My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex: Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 7] by Kyosuke Kamishiro

Author:Kyosuke Kamishiro
Language: eng
Format: epub

A Marriage for Love in the Warring States

Yume Irido

We left the Kitano Ijinkangai and took the subway from the Shin-Kobe Station. After a few transfers, we were well on our way to Arima Hot Springs.

“Look, Yume-chan! This Lawson’s not blue!”

“Whoa, you’re right. They’re brown, just like the McDonald’s in Kyoto.”

Right as we left the station, we ran into a very strange sight—a Lawson with a brown sign. We couldn’t hold back our excitement after seeing something so bizarre. Maybe they chose that color to be consistent with the scenery surrounding it.

After leaving the station, we climbed the hill along the river, passing by historic looking stores and gazing at huge buildings that looked like hotels. As we did, the scenery gradually began to look more and more like a hot springs town.

At a certain point, we walked over a bridge to cross a river. There was a sign near the traffic light denoting it as Taiko Bridge.

“By Taiko do they mean...Hideyoshi Toyotomi?” I asked President Kurenai.

She nodded. “Yep. Apparently, he came here quite often. After all, it’s pretty close to Osaka Castle.”

“Oh, I see.”

“It was a so-called ‘hot spring wellness retreat.’ He and his wife were apparently regulars,” she explained as she pointed towards a small area to the side of the bridge.

We’d passed it without giving it too much thought, but there was a pedestal with a statue of what looked to be Hideyoshi Toyotomi sitting on top of it.

“Apparently, not too far down the road, there’s also something called ‘Nene Bridge.’”

“Nene... Toyotomi’s wife, right?”

“Precisely. A statue of her is there, and she watches him from afar.”

Just as she said, a little further down was a bridge with red bars and railing, and right around it was a statue of a woman in a kimono facing the statue by the Taiko Bridge.

“They’re almost like Orihime and Hikoboshi with how a river separates them,” I remarked.

“It was incredibly uncommon for people back then to get married for love and not for strategic alliances, so they were a rare couple. I’ve even heard that because of their difference in status, her family was against it at first,” President Kurenai continued.

“Oh, I see...” Her family was against it...

Back then, family influence was much stronger, so the fact that the two of them pushed the marriage forward despite that showed just how much in love they were.

“Well, after that, he shot up in importance and started collecting concubines.”

“Huh?”

“It got so bad that she even complained to Nobunaga directly.”

“Oh, wow...”

What a strong woman. The proactivity of a country leader’s wife is really in a class of her own. She was worlds apart from someone like me who wimped out at every turn.

After that, I got curious and decided to look up more about Nene’s complaint to Nobunaga. As it turns out, the letter he wrote back to her in response is still around. Essentially, what he’d said was, “That idiot won’t get a better wife than you, so don’t be jealous. Instead, conduct yourself boldly as his one true wife.

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