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The people shooting at the group on the wharves are revealed to be working for Hanabusa, including the shinobi Meguro and Tanpopo. Although, badly wounded and dying, Makie attacks Hanabusa's small force, killing them all. Hanabusa flees through the snow, but is captured by Anotsu and sliced in two, with the tacit approval of Kagimura. Anotsu and Kagimura then face off to continue their duel, but Kagimura is killed in Anotsu's first attack. Manji then attacks Anotsu to fulfill his promise to Rin who watches on with Hyakurin. Manji, defeats Anotsu, severing his right arm but allowing him to live. Manji tells Rin that Anotsu is dead, but allows him to leave and never return. However, as Anotsu boards a ship to depart, Rin rushes forward and stabs him to death. In the aftermath of these events, Magatsu settles down to farming and Renzo goes back to painting under master Sori, much to the annoyance of Sori's daughter Tatsubo. Far away, in the Shimbara region, Isaku and Doa settle down and also begin farming, joined later by Ozuhan, while Manji is banished from Edo. After paying her respects at her family's grave, Rin decides to apologize to the family members of the Ittou-ryuu that she and Manji killed, and the heavily pregnant Hyakurin offers to accompany her. Eighty years later, in the city of Tokyo, Manji buries his weapons watched by Yaobikuni and he recalls his encounter with the Ittou-ryuu only as a vague memory. Yaobikuni asks him to protect Fuyu, the grandchild of an old friend whose family is engaged in a dispute over leadership. After the young girl hands him a sheathed knife and drawing, he realizes that she is Rin's great-great-granddaughter and he agrees. (Source: Wikipedia)
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