Episode 4

"Confidential Fine 09: Kuchinawa" is the fourth episode in Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood.

Plot
Sawa sets off to rescue Asahi, but is stopped and seized by Jin, who warns her that it is a trap. However, Jin's car is blown up and Makoto abducts the unconscious Sawa. They arrive at Janome's base where he threatens to kill Asahi unless she agrees to become his prisoner. Janome takes some of Sawa's blood and uses it to refine his formula in order to perfect his Changeling experiments. He then reveals that he kept a few members of Sawa's family barely alive. Suddenly, Makoto cuts Asahi free and manages to free Sawa, but his right arm is bitten off by Janome's giant snakes. J

anome swallows some of the refined blue blood, turning himself into a large snake-like Changeling. Sawa transforms into her crow form, but she struggles against Janome. The chaos allows her barely conscious brother Takeru to toss vials of flammable chemicals at Janome, sparking a fire and giving Sawa an opening to cleave him in two. Makoto escapes as Janome's headquarters engulfs in flames, and Sawa is torn between dying with her brother or leaving with Asahi. Meanwhile, Jin and Elena are outside, considering if they should risk saving Sawa from the inferno.

Characters

 * Sawa Yukimura
 * Elena Hanakaze
 * Asahi Nakamura
 * Jin Kazuhara
 * Janome