Episode 5

"Confidential File 620: Divine Right" is the fifth episode of the Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood miniseries.

Plot
Sawa's brother Takeru sacrifices himself to save Sawa who emerges from the burning building with Asahi. Having exacted her revenge, Sawa is reluctant to do any more work for Nue. Makoto supports the anti-shogun revolutionaries with weapons before preparing to leave by car with a foreign agent. After he reveals that Sawa is still alive, Makoto decides to stay, so the agent draws his gun to kill him and a shot is heard. Meanwhile, Elena discovers that she is pregnant by an unknown man and her adoring ghost writer offers to be the baby's father.

Elena reveals to Jin that she is pregnant, however he sends her on a mission with Sawa to stop the revolutionaries and capture their leader. During the fight, Sawa is noncommittal and Elena is almost killed. Elena reveals that she has been granted a pardon and given a new identity by the shogun, May Yonezawa, and warns Sawa to trust no-one but herself as she departs. In the morning, as Sawa is walking home she sees crowd gathered around the apparently charred remains of Elena and her ghostwriter. Back at home, Sawa is distressed at being surrounded by death and is conflicted over her concern for Asahi. She then willingly agrees to take one of Mokoto's poison pills from Asahi, offering the child a way to obtain her revenge on her for taking her own parents from her back then.

Characters

 * Sawa Yukimura
 * Elena Hanakzae
 * Jin Kuzuhara
 * Asahi Nakamura
 * Makoto Tsukishiro