Yoshimori continues using Kekkai against the Ayakashi Yamiankou, but they are all destroyed before they can prove useful. Yoshimori is unable to escape its grasp until Mamezo tears the creature's tentacle away from Yoshimori with his vine. Yoshimori and Mamezo run away, dodging tentacles the entire time. Mamezo realizes that Yamiankou is not targeting Yoshimori, but the odd Tenketsu that he found earlier, and warns that Yoshimori must not let the creature have it. With no ideas, Yoshimori asks Mamezo how to defeat Yamiankou. Mamezo suggests that Yamiankou is only able to survive in the environment because of the layer of fluid around its body, and that it would become vulnerable if pierced.