by Joong-Ki Park, 198 pagesWhen his master, the incomparable shaman warrior Yarong, is betrayed and killed by the General (Yarong's own trusted superior), Batu swears vengeance. But he's also made a promise to the fallen Yarong--to protect his infant daughter from the newly adopted genocidal policy of the Kugai clan who once employed him.
Yaki has run off from the brutal Butcher Camp where she was raised--and toughened and indirectly protected--and has rejoined her guardian Batu, eagerly agreeing to aid him in his co-plot with the Manutu clan to assassinate the General and his right-hand man, Yuda, the one who dealt the death blow to her father years ago. But will Batu and Yaki and their fellow conspirators survive yet another betrayal from within?
The politics in this manhwa (Korean manga) series are a little hard to follow, but the characters are intriguing and the art is all detailed, well-choreographed action. It was sweet and sad to see, via flashback, how Batu and Yarong met and became friends, and it's good to see various characters from previous volumes all coming together again. But I'm still worried for Nejo, Yaki's closest friend from the Butcher Camp, whom we don't get any updates on at all in this installment. They were separated last volume, neither aware of the other's situation, and I worry for his safety and their naive dream of a quiet future. And now one of the Manutu's own is a spy for the Kugai? What's going to happen next?!
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