Heidoku

Heidoku was a peasant who lived in a village oversaw by Mirumoto Oribe, a cruel man who abused of his autorithy over the villagers, and made all the young one work for him as servants. Oribe began to beat the lad Taku after the peasant requested to be let off his duty so he could tend to his grandmother. Heidoku intervened, hitting the samurai's head in with the handle of a millstone, breaking his skull to a bloody pulp. He was found guilty of the murder of a samurai, and brought by Mirumoto Ujinao to Fuchi Mura, where the ise zumi tested on him a tattoo of unknown power, revealing that it granted Enlightened Madness to the target. The first day Heidoku was mute; the second day he rumbled sentences that a peasant would not know; and the third day he began to laughter like a mad. Togashi Mitsu ordered Ujinao to end Heidoku's suffering.