drama board

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32. Atsuko: You’re so tender with her. It seems caring for a child comes as naturally to you as swordplay.
33. Yojiro: She is unusually well behaved.
34. Yojiro: And, I have some experience with children.
35. Atsuko: Experience?
38. Yojiro: I was an orphan. I spent my youth in the streets of Kyoto.
41. Yojiro: I took it upon myself to feed and protect the younger ones.
44. Atsuko: You were an orphan? But… how…?
45. Yojiro: How did I become a samurai and master swordsman in one of the most powerful houses in the Shogunate?
46. Yojiro: Like all boys, we’d often play swordsman in the streets. We’d fashion swords from bamboo and tree branches. I was 5 years old when I discovered that I could see between the moments. I could predict my opponent’s movements and thus move and strike before they could even react.
47. Yojiro: When I was 7, I discovered I could earn money by challenging the older boys to duels. When I was 15, I was going to Sake housed and market places and challenging adults,
48. Yojiro: winning yen, food, whatever I could to keep the neighborhood kids fed.
50. Yojiro: Unfortunately, I earned a reputation. One day, a very rich, very arrogant young samurai in training challenged me, offering a bag of gold.
51. Yojiro: When I beat him, he became enraged, dropped his stick, pulled his sword, and attacked.
59. Yojiro: I easily disarmed him, broke his nose and shattered his collar bone. His father, a high-ranking noble demanded that I be put to death. However, The young man’s sensei, Grandmaster Shogo Miyagi offered an alternative.
60. Yojiro: I was become his apprentice. I cooked his meals, laundered his clothes, cleaned his dojo and learned the way of sword. When I was 18, he presented me with these swords, and tole me there was nothing more he could teach me.
61. Yojiro: I dedicated my life to instructing soldiers in the way of sword. Then came to Meiji restoration.
62. Yojiro: I saw the country change around me. Much of it for the better. But in this world, sword are banned.
63. Yojiro: I was an orphan once again. I concealed my swords and wandered, a masterless Ronin. It’s a terrible thing, to have no purpose.
64. Yojiro: Then, one day I stumbled into that restaurant. I’ve been there ever since.
65. Yojiro: That is my place in this new world. Serving Katsudon, Donkatsu and Udon.
66. Yojiro: This is why I tell you to abandon this way of life.
67. Yojiro: It will do nothing but bring you pain, and then leave you with heartache…