Kyoshiro has a bad feeling about the village and tries to get Yuya to leave with him. She doesn’t want to go because they haven’t found the military money yet. Just outside the village, Black Scorpion of the Sansai Shuu challenges Demon Eyes Kyo. Yuya does some research and learns that the three Sansai Shuu are worth 500 Ryo and draws her gun. Black Scorpion knocks it from her hands with his poisonous needles. They start to go back to the village, but it is blocked by several of the disgruntled villagers, headed by a young girl named Mika, who aren’t happy with their quiet life. Kyoshiro dodges Black Scorpion and takes off through the forest.
Kyoshiro stops to rest and Black Scorpion, who reveals his true form as a Kenyou, attacks with his poisonous needles. Red Tiger, however, is watching from the trees above and jumps down to defend Kyoshiro. He takes out Black Scorpion and walks Kyoshiro, who is badly hurt, back to the village.
At the Sansai Shuu house, Kitou Genma describes how he renounced the name his father gave him, “Aruki Muratsuga”, because his father didn’t understand “that” man (mysterious reference to someone powerful that will show up later, I suppose) and his greatness and opposed “that” man. He vows to defeat Demon Eyes Kyo for “that” person.
When Kyoshiro and Red Tiger get back to the village, Mika’s father, who is extremely disappointed with his daughter for working with the Sansai Shuu, gives Yuya, Kyoshiro, and Red Tiger a place to rest. During the night, Mika and the Sansai Shuu come looking for them. White Crow pulls his sword on Mika’s father. Okuni appears and explains that both Sakuya-sama and Yuya are looking for the same man with the cross-shaped wound on his back. They both hold a grudge against the same person.
Demon Eyes Kyo emerges and prepares to fight White Crow. White Crow reveals his nature as a Bird-like Kenyou and uses his Ouka Magen Kairou (Corridor of Infinite Cherry Blossoms) attack, which creates a Cherry Blossom illusion field and numbs the five senses. Kyo breaks it, telling him there are three reasons why he’ll never beat him. The first is that White Crow attacks too light. The second is that there is nothing Kyo can’t cut through, and the third is that he is more handsome. He executes his The Dark Wind of God Murdering Sword technique and the illusion is dispelled. Kyo then performs the Akaki Maboroshi (Red Mirage) and White Crow dies.
Genma is not happy about this and attacks, but Okuni defeats him easily. Kyo recognizes her and calls her Fox. She tells him he looks just like he did before Kyoshiro defeated him, and that Kyoshiro is the stronger of the two