Seventeenth century Japan: A rebellion in the Aizu territory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent slaughtered. Now the surviving nuns have sworn to seek revenge.
The thrilling conclusion! Jyûbei faces his final foe. Will he strike vengeance at last? Just as Yagyû Jyûbei escapes imprisonment in the Snow Hell, the surviving women of the Hori clan are captured! Each passing hour brings the Hori women's execution that much closer, but it also brings Oyura's heart closer to that of her sworn enemy, Yagyû Jyûbei. Have the Hori clan's hopes for revenge vanished like the morning mists? Faced with insurmountable odds, what will Jyûbei do?