General Info

First Issue: USAGI YOJIMBO Book 1

Comics Which Contain This Story

This story can be found in the following comics:

	USAGI YOJIMBO Book 1
	CRITTERS Volume 1, Issue 14

Characters

The following characters are mentioned in the story:

• Miyamoto Usagi

Story Synopsis

Basking in the afterglow of a fine meal, Usagi is amazed to find that someone else has picked his tab. His curiosity changes to outright rage when he finds that Gennosuke is his would-be benefactor.

Usagi, still fuming about being left with a fifty ryo bill the last time the two met, is ready to kill Gen until the latter somehow manages to calm him and offers a new 'get rich quick' scheme.

Gen tells Usagi of a band of thieves that have stolen a statue of Kwannon from a nearby temple. Gen offers to do all the work, distracting the bandits at their hideout while Usagi steals in and retrieves the statue.

They approach the hideout from different directions, and Usagi, while waiting for Gen's distraction, thinks that perhaps Gen is not so bad after all. No sooner has the though crossed his mind, when a green persimmon from the tree above hits him on the head. The bandits alerted by the noise attack him en masse, while Gen steals in and retrieves the statue.

When finally Usagi arrives back at the inn, he is in a somewhat vexed state. Gen tells him to blame the persimmon tree, and this is all well and good - however Usagi had been under a pine tree at the time. The only persimmon tree in the area was where Gen had been. Gen run's for the hills with Usagi two steps behind, sword poised.

One week later the reward money arrives. Usagi leaves immediately, not looking back. Gen laments what a nice, if somewhat strange guy Usagi is as the innkeeper approaches him. When Gennosuke finds that Usagi has left him with the rest of his bill - fifty ryo - Gen finds other adjectives to describe his long eared friend.