Kotarou interlude from memory

Basically it was about the last days of Fuuma and Kotarou and Danzo's relationship.



Mashu tells us we are having trouble summoning Danzo, and there's some kind of error in the summoning path. We wonder about it, and (iirc) Holmes suggests we go investigate in Shimousa. Except Shimousa was supposed to be a parallel world we can't go to again, so we go to that area, that age, in our history. Obviously, Kotarou volunteers to come.



While we fight off random mooks and go on, Kotarou internally monologues about his life.

How his father was his teacher before, so when Danzou started teaching him to be the 5th head, he naturally started calling her mother.

How Danzou already had a spotty memory, and couldn't remember the 1st to 4th Fuuma heads anymore.

How they both were aware of the Fuuma most likely fading out from history, and them dying out as a ninja clan.

How, in the end, when he finished training under her, Danzou asked him to kill her, because she was well past operating life, and this will complete him.

How he couldn't remember whether he did kill her or not.



Danzou, or at least the remains of Danzou, also internally monologues.

How she was proud of Kotarou, combining inbred talent and training, making him the perfect Fuuma ninja that the first and her creator (Kashin koji) were aiming for.

How she thought he lacked ambition, how Fuuma might have lasted if they switched to support different people after the Houjou fell out of power, but it was okay because Fuuma was already perfected.



We reach a cave where a ghost/Danzo hybrid is guarding something, and Kotarou fights. (The battle has a nice gimmick where the ghost changes into Danzo when you break the HP bar)

He orders her to stop her mission as the 5th head, but she answers that she can't confirm his identity anymore, with no memories to back up any claims he makes.

Kotarou then says "Then touch me, Katou Danzou", since Danzou should be able to tell just by feeling his body to figure out whether he's a true Fuuma. Which she does.

It turns out she was guarding the grave of the Fuuma, where unmarked graves of the dead ninja were all buried together.

She asks him to do what he must, and he finishes her off.



Kotarou, while telling us how he's probably buried here too, under some unmarked grave, also tells us how he's happy he can bury Danzou here as one of the Fuuma ninjas.

That this is the right way to bury a ninja, because we don't need to be remembered, and being nameless is good.



Later, in Chaldea.

We successfully summon Danzou, and she is telling us how her memory is mostly gone when Kotarou appears to greet her.

Danzou tells him that she was with the Fuuma before his age, and she's very happy to see the Fuuma were able to produce such a perfect ninja in the later days.

Kotarou, while internally thinking "that's because you raised me", answers that it's nice to meet you.

