Kanamori Chobei

Chōbei is a struggling merchant whose drive and hard work allowed him to succeed in growing and prospering where others failed. Kanamori is the second generation of the Chōbei family to show this drive as his parents were the first ones determined in shattering the family’s bad reputation. The name their ancestors cursed their decedents with by consorting with bandits and scum to pillage the unfortunate close and far. If it was not for this, their family would perhaps be well off and those before in the family would not have wasting their time despairing.

Kanamori when young had no qualms with the current Lord (Kenshin) or the previous one until it affected his family. One day, by some corrupt individuals under Lord Kenshin, his father was slain by those guarding the road who mocked and treated his family’s caravan as if they were a bandit troupe. That day his opinion about Lord Kenshin’s darkened greatly.