Blade of the Immortal, Volume 9: The Gathering II (Blade of the Immortal #40-45)

While the immortal samurai, Manji, has his hands full with a trio of skillful and merciless killers of the renegade Ittö-ryü sword school, Manji's charge, Rin, prepares to make her way through government checkpoints to leave Edo and find Anotsu Kagehisa - lord of the Ittö-ryü and murderer of her parents - and fulfill her quest of vengeance. Unjustly wanted for murder, Rin must try to pass in disguise, but the checkpoint officers are no fools, and she will not pass without a thorough interrogation - and one slip will mean Rin's execution!