Catch the brass ring! Magatsu sweeps Manji up behind him and hands him his sword.

Go for it! Legless Manji does the honors with a flying leap from horseback.

Ah, the idyllic pastoral beauty of old Japan, with a blanket of snow like a Hiroshige woodcut! But it still needs a little something to make the scene truly memorable...

Shira is fairly well bisected but not yet dead, allowing Magatsu to make a few more "points" before removing his remaining limbs and departing.

The protagonists are fully re-assembled, warm and tucked in by the fire. Presumably Magatsu toted along the left arm that Shira swiped from Manji volumes ago -- and now I'm wondering about that eyeball of Shira's that Manji plucked out whole from the socket like a hard-boiled egg! Hmm, they've been talking a lot in the recent chapters about the exact parameters of the healing factor and of transplants...

But there's someone missing, isn't there? Renzo's gone out to find the STILL-breathing ruins of Shira and make his own peace. As if...
Anonymous
June 21 2009, 23:02:11 UTC 2 years ago
Anonymous
June 21 2009, 23:39:20 UTC 2 years ago
I thought it might be a rather busty Rin (Hey, recent images have proven that she's working on getting to 'stacked') till I saw that Rin must be the one that the other ninja chick is snuggling up against.
Anonymous
June 23 2009, 01:53:00 UTC 2 years ago
Anonymous
June 25 2009, 02:56:17 UTC 2 years ago
Besides, before the Edo castle break in, there was roughly three volumes of building story w/out action. Like the Prison Arc, which is a lot stronger reading all the way through than month to month.
#180 made me smile like a child :) Actually, #181 should be coming out soon...
Anonymous
June 25 2009, 03:09:48 UTC 2 years ago