One day, he was excommunicated because he played another style match that Tetsusai had forbidden against two people, Takerinbo and Hikyomono Taiten, who came to break the dojo.

Suzunosuke regretted parting with his childhood friend Shinobu and went to Edo to enter the dojo of Shusaku Chiba, who is in the same class as his late father.

Suzunosuke was attacked by the Tayu gang who aimed at the Shusaku family and bravely responded when he accompanied Sayuri who went to visit Asakusa Kannon instead of Rainoshin, but Rainosuke bent his sword more and more.

Eventually, Suzunosuke received a letter of challenge from Rainoshin to recover his former defeat in a serious game, and went to the promised place, Gokokuji.

Around that time, Tsujigiri appeared on the bank of Yanagihara every night, and the townspeople were suspicious of the disciples of the Chiba Dojo because they were Hokushin Ittou style users.

By the way, Suzunosuke's mother, Ofuji, abandoned Tetsunosuke for some reason, but he lived safely in Edo while doing needlework for his internal job at the expense of Shusaku.

One day, Suzunosuke went to Ofuji's house to ask for a tailor-made by Shusaku, but when he passed the Yanagihara bank, the black mask suddenly slashed.