Thread:Doctor Ibrahim/@comment-28358106-20170807052612/@comment-31049256-20170818021204

Only Band members are allowed to fight for their freedom. However, there's never been a limit to how many can fight Baku at once, so in that scenario most choose to stand beside their waifu and fail together. Even then if one goes down and the other miraculously pulls off the win they both go free.

In the case of someone outside wishing to free someone, (not likely considering no-one necessarily has to live at an HQ, just look at Lil's team living with Doc, and Garrett's team rocks Hound's old manor while the lower members live in the HQ on Zahmeria's edge), they can join just long enough to free whoever they wish. Of course there's no rule nobody can help Baku either, so in the case of someone on Hound or Armata's level trying to free someone for possibly negative reasons Baku's wives would step in and aid their husband.

Still, while the Band is host to a few assholes like Brad and Dom, even they aren't evil, just jerks. If a couple fought and failed together they'd be kept together, they'd simply lose the freedom they had before.

As for Kunoichi, yes. As Doc said Kioshi is one such Kunoichi, and there's plenty from the remains of Freya's clan (as well as a few other Zipangese mamono ninja) and those that allied with it.