The next day, the master asks the pant master if he can come up with a plan to save the women. The pant master says that he can't think of anything else to do, since the ashina has only two days left. He also says that oyura is as mad as mad from the love potion, so he's not going to use her here to bait the women, since she's so good at it. He says that if he could hatch a simple plan, jy'bei would think that they'd saved the day. But then he scratches his second day's itch. He's afraid that the women have been taken captive, and that takuan is hiding in the tower. The master says he saw the look of shame on the face of the man who wouldn't harm the women's necks, and he knows that he'll be able to bring the man to justice. He then says that the peasants will see what happens to the people who oppose the master of the 400,000-koku domain, and they'll know what will happen to those who don't support him. He promises that he won't be so long as he holds the life of tenkai in his hand. But what will come of the baby ? She's going to tie together the kato and ashina bloodlines, he says. He swears on the name ashina that it will be slam five by tomorrow. He wants to go to his father and tell him that the hori have gathered to torture them. Then, he wants to give them a pant to wear, so that they will live even if he has to kill them