[Picks up a goban stone and twirls it between his fingers.] All my men are the stones I do not waste. They all have a different ambition, different goal. It's my job to forward all their ambitions, or they'll turn on me, not just each other, if they think it conflicts with each other.

Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi, my left and right hands. Hideyoshi, sometimes he'd forget his ambition and just leave it to me, if I let him. It's annoying.

[Sigh.] Mitsuhide is the opposite. I always know he'll put the peace, his ambition way ahead of loyalty to me. [Headshake, and bitter laugh.] Sometimes I needle him more than anyone else just to ensure that, I think...

[Where even Nobunaga has to admit, he's kind of fucked in the head a bit.]