Alas, not all samurai were faithful the code that made them Samurai. Samanosuke shrugged his shoulders, turning down the corners of his mouth as he tallied up the years since he became Onimusha. "I was twenty-four years of age when I received the Gauntlet of the Ogre clan," he said, gesturing with his right arm, "That was more than two decades ago, and...well...I will let you judge for yourself just how much I have, or have not aged since then."

He was, in fact, pushing half a century.