Chapter 13 - 16 Summary

Chapter Thirteen sees Taku leaving to speak to his older brother Zenko about their father's death. He brings the news discretely to Zenko, and can see that Zenko is already fuming at the Kikuta Clan and wonders whether Zenko will try to take revenge. Taku realizes that Zenko seems to be angry at everyone — at Lord Takeo Otori, at Taku himself, at the Kikuta. When Taku tries to state that the leadership of the Muto clan will be now under question, Zenko will hear none of it, announcing that he will be the head of the Muto clan and of the Tribe entire, even if he does not have many Tribe magical skills himself. Wary of angering him further, Taku agrees and secretly plots to offer the leadership of Muto to their sister Shizuku.

That night, Lord Kono arrives back...