Disclaimer: This article contains Shueisha’s Kagurabachi 71 spoilers!

• The chapter starts with a flashback from nine years ago.
• Samura, Iori, and Inori (Samura’s ex-wife) are in a hospital room.
• Inori fainted, and Iori called the ambulance for her mother.
• Iori doesn’t recognize Samura because he’s never around.
• Inori tasks Samura with caring for Iori because she’s in the late stages of her illness.
• Samura declines and even recommends his little sister, who’s in the Kamunabi, to watch Iori.
• Samura remembers his time in the war and doesn’t think his hands are meant for embracing a daughter.
• Inori scolds Samura and tells him to look toward the future.
• Samura takes Iori to his dojo.
• Samura has many students who shout his praise.
• Iori has only heard bad things about Samura from her mom, so the praise makes her angry, and she has an outburst.
• Flash forward, and Inori tells Iori she’s going to beat her illness confidently.
• Iori practices sword fighting with kendo sticks in her hospital room.
• She closes her eyes to mimic Samura.
• Iori challenges Samura to a cooking competition.
• She cuts vegetables with her eyes closed and in a reverse grip.
• Samura is stressed out but impressed.
• Samura goes all in on the cooking competition, and they make a meal for Inori.
• Inori eats it while smiling.
• She assures Iori she’s going to get better so she can eat more of her delicious cooking.
• Inori dies.
• Flashback to Inori noting how Samura has changed in the past year.
• Inori wishes that she could’ve seen her daughter grow up.
• Flash forward, and Samura puts his arm around a crying Iori hesitantly.
• Flash forward, Yura walks into Samura’s estate and says he’s there to talk about the sins Samura has kept secret.
• Then, Yura says those sins will bring a calamity upon Japan in a few years.
• The final image is a devastated city covered in flowers.