However, believers in Saika and Awaji, who fed their family with food supplied to Ishiyama, advised Kyonyo to continue to resist Nobunaga because they were worried that retreating from Ishiyama would force them into poverty which Kyonyo accepted.
しかし、妻子を石山に届けられる兵糧で養っていた雑賀や淡路の門徒は、この地を離れるとたちまち窮乏してしまうと不安を募らせ、信長に抵抗を続けるべきと教如に具申し、教如もこれに同調した。