His heart filled with sorrow, Tokiyuki battles his old comrade Fubuki, who is in charge of the Ashikaga forces occupying Suzawa castle in Kai. When the battle is over, the conflict between the Ashikaga factions continues in deadly earnest. To carry on with his fight against Takauji, Tokiyuki joins with Tadayoshi—Ashikaga Takauji’s estranged younger brother—to take on Kono Moronao’s faction. The struggle will come to a bloody end outside Kyo, and the only winner may be…Takauji?