In October, they executed their plot and Yoshitaka was killed in the Daineiji Coup, and Haruhide was put forward as the new head of the Ouchi clan (at that point, Takafusa received one character from Haruhide's name and took on the new name Harukata, in order to show everybody that he was respecting Haruhide as the new ruler).
そして9月に謀反を起こして義隆が殺される（大寧寺の変）と、大内氏の新当主として擁立される（このとき、隆房は晴英を君主として敬うことを内外に表明するため、晴英から一字を拝領し、晴賢と改名した）。