CRIMSON HANZO

Half Spanish, half Japanese, Hanzo was sent to Kyoto by his parents after getting into too many fights as a teenager in Zamora. At Sensei Kenzo Takahashi's Arashiyama Bamboo Grove dojo he found the brother he never had — Jiro. For fifteen years they trained under the same bald-headed teacher, twinned in every kata but opposite in temperament. Hanzo learned Gōka-ryū — 'hell-fire school' — the striking half of the dojo's art, specializing in close-range brawling and dual kodachi. He burns with open rage for their fallen master. He does not plan. He charges. And the bone remembers which of them showed up. They are the two fists of the same silent vow: the one Lee Kia is about to learn the hard way.