Osaka, Japan: a fearsome armored warrior known as Ronin defeats several gangster with spinning nunchakus, demanding to know where to find the headquarters of The Hand….
Yesterday, Steve Rogers met Matt Murdock in Central Park to tell him that Kenuichio Harada, the Silver Samurai, was one of the prisoners to escape from the Vault recently (issues #1-6). He was then smuggled out of the country by air to Japan. Matt believes it was the work of the Yashida Clan, a powerful but struggling yakuza gang who need the powerful Silver Samurai to unite the splintered group and provide a power base for The Hand. Steve asked for Matt’s help as Daredevil. Matt declined; since his identity was publicized too many criminals and Federal lawmen are hunting for him to risk endangering the Avengers by association. Steve reveals that he had once abandoned his Captain America identity for Nomad….
Ronin enters the secret compound of the Yashida Clan and witnesses yakuza members presenting Kenuichio Harada with his Silver Samurai outfit….and then Madame Hydra arrives and kisses Harada….
Matt told Steve that there was someone who had all the knowledge Daredevil possessed of the Japanese Underworld, including fighting ability…. Steve headed over to contact Matt’s candidate for the job of aiding the Avengers….
Ronin is caught by Hand assassins and fights them to escape from the compound. Ronin soon arrives at Tony Stark’s penthouse apartment downtown where the Avengers are waiting. The mysterious warrior reveals that Harada is in the Yashida fortress…but so is Hydra. Ronin then apologizes for failing them…as The Hand assassins arrive to battle the Avengers….