However, branch Hojo families rebelled strongly against the situation, and Sadatoki tried to get the situation under control by killing the persons of the group having executed the killing actually according to "an order," saying that "there was no such order."
しかし、北条庶流の反発は強く、「仰せ」によって時村を誅殺した実行部隊を「此事僻事（虚偽）なり」と処刑して収めようとした。