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 ...