第12話: 無念の滝で顔を探し求める変身する女性と出会うドルオロ

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Hyakkimaru again encounters the monk Zatō while elsewhere Dororo meets a woman Hakumen Fudō (白面不動) who changes her features to looks like Dororo's mother. Dororo follows the Hakumen Fudō home, but Nota doesn't like her. They arrive at her home near the "Waterfall of Vanity" and the Fudō Myo shrine. They hear a voice saying "I want a face" and the Hakumen Fudō leaves Dororo and goes to the waterfall and attempts to kill an ascetic meditating there, but he falls into the river below and is rescued by Nota. Hakumen Fudō goes in search of him while Dororo follows Nota who leads Dororo into an icy cave filled with faceless frozen people. While there, they and the ascetic are attacked by the Hakumen Fudō's mountain dogs which drag the man into the cave. Dororo takes Hakumen Fudō to save the ascetic, but when they arrive, the cave entrance has disappeared and she tells Dororo is was only a dream. Dororo falls asleep and Hakumen Fudō returns to the cave where she finds the ascetic without his face, and feeds one of the frozen bodies to her dogs. His face then appears on the Lord Fudō statue, but he demands another face and she promises him the face of a child. (Source: Wikipedia)