The Blade of Remembrance

A boy carries his father's name like a weapon, aimed squarely at the man walking beside him. Katsuro, once a samurai of ruthless precision, now shapes steel instead of wielding it—but no forge can burn away the blood on his hands. Bound by a dying lord's final command, he must guide his enemy's son across a Japan fracturing between tradition and revolution. Every mile deepens a question neither can escape: what survives when vengeance and duty demand the same blade?