by Kei Toume, 224 pagesWandering cyborg-assassin Jintetsu and his talking-sword Haganemaru keep a protective eye on Matoko, who still insists she's going to kill Jintetsu when the time is right. And that's fine with him; but until then, he'll keep her out of trouble as best he can.
In this volume, the three drifters come across two very different women as they travel. One, a cheating dice-thrower, has determined to start her life over again and get a respectable job. But when the fate of a loved one is in the balance, will she gamble away her own future to ensure his? The other, billed as a marvelous mechanical doll in a travelling theatre troupe, troubles Haganemaru's dreams of his human past as the characters contemplate their scars and what it really means to be "alive."
Now this series has made me feel compassion for a talking sword. *sigh*
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