Chapter 11

## How Dare You

**Chapter 11** is titled "How Dare You".

## Short Summary

Ata, having immobilized Daruma and Hagamichi, prepares to take his target: Hachimaru. As Ata's connections to both Daruma and Furuta are revealed, the latter takes a risky gambit to protect his son and defeat the traitorous Samurai.

## Long Summary

Ata demands that *Hachikaku* is brought to him, and a heavily damaged Daruma starts to recognize Ata. Furuta is confused that Ata located him, and he explains that his Princess tracked Hachimaru's Samurai Gravity. Hachimaru asks his father how he know the stranger before him, but Furuta refuses to answer, as he's thinking of a way of escape. Knowing he and his son can't outrun Ata, and the galaxy is doomed if Hachimaru is taken, he decides the only path is to use his secret weapon. Hagamichi asks to know who the stranger is, and Daruma explains that he he is *Ata the Peerless*, a former Kongo-Yasha samurai who was his number one apprentice. Ata admits that he failed to recognize his old master, and Daruma catches that Ata and Furuta know wach other. Dojikiri Takatsuna then falls from his exposed abdomen, and Ata takes it, claiming it as property of the Ususama School. He then bows to his paralyzed ex-master and apologizes for something involving a Princess named Baku. He asks that he empathize with his perspective, which angers Daruma.

Hachimaru then asks if his former pupil is evil, and Ata yells at him for speaking causally to his master. Ata then becomes shocked: he recognizes Hachimaru as Hachikaku and prepares to capture him. Hachimaru is confused, so Ata tells him he is the Key to his group's plan to restore the galaxy to his former glory. hachimaru refuses to comply, citing his plan to be like Fudo Myo-o. Hearing the warrior god's name angers Ata again, and Daruma continues trying to move. He realizes he was hit with a Kong-Yasha move that is slowing his regeneration. Ata chastises his sibling student for talking big and pretending to be strong without a purpose. He tells Hachimaru that he has now heroism, and the truth in his word's bring Hachimaru to the ground.

While he is frozen in fear, Ann, Hayatara, and Furuta all stand in Hachimaru's defense. Hachimaru is moved that Ann defended him despite her earlier confession that thinks little of herself. Before Ata can attack, Hagamichi summons his Samurai armor to attack from above, but Ata telekinetically draws his four katanas and flings them, pinning Hagamichi down. Ata gives Hachimaru a lesson on the deaths of Samurai: the seppuku to become a Samurai is one death, but their true death comes when Fudo Myo-o forsakes them, something that is common among weaklings. Daruma begs them to run until he heals, and Hagamichi is shocked that he is immobilized by regular swords. Seeing the trouble he is in, Hachimaru steels himself to act, but his father moves first, determined to defeat Ata.

Furuta knows that one strike from Ata will make Fudo-Myo-o forsake his son, and resolves to keep that from happening. Ata is amused that a human thinks he can beat him, thinking he's bluffing. Hagamichi and Daruma struggle to move, but they cannot stop Ata from raising his Samurai Soul to Furuta. Ata prepares to end the traitor who ruined his plans, but when he strikes, his Soul is sucked into the strange device in Furuta's chest. Everyone is shocked by what happened, and Furuta reveals that he planned for Ata finding him, so he made a weapon for destroying Samurai Souls. Ata realizes that he completed the weapon the Ususama failed to finish, but he realizes that he will die from using it.

Furuta begins to lose stamina, but he holds on to kill Ata before he gives out. Ata appeals to Furuta's self-preservation, but Furuta doesn't care: his plan was to die and take Ata with him. Hachimaru calls out to his dad as hs machine reaches full power, engulfing the area in light. As it fades, a fallen Furuta curses his failure. Though most of Ata's body is gone, he still has one arm, his Handle Bone, and his rage at being reduced to that state.

## Fights and Events

* Furuta vs. Ata
* Ata is revealed to be Daruma's former student.
* It is revealed that Furuta worked for Ata and the Ususama.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Hagamichi
* Ann
* Hachimaru
* Furuta
* Hayataro
* Daruma
* Ata