![]() Jubei is attacked by another Devil, Benisato, but he is saved by Kagero before she can be questioned, Benisato is killed from afar by Yurimaru, Gemma’s right-hand man, for failing her mission. ![]() Jubei, who had been forced to kill his comrades to survive, decapitated Gemma in revenge Gemma survived due to his immortality. Jubei learns from Dakuan that the leader of the Devils is Himuro Gemma, the former Yamashiro ninja leader, who had ordered his team’s members to kill each other to cover up the location of the goldmine five years earlier. To ensure his compliance, Dakuan stabs Jubei with a poisoned shuriken, and promises to give him an antidote once the mission is complete. Dakuan, a Tokugawa spy, blackmails Jubei into helping him kill the remaining Devils. She is rescued by Kibagami Jubei, a mercenary ex-Yamashiro ninja, who fights and eventually kills Tessai. The sole survivor, Kagero, is captured by a Devil, Tessai, who molests her. While investigating the deaths, a Mochizuki Koga ninja team is massacred by the Devils. With the last of his strength, he gives Jubei a mysterious jewel, thereby transferring his mission: deliver the jewel at all costs to the Priestess of Light. He would certainly be slaughtered, his mission failed, if not for the intervention of a wandering mercenary - Kibagami Jubei. The ship runs aground onto Mochizuki territory in a storm, and the Eight Devils of Kimon, a ninja team with supernatural powers in the employ of the Yamashiro, kill the people of the nearby village of Shimoda to keep the gold shipment a secret. A half-man, half-beast is chased by foes wielding power of an unpleasant nature. The Shogun of the Dark intends to use the gold to buy advanced Spanish weaponry and overthrow the current government, the Tokugawa Shogunate. ![]() In Edo period-Japan, the Yamashiro clan mines gold in secret, and sends a shipment to the Toyotomi Shogun of the Dark as payment for his protection. ![]()
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