The next morning, when Taro reached the waterfall, to his surprise, he saw all his neighbours with pitchers, jars and buckets there. One of them knelt and drank from the waterfall. It was no sake but only water. They shouted that they had been tricked and decided to drown Taro in that waterfall. Taro had been wise and hid himself behind a rock and kept watching the goings on from there.