In the next year, however, Takemori Sue, the son of deceased Hiromori SUE, told Yoshioki an ungrounded story that Hironori had schemed to let Yoshioki's brother Takahiro OUCHI succeed as the head of the family instead of Yoshioki.
しかし翌年、義興への家督相続に際して兄弟の大内高弘の擁立を画策したと陶弘護の子陶武護が義興に讒言した。