[Machine Translation] The Shinsengumi surrounded Kurama Tengu, using Sugisaku, a Kakubei Lion boy, as bait. Isamu Kondo, the leader of the Shinsengumi, rushes there with a new team of men. Kurama Tengu takes a secret letter addressed to the lord of Osaka Castle, but he is trapped in a subterranean water dungeon for his plot. A boy named Sugisaku sneaks into the castle to save his benefactor, but he is now a rat in a sack. In Kyoto at the end of the Edo period, the Imperialists and the Shinsengumi fight in a fierce battle. This is the first in a series of masterpieces selected by critic Shunsuke Tsurumi from the classic historical novel "Kurama Tengu.