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　After entrusting Eve with the task of rebuilding and guarding the occupied castle of Decarabia, Hijikata Toshizo, Jeanne d'Arc, and I set out for the hermitage where the mysterious hero was said to be living.

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　I heard that he had grown tired of De Caravia, who had summoned him, and had given up on him and started to live on the outskirts of the castle.

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　On sunny days, he plowed his fields, and on rainy days, he read books.

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　He seems to be leading such a life of cultivating the fields on sunny days and reading books on rainy days.

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　I can't help but envy them, as I am busy working every day in what is called a slow life.

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"The demon king's husband works too much, you know.

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　Said Toshizo, stating a simple fact.

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　Jeanne agrees.

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"I have never seen a king who works as hard as the Demon King. Charles VII didn't even work one one-hundredth as hard as the Demon King.

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"Well, I'm the new Demon King. The only way to catch up with the Demon King is to sell my diligence.

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So that's part of the reason for this scouting.

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That's right.

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By the way, who are you going to take under your command this time?　I'm sure you have a good idea.

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I have an idea.

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I'd like to hear them.

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It's all right to talk, but if I'm wrong, I'm a fool.

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　But Toshizo insisted on hearing it.

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　Then I will only give you a hint.

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"That person is probably known to you. He is that famous.

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Is he Japanese?

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He's not Japanese.

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Then he's Chinese.

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Correct.

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　Correct.

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I'm from old China. When Japan was still in a period when even the kingship was still vague, China had already established a huge unified dynasty, a centralized state. However, the Han dynasty was facing its downfall. It was a turbulent time. Such was the man of that era."

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"Oh, really?"

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　Toshizo puts his hand on his chin and begins to think.

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　A candidate seemed to have emerged in his mind.

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"The man had the difficult task of collecting 100,000 arrows in a single night.

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　The man who had raised a dubious man claiming to be a descendant of the Han Dynasty to the rank of emperor.

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　The man was called a rare military strategist."

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　These words seemed to set the stage for Toshizo's candidacy.

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　He asks the following question.

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"Isn't that man the great military strategist that Dr. Suigyo told us we would win the whole country if we got him?"

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"That's right. According to Dr. Shuigyo, he said that if he could get either the Wuling Dragon or the Phoenix, he would be able to rule the whole world.

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　However, the man named Liu Bei Xuende only gained the country of Shu, even though he obtained both of them.

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　Still, the man called Garyu was a giant star that shines brilliantly in the history of China.

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　Now that Toshizo has guessed the answer, I will not hide his name anymore.

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"This time, the man in the hermitage you ask about is probably himself."

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　Hearing this, Hijikata whistled with a "hu". He continued, "He's a big guy, isn't he?

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　Jeanne probably didn't quite understand how great he was. She was staring at the dried meat.

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　Now, this man Zhu-ge Kongming is probably a famous person known to all Japanese.

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　Even I, an otherworldly person, know his name.

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　However, there are many people who know his name but do not know his achievements.

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　I would like to add that Toshizo also seems to have misunderstood him as a genius military strategist.

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"Zhuge Kongming was a hero born in the period known as the Three Kingdoms. He is the man who gave strategies to a man of dubious origins named Liu Bei Xuande, made him the master of the Shu Kingdom, and made him the Prime Minister of Shu. Although he is portrayed as a military strategist with a divine plan because of the popular novel "Yanyi of the Three Kingdoms", I think he is more a competent domestic policy maker than a military strategist.

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"I heard that he defeated many times the number of soldiers in the Battle of Red Cliff and made the Wei army suffer in the Northern Expedition?"

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　Toshizo asks.

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"The person who won the battle of Red Cliff was Zhou Yu, the great general of Wu. Kongming was not in a leading position. After the war, he did a brilliant job of deceiving Wu and stealing the land of Jingzhou.

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"Then what about the Northern Expedition?　The series of battles with Shima Ii is a famous scene in history.

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"That's true, but in the end, Kongming never succeeded in defeating the North. He did not defeat the country of Wei.

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I see... it's true as you say.

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But it's not because he's incompetent. He was originally an internal politician and strategist, but he was forced to take on the role of tactician due to the lack of human resources in Shu.

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　If Shu had still had a first-class general, Kongming could have stayed in the rear and worked on strategy, while he could have concentrated on domestic affairs in the capital of Shu.

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　Then history would have been different, but there is nothing to lament about that now.

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　What I had to do now was to bring Zhuge Kongming, the most capable military strategist in the three kingdoms, under my command.

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　I have a pretty good idea of how to do it, but now I wonder if my clever plan will succeed.

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　I was curious, but I was getting nowhere if I stayed here.

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　Thinking so, I quickened my pace and headed for the hermitage where Kongming was said to be.

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　The hermitage where Komei is said to live is said to be in the forest, according to the report of Kotaro Fuuma.

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　It is said that he lives there with a boy who acts as a maid in a forest thickly covered with trees.

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　I'm going to visit there now, but I'll let Jeanne and the others know in advance.

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We will visit this hermitage many times in the future.

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　Jeanne is taken aback by these words.

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"Why not?　Why not just once?

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"No."

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　Then, Toshizo opened his mouth.

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"You're going to give him a three-country tour, aren't you?"

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That's right.

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"The three thanks?"

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It's a word from another world. It comes from a man named Kongming. Kongming's master, Liu Bei, went to his hermitage three times to woo Kongming. Since then, it has become a legend when a capable man is recruited.

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"But isn't Kongming weak in warfare?　But isn't Kongming weak in battle?

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"He's not weak. He was just better at internal affairs.

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　In his defense, the forest opens up and I see a hermitage.

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　I had imagined an old Chinese-style house with a garden lush with bamboo trees, but what I found there was a medieval-style house.

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　Of course, we are not in China, but in another world.

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　There is a little boy cleaning in front of the house.

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　I decided to talk to him, but his answer was predictable.

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　He would declare that Kongming was away.

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　I told Jeanne what I expected, and it turned out to be so.

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　The boy said,

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"Kongming-sensei is not at home right now. Please ask him later.

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　I smiled at him.

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　I smiled back at him, but Jeanne was surprised.

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"Wow, even the Demon King can receive oracles from God?

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　Her eyes flashed.

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　Well, this was just the beginning of the so-called "three-prayers" anecdote.

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　Toshizo seemed to have some sense of what was going on, but Jeanne, who was not familiar with the Orient, seemed to see me as a prophet.

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　With such a mischievous feeling in my heart, I turned back the way I came and took a lodging at an inn town on the way.

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