Other retainers seemed to lose their fighting spirit and did not fight (Roshi, who raided Kira's residence, cried, 'a group of 50 people, a group of 100 people, trying to pretend to be a raid by many people, so a tofu (bean-curd) dealer living in Kira's neighborhood told the people in the residence of the Yonezawa domain about this attack, saying that 'about 150 Ako ronin had conducted a raid).
それ以外の家臣は戦意を喪失して戦わなかったようである（討ち入った浪士たちは口々に「五十人組、百人組」等と叫び、大人数での討ち入りであると見せかけようとしており、米沢藩邸に急を知らせた吉良邸近所の豆腐屋も、「赤穂の浪人およそ百五十人ほど討ち入り」と伝えていたという）。