After the maids of one of the condemned women attack Ishida and his men during the execution, Mitsunari is impressed by their loyalty to their lady and spares them, even recruiting one of them, a woman called Hatsume, to serve him as a spy. After the execution, Mitsunari also meets Shima Sakon, a ronin who had caused a disturbance prior to the beheadings and who was once an incredibly respected general. Mitsunari offers Sakon half of his earnings if he'll serve him as a samurai, but Sakon initially turns him down, since he loathes Mitsunari's master, Toyotomi. During dinner with Sakon and his wife, Hanano, Mitsunari convinces Sakon to join him by promising that, after Toyotomi dies, he'll help Toyotomi's son govern the country more fairly and wisely than his father.
