At a festival, Rin has frustrating encounters outside a tokoroten vendor and at a mochi food stand where an adolescent male named Renzo Kawakami tests her patience. However, she recalls to what Makie had said about the futility of revenge and tolerates their rude behaviour. Meanwhile, Manji encounters Araya Kawakami at a mask shop. Manji lend his sword to Kawakami who paints a mask with his own blood to give to a young boy as a gift. Kawakami reveals that he was a member of the Ittō-ryū but avoids a confrontation with Manji when his son Renzo appears. After the festival, a man unfairly blames Renzo for breaking one of his sandals. Rin defends Renzo and offers to fix his sandal. She mentions the Asano dojo, but this causes the man to mock the family name. He rudely begins to sneak his foot under her kimono, but Rin manages to fix the sandal before he has the chance to venture too far. She later accepts Renzo's invitation to his family house for tea and purposely goes without her sword. She meets his father Araya Kawakami, who thanks Rin for helping Renzo get out of trouble. When asked about her family, she begins to tell him about the murder of her parents two years earlier.