Ep. 6: Cry of the Worm
Kusano Kene, a secondary military officer of the Ittou-ryuu encounters a beautiful geisha being harassed by her husband in the street. Kusano saves her and walks away to an okiya where the same woman offers him food and drink. Although he is suspicious, she successfully poisons him and then shoots him in the head with her crossbow. Removing her disguise she is revealed as Hyakurin and her husband as Shinriji from the Mugai-ryuu. Elsewhere, Giichi has Morozumi Chogou, another Ittou-ryuu member by the throat with a chained double blade. Giichi extracts from him the number of masters within the clan before slicing Morozumi's head off. Meanwhile, Manji and Rin stop at an inn to rest where Manji encounters Eiku Shizuma, who offers to team up with Manji to take down Anotsu, but Manji declines. Shizuma suddenly stabs Manji in the chest, and Manji simultaneously stabs him in the back, revealing that Shizuma is immortal like Manji. Manji realizes later that Shizuma's dagger was poisoned after his sacred bloodworms do not appear and as he cries out in pain that night as blood spews from fissures his body. (Source: Wikipedia)