The first event of the athletics festival is tamaire, a ball-tossing game to a far away basket. The Yorozuya are the only ones left in their team due to Asraman and Alchu beating up their own teammates' spirits to hoard the monetary prize for their masters. When the game starts, Asraman and Alchu began to take out the other team's spirits. Yet Gintoki's and Kagura's efforts to throw their balls into the basket are thwarted by a heavily injured Hasegawa trying to warn them of another powerful spirit in the other team. His warning is reinforced when a badly beaten Asraman is thrown into the basket on top of the Madao (making Gintoki cough op blood). To Shinpachi's horror, this stronger spirit belongs to Tae. Both her and the spirit not only threw a high amount of balls into their own team's