Chapter 72

"Did we come back at the wrong time?" Yagen Toushirou helped Hakata Toushirou put down the little pan he had just brought back from Osaka Castle. He looked up and saw the Kuritaguchi family from H41 at first sight. "I remember that you H41 were not on our recent visitor invitation list."

"It's a temporary invitation." Yakiri Hasebe led Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi to take the Koban from the members of the First Division, and put an end to the competition that the First Division and the Second Division had casually proposed before the battle. "The Second Division that went to Keio Kofu has not returned yet - you won this time. Also, remember to return to the lord as soon as possible after the treatment."

"The other members of the attendant team are busy with other tasks. The only ones who are free now are you who just came back."

"Temporarily?" Yagen Toushirou subconsciously glanced at the unhappy face of Oshikiri Hasebe, and saw that there were only H41 Sword Men at the scene besides them. A terrible guess came to his mind, "Could it be that Candakiri didn't stop them? What on earth did the two of them do to our Honmaru!!!"

"The lord has approved the application to hold a seaside concert for Oda Nobunaga." Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi glanced at Oshikiri Hasebe, whose face was getting worse and worse, and supplemented Yagen Toushirou with information about the event, "Although I don't know the specific situation, the swordsman from H41 Honmaru is the guest invited by the lord to perform at this concert."

——Do you believe what you hear?

Yagen Toushirou and Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi looked at each other, and finally withdrew their distrust of the concert on the grounds that they could not leave their master's people outside. Hakata Toushirou, who had some free time, had subconsciously begun to calculate the amount of expenses for holding a large-scale event, and the youngest twin tantos of the Kuritaguchi family were discussing where to go to help after the treatment was completed.

Anyway, when Yagen Toushirou finished treating all the members of the First Division and came to the Watcher to report, the huge stage on the beach immediately caught his attention. He did not come back to his senses until the Watcher gave him a skewer of Chaldea kitchen-style food.

"So, what's the matter with this concert, my lord?" Yagen Toushirou took the skewers sprinkled with seasonings by the Watcher and looked at the huge temporary stage. "Have H41 come to perform as a guest performer... Since this concert is related to the two Lords Nobunaga, it can't be that their performance is completely bad, so H41 has to come to the rescue in the name of a guest performance, right?"

"When I invited them, I was thinking about what would happen if Nobunaga's performance was totally bad." The Watcher calmly answered Yagen Toushirou's question. Ran Toushirou, who had rushed back to her earlier, had been sent to help backstage. "But actually, Chaldea told me that her performance was at least better than those two. By the way, this concert is nominally a solo concert of the female Nobunaga."

Yaken Toushirou: "What about the male Lord Nobunaga?"

"The male Lord Nobunaga will not participate in the performance - it is better to say that he has calmed down after knowing that Nobuaki's concert is a foregone conclusion." The watcher tilted his head and noticed that the number of sword men in H41 on the beach was gradually increasing. "You should know that they are competing to see who can get more recognition from sword men, Yaken?"

"I knew it as early as the first night's banquet." Yagen Toushirou also saw the swordsmen of H41 enter the backstage one by one, and turned his head to look at the watcher, "But this has nothing to do with Oda Nobunaga's concert, right? Besides, have you told them that the co-performer is Oda Nobunaga, my lord?"

"Because Oda Nobunaga thinks this concert is her way of showing you how to gain recognition—" The Watcher spread his hands and shrugged, "It's better to say that she thinks that no swordsman who once belonged to her will not admit that she is the Oda Nobunaga who can gain her recognition after witnessing this concert. I did specifically note the names of the co-performers, but I don't know if they noticed it."

"So Lord Nobunaga has calmed down because of the fairness of the competition, right?" Yagen Toushirou sighed helplessly and pressed his forehead hard. "Then, can I know what Oda Nobunaga is going to perform? In addition, I think H41 probably didn't expect that the co-star was really Oda Nobunaga."

Watcher: "...Let Hasebe and Souzo take care of themselves - by the way, it is said that the essence of Oda Nobunaga's concert is that she sings and dances crazily with her one-handed biwa."

Yagen Toushirou: "Even if the performance is good, I think your action in inviting H41 to participate is correct. Not everyone has the energy of Oda Nobunaga."

As time gradually approached the start of the concert, Fudo Yukiguchi was taking responsibility for what he had said before - because the concert did not have any seats, Fudo Yukiguchi brought a small stool and sat in the front row facing the center of the stage; while the other Sword Men and Chaldea members spontaneously spread out in a circle, giving Fudo Yukiguchi the spotlight.

"AWT48..." The directors of Chaldea who had received the program list earlier were gathering together to study the program list for tonight's concert. Lancer Melo, who was holding the program list, was obviously not focusing on the program of Oda Nobunaga, who Chaldea was already very familiar with. "Kuritaguchi 'Awataguchi'? But according to the member list, this group doesn't seem to include all of Kuritaguchi's swordsmen."

"Well, it's a time difference problem for the promotional videos." Rantoshiro suddenly jumped out from behind a few people, pointing at the list of performers with a smile, "When the promotional video was first shot, the people from H41 Honmaru's Kuritaguchi were not all there - and when the promotional video for the second season came out, the government-released Kuritaguchi Sword Man and they were not all there either; and then there was a theatrical version... When the theatrical version was shot, the people were all there, but the third song of AWT48 was not released at that time, and Uncle Naruko from H41 was the producer of AWT48."

"I see." Lansemello didn't have any other questions about the performers, so Olgamari took the opportunity to talk about other programs. "Shin's program is as common to us as Tristan's harp, Mozart, Salieri's piano, and Lilith's ballet. Come to think of it, the songs of Honmaru are basically based on the fate between the sword men?"

"It's said that the government assisted in the production - but the main content of the promotional video is indeed just light-hearted, like their daily documentaries." Rantoshiro answered Olgamari's question, looking at the crowd in front of the stage, which was seriously heated up by Fudo Yukikoshi. "But to be honest, it's only been a short while since the show started, and I already want to watch H41's performance."

“Haha…” Roman scratched his hair, exchanged glances with Marisbury, and smiled awkwardly. “After all, this is a gathering where Xin sings and dances crazily with a one-handed pipa. Not everyone can keep up with the crazy Xin—not to mention that the Xin by the sea is Berserker’s swimsuit spirit base…”

"I don't think this is a problem with the Summer Spiritual Base." Marisbilly sighed helplessly, and gave his opinion pertinently and tactfully, "Berserkers naturally have the characteristics of going berserk and losing their rationality... Nobuyuki is much better than other Berserkers just by holding a crazy singing and dancing party - at least she won't want to kill Ritsuka."

"Indeed, she is much better than Salome and Kiyohime." Da Vinci commented, "But most Berserkers are more normal than those two guys."

"Hmm, I personally think it's the summer attribute that's strengthened by the sea." Goldruf tried to maintain the elegance of a noble family while giving an example, "Look, even Minamoto no Raikou became more abnormal after gaining the summer attribute than when he was a normal Berserker!!! The Lancer-class Shadow Wind Commissioner or something."

"After all, this is the summer when even Leonardo is in high spirits." Lansemello smiled and tilted his head, looking at the lights on the stage that were gradually going out. "It looks like it's time to change the scene - wouldn't it make her feel that she's being overshadowed if we insert a few songs from H41 during Shin's break?"

"I just came back. Wasn't it that Shido was in charge of the previous communication?" Rando Shiro looked at the stage that suddenly lit up and projected a shower of cherry blossoms, and went through the program list in his mind. "I don't know how he convinced that female Nobunaga-sama - I just hope that H41's Yaken-nii won't be held back by his two colleagues who suddenly found out that their co-stars were Oda Nobunaga."

"The three of them have a sing-along single."

At the same time, in addition to Oda Nobunaga, there were several other servants in the waiting area backstage - Candelaikiri Mitsutada was in charge of dinner outside; the four members of the valet team took over the job of maintaining order in the backstage after the large-scale reception work was completed, and were currently working hard to send two servants who had sneaked out of Chaldea and who had been emphasized by Fujimaru Ritsuka out of the backstage.

"I knew that His Majesty Nero and Miss Elizabeth would never miss this opportunity to go on stage." Miss Okita sighed fiercely, and looked at the two servants who were keen on performing singing. "By the way, do we two really have to go on stage? Originally, we should have nothing to do with this concert, right!?"

"When I think about it, it's true." Okita-kun recalled what happened before the concert started, and helplessly took Okita-san to stand in the waiting area, "At first, it was just that after H41's Kashuu Kiyomitsu and Yamato Mamoru Yasusada knew about our conversation with Kiyomitsu Yasusada here, they also wanted to spend some time with us..."

"It's all Shin's fault!" Ms. Okita looked at Mr. Okita in despair. "If Shin hadn't happened to pass by, we wouldn't have been stuffed into the performers, right? Even if Servants master skills faster than ordinary people, it's still a bit too much to ask them to learn to sing and dance in just one afternoon!"

"You're about to go on stage, so you can just take it easy." Okita-kun consoled Miss Okita with a smile, "As long as you can hold on until the end without any seizure, that's fine - you can't ask for more."