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.
To uphold our sense of justice, we'd gladly die!
مستعدُّون للموتِ بسرور تحقيقاً لعدالتِنا
Für unseren Sinn von Gerechtigkeit
sind wir bereit zu sterben!
¡Estaría satisfecho si muriera
 protegiendo mis principios!
¡Me sentiría satisfecho si pudiera 
morir manteniendo mis principios!
Je ne rêve que de mourir
pour ma vertu !
Moriremmo per il nostro senso di giustizia!
Nós morreremos com prazer 
para proteger nossa justiça!