This saddened Yayoi as she had had a child with Yorizumi called Tsukiwakamaru (later called Izumi SHIONOYA), and before committing suicide, she helped her child escape by putting him in the care of a wet nurse.
これを悲しんだ弥生は、頼純との間の子である月若丸(後の塩谷惟純)を乳母に託して逃がし自害する。