Shibata Katsuie and Hayashi Hidetada were both important ministers under Oda Nobuhide, but none of them was from Nobunaga's faction, and all of them were from Nobunaga's faction who wanted to support this son!
"............."
Oda Nobukatsu just knelt on the ground and kowtowed deeply, ignoring his sister's arrival.
Oda Nobunaga also ignored the criticisms around her. She just walked slowly to the mourning hall and stared at the spirit tablet of her father Oda Nobuhide in silence.
"Dad, oh dad, how could you die so easily?"
Oda Nobunaga muttered to his father's spirit tablet like an angry child complaining.
"If you had lived a little longer, you would have witnessed our march to Kyoto. By then, the Oda clan would have risen again, and you wouldn't have to constantly worry about how to unite your retainers. You could finally brag to others with a hearty laugh!"
At this moment, the chanting happened to stop, and Oda Nobunaga's highly distinguishable voice could be clearly heard by all the retainers.
All eyes in the mourning hall were now focused on this big fool from Owari Province.
Oda Nobunaga looked at his father's spirit tablet with an indifferent look in his eyes.
"Dad, I wanted to light a stick of incense for you, but you're so useless, and you know I'm not that kind of person. I'm afraid that lighting a stick of incense for you would really disgust you in the underworld, right?"
So Oda Nobunaga reached into the incense burner with his bare hands, picked up a handful of incense ash and sprinkled it on Oda Nobuhide's spirit tablet!
"In your next life, I'll try my best to live longer! Dad!"
Such an arrogant and almost insulting behavior instantly caused the entire Oda family to explode!
"Oda Nobunaga! What the hell are you doing?! What are you doing to Lord Nobuhide's spirit tablet?!"
"You're such a loser! You're already this old! And yet you're still a fool whose brain hasn't improved at all? How can this be tolerated?!"
"Sure enough, supporting Lord Nobukatsu is the right choice! This brat is not worth having a say in!"
The irritable retainers have begun to scold Oda Nobunaga!
Many more retainers could not bear to see such a scene and turned their heads away.
However, Oda Nobunaga, who was being criticized by thousands of people, seemed not to have heard anything at all. He turned a deaf ear and prepared to leave the mourning hall.
But the next moment, someone stopped the black-haired beauty.
"...Sister, besides Father, is there someone else you haven't paid homage to yet?"
Oda Nobukatsu finally slowly got up from the floor, his tall figure covering Oda Nobunaga in front of him like a dark cloud.
"Xinsheng, after not seeing you for a few years, you actually have the guts to teach me how to do things?"
Oda Nobunaga was already in a bad mood, and seeing her usually gentle and obedient brother blocking her way, she glared back at him angrily.
Often, just a glare from her would cause Oda Nobukatsu to panic and squat on the ground, crying and begging for forgiveness from her elder sister.
But the situation today seems to be different from the past.
Oda Nobukatsu had a blank expression on his face. He pointed to another spirit tablet and said coldly, "Sister-sama has not yet paid homage to Master Hirate."
Upon hearing this, Oda Nobunaga's pupils suddenly shrank into needles.
Hirate Masahide.
That was Oda Nobunaga's mentor since childhood!
The relationship between Oda Nobunaga and Hirate Masahide was extraordinary, and the whole picture can be known from the way Nobunaga addressed him——
"Lord Hirate... since he died a worthy death as a samurai, I don't have anything to offer him..."
Oda Nobunaga's tone was clearly a bit weak.
Hirate Masahide was her godfather, and he was once a nobleman of the same status as Oda Nobuhide.
He was the backbone of support for Oda Nobunaga to inherit the family headship. It can be said that as long as Hirate Masahide was not dead, Oda Nobukatsu would have no chance of inheriting the family headship.
However, Hirate Masahide chose to commit suicide by seppuku.
This way of committing suicide is the highest etiquette as a warrior and a loyal minister!
Just like in the Warring States Period, when the tyrant in power was so stubborn that he wanted to throw the ministers who gave advice into the frying pan and cook them to death, this was the highest honor for him to be remembered in history as a loyal minister!
Hirate Masahide had already committed suicide by seppuku as a loyal minister, and the person he was loyal to was obviously not Oda Nobukatsu.
Then the answer is very simple -
Hirate Masahide died entirely because of Oda Nobunaga!
He died with a heart full of grief and indignation in order to admonish this big fool of Owari Province!!!
"Hirate-sama's last words were..."
Oda Nobukatsu spoke out Hirate Masahide's last wish word by word.
"He told us to break free from the chains of the Echigo Dragon and lead Owari to rule the world as the hegemon. This is Master Hirate's wish!"
"......is that so?"
Oda Nobunaga seemed a little absent-minded.
"Onee-sama, have you ever felt any sorrow for Hirate-sama's death?"
Hearing Oda Nobunaga's relentless advance, Oda Nobunaga simply lowered his eyes.
Her thick eyelashes covered her wine-red eyes, making this big fool from Owari Province look uneasy.
"I have a close relationship with Master Hirashou. You say I have no sadness in my heart. That is absolutely impossible..."
"Then please, onee-sama, light a stick of incense for Hirate Masahide."
Oda Nobukatsu personally took a stick of lit incense and handed it to Oda Nobunaga.
All the retainers watched this scene and couldn't help but hold their breath.
Even his biological father, Oda Nobukatsu, never burned a stick of incense for him.
Could it be that because her teacher, Hirate Masahide, committed seppuku, she was offering incense as a gesture of near submission, implying that Oda Nobunaga had done something wrong?!
Oda Nobunaga finally frowned, and she looked up at Oda Nobukatsu, her eyes revealing strong hostility.
"Xinsheng, are you too arrogant? I'm afraid you have made a mistake?!"
The eldest son of the Oda family broke the incense stick on the spot and shouted angrily at Oda Nobukatsu.
"I was indeed shocked by Master Pingshou's death, but at the same time, it also means I won!!"
After hearing these words, even Oda Nobukatsu felt embarrassed and looked at his beloved elder sister in disbelief.
"Even Master Hirate, who has watched me grow up, thinks I'm just an ordinary fool! I even deceived my closest teacher! How could I not be able to deceive you, a bunch of ignorant retainers?!"
Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly, looked around and spoke loudly on the spot.
"You just need to keep huddling together for warmth! Play your roles as frogs in the well and just look up to the world that Uesugi Kenshin and I are about to create!!!"
Faced with Oda Nobunaga's arrogant and lawless words, even Oda Nobukatsu couldn't help but raise his voice, and said coldly to this elder sister -
"Onee-sama! You're the one who's so blind as to be in such a state! Owari is in ruins right now! Now is the time for us to raise our arms and revive our ambitions! How could you possibly be colluding with that tyrant of Echigo?!"
"...Nobukatsu, I'm really surprised. You, who used to hate fighting so much, actually said something like this?"
Oda Nobunaga couldn't believe that these were the words spoken by Oda Nobukatsu.
Oda Nobukatsu was a benevolent and wise king. Unlike Nobunaga, he was not fond of fighting since he was a child and always looked like a coward and cried.
But why would Oda Nobukatsu, who was always crying, now say that he wanted to dominate the world?
"You are the one, aren't you, Onee-sama? You've always looked down on me, treating me like a piece of air that can be dispensable. You've even given me the position of head of the family as if it were a mercy..."
Oda Nobukatsu sneered.
"I'm afraid... Onee-sama, you are indeed that big fool from Owari Province, right?"
"...Xinsheng, I didn't expect you to think of my sister this way?"
Oda Nobunaga suddenly felt a lump in his throat.
Xinsheng has always been her follower and has been following her big sister since he was a child.
If Oda Nobunaga asked him to go east, he would never dare to take a single step west.
Everyone else made fun of Oda Nobunaga as a big fool in Owari Province, but his biological brother always retorted that those guys were the big fools and that his sister was definitely the smartest person in the world!
"...There's nothing we can do about this."
Oda Nobunaga closed his eyes in disappointment and shook his head in pain.
"Nobukatsu, the Oda clan will be left to you from now on."
After saying this, the big fool from Owari Province was about to leave the mourning hall, determined to completely break off all ties with the Oda family from then on!
However, her awareness was not recognized by Oda Nobukatsu.
The Oda clan leader drew his katana and shouted angrily, "Oda Nobunaga! Not only have you openly insulted my father's spirit, you've even colluded with the Echigo Province! All retainers, listen! Arrest this traitor!!"
Oda Nobunaga never expected that Oda Nobukatsu would do such a thing!
She suddenly turned around and looked at the retainers surrounding her. The big fool from Owari Province immediately drew his arquebus and shouted in anger: "I am Oda Nobunaga, the eldest son of the Oda family! I am the son of Oda Nobuhide, the Tiger of Owari! Are you guys going to rebel in public?!"
The muzzle of the matchlock gun was extremely black, and it was aimed at these retainers, ready to pull the trigger at any time!
However, Oda Nobunaga himself had no prestige at home, and even his only two backers, Oda Nobuhide and Hirate Masahide, were already dead!
Faced with the harsh rebuke from the eldest son of the Oda family, all the Oda retainers did not even show a trace of fear. Instead, they all applauded and cheered for Oda Nobukatsu's courage today!
If the head of the Oda family wants to keep his position secure, he must control Oda Nobunaga, the nominal first heir, on the spot!
There can only be one family head!
And Oda Nobunaga, a prince who lived far away from Owari Province, actually dared to return to Owari Province alone. He would never be able to return to Echigo Province in this lifetime!!!
In this dangerous situation where the atmosphere had already dropped to freezing point, Oda Nobunaga was holding a matchlock gun with cold sweat on her back. She was extremely nervous and suddenly she felt a gust of wind burst out at the door!
The strong wind mixed with ice crystals extinguished all the lights in the mourning hall in an instant!
Just as these retainers were about to charge forward, they suddenly realized that their feet were covered with ice and snow and frozen to the floor!
Oda Nobukatsu looked over in panic, but saw a strange young man in black clothes and silver hair slowly walking out of the gate.
This Buddhist martial god held a sword made of ice in his hand, and white mist leaked out from between his teeth.
"My dear friend, I am not late, am I?"
Axue smiled slightly, then raised her head and said.
He spoke calmly and indifferently, his voice without any ripples or ups and downs, yet it revealed a deadly murderous intent.
"If you believe Oda Nobunaga is guilty, you can come forward and accept death!!!"
Chapter 6000: Why did you take my elder sister away?! ( words)
"If you think Oda Nobunaga is guilty, you can come forward and accept your death!!!"
Axue's voice was like the howling snow wind in the deep winter.
The Demon King of Hokuriku, the Buddhist war god known as the Echigo Dragon, plunged the Owari Province into an iceberg from which there would be no escape, simply by opening his mouth.
The pure and flawless ice crystals spread out with a crackling sound, like teeth trembling up and down, causing everyone in the mourning hall to tremble.
The earth is shaking.
Incense is frozen.
The temperature in the mourning hall seemed to drop by dozens of degrees in an instant, and a thick layer of white frost formed on the walls.
The dark silver-haired boy just stood in the middle of the door. He just placed his hand on the hilt of the ice blade and slowly wiped away the ice flowers that were floating on the sword.
But with just this one action, Oda Nobukatsu and dozens of his retainers behind him were forced to take a big step back by this invisible momentum!
It was as if the mere act of wiping the sword stretched infinitely across space. The breathtaking cold light on the blade made everyone feel a biting chill in their bones.
The one standing in front of the Oda family is not someone who is easy to mess with, but a vicious dragon that chooses its prey!
"No one dares to answer?"
Axue's light voice sounded again.
In this dead silence, the sound drifted far away.
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