Chapter 75

——Yaken Toushirou is right. As swords collected by Oda Nobunaga, they all know that Lord Nobunaga has no such anecdotes. Even if there are differences between different parallel worlds, there can't be a huge enough difference in anecdotes to affect Oda Nobunaga's existence as a Heroic Spirit, such as the Noble Phantasm and the Heroic Spirit Armament.

"Although both Nobunaga-sama's naming skills are not that good, if the guitar itself is not related to Hasebe..." Yaken Toushirou paused meaningfully, his eyes swept over Suppress Hasebe and Suppress Hasebe H41, "I don't think she would use Suppress Kill Hasebe as the name of the guitar."

"Looking at it from this perspective, I think I know why Hasebe was chosen as the sword to kill." Yagen Toushirou H41 crossed his arms and looked towards the stage where Atsumi's passionate beats were playing with a complicated look on his face. "Lord Nobunaga is the kind of guy who likes new things - but from this perspective, Hasebe is the sword that Lord Nobunaga likes the most among us."

"...I think it's better for us not to discuss who Lord Nobunaga likes more." Yagen Toushirou immediately interrupted Yagen Toushirou H41's thoughts and directed the topic they were discussing in another direction. "So besides this matter, you obviously have something else to talk about, right?"

"Ah, that's right - Hasebe is still wondering why Lord Nobunaga would send him to a guy who can't even be considered a direct vassal... but there is something else." Yagen Toushirou H41 avoided Hasebe H41's accusing gaze and told him the reason for his colleague's anxiety, "Hasebe is worried that Lord Nobunaga will do something to send him away at any time."

"...I suggest you prepare yourself mentally." Yagen Toushirou closed his eyes with a headache, and the image of a gray-haired female servant who accidentally broke into the room during the chaos flashed through his mind. "This female Nobunaga may have, probably, given away her power."

"ha????"

Yagen Toushirou: "Also, it seems that it is almost time for your interlude performance. If you have any questions, please wait until the performance is over before continuing this conversation."

"Yakuken, they have a performance, so the conversation can only go on here - can we continue?" After the Oda Group of H41 returned to the backstage, Hasebe Oshikiri and Yukimitsu Fudo spoke at the same time, "I thought the guys from H41 were overthinking - but it seems that's not the case."

"I just saw the other side once--" Yagen Toushirou sighed helplessly and emphasized the scene at that time to his colleagues, while trying his best to recall all the details of the scene at that time, "Not to mention that the guy didn't look like a Servant who came to Honmaru during the first dinner. That incident happened yesterday before Mrs. Chacha and Nobukatsu were sent back."

At that time, Yaken Toushirou was still in the Temaki Room, taking care of two drunkards who had not sobered up all night after getting drunk at the party last night, while dealing with the many servants surrounding him, led by the two Nobunaga-samas. Hasebe, who learned about the existence of the two Nobunaga-samas from the Okita Clan, chose to visit the person in charge of the Temaki Room at a different time because there were so many people in the Temaki Room, but the person who caught Yaken Toushirou's attention did not even step into the Temaki Room.

Yagen Toushirou saw the gray-haired girl who suddenly appeared at the door through Oda's servants - just one glance was enough for him to confirm that she and Miss Okita had an inseparable relationship; and another special point that caught Yagen Toushirou's attention was that he discovered that Oda Nobunaga also had a close connection with that servant.

——A considerable part of that girl’s power is the same as Oda Nobunaga’s power.

The only thing that made Yagen Toushirou feel regretful was that he could not find the Servant anymore after turning around - and the next day Chaldea forcibly repatriated all the Servants who were not the former master of the Sword Man, so that the only thing he knew about the Servant so far was the general impression that he was "suspected to be a member of the Gude Gude special point formation."

Now, when he began to carefully recall the image of the girl at the request of his colleagues, Yagen Toushirou noticed something he had not noticed before - the Servant with the same color as Oda Nobunaga's Heroic Spirit Armament seemed to be holding a heavy sword in his hand.

"...Mabe family?" Yagen Toushirou pondered, and flashed back to the only two large swords in Honmaru that he had personally owned and used in actual battles. However, he subconsciously denied this possibility, "No, no, no, even if Lord Kenshin, Lord Nobunaga, Lord Yoshitsugu, etc. are all women - but she is undoubtedly connected to Miss Okita and Oda Nobunaga."

"Why don't we go ask the lord directly?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who was sitting in the back, asked Yagen Toushirou with a smile, "The lord was also a member of Chaldea before coming to us. She must know what the servant is about. Besides, even if we don't ask the lord, we can ask Miss No. 48, or Miss Suzuki of Chaldea."

“Hey, Okita-kun is here too!!!” Fujimaru Ritsuka widened her eyes in surprise, and immediately gave the answer after listening to Yagen Toushirou’s description, “The Heroic Spirit Summoning Channel that is normally open does have its drawbacks after all—for example, unless there is a need to carry out forced repatriation, we will almost never know who has manifested through the channel again!”

"But, I remember that we didn't see her when we were deported before." Mashu turned his head to look at Fujimaru Ritsuka, decisively stretched out his hands to grab her shoulders and began to shake her vigorously, "Could it be that she just came here secretly to take a look and then went back like this!? This is impossible, senior!!!"

"Stop shaking... Mash... I see a lot of stars... colorful... eight-pointed stars..." Fujimaru Ritsuka was dizzy from being shaken by Mash, but he didn't forget to answer the question from Yaken Toushirou, "Should I say that Yaken is worthy of being a self-defense sword... He actually discovered the connection between Okita Shinnosuke and Shinnosuke at just one glance."

"If I remember correctly, there was a gap of 300 years between the end of the shogunate and the Warring States period." Yagen Toushirou calmly stopped Mashu from shaking Fujimaru Ritsuka desperately, and looked at her as she raised her doubts, "It can be said that Miss Okita and Lord Oda Nobunaga had a tacit understanding because they were summoned at the same time in the past, and became the original members of the entire formation..."

"But what about Okita-kun?"

"Then let me explain a little bit about the characteristics of Servants. In short, Servants in the present world are just images that strengthen a certain aspect of human impression of them." Fujimaru Ritsuka finally recovered from the dizziness caused by being shaken, and gave an example to Yaken Toushirou, "For example, Nobuo, the spiritual basis of the Servant in the present world, in addition to the summer swimsuit and ordinary versions, there are also several versions such as Demon King Nobunaga, Owari Big Idiot Oda Yoshimura, and Avenger Oda Nobunaga."

"The difference between Shin's versions can be simply summarized as the difference between different periods of life in the common spiritual base difference - although there is no obvious Lily version." Fujimaru Ritsuka touched his chin and continued to introduce, "Another kind of spiritual base difference can be simply regarded as personality reversal or contamination and blackening...? In your terms, it is probably the difference between normal situation and dark fall, which is generally called Alter version."

"Okita-kun, basically, is Ms. Okita's alter individual. But why does Okita-kun have the power of Nobunaga..." Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at the swordsman of the Oda Group in front of him, and like Nobunaga Oda himself, he gave up his insistence on face, "That's because when we were exploring the anomalies of the Holy Grail Tales of Gutu Gutu Imperial Capital, Nobunaga had diarrhea because he drank too much coffee milk."

"Well, it didn't get better until the gathering for the spirit particle transfer." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Yagen Toushirou with a smile, and tilted his head towards them, "So Shin had to temporarily withdraw from the exploration team... But Shin gave three-fifths of his magic power to Okita-chika - he put it on Okita-chika's big sword, and he also gave the original nameless big sword a name."

"...diarrhea, I understand, after all, Kenshin died in the toilet--" Kento Shiro, the only tranquilizer of the Oda Group, finally couldn't restrain his strong desire to complain today, "No, even if it was normal to go to the toilet when they were alive, why do they still have to go to the toilet after becoming a Heroic Spirit!!! Shouldn't all the food they eat be converted into magic power!!!"

"What you said makes sense - I should ask Leonardo da Vinci to study this problem himself!!!" Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly understood and agreed with what Yaken Toushirou said, "But if you look at it this way, could it be that because he had just defeated Akechi Mitsuhide, Shin started to slack off on Chacha's business... By the way, don't you want to know the name of that large sword?"

"There's no worse name than Yakiri." Yakiri Hasebe said to himself.

"Actually, I don't think that Pressure Kill is that much better." Souzo Sawamonji gave his assessment sharply.

Kadakiri Mitsutada: "Maybe he'll give it a name that fits Okita's identity?"

Tsurumaru Kuninaga: "That's a good idea, Hikaru. But I think the name 緣Kill is pretty cool...?"

Fudo Yukimitsu: "Akechi Mitsuhide... Honnoji Temple..."

"So what name did Lord Oda Nobunaga give to the sword?" Yagen Toushirou pulled his colleagues' divergent thoughts back on track, "Although I also agree with Hasebe's statement."

"Purgatory." Mashu glanced at Fujimaru Ritsuka and revealed the answer for the Oda Group. "That great sword has been called the Purgatory Sword since then. By the way, Purgatory actually has a personality. But only the swimsuit spirit-based Purgatory has a human form. But with that spirit-based Purgatory, even if it is restored to the form of a great sword, it can still speak."

"Even though Ms. Okita complained that it was a bad naming taste, the humanoid purgatory carried by Okita-chan's swimsuit spirit is a cute creature that can be used as Alter Lily!!!" Fujimaru Ritsuka slapped his palm and looked at the six people in front of him with a smile, "By the way, why don't I call Summer Okita-chan over - we're at the beach today!"