Sano is unconscious and lying on the floor of a cave. When he wakes up, he finds himself looking into the face of Magdaria. She notices he is hurt, takes him back to her home in the hill, patches him up, (almost kisses him), argues with him, gets angry, and locks him in the room. Meanwhile, Kaioh, Santo, and Amakusa Shougo are plotting the demise of the Meiji government through the instigation of a civil war, but they are disagreeing over price and methodology. Carrying a gun, Magdaria goes back to the room where she locked Sano, but he has disappeared.moreless