As the escape of Kakukei from Kofuku-ji Temple to Echizen became known, the three men blamed Governor Hisahide's for his oversight, while Hisahide, agitating Yoshitsugu, incumbent head of the Miyoshi clan, who had come to oppose the three men, on his part planned to subjugate the three men.
折りしも、覚慶が興福寺を脱出して越前に逃れたことが発覚したため、三人衆が守護である久秀の責任を追及し、一方の久秀も三好氏当主である義継が三人衆と対立するとこれを煽り、逆に三人衆討伐を計画するようになった。