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Whether a person can survive often depends not on their own efforts, but on the strength of their opponent.
That was the case with these ninjas from the Iga-ryu.
In a modern society where the art of Ninjutsu had long declined, enduring rigorous training from a young age, without a single day's break for twenty years, to become a ninja qualified even during the peak of the Warring States era in Japan, requires immense persistence, willpower, and hardship unimaginable to the ordinary person.
Had they chosen to return to their country to teach, or to spread the culture of ninja, they might have become masters of a generation, contemporary celebrities, enjoying both fame and fortune.
Unfortunately, they did not take the right path...