Hanae's mother Nara felt sick because of a yôkai. She gets energy back after Hanae pulls it apart from her back. She tells him that there were some incidents like this with Hanae's father Sakae when they were young.

Haruitsuki and Hanae have to send bird-like yôkai brothers to Kakuriyo at the request of their foster mother Komon, however, the youngest brother has never flown.