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to learn more about Japan's culture, as well as slowly learning the language. Ishido's retainer, Nebara Jozen, arrives and tells
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Blackthorne is given a home and is also provided with a good salary. He starts training
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Grateful for her services, Blackthorne gives Fuji one of his guns as a token of gratitude and she gives him her late father's swords. He also goes to swim naked, being seen by Mariko. She later visits him at his room, and they have sex, later claiming she and Fuji hired a courtesan. At the
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and attempts to sail in a boat, only to be stopped by Mariko, who informs him that his ship has been confiscated and now belongs to
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