Chokaku Ishigaki was born into a low-ranking samurai family in the Choshu domain. Chokaku is faithful to his father's teachings that "a samurai should always have a battlefield mentality." Since entering the domain's prestigious school, Hagi Meirinkan, he has been causing nothing but trouble... Chokaku will cut through this tortuous world with a single stroke of his Chokaku Slash!