Jiro is a student of the KoZu Sword School, anunderground training camp in midtown Manhattan that takes in orphans and twistsand transforms them into Bushido warriors. The Yakuza use these kids in deathmatches staged across the city rooftops where Japanese businessmen gambleheavily on the always-fatal outcome. This killing life is all Jiro has everknown. But a rendezvous with fate is about to change all of that. In one momentJiro realizes that everything he has lived for is a lie.The Samurai live by theBushido code, one of which is RECTITUDE: the righting of wrongs. Now with theonly ally he has-his sword--Jiro is forced to make the hardest decision of hislife.

Visual artist(s): Kelsey Shannon