That night iga ninja tsuta houetsu encounters a joujinshuu woman who threatens to kill him, but he trusts his defensive root barrier. She reveals her name is yasha itaru as he uses his root lasoo technique to bind her, however he makes the mistake of looking into her mirror, destiny's passage, which reflects his life, filling him with despair forcing to leap off a cliff to his death. Back at the ooi river joujin calls his attendants, kujaku tsuibamu and rinne magoroku who uses a spinning technique to transport tadanaga to akayashagaruba before the kokuuzou bosatsu or ...