How am I twisting stuff, you're just wrong. I just replayed all the Onimusha this past 2 weeks. Regardless Samanosuke is the only person who beat Fortinbras and Nobunaga. Even if Fortinbras was in his weakened form he still lost and was killed until he was reborn. Ranmaru was beaten multiple times by Sam, wasn't he killed in their first encounter and later revived demonized by Guildenstern. Any person who knows about Onimusha will tell everything I'm saying is true. Also Samanosuke is above Jubei reputataion and feat wise... Jubei managed to defeat Nobunaga not kill him and ran and HID from the genma while Samanosuke traveld Japan waging his own war against the genma, killing any he encountered hence there being a document in Oni 3 asking was there any genma that could survive an encounter with him as it said many demons had fallen to his blade.
Your number 2 is pointless as you can't beat Dantess in the first 2 encounters against him, and it helps my argument because all you're saying is that Gargant can still break his shield even without the flute meaning the shield is as impregnable as you think
Also what has Jubei done to compare to Samanosuke? I know he's great too but Sam has done the following, sorry to go off topic but Sam is the genma's most feared threat, Jubei ran off into hiding
-Defeated Ozric
-Defeated Marcellus
-Defeated Hecuba
-Defeated Doppleganger
-Defeated Fortinbras
-Destroyed Genma Tank
-Defeated Gargant
-Defeated Nobunaga
-Defeated Guildenstern
-Defeated Ranmaru
-Defeated Mitsunari/Claudius
-Traveled Japan waging war against the genma