YotarÅ has moved back to live with Yakumo and Konatsu and a TV news item is broadcast about YotarÅ's criminal past with the Yoshikiri gang. Then, after an altercation in the audience of YotarÅ's performance his TV performance contract is terminated. He continues to practice, but Yakumo becomes impatient with him. Yakumo and Konatsu find they share a common bond through rakugo and her father Sukeroku although she still blames him for her parent's death. One of the futatsume teases YotarÅ about not having his own style, so at his next performance he bares his back showing his Yakuza tattoo, but fails to impress the audience. Later that night Higuchi and YotarÅ meet Yakumo at a geisha house and Yakumo tells YotarÅ to embrace and accept his past rather than deny it.