the short knife will arrive.Hachisuka went to the forging room to retrieve the forged sword, watching her input spiritual power into the orange and black dagger, a little Shota with yellow hair, blue eyes and red-rimmed glasses appeared in the small room along with the bursting cherry blossoms. In the attic:

"My name is Hakata Toshiro! I was discovered in Hakata, so I'm called Hakata Toshiroga! It's a short sword, but it's manly!"

After listening to the wonderful self-introduction in Bodo accent, the auntie slightly opened her eyes.She turned her head to signal Hachisuka to come forward, and she took out an orange and black decorative fringe from the cabinet.

Using spiritual power to carve out the small silver plaque hanging under the fringe into the shape of Hakata's sword pattern, the aunt smiled and handed it to Hakata Toshiro with glowing eyes:

"Welcome to Honmaru."

"Wow~" Boduo took the beautiful decorative tassel with both hands, hung it on his knife handle, and said with a smile:

"Thank you for the generosity of the master~ What a great gift! Hmm... If it can be used to buy gifts, it seems very good!"

"...uh." Although I heard that Toshiro Hakata mentioned that their brother Toshiro Hakata was obsessed with making money, I heard from hearsay and witnessed with my own eyes that Fujishiro Hakata sat cross-legged on a chair and happily Talking to the auntie about business for almost two hours in Hakata dialect was quite different, but she didn't interrupt him the whole time, but took the notes seriously!

Hachisuka sat with him for a long time, and was fed an earful of sales, profits, and buying and selling, so he had to go downstairs to get more water in a daze.

He deftly poured the hot water into the empty teapot. Thinking about how little his aunt had eaten in the morning, he opened the dessert box and prepared a plate of chestnut cake.Looking at the small clock in the corner, seeing that it was almost lunch time, Hachisuka put half of the pastry back and replaced it with pickled plums that didn't take up the stomach and were appetizing:

"time flies……"

Suddenly, the hourglass engraved with three hours on the table broke into Hachisuka's mind.He shook his head, and tried to put the palpitations behind him, and walked upstairs calmly, and gracefully rearranged the dishes and teacups.Taking advantage of the time when Hakata, who was tired, was drinking tea, he interrupted with a smile:

"My lord, let's take a rest."

The aunt nodded, and touched Boduo's little head:

"Bodo also take a break. I have written down everything you said, which is of great reference value. We will talk about it in detail when it is your turn to serve."

Seeing that the little short knife nodded obediently with a slightly red face, she raised her head and called Hachisuka who was standing respectfully to one side to sit down again, took a sip of tea and praised:

"Thank you Hachisuka, the tea is really delicious."

Hachisuka nodded reservedly and proudly, as if remembering something, he hurriedly said: "It's almost lunch time, my lord."

"... That's true." The aunt hesitated for a while, but finally slowly put the two pieces of chestnut cake back in her hand.

At lunch time, the Awataguchi daggers who returned from the battle were pleasantly surprised to find that there was an extra Hakata Toshiro in the dining room.The shrewd little dagger smiled and hugged all the brothers who rushed forward, but he had no intention of moving away from the seat beside the auntie.Fortunately, the one who received the most praise today was the soft Five Tigers Tui. He was bypassed by Bo Duo with a few words about the seat, so he smiled generously, sat down obediently and didn't care about it.

Since all the swordsmen who are good at cooking will go out to practice in the afternoon, we only prepare refreshing and simple mixed vegetables, teriyaki chicken and tofu miso soup for lunch.In addition to the usual pickled cucumbers, Hakata, as a newcomer, also got a large bowl of chawanmushi with shrimps prepared by his aunt and cooked by herself.Seeing the words "envy" and "want to eat" written all over the eyes of the brothers around, the little short knife started happily.He first dug out a large spoonful of shrimp eggs and put them into the rice bowl of Wuhutui, and whispered:

"Thank you, five tigers retreat~"

Without waiting for Five Tigers to answer, Hakata generously passed on the remaining chawanmushi to Awata.Seeing that the brothers and the little uncle had scooped it up, he grinned and mixed the remaining custard into the rice, added some soy sauce and ate it happily.

Seeing this heart-warming scene, the aunt slightly curled her lips.Hachisuka, who was watching from the side, remained silent as if remembering something, just lowered his eyes, and took another bite of the chicken.

After lunch, the swordsmen went to their lunch break to work without mentioning it.Seeing that the aunt was a little tired, Hachisuka volunteered to take over the task of waking up two new knives.After going down the small attic, standing at the stairs, Hachisuka, who was holding the two small paper talismans full of spiritual power, felt that his footsteps were extremely heavy.

"What are you afraid of... It's not that I haven't seen fakes from other people's homes... Tsk..."

As if to cheer himself up, Hachisu He Huche bit his lip, and went straight to the forging room in a fit of anger.At this time, the forging room was empty, only two long knives covered with white cloth lay quietly on the knife rest.

"..." Fengxu He Huche clenched his fists, in the cold weather, he was sweating a little.He pressed his heart that was beating like thunder, and muttered in a low voice:

"...Forget it, let's do this first."

Then he pressed the spiritual power talisman on the sword that had been cast for a longer time.

Accompanied by scattered cherry blossom petals, a swordsman with blue hair and golden eyes stood in front of Hachisuka Kotoru. He picked up his own body, bowed gently, and said with a smile:

"I am Ichiki Ishin. The only sword forged by Yoshimitsu Awataguchi. Toshiro is my younger brother."

Standing in front of the meeting was the distraught Hachisuka Kotoru, who tilted his head gracefully for the first time: "May I ask if you are this Honmaru's valet? Hmm... can you take me to meet the lord?"

"...Sorry, please wait a moment. There is still a swordsman who has not been summoned..." Hachisuka Huche came back to his senses and apologized quickly. Press hard on the other sword.He didn't even dare to lift the white cloth to see the body of the sword man awakened by him, but when the cherry blossom petals were flying, he secretly closed his eyes with the light of anticipation.

"My name is Lion King. Black lacquer sword is cool! I'm very active, so use me a lot! Hehe!"

The new yellow-haired boy was obviously very cheerful. He rubbed the big hairball that was lying on his shoulder and looked around. Hachisu, who seemed a little disappointed, went to Hotoru.

"...Ah... sorry for the long wait," Hachisu He Huche came back to his senses, bowed slightly shyly, introduced himself and opened the sliding door: "Please come with me, he... My lord...she has been waiting for a long time."

"Huh?" Yiqi Yizhen didn't make a sound, just frowned, but the Lion King was straightforward, scratching his head in doubt and said: "Hachisuka, is it him or her?"

"...It's her. Our lord is a female god judge." Hachisu He Huche secretly pinched himself, and Fang pretended to be relaxed: "Very competent!"