Dororo visits Sabame's prosperous village, where everyone seems happy. She finds a rice storehouse deep in the forest but is pushed into the basement by the villagers. It is filled with the caterpillar monsters, which menace Dororo, but the baby monster returns to save her. The monster bursts open, releasing the spirits of the children from the temple which Sabame and the villagers had fed to Maimai'Onba after burning it down. Outside the village, Sabame tells Hyakkimaru how he accepted the Maimai'Onba, who fed on marauding samurai and beasts to protect the village, and then took her as his wife...