Nozomu

Nozomu was a heimin who worked as budoka to Morito Katsuru. They traveled around the Empire harassing criminal cartels. Katsuru first had noted if the local magistrates were corrupt, complacent, or trustworthy, and let them to finish off the criminals while the couple were already far away. After hearing of dreaded Nazo Mori, Katsuru moved in, expecting to find a bandit gang behind the veil of those strange occurrences there.