[ She dashes her pipe off camera, letting one last trail of smoke leave her lips before taking a sake cup, also from off screen, to sip from. ]

When Shuten-douji had the country under their thumb, they had a few close disciples. Among them was, of course, our dear Toraguma...

... another was Kaneguma. The "Iron Bear". He and Toraguma were blood brothers, kin under the banner of Shuten, a bond of pride and of family.

Until that assassin came... Toraguma did not know that Kaneguma had survived the purge of Shuten's tribe. None of us did.