Saiyuuki Reload: Burial

Long before Sanzo, Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai traveled west together, each carried wounds and choices that would eventually bind the four. Sanzo's story reaches back to his master Koumyou and the shadow of Ukoku, exposing the violent path surrounding the succession of the sacred sutras.

Elsewhere, Sanzo encounters Goku after the boy has spent centuries sealed on Mount Gogyo, while Gojyo gives shelter to the man who will become Hakkai after a terrible crime changes his life. These separate pasts gradually reveal how four difficult men, none of them suited to easy companionship, came to share the same road.