Hideyoshi hasn't given up on trying to get his hands on Echigo. This time, he tries to use Maeda Keiji to bring down the Uesugi clan and get his hands on the province. Kanetsugu is informed of this by an unlikely source, and he plans to head into another battle of wits with Hideyoshi and Keiji joins him, despite their lives being at stake once again...
He saw the shadow 
of Lord Kenshin upon me.
Vio en mi rostro la imagen 
de su alteza Kenshin.
Vio en mi cara la imagen 
de su alteza Kenshin.
Il avait aussi perçu en moi
 l’ombre du seigneur Kenshin.
Ele viu a sombra de Kenshin sobre mim.