The night of prior to the battle, when the special mission is to take place, Majima picks a fight with Miyamoto Musashi. Involvement Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan!: 1600-1605 Some time later, in the year 1600, Marume Nagayoshi approached Majima to recruit him into the Army of the Tokugawa Bakufu for a special mission to be carried out prior to the upcoming Battle against the Toyotomi loyalist army, promising large sums of money if he did well - an offer he accepted in order to provide for Ukiyo. Horrified by the consequences of his thoughtless violence, Majima gave up his life as a warrior and moved into Ukiyo's village, adopting her as his younger sister and swearing that he would dedicate his life to protecting her town from bandits. Eventually, the older sister, Ageha, sold herself to a brothel so that Ukiyo could start anew by buying a farm in Omi Province. Years later, however, he ran into one of those two daughters, Shirai Ukiyo, and came to learn of how miserable her life had been after the death of her father: Her and her older sister had to work meagre jobs in Kyoto for years in order to barely afford food and beds. He ultimately won, killing the man right in front of his two daughters. Majima tracked him down to his farm in Kozuke Province and challenged him to a duel. One of the many people he fought in his ronin days was a once-famous samurai named Shirai Seinoshin. This eventually eroded any hesitation he once had about taking the lives of others and earned him the name "Killer Gorohachi" (人切り五六八, Hitokiri Gorohachi) in his home province of Omi. However, he eventually lost sight of this quest for perfecting his skill and instead became primarily concerned with increasing his reputation as a fearsome fighter, believing that the more people he cut down in duels, the greater his fame would be, regardless of how many lives he ruined in the process. In his youth, Majima was a wandering swordsman, traveling around Japan to test his skill against as many opponents as possible in hopes of perfecting his technique. S POILER W ARNING: Plot details for Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan! follow. When he becomes amnesiac and adopts the persona of "Shishido Baiken", Majima's personality becomes more or less identical to that of his modern counterpart: He becomes a carefree, mentally volatile criminal who delights in fighting and stealing, but nonetheless treats everything with a kooky, carefree affectation. As a result, he started thoughtlessly killing all the opponents he came up against, hoping it would spread word of his prowess and increase his reputation as a fighter.Įventually, Majima would have another change of heart once he was confronted with the consequences of his violence and would change his life mission to atoning for his past sins by protecting and providing for the daughter of one of his victims, whom he came to see as a little sister. However, in time he lost sight of his mission for self-perfecting and instead became consumed by a desire to be renowned as a fearsome warrior. When he was young, Majima was dedicated to improving his skill as a swordsman, seeking battle with other warriors not out of a love for violence, but rather as a means to challenge and improve himself. Winning some glory for myself here is the closest I'm gonna get to heaven. I'm just waiting for the reaper to catch up with me anyway.
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