Why did the Chiba
clan team up with
the Hōjō clan in Odawara?

Odawara is pretty
far away, though.

Aye. But the Satomi
clan from Awa and
Kazusa—both in the
Bōsō region—had
begun pushing into
Shimousa. The Chiba
clan couldn’t fend
them off on their own.
That’s why they turned
to the Hōjō for help.
But in the end… that
alliance turned out to
be their undoing.