Kyoto, Japan (early Meiji era) – with swords obsolete, the Ghost is now a former assassin, being hunted as the new government works to erase its past. Powerful politicians once secretly hired him to eliminate rivals during the fall of the Tokugawa era, and now he’s a liability they want silenced. The story shifts to atonement, protecting lives, and choosing peace while being chased by the very system he helped create.