Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20171018104546/@comment-1512913-20171018211903

I'm sure Chojuro has some kind of trick up his sleeve. If I were to guess, he first needed to see if they are actually willing to kill someone. If they had been shown hesitant about taking someone else's life, he would have treated them as children. Since they showed not to be, he isn't going to hold back.