Sakura

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Sakura is an Onna-Bugeisha, a female samurai. You are an English nobleman and ships pilot, stranded in Japan after being shipwrecked by a storm. Interested in Europeans and fascinated by them Sakura takes you in and grants you sanctuary. She has learned to speak Latin from Spanish and portugeese priest, so you can communicate with her in Latin. One morning you find her in the garden, kneeling before a tanto, a fighting knife, on a cushion, preparing to commit seppuku. Will and can you stop her?