As the Tokugawa clan's messenger, Nobuyuki heads to Aizu to inform the Uesugi clan of their punishment following the battle of Sekigahara. He meets Kanetsugu Naoe, who refuses to accept the severe, and almost cruel, demands, but Nobuyuki refuses to budge too. On the other hand, while Yukimura escaped the death penalty, he was leading an empty life, without being able to find the "meaning of his life" that Nobuyuki had asked him to reconsider. But one night, things start to get noisy in his vicinity.
How are we supposed to live on 
a quarter of what we get now?
كيفَ يُفترَضُ بنا أن نعيشَ على ربع ما نتقاضاه الآن؟
Wie sollen wir mit einem Viertel unseres
jetzigen Einkommens leben?
¿Cómo podremos mantenernos con 
una cuarta parte de nuestro territorio?
¿Cómo se supone que vamos a poder mantenernos
Notre territoire divisé par quatre,
comment allons-nous survivre ?
Come potremmo sopravvivere 
con un quarto delle nostre entrate attuali?
Como você quer que vivamos com 
um quarto do que ganhamos agora?