Something in the Water

Something in the Water takes you back to Otowa Waterfall to investigate contaminated water and break the seals on Yashajin’s Hall. The decisive puzzle has two red nodes outside the hall. This guide covers both positions, the waterfall fight and the story reward. Inputs use the PlayStation layout.

Speak with the family on Kiyomizu-zaka Slope

At a Spirit Mirror, choose Travel → Eastern Kyoto → Kiyomizu-zaka Slope. Walk downhill and enter the house on the right with white cloth hanging over its entrance. Inside, speak with the woman and boy beside the sick man.

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Finish their conversation and Murasaki's explanation outside. Track Something in the Water; the first destination is Kiyomizu-dera Temple. This story revisits characters from A Wife’s Prayer.

Find Otowa Waterfall and inspect Yashajin’s Hall

Select Travel → Kiyomizu-dera Temple → Temple Grounds. Cross the wooden temple deck toward the stone stairs and balustrades below the hall. Descend past the monk and continue down the steps between the rocks and maple trees.

At the bottom, the waterfall is the stone-walled basin with three falling streams. Approach the woman in the patterned robe beside it and finish the scene. Murasaki directs you to Yashajin’s Hall.

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Return up the stone stairs between the rocks, passing the monk to reach the upper stone balustrade. At the hall, follow the path along its right side, climb the short stairs onto its wooden veranda, then turn around the building to the small lattice shrine.

Approach the shrine to trigger the conversation. When Break the seal on Yashajin’s Hall appears, use L2 + R2 — Oni Vision to reveal the red sealing ropes and locate their nodes.

Shoot the roof seal and the lower wall seal

The shrine itself is bound, but the targets are outside. Start by turning away from it and following the wooden veranda around the hall. Descend to the stone courtyard, then turn and look up at the hall's triangular roof gable.

The first red node hangs beneath the roof's peak. Aim the Oni Bow at it and hold, then release R2 to shoot it. The first node breaks, but the objective remains active.

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Continue down the courtyard stairs, past the monk and between the rocks, toward the waterfall. At the red maple and open-sided pavilion, turn toward the raised hall. The second red node hangs down outside the stone retaining wall, beside the stone lanterns and the short stair landing.

Shoot this node with R2 as well. Confirm that the objective changes back to Head for Yashajin’s Hall.

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Return to the shrine, then clear the waterfall

Climb the stone stairs back up, take the path along the hall's right side and return around the veranda to the same small shrine. Approach it again. Murasaki confirms that the hall is unsealed, but the water remains contaminated. The next objective is Head for Otowa Waterfall.

Retrace the steps to the basin. Finish the scene with Dokyo's floating mask. When Defeat the Genma appears, fight the enemies around the basin and stone paths.

Keep the group in front of you and move into the open path if enemies close in from both sides. Use Square (□) for short combinations against nearby attackers and hold and release R2 to strike those farther away. A shield bearer remains late in the encounter; keep working through the remaining enemies until the objective clears.

Restore the water and receive the Inner Strength Charm

Approach the waterfall basin after the fight. Continue the scene in which Musashi takes the water, followed by the family's recovery and Murasaki's explanation.

At Yasaka Shrine, Story Complete — Something in the Water appears. The rewards are:

• Iron × 2
• Leather × 1
• Oni Stone × 2
• Inner Strength Charm × 1

The recovered family and the completion message finish this route.