The Yorozuya, Jirochou and Pirako fight through the attacking Shinra. Otose, Catherine and some of the armed Kabuki-chou men walk across the rooftops at the same time. Otose watches the five on the ground, amused in the irony of how Jirochou was fighting with the youngsters despite saying that they should let the new generation handle this. But she admits he was always like this, thinking back to their youth, where she always sees him involved in fights and tending to his wounds. She suspected that he was introducing himself with his fists even at the moment when he first met Tatsugorou. The two men met after Jirochou and some of his men found a group of thugs beaten up near the tea shop young Otose worked. The man responsible, Tatsugorou, recognizes Jirochou as the Kabuki district's prote