[Hearing the nickname doesn't surprise Mitsuhide at all. Many times he had heard Nobunaga call Hideyoshi a "monkey" though it was usually with annoyance and not with fondness.]

[He gave a bit of a shrug.] There's no going back and changing that in your world, I suppose.

I'm curious though, was the Hideyoshi in your world a nagging mother hen as well? [He was wondering if there were any similarities with other versions of the Oda Forces' warlords.]