Kozue Ito

The first installment of this thrilling period drama special starring Matsukata Hiroki. Jubei fights to the death to protect the targeted Yagyu martial arts register. Set in the Edo period, shortly after Iemitsu became the third shogun, rumors spread within the shogunate that the register of the Yagyu family, the shogun's instructors, contained a secret that could threaten the very foundations of the shogunate. Jubei, the eldest son of the Yagyu family, asks his father, Tajima-no-kami, about the secret, but he remains silent and refuses to reveal anything. Meanwhile, Jubei, who is repeatedly engaged in battles with a mysterious ninja group for the register, learns an unexpected truth...

Ryo is a photographer who is living in the same house with Yudai, a young man who is not her boyfriend though, since he is gay and dating another guy, Masa. Ryo, however, has told her parents that he is her boyfriend, not to let them worry about her. In reality, she is in love with a woman who works in the same studio, although she has kept her feelings completely to herself. Eventually, her fragile balance crumbles when Yudai announces that he is living to leave with his boyfriend, and her object of love that the studio they work in is about to close.