They rather thought that it would be nothing profitable even if they were opposed to each other in here and there parted by a mountain like neighbors, and that people in Iga and those in Koka should always be in cooperative relationship, and they made a commitment to repel the enemy if the territory which belonged to one of them was invaded.
1つ山を挟んだ言わば隣人同士で争いあっても何の得も無い。むしろ伊賀の人々と甲賀の人々は常に協力関係にあり、どちらかの土地に敵が攻め込んだ場合は力を合わせて敵を退けるよう約束していた。