:08:00
Squire Katagiri is here.
:08:10
Something serious has happened.
Yaichiro Hazama has escaped.
:08:17
As you know, he is very skilled,
and crafty as any snake.
:08:22
He has barricaded himself
in a peasant family's hut...
:08:27
...and is holding them hostage.
:08:30
Behind him is a range
of very high mountains.
:08:35
It's impossible for him
to flee across them...
:08:39
...and he doesn't mean to try.
:08:41
We know this because
he had the guard...
:08:46
...bring a Ietter
to Senior Retainer Hori.
:08:54
'I will neither run nor hide.
Send a force against me.
:08:58
'One by one I will cut them down...
:09:00
'...until I have built
a mountain of corpses.'
:09:03
What pure gall!
:09:06
The Senior Retainer is furious.
:09:09
Even weakened by Iong imprisonment,
Hazama is still...
:09:13
...the best swordsman in the clan.
:09:16
He would injure or even kill
foot soldiers.
:09:20
That is why your name came up.
:09:27
You are the only one
who can cut Hazama down.
:09:33
By doing that...
:09:35
...you will erase any suspicion
that you have plotted with him.
:09:41
Go out and face him.
:09:43
Those are the words
of the Senior Retainer.
:09:47
Well? Will you do it?
:09:52
I am being ordered
to kill an old friend?