Eventually Takachika made a full recovery, but when he heard about his mother's actions, he went to Sumiyoshi-jinja Shrine like his mother and prayed: 'I cannot live if my mother died, so please replace her life, which she sacrificed, with my life.'
やがて挙周の病は全快したが、母の行動を伝え聞いた挙周は同じように住吉神社に赴き、「母が死んでは生きてはいけないので、母が捧げた命は自分の命で補ってほしい」と祈ったという。