Enomoto's fleet travel across the Matsumae Sea on former Shogunate ship Kaiten Maru towards Fukuyama Castle at Matsumae Province. Hijikata's men, who already have traveled on the Banryū Maru to the northern lands, await their next plan of action. Two weeks before the assault on Matsumae, Yojiro is washed up at the shore of Mutsu Iwaji Village in Mutsunokuni, where he is being nurtured by Mitsu and her daughter Riku. Mitsu tells Yojiro that she decided to hate her husband for choosing to fight in the ongoing Boshin War...