「自分が(じぶんが)武士を(ぶしを)縛り付け(しばりつけ)、その後(そのご)剣で(けんで)正々堂々と(せいせいどうどうと)戦って(たたかって)刺し殺した(さしころした)」

The first to be interrogated was the captured, notorious bandit 'Tajomaru'. With an overconfident attitude, he proudly claimed, like a tale of his own military valor: 'I tied the samurai to a tree to win his wife, and then fought him fairly in a sword duel and stabbed him to death. He was a strong man.'