Skipping Bets, Facing Blades.

 Meeting Kogoro Katsura led to a run-in with Shinsaku, a gambling samurai. On the way to join him, I stopped a cunning thief and his allies, returning the loot to its owner. Choosing to avoid gambling losses, I soon joined Shinsaku in battling explosive-wielding thugs. Together, we won easily, forging a bond after a swift and decisive fight.   I had to meet Kogoro Katsura where he recognized me from the fight last time and he apologized for his action. Then there came Genzui and Katsura recommended me to test my mettle at a proper dojo saying Genzui was off to do just that.  Suddenly the quiet man who looked like a singer or something at a corner stood up and it looked like he was a samurai as well. He said he was going gambling as he was short on coin lately.  That gambler is Shinsaku and he invited me to join him before he left. I noticed I had multiple missions to work on at the same time but I decided to join the gambling first to see how it works so I started flying there.   On my way I noticed a thief stole something from a lady and started running away. I started chasing him but he was too fast. I tried to shoot him on the way but I couldn't and then he stopped reaching a place and I shot him down.   Then I noticed two more bad guys joined the fight. I guess they belonged to the same group and the thief was actually leading me there. Anyway, I fought the one with the spear first.   When I was fighting that one, the other one holding a shield was trying to attack me. Then I shot the second one down after taking care of the first one.   I didn't think of getting back to the lady and give her what was stolen but she came to me to collect what belonged to her and I didn't have an option to keep it for myself. Then I climbed on that roof.   I flew towards the location where I had to meet Shinsaku to try the gambling and when I joined a team to gamble, I noticed it was actual gambling and I didn't want to make a loss there as I'm not good at these things so I left.   There came some troublemakers to test our skills and started throwing explosives towards us.   I decided to teach them a good lesson so I started fighting them and I noticed Shinsaku was also fighting the bad guys alongside me.   It was not as tough as it looked fighting them. We took them down quite fast and easily.  Then I had established bong with Shinsaku.   Before reaching the gambling zone, I noticed some bad guys outside in a burned village. I found them again so I shot them from a far and then I noticed both of them lost their heads for my gunshots. We'll continue in another post with another game. --- **Thanks for reading. If you like my post, please follow, comment and upvote me. All the in-game screenshots are taken by me, just the games logo is borrowed from deviantart.**