Chuzaemon YOSHIDA and Jujiro HAZAMA heard somebody talking in the charcoal shed beside the kitchen, so they tried to enter it, but bowls and charcoal were thrown at them, and two retainers of the Kira family attacked them with swords.
吉田忠左衛門や間十次郎らが、台所横の炭小屋から話し声がしたため、中へ入ろうとするや、皿鉢や炭などが投げつけられ、2人の吉良家臣たちが斬りかかってきた。