"Return to Adachi Plain"
Usagi returns to the field where once he fought in the service of Lord Mifune. Betrayed by a rival General, Mifune falls in battle, and Usagi takes his head to prevent it from being defiled by his enemies. Usagi earned the scar of his left eye in that undertaking, in direct combat with Lord Hikiji. 8 pages.
"The Crossing"
On a ship at sea, the crew while the hours making merry on deck. When a deck hand bumps into a brooding samuri, the samuri decides to execute the seaman as an example for the others. He is stopped by Jei. Jei speaks of his mission to locate and execute Usagi, but that his mission is to eliminate evil wherever he finds it. By the end of the voyage, only Jei and his ward Keiko are alive. 8 pages.
"The Patience of the Spider"
General Ikeda's army falls in battle with the forces of Lord Mataichi. Wounded, Ikeda and two of him men find an abandoned hut to rest and tend their wounds. The General sends one of his aides to await news of when the time will be right to rejoin the battle. Time passes, and the General gains a family and a career as a farmer. When the Generals aide returns years later, the General looks around him and informs him that the General has died, and he turns gladly to his simple life. 8 pages.