I cleared the fort of archers before investigating Tomoe's whereabouts with Sensei Ishikawa. We discovered evidence that Tomoe was teaching the Mongols the Sensei's archery techniques. After a dying peasant revealed she had joined the enemy and slaughtered captives, Ishikawa resolved to hunt her down, directing Jin toward Lady Masako.
After taking down the Mongol leader of that camp, I went for the archers on the roof. When I was slaughtering one of them, the rest of them were trying to shoot me from the other roof, their arrows whistling past my head as I dodged.
I jumped on the other roof with a cinematic landing, the wood creaking under my weight. Then I slaughtered both of them with much brutality, making sure the rooftop was clear of any archers who could threaten our investigation below.
Then I had to meet the Sensei, who asked me to help him investigate the area to track Tomoe. I found some Japanese arrows that the Sensei mentioned belonged to Tomoe, as he taught her to make the nock with deer horn.
We kept investigating the fort and we found a scroll inside a building where archery terms with Mongolian translations were written. The Sensei's name was mentioned, and he understood that his student, Tomoe, was teaching the Mongols his sacred way of the bow.
Then we went to another building where we found Tomoe's kimono in someone's quarters. The fine silk was out of place in the muddy fort, and the Sensei understood the Mongols had freed her instead of keeping her as a common prisoner.
They heard the screaming of a peasant outside, so we ran to him. The man said the Mongols caged Tomoe with them, but they set her free and gave her armor. She then killed the other peasants to prove her loyalty and skill.
Before dying, the peasant said Tomoe proved her skill to the enemy by butchering innocent people. The gravity of her betrayal hit us hard, as she had turned the Sensei's lethal teachings against the very people they were meant to protect.
I had to follow the Sensei as he asked me to go with him, but I stopped for a moment. I wanted to check on the fate of this peasant, watching the light fade from his eyes as the cost of this war grew heavier.
Sensei started coughing loud and said it was Tomoe who attacked him when he was needed on the battlefield. Ishikawa decided to hunt her down because he didn't want her to teach the Mongols his secret way of the bow.
Jin offered his help, but the Sensei suggested he find Lady Masako Adachi first, as they would need more manpower. The tale of Sensei Ishikawa was finished in this way, leaving us with a new lead.
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