Asirpa is introduced and Sugimoto eat the squirrels she has caught in the Ainu style, finely diced and raw (titatupa).

Asirpa and Sugimoto eat the rabbit she has caught.

Asirpa hunts an otter, and she offers Sugimoto the stewed head.

Asirpa dreams she is playing a whac-a-mole game with Shiraishi's head popping up out of the snow.

Tetsuzou Nihei, one of the Abashiri Convicts makes a snow angel.

A collection of events where Tetsuzou Nihei's dog Ryu attacks Shiraishi.

Asirpa tries to teach Shiraishi to hunt, without success.

Asirpa dreams of dancing squirrels and the lead dancer removes its scalp to reveal its delicious brain.

Serial killer, Kazuo Henmi, introduces Sugimoto to ways that he could be killed, using a meat mincer or being chopped by a two-man hand guillotine.

A singing dance sequence about the missing gold with Shiraishi, Sugimoto, Ushiyama, Kiroranke, Inkarmat and Asirpa.

Asirpa goes seal hunting.

Set concurrently with the events of episode 12. The Hidoro gang, which previously controlled the town of Barato, have been wracked by infighting after being split by the ambitious Umakichi. After Hijikata and Ogata separately learn the gang has a tattooed skin, Hijikata joins the Hidoro gang, while Ogata joins the Umakichi gang. The Umakichi gang abducts Chieko, the pregnant mistress of the Hidoro gang's boss; the child's father is secretly Shinpei, the boss' son. The gangs agree to trade the tattooed skin and Chieko, though the exchange goes badly and a gang war ensues.

Ogata is entangled in a complex fight for power in Barato, while Sugimoto's crew meets a terrifying giant bird.

The secrets of Shiraishi's origin are revealed, and the gang finds a giant snake in the depths of the Hokkaido wilderness.

Around a campfire, Shiraishi tells Toshizō Hijikata, Nagakura Shinpachi, Inkarmat and Kiroranke, of his time in Kabato Prison when he met Chouan Kumagishi, a master forger. Shiraishi asked him to draw a shunga for him which he kept for company, but Kumagishi drew the face of a nun who visited prisoners called Sister Miyazawa. Shiraishi thought the picture was badly drawn, a round face with tiny features, but after a while he fell in love with her and decided to escape and meet her.

Asirpa negotiates with the American trader Mr. Eddie Dunn for the return of a sealskin wedding garment worn by her great aunt, but he will only sell it to her if she kills a huge bear which has been attacking his horses. Asirpa, Sugimoto, Kiroranke and Shiraishi and one of Dunn's men track the bear, but Asirpa realizes that there are three bears. The group take shelter in an abandoned house, but Dunn's man is grabbed through a window and killed by a bear. The situation is dire as they have not ammunition and Asirpa no longer has her bow and arrows

Tsurumi plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata no 23.