A client, Chugo, tells Omatsu, a prostitute at the Iroha Tea House, that he can no longer visit her. Before that scene of a massacre was found, suspected to have been carried out by Shugoro of Hakabi. HeizÅ wants city patrols strengthened, including Chugo Kimura, his record-keeper. Chugo meets Omatsu on patrol and spends all of his money on her, but a benefactor, master Kawagoe is now paying his account...