"In this volume we learn about Yuki's training and youth, see her woo some allies, and embark on the first steps of her angry path. Under the tutelage of a stoic former warrior, the young Yuki begins to understand pain and suffering, qualities she'll one day impart upon her quarry. The band of bandits that at one time raped her mother and killed the little boy who would have been her brother will wish they had never made such a greedy and vicious...