The Burden of a Lone Samurai

by Amira Abdul-Salaam

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Dialog ATSUKO : You're so tender with her.

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Dialog ATSUKO: It seems caring for a child comes as naturally to you as swordplay.

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Dialog YOJIRO: She is unusually well behaved. And, I have some experience with children.

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Dialog ATSUKO: Experience?

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Dialog YOJIRO: I was an orphan. I spent my youth in the streets of Kyoto.

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Dialog YOJIRO: I took it upon myself to feed and protect the younger ones.

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Dialog ATSUKO: You were an orphan?

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Dialog ATSUKO: But..how..?

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Dialog YOJIRO: How did I become a samurai and master swordsman in one of the most powerful houses in the S

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Dialog YOJIRO: Like all boys, we'd often play swordsman in the streets. We’d fashion swords from bamboo an

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Dialog YOJIRO: I was 5 years old when I discovered that I could see between the moments.

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Dialog YOJIRO: I could predict my opponent's movements and thus move and strike before they could even re

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Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 7, I discovered I could earn money by challenging the older boys to duels.

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Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 15, I was going to Sake houses and market places and challenging adults, winning

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Dialog YOJIRO: whatever I could to keep the neighborhood kids fed...

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Dialog YOJIRO: Unfortunately

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Dialog YOJIRO: I earned a reputation...

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Dialog YOJIRO: One day, a very rich, very arrogant young samurai in training challenged me,

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Dialog YOJIRO: offering a bag of gold. When I beat him, he became enraged, dropped his stick, pulled his s

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Dialog YOJIRO: and attacked.

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Dialog YOJIRO: I easily disarmed him...

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Dialog YOJIRO: broke his nose and shattered his collar bone.

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Dialog YOJIRO: His father, a high-ranking noble demanded that I be put to death.

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Dialog YOJIRO: However, The young man's sensei, Grandmaster Shogo Miyagi offered an alternative.I was to b

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Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 18, he presented me with these swords, and told me there was nothing more he cou

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Dialog YOJIRO: But in this world, swords are banned. I was an orphan once again. I concealed my swords and

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Dialog YOJIRO: It’s a terrible thing, to have no purpose.

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Dialog YOJIRO: Then, one day I stumbled into that restaurant. I’ve been there ever since. That is my place

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Dialog YOJIRO: This is why I tell you to abandon this way of life.

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Dialog YOJIRO: It will do nothing but bring you pain, and then leave you with heartache...