...yes. Itabeoka Kousetsusai was my first master and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After him it was Tokugawa Ieyasu. [ He will follow her gaze, albeit its a bit more dour that usual. Talking about his previous masters this way always made him lost in thought. ]

He...did not use me unless absolutely necessary. It was...one of the teachings that he followed most readily. My master...prevented a war between the Tokogawa and Hojo clans. [ He speaks with some reverence as he remembers those times long ago, in what seemed like days to a sword like himself. ]

He would not fight, but merely speak.