Artwork
NBC Premium Gallery — Keiichiro Washizuka
2005
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Character story from the NBC Premium Gallery, translated below.
English reading
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| The year was Genji 1, 1864. Kyoto protector Matsudaira Katamori had a formidable peacekeeping unit feared by the anti-foreign activists: the Shinsengumi, rapidly gaining strength after the Ikedaya incident. Although its members’ names were becoming known, some never appeared publicly. Keiichiro Washizuka was one of them. Continuing his investigation of the Hell’s Gate incident several months earlier, he learned that WAREZ, apparently a Western trading concern, was involved. Capturing its mastermind might reveal how to deal with the Gate. Senior shogunate officials were also repeatedly disappearing, again apparently involving WAREZ. “I shall strike down WAREZ, the source of it all, and now demonstrate my loyalty!” Beneath the banner of sincerity, the wolf of Mibu bares his fangs. |