Jin also seeks out the Straw Hat ronin, led by his old friend Ryuzo. Jin also aids Yuna in another mission to take down three brothers who also work as slavers. Jin also gets help from Yuna’s brother Taka, as well as an opportunistic sake merchant named Kenji. She commits seppuku before allowing her sister to kill her herself. It is later discovered that the mastermind was her own sister, Lady Hana, who was jealous of her sister marrying a lord while she was left with an abusive drunk. Lady Masako Adachi is still reeling not only over the loss of her husband at the hands of the Khan, but also the loss of her entire family, as they were slaughtered by someone close to her. She briefly teams up with Jin and Ishikawa to fight Mongols since she claims she was always working against them, but she flees from the island without answering for her crimes. Sensei Ishikawa is a master archer, whose student Tomoe has turned against him and is plotting her own agenda with the Mongols.

Throughout his journey across the land, Jin recruits a number of allies while also aiding them in their own personal missions. He recounts Shimura’s teachings on when to kill, as he stopped him from brazenly charging against a criminal who tried to assassinate him, and instead showed Jin to kill him honorably. Jin begins in Izuhara, where he gathers weapons such as smoke bombs and kunai (throwing stars) to aid him in fighting Mongols. He thinks back to his youth when Shimura was teaching him to hone his skill. Regardless, Jin utilizes stealth techniques to get the drop on the Mongols and slay them undetected. They must sneak past other guards, and after recovering his sword, Yuna tells Jin he must take them out silently, which is against the samurai code. She feigns helplessness and knifes the guard in the neck before getting Jin out of there. She nurses him back to health, but as he tries to leave, a Mongol guard enters and demands food from Yuna.

Jin is swept up by the water but is soon found by a village thief named Yuna. He takes Shimura as his prisoner while Jin is wounded and falls into the ocean. Khotun taunts Shimura since he had planned so far ahead that none of the samurai could have anticipated his moves. Shimura’s nephew and student, Jin Sakai, races across the battlefield, but the effort is futile, and all the samurai but Jin and Shimura are wiped out. The other samurai, led by Lord Shimura, charge into battle against the Mongols. Lord Haranobu Adachi approaches the Khan with the intent of dueling the fearsome warlord, but Khotun merely douses Adachi with wine and sets him ablaze before decapitating him.

1274, Tsushima Island, Japan – An army of samurai prepare for the arrival of a Mongol fleet, led by Khotun Khan.

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