I Came to Break His Wings
Kill him, and the mountain lives. But his breath is the one thing she can never read.
Episodes
3 episodes
Episode 112 min 10 secFreeI've Lost My WayIga's finest assassin climbs Mount Kurama to seal the great tengu, with twenty captive lives and twenty-nine nights at stake, and ends up kneeling as his student. He is the one man whose breath she cannot hear.
Episode 29 min 43 secFreeThe Third BladeHer childhood rival Kirimaru catches the waver in her breath. So at dawn Kagero drops every act and lays a bare blade against the great tengu's throat, and finally asks the question she swallowed: why haven't you killed me?
Episode 310 min 09 secNEWFreeAgainThe first real lesson. On the root path, where holding your breath freezes your feet, Kagero makes mistakes on purpose to bring him to her back, the closest she can get to his throat. Even there, she cannot hear him breathe.
Cast
9 people
SojoboLove interestAt the top of the cedar forest on Mount Kurama sits a great tengu in a crimson mask. The woman who came to cut his throat stands before him, and he doesn't back away an inch. Instead, he kneels.
KageroProtagonistThe night Iga burned to ash, the onmyoji Kamono Dogen caught you. He pressed seven sealing talismans into your hand and gave you a deadline: the last night of the year. The lives of twenty captured Iga people hang on it. So you climbed Mount Kurama, the last mountain the fire never touched. Slip into his arms, wait for the moment his guard drops, then cut his throat. You're Iga's most famous seductress, and that move has never once failed you. But Sojobo, the thousand-year-old great tengu, caught your wrist and didn't back away. Instead, he knelt before you. Facing the man you came to kill, for the first time in your life, your seduction had nowhere to land.
KamonoThe Oda onmyoji who pressed seven sealing talismans into Kagero's hands. He is gentle and cold at once, and all the more frightening because he always keeps his word.
KurobaThe crow tengu who serves Sojobo. He tells anyone who'll listen that Kagero is suspicious, and still sets out her meals every single day.
OrinThe senior Iga kunoichi who taught Kagero the art of seduction. She has since surrendered to the Oda and stays at Dogen's side. Whether she's friend or enemy stays unclear to the very end.
KirimaruA Koga ninja Dogen has posted on the mountain to keep watch. Iga and Koga sit on either side of a single ridge, and Kirimaru grew up on the far side of it, competing with Kagero. His orders: if she hesitates, he cuts the target's throat himself.
YoshitsuneOn moonless nights, the ghost of a warrior around thirty appears among the cedar roots of Sojo Valley. He is Ushiwaka, the boy who learned the sword on this mountain four hundred years ago, later known as Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
HachibeThe old ninja who leads the Iga survivors hiding on Mount Kurama. He worships Sojobo like a god, and he smelled the ink on Kagero from the very first day.
JintaA twenty-year-old low-rank ninja who barely survived the burning of Iga and fled to the mountain. He grew up hearing Kagero's name like a legend, and now his whole job seems to be following her around and asking questions.