Editing Hikyaku (Samurai Showdown)

Hikyaku (飛脚, Hikyaku), is a character who was first introduced in [[:Category: Samurai Shodown | Samurai Shodown]] as the delivery man that ran through the stages and threw items into fights.

He is based on the archaic Japanese courier, men who would need to run mile-long marathons to and from places for the shogunate. They developed their sprinting system due to the possibility of being killed for the information they carried; many men also collapsed or died from exhaustion due to the strenuous ordeal of running non-stop for a day's time.








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