Elusive Samurai, Vol. 26

In war-torn medieval Japan, a young samurai lord struggles to retake his throne, but not by fighting. Hojo Tokiyuki will reclaim his birthright by running away!

In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. The lone survivor of his family, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he’ll have to do what he does best—run away!

Tokiyuki and his retainers have at last confronted Takauji at the Battle of Musashino and are pressing him hard, trying to draw the demon out of him so they can destroy it. Yet even if they succeed, Tokiyuki and Takauji will still be at odds, and Takauji will still have power over the entire country. After many years of conflict, Tokiyuki launches one last gambit to try and take down his archrival, the Shogun of Japan.