Yoidore Ken Kyaku (Futaba Bunko to 12-68 Ukigumo Ju Yon Ro Ki Nikki 2)

[Machine Translation] Jushiro Kumoi, who continued to live as he pleased, received a request for help from a senior retainer of the Shibue Domain in Echigo Province a man who had once been his senior training partner at the dojo. In the Shibue Domain, a series of incidents had occurred in which samurai serving as sword instructors were being slashed to death by an unknown assailant. Recognizing Jushiro s skill with the sword, the senior official asked him to take on the role of instructor in order to lure out the culprit and, when the opportunity arose, eliminate him. Jushiro, along with his fellow disciple Hanpei Saka, decided to accept the request, but one of the assassins turned out to be a mysterious swordsman who wielded an unusual sword while reeking of sake... The second installment in the newly revised edition of this masterpiece swordmaster novel series!

相も変わらずきままに暮らす雲井十四郎のもとに、かつて道場で兄弟子でもあった越後国渋江藩の重臣からの相談が舞い込んだ。渋江藩では剣術指南役の藩士が何者かに斬られる事件が続いており、十四郎の剣の腕を見込んで、指南役を務めながら下手人をおびき寄せ、隙あらば討ってほしいという。同門の坂上半平とともに依頼を引き受けることになった十四郎だが、刺客のうちの一人は、酒の匂いを漂わせながら奇剣を操る得体のしれない剣士で...。傑作剣豪小説シリーズ新装版、第二弾!