 While traveling back to Sa province with Ensei, Seiran, and the two newly appointed co-governors Eigetsu and Shūrei, Kōrin is mistaken for Shūrei and thus kidnapped and imprisoned with Eigetsu.When her captors Meisho and Sōjun start to doubt her identity, she convinces them that she is indeed Shūrei by accepting their challenge to re-write the poem which made the poet Mei Senshi famous.Kōrin and Eigetsu later escape to Kinka with the help of Sōjun's youngest brother, Kokujun.