Yagyu Retsudos failure to stop Ogami Itto has brought an ultimatum from the shugun: kill the Lone Wolf or face execution. But Yagyu will not go forth empty handed. To aid his cause, the shugun places the Firewatchershis own elite bodyguardsunder Yagyus command! Collects three stories from Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 17, all of volume 18, and two stories from volume 19.

* 672 pages, value priced.

* Over one million copies sold of the original Dark Horse series!

* Eisner and Harvey Award winner.