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Trying desperately to free his blade, the potential energy transferred upon it is suddenly released in a horizontal slash powerful enough to disembowel all three men. His new ultimate technique’s first appearance is against three bandits who harass him and Iku: when attempts to strike at them horizontally, but his sword gets stuck in a tree. While in exile, Irako manages to overcome his blindness at the hands of Kogan, and develops his own fencing style, the Mumyo Sakanagare. Irako Seigen is thereafter chosen by Iwamoto Kogan to be his successor, which shows that at least in his eyes, Irako is stronger than Fujiki at that point in time. During his time as a pupil of the dojo, a few of his feats include killing the younger of the Funaki twins, cutting a grain of rice at the tip of Iku’s nipple without injuring her, and most importantly, he completes the year’s training regimen by catching Fujiki’s sword-swing with his bare hands. In the following fight with Senior Instructor Ushimata Gonzaemon, Irako further displays impressive mobility and evasive capabilities, but loses the fight quite handily. Following that move, he uses Yubi Garami, a technique which involves torsion of the fingers, to break Fujiki’s index and middle fingers, ending the fight. Irako manages to counteract the Tsuba Zemari and immobilizes Fujiki with Kosshi Jutsu (only explicit in the manga), more specifically, by pressing down on the nerve-points of Fujiki’s palm. He goes up against the star pupil and Assistant Instructor Fujiki Gennosuke, whom he beats rather easily. In the opening episode (“Tournament at Sunpu Castle”), Irako challenges the head of the Kogan-Style dojo ( Iwamoto Kogan) to a duel, but the rules of the dojo state that he must beat two of the students before he can do that. Abilities įrom the outset, Irako Seigen is portrayed as a formidable swordsman. Unlike Fujiki, Iraku is disgusted at being ordered by others to commit murder. Iraku also displays a preference for common women. Like Iku, Iraku is one of the only characters who will display notable acts of altruism, from helping a beggar child for no reason other than to genuinely help her, to preventing Mie from being raped, despite significantly risking his opportunity to seal his place as successor to the House of Kogan-ryuu. He was reliant on her when he was blinded and was unsettled when Fujiki placed her in danger. Though Iraku is unfaithful and often places Iku in harm’s way, Iraku cares deeply for Iku. Iraku also killed the 15 year old Suzunosuke purely to ensure any remnants of the Kogan-ryuu school were destroyed. Iraku murdered the real Iraku Seigen as well as murder a female servant out of rage. Although Iraku despises Samurai, recalling a drunk man he had witnessed in childhood who was butchered for merely brushing the shoulder of a Samurai he will hypocritically murder out of rage, revenge, or to further his own ambition.
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Iraku murdered the real Iraku Seigen by seducing him, and fulfilled his own base desires by seducing countless women, including his master’s mistress, Iku. Iraku is an androgynous looking man which bothered Fujiki when they first met, and although there is no instance to suggest Iraku is bi-sexual, he is self-aware his looks appeal to both sexes and will he use this to his advantage. Like Fujiki, Iraku is more often symbolised as a dragon. To Iraku, a man who was born of the lowest class and not yet aware of Fujiki’s past, such words were not inspiring. Fujiki informed Iraku that like a seashell, the sole purpose of a man born to the house of Samurai was in protecting that house and nothing more. This contrasts with Fujiki, who is content with Kogan’s mercy in adopting the third son of a poor farmer and made him Samurai regardless of rank. Iraku had not risen in the world merely in order to satisfy his ambition, but in order to repudiate hierarchical society and the fixed class system. The contradiction was that Samurai were also those he the hated the most in the depths of his heart. Unlike his peers at the Iwamoto dojo, most of whom were Ashigaru and Goushi (low class Samurai) Iraku always set his sights on attaining the highest of Samurai and climb above social hierarchy. Iraku also considered himself born Samurai in the same way as Fujiki does. He was born a half a year late, crawling the day he was born and like Fujiki, was prone to violence and killed for the first time at a young age. A bastard son of a prostitute who continued to work even while she carried him in her womb. Iraku was born to the lowest station in society.