Memories of Flame: Rengoku Kyojuro's Path to Secret Techniques

Flame burns within him—but one form eludes his grasp. Rengoku Kyojuro has spent eight months training in secret on Mizugaki Mountain, striving to master the Ninth Form of Flame Breathing: the Secret Technique passed down through generations of the Rengoku clan. One hundred and thirty times he has drawn his blade. One hundred and thirty times the flame has scattered into nothing. The ancient manual offers only a cryptic warning: *the Ninth Form is not a technique, but the flame of the soul—a rea