Kyojin Rui No Tachi (Shueisha Bunko)

[Machine Translation] On the day the Sakuradamon-gai Incident broke out, the superb skills of Nambu Gonjuro and Hariya Seizo Gansho collided. In the first year of Bunkyu (1868), one year after the mortal combat that had shredded each other's bodies, the conflict between the Imperial Court and the Shogunate was deepening, and violent actions by escaped samurai were frequent. In the midst of all this, Gansho reunites with Kiyokawa Hachiro, who is seeking a return to heaven, and wanders further into the dark side of history. Meanwhile, Nanbu returns to Okayama and is reunited with Sakamoto Ryoma. This is the third historical novel newly written to depict the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate from a new perspective.

桜田門外の変が勃発した日、南部権十郎と針谷清蔵改め願照の超絶の技がぶつかった。互いの躰を削ぐ死闘から一年後の文久元年、朝廷と幕府の対立はますます深まり、脱藩浪士による暴挙も頻発していた。そんな中、願照は回天を目指す清河八郎と再会し、さらなる歴史の暗部へと迷い込んでゆく。一方、岡山に戻った南部も坂本龍馬と再会するが…。新視点で幕末を描く書き下ろし時代小説第三弾。