"I can't believe you'd… with him." Motochika lamented, pacing dramatically around the room. "Am I no longer good enough? You'd rather do it with him?"

"My friend," Attempting a peaceful resolve, Ieyasu Tokugawa offered his guidance, "Please calm yourself! It's not what you think it is, and if you'd just listen to reason…!"

"How many times has this happened before? And behind my back like this! It's-"

With a defeated sigh, the golden-clad man slumped deeper in his seat, face resting in his knitted fingers. "It's not what you think… It's just that… It had been so long since he asked, so I-"

"Said yes? Have you no backbone, man?" Motochika spat coldly towards his former ally, who merely looked upon him with a soulful stare of questioning.

"Motochika, I-"

"If you wanted out, you could've just said so in the first place. Rather than lie to me like this. I once trusted you, with my everything. I'd 've given it to you, heart and soul. But now…" Abruptly, the tall pirate turned, heading for the inn's doorway. "Our partnership is… well, it's been reduced to nothing. It's time to end this."

Ieyasu said nothing. Perhaps because he was aware that he had already lost the battle. That perhaps, his dear friend, Motochika, would – in time - find out about the choice he made. About that other man; that "player two" of his.

With one last dramatic pause, the saddened Motochika placed a hand over the doorknob, and enunciated, woefully, "Our yahtzee partnership is over."

Slam.

Exhausted, Ieyasu sighed, rubbed his fingers through his hair, before taking leave of the game table. "Give him a week to… recover… and he'll play with me again."


Poor Chosokabe! Ha ha! I had lots of fun messing with him in this one!