Saturday, February 10, 2018
Lone Wolf and Cub
Voice of Daigoro: When I was little, my father was famous. He was the
greatest Samurai in the empire, and he was the Shogun's decapitator. He
cut off the heads of 131 lords for the Shogun. It was a bad time for the
empire. The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out.
People said his brain was infected by devils, and that he was rotting
with evil. The Shogun said the people were not loyal. He said he had a
lot of enemies, but he killed more people than that.
It was a bad time. Everybody living in fear, but still we were happy.
My father would come home to mother, and when he had seen her, he would
forget about the killings. He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the
Shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. At night, mother
would sing for us, while father would go into his temple and pray for
peace. He'd pray for things to get better. Then, one night the Shogun
sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father,
but they didn't. That was the night everything changed, forever. That
was when my father left his samurai life and became a demon. He became
an assassin who walks the road of vengeance. And he took me with him. I
don't remember most of this myself. I only remember the Shogun's ninja
hunting us wherever we go. And the bodies falling. And the blood.
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