A woman named Omasa visits HeizÅ and tells how a few days earlier she was the inside-person for a robbery at a household, but to her horror, a young girl who saw the robbers was killed. The leader Genpachi plans another robbery in 5 days and HeizÅ asks her to spy for him. HeizÅ trusts her story as he knows her from 20 years ago when she was the young daughter of the thief Chusuke of Tazugane who ran a sake bar...