Tenzen and the Iga ambush a Kouga palanquin and they find the limbless Jimushi Jubei inside. He prepares to attack the Kouga, targeting Kazamachi Shougen first. When Yakushiji Tenzen receives the Iga copy of the scroll he decides to keep the contents secret from Oboro. Transcription: ' KyЕЌchЕ« Muzan' ( Japanese: е‡¶иџІз„ЎжѓЁ) Without reading it, Oboro accompanies Gennosuke and sends the scroll back to the Iga Tsubagakure where Yakushiji Tenzen is pleased to receive news of the cancellation of the longstanding truce.

They are interrupted by Rousai and Jousuke and Oboro is handed the Iga copy of the scroll. The next morning as Gennosuke and Oboro return home, they meet the Iga Akeginu, Mino Nenki, Hotarubi and Amayo Jingorou. Meanwhile, Kazamachi Shougen nears the Kouga Manjidani (compound), with the Kouga copy of the scroll, planning to eliminate the Iga on the list. Rousai suggests a ninpou game for the scroll. However Kouga Udono Jousuke intercepts Iga OgenвЂ™s hawk carrying the scroll on which the contestants' names are written, and then encounters Iga Azuki Rousai. Transcription: ' TaidЕЌ Niba' ( Japanese: иѓЋе‹•ејђе ґ)ДЄt the Toki Pass on the Kouga-Iga border, the betrothed lovers Kouga Gennosuke of the Kouga clan and Oboro of the Iga clan hope peace will finally reign between the clans. Back in the present, they end up killing each other and mark their names off on the scroll, the first ninja to be eliminated.

In a flashback, the two current leaders, Iga Ogen and Kouga Danjou, are shown as former lovers in 1581 when the Kouga attacked the Iga in a surprise night-time attack, and Danjou helped Ogen and some Iga escape. A scroll is used to indicate the competitors from the table. The surviving team would garner favor from the shogun for a thousand years, and their grandson will be the undisputed heir to the Shogunate. In 1614, after a demonstration duel between Kazamachi Shougen of the Kouga and Yashamaru of the Iga clans at Sunpu, the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, orders the truce between the two long-time feuding ninja clans to be canceled and commands each clan to send 10 of their best ninja to enter a competition to eliminate each other. Transcription: ' SЕЌshi SЕЌsatsu' ( Japanese: з›ёжЂќз›ёж®є) The deadly competition between 10 elite ninja from each clan unleashes a centuries-old hatred that threatens to destroy all hope for peace between them. Two ninja clans, Tsubagakure of the Iga and Manjidani of Kouga, battle each other to determine which grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu will become the next shogun.

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