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E12 - The Truth

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:27:30 -0700

With the traitor discovered, the samurai are at odds over what should be done with him. Meanwhile, Katsushiro tries to come to terms with his feelings over the first life he has taken. And later, Kikuchiyo reveals a startling secret, making him the 7th and final samurai.

E11 - The Village

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:27:15 -0700

The samurai arrive at Kanna Village, but find that many of the inhabitants seem to be missing. While Kambei meets with the village elder, Kikuchiyo discovers that the women of the village have gone into hiding along with the rice. He reveals this to the other samurai and they begin the work of preparing the village for the coming battle with the Nobuseri. But a traitor lurks in the village’s midst.

E10 - The Journey

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:27:01 -0700

With the Nobuseri on their trail, Kambei splits everyone up into three groups. Each group takes a different route to Kanna Village. He takes Kikuchiyo, Katsushiro, and Komachi, while Gorobei, Heihachi, and Rikichi take another route. Shichiroji, Kyuzo, and Kirara take a third route. But Kirara still doesn’t fully trust Kyuzo and his intentions. However, she is later proved wrong when Kyuzo saves her life.

E09 - The Bandits

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:26:46 -0700

With Kikuchiyo captured by the Nobuseri, Kambei devises a way to rescue the would-be hero. Unfortunately for the remaining samurai, the Nobuseri have laid an ambush for them, with the help of a spy in their midst. Their fighting skills defeat the bandits, with the help of Kyuzo, who kills his former partner Hyogo when his patience runs out and he attempts to do in both Kyuzo and Kambei at once. Kyuzo joins the group, so that he alone will have the honor of fighting Kambei to the death.

E08 - The Guardians

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:26:29 -0700

The group travels to Metal City, the home of the mysterious Guardians (moribito). Katsushiro was injured by one of Ukyo’s men, and the group rests with Honoka’s, a girl who works for the guardians. But, when the Nobuseri arrive to do business with the Guardians, the samurai decide not to interfere because the Guardians’ business is protected by treaty. Rikichi and Kikuchiyo refuse to stand idly by.

E07 - The Friend

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:26:13 -0700

With Ukyo hot on their trail, Kambei and the others visit his “old wife”, his friend and battle companion, Shichiroji, at an inn in the city of Kougakyo (“Respite”), a lawless sanctuary outside the Magistrate’s power. When Ukyo and the hunters track Kikuchiyo there, Shichiroji tells them of a secret passage they can use to escape. He leaves his girlfriend to once again fight at Kambei’s side.

E06 - The Fool

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:25:59 -0700

The Imperial Envoy is murdered in the magistrate’s palace, and the samurai are blamed. The magistrate orders all the Samurai and their companions captured - dead or alive. Kambei and the others sneak out of town, staging a daring escape on a runaway train. Kikuchiyo is thought to be dead after a crash.

E05 - The Drifter

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:25:37 -0700

Kirara and the samurai continue looking for more help. After long days of finding no one, they come across a samurai who chops wood. The samurai, Heihachi, is very skilled with both the sword and machines, but he has never killed a man and prefers eating to violence.

E04 - The Loner

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:25:20 -0700

Kambei recruits Gorobei, and they easily dispatch of the assassins sent by Ayamaro, the magistrate. Angered, Ayamaro sends his two bodyguards, fellow samurai, after them. Kambei faces off against the mysterious Kyuzo. They fight until Kambei admits that though he can’t defeat Kyuzo now, the fight will have to wait until after a promise is kept.

E03 - The Entertainer

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:25:01 -0700

Kambei decides to help the Kanna trio; he is the one Kirara’s dowsing crystal “chose.” After the fight with Ukyo’s men, the injured Katsushiro and a chastened Kikuchiyo come across Gorobei, a cocky street entertainer. He challenges Katsushiro to play his game of arrows, shooting at his forehead; a former samurai, he catches the arrow just as it nicks his skin.

E02 - The Pupil

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:03:56 -0700

Ukyo, the son of the Magistrate, kidnaps Kirara for his harem; it is up to Rikichi and Komachi to save her, with the help of the only two samurai they’ve recruited: young, idealistic Katsushiro and the boisterous cyborg Kikuchiyo. The soft-spoken master samurai, Kambei, has declined to join their cause but saves Kirara from Ukyo’s men.

E01 - The Master [The Murderer]

achim@darknesscode.xyz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:57:19 -0700

Enter a world whose past involved a large-scale war between samurai and mechanized samurai bandits, known as Nobuseri. The samurai fought a losing battle and retreated, and the war ended with an uneasy peace. Now the Nobuseri plague farming village periodically taking all their food and supplies and, sometimes, their women and children. The peasants of one village, Kanna, decide to seek samurai to fight off the Nobuseri on their behalf. Three villagers, Kirara the water priestess, Komachi her sister, and Rikichi, a farmer, set off to the city to find samurai who are willing to work for rice.