Decision: Should you hunt the leaders one by one or should you gather them together?
After eliminating the first five Kabukimono targets, you’ll learn that they’re trying to recruit more ronin to their cause. You’re then directed back to Nishinomiya Shrine where you have to place a letter. Simply return to Nishinomiya Shrine’s entrance and you should see a post that you can interact with.
Now, here comes a major decision: What exactly do you do next? Do you want to hunt the Assassin’s Creed Shadows Kabukimono one by one? Or is it better to gather them together?
It really boils down to your preferred style of combat. Hunting them one by one means that they’re all by their lonesome in specific locations. But gathering them together saves you a lot of time since you can take them all out in one go.
In our playthrough, we fought all three, as well as a few of their minions, simultaneously. Since we were playing as Naoe instead of Yasuke, we just used the environment to our advantage. We hid in bushes and atop towers, and we assassinated our foes whenever we had the opportunity.