A person in Japan, a sword that soars to immortality.

Five days until the World Festival, on a country road.

Several samurai, without even a sword, disheveled in clothes and with messy hair, were walking along, cursing and swearing.

Across from them walked a samurai who was nearly 1.65 meters tall, wearing a straw hat and carrying two swords, one long and one short, at his waist.

"Damn it, Edo is a dangerous place. Luckily, I was cleaved in two."

"Luckily, Taiichi fought with that samurai, which allowed us to escape. Otherwise, if we had been caught and imprisoned, we would have been severely punished."

"Hey, he was thinking of challenging that Taiyi guy, how arrogant! He actually dared to say that everyone should come at him together. If he gets hacked to death, who do you think wins?"

"You can't be blamed for anything. The knife is already lost, so don't even think about anything else."

Just then, a samurai wearing a straw hat brushed past them and overheard their conversation.

He then stopped and, with his back to the group, said:

"Excuse me, have you caused Taiyi any trouble?"

"Huh?" Several samurai were all taken aback. Then, one of them, with a burly face and tilted his head, walked towards the man in the straw hat and reached out to shove him, saying, "Who are you? What do you have to do with me...?"

Swish!

With a flash of light, the samurai who had just reached out had his wrist severed instantly. Before he could even scream, the samurai in the straw hat slashed his throat with another blade.

Seeing this, the others dared not linger any longer and all ran away.

But before they could turn around, the man's lightning-fast blade was already behind them.

"what......."

The screams rang out, but quickly disappeared.

Looking at the several corpses on the ground, the man flicked his knife to wipe away the blood, then sheathed it.

He then adjusted his straw hat, revealing only his chin, and muttered to himself, "Taiichi, I've cleaned up your mess again."

At this point, the man's lips curled up, and he chuckled again, saying, "But this time, I'm going to spank you too."

......

Asakusa-cho 7-chome, Sooyuya.

Many men and women were washing their bodies in a large public bathhouse.

Although some places have begun to ban mixed bathing, in Edo, due to fire prevention reasons, townspeople living in castle towns were not allowed to set up private bathhouses in their homes.

Therefore, if you want to take a bath, you have to go to a public bathhouse.

As for the bathhouse, because the eldest brother is Joichiro, the Yakuza under his command are very polite. Even though they are covered in tattoos, women who bathe here will not be harassed.

But even if the men don't bother them, sometimes they'll initiate the conversation, for example...

"Oh my, Ichiro is so cute!"

"Right? I told you before, even if Brother Funaichiro is criticized, he never gets angry!"

"Yes, that's right. You seem very calm and want to talk."

Despite being pointed at and whispered about by the ladies, Funaichiro, a member of the Clean House, didn't care. Instead, he stood boldly in the middle, carefully wiping his muscular body, covered in demon tattoos, with a towel.

His tattoo is of an old woman blowing in the wind, who in folk tales is called "Blowing-out Granny" or "Fire-blowing Granny," whose ability is to blow out people's candles.

At the same time, this demon is also the nemesis of the demon that specifically causes fires—"Shiranui".

Funaichiro was not only a Yakuza, but also the town's fire extinguisher, which was responsible for putting out fires. Therefore, he was well-liked and respected by everyone.

But just as he was wiping his body, he suddenly felt the light around him dim.

When he turned around, he saw that behind him stood a giant man who was nearly two meters tall, as strong as a water buffalo, twice his width, and covered in muscles.

"Hey, get out of my way right now, you're not even as good as a child."

The giant glanced down, then chuckled and said.

"what?"

Even though the other party was huge, Ichiro himself was 1.8 meters tall. He then tilted his head and grinned at the other party.

As a member of the Pure House, his fighting style is quite fierce. Because of his fast punches, quick movements, and love of shouting, he is known as "the loudest among the loud, the fastest in Asakusa".

Seeing that the giant remained silent, he slapped his hand on the man's shoulder and said menacingly:

"Ao Yi, do you know where you are? Are you trying to start a fight...?"

Because he came from Himeji Castle, Funaichiro spoke with a strong Kansai accent and standard Yakuza trills.

Bang!

But before he could finish speaking, everything went black.

It turned out that the giant's iron fist had been deeply embedded in his face, and then it slammed forward, sending Ichiro flying several meters.

"what!!!"

"Hit someone!"

Chaos erupted in the bathhouse. Everyone automatically moved to the walls on either side, while ten burly men covered in tattoos gathered in the middle from both sides, glaring menacingly at the giant.

"Hehe, are you all in cahoots?" The giant opened his mouth wide, his eyes bulging like those of a hungry ghost, and raised his fist, which was inlaid with Funaichiro's teeth, and continued, "Then I can collect a lot more teeth!"

"It's a pity that the samurai named Taiichi isn't here, otherwise I wouldn't have had to wait so long, hehehe..."

As the giant finished laughing maniacally, the Yakuza standing opposite him clenched their fists, veins throbbing on their foreheads.

Because Taiyi was like an elder brother to the Jing family, a shout stopped them just as they were about to make a move.

"Olympiad One".

Upon hearing the sound, the Yakuza automatically parted to the sides.

Then the giant saw that in the bathtub directly in front of him, there was a man with his back to him, whose deltoid muscles were like small hills, like a black dragon crawling out of the water, with tattoos on his shoulders and two strong, scarred arms resting on the edge of the bathtub.

wow~

Jingyilang stood up, his height approaching two meters. After revealing the black dragon that covered his entire back from shoulder to hip, he turned his head and whispered to the giant:

"Taiyi is my good brother. If you want his teeth, I'll break yours off!"

"Brothers! Come on together!"

"Asshole, go to hell!"

"..."

After their leader finished speaking, the remaining Yakuza leaped up and attacked the giant in unison.

......

Meanwhile, on the streets of Edo, people saw many samurai with strange appearances, unlike those of the previous days.

There was a samurai with a limp, whose face was covered by long hair, who carried only a large katana at his waist, and who was accompanied by a beautiful woman.

There were also samurai wearing tengu masks and carrying a katana on each side of their waists.

There was also a man with a menacing look on his face, carrying a long spear wrapped tightly in cloth on his back.

There was even a man in the Japanese-style room of the Kirishino Tower in Yoshiwara, wearing only a loincloth, leaning against the wall, drinking heartily with his head tilted back.

On the ground in front of him lay six or seven women, their faces flushed with satisfaction, already unconscious.

Boom~

Suddenly, large patches of dark clouds appeared in the clear sky, completely blocking out the dazzling sunlight.

These strange samurai in Edo Castle seemed to sense something, and all looked towards the direction of Edo Castle.

There, a whirlwind was rising, and a giant dragon and a tiger made of cherry blossom petals were coiled high in the sky, looking down on them all.