Lord Akizuki receives a ninja circular offering the services of Oki Senzō, a Kōshū ninja to help him achieve his ambition of supplanting Sadanobu. To demonstrate what a ninja is capable of, Akizuki is told to be at a temple at midnight where Sadanobu's most important man will be killed. As this is Shintarō things don't turn out that way and Senzō is killed.
