Hey lads and laddetes just gonna make a quick note:
(Comments made by the Author)
"Dialog"
'Dialog made by the Voice inside their heads'
"Albais/English" Though you will not see this kind of wording in this chapter
-~~{:} Prologue: Battle and a New World {:}~~-
The Battle was about to come to a close when the armies of the west begin their massive rout one by one they began to peel off from the battlefield leaving the army of Ishida Mitsunari alone. Ishida orders a detachment of 150 men headed by one of his loyal samurai retainers Hiraga Shinsuke to slow the chasing army to attempt an escape towards safety. The men with only 25 Bow Ashigarus(peasant levies) and the rest are mostly Yari(spear) Ashigarus began to form up each one exhausted from the ongoing battle. The Ashigarugashira(samurai captain) donning his Red Samurai Armor pulled on the sheathe of his nodachi(great sword/field sword) from his back and slowly reached for its handle and unsheathed the great weapon.
Hiraga then turned to his men who are once farmers only called to arms by their daimyos. He then looked at the force retreating at his rear and he saw one of his friends and wished him luck in his escape. He then made the ashigarus stand at attention and the 125 men formed into 3 ranks with their archers forming up a 2nd formation. He stood and put positioned the mune(blunt edge) of his nodachi at his right shoulder to hold it firmly. He then inhaled and began to shout "Bishamon-sama is with us men!" he shouted "May this valiant stand be remembered by our descendants. To arms men and may the gods make our blade and aim true. For victory!" he then raised his left arm forming a fist and his men followed suit making a huge roar of rage comparable to dragons of lore.
With Hiraga at the center of the formation they begin to march then slowly building up speed and the clash began with a volley of arrows from the eastern army. The sky turned black and shadows faded into oblivion as the skies got covered with hundreds of arrows from the eastern army. Many fell as the arrows hailed on the war band and they got nearly wiped out from that attack alone with as little as 14 arrows they retaliated and their shots claimed 14 lives then the ashigarus formed up as the enemy cavalry began to trot to their lines as his men struggled to repel the charge Hiraga cut down a rider and he embarked his mount and commanded the survivors to group up. Just in time they managed to make a line and the hordes of the eastern army's ahigarus and hundreds of spears can be seen Hiraga's men stand shaken as their faces contort like they faced a shinigami ready to claim their very lives as he saw this he reassured his men by shouting very loudly to get his men's attention "Tonight we dine with Izanami!" he clears his throat and continues "Remember to take as many as you can with you for we are special guests!" the men heard this and bursted into laughter as the captain lightened the mood some got invigorated while some sobbed as they remembered their wives and children that they are gonna left behind the samurai in red sobbed too as his new-born son will be left without a father but he steeled himself and gets ready for the inevitable.
The thunders of the ground as the east army marches toward their position he then saw their flag wave and the enemy begin to shout their battle cry and rushed towards their position like a pack of hungry wolves ready for their feast. The men readied their yaris and the bow were loosened as they fired as many as they could onto the huge blob of their enemies before long as they are about to charge Hiraga issued his men as the men hesitated he then disembarked and led at the front, as he was about to charge his men followed him and he smiled for this will be his final battle and his grave for this he intends to die smiling and having fun. They clashed and many more men fell victim to their enemy's sword, as he moved up an ashigaru attempts to stab him but he parried and cut him down with a swift swipe across its face thus effectively ending its life, 2 others approached him one in the front and one behind him, they have nice teamwork but once Hiraga got near one and striked him with his pommel making him cough blood while the other missed his oppertunity as he moved to the side and making a downward strike heavy enough to split both his face and its jingasa(straw hat). Slaying three men on the battlefield he retreated to his remaining men with only 26 of his men standing on and the archers are already joining the melee with their kamas(sickle), he then spoke "Tough fight, isn't it?" he asked as he thrusts his nodachi on an enemy ashigaru, "Indeed, can't think of anything else other than surviving." the soldier replied as he was busy fending off a nearby enemy, Hiraga smiled as his reply but then an enemy samurai approached and slashed the one who he was talking to recently and threw it aside as it approached Hiraga.
The samurai wore a lighter blue armor with the mark of the Tokugawa Clan and did not wore its hana(nose armor that has a sort of mustache) making him a lot more agile than Hiraga, as it approaches Hiraga stood ready clutching his already bloodied nodachi tighter than usual. Their fight began as the other ashigarus steered clear as they know that this will be a lengthy one and doesn't want to be caught in the crossfire. The agile samurai lunged at him and began a swift horizontal swipe with his wazikashi, Hiraga was surprised but he effectively guarded and moves in for a counter with his pommel to attempt to make his enemy stagger, the blue samurai dodged it in time and moved backwards to recover. Hiraga then moves forward to reach his enemy with his sword and begins an offensive, the blue samurai fully recovered blocked and slashed Hiraga's arm making a light cut in his forearm, The red samurai staggers and retreats to safety as he put his stance to a defensive one, in response however his enemy rushed forward and slid to his left and slashed at his side, he nearly got out unscathed but he guarded against it but the enemy switched the slash direction from left to right making him too slow to react to the sudden change thus resulting in him getting a wound. Hiraga was enraged and rushed at the enemy as it backs off and readies its stance, with a few heavy strikes he managed to break his enemy's guard and with it the fight was over as Hiraga performed a heavy downward strike ringing the enemy's head and stunning it then he thrust his nodachi in the enemy's face thus winning the fight. After the fight concluded Hiraga began looking around to see wearing his color but to no avail meanwhile the enemy has already encircled him. An enemy commander came out from the crowd wearing a vest of the Shimazu Clan the samurai pointed his katana at Shinsuke and challenged him to a duel samurai against samurai. He readied his blade as he accepted the challenge though that doesn't change his fate any bit.
The enemy unsheathed his katana and puts himself in a defensive stance Hiraga understood this as a challenge and he moved forwards slashing his nodachi downward but the adversary dodged it and managed to parry by attempting a horizontal slash. He narrowly dodged it and he performed a block thus stopping the enemy's blade on its tracks. The enemy proceeds to hammer away as the enemy slashed in different directions in an attempt to break his guard but he managed to strike thus making the enemy fall back and stop its advance. He then rests for a bit and proceeds another attempt for a downward strike but to once again failing to bear fruit, the enemy then once more stormed Hiraga with its katana in an attempt to tire him out, this is when Hiraga's wounds begin to take its toll as his strikes became slower and a lot more weaker compared to the duel he once had before. Hiraga pushed his luck with a lunge and a thrust but his enemy parried it and hit his left sode(shoulder guard) the strike was hard enough that causes his entire left arm to convulse for a few seconds. Hiraga charges and managed to fool the enemy by making the stance for a downwards stike but instead he used his pommel to break his enemy's defense and proceeds to raise his nodachi in preparation for the final strike but this naive mood caused him his victory when the enemy recovers at the right time and and kicking him down and making him see the orange sky of sunset as it was nearing evening.
He lays his head on the ground as the impact made his gaze hazy. As he smiled and muttered under his breathe "A short life but a merry one" he said as he accepted his fate. He looked at the samurai and recognized it as Shimazu Arato who's the one who beat him in battle while still holding his nodachi at his hand, he clutched it dearly and whispered a prayer "May Japan prosper under a new shogunate." the enemy then walked towards his position and hovered it's blade over his abdomen and heaved as he started his thrust. Hiraga's mind then went blank and closed his eyes shut as he accepted his death but then his eyes has been invaded by light thus making him open it.
The surroundings was filled with white as if he was transported to a blank room, he then thought that this must be the lands after death but as he thought of that he wondered where his cohorts go. He then began wandering around and to see where does the room end but he kept on walking and walking and walking then he stopped seeing that what he is doing is of no use, he then removed the nodachi's sheathe from his back and proceeds to sheathe his weapon then he sat down leaning against the sword, he then began reminiscing of the events that took him to this place.
He remembered his wife and his only son; Hiraga Seiso and Sapporo, his son which is only 3 years of age has grown and come to like him and every time he go home his son would run to meet him and with every wound he received his son would caress it and ask "Does it hurt?" as he remembers his family he began to sob as tears began to form on his eyes. he tried to hold back from crying but he cannot resist any longer and tears fell from his eyes, he did not stop crying until he fell asleep.
After a good rest he opened his eyes and stood up and stretched and all of a sudden after getting a glimpse of his surroundings he reacted "Where am I?" as he looked from bottom to the very top of a very huge tree and his mouth opened wide in awe. The tree every now and then drop a fruit from its branches but Hiraga is not concerned for the fruits for he is more concerned at the huge tree's trunk and he bagan walking towards it. He traced his fingers at the words engraved on the bark of the tree which he can't decipher despite having a certain degree of knowledge on literature, as his interest faded he inspected the fruits and picked up one from the ground 'It is red and round, I wonder what are these called?' he wondered and he moves the fruit closer to his mouth and began to open wide to have a taste of the mysterious fruit. He took a bite and his head began to hurt as he reacted by holding his head and dropping his sheathed nodachi into the ground. A voice whispered into his head "You have ate the Fruit of New Fate, where you are able to have a certain fate and certain knowledge of its era of a certain descendant randomly selected by the World Tree."
"What the-" he thought before the room darkens and once again the voice spoke once more "Your fate has been altered and so is the fate of your descendant 'Hiraga Saito' you will be the one who will be sent to another world." the mysterious voice stated "NO w-waiit!" Hiraga shouted before switching place with Saito.
As Saito entered the dark abyss in the summoning gate he got pulled out by a mysterious force back to Japan. "Good luck out there, descendant!" the mysterious man wearing a red samurai armor said as he smirked and looked at Saito who couldn't react quick enough before the gate closed. Saito couldn't understand what happened and proceeds in his Daily, normal Life in modern Japan.
"What the hell did I just do" he reacted as he realized what he has done or in other terms forced to do. He sighs as he proceeds to fall down the abyss before hearing a large explosion and caught a glimpse of green light, he landed and nearly fell unconscious but then he opened his eyes and proceeded to stand up holding his katana's handle ready to draw it just in case.
The smoke clears around Shinsuke as he saw a pink haired little lady in front of him while he heard the crowd around him's reaction.
"A commoner?!"
Hey everyone I hope you liked my fan-fic.
This anime was a part of my childhood and developed my errr... otaku-ness, I guess
Though I can't see signs of expiration on the fandom yet for this Manga/Anime/Light Novel was left unfinished therefore there are no legitimate conclusions therefore it is up to us fans to finish the job.
plus the story is set in medieval, fictional Europe. I know tons of events that happened in Europe from my Deep-space exploration in the interweb.
Quite neat for my first time writing. Not exactly the best at Grammar (probably) so if you would be so kind to correct my mistakes. Danke!
Modified on 7/19/2k18
Parabellum prediction of the day:
There will be a 2 additional wars to determine who unifies the world. I vote Russia, what's yours?
