alive Jack continues to float downriver. After he manages to grab hold of a floating log, a frog hops on, warning him the Daughters are not far behind. Eventually, Jack reaches the shore and makes his way to a cave, being stalked all the while by the mysterious samurai. Inside the cave, Jack pulls the knife from his side with great discomfort before passing out again. Upon waking up, his hallucination of himself reappears and taunts him over his first human kill, coming to the conclusion that Jack wanted the Daughters to kill him, though Jack himself denies this. The next morning, a blood-soaked Jack prepares to defend himself. Instead, an equally blood-soaked wolf enters the cave (the same wolf that appeared in the previous episode) and Jack passes out again. While unconscious, Jack remembers a time when his father defended their family from a band of outlaws who had ambushed their carriage. Waking up, Jack bonds with the wolf and nurses himself back to health. Remembering his father's lesson, Jack parts ways with the wolf and prepares himself for a rematch with the Daughters of Aku. The Daughters soon track him down. Echoing his father's words, a hidden Jack offers the Daughters an ultimatum: Leave or face their destiny. The Daughters refuse and Jack, using the terrain and weather to his advantage, kills three of them, luring the final three to a fallen tree hanging over a cliff. Discarding his weapon, Jack sends two of the Daughters falling to their deaths before confronting the last one, Ashi. Ignoring her threats, Jack simply unwraps her chain from his wrist, and she falls to her apparent death. Unfortunately, the tree finally collapses from the struggle, sending Jack falling into the valley as well. In Episode XCV, following a nightmare about the Daughterd, Jack wakes up in the snow, having survived the fall into the valley, and comes across Ashi's body, seemingly dead on impact. Jack hallucinates a murder of crows taunting him for killing real people, though he is quick to defend his actions, claiming the Daughters chose their path. Unfortunately, Ashi also survived the fall; forced to fight her again, Jack defeats and restrains her. As a bound Ashi continues to badmouth him while swinging from a tree, Jack ponders her way of thinking and decides to try and convince her that he is not the enemy. Before he can