Although the rock was too heavy for him to run away, a noted sword handed down in his family flew from his house and stuck in the neck of the Ushioni, and he narrowly escaped death.
あまりの重さに逃げることができないでいたところ、彼の家にあった代々伝わる銘刀が飛来して牛鬼の首に突き刺さり、九死に一生を得たという。