In October of the following year, the Zen master returns to Tomita and asks the owner of the house in which he had stayed about the ogre; the owner is very pleased because the ogre has not climbed down the mountain since then.
一年後の十月、禅師は富田へ戻って、以前泊まった家の主人に様子を聞くと、あのあと鬼が山を下ったことは一度もないといい、喜んでいる。