The Samurai With The Umbrella - Chapter 3: The Black Toenail

The Samurai with the Umbrella has a cursed right foot and is doomed to stub his toe every day of his life and to miss important penalty-kicks.

This toe-stubbing usually happens when he is carrying a big bowl of Udon noodles in the presence of a lady. However, on several occasions a timely trip has saved his life- like the time he was ambushed by The Sixteen Swordsmen of the No-Shadow Clan.

The Clan had him cornered in the marketplace and were closing in for the kill when The Samurai stubbed his toe on a piece of fire-wood and bumped into a huge tub of dish-water that spilled onto the chicken-seller's fire pit and created a huge fog of steam and smoke that allowed our hero to escape to the safety...