But one day, the two swords, unsheathed and placed against a shoji sliding paper door, fell without being touched, and Kyoshin, wondering why they were now the same length, examined them and found that the menuki (sword handle ornaments) of Kogarasu had been cut by about 6 mm.
しかしあるとき二本を抜いて障子に寄り掛けていたとき、人も触れないのに二本が倒れ、二本が同じ長さになっているのを見て不審に思った教真が調べてみると小烏の目貫が二分ほど切られていた。