Makko Shobu Hi Nusume Aratame Shi No Ji Gumi 1 (Bunshun Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Unshiro Ikari is a 24-year-old swordsman of the Umaniwa Nenryu style. He is assigned to the "Shinoji-gumi," a group of thieves who are known as "fire-eating thieves" for unknown reasons. His first job was to inspect a bloody corpse with a mackerel tail fin sticking out of its mouth.... Koheita Sugikoshi, an awe-inspiring sword-scarred head of the Shinoji-gumi, and his gang of drunkards and gamblers are at the mercy of the gang as they pursue the bandits through the eight hundred and eight towns of Edo!

伊刈運四郎、馬庭念流の剣客、24歳。念願の出仕が叶うも、訳も分からず配されたのは火付盗賊改方の通称「しノ字組」。初仕事は、口から鯖の尾鰭が飛び出た血腥い屍骸の検分だった...。顔の刀傷で畏怖される供頭・杉腰小平太と、大酒呑みや博打好きなど、曲者の仲間たちに翻弄されつつ、凶賊を追って江戸八百八町を突っ走る!