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...
That Hideyoshi had thought to make me
 an immediate follower of him,
que Hideyoshi avait annoncé
Hideyoshi queria fazer de mim
 um vassalo direto do xogum