Asai

Please note: This article is about the Bloodspeaker monk. For other uses of the term, please see Asai (disambiguation).
Yogo Aguchi was a shugenja of the Scorpion Clan. He was cast out and became a maho-tsukai who hid his activities as the monk Asai.
== Scorpion Clan ==
Aguchi was forced to retire after the disappearance of an obsidian amulet under his protection. He had taken it for himself, and the former Scorpion appeared again as the monk Asai, claiming his former name was Bayushi Uso. Naishou Province, pp. 80-81
== Bloodspeaker Cell ==
Asai joined Yasurugi Monastery and began to corrupt other fellows, the seed of a Bloodspeaker cell. Naishou Province, p. 65 The cult met periodically in the mill in Koujou Village. Asai abducted Hana the geisha in Jouzousho village, kidnapped Jakunen, an old man who lived in Danshou village, slaughtered a family in Tenraku village, and kidnapped Shidou, the headman of the nearby village of Aian, with his wife and daughter. Miya Kuboti, Nigai the laborer, Bondo the doshin, Yuri from the sake works, and Chu the carpenter, were the other cultists involved in the attack. The blacksmithy worker named Kou was murdered by the cultists on the same night. Naishou Province, pp. 67-68, 70, 73
== Exposed ==
The most powerful maho-tsukai in the cult, an old woman named Chio, seized control of the cell. She stole his obsidian amulet, embarking the cultists on a parade of blood sacrifices, intended to enhance the power of the amulet. The crimes eventually escalated and began to affect the samurai of the sample cluster of ten small villages located near the monastery. Asai kidnapped a teenager girl named Natsuko in the Houi village, and sacrificed her to gain power for a potential struggle against Chio. Naishou Province, p. 71 He even killed another fellow monk, Etoku A group of samurai sent by the Governor Miya Ansho discovered and destroyed the cultists. Naishou Province, p. 81
== See also ==
* Asai/Meta
Yogo Aguchi
Category:Bloodspeakers
Category:Members of the Brotherhood of Shinsei