Stardew Valley, but It's Sengoku Japan

[Current progress: Resealing the Imperial Kitchen again. Thanks for your support!! v(^ ^~♡]

They say the farmer came from Kyoto and rented an entire farm. With one axe, she chopped down the whole forest. Terrifying!

Xiaozhu, who came from a poor family, decided to try his luck. At first, he was only asked to help repair some household tools, but somehow it turned into building a house.

The farmer paid well and kept bringing him all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Xiaozhu gritted his teeth and did the work anyway.

Riyoshi, falsely accused of stealing money, wandered into the farm. The farmer was watering the crops and handed him a carrot. He looked bewildered, so she took another look at him and pulled out a copper ingot.

"Oh, here, take this. It just came out of the kiln today. Don't be sad."

The farmer smiled as she tried to comfort him.

Nobunaga was on his way to Mino to meet Saito Dosan when he passed near the farm. Spotting the vast fields of crops, he leaped off his horse and ran straight over.

How had he never noticed such a large farm near Kiyosu Castle?

The farmer had just come back from the mines, covered in dust and grime. Seeing a disheveled man running over, she greeted him warmly.

Then she pressed a teardrop crystal into Nobunaga's hand and thumped her chest. "I just found this today. It's yours!"

The teardrop crystal was dazzling and translucent. Nobunaga returned to his entourage, holding it with a bewildered look on his face.

Nene ran into the farmer at the market, and ever since, she had received gifts from her every few days.

All kinds of beautiful clothes.

Overwhelmed, Nene kept refusing them.

The farmer held up a beautiful bolt of silk and said with deep affection, "Nene, you're the most beautiful NPC I've ever seen..."

Nene: What...?

At the site of the Sunomata One-Night Castle, Riyoshi arrived at the logging area and found that someone had beaten him to it.

The farmer, who had chopped her way through half of Mino with just one axe, greeted him enthusiastically.

"What? You need that much stuff... Wait, why is this a mandatory quest?!"

The farmer cried out, then hurried off into a mountain of lumber to rummage around.

Riyoshi was led around the piles of timber and saw all kinds of neatly arranged castle-building structures. His eyes nearly popped out of his head.

"Hey, hey, Xiaozhu! Tell Lord Rokuro that we don't need anyone to cut down trees. Get people over here to haul all this stuff away!" Riyoshi frantically slapped his younger brother.

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Butterfly Ball was delighted to have downloaded the Sengoku DLC. There was vast land waiting for her to fill with kegs, enough to keep her busy for ages, and the NPCs were varied, with plenty of side stories.

Every day, she unfailingly brought gifts to the NPCs in Kiyosu Castle. Now and then, she wandered into another map to give gifts to mysterious NPCs.

Some NPCs did make outrageous requests, like 999 bombs.

But the bounty was pretty generous!

Butterfly Ball realized that taking bounties and completing quests paid well enough to support her basic brewing setup, so she worked hard to finish the NPCs' tasks.

That NPC named Oda Nobunaga was much more generous than that old man Lewis!

More than ten years later, Butterfly Ball gazed with satisfaction at her perfect progress and happily went to find Nobunaga for the summit event.

The Kyoto totem pole transported her to the altar at the Kyoto shrine. She walked up to Oda Nobunaga, whose face bore both seriousness and joy.

Not bad. He looked a bit like that sourpuss Lewis. No wonder this was made by Stardew Valley.

"Butterfly Ball, you have given so much to my cause. Tell me, what reward do you want?" Oda Nobunaga said gravely.

Butterfly Ball was thrilled. "Then let's get started!"

Once your completion rate hits one hundred percent, you can reach the summit!

Oda Nobunaga, suddenly teleported to Mount Fuji: ...?

Butterfly Ball grabbed his hand. "Come on, say it! Your line! That one!"

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1. Sengoku-era Japan, but with Stardew Valley. A not-quite-authentic farming and development slice-of-life (?).

2. This is the passionate product of watching historical dramas and grinding Stardew Valley. In my headcanon, Stardew Valley incorporates Don't Starve and the Fourth Catastrophe (probably). Nobunaga and Hideyoshi have high affection, and there is plenty of character invention.

3. Xiaozhu (Xiaoichiro): Toyotomi Hidenaga, Hideyoshi's younger brother, the Dainagon of Yamato

Riyoshi: Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Nobunaga: Oda Nobunaga

Nene: Kita no Mandokoro Nene

(Butterfly Ball: "Maru" was a childhood nickname given to boys during the Sengoku period. I'm not illiterate. The female protagonist is historically clueless and doesn't know... looks away.)

There is one-sided affection.

By stages: Male Lead No. 1, Ashikaga Yoshiteru (offline); Male Lead No. 2, Oda Nobunaga (online).

[Historical research may not be rigorous. No nitpicking, writing advice, or character advice, please. This is a self-indulgent work for a tiny fandom! I am a compulsive reviser, and may even change small details in the synopsis. The synopsis comes before the story! If the story requires it, I may go back and revise the synopsis!

I haven't read other Stardew Valley stories. This is very much my own take on Stardew Valley. If anything doesn't match the game, maybe I just haven't played the game enough!

A lot of headcanon has been added based on the historical setting!

Farming in the early part, development and construction in the later part!

This is not a female-power fantasy!!! Thanks for your support!]

*Nobu's manuscript doesn't get much of a response because the failure rate is as high as 90% (Wow, that's a high drop rate!). So I gave up in despair and switched to Koudou Ru (a very sad thing).

Core theme: Farming!!