Editing Horizon:Volume 10A Prologue (section)

===Study: About the Iga Crossing===
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Toori: Sis! Sis! What’s this Iga Crossing thing everyone’s been mentioning lately!? Is it a trial where you walk across chestnut burrs<ref>Igaguri in Japanese.</ref> barefoot!?

Kimi: Doing that sounds like it would mess your foot up bad with all the germs.

Toori: Yeah, I really wasn’t looking for a serious response there…

Kimi: Heh heh. Anyway, burrother, the Iga Crossing is simply a retreat across the Iga Region from west to east to reach their base at Okazaki.

Toori: What’s the Iga Region?



Left text: Osaka

Left circle: Sakai

Middle text: Iga

Right text: Mikawa

Right circle: Okazaki



Kimi: The map should clear up that question. It’s the region west of Mikawa and east of Nara. And while it’s called the Iga Crossing, it actually starts further west than that and continues across the bay, but are you familiar with the ninja village?

Toori: Oh, that!? Like the Iga and Koga ninja!?

Kimi: Judge. In the Age of the Gods, a snack based on Karl the Great wasn’t sold in Iga but was sold in Koga, so you could identify a Koga by their knowledge of the flavor and ad jingle.

Toori: Karl the Great sure is…great.

Kimi: Anyway, the Ieyasu group, which was allied with Oda, was traveling from Sakai to Kyou when the Honnouji Incident happened. But when word arrived of Nobunaga’s assassination, they feared they would be attacked by those with a grudge against the Oda clan and decided to retreat to their base of Mikawa.

Toori: What? They made a change of course with no preparation at all?

Kimi: Right. And instead of using the main road, they used smaller roads to stay hidden. Because even the peasants might try to attack them for the reward after learning about the Incident. Ieyasu didn’t have many bodyguards, so there was a higher than usual chance of something happening. And in the Age of the Gods, this became known as one of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s three great crises.

Toori: Cry sis! …Oh, sorry. I just felt like saying that.

Kimi: Heh heh. And I just felt like hearing it.

Toori: But given what happens later, he did make it back alive, right?

Kimi: Judge. But opinions differ on whether he made it back unharmed. Anyway, you can see why the Iga Crossing is an Ieyasu event everyone is looking forward to, can’t you?

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