Vagabond Vol. 15

"8/10 More kojiro backstory, the village wants sensei Jisai to kill a sword master “Fudo” . He takes young girls at 14 and makes them his wives or does what he wants with them. Once he hears this jisai accepts little does he know kojiro and his friend are plotting to kill Fudo as well because Fudo sliced off kojiros friends dad hand. Kojiro and his friend get there first and cause a fire as a diversion, he comes out and takes down the friend instantly and while he’s distracted kojiro slices off his hand with the sword Jisai left for him. Then, with one arm, Fudo beats on Kojiro and right before he’s about to kill him Jisai saves the day and fights him off until he slices his neck. Then Kojiro went nuts and kept slicing the dead body, after this Jisai promised himself to never teach Kojiro the way of the sword but he taught kojiros friend. After, kojiro yearned to be trained like him and tried to approach him with a stick just for Jisai would beat him up and maybe he’d pick up something. Then Jisai starts teaching him other sounds and characters used to describe things in life. Trying to teach kojiro to communicate. As Jisai sleeps, Kojiro trains with his heavy stick and continues to train his ways of the sword. "