Topple the Traitor

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Topple the Traitor was a virtual representation of one of Fujibayashi Naoe and Yasuke's genetic memories, relived through the Animus EGO.

Description

Yasuke and Naoe meet with Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi to help him besiege Akechi Mitsuhide's castle and deal with the traitor once and for all.

Dialogue

• Ashigaru Archer: If you expect to die, you will fight without fear.
• Hashiba Hideyoshi: No, Lord Nobutaka will take the right flank. I am leading the charge.
• Yasuke: Lord Hideyoshi. We are here to join your battle against Mitsuhide.
• Hashiba Hideyoshi: Good. You show loyalty to Lord Nobunaga. Get in the ranks.
• Yasuke: Yes, Lord Hideyoshi.
• Naoe: Following Hideyoshi is a mistake. To get to Mitsuhide first we need to be in front, not behind.
• Ysauke: Let Lord Hideyoshi fight. We will head straight for Mitsuhide. Are we ready?
• Naoe: Let's move.
• Hashiba Hideyoshi: Akechi Mitsuhide has betrayed our master, Lord Nobunaga. Now, he expects us to serve him. Today is the day of our vengeance! Hachiman is waiting. Lord Nobunaga is watching. They demand blood. So let us spill it!
• Akechi Mitsuhide: Is this all? What about the Hosokawa clan? And the rest of our allies? Then we face the enemy without them.
• Hashiba Hideyoshi: Take the castle!
• Akechi Castle Guard: There's too many!
• Akechi Mitsuhide: I should have killed you in Honnoji. Deal with this.
• Akechi Guard: Lord Mitsuhide, we will cover your retreat.
• Akechi Mitsuhide: No. No more running. I will face my fate with sword in hand. Go. I release you.
• Naoe: Nowhere to hide.
• Yasuke: Turn around, traitor.
• Akechi Mitsuhide: Yasuke. Nobunaga's loyal blade. I once shared that loyalty. Then he burned Enryakuji down. Monks, women, children. We burned and beheaded them all. By the thousands.
• Yasuke: Lord Nobunaga was... That does not justify your treachery.
• Akechi Mitsuhide: Someone had to save us from his madness. To stop the endless slaughter of innocents.
• Yasuke: So you defiled your honor. Betrayed your lord. You murdered him with a stab in the back.
• Akechi Mitsuhide: The Shinbakufu used me. As I had used you. Have you forgotten Iga?
• Naoe: I'll never forget Iga. Just as I will never forget how you murdered my father.
• Akechi Mitsuhide: It was necessary. And now you bank another tyrant, a peasant for Nobunaga's throne. I saved this country. You will destroy it.
• Naoe: No. We will save it from you.
• Akechi Mitsuhide: You never were a true samurai.
• Naoe: Speak.
• Akechi Mitsuhide: There is another. He would have become Shogun again. But you... defied death. And hunted us down. We underestimated you. He promised allies, then disappeared. He lives while my dream falls to pieces.
• Naoe: You mean Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
• Akechi Mitsuhide: Ashikaga Yoshiaki. The one Nobunaga toppled from power.
• Naoe: And the box. Where is it?
• Akechi Mitsuhide: He has it. It is one of the Imperial Regala.
• Naoe: The jewel.

Outcome

Naoe and Yasuke defeated Mitsuhide, who in his final moments revealed the identity of the Shinbakufu's leader—Ashikaga Yoshiaki—and where to find him and the stolen box.