Usagi and his cousin Yukichi are still in the snowy mountaintops of Northern Japan, following Stan Sakai's <i>Usagi</i> <i>Yojimbo</i> story arc, "The Green Dragon." They are led to the hut of a strange woman hermit who allows them to spend the night. Meanwhile, the maniacal Jei and his familiar, Keiko, are on Usagi's trail when they stumble upon a bandit lair and subdue the band of cutthroats and thieves.
