🌿 There is an indescribable joy about picking a tiny plant in the middle of a forest. 🌿
(On that note, the second picture is of an apple clover! They are perfectly edible, and they taste a bit like sour cooking apples (albeit slightly nicer). You can find them in large clumps around the base of trees, as shown in the picture below.)
Why Yuki has so many chapters about her?? What is her role and why she is so close to Saburo?
Thanks for the ask! :D Yuki is an original (ie. not historical) character, a ninja serving Uesugi Kenshin. Early on in the story she infiltrated the Oda household and became Kichou’s handmaid, to gather info about Nobunaga for Kenshin. In the manga she’s the one who accidentally burns the history book when she steals it to give it to Kenshin. She’s in love with Kenshin, but as time goes on she eventually falls in love with Saburou. She also grows close to Kichou.
The rest is spoiler so it’s under cut, although god knows I’ve posted so many spoilers already… :D;;
She notices that something is off when she overhears Kichou talking about the “old” Nobunaga when Micchi and Saburou switch places during the New Year chapter/episode. Later, during a festival Micchi gets a coughing fit and Kichou sends Yuki after him to make sure he’s OK, so she learns that Micchi and Saburou look the same (she doesn’t tell anyone, though). She starts being suspicious of the whole situation, but doesn’t put the pieces together until much later, when she eavesdrops on a conversation between Saburou and Micchi which makes everything clear. So she’s pretty much the only person, aside of Saburou, Micchi and Takugen, who knows that Micchi is the real Nobunaga.
Since at this time she’s under orders to assassinate Nobunaga, she tries to kill Saburou… but of course she can’t do it because she loves him. She ends up leaving Kenshin’s service, and enters the Oda household for real this time, and Saburou asks her to protect Kichou.
So far her storyline goes kind of parallel to everything, and aside of accidentally destroying the history book she hasn’t really contributed much to the overall plot… so I think she’s just there because a) the author likes her, and b) in the end she’ll be the one to protect Kichou (someone needs to, after all).
Personally I think she’s OK but to be honest she’s not a very interesting character, as I said she doesn’t really add a lot to the story, and she has a couple of related side characters (her “sister” Uno and her jilted love interest whose name I can’t recall atm) who aren’t very interesting either, but due to their connection to Yuki they also get a whole lot of screentime… Basically the entire volume 11 was about Yuki, including her whole backstory and everything, and as far as I’m concerned that was more than enough of her.