Summary Outside jison'in village, the ninja students are confronted by a physical illusion of a huge, dark, powerful beast riding an elephant. For safety, gorone leads hachiro and hibiki to a secret tunnel in the mountain to hide while the situation is resolved. Utsutsu and shaizou try to defeat the monster's controller, neiri chiou, but his illusions are too powerful. Meanwhile hachisu and shikibu tackle the monster itself and manage to trick it into falling off a cliff, but their victory is short-lived. Rui and shichigen also try to attack neiri chiou and the monster but fail. Meanwhile hachiro exits the tunnel, leaving hibiki behind. He counteracts neiri chiou's technique with his dojutsu, and so joujin recalls him. Hachiro finds joujin is unaffected by his dojutsu technique because of his self control conditioning. Joujin then calls on yasha iratu to use her destiny's passage mirror to kill hachiro and hibiki who had just emerged from the tunnel. However namenba suddenly intercedes, chasing off yasha iratu, but not before hachiro and hibiki look into each other's eyes creating a powerful maelstrom of light. Epilogue: tadanaga finally arrives back at the palace and six months later lady oeyo, the former shogun's, wife passes away.

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