A revenge file that keeps having to become something else. Then the war that refused to stay in the past.
Part 1 spoilers below, including the end of chapter 115. Black bars hide the worst beats. Click to reveal.
Part 1, chapters 1–115
Three movements. One long last book. Who gets to hold Kunishige’s work. Who gets spent so the steel can move. The arc directory is the map. This page is the walkthrough that used to sit on the homepage.
Vs. Sojo · ch. 1–18
Chihiro and Shiba work the Tokyo underworld. Char has seen a blade. Sojo has Cloud Gouger, a customer, not Hishaku. The Anti-Cloud Gouger Special Forces die around him. Four of the six are gone; Hagiwara loses his legs; Kazane loses an arm. Chihiro loses an arm and still finds True Realm. Enten cuts Cloud Gouger. Sojo chooses Datenseki suicide. The series has now taught its rules: contracts, ore as a bomb, a government squad that is not enough, a protagonist who will not spend Char.
Chapter 9. Hokazono has named this fight as his favorite so far. Full chapter: VIZ / MANGA Plus.
Rakuzaichi · ch. 19–46
Shinuchi is listed at the 208th auction. Chihiro meets Hakuri and Hiyuki. He lets the clan take Enten so the blade can scout the Storehouse. On auction day he walks back in with Cloud Gouger’s stump. Hakuri wakes Isou and the Kura. Kyora, dying, touches Magatsumi. The Sword Master looks through an auctioneer’s eyes. Chihiro hands Shinuchi to the Kamunabi and keeps Enten by joining them. Then a Sanso is attacked.
The 208th auction. Prisoners in the building. Full chapter: VIZ / MANGA Plus.
Sword Bearer Assassination · ch. 47–115
Uruha on a train. Hiruhiko. Senkutsuji: Hakuri returns Tobimune; Samura cuts Uruha down, Suzaku, not a Hishaku pact. Iori at the Kyoto Bloodshed Hotel. Chihiro copies Iai. Chapter 83: Enten’s brief said out loud. Kasen’s leak. Yura spends Magatsumi without drawing it, then offers a body. Magatsumi breaks Enten. Samura dies buying Chihiro a corridor. Tobimune goes to Iori. Akemura is loose. Part 1 ends on “Swordsmith.”
Chapter 83: Enten’s brief said cleanly. Full chapter: VIZ / MANGA Plus.
Part 2, ch. 116–
The Seitei War. Irishima talks, Chiaki, the forge. Shiba is still a Soga guardian. Kunishige is still a picky dealer who has not looked at the ore. The present already told you the island rose, Japan took the stone, and Akemura used Malediction after a treaty. The uncollected chapters are the smithing manual. This site’s chapter index runs through 126, “Fire.”
Chapter 113: the island that starts the clock. Full chapter: VIZ / MANGA Plus.
Part 1: Vs. Sojo, Rakuzaichi, Sword Bearer Assassination, then Swordsmith. Part 2: Princess, four Talks and END, Start, Chiaki, Powerless, Smelting, Fire, Smelting, Smelting, Ironworks. Volume 12 is expected to close the corridor and open the war book on paper. The homepage rows stay one line. This guide stays four movements. The Part 2 page for the fourth movement’s present tense is the Part 2 page. Names: who is who.
