Oda Clan Main Story/1-4

**Player**
Aaaah!!

**Oda Nobunaga**
-tsk!!

**Player**
Huh!?

*I was unable to do anything but crouch down and cover my head, but someone pulled me into them, as if to protect me from the raining arrows. Startled, I raised my head and saw–*

**Oda Nobunaga**
Don’t raise your head!

**Player**
Y-Yes!

**Oda Nobunaga**
Hagh!

Tsk... That monkey, he’d turn anything into an opportunity.

**Player**
...All the arrows are in pieces. He cut them all down...

*When I looked up at Nobunaga, surprised, his arm had been pierced and blood dripped from his fingers.*

**Player**
Ah! B-Because you protected me... We have to hurry and treat that!

**Oda Nobunaga**
Silence. Don’t make noise over every small thing.

**Player**
B-But you’re bleeding...

**Mori Ranmaru**
Nobunaga-sama, you’re injured...!?

**Oda Nobunaga**
It doesn’t matter. This is the perfect moment to test this one’s blood.

Ranmaru, Mitsuhide, beware a second or third wave of arrows. Go and confirm the damage.

**Akechi Mitsuhide**
Acknowledged.

*When the two left, Nobunaga-san sheathed his blade.*

**Player**
Um... we need to hurry and treat your arm...

**Oda Nobunaga**
I do not need treatment. This arrow wound is nothing.

*Saying that, he ripped out the arrow in his arm.*

**Player**
Pulling it out that roughly...! You’re going to bleed more...

**Oda Nobunaga**
You will compensate the amount I lost.

**Player**
Eh... what do you mean by compensate...

**Oda Nobunaga**
Have you forgotten? The fact that I am a vampire?

*Nobunaga-san’s sharp eyes watched me– but the moment I understood his words, he had already grabbed my arm.*

**Player**
Wah! P-Please let me go!

**Oda Nobunaga**
Shut up. Stop struggling.

*Nobunaga-san pressed me against a nearby tree trunk and easily stopped my movements.

When I looked up at Nobunaga-san, scared, his sharp eyes were looking down at me directly.*

**Oda Nobunaga**
Whose fault do you think it is that I suffered this wound?

**Player**
That’s...

(...True, because I was protected I didn’t get hurt.)

*And even now the blood continued to flow from Nobunaga-san’s arm.*

**Oda Nobunaga**
Stay still like that.

*While I couldn’t move, as if I had been shot, Nobunaga-san buried his face somewhat forcibly into my neck.*

**Player**
!!

*Immediately after feeling a hot breath, a stinging pain ran through my neck.*

**Oda Nobunaga**
...ngh.

**Player**
He’s really... drinking... my blood...

*Whether it was fear or shame, my body stiffened and I couldn’t move a single finger.*

**Player**
E-Enough... already...

*Unable to even breathe, I tried somehow to push back Nobunaga-sama’s arm but–*

**Oda Nobunaga**
...Don’t get in my way.

*My left arm, the only one that was free, was immediately grabbed and I didn’t know what to do anymore.

And then, Nobunaga-san slowly, as if confirming the taste, swallowed my blood two, three times.*

**Oda Nobunaga**
Kgh!!

*Abruptly, Nobunaga-san raised his head and released me. I sank to the ground, not having any strength, and when I looked up at him...*

**Oda Nobunaga**
!! T-This is...

**Player**
(Eh... his appearance changed!?)

**Oda Nobunaga**
My strength is overflowing, and the arrow wound has been healed in an instant. As I thought, your blood is...

*Nobunaga-san showed an unrestrained smirk, and then in that moment...*

**Oda Nobunaga**
There!

*Pulling out his sword, and with that momentum, Nobunaga-san slashed the thicket beside him.*

**Toyotomi Soldier**
Gaaaaagh!

**Oda Nobunaga**
Oh? The monkey’s spies. Good grief... what a shrewd man.

**Toyotomi Soldier**
W-We’ve been found! RETREAT NOWWW!

**Oda Nobunaga**
Hmph. Do not think you can escape from me, Nobunaga.

*In an instant, Nobunaga-san closed the distance between him and the soldiers and swung his sword down without hesitation.*

**Toyotomi Soldier**
GAAAAAAGH!

*The soldiers in that spot were cut down in the blink of an eye and, as if he were bored, Nobunaga flung the blood off his sword.*

**Oda Nobunaga**
Hmph. Against these foot soldiers, I cannot tell how much my abilities have risen.

**Player**
(Even though he protected me from arrows, against enemies he really is a merciless person...)

I don’t know what would happen if I went against him. When I felt that fear once again...

**Akechi Mitsuhide**
Nobunaga-sama, we have finished confirming the damag... huh!?

**Mori Ranmaru**
Uwah! Nobunaga-sama, your appearance! It’s wonderful! You look amazing!

**Oda Nobunaga**
You two- Hm...?

**Mori Ranmaru**
Ah... you’ve returned to your original appearance...!

**Akechi Mitsuhide**
...Did you perhaps drink this woman’s blood?

**Oda Nobunaga**
Yes. Whether it was the amount of blood or the quality... It seems the effects are short-lived.

**Mori Ranmaru**
I see! You brought her along because she possesses amazing blood, huh!

**Player**
Possesses... amazing blood? Me?

**Oda Nobunaga**
Now, the damage situation?

**Akechi Mitsuhide**
Yes. There has not been much damage. Both Kuroda Kanbee and Takenaka Hanbee have retreated. There is no more danger.

**Oda Nobunaga**
I see. We will join Katsuie and Nagahide and withdraw.

**Akechi Mitsuhide**
Yes, my lord.

**Mori Ranmaru**
With this, the battle is over. We can return to the castle!

**Player**
...Yes.

*Special blood... While I was concerned about these words, I returned to the castle together with Nobunaga-san and the others.*

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*Translated by Ilinox*