The yin-yang diviner writes Chinese characters in Ten and Chu style on Shotaro's body, and warns him to shut himself inside for forty-two days and says that he must make sure not to go outside at all if he doesn't want to die.
陰陽師は正太郎のからだに篆籀を書て埋め尽くし、今から四十二日間物忌みをし、死にたくなければ必ず一歩も外に出ては行けない、ということを言った。