Act Six: Myriad of Women, Extra

Oh, oops. Sorry about that. Temporary or not, a good wet nurse should worry about her charges, not the other way around.

Don't worry, I'm perfectly fine!

Well, it's just...

Yes?

This floor just reminded me how difficult this, um, particular subject was for me to teach.

I certainly taught him the bare minimum he needed to know, but when it came to, er, practical applications...

Well, I figured he would learn that sort of thing naturally, just by spending time around his pages of the same age.

That's why, sometimes, I would even look the other way when his pages would take him to visit the castle town.

That sounds just like...

Yes. In fact... Lord Yoshimune, was it? That story of his you were studying may not have been far from the truth.

The fact is, there are some things that it's just not possible to teach inside Edo Castle alone.

I see. I suspected something like that may have happened.

Indeed, Mitsuyoshi may well have taught the shogun things he should not have known...

As your acting wet nurse, let me ask you this now: How are things of this nature handled in the future?

For example, when I discovered Lord Iemitsu had hidden obscene drawings in his room, there were a great many things I wanted to say to him...

...but after thinking it over, I decided to simply arrange them neatly on his floor without saying a word.

Was that the right way to handle that?

Do they now! I knew it! Now I feel like patting myself on the back for once!

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Yeaaah, there's definitely a lot of, um, pitfalls with that particular subject. And it's even more difficult given how important it is.

If nothing else, we can definitely say this Ooku isn't doing anything good for that kind of education.

Yes. It is a bit...overstimulating, having to fend off the advances of a lascivious goddess of love at every turn.

At least it seems as though there have been fewer of her... Then again, maybe that's why.

This is a dead end.

Maybe this is the labyrinth's way of telling us to give those Kama...clones? More attention.

So if we want to proceed, maybe we need to go down the paths where there's more of them.

I see. So we need to wade further into this den of depravity.

Lord Fujimaru, please be careI mean, rest assured.

If need be, I'll hold my hands over your eyes to stop you from seeing anything you shouldn't!

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