After being sent to the island of Shinsenkyō to monitor his assigned criminal, Tamiya Gantetsusai, while Gantetsusai searches for the Elixir of life without his help, he noticed that the prisoner that he was watching had fallen asleep so he went to sit on a large rock and watch him but paused as he noticed movement from behind some trees and slowly reached back to put his hand on the handle of his hook-tipped sword.