For a samurai without master, the path to spiritual peace is littered with perils, some visible, other carpets in the shadow. During his wanderings on the roads of Japan Feodal, Miyamoto Usagi finds himself involved in a series of events connected with each other by dark secrets and heavy pasts: a meeting with a young samurai who walks in the footsteps of his father, a village terrorized by a supernatural creature, two sets of horrific master-stripped murders by Inspector Chief Ishida, and a Machiavellical conspiracy to usurp a lord's throne. Memories, mysteries and betrayals intertwine in front of the steps of Miyamoto Usagi.