‘...clearly wants to be the long-awaited spiritual successor to Bushido Blade.’
Short Story
1.
Yoshiide is a travelling swordsman in an alternative future “cyberpunk” Japan. Sometimes he helps the local villagers ward off bandit attacks, sometimes he stops to help find a lost dog, or even (although some would say it was beneath his honour to do so) help bring in the harvest. Travelling from the north of Honshu, and heading steadily towards the south west, he has begun to encounter the signs of warfare: burned villages, abandoned houses, empty nets, or broken ships at the shore. But he is unconcerned. As he likes to remark: “Why should a fly be concerned with the flow of an ocean?”
2.
Up in the mountains, Yoshiide spies a column of smoke coming from a nearby village. It is early in the morning and frozen trees are sparkling with ice and snow. He approaches the outskirts of the village and sees a couple of men in armour throwing dead bodies into a bonfire. The village around them is slowly burning away. “The night attacks have proven successful for the raiders,” he thinks to himself.
3.
But the soldiers do not look like bandits… Who are they and why are they attacking this seemingly unimportant village?
1.
Yoshiide is a travelling swordsman in an alternative future “cyberpunk” Japan. Sometimes he helps the local villagers ward off bandit attacks, sometimes he stops to help find a lost dog, or even (although some would say it was beneath his honour to do so) help bring in the harvest. Travelling from the north of Honshu, and heading steadily towards the south west, he has begun to encounter the signs of warfare: burned villages, abandoned houses, empty nets, or broken ships at the shore. But he is unconcerned. As he likes to remark: “Why should a fly be concerned with the flow of an ocean?”
2.
Up in the mountains, Yoshiide spies a column of smoke coming from a nearby village. It is early in the morning and frozen trees are sparkling with ice and snow. He approaches the outskirts of the village and sees a couple of men in armour throwing dead bodies into a bonfire. The village around them is slowly burning away. “The night attacks have proven successful for the raiders,” he thinks to himself.
3.
But the soldiers do not look like bandits… Who are they and why are they attacking this seemingly unimportant village?
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