From Chef To Crafter To Conqueror: Book 2 - Crafter by Gabriel Rathweg

Author:Gabriel Rathweg [Rathweg, Gabriel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2023-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

​Lord So took us a ways away from the main group through a copse of trees and to a cliff’s edge overlooking the isthmus between the northern and southern islands. He paused there as did the rest of us all waiting for him to speak. He cleared his throat a few moments later.

​“The truth is that I don’t like to talk about it that much. When I was young my father and the current head of the Kamakura Shogunate were close. Jiro, if you would.” Lord So gestured to his seneschal.

​The grey-haired old man nodded in response then turned to me. “Ryo-dono, what you don’t know is the history between the So Clan and Hojo Clan. The two Clans were previously very close with their children spending equal time growing up between the two clan's households. Lord So and Miko So were childhood friends with the son, Hojo Sadatoki, and daughter, Hojo Sakura, of the current Hojo Clan leader, Hojo Tokimune.”

​“That’s a good thing then, right? You all were friends growing up so there should be some goodwill or some such thing between you all. Maybe we could actually get some assistance from the Shogunate? That would be another set of problems but the benefits might outweigh the risks,” I began, but the faces of the three men fell into scowls and I realized this was just the beginning of the story.

​Lord So gave an almost theatrical sigh. “That… that is a normal thing to surmise but the truth of the matter is there was quite the falling out between our two Clans. I’ll take it from here, Jiro.” The old shinobi just nodded in deference. With a loud sigh, Lord So continued his story. “It all began when I had just turned thirteen years of age, during one ill-fated trip from Tsushima Island to the Hojo capital of Kamakura…”

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​“Come on Sukekuni! Live a little!” Hojo Sadatoki roared as he dangled out over the junk’s bow holding onto a line with one hand and his body hanging precariously over the bright blue-green ocean.

​So Sukekuni, scion to the So Clan, watched his best friend and heir to the Hojo Clan and future ruler of the Kamakura Shogunate recklessly risk his life as he always did. With a loud sigh, the boy, who along with his friend had just turned thirteen years of age which was the legal age of a man, walked over to his friend, with another loud sigh.

​“You know that if you fall the Hojo Clan has no more male heirs and therefore your sister would by default become the next clan head, at least the man to which she is betrothed will, right?” Sukekuni stated, in his usual deadpanned voice.

​“That’s only if I fall!” Sadatoki pulled himself back from his hanging position and leaped down to the ground landing softly and with perfect body control next to his friend. “Besides, you worry too much. It’s like having my own mother as a best friend sometimes.”

​Sukekuni scowled at his friend which just made Sadatoki laugh even harder.

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