Lone Wolf & Cub Manga Omnibus Volume 8 collects three stories from volume 17, all of volume 18, and two stories from volume 19 and features story by Kazuo Koike and art by Goseki Kojima.

Yagyu Retsudo's failure to stop Ogami Itto has brought an ultimatum from the shogun: kill the Lone Wolf or face execution. But Yagyu will not go forth empty handed. To aid his cause, the shogun places the Firewatchers - his own elite bodyguards - under Yagyu's command!