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Musashi!

Musashi...

Musashi...

What the...?

In your current state you are unable to defeat the Genma.

We, the Oni clan, were ultimately destroyed by the Genma. The only way you

have any chance of defeating the Genma, is if we lend you our power.

Kill the Genma, and seal their souls in the gauntlet now attached to your arm.

Musashi! Musashi!

Don't talk to me now!

Just ahead, huh?

Yes. It's not far, once we get through the forest.

Going up north is good luck. Auspicious, right?

What'd you say?

Just clearing my throat.

Well, we're finally getting close. You think Iemon might be around?

No way to tell until we enter the village.

Well, if he is, what are we supposed to do? Take him on?

I guess we're not gonna know until we actually confront him.

Now apart from that...

Musashi...

Musashi!

Could you please pick up the pace so we can get moving here?

Musashi, let's go!

I said, don't talk to me!

Onimusha

Mountain Demon

The place is empty.

Nobody's here... Not Iemon or the villagers.

They knew that we were coming, didn't they?

Could they all be hiding out of caution?

No.

I don't smell the scent of a stove or a hearth. It seems this village has been

abandoned for a long time.

Heikuro has a better sense of smell than most people.

Regardless...

We can't get started until after we investigate the surroundings. Follow me!

He sure is a different person... from when he was on that bridge.

We were right. This place is deserted.

Could they have all been taken away by Iemon?

It's possible.

Look around There are traces of a conflict.

There must have been a significant provocation, if peasants were willing to

defy samurai.

What could that have been?

Don't know. But...

It must have been a matter of life and death to put up this much resistance.

We'll split up into two groups... Kaizen and I... then the rest of you.

Circle around and return here. And don't get separated from each other.

As soon as our master is gone he begins acting like the leader.

Hey, it doesn't matter to me. He has the most skill and experience of anyone on the

squad.

Hm?

Heikuro?

I smell ...death.

Could everyone be gathered at the fortress?

The fortress is in the mountains. And I've heard it was hastily constructed.

Besides, why take all the villagers along? Women, children, the elderly?

They're burdens during a battle.

There are very few rice or vegetable fields around here. They must be finding

resources somewhere else.

I presume... there might be a copper or iron mine somewhere nearby.

So what? How is that related to the fact that no-one's here?

Now Don't rush to judgement.

If you take a good look, you'll begin to understand.

You need to grasp the entire situation.

So...

Explain this mission to me. What do you think? Why did Matsuki bring us along with

him?

We know that at one point, he was in cahoots with lemon.

Do you think he was going to eventually tell us to follow him, and betray our

lord?

It's possible... No way to know at this point.

If he did, what would you have said? The truth.

Would you have gone ahead and joined up with him? Heikuro...

What about you?

Impossible to say for sure. At that time, I thought Matsuki had gone mad.

Or that perhaps he had been taken over by an evil spirit, like Gensai.

However...

...It turned out it was neither of those. Matsuki had simply made the decision to

stand firm by Iemon's side.

And that means he must have had good reasons for bringing us with him.

What kind of reasons?

How in the world am I supposed to know that?!

This is really awful! I just can't bring myself to believe that Matsuki would

be doing something wrong.

Me neither. Let's find out Iemon's true intentions.

Then we'll be able to understand Matsuki's intentions.

Gunpowder, huh?

To break apart rocky surfaces. That makes sense.

There must be a mine somewhere nearby.

A mine would be perfect for fortifying and making a stronghold.

You've been here before. You know anything about a mine?

The mountains here are extremely vast. It's not possible to explore it all in

just a few days.

So what you're saying is Iemon is hiding in a mine, with all the villagers under

his control. That explains things.

I think we should head toward that mine.

Weren't you listening, we don't know where the thing is... Idiot!

Apart from all that, I was expecting him to welcome us here. He's not a very good

host, is he?

Not funny, Musashi.

If even one villager was around, we could capture them and make them tell us.

Grab that child!

It's a girl!

Please don't run from us!

Come out!

Don't be scared!

Search every house!

You didn't find her?

Well I wonder if it was some kind of ghost?

A ghost during broad daylight? You're the idiot.

Did you find her?

[I found something unpleasant instead]

You're needed, monk. Over there.

Sahei give him some ointment.

Put some under your nose. It'll mask the smell.

I don't need it.

Saisho doken zojo enma zengyo kah daiji daihi.

You down there Come here and pray with me.

Namuka tenbaku nosho jinissai shujoshitsu bussho

Kaijobutsu tensoku zoriki unso guyo...

Your parents?

Mm-mm.

My grandpa and grandma.

I see.

Issai shujyo shuen magyo jobyo metsuzai gubuku sokusai sangai kengaku zeidan...

It's not too hot for you?

Nobody's gonna take it away. You can slow down.

Her name is Sayo. She told me she's the only person left in the village.

Where are the other people?

Won't say.

‘Only person left' Huh...

So you're saying that, rather than leave, it's better to catch and eat frogs

and hide alongside the corpses of your family members, right?

Don't you think you're being a little harsh?

Why did you run away from us before?

Hey!

She must have endured some unpleasantness from the samurai.

But that hole... Why was such a big hole in the floor?

It's there for evading taxes. You'll find one in the house of every peasant.

They normally use it to hide rice and crops from the authorities. I must have

overlooked it when we were searching.

The peasants have been evading their taxes? Seriously?

Come on Did you really think that everybody was happily paying their taxes

without question?

Peasants are despicable.

All people are the same in the end.

Hey, kid...

How did your grandpa and grandma die?

Who was it who killed them?

A samurai?

If you tell me where they're hiding I'll go and kill them for you.

Musashi, stop it!

I promise.

They're coming...

We've got a problem.

Perhaps they're ghosts.

They're monsters.

He turned everybody into awful monsters!

Sahei, you and Kaizen stay back and protect the kid. Goromaru, Heikuro, pair

up.

Aim for their legs. Trip them and then behead them.

Now don't worry. They don't seem to be as ferocious as Gensai was.

You can easily defeat them with your skills.

Of course, we can!

We are the disciples of Matsuki Kensuke!

Stay back.

The gauntlet?

Don't know the numbers... Let's save it for later.

Goromaru, Heikuro, follow me!

Goromaru! Aim for their legs!

I said legs! Legs!

I said Le-e-e-gs!

Well, that's one less monster we have to worry about.

Yes. But there seems to be an endless number of them.

Trouble is, Musashi's body won't hold up. We have to prepare in advance while we

can.

Goromaru! Heikuro! This is getting us nowhere!

I need to come up with a plan! Buy some time!

- Excuse me?! - What?!

Heikuro! How ‘bout your special skill?!

Can't use it in this situation! Why don't you put out a call for

reinforcements?

I suppose there's no other choice.

Taromaru, Jiromaru! Go get them!

Alright!

There's no need to bring that! You can keep it!

Nice work. I didn't know he was a falconer.

A very skilled one, in fact. The birds actually love him too much.

Hm.

You want me to get the gauntlet? They're gonna keep coming, otherwise.

If you're right we'll need new ways to deal with them.

I have an idea.

You can help, too. We need you to do something...

Taromaru!

Get back! Leave him alone!

Goromaru! Dammit!

Musashi!

Follow me!

Right!

- Heikuro! - Yeah!

I'll handle the rest! You two take refuge in the forest. And stay hidden!

We owe you one!

Yeah! And the others?

I've got a plan! Now run!

- Right! - Right!

You monsters have chosen to attack in broad daylight...

...But this is as far as you'll advance!

Taromaru!

Are you okay now?

Where is everybody?

Weren't they supposed to be hiding here?

What's stopping you from attacking me? Alright...

Is this better?

Be at ease...

These creatures will not touch you.

[Effort as he gets up on the platform.

Musashi! Time to go!

Alright!

Ready? Now!

Sahei!

Here it comes!

Alright!

Get moving!

Much more of this and my body's gonna reach its limit.

Hm...?

Now I understand.

We used to dig for copper and tin in the mountain close to the village. But a while

back, the men went further out, to an area where they hadn't gone before. And

they found something else in the hills there.

This, right? They found gold?

Mm-hm.

The village fell into chaos. We didn't know whether or not to inform the lord.

Even though we had the gold, we had no real way to convert it into money.

In the end, we decided to report everything.

That's not what we were told. We heard there was a conflict among the farmers, so

Iemon came here to address the situation, right?

That's the official story.

If gold's been found here the people need to report it.

At best, the shogunate will claim it for themselves. At worst, they'll fault the

residents and abolish the domain.

I suppose your lord was plotting to keep the whole thing hidden.

That's why lemon was sent as a scout.

How despicable is that? One of the reasons I don't trust samurais.

Obviously, though...

...Iemon betrayed our lord, once the treasure was revealed.

He took the workers he'd hired and they barricaded themselves in the gold mine.

But something went wrong. The samurai unleashed a monster from deep in the

earth.

The monster then possessed the workers who became minions of the samurai.

That wasn't enough, though. They turned everyone in the village into monsters.

Even my folks. My mother and father They turned, too.

My grandparents protected me by hiding me under their house.

What's the point of living here with no family?

So lemon's fortress Where is it?

If you go straight up the mountain trail, you'll see it. In fact, it's hard to miss.

They opened up a new pathway.

Thank you for that.

Sahei We're heading back now...

To confirm the domain's intention. We'll need to bring this child with us, as well.

Yes. She needs protection.

We're turning back after coming this far?

We'll all be killed if we lose to lemon. If we win, we'll bear the burden of

keeping the gold mine hidden.

I don't mind using folks now and then, but I don't like being used myself.

This is tough... What are we gonna do?

We should report this to the shogunate and raise an army. Then we should go

attack the fortress.

That would be the most straightforward approach.

Whatever your plan is, just be sure you can meet the deadline.

Don't worry. It appears I can return it earlier than planned.

Let's go!

Oh boy. Does this mean we have to cross that bridge again?

What's this about?

I think the message is, they're not going to let us go.

Are there no other paths?

They did this while they kept us distracted in the village. Nice strategy.

Hey. What do they call you?

Huh? Do I have to repeat myself? It's Musashi. Mu... sa... shi.

Weird name... Who thought of it?

None of your business!

Musashi. A little while ago you said you were going to kill that samurai, right?

Yeah. But things are more complicated now...

Sounds like you're changing your mind.

Fine, then. I'll just go kill him myself. Help if you want.

Hm?

He destroyed my village and took everything away from me He has to answer

for that!

I need to avenge my grandparents.

I understand. I'll help, but we need to come up with a plan.

So where does that leave us at this point? Are we going back? Or are we

staying here?

Staying here. You're helping me, too. What's your name, monk?

Well, Sayo... My name is Kaizen.

Kai-zen.

Really? Do all of you guys have weird names?