Jin asks Sawa to work with him again before he leaves to return to Tokyo. Rinko arrives at the cottage and introduces herself to Sawa as another Nue executioner who had been tasked with watching Sawa and Asahi. Sawa decides to return to her home town and Rinko accompanies her. Jin is notified that Sawa is required to create new mass-produced batches of the drug to produce an unstoppable army for the shogun, but Jin insists that she has more value as an executioner...