Written by Kelley Puckett; Art by Jonboy MeyersCover by Michael Chang Ting Yu

When a stranger enters a small village and assaults a young girl, the villagers discover and beat him to death, not knowing he is their feudal lord. With their entire village now marked for destruction by the forces of the shogunate, Jubei agrees to stand by them in their hour of need. But with an entire army bearing down upon them, what can one man do?