Overview
Moku is tall. He meets Hakuri and Uruha at the train station with Sumi. He rallies Senkutsuji’s troops when the Hishaku hit. He is deeply empathetic in the way this book allows: when Chihiro starts doubting or chewing himself, Moku reminds him of the mission or shuts him up with food. The goldfish household’s manners, applied by a ninja. He is the clan’s gravity.
Ro looks like a child and files swords. Sumi draws doors with a marker. Moku feeds the protagonist. That is not a lesser job. Enten is a retraction forged over a bowl. A ninja who makes the boy eat is keeping the brief in a body that has started to skip meals for guilt. The Masumi served Samura until he freed them. Then they served the daughter. Moku’s service looks like a packed lunch in a war.
The station
Hakuri is walking a Storehouse toward a temple. Uruha is a false-death waiting to happen. Sumi’s mandala is the road. Moku is the height at the platform: a visible adult in a clan whose leader is mistaken for a child. When the temple is attacked he rallies troops. The Masumi suppress sound and scent for a blind man. Moku is in that weather as gravity, not as a named attack. The clan page holds the sacrifice they offered and Samura refused.
The meal
Chihiro copies Iai until the copying becomes self-harm by another name. Moku’s answer is food. Cafe Haru Haru is the civilian version of this sentence. Moku is the field version. Hinao keeps a cafe. Moku keeps a boy. After Owl, Easy Does It, the hotel, Samura’s death, Tobimune in Iori’s hands, the tall one is still the reason someone eats. See Masumi and Cafe Haru Haru.
Notes
Moku. Tall. Food. Gravity. For the leader, see Ro. For the road, see Sumi. Official chapters: VIZ / MANGA Plus.