Joujin prepares to kill both hachiro and hibiki, while rui and utsutsu lie dying on the giant stairway. Hadaebou attacks kujaku while hachiro attacks joujin. Suddenly illusions created by rui and utsutsu confuse joukin, opening him to hibiki's attack. Wounded, joujin advances on hibiki, only to be stabbed from behind by kujaku. Kukaku recalls in 1582 when he was called ranmaru, as his master nobunaga's compound went up in flames, nobunaga gave him the name kujaku and bid him live on to keep his dream of conquest alive. Kujaku still serves his original master, and as ...