When I woke today, however, there was no indication that Mai had returned to our room that evening. I retired early yesterday so I did not see her, but he told me that Mai had decided to go shopping in the early evening yesterday. "I had just spoken with Lady Mai yesterday afternoon." "How can she be missing?" Mitsunari's brow was furrowed in worry. Ieyasu's mouth was open in a small, shocked, circle.Īrms crossed, Nobunaga continued, "I have already tasked Ranmaru with searching for any information he can find. Hideyoshi's wasn't the only shout that echoed in the room. But Nobunaga's next words cut off any protest he would have tried to voice. Nobunaga's frown grew ever slightly so deeper. "If I may ask, my lord," Mitsunari began, "what emergency do you speak of?"
Masamune was late Mitsuhide was untimely. If Mitsuhide wasn't terrifically late in situations where his presence would be have been quite appreciated-such as, say, being around to clear his name from the various slanderous rumors floating around the town-then he was often unsettlingly early to everything else, leaving one with the lingering sense that Mitsuhide had been lurking for some suspicious purpose. Masamune was often tardy, sure, but the headaches he caused Hideyoshi paled in comparison to his Mitsuhide-induced ones. "The messenger I sent to his manor confirmed that he received the summons," he said. The doors to the meeting room slid open then, and everyone looked up to see Nobunaga stride into the chamber with a dark frown on his face.
"If this turns into another meeting where Lord Nobunaga asks for relationship advice, I really will walk out this time." He leaned against a pillar, close to the door. Goodness knows he had already lost track of how many times he himself had been subject to Masamune's whining. Hideyoshi would hazard a guess that every able-bodied man in Azuchi had been nagged for a spar by a stir-crazy Masamune at least once. When Masamune got bored, he tended to do the exact opposite of stop talking. "If I'd been the one feeling neglected, not talking isn't what I'd be doing," he said. Masamune had been vocally put out that Lord Nobunaga hadn't chosen him to accompany him to the battle. "Are you sure that's not just you, Masamune?" Hideyoshi raised an eyebrow. "Maybe the lass felt lonely being left behind?" "Do you suppose Lady Mai stopped speaking to him again?" Mitsunari wondered. So there wasn't really any reason to call for a council, at least not that Hideyoshi could see. Hideyoshi and Lord Nobunaga had only just returned from a small skirmish to the north of Azuchi yesterday, but all official business to do with the castle town was supposed to have been handled already. It appeared to Hideyoshi's eyes that nobody quite knew why Lord Nobunaga had summoned them for an emergency meeting. Warlords milled around the audience chamber.
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