How...has it come to this

Akechi pulled you sharply into his arms as the arrow pierced him instead of you.

This was a losing war, villagers round up and killed in masses every.single.day...while he was powerless to stop them. How could he when they had more advanced weapons, more men, more medics.

Through the hopelessness, he decided to do the only thing he could do...save you, the sole remaining survivor of the once-large samurai group, his beloved apprentice.