The Phantom ninja, now reduced to three plus KongÅ, are feeling very frustrated that so many of them have died yet they have been successful in killing only one person in the "book of death" Samunba begs to take the next victim, Izumiya, a rice merchant and purveyor to the government. Izumiya has 10 ,000 gold pieces to deliver to Edo Castle. The Phantom intend to replace the gold with gunpowder and blow it up once it is in the castle treasury.
