قسط 8: Tokugawa Ieyasu Nobunaga کے دعوتِ شام میں شریک ہوتا ہے جبکہ Mori Terumoto Takamatsu castle کو نشانہ بناتا ہے۔

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Tokugawa Ieyasu comes to Azuchi for the banquet. Ieyasu is granted rule of Suruga, but is angered by the luxury displayed by Nobunaga, especially a pineapple dessert served by Sasuke on his orders. Mori Terumoto moves to Bicchu to recapture Takamatsu castle. Nobunaga sends Mitsuhide to Hideyoshi to help him. Sasuke with Nakagawa Kiyohide is to relay those orders to Hosokawa, Takayama, and Ikeda. Seeing Nobunaga lean on the furniture, Sasuke has a bad feeling. He ponders aloud to Mitsuhide about the vanity of nurturing ambitions, but Mitsuhide reassures him. Later Ieyasu visits Mitsuhide to apologize for his outburst: they share their discontentment as two loyal retainers. Hideyoshi has flooded Takamatsu castle, and goes welcoming Nobunaga to Chuugoku, leaving Hidenaga in command. Sasuke, readying for departure, is given a new Iwai armor by Osen. She requested it from general Hosokawa Tadaoki. Gazing upon it, his ambitions to attain lordship return. (Source: Wikipedia)