sentences:  Though Rikimaru and Kozō have made off with 100 "ryō", the entire ordeal was a ruse to help Daemon earn Kōbei's trust, and to get himself into the back room.Sōnosuke throws himself between the two, offering his own life instead of that of his father-in-law; Daemon stops, noting that he once had a son who would be roughly Sōnosuke's age.The two older men begin to talk about their pasts and come to the realization that not only is Daemon Sōnosuke's true father, but Kōbei is in fact Kozō's true father.