The Tokoro no mono tells the monk the story of the battle waged here in the past (it is the same story as the one told by the fisherman in the first part, but it is a convention of noh to change the spoken style from the metrical style used by Shite in the first part to a colloquial style in ai kyogen).
所の者はここで昔おこなわれた戦いの話をしてきかせる（前段の漁師の話と同内容、ただし間狂言は前段のシテが語った韻文を口語体で語るのが能の常道である）。