The concept for this story came from a list of "unresolved issues" I had listed on one of my pages (which I had created to start working through all of the last bits of information in my universe that I wanted to). One of the unresolved issues was what happens to Elijah from Spindlerun: The Tale of Yajirobe, as well as all of the great samurai swords. Any reader of Spindlerun knows that Elijah's fate is left unclear at the end of that story, so I wanted to show a bit more of what he does afterwards. This story is an atypical take on a Spindlerun epilogue. This should come as no surprise to those who have read the collection, but it wasn't something I actively wanted to do when I created this story - coming up with epilogues for Spindlerun, Dragon Ball Z: In Requiem, and Dragon Ball Z: The