第5話: 万次と凛は志摩栄光と対峙し、栄光は凛を捕らえて万次を死闘へと誘い込む。

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Manji and Rin stop at an inn to rest and Manji encounters Eiku Shizuma disguised as a monk, who offers to help Manji to find Anotsu, as he is also seeking him for his own purposes. After Manji declines, Shizuma suddenly attacks Manji and they fatally stab each other. Shizuma reveals that he is also immortal and leaves, but that night Manji cries out in pain as blood spews from fissures his body from his old wounds. Manji realizes that Shizuma's dagger was poisoned and is killing his sacred bloodworms. Rin gives Manji some Asano family antitoxin pills to help neutralize the poison and leaves to find a doctor. She meets an old woman disguised as Yaobikuni who offers to aid her, but it is a trap set up by Shizuma to kidnap Rin and draw out Manji. Shizuma tells Rin that he served under a military commander two hundred years ago during the Sengoku period and became immortal but still lost everything important to him. Shizuma offers Rin some of his blood, which could make her immortal, but Manji interrupts them, having partially recovered. He and Shizuma fight mercilessly, but Rin creates a distraction enabling Manji to attack again, impaling Shizuma on his own poisoned sword and finally releasing him from his sad life. With his last breath, Shizuma tells Manji that Anotsu is heading to Kaga. Rin asks Manji if immortality only prolongs the pain of never achieving one's goals. (Source: Wikipedia)