The backstage hallway was long and straight, dividing into a Y-shaped intersection with two entrances.
However, even with two paths of escape, there was no way of running past the samurai in such a narrow path, while the many rooms down the hallway were enclosed and had no emergency doors from which to escape.
Hence, with the samurai cutting them off, they were completely surrounded.
On top of that, they had no guns, and with so many people pincering them, each of them fighters who could matc