Poaching- Mitsu-ryo -final- -kojiro- =link= -

But Musashi had already poached him . He read the rhythm, stepped into the blind spot of the reverse, and brought the wooden oar down on Kojiro’s skull.

Given the title's structure and the cultural context of Kojiro, here is a story based on those themes: The Final Stand: Mitsu-ryo Poaching- Mitsu-ryo -Final- -Kojiro-

Kojiro was no master of a legitimate school. He was a prodigy, a wanderer, and, some said, a . He had glimpsed the Chujo-ryu’s fluid midsection cuts. He had borrowed from the Toda school’s brutal downward chop. And from a dying swordsman in a Kyushu village, he had taken the seed of a move designed to cut a swallow in mid-flight: a strike so fast it reversed in the same instant it landed. But Musashi had already poached him