Session 4: An ember started rarely dims

Party: Daidoji Jinsoku, Doji Natsuki, Hida Ganko, Yoritomi Shohei

Returning from their encounter with the Kajikun, the emerald magistrates finds themselves... waylaid by folk on the street.
Firemen, in various guises, start bumping the group into a part of the street for a confrontation.
The party, however, proves very adept at dispatching the aggressors, Ganko and Jinsoku showing what warriors trained from birth to fight are able to do to the lower classes. 
Shohei, having put his body on the line to protect Natsuki, gets bandaged up a bit.

Injured, but content to have proven their martial prowess, they continue on home only to find the ringing of blade on otherworldly claw and carapace. 
Having noted some suspicious activity around the house, both Kitsuki Jotomon and Shosuro Jocho had made their way into the house while unknown shadow-creatures (presumed to be oni) were attacking the household staff.  Bassai and Dai, the twins, lay dead at the entrance, while the Kakita (Doze) was injured.
Jotomon-sensei had rushed to the defense of the young Doji Chi, eventually found there by the group as they sought to first find her. The Lightning Squad that accompanied Jocho had engaged with the attackers in the kitchen, inadvertently saving Flower and Hyogeki from them. 

As the party headed outside to escape the chaos and bring Chi-hime to safety, they noted red eyes in the shadows of the street, with more Oni approaching.
Without too much thinking, the group split in two. One set heading back inside to grab jade to combat the creatures (relying on Ganko's knowledge of the foe), the other holding the line to buy time. Jocho, having cleared the kitchen, joins up with the outside party and eventually the tainted beings from the Shadowlands are purged from the street.