The Yamamoto school has fallen. In the aftermath, Hiroyuki Ishigame is given a specific task: eliminate Naosuke Wachi, the greatest student of the late master Gensuke. The task is meant to be an ending. It becomes a beginning instead — pulling Ishigame toward the Path of the Five Rings and a new direction in his life that he did not choose so much as find himself on. A martial arts visual novel about duty and the paths it opens.