In edo, tenkai receives credit for the destruction of the murakumo, with no mention of the ninjas. Although the murakumo exploded, gorone is suspicious about its fate as no debris were left behind. The ninjas return to operating their café but maintain a lookout for the joujinshuu. While walking shichigen sees visions of himself and his parents in the past, but it's the combined work of the joujinshuu. In kyoto, hachiro searches for the old kamagawa village, and is told that the ghost of nobunaga has been seen there. Meanwhile hibiki has a vision created by joujin ...