Nobunaga attacks hachiro, and during the swordfight hachiro uses his ouka. Nobunaga stabs himself, but there is no blood and he does not die. Namemba jumps to their aid, enveloping nobunaga in cloth and setting off an explosion, but at the cost of her own life. As the smoke clears, nobunaga appears to be still alive, but tadanaga's consciousnesses fights him for control of the body and he severs his own head to finally thwart nobunaga's plans. As hachiro and hibiki flee, kujaku uses his last bit of energy to smash his inverted halberd of time, but rinne magoroku uses ...