In the midst of the battle, Oboro asks her husband to kill her, but he refuses, saying that he has killed tenzen. Oboro wants to die by his own hand, and she begs him to let her do so. He tells her that he will kill her at the sekino village, where the entire clan of the kougas is gathered. He says that he wants to cross her name before he dies, and he promises to take her somewhere where they can have peace.