"What a coincidence, Nozawa-dono! I was just about to visit you, and here you are on the road!" Maeda Toshie also saw Harano, spurred his horse to his side, swung off nimbly, pulled out two bottles of sake from his saddlebag, and grinned, "I happen to have gotten my hands on two bottles of Winter Storage. Let's try them together in a bit!"
"You're more than welcome, it's indeed quite the coincidence." Harano didn't expect him to come running over again, so he replied with a casual pleasantry while quickly glancing down the road, just in case he brought that devil Oda Nobunaga with him.
Maeda Toshie misunderstood, thinking Harano was looking at his followers. He immediately waved to the hindquarters of his horse and shouted, "Hachiro, come greet Nozawa-dono." Then he smiled at Harano, "His name is Mura Hachiro, a retainer I recruited recently, he's got decent skills. If there's ever something and I can't make it, I'll send him instead."
