Dohaku tells Tenkaichi that if he dies, he will die with him, but if he does not die, then he will live. Dohaku says that if tenkaichi dies, his body will regenerate, and he will be stabbed, but his invincible body will not be injured. He says that the moment that he stabbed himself at the shrine, he must have felt the same feeling. He adds that if the enemy attacks him, they must attack him. The next morning, Dohaku learns that a party of ten men and one woman has passed through the border and entered the town of Yonezawa. They have sent seven women to protect Kaminoyama, but they have lost track of the direction of the party. They wonder if the women were among the nine women who were supposed to be accompanying them. They also learn that there are nine litters of litters in the town, and that the priests are all men. They cannot find the women, and the guards say that they are headed north