Rousai questions Okoi about the Kouga techniques in the salt store where she is being held. He makes the fatal mistake of touching her so that he becomes stuck and she drains his blood leaving a dried husk. Meanwhile Gyoubu and Saemon disguised as Yashamaru, enter the Iga Tsubagakure. Jingorou goes searching for Rousai and visits the salt store where Okoi is being held. Hotarubi sees Kisaragi thinking it is Yashamaru and embraces him, relieved at his return and when her snake bites him she sucks out the poison. Back with Okoi, she seduces Jingorou, but when he touches her, like Rousai, he becomes stuck and she begins to drain his blood. Tenzen finally tells a shocked Oboro about the annulment of the truce between the Iga and Kouga. (Source: Wikipedia)

Aired on: 5/24/2005