In the meantime, tenka and shuriken have been searching for a means to protect the orochi. They've found a way to seal off the vessel, but it's not yet clear how they'll do it. Tenka wants to know what's going on, so he asks Shuriken what he's up to. He's been plotting against the Kumos for a long time, he says, and now he wants to betray them. He says he started a rumor that his clan was going to die, and the Kumo brothers treated him like a member of their own family. So he waited for Orochi to come back from the dead, and then all he had to do is wait for him to be reborn, and he was treated like one of his own clan. He doesn't know how to stop Tenka from doing this.