Whispering Shadow Blade The Ninja Blood Curse

This story begins with a Samurai known as the Hand of Satan. His name is Dragoon. A six-foot-six-inch tall three hundred pound goliath of a man standing over a head taller than all the Samurai in the land.
On his way to the house of Lu, answering a summons from Chang Lu, the son of Lord Chin Lu, who was recently murdered in his sleep. The Samurai’s horse is startled and rears up and tosses his master off, who lands on ungracefully on his ass.
A young girl takes him captive with the intent of killing him. She believes the big Samurai is in a way responsible for the slaughter of her father, Tokashi, a Samurai Guru, and her mother, Aona, a Ninja Maiden.
The deaths of the couple are witnessed by the girl, Jasmine Tokashi, their sixteen-year-old daughter, who takes it upon herself to avenge her parent's death by becoming the force behind the Ninja Blood Curse her mother whispered before being beheaded.
Aona named those who committed the deaths of her husband and herself and those responsible for their deaths. Daughter Jasmine saw the torture and heard her mother enact the Ninja Blood Curse. She takes it upon herself to become the “Curse Avenger.” Having been taught the Ninja ways and the use of the Samurai blades from birth, she is physically capable of taking on the task but uncertain if she is mentally capable of murder.
Nineteen men acting as Samurai soldiers under the command of General Matu Matsuto a Samurai Master Swordsman, storms the house of Sensei Tokashi and kills two servants and tortures Tokashi and Aona before hacking them both to pieces.
Chang Lu, the son of the dead Lord Chin Lu, request Sensei Tokashi to act as his guard commander during an upcoming festival.
However, Sensei Tokashi is ill and not expected to recover, and therefore unable to comply. Aona sends a note of regret explaining her husband's illness and the family doctor’s prognosis.
Chin Lu believes the illness is a fabrication and, therefore an insult directed toward him. He orders the General of the Lu dynasty’s army to exact the maximum punishment on the Samurai Guru.
General Matu Matsuto decides not to have the men Sensei Tokashi trained as his band of soldiers. He hires nineteen murders, thieves, and cutthroats to accompany him to the house of Tokashi with promise of becoming honorary Samurai and payment of five coins each.