

Raki tells her that his parents were the first to be killed by the Yoma. Raki mimics her with a board and sits with her. The warrior stakes her sword and sits against it. Under a gateway leading out of the village, Raki says that beyond this point are the mines. When Raki calls her a "Claymore," she says that name was given to warriors by humans. When he calls the organization she works for as "Claymore," she says the Organization has no name. But she strangely allows him to follow her. She whirls about and nearly decapitates him with her sword. But in any case, either her body, or the Yoma's, will eventually turn up. If she is killed, there would be no reason to pay the fee. The Claymore refuses payment, saying that after the job is done, someone will come collect the money. Village hall Īt the village hall, the chief asks a petite female assistant to get the money. She carries a huge sword in a carrier on her back.


Before the setting sun, the unnamed woman from the cold open approaches. Their talk is interrupted-villagers shout the Claymore is coming. Zaki adds that Claymores are half-human, half-Yoma. He calls both the Organization and its female warriors Claymores, both named after the Claymore sword. When Raki asks about Claymores, Zaki gives him a mix of fact and rumor.

Outside, Zaki meets his pre-adolescent brother, Raki, who admits eavesdropping. The meeting ends on a fearful note, due to the Claymores' reputation. The chief announces that he hired a Claymore. A young man, Zaki, says Yoma are impossible to detect once they take human form. Someone says Yoma eat the organs of their still living victims. Īt a village hall meeting, the villagers demand action. In the medieval village of Doga a crowd gathers round a dead man in the street. There are two color plates in the cold open-one of Clare killing the Yoma and a second of Clare herself.ĭay. The unnamed woman, with vertical pupils, readies her sword-she beheads the Yoma. A Yoma, a red humanoid monster, confronts a strange woman.
