After her "discussion" with Aozaru they all stay at an inn. Taiki asks Asano to stay there while she takes the girls on so that they don't get recognized. After the girls leave, an old man hears Asano talking to himself and understands his language. When the girls reach the next town, Yoko discovers that Taiki had intended to sell them into servitude (as Aozaru had warned). They escape from the brothel and find a huge youma in the streets. Yoko is able to defeat it and afterward, she and Sugimoto are picked up by Asano and the old man. The old man from just before World War II ended, seems nice but in the morning they discover his intentions of betrayal. The three run to the woods and escape. Later when Sugimoto and Asano and talking and playing in the woods, Yoko is visited again by Aozaru who tells her how she cannot trust anyone, even her friends. Asano comes back and sees her with the sword and knocks it away thinking that she might kill herself. Sugimoto, seeing this, walks into the woods. Here she sees Kourin...