Sugimoto is taken back to King Kou and asked to kill Yoko who he now knows is still alive.  He makes Kourin cause her visage to change in order to better accomplish the goal.  It is at this time that Sugimoto notices that Kourin is ill.  Meanwhile, the entertainer group has decided to go along to En with Yoko.  Sugimoto boards the ship also knowing that Yoko will be on it.  Yoko never shows to board the ship as she doesn't want to get the troop in trouble for harboring a wanted kaikyaku.  She rides on a smaller boat which catches up to the ship later, that's when Sugimoto sees her.  Sugimoto has second thought though when she sees how Yoko has changed.  This doesn't stop King Kuo from summoning youma to kill her though.  Sugimoto, not wanting to disappoint the king, fights Yoko during the youma attack.  Suddenly a huge water youma arrives that feeds of other youma and kills all of them, in cluding the hinman inside Sugimoto.  Sugimoto, seeing the hanjyuu boy that was so nice to her recently dead, passes out.  She wakes up later to discover that the ship in now in En and there's no sign of Yoko,