10화: 전우들의 장례식과 가혹한 교시로에 맞서는 위드

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John, Tommy, Lefty and Rossi's corpses are carried back to the shed and a funeral is held for them after their burials. Hook decides to deliver one of John's fangs, which had fallen out during the skirmish, to Ohu. During the funeral, Rocket gets to know about his brothers' deaths from Hook and in grief, he starts howling, joined shortly after by Weed, GB, Hiro, Jerome and Hook. In the morning, Hook is given the duty to escort Reika to Ohu, as he is going to Ohu anyway to bury John's fang. The Ohu army continues their journey to meet Kyoshiro and his pack in Shiga. Meanwhile, at Kofu, Ken and Kagetora meet with their family members: Kurotora, Kagetora's father, Harutora and Nobutora, Kagetora's brothers, Shoji, Shigure, Buru and Dodo, Kagetora's cousins, Ben the Great Dane, Ken's father and Cross the saluki, Ken's mother. Kurotora, Ben and Cross are three of the earliest Ohu soldiers and after his brother Chutora's death, Kurotora raised Chutora's sons like his own. Nobutora and Harutora are sent with Ken and Kagetora to help the Ohu army, while Kurotora, Ben, Cross and Kagetora's cousins go to protect Gajou. Ben, although he has become old and near-sighted, is still cheerful and energetic and both he and his mate are happy about Ken's growth. On their way to meet Kyoshiro, Weed and the others hear a scream of a child and soon stumbles across an adult dog running away in fear from a scarred kishu. The kishu tears off one of the adult dog's ears and is about to kill him when Weed stops him. He speaks rudely to them and summons his huge pack of dogs. The kishu then introduces himself as Kyoshiro the silver. While they are talking, the adult dog tries escaping but is pinned down by Kyoshiro's minions. Kyoshiro informs Weed that his whole pack consists of dog children abused by their parents and rescued by Kyoshiro. He then asks a pup named Teru, the son of the adult dog, whether he considers the adult as his father or not and informs Weed that Teru's father had been violently abusing his son for doing something he didn't actually do. When Teru replies that he doesn't Teru's father is pushed from a cliff into a river and Kyoshiro warns him to stay away from Teru. After doing this, Kyoshiro warns Weed not to bother his comrades and leaves. Meanwhile, in the Alps, Hougen is informed about the Ohu army crossing the Alps and going to Shiga and says that there is nothing to worry about, since he has sent professional killers to take care of them. Back at his shed, Teru's father is desperately trying to find any leftover food, when he is confronted by two shadowy dogs after he says he wishes to kill Kyoshiro and his pack. Weed goes out to search for Kyoshiro to talk things through with him and witnesses the kishu attacking Teru's father again, saying that he shall be killed for coming close to Teru. However, Weed interferes and throws down Kyoshiro and starts a fight with him. Jerome, Hiro, Rocket and GB notice two strange dogs watching form afar and when the two move away, two of Kyoshiro's minions, GB and Rocket go after them. (Source: Wikipedia)