On the day the narrator's grandfather died, a strange incident erupts at Tranquil Restaurant. A strange woman insists on seeing Marshal Xavier during a crowded betrothal banquet. Staff refuse—Marshal has guests and forbids visitors—but she presses, hands over something and warns, "If he refuses, he'll die." While families celebrate downstairs, servants deliver her claim to the Marshal. After seeing what she brought, Marshal Xavier orders, "Bring her here." The episode ends with her being escorted upstairs, the deadly warning unresolved and the Marshal facing an immediate, tense confrontation.