The Sakaiya household is robbed by five ronin and its inhabitants are slaughtered before it is burned to the ground. Sabu angrily complains to Ichi about the senseless slaughter. Sabu finds a prescription at the scene and finds it was written for a sickly young woman who probably could not afford the medicine. Coincidentally he meets a young woman, Fumi, taking expensive medicine paid for by her ronin brother. Sabu and Ichi again encounter Fumi along the road to visit her brother some distance away, but this time she being attacked by a group of rough men...