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Nobunaga continued without pause. "And allow me to introduce Akechi Mitsuhide—my most capable general. He will remain stationed in Kyoto to assist the new administration, and to coordinate all support from the Oda clan."

Mitsuhide bowed deeply, his face a mask of perfect humility, though behind it his mind was already sketching garrison placements, supply routes, and the delicate architecture of governing a city.

Yoshiaki, beside them, was nearly glowing—the Fifteenth Shogun, so close he could taste the title.

Nobunaga's fingers rested still upon his knee. The Tenno's voice asked something further, gracious and light—but beneath the lightness, in the shift of the curtain and the hush of the servants, the shape of the realm's future had already been quietly, irreversibly redrawn.