Shizuma manages to thwart an assassination attempt on Ohkubo Toshimichi in the nick of time. While he's recuperating, there’s a strange incident where the moon is blotted out late at night and wooden fish fall from the sky.
The time of washing blood away
 with blood has passed.
.إنّ أيّام إزالة الدّماء بالدّماء قد ولّت
L’ère où le sang coulait à flots
est révolue.
Os tempos de lavar sangue
com sangue já passaram.
Прошло время, когда кровь
надо было смывать кровью.