"Swordless ’swordsman’ Shichika and self-described ’schemer’ Togame are on a quest to obtain twelve peculiar masterpiece blades. Pitting the former against his sister, who has acquired one of the legendary weapons, and the latter against a rival at court, Princess Negative, this paperback edition, featuring ... interior art and copious bilingual footnotes, is the third of a quartet collecting a bestselling series from the former homeland of samurais and ninjas"--Back cover.