Episode Title:
The Earth-Splitting Sword Laughs.
Episode Description:
Yojiro wakes up in the Yuyama Theater, where he is interrogated by the troupe for his interference, but he leaves in silence. Hario finds and follows Yojiro to a shrine. After realizing that Hario can perform an earth-splitting sword technique, Yojiro uses well water to escape the blow. Yojiro returns to the troupe to request his service as their bodyguard. At night, Hario guards the Gatling guns that are being transported through a forest. Meanwhile, Zagashira explains to Yojiro that Hario took part in the Ansei Purges, committing arson to households, which explains why Zagashira first started an adventuring kabuki group. Yojiro destroys one of the Gatling guns after Hario uses it to shoot down the area. Hario goes after Yojiro into a marsh, rendering the earth-splitting sword technique useless. The rest of the troupe surround Hario, but he is ultimately sniped by Magozo Saiga. Elsewhere, Sotetsu takes Kawai to carry the remaining Gatling gun onto a cargo ship, in order to ensure the armed neutrality between the Shogunate and Imperial forces that was maintained by the Nagaoka clan. Jubei later tells Magozo and T.B. Glover that Sotetsu is the playwright of the Yuyama Troupe.
