He understood now. Why it had taken so long for the human to return to the shiro. He had gone to the Dragons and told them the same tale he had told to the Daimo. He was the cause behind the end of the long held treaty between the north and the west.
Unfortunately, the Dragons did not seem to have the same ability to scent a lie that inu had. Had that accursed samurai gone to the West with that story, he would have been laughed out of his father's Shiro.