Kongō approaches Dōhaku of the Puppet Ninja and offer to help him kill Shintarō. Dōhaku rejects the offer and warns Kongō about interfering. Later Dōhaku in his guise as a puppeteer, kidnaps a young girl to force her mother to put poison in Shintarō 's food, Shintarō having journeyed to Kyushu to find Tonbei.
