The rabbit followed the tanuki to his home, where he was lying in bed sobbing with pain.
"You poor thing," she said. "Let me bring some medicine to help you. It will hurt when I put it on, but it is the very best medicine for burns, so you must endure it."
"Yes," said the tanuki. "Yes, please. Please bring it."
So the rabbit went home and prepared a sauce made almost entirely from red pepper. Then she returned to the tanuki's side. "Here," she said. "I've brought your medicine."
She spread it all over the tanuki's back- and the red pepper on the fresh burns made the tanuki scream and howl. The rabbit left him there, wishing him a painful death for what he'd done to the old woman.