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| ブライアン, Buraian | |
| Detailed Information: | |
| Appearances: | Spindlerun: The Tale of Yajirobe |
| Nicknames: | Whiney Biney |
| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | Male |
| Birthplace: | Cardan, Earth |
| Birthdate: | March 19, Age 736 |
| Date of Death: | May 9, Age 749 |
| Birth Power Level: | 0.0001 |
| Maximum Power Level: | 65 |
| Personal Pronouns: | 私 |
| Height: | 5'2" |
| Weight: | 95.6 lbs |
| Hair Color: | Dirty blond |
| Eye Color: | Green |
| Rank: | Samurai recruit |
| Organizations: | Iboinoshishi School (January 14, Age 749 - May 10, Age 749) |
| Favorite Food: | Hawaiian pizza |
| Favorite Vehicle: | Bicycle |
| Hobbies: | Writing, running |
| Family: | Yajirobe (friend) Harotu (friend) Anders (friend) Nameless Child 1 (friend) Nameless Child 2 (friend) |
Brian (ブライアン, Buraian) is a human samurai native to Cardan, a city located three miles south of Orange Star City. He joined the Iboinoshishi School and became one of the more impressive recruits. He was one of only three to last long enough to get a forged katana. He was perhaps Yajirobe's only friend at the school.
Overview[]
Appearance[]
Brian is a skinny boy with dirty blond hair and green eyes. He is decently tall for his age. He has light skin. His hair is medium-length and relatively messy. He tends to wear white shirts and shorts, though he adopted the orange gi of the Iboinoshishi School after becoming a recruit. His gi was always a little big for him.
Personality[]
Brian is a more passive character than Yajirobe or Harotu. That is not to say he's asocial like Yajirobe. He can be reserved at times and extremely talkative at other times. He is a resourceful boy, as seen when he came up with the strategy to get General Blue's hat in chapter 1 of Spindlerun: The Tale of Yajirobe. He can be somewhat of a coward, and seems to have acrophobia, as seen in chapter 2 of that story when he didn't want to run across the bridge. Even though he was scared, he eventually mustered up the courage to do it. He is a clever fighter, as he was able to outwit Harotu when they sparred together, since Harotu was a spammer. He is highly adaptable in that way, although he lacks the physical strength to truly punish his opponents until his power level rises from months of training. He is a realist, too, as seen in chapter 6, when he knew both he and Yajirobe were dead after being captured by Makare and Naigo, but he never gives up, as seen when he managed to escape from Naigo, despite being horrifically wounded. He has a very strong will, but he's not loud about it. He is also generous with money, as seen when he paid for Harotu and Yajirobe's meals in the diner in chapter 4.
History[]
Spindlerun: The Tale of Yajirobe[]
Brian was one of the children who came to the Iboinoshishi School hoping to train to become a samurai. He, along with the rest of the recruits, attempted to complete the first test, which was maintaining a pose for several minutes without moving (until Kumo, their instructor, returned). About eight minutes into the test, a boy named Brian introduced himself to Yajirobe, noting that the tubby boy was likely to go through to the next round after observing his form. Yajirobe was surprised that the boy knew his name, for he thought he had been quiet when telling it to the attendants. Then, he introduced himself to Harotu, who was on his right. The two talked about how they had trained for weeks for this test.
After fifteen minutes had passed, Kumo returned, telling the remaining thirteen children that they had completed their first test. She told them that it was now time to commence the second test. They would need to steal the hat of General Blue when he and his legion of Red Ribbon Army soldiers entered Orange Star City later that day. Seven of the recruits refused to do so, for they thought they would be killed, but Brian agreed to attempt the second test.
The group of recruits soon returned to Orange Star City, finding it to be a ghost town. They wandered about, searching for the army. Eventually they heard the sound of marching soldiers approaching. Brian pointed out a house nearby that was owned by Mr. Parroda, who had several jabillo trees. When he had been little, his mother had gone to the man's house for some business, leaving him and his brother to play outside, where they had discovered the explosive nature of the jabillo fruit. He explained to the others that the jabillo fruit would explode if thrown at somebody and thought they should use that against General Blue in order to knock off his hat.
The group quickly agreed to this strategy, and so Brian, Anders, and the two nameless children ran over to Mr. Parroda's house, jumped the fence, and grabbed some jabillo fruit. They waited for the soldiers to come marching down the street, getting into position a few houses away, before throwing their jabillos. The fruit exploded, but did little damage to the soldiers, angering them more than anything else. General Blue shot at the four of them with his pistol, causing them to flee into a nearby building. Blue then ordered Captain Dark to lead the heavy weapons division up to building and destroy it.
While the building was being leveled by the soldiers, Brian jumped from a window out of the side of it and threw the last jabillo fruit at General Blue. It exploded close enough to him to knock his hat off his head. The irate general unloaded another magazine of his pistol at the boy, but missed every shot. He then ran after Brian, who had been knocked over by the house being blown to pieces. Brian pled for his life, but Blue would not hear it. Before Blue could reload his pistol, however, Harotu attacked him from behind. After a brief struggle, the boy opened his lighter in Blue's face, which damaged the general enough to allow him and Brian to escape.
The six boys regrouped several blocks away, and Yajirobe proudly presented Blue's hat to them. They returned to the Iboinoshishi school soon after and gave Kumo the hat. She did not congratulate them, but ordered her servants to show the boys to their dormitory so they could sleep. Later on, the Daimyo Elijah went to the dormitory to look upon the sleeping recruits with his own eyes. They each had a bunk bed, and all of them sans Brian were sleeping on their bottom bunk.
In chapter 2, Yajirobe, Brian, Harotu, Anders, Nameless Child 1, and Nameless Child 2 began their training at the Iboinoshishi School. When they woke up, the attendants took them to the dining hall and served them breakfast. As they ate, the group conversed about their harrowing mission the previous day. Harotu proudly recounted how he had saved Brian from General Blue. Brian gave Yajirobe credit for running so fast to get his hat. Later, when Harotu asked Yajirobe to back him up, as Yajirobe had seen him save Brian from General Blue, Yajirobe ignored him.
At that moment, Elijah entered the dining hall and everyone went quiet. The daimyo introduced himself and after Brian told him that they were expecting the man to train them, he told them to follow him outside for their first session. Once outside, Elijah ordered them to show him how skilled they were in the art of sword fighting already. He gave them wooden sticks that had been carved in the likeness of katanas. He told them he could not trust them with real swords yet, which was disappointing to the recruits.
Brian was paired with Harotu. Harotu managed to disarm Brian rather quickly. Brian tried to get his bokken back, but Harotu sidestepped him, pushed him to the grass, and cut open his calf with a slice of his wooden sword. Brian was furious with Harotu for doing that. The older boy kept him pinned to the ground and gave him the nickname "whiny Biney". Elijah told them to stop after that, calling forward the three best duelers in his opinion - Brian, Harotu, and Nameless Child 1.
This outraged Anders, for Brian had lost. He challenged the daimyo to a duel to show off how good his sword fighting skills were. Elijah accepted, telling them that he was always obligated to duel when challenged, no matter the competition. Anders then charged down Elijah with his bokken, but the daimyo jumped over him and then kicked him in the chest with a single toe. The boy dropped to the ground, not even able to scream, and appeared to have been severely wounded. He did not make another sound, but blood flowed from his mouth. At that moment, Elijah's attendants appeared and, in panic, took the boy away on a stretcher. Nobody at the Iboinoshishi School ever saw Anders again.
Elijah then told the remaining five recruits that he would not tolerate arrogance from them. He told them that none of them were exceptional yet, or more skilled than he had expected. His training would make them exceptional, but they should not have any false beliefs about their abilities so early into their training. Then, he walked off, their training for that morning having been completed.
The next night, Elijah took his recruits to the crumbling southern bridge in Orange Star City to train. He ordered six attendants to clear some rubble from it before they began. Once his attendants had done so, he dismissed them. Then, he told the children that their task was simple: reach the other end of the bridge without dying. The bridge, with so many holes in it, the gusting winds, and the roads crumbling, was a treacherous obstacle course to navigate. Brian was deathly afraid of heights, so had a difficult time beginning his training. He thought he would fall. Harotu told him that it wasn't as bad as it looked, because Elijah would never let them die. The daimyo gave no reply to that. Brian was incredulous, reminding Harotu of the dangerous mission to get General Blue's hat.
Then, having heard enough of their talk, Elijah began the training by leading them across the bridge. Everyone waited a few seconds before following. Harotu, Nameless Child 1, and Nameless Child 2 were the first to begin the obstacle course. Yajirobe and Brian remained behind, being more wary. Brian asked the other boy if he thought this training was a crazy idea. Yajirobe agreed, but said that they had to do it or else go back to their homes. Yajirobe reminded Brian that there would be food waiting for them back at the school when they finished, and so that was a good enough motivator for him. Yajirobe ran onto the bridge, leaving the other boy behind.
Brian eventually joined them and only caught up when the bridge started to collapse. Only Yajirobe and Elijah made it off the bridge. The other three were on a small section of the bridge that had fallen ten feet below the road Yajirobe was standing on. They were clinging to pieces of bridge, trying not to fall off. Yajirobe ran off into the city to search for help.
In chapter 3, Yajirobe, Brian, Harotu, and Nameless Child 2 continued their training in the Iboinoshishi School. They used their bokkens on stuffed dummies. Yajirobe was annoyed at this, for it did not seem to be very useful training. Brian thought that the reason they were doing this low-level training was because the daimyo was still significantly wounded from being shot in the leg. Not long into their training, Elijah appeared. All of the recruits huddled around the man, but before he could say anything, they demanded to know who had shot Nameless Child 1 and Elijah. He told them it was Makare. He had not expected Makare to attack his recruits and promised the four of them that he would not allow the man to hurt them in the future. Then, he told them that they were going to do some new training that day and bade them follow him out of the school.
The daimyo and his samurai recruits went to Daniel Parroda's vineyard in Cardan where they met Mark, his younger brother. Elijah asked the boy for 157 barrels, for he planned on rolling them down a hill. Elijah paid for the barrels, handing Mark some zeni, and asked the boy to give that to his brother. Mark demanded to watch their training and Elijah agreed. Then, the daimyo and the recruits tied the barrels together and pulled them through the forest. While they were going, Brian asked Elijah what they were going to be doing with the barrels. He told them that he was going to roll them down a hill at the recruits, forcing them to dodge the barrels. This shocked Brian, who said that they could die if they weren't fast enough. Elijah did not care, stating once more that they could leave his school at any time if the training got too intense for them. He also revealed that this barrel training was the first test his master had given to him at the school.
It took the five of them more than five hours to move all of the barrels to the chosen hill. Mark accompanied them, but did not help, instead incessantly talking to Elijah the whole time, which irritated the recruits. He boasted that he had filled two hundred barrels with wine that day - including the 157 Elijah had bought. The recruits didn't believe him, but Elijah confirmed it. When they finished moving all of the barrels, the sun was setting. Brian asked Elijah how he had completed this test back in the day, and Elijah showed them the seven-star Dragon Ball, stating that he had found that ball as a kid and the master let him use it during his training. None of them, even the daimyo, knew how it was sturdy enough not to shatter against the barrels.
Afterwards, they began their test. Elijah cut some barrels loose and rolled them down the hill at the four recruits, gradually increasing the pace over time. Brian thought that they should use their bokkens to stop the barrels from hitting them. He was relatively successful at that strategy. The training session finally came to a close with all four recruits succeeding in never getting hit by the barrels.
That night, Yajirobe lay in bed, unable to sleep. When he got up to go on a walk, he noticed Harotu was up too. The other boy and him talked outside of their dormitory, with Harotu putting forth the notion that the four recruits should have fun sometimes by going into the city some nights. Yajirobe was not really up for that, but Harotu did not want to go into the city by himself. Yajirobe suggested Harotu take Nameless Child 2 and Brian with him. Their talking caused Brian to wake up. Harotu told him the plan and the two of them began working out the best places to visit in the city. Soon after, Nameless Child 2 work up and joined in on the fun.
Their first idea was to sneak into a movie theater to see a movie for free. Then, they talked about getting food at some restaurant. Thirdly, they thought about going to Harotu's house to see his family. Finally, they decided to go back to the place where they had stolen General Blue's hat. They also wanted to steal a car. This piqued Yajirobe's interest, for stealing cars was one of his few passions in life. He agreed to go with them to Orange Star City.
They reached the city by two in the morning. Yajirobe found a car, hot-wired it, and drove them down the streets. He almost hit several pedestrians as he drove. He crashed the car in the town square after he hit a tent. When they got out of the mangled car, they heard General Blue singing a Justin Bieber song horrendously nearby. As the car had crashed into his karaoke machine, he grew angry at the device malfunctioning. He shot it four times with his pistol, demanding it to turn on again. When it did not, several of his soldiers consoled him.
Then, he noticed Yajirobe, Harotu, Brian, and Nameless Child 2. In a rage, he raised his pistol at them. He fired once, hitting Nameless Child 2 in the head and killing him. The other three fled, with Brian getting split off from Yajirobe and Harotu in the chaos. He ran down the road, but was soon attacked by Launch, who had noticed him and the others crawl out the crashed hovercar. She attempted to attack him, drawing a knife after he kicked her off of him. The boy managed to evade her in close quarters long enough for General Blue's next shot, which was aimed at him, to hit Launch in the shoulder. Brian ran off, the woman collapsing in the street, as Blue pursued him. However, Launch fired at Blue, killing his guards, and thus regained his attention, which allowed Brian to get away.
In chapter 4, as he descended Igaron mountain, Daniel looked towards the distant Orange Star City. He thought about how some kids had recently broken into his yard and stolen some of his jabillo fruit, which annoyed him greatly. Later, while wandering the war-torn streets of Orange Star City, Harotu lit a firework and threw it into a nearby window of a half-collapsed building, where it exploded it. This caused Brian, who had been knocked unconscious underneath a pile of rubble, to wake up and reunite with Harotu.
Harotu noted that two Red Ribbon Army soldiers were dead nearby him (they had been killed by Launch the previous night). Brian asked Harotu for a firework so that he could have a little fun too, and Harotu gladly obliged. The two of them returned to the grocery store where Yajirobe was at. Yajirobe woke up at about midday, noting that Brian had returned with Harotu, who had gone out while the boy had slept.
They decided to go to a restaurant to get breakfast. There, Harotu and Yajirobe ordered an exorbitant amount of food, while Brian ordered nothing (for he was still traumatized from the events of the previous night). Since they didn't have enough money to pay for it all, they agreed to sneak out of the restaurant before the bill came. While they were eating, Yajirobe noticed a photo of Daniel Parroda and remembered that that man had given him a flyer of the Iboinoshishi School in chapter 1. He asked a waitress who the man was, and she told him that Daniel was the regional lightweight boxing champion. Brian once again brought up the fact that he and his mother had gone to Mr. Parroda's house sometimes to have dinner. Yajirobe thought it was strange that such a man had been in the streets handing out flyers. When the bill came, Brian wrote a check for over Ƶ11,000, which was far more than Yajirobe and Harotu had spent.
Soon after, Brian noticed that two men were watching them. He thought it was a serious issue, as they looked like soldiers in his estimation, though Harotu was unconvinced. Nevertheless, the three exited the booth because they felt threatened. As they returned to the Iboinoshishi School, they noticed that one person was following them. They hid inside a half-ruined building in order to catch a glimpse of who was following them. They realized it was Mark, the boy who had been at that winery.
Yajirobe was enraged and attacked the boy, beating him into submission. He wanted to set off a firecracker in Mark's face, but Harotu thought that was too violent. Mark then revealed that he was walking home, having just come from a karate class his brother had been teaching. He demanded a rematch with Yajirobe, confidently stating that he would punch the older boy in the face.
Brian watched the fight, although once the two men from the restaurant showed up, he grabbed a piece of broken glass to defend himself. Now those men made their move on the boys. They drew katanas and attacked the boys. Brian was wounded by one man, although Yajirobe saved him from certain death by throwing his body at the man. The samurai calmly knocked Yajirobe out with the hilt of his blade and then went after Brian and Harotu. They attacked him with fists and a backpack, causing the other man, who had slunk off down a side alley to come up behind them, to return and help his comrade overcome the children. He picked up Brian by the hair, but the boy stabbed him in the arm with a piece of glass, causing him to drop him and his katana. Brian scooped it up and stabbed him, but it didn't go in very far, and the man was able to wrench it loose from Brian's control immediately after. He drew a dagger and charged the boy, but he stepped on Yajirobe on his way over.
This woke the bigger boy up. He kicked the samurai in the shin, causing him to fall screaming. Meanwhile, Harotu was chased into a building by the other man. The two other boys questioned their prisoner on who he was and why he was attacking them, but just then the second samurai returned from the building, holding Harotu by the hair. Brian attempted to duel him, but before he could, Makare appeared and beheaded the samurai who was holding Harotu after he refused to let him go.
Makare introduced himself to the three boys, stating that he was an old friend of Elijah's and that he wanted to replace the man as the daimyo of the Iboinoshishi School, focusing its training on the art of ki control as well as swordsmanship. He also disparaged Elijah's leadership, stating that the previous master of the school had been brash to make Elijah his successor. Makare noted that only Elijah and Kumo were capable of wielding a sword and that all other recruits had dropped out, retired, or been removed from the school, which Makare thought was far too strict. He also revealed to them that Elijah had opened the Iboinoshishi School up three times prior, but no recruits had survived or passed all of the tests any of those times. He told them that he would be taking over the Iboinoshishi School and would be using his army to do so. Then he revealed his katana to the boys and told them that he was relishing the opportunity to kill them himself. Brian begged to join Makare's army instead. Makare refused.
Yajirobe and Brian, using the imprisoned samurai's weapons, attacked Makare while Harotu rolled around on the ground crying. Makare easily disarmed Brian, cutting his arm. He toyed with them for a while before withdrawing and telling them that he would kill them soon, cursing the luck that they were being let off lightly today. The boys did not understand.
Immediately after, Elijah appeared, attacking Makare in a fearsome display of strength and technical prowess. The two samurai lords traded blows, but Elijah clearly dominated his foe. He kicked Makare into a wall, where he crumpled like a ragdoll. The daimyo demanded that the man stay away from his students. Makare mocked them as being taught by an inferior teacher. Elijah revealed that he knew about the solipsist monks teaching Makare (though it had actually been Naigo who they had taught), calling their philosophy delusional and their ki attacks cheap tricks. At that moment, Makare pushed Elijah's blade out of his face (cutting his chin in the process) and ran off.
Elijah ordered the boys not to pursue him. Then he told the boys that they would begin training with real swords the next morning, as Makare's threats were becoming too difficult to ignore. Harotu asked the daimyo what they were supposed to do about their samurai prisoner. The man attempted to run off, but Yajirobe and Brian stopped him. Elijah threw his knife to them and told them to deal with the threat however they wished. Then, he walked off, returning to the Iboinoshishi School. Brian and Harotu refused to kill the man, leaving the task to Yajirobe. They returned to the Iboinoshishi School, not wanting to watch him do it.
At the start of chapter 5, Makare and Naigo prepared to assault the Iboinoshishi School. Naigo believed that having roughly two hundred thirty samurai would be enough to swarm the place, but Makare believed they would need at least seven hundred to overwhelm Elijah, Kumo, the students, and the attendants.
When Yajirobe returned to the Iboinoshishi School the next morning after being left in Orange Star City to execute the samurai prisoner, he was greeted by Elijah, Brian, and Harotu. The daimyo explained that he was going to start teaching them how to use a katana, as Makare would be attacking soon. He did not know how long it would take Makare to attack, and so did not know how long their training would go on for. He gave them their newly-forged katanas (each had their name inscribed near the hilt) and then began teaching them how to use the blades.
They learned how to parry first and then were taught the Sabaki defense form. They were told to slice, not to poke with their katanas. Additionally, they were taught slowly at first and taught not to use flashy moves, as patience and energy conservation were more important than looking cool. As days passed, they began noticing the school being surrounded by a large army, for fires were being lit all around them on the surrounding mountainside. At that point, Elijah began teaching the trio offensive moves.
Late one night, Harotu offered up the idea that they could all flee before the army attacked, as there appeared to be anywhere from five hundred to several thousand samurai waiting for them outside the gates. Yajirobe and Brian refused to leave, which made Harotu quite unhappy. However, when Brian and Yajirobe got to talking, the fatter boy admitted that he would probably run when the battle started, which shocked the other recruit. They went to bed shortly after.
The next morning, the attendants brought the three boys out to the training grounds where they found Kumo and Elijah fully adorned in their armor. The samurai dueled for the students to show them what a real fight looked like. The fight was relatively short, with Elijah winning easily. Afterwards, Yajirobe correctly guessed that Elijah's strategy had been to allow Kumo to wear herself out before going in for the killing blow. Then, Elijah and Yajirobe dueled while Kumo took on Harotu and Brian at the same time. Brian and Harotu only sparred with Kumo briefly before she ordered them to fight each other. Harotu spammed a lot of the same moves over and over again, making his form not very beautiful. Brian was able to punish him for that and won the duel.
The group continued their intense training session for four more weeks until on one fateful, rainy day, a servant rang the bell at the front gate. Elijah, Kumo, and the students ran to see what was the matter. They beheld a black horse and a rider, who was one of the servants. He was headless. This signaled Makare's attack. As the samurai began marching towards the school, spilling out from the mountainsides, Elijah taught his students one final technique: the Iaigiri (the act of killing someone by running at them, and at the last second drawing the katana from its scabbard and slicing).
Then, he gave the seven-star Dragon Ball to Brian and instructed him and Yajirobe to run to Daniel's house and give it to him as well as tell the man that Elijah no longer required his services. This pissed off Harotu, for he believed that he would have to defend the school by himself. Elijah and Kumo left. After they had gone, Harotu declared that he had had it and decided to leave the school. He ran off to the dorms before Brian or Yajirobe could stop him.
An attendant took Brian and Yajirobe to a porter-gate in the back of the school, which allowed them to run off to Daniel's house without being spotted by Makare's men. They met eight of Makare's men on the road, but made short work of them after Brian snuck up behind them and Yajirobe charged them headlong at the same time. Then, they made haste towards the winery. Upon arriving there, they found it in ruins and on fire. Daniel's body, cut to pieces, was hanging out of a window. There was no sign of Mark. Then, Makare jumped down from the roof, gleeful at the boys' appearance. He drew his sword, ready to duel. The boys were utterly frightened by the man and sprinted back to the school. They were able to outpace Makare.
They saw smoke rising from the school and found the bodies of many samurai and servants lying all over the place (as well as Harotu's backpack by the porter-gate, which Brian scooped up). They ran inside to find Kumo and some attendants fighting off the samurai. She ordered one of them to go find Elijah, for he had disappeared, and the other to take her place as she patched up a wound. Yajirobe agreed to do that, while Brian went looking for the daimyo.
Brian found Elijah in his room, meditating. The man seemed doubtful of his abilities and was particularly scared of having to face off against Naigo. Elijah told Brian that Daniel had not gotten to the solipsist monks quick enough, as Naigo had still been able to learn how to control ki blasts. Brian pleaded with him to help. Elijah relented and returned to the courtyard with Brian.
There, they found Makare, Naigo, and Makare's surviving samurai. He demanded to duel with Makare and Makare alone, but the other samurai refused to keep Naigo at bay. Elijah remarked that it had only been their old master who had prevented Elijah from killing Makare in the past. Once more Elijah demanded to duel with Makare, but the other man admitted that he would not win the duel.
At that moment, bloody and battered, Yajirobe appeared from behind, his katana in hand. Naigo kicked him aside. Elijah then declared that only Yajirobe and Brian knew where the old master's grave was (an obvious lie), and if Makare killed them, that secret died with them. Makare was taken aback, for he had loved his old master. He ordered Naigo to take the children prisoner so they could be interrogated. Brian was outraged, but Elijah allowed it to happen. Naigo ordered soldiers to bind both of the children's hands and legs (they had to carry Yajirobe since he had been knocked unconscious) and take them. Makare hit Elijah with the hilt of his blade and cut his neck, leaving him there in dirt as he and his army retreated to Igaron mountain to interrogate the boys.
In chapter 6, Yajirobe awoke inside Igaron mountain in a prison fashioned for him by the samurai, he noticed that Brian was not with him. He noticed some holes in the rocks to his left, and peering through them spotted Brian in another prison cell next to his. Brian told him that they had been brought there to be questioned by Makare and Naigo about the location of the grave of Elijah and Makare's master. Yajirobe wanted to formulate a strategy to get out of there, but there was nothing they could do, as many guards were just outside their doors and their swords had been left at the school.
Soon after, Naigo and two guards came and took Brian away. Yajirobe soon heard him start to scream. His screaming grew more and more frequent over the coming minutes. By the time Yajirobe escaped his cell, Brian's screams had become horribly desperate. Naigo took Brian to the center of the cave, where Makare and several other soldiers were. He claimed that Elijah had killed Makare's master, though there was no way of knowing if that was true. Brian didn't know what he was talking about, so the man cut his flesh with his katana, causing the boy to scream as his blood spurted out. Then, he pressed his boot to Brian's chest and pressed down until his bones started to break. He told the boy that he would not stop until he revealed where that grave was located. But Brian had been hurt too gravely by that last attack - he could no longer speak because he was having trouble breathing. In anger, Naigo sliced him across the face twice with his blade. He ordered some soldiers to bring Yajirobe in.
Naigo prepared an energy attack to incinerate Brian when the boy threw the seven-star Dragon Ball at his face. This caused Naigo to drop his energy attack on his leg, severely burning himself. Brian got up and limped off before anyone could see what happened, as the ki explosion had obscured everyone's view. The wounded boy ran around a corner until he hit a table, which made him fall over. He noticed that Harotu's backpack had been on the table. He pulled out the largest firework, lit it with a nearby torch (which burned him too, as he was clumsy in his wounded state), and waited for the samurai to come to him. When Naigo rounded the corner, Brian threw the backpack at him. He noticed the lit fuse and threw it up to the ceiling where it detonated spectacularly, but uselessly. Unbeknownst to everyone in that cave, the explosion had triggered the explosives that Daniel had placed around the cave.
Naigo rushed to Brian; the boy was too weak to run. He grabbed the recruit by the neck, took a wakizashi out, and cut Brian's stomach open. He pulled the boy's organs and intestines out with his dirty fingernails, and took a bite of his liver just as the explosives detonated, which killed Naigo, Brian, and all the samurai inside Igaron mountain (save for Makare).
At that moment, Yajirobe fled out of the mountain, hoping to go get his sword from the school and then come back to save Brian, when it exploded and crumbled in on itself. He knew that everyone inside was dead. He made his way down the mountain and noticed a katana in a tree. He thought it was his until he reached it and saw Brian's name inscribed upon it. Yajirobe realized that Elijah had thought that Brian would survive the encounter with Makare's Band, not him. There was a message attached in which Elijah congratulated Brian, his greatest samurai recruit, for activating Daniel's minefield and killing all of the samurai. Later, when Yajirobe returned to the daimyo, Elijah was greatly saddened that Brian had not made it.
In chapter 7, Yajirobe returned to the Iboinoshishi School to find it overgrown with weeds. Nobody had been there in a long time. He thought about how he had been the only one to graduate - Anders (Yajirobe was mistaken about Anders, as Anders did not actually die), Nameless Child 1, Nameless Child 2, and Brian had died, and Harotu had quit.
Trivia[]
- Brian's character design and personality was lightly based on myself.
- Brian's katana is the katana that Yajirobe used throughout Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z.