Hyakkimaru approaches Daigo territory and Dororo is saddened his single-minded desire to recover his body parts. They are recognized by a villager who notifies Kagemitsu Daigo. Meanwhile, the situation worsens in Daigo territory: villages which have become diseased are burned and their inhabitants killed; able-bodied men are conscripted for the war against the threatening Asakura Clan; horses, including a nursing mother horse named Midoro (ミドロ号), are requisitioned. Tahömaru decides to take Mutsu and Hyogo to stop Hyakkimaru himself...