The Iga also wait out the rain, wondering if Nenki and Hotarubi have found the Kouga while Oboro thinks back to happier times she spent with Gennosuke. Hotarubi manages to escape Saemon by using decoy butterflies, so Saemon returns to Sekiyado where he sees the body of Nenki, angry at being cheated out of his revenge for the death of his sister. Meanwhile, Koshirou curses his fate and blindness, almost killing Akeginu when she comes to comfort him. Along the trail, as she struggles to return, Hotarubi thinks of happier times spent with Yashamaru when they were younger. Arriving at a broken suspension bridge, Hotarubi turns to see Nenki who claims to have killed Gennosuke and the Kouga.