Miroku comes across a village in which he remembers meeting a young girl named Shima, who was ill two years past. He had lecherously proposed to her then, swindling her parents to buy his medicinal herbs. She is forced to marry a catfish demon, despite the fact she claims to be affianced to Miroku. It is revealed that her father promised Shima to marry the catfish demon, due to using water from the lake and praying to the shrine by the lake...