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THE SILENT SAMURAI KIICHI HOGEN

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THE ROAD ON FIRE

Help me!

I did not do it! I had nothing to do with it!

Help me!

They did it without asking me!

Help me!

I did not do it! I had nothing to do with it! Help me!

When he was still young, his throat was slit and he lost his voice.

His name is Kiichi Hogen.

He now lives for his unspeakable past.

To this day, he is still wandering around, looking

for Gonzales, the man who slit his throat,

killed his parents and raped his fiancée.

Do you want water?

I'm not going to give you water.

Around here, it's much more valuable than your own life.

Are we really... going to do it?

Are we really doing it?

Anyone who doesn't do what we say will end up like this. Did you understand?

Are you sure about this?

Isn't that Ofuji?

Oh! Water! She has water!

Give us water, even if t's a little drop.

It's for my baby.

For my baby!

Just one drop!

If you don't give it to us, we'll tell Shinkichi.

Please!

Ofuji!

Dear!

Dear, and the baby?

What did...

you do?

The baby

is still alive, right?

He just...

died.

Huh?

Water! Water!

Water!

Water!

Ofuji!

She slit her tongue!

Ofuji...

Ofuji!

Ofuji.

I am a complete stranger, what do you want to ask me?

As you can see, the endless

drought caused the fields to crack

and the well and the river dried up.

I am a swordsman, not a warlock.

No.

We would like you to use your skill to give us back our water.

To the east of this town is a temple called Misshoji.

They say that with the water that flows there from the rocks

Kobo Daishi wet his lips once, so it

is known as the mercy water,

and it has survived countless droughts.

And what kind of monsters live in that temple?

No, they are human.

Headed by a female thief called "Oran the Serpent"

Ichitaro, Nitaro, Santaro and Shitaro,

who are obsessed with heresy, live there.

A bucket of water cost 1 sho of sake and 1 bale of rice.

Then, 1 gold coin, then 2, then 5, and when it reached 10 gold coins...

...they requested a young woman.

So you want me to kill those 5 and get the water back?

And also rescue my daughter Aya, who is being held hostage.

It will be expensive.

That water is our only hope.

Please, help us.

Please! Help us, please!

25 ryos is too little.

Please!

This is only half.

Tomizo.

He is an important person for the survival of the villagers.

No matter what happens, hang in there until the job is done.

Okay?

Tomizo.

Everyone's life depends on your hospitality.

Do you understand?

Yes.

I get it.

Tomizo!

Yes?

I can't stand your filth.

Go to sleep.

I see.

Excuse me.

Tomizo!

From tonight, you will sleep alone in the barn.

Lord Samurai, that's too much!

Go away, quickly!

If you upset me, you will be banished and you will not be able to return to this place.

Dear!

Osaki.

It is for everyone's good.

Forgive me.

No! I don't want to!

Don't worry.

I'll just have you pour me somesake.

Come here.

Dear!

Dear!

No!

Dear!

No!

Dear!

Dear!

Dear! No!

Osaki.

Osaki.

Osaki.

Osaki...

Osaki!

The village chief... gave me water as a reward.

Osaki!

Osaki!

Look at your feet.

Behind you.

Samurai.

How much did the peasants give you?

25 ryos.

Did you hear that?

They only gave him 25 ryos.

Next time you come, bring a chest with 1,000 ryos.

Peasants!

You came all this way on this hot day for nothing.

This samurai

has just agreed to join us

and will start to live in the temple.

Well... that's what happened.

Wait!

Scumbag!

If there are any other idiots...

who want to die like this bastard...

take a step forward.

Damn bastard!

Stand down everyone!

Samurai.

There is no water there.

WHERE IS THE MISSHOJI TEMPLE?

I can't read.

Maybe he is mute?

We shouldn't have trusted the samurai, no matter how desperate we were.

We can't trust strangers.

From now on, we will have to take care of this ourselves.

Chief.

How long until the officers' monthly visit?

There are still 10 days left for them to come.

Father.

Listen to what Mosaku has to tell you.

A strange samurai came to fetch water from the well at my house.

And then?

He didn't say anything and took out a paper with something written on it.

He was so strong that it gave me chills just looking at it.

Father.

Talk to that samurai and ask him to save my sister.

I'm sorry, miss, but we won't

ask strangers for help anymore,

we will solve it ourselves.

We just decided that.

And can you do something?

Isn't it that we can't do anything,

that's why we've been thirsty for10 days,

following the instructions of evil people?

Shino!

What are you planning to do about my sister, father?

Go to your room.

If you don't rescue her...

I'll go and take her place.

Dear!

- Dear! - What's going on?

They just took our daughter! They took Okinu!

Dammit!

I can't stand it anymore.

Let's all go to the temple!

What...

the hell is going on with you?

Didn't we just decide we're going to end this ourselves?

You say that...

because you're in love with Okinu.

What did you say?

- Scumbag! - Inokichi!

Stop!

Stop!

Chief.

I have a daughter too, I'd better go home.

Chief.

I...

I'm worried about my little sister.

Me too...

Me too!

- Me too! - Listen.

Listen!

If we split up, we won't be able to do anything.

Go get them and come back here again.

Understood?

You have to come back!

I am not dangerous.

My name is Shino and I am the daughter of the village chief.

Samurai.

This town is in trouble because of some villains who stole the water.

Could you use your skills

to help the people of this town?

I beg you.

My sister was also

taken hostage.

Please.

Help us.

I beg you.

I would like to offer you money

but I do not have anything.

In return...

Take...

me.

Are you

afraid of the villains of the Misshoji temple?

"Are there any

foreigners with them?"

Help me!

No!

No!

Father!

Mother!

Help me!

Help!

Father!

Even.

Even?

Even.

Give me back my daughter!

Give me my Okinu!

Please!

Do what you want to me!

I brought him because he risked his life to get here.

What should we do?

How annoying.

Do what you want with him.

Shino.

Father.

Please.

You ask too.

Miss.

You shouldn't get your father into this kind of trouble.

He is not a traitor

as the previous samurai.

Father.

Ask him, please.

We can't trust strangers.

I think the same.

One more person only decreases

the amount of water for the rest.

Get out of here.

It is true.

He's right.

We cannot replace the water.

Wehave had enough samurai.

- Yes. - He should go.

Samurai.

The money and rice of this village

have been exchanged for water

to keep the inhabitants

alive, but as you can see

it is running out.

We don't have money to ask someone else to do something for us.

Sorry for the inconveniences

that my daughter caused by meddling.

Do me a favor and leave.

Mosaku said he was mute.

Isn't he rather deaf?

Enough!

He came here looking for his enemy.

A foreigner named Gonzales.

It seems that he heard that until a year ago he was in the Misshoji temple.

Peasants!

Observe carefully.

This is how you will end if you are too pretentious.

Did you understand?

Dammit!

How dare you? And Okinu too!

Do you also want to die?

Interesting.

Go ahead!

Inokichi!

Don't worry.

She did not die in vain.

We made her taste paradise with each of us.

Dammit!

You filthy peasant!

This is not going to stay like this!

Stupid!

I made it!

I really made it!

I won!

What are you doing?

What did you do, stupid?

How are you going to fix all this now?

Father.

Ask the samurai for help, please.

Before lowering my head before a stranger,

I prefer to lower it before the villains that

inhabit the temple.

Samurai.

I'm so sorry.

Everyone is upset

and they behave strangely.

Don't be angry

and forgive them, please.

This is all due to those villains from the Misshoji temple.

If this continues like

this, everyone in town

will lose their minds and die.

Please.

With your strength...

save them all.

What's up, samurai?

Does your throat hurt?

Please, give us some water.

We only have 20 gold coins left between us all.

It's all the town has left.

Please, have mercy on us.

We will have to give you

water for those 20 gold coins.

But before that,

we want you to hand over the bastard who cut Nitaro with a sickle

and the wandering samurai.

The samurai is no longer in the village.

What? Did he escape?

Yes.

If he escaped, there is no other way.

The bastard with the sickle is here?

Get out!

If you don't get out...

they will be without water forever.

If we hand over that man...

will you forgive us for last night?

It's not like I died.

I could forgive you.

You don't care what happens to anyone as long as you're safe?

Watch!

The gods are watching.

It doesn't rain here, because of the kind of people you are!

Good.

There's no fun in just killing him.

Tie him to that tree!

Inokichi!

Stop!

Shut up!

I'm not going to die.

You are the ones who should die.

If they are demons...

so are you!

Die! Everybody die!

Water...

Fine, chief.

Bring the gold coins here.

Give us the water first.

Money first.

Bring it here by yourself.

Wait a moment!

Samurai...

You...

Father.

Trust the samurai.

Didn't you run away last night?

If you want to be a messenger, put down your gun.

If you do it wrong, our hostage will die.

Samurai.

I'd better deliver it.

You have guts.

Come in.

- Where are you massaging? - What about now?

Huh? That's better.

A little more this way.

- Here? - Yes.

That feels good.

Is that the wandering samurai from yesterday?

Are you mute?

Did you understand what he meant?

He said he came for the girl in exchange for the money.

Do you think you'll get out of here alive?

You must have a lot of guts to say that unarmed.

This is not just any ornament.

It's alive.

It has a mechanism that releases a deadly poison when passing through the skin.

One little scratch and you will die.

If you make a wrong move...

this will guide you to the other world.

I like you.

Why, instead of dying for

some ungrateful peasants,

don't you join us

just like he did?

This is paradise.

Don't underestimate us, you bastard!

You are crazy.

You chose to go to hell.

Don't you want to team up with me?

The treasure will be yours...

and also my body.

Will this girl go to the other world?

Or do you prefer to go to hell in her place?

So?

Which one do you choose?

Dammit!

Do not move!

If you come near, I will show no mercy.

Sister!

Aya!

Samurai!

Thank you very much!

Water...

Water!

We have water! We have water!

Samurai.

You will continue to search for your enemy, right?

Samurai!

At least tell me...

what's your name.

Kiichi...Hogen.

It's raining!

It's raining! It's raining!

It's raining!

Don't erase them!

Don't erase these letters!

Don't erase them!

TO BE CONTINUED

IN THE NEXT EPISODE OF

THE SILENT SAMURAI KIICHI HOGEN "THE BRIDGE TO HELL"

Kiichi Hogen recklessly enters where some heinous villains are gathering, in search of his enemy.

At the crossroads between this world and hell, love, desire and the spirit of bushido swirl.

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