Episode Title:
The Closing Performance Burns.
Episode Description:
Jubei plans to show something to Kanna, who made an unexpectedly arrival and is eager to shoot. Meanwhile, the troupe advertise and prepare for the last performance of their series. In the dungeon where Meifu continues to chant incantations, Jubei reveals to Kanna that Yojiro possesses the Moon Tear Sword, the only blade capable of sealing the Head of the Conqueror. Tatsugoro Shinmon visits Katsu and Kotoha, who encourage Tatsugoro to watch the upcoming performance, hinting that politics can have an opposite side to a story. Later, while the performance commences in the Stone Crane Mansion, a group of tengu masked samurais confine all the tayūs and customers inside the Ushioza. The tayūs and customers escape when the British soldiers show up to gun down the samurais, who set fire to the Ushioza. The performance unveils that Jubei was presumed dead during the Ansei Purges. Kurota, Kaen and Gensai suddenly appear, causing the crowd to quickly leave. Yojiro slashes Kurota, Kaen and Gensai, while Kanna briefly arrives to shoot Kurota when he attempts to reawaken. In the aftermath, Yamaoka and Masumitsu are sent to deliver a message to not make Edo a battlefield, but they arrive there too late.
