SAMURA KILLS URUHA!!! KAGURABACHI’S TWIST VILLAIN REVEALED! KAGURABACHI CHAPTER 58 SPOILERS!

In the previous Kagurabachi chapter, we learned that Samura made a deal with the Hishaku three years ago and that, somehow, the Hishaku were able to bypass Uruha’s lifelong contract so that Hiruhiko could use Kumeyuri’s power, which is to summon two geisha figures.

Kagurabachi Chapter 58 is titled, “Re-union”

This chapter has 19 pages

The chapter begins where we left off as Chihiro is shocked to see that Hiruhiko is able to draw out Kumeyuri’s power even though Uruha is still alive.

Editor’s note: What in the hell happened to Uruha’s lifelong contract..?!

We return to seven minutes ago back to the Temple of Senketsu.

The Makizumi girl has finished the first aid on Hakuri, who was bleeding profusely in the last chapter.

While scolding Hakuri for being reckless, given how important his Storehouse ability is, she nonetheless thanks him for saving Samura.

The Makizumi captain is confident in their strength now that Samura has the Tobimune.

Hakuri falls unconscious but when he reopens them…

Everyone is on the ground…

But there was only two men standing.

Samura and Uruha.

Uruha knelt on the ground, shocked by this turn of events as everyone has kncoekd out but without a drop of blood.

Uruha calls out Samura for having gone mad but Samura says that he is very calm and asks Uruha.

“So, if we take back all the Enchanted Blades.. Will the problems regarding those blades just disappear?”

The phrasing of this question reminds me of Attack on Titan’s Eren Jaeger and his personal question “If we kill all our enemies over there, will we finally be free?”

This does make sense or else they would have just collected the blades and Kunishige Rokuhira

In spite of the apparent betrayal, Samura says that with Tobimune, he is now here with the blade, wielding it in the name of Kunishige Rokuhira to defeat evil and to protect the weak.

Uruha insists that the Enchanted Blades exist to defeat the Hishaku, who killed Kunishige and therefore are the evil ones.

However, Samura points out that there is a much greater threat than the Hishaku, a threat so great that Samura made a deal with the devil, with the Hishaku, to combat that greater evil.

Samura reveals that 18 years ago, he and the other Wielders, Uruha included, fabricated the lie that the Enchanted Blades saved the country, having “hidden the truth” about “that incident”.

Hakuri is confused by what is going on.

Samura resents how the public is made to accept the Enchanted Blade wielders and Rokuhira as “heroes”, creating a society so enamored by a lie that a young monk died protecting them.

This makes it seem like there was no plan to betray the Kamunabi during this specific attack but rather it was “bound to happen”.

Samura is unsure what weighs more, the constant deaths of idealistic people led on by a fantasy or 

Samura, too full of guilt over being protected and admired by everyone, decides to eliminate all the Enchanted Blade wielders.

In Chapter 51: “Samura”, we have a full page showing Samura killing the Hishaku’s Datenseki fodder in front of a Buddha statue, saying that he is bound for hell.

However in the previous chapter, Chapter 57: “Collapse”, we see the roots of the tree covering the same Buddha statue, this is where the young monk died and when Samura’s deal with the Hishaku was revealed.

Put the titles together and you have “Samura, collapse”.

Samura collapses from the weight of the lives he bears as an Enchanted Blade wielder, a “hero” that saves the country at the cost of its own citizens doing everything for them.

Samura believes that now that he has Tobimune, that means he can use the power of the Enchanted Blade, the source of evil for him, to kill only the wielders and not any innocents.

However, Uruha argues that if Samura kills him, the Hishaku will claim the power of Kumeyuri.

On top of how the Hishaku are responsible for killing Uruha’s guardians and Kunishige, if Samura kills all the wielders, the Hishaku will cause even more har.

Samura points out that the only reason he ever even made a deal with the Hishaku was so that he could use the Hishaku to kill the Sword Saint that has a lifelong contract with the Shinuchi Magatsumi and then after, he will kill the Hishaku to make sure they do not use the Enchanted Blades as they please.

This does mean that to kill the Sword Saint, they need all the Enchanted Blades unlocked and the Hishaku exist to fulfill Yura’s wish to kill the Sword Saint and use the Shinuchi himself.

Samura sees this as an opportunity to expose the truth of the Enchanted Blade to the world and thus “defeat evil”

Uruha thinks that Samura’s plan will fail since they will eventually overwhelm even someone of Samura’s skill.

Recalling the sacrifices of the people who saved him so far, Uruha says that he refuses to be killed by Samura.

Hakuri watches as Samura prepares to kill Uruha, blaming himself for letting this happen by recklessly using Storehouse that not only broke his own body but allowed a traitor to claim the power of an Enchanted Blade.

In a double-page spread, the two men draw their blades and leap, with the Iai-White Purity school shown yet again,

…And

Uruha falls!

Hakuri despairs over the situation, blaming himself for everything.

He attempts to activate Storehouse again to bring Chihiro here.

Uruha looks at Samura, asking if Samura is willing to bear that burden himself.

Samura says he will do so to prevent anyone else from falling into hell.

As Samura finishes Uruha off, Hakuri teleports Chihiro, who witnesses this tragic fall from grace.

Samura remarks that Chihiro has quite the stench of blood on him.

What an incredible chapter.

This arc has already proven itself to be excellent in its storytelling but with this twist villain in Samura, we have another challenge to Chihiro’s path of justice and revenge.

Samura’s entire arc was built in only a few chapters yet it felt like he was a character who has been here a while.

The magic of Kagurabachi is in its efficient writing that still contains enough room for substance.

In less than 10 chapters, Samura establishes his tragic story, a man who hates himself so much that he blinded himself, a story yet to be fully revealed.

Now bearing the burden of the Enchanted Blades, whose nature might really be tied to something sinister, Samura intends to bring the truth of the world to light and bear the sins associated with this greater evil.

This feels like something Hokazono borrowed from Naruto as Sasuke in the final arc of Naruto wanted to be the ultimate enemy who would bear the shinobi world’s hatred to create peace, to “bear the burden alone”, a trope Sasuke and Eren heavily share.

Chihiro had recently come off his own journey to recognizing the evil of people “made of murder” like Hiruhiko, who thoughtlessly kill like it was breathing.

Now Chihiro faces the opposite extreme, an extremist who aims to defeat evil in the purest sense

Editor’s note: In front of Samura, the murderer of Uruha..

Kagurabachi Chapter 59 will be released on November 24, 2024.

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