However, when they learned that the army of bakufu from Kyoto was led by Yoshinobu TOKUGAWA and their petition was not accepted, they realized that their wish will never come true.
しかし、京都から来た幕府軍を徳川慶喜が率いていることを知り、慶喜に差し出した嘆願書の受け取りも拒否されて、自分達の志が潰えたことを悟る。