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After The Madness

Thank goodness.

This is all thanks to you,

Colonel Charles de Guise.

You don't need to thank me.

No.

While I was gone,

you were somehow able to protect Mei-Yu.

I thank you for that.

And because you went out of your way to bring Mei-Yu here.

I just wanted to make sure the resurrected Pan Guang-Lin was the real deal.

You don't have to worry about that.

The God of Death came,

and brought me back from Hell.

Figures.

So, where is this "God of Death"?

Right now...

he's probably settling his final score,

with Ling-Wang, Mang Kuang-Yun.

You stink.

Is this the smell of madness?

Quit the small talk.

You are the cause of my madness...

you stole Yu-Ling's heart!

Oh, it'll hurt! It'll hurt!

Those teeth are really gonna hurt!

That's what'll happen to the mice who defy the Hong Hua Hui!

You seem to like doing that.

By the way, what's with your neck?

Oh this?

I'm wearing it as a memento to the dead Wu.

Does it look good?

With this cast to distract them,

people won't talk about my wig anymore!

This is perfect!

It's so obvious. Anyone can see right through you.

F-Forty-five degree angle...

M-my back!

My head's so heavy, my back...

Uh... behind you, behind you!

I can't hold on...!

Are you alright?

Thank you!

My, my...

now that Huang Xi-Fei and Wu Dong-Lai are dead,

if anything good is going to come from the Hong Hua Hui,

I'll have to make a smooth relationship with this idiot.

Right, right!

Now that the Qing Bang has revived,

I need this guy. We have to get along.

Boss Tian!

It's terrible!

We just got a call,

saying that Ling Wang and Yan Wang started fighting!

Uh... well...

You...

you have THAT type of relationship?

No! No!

Don't get the wrong idea, please! Don't get the wrong idea, please!

One more thing.

Colonel Guise is at the Great New World, which Pan Guang-Lin usurped...

What did you say!? What did you say!?

Why is the Colonel there?

Too...

heavy...

Oh no!

Oh!

Now I've done it!

So, what do you want to show me?

As you've guessed,

I didn't just come here to bring over Mei-Yu.

T-this is...

A gift to make your ambitions come true.

It's amazing you have this much gold.

For many years now,

our army and police have confiscated large quantities of opium.

But that opium...

disappeared one night.

It was stolen by Carnet, the chief of police.

He sold the opium to the Hong Hua Hui,

using his position to fill his pockets.

At any rate, since it vanished in his custody,

we couldn't do anything about it.

The army didn't have a say in how he handled the opium.

Realizing that's the case,

we stole the gold back.

I see!

Since it was originally stolen goods,

Carnet can't openly complain about it!

That's right.

Carnet must've felt very disappointed.

So now we know where the gold's from.

But why give it to me?

Whoever controls Shanghai controls China.

So use this gold to reclaim Shanghai.

Our army...

will not intervene in a gang war.

What a pleasant surprise!

To claim the country, one must be suited to the task.

You, who revived the Qing Bang, are such a man.

Wait.

This man is always hiding something.

Yes.

It was the same with Ling-Wang.

This man is a student of Hokuto Sonkaken, just like Ling Wang!

So while Kenshiro's fighting,

Pan, he's slowing you down!

What's that?

You said you wanted to help us, so why?

I am not lying or deceiving you.

But in regards to Ling-Wang,

it is as Mei-Yu says.

What's that supposed to mean?

I don't want anyone to interfere in this fight.

Because... this will be Ling-Wang's final battle!

What?

You've now lost.

Let go of my leg.

It won't work.

That's not going to work!

Striking my pressure points...

won't work on me!

You've...

No way...

Hikou Heni? Pressure Point Displacement

Right.

It is the ultimate secret technique that enhances his fighting spirit with the strength of his madness,

and allows him to freely change the very positions of his pressure points.

Before it

even Hokuto Shinken is powerless.

To think that Hokuto Sonkaken had such a thing...

However,

one must risk death to attain it.

There is no way to handle such fear other than madness.

That's right!

I've seen it.

While I was studying Sonkaken...

at the meditation hall.

Kuang-Yun?

You... isn't that opium?

Why are you using such a thing?

You...

I couldn't...

I couldn't strike them otherwise.

Without abandoning my fear...

I could not strike my own pressure points.

You can't have...

The secret technique of Hikou Heni?

You've taken opium to gain that power?

My desire is to surpass the founding fighting style,

that is Hokuto Shinken,

And to make my Sonkaken the ultimate Hokuto fighting style.

To do that I must attain the inescapable Hikou Heni!

I see.

So...

Ling-Wang attained that secret technique?

Right.

He is the only man who has attained that secret technique.

However,

he did it by using unbelievable means.

Master...

Back when Ling-Wang was planning to go to Japan in pursuit of Hokuto Shinken.

Our master stood in his way.

Master, why are you stopping me?

I wish for you to live.

So I must seal your fist.

Are you saying I'll lose!?

Me, the greatest of Sonkaken?

Master, didn't you say...

that my fist surpassed the founder's?

I said that out of pity of your obsession.

What?

Your obsession is pitiful.

What was that?

Listen...

it is true that our fist controls madness...

and gains the strongest power.

But there is a limit to that.

What do you mean by that?

Listen well, Kuang-Yun.

Our strength is after all, human strength.

Therefore we must gain strength from madness.

However,

the successor to Hokuto Shinken...

inherits the blood of the guardian god of the Holy Emperor.

Men cannot defeat Gods!

Know thyself.

and you shall know the limits of thine own vessel.

Though you may not reach godhood...

you may be able to shoulder the strength of a hundred million.

What a joke!

If that's the case, I will surpass this god!

Kyoushinkon.

It is inevitable.

As expected of my master.

But... how about this fist?

The thought that you have surpassed your master has already made you vulnerable.

This is your end Kuang-Yun!

Now forget Sonkaken!

T-this is...

As expected of my master.

The Achilles' Heel of Sonkaken...

If those pressure points are struck,

we lose not only our ki mastery,

but Sonkaken itself.

However...

that's only if the pressure points exist there in the first place!

It can't be...

You've learnt... Hikou Heni?

The heavens have surely chosen me, Kuang- Yun!

I have finally attained the secret technique of Hikou Heni!

How regrettable, Kuang-Yun!

Have you fallen into heresy?

You don't say...

He even killed his master.

He wanted a power greater than opium.

It came from murdering his master.

After he attained Hikou Heni,

he then called himself the one who uses a fist of unworldly madness,

and became known as Ling-Wang.

But if Ling-Wang has used that secret technique on himself...

then Ken is...

Hikou Heni?

That's right.

I have attained it,

surmounting all madness!

Is this all you got?

Your so-called "greatest fist of Hokuto"?

Show me the power...

of Hokuto Shinken!

If your pressure point techniques are sealed, are you done for?

Then Hokuto Shinken, which has stagnated in Japan...

shall be erased once and for all!

And I'll prove that my Sonkaken...

is the strongest fist in the world!

Why?

Why?

Why is Ling-Wang, Mang Kuang-Yun, so obsessed about being the greatest?

Most likely his pride as a martial artist.

A pitiful pride.

A pitiful pride...

Yeah.

He could never admit...

the limits of his fist.

So...

through the legendary Yan Wang...

Kenshiro just might be able to pass judgment and salvation on him...

Is that what you thought?

Right.

I felt it when I saw Kenshiro with my own eyes.

The limitlessness of his fist...

is something Ling-Wang doesn't have.

But those who have seen it will probably die.

Then Ling-Wang, Mang Kuang-Yun...

has passed the point of no return.

Is this it?

Is this Hokuto Shinken?

Is this the fist of a god?

How pitiful.

How very pitiful.

To think that I had been pursuing this fist.

What rubbish!

Well...

I appreciate your efforts.

What?

What is this!?

I really, really appreciate your efforts.

You've really come a long way.

I don't understand.

I don't get what you're saying!

Why are my pressure points reacting?

This can't be!

I'll tell you.

Out of the 708 pressure points,

there are some pressure points that can't be changed by will alone.

No way!

Not even with my Hikou Heni!

You got it now?

Before the sole successor to Hokuto Shinken...

Hikou Heni is nothing more than a simple technique.

You lost.

No way...

There's no damn way!

I won't accept it!

I won't believe it!

Hikou Heni is an invincible secret technique!

Come on!

Try and strike my pressure points again!

I know how you feel...

but do you really want to die?

Shut up!

Come!

No way...

my Hikou Heni...

that's impossible!

How was that?

Feel like giving up yet?

I won't accept it...

I won't accept it!

Hikou Heni is an absolute secret technique!

And Sonkaken is the greatest...

That blood...

They've just about settled it by now.

Right.

He must be satisfied.

So most likely...

Ling-Wang lost?

That's right.

Master said it himself.

Without knowing one's own capacity...

one can mistakenly fills one's own vessel with more desire than it can hold.

That vessel can't hold back the overflow and is destroyed.

And in the end, everything is lost.

It's the same with Kuang-Yun.

Kyoushinkon...

Hikou Heni...

He even resorted to opium to attain more secret techniques than his vessel could hold.

When he killed his master...

and attained Hikou Heni, it was already too late.

Ling-Wang...

couldn't even cross the sea to pursue Hokuto Shinken.

So...

that's when he laid his hands on Yu-Ling...

to call Kenshiro to Shanghai?

Damn you...

I see now.

Your overflowing madness...

that intolerable smell...

it was really the scent of death.

What are you...?

Your body...

is no longer a body that can fight.

Then kill me!

I laid my hands on your beloved Yu-Ling!

Therefore you have to...!

No.

I've decided not to kill you.

What?

Even... Even if you're Yu-Ling's killer...

you're a man of Hokuto.

As another man of Hokuto,

I won't fight you now that I know of your illness.

Another...

man of Hokuto.

If you want to fight me, heal your illness.

I won't run off anywhere.

Wait.

I have something I must tell you.

I already know.

While fighting...

I knew from exchanging fists.

Your fist...

isn't a fist that has killed a woman.

Yeah...

You didn't kill Yu-Ling, right?

Yeah.

It’s as you say.

Yu-Ling is...

Yu-Ling is alive!