A letter came from Kiyohide NAKAGAWA, one of the Settsushu members who seemed to have smelled the incident, but Hideyoshi sent to Kiyohide a reply to the effect: 'His Highness (Nobunaga) and the Lord (Nobutada) have overcome the crisis and retreated to Otsu City,
たまたま、変を嗅ぎつけたらしい摂津衆の一人・中川清秀から書状が舞い込み、秀吉は「上様（信長）・殿様（信忠）は危難を切り抜けられ大津市に下がっている。