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.
When I first heard of it,
عندما سمِعتُ عن ذلك في بادئ الأمر
Als ich davon hörte,
Cuando me enteré, me atemorizaba
 lo fuerte que pudiera ser el exiliado.
Cuando lo escuché por primera vez,
Quand on m’a parlé de lui,
Quando me l'hanno detto,
Quando ouvi da primeira vez,