Jigo tells Ashitaka that some people following them are apt to slit their throats if possible. Wolves approach Eboshi's people as they make their way along a mountainside. In turn, they fire their primitive rifles at the wolves causing mini-explosions to explode near the animals. The wormlike manifestation of hate comes out of another boar as it progressively becomes more demon- like. Ashitaka then tries to rescue San who's on the huge boar's back and is being engulfed by the wormlike things.
Various characters hunt the great forest spirit, eventually wounding and then decapitating it.
We later see other men dressed in similar outfits that reveal partial glimpses of their bare butts. The women in Eboshi's town are former prostitutes and several of them show cleavage. One of them mentions that working at the iron works beats working at the brothel in the city and that the men don't bother them unless they want them to. A huge boar demon knocks down an observation tower. Ashitaka comes across what he calls a massacre and sees warriors attacking peasants.