Akane holds up the pouch. "A pouch, with the Crab mon, and 5 koku. Either one of your kinsmen made an error and paid this bandit in a way that can be traced back to him, or someone's trying to set up the Crab, in case he gets caught. Either way, we can ask him when he recovers from his wounds." As she heads towards the door, she pauses, leaning close.<br/><br/>"And don't be too surprised. I am samurai, after all, and he was a common bandit. Of course one trained in kenjutsu will defeat a common thug swinging a sward around." A brief smile, and a quick wink, is all that Akane has to do to get her point across. She's covering, smoothing out the Face, so they both end up on top.<br/><br/>At the door, she whistles for an eta, and instructs him to take the unconscious form of the bandit leader back to the crematorium with them.