Vagabond Vol. 36 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

Amid famine, people and the poor village alike waste away, even their will to live withering. In Volume 36, Musashi, who keeps reclaiming the land to become "strong," faces an opponent tougher than any enemy before: starved soil and an approaching winter. A man more skilled than anyone at cutting others down with a blade, he has no art for bringing the earth to life and drawing forth a harvest. Before the winter wind, cold as death, blows in, he must breathe life into the paddy soil, or everything, the villagers' lives included, will freeze solid. A man once called a "demon," who took so many lives, now opens up a place of death and turns it into a land of "hope": a story of strength beyond the sword.