大将へ
よう大将。元気か。
俺は今、安土だ。
修行がてら昔の主のところにいるわけだな。
そうそう、織田信長さんのところだ。
他の刀連中や後世の人間は必要以上に持ち上げたり、恐れたりしているが、
俺からすれば極めて常識的な、普通の人だよ。
まあ、当時の感覚では、とういう但し書きはつくかもしれないが。
Dear General,
Hey, General, are you well?
I am currently in Azuchi. Training means going back to the place of our previous masters.
That's right, I'm at Oda Nobunaga's place.
Although the other swords and people in later eras either put him on a pedestal or fear of him, to me he is just a extremely ordinary and normal person.
Well, I should add that it's at that time, I suppose.
大将へ
ん？信長さんが普通の人とは思えないって？
じゃあそうだな、一つ例を挙げようか。
後世ではなんだか当時の迷信や信仰を否定する革新的人物みたいに言われることがあるが、
そんなことはない。
織田信長は程々に信仰を利用し、程々に信仰を否定する。……つまり普通の人だろう？
その証拠に、あの人は刀だった頃の俺をいつも持ち歩いている。
―切れ味に優れているが決して主を傷つけない。それが俺の背負った逸話だ。
迷信を否定するような人なら、わざわざ俺を選ばないと思わないか？
Dear General,
Hmm? You're saying you don't think of Nobunaga as a normal person?
In that case, let me give you an example.
Although he was said to be a revolutionary character who defied the superstitions and faiths of that time by the later generations, that is not correct.
Oda Nobunaga would sometimes use the faiths, and sometimes deny the faiths. ... doesn't that mean he's a normal person?
As proof, that person always brought me around when I was still a sword.
—Although I had a sharp edge I would never hurt my master. That was the legend I shouldered.
Don't you think that if he was someone who truly denied superstition, he wouldn't purposely choose me?
大将へ
天正10年5月29日。
俺は京に向かう信長さんの背を見送る。
今の俺も、信長さんが持ち歩いているこの当時の俺も、運命を変えることはできない。
もしこのとき俺に逸話のような不思議な力があれば、
信長さんは自害して果てることはなかったのだろうかね。
まあ、考えても仕方ないことだな。
残るのは、織田信長が俺を持ち歩き、それでも腹を切る羽目になった、という結果だけだ。
だが、今の俺は持ち歩かれるだけの守り刀じゃない。
こうして自分で動けるなら、やりようはいくらでもあるよな。
そろそろ帰る。俺は、今の俺にしかできないことをやるだけだ。
Dear General.
It's Tenshou 10th year, 29th May.
I saw off the back of Nobunaga as he left for the capital.
Neither the current me nor the me of that time that is brought around by Nobunaga can change fate.
If the me of this time possessed the mysterious power as stated in my legends,
Nobunaga might not have ended in suicide.
Well, there is no point thinking about it.
What's left is, the result of me being carried by Oda Nobunaga, but he still ended up cutting his stomach open in the end, that's all.
But the current me is not just a sword of protection to be brought about.
Now that I can move by myself, there are a lot of things I can do.
I should head back now. All I need to do is just to do the things that only the current me can do.