Hirohito and the others return to their hiding place. Hiroshio tells the others that he will punish them once they return to the city. He tells them not to worry, as he will take care of them when they return home. He also tells them that the wolves have surrounded him and that he is the last samurai in the village. He feels that he has been released from the burden of his past life and that each moment of it surfaces to memory. The wolves surround him, and he feels as if he has known them for a long time. He is also the last of the kinsmen of the village, and his soul returns to his mother, who has escaped destruction by totecufujiwara. The izuna, he tells them, want to free the god of the city so that the city may live in beauty as it once did. The city is waking up, and all the people are leaving.