I hope you like bosses because the second half of chapter 5 really lets the players have it.
The ultimate confrontations are built up with one of
Kitajima’s visual novel scenes depicting two characters that have never shared
a scene together.
Hanzo is running through the forest after a suspicious
individual. He throws a kunai dead on
into the back of their neck, but they used the classic substitution jutsu to
escape. Hanzo turns around and the
person he’s chasing is revealed to be none other than Dougen. Yes, Haruka was not mistaken. Dougen lived through his youma dying on top
of him in chapter 2. I like to think him
being part youma now had a part in that.
I assume Hibari and Haruka warned everyone about Dougen and everyone
shared their information offscreen because Hanzo knows who Dougen is. Being the head of one of the most prestigious
good shinobi academies probably entitles him to enemy information as well, I
suppose.
This is an interesting confrontation, not just because of
their alignment with different shinobi factions, but because of their
skills. Dougen has been shown to use
trickery and mind control, but now he’s being confronted by Hanzo, who has been
well-established as a legend. Even
retired he is feared by evil shinobi and earning his respect is considered a
high honor for good shinobi. As such,
you can probably tell where this is going.
