Sugimoto and Asirpa search the nearby city of Otaru for tattooed prisoners, capturing one when he follows them back into the woods. While Asirpa is copying his tattoo, he reveals that someone has been killing the prisoners, and is shot from a distance. Sugimoto fights the shooter – Hyakunosuke Ogata, a private in the Japanese Army's 7th Division – who falls into a river and is recovered by the 7th...