Title: "Misguided Miscreants (Part 2)" | "Dark Night's Road 2 / Anya K%u014Dro sono ni" While Jin and Fuu stare at the burning ship in disbelief, Mugen slowly sinks deeper into the waters as Ikue Asazaki's Obokuri %u0112emui plays in the background. He flashes back to a memory of him and Kohza lying on a beach, presumably in Okinawa, staring at the stars. Kohza tells Mugen that she never knew her father, and that Mukuro killed her mother; she also announces her desire to leave "this hell." Mugen then finds himself again in Nirai Kanai, a mythical realm in Ry%u016Bky%u016Ban religion. After protesting that he doesn't want to go yet, he is "rejected" and brought back to life. As Mugen begins to rise to the surface of the ocean, he experiences another flashback: this time with Mukuro. Mukuro attempts to convince Mugen to team up with him to hijack a cargo ship carrying sugar, and thus escape from the island, but as usual Mugen refuses to join forces with anyone. Eventually, however, Mukuro prevails upon him to join in the raid. Just as in the previous episode, Mukuro ends up betraying Mugen, leaving him to be captured by the government to face the firing squad, as seen in the previous episode.
Meanwhile, Jin, Kohza, and Fuu are searching frantically for Mugen. Kohza announces her intention to avenge Mugen by killing Mukuro to Jin. A fisherman finds Mugen's body; to Fuu's immense relief he is still alive. Meanwhile, Mukuro and his accomplice%u2014a rather mercenary Shogunate official named Shiren%u2014have hidden the gold from the ship in a location known only to themselves.