The fang of the scroll of cloud-field guide spirit-slash-swords, the young man who has been stealing food, realizes that he is the one who has committed the crime of stealing food. He realizes that the village chief has seen the man carrying a "legendary sword" on his back. The young man explains that his master had asked him to return the sword to his old friend, but the man had died before he could do so. He explains that the person who obtained the sword will be able "to dominate everything" and that three men make "a tiger" . The two young men agree to help the boy escape. They will spare the boy's life, they say, because the boy has already gone far away