在播磨，武藏一行遇见了上杉龙臣统领的大型武士团——上杉武士团。他们的目的是讨伐盘踞在淡路岛的巨大鬼神“炮战龙八岐大蛇”。在那里，还有武田尚虎率领的武田武士团，与武藏同龄的武士岛津秋弘、尼子胜巳，以及稍显不通世俗的腼腆…

Martin Bristol returns to where it all began: the home where he was kidnapped from. But he is not the boy who disappeared over 10 years ago. Tortured and abused at the hands of his psychotic captor, Graham Sutter, Martin…