Manjiro accompanies Heusken while he investigates an abandoned industrial site mentioned by Perry in his journals, but finds little evidence of its existence. Manjiro is then directed to another site which is an iron foundry designed for making cannons. He meets Sanai Hashimoto, dean of the Meidoukan School who explains that Japan can never defeat the westerners without a centralized government and needs to abandon its antiquated self-serving and corrupt clan system...