General Info

First Issue: USAGI YOJIMBO Volume 1, Issue 15

Comics Which Contain This Story

This story can be found in the following comics:

USAGI YOJIMBO Volume 1, Issue 15

Characters

The following characters are mentioned in the story:

• Ame Tomoe
• Miyamoto Usagi
• Lord Noriyuki
• Kashira Shingen
• Spot
• Lord Tamakuro
• Zato Ino

Story Synopsis

This chapter begins when Usagi is proving his battle skills by dueling in order to get hired as a retainer of Lord Tamakuro. Usagi impresses the lord by deafeting Takohana and he's hired as an officer.

Meanwhile, Gen is in a house with the two women who have met Ino in chapter 2. When he learns that Ino is near, he leaves the house and goes after him.

Back at Lord Tamakuro's town, Usagi is chatting with Captain Torame and Torame tells him that a rebellion against one's lord can be justified...

Ino is walking when Spot finds a raincoat and smells it to finds out that it's Usagi's raincoat. He makes Ino follow him to Usagi.

Back at the town, Lord Tamakuro says he's almost ready to move against the shogun and asks Torame to execute Tomoe. Usagi goes to the prison in order to find Tomoe and he's able to bluff the guards and go to her.

When he finds her, she tells him of Tamakuro's plot against the Shogun, and bids him to leave her imprisoned there and report back to Noriyuki. Usagi doesn't listen and decides to rescue her anyway. Tomoe's executioners then show up at the prison and Usagi gets rid of them and flees with Tomoe. Torame learns of the escape and sends some men to get them.

Usagi is able to get out of the gates in time, but Tomoe decides to stay inside, much to Usagi's protest. Usagi then goes to warn Lord Noriyuki while Tomoe is hiding in the fortress. Usagi is then trapped by a patrol, but he manages to kill two of the three men and just before he gets slain by the third man, the third man gets killed by a shuriken. Usagi then finds himself half-dead in front of Shingen.