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Yoh.

Do you really think we can stop those two?

It doesn't matter what I think.

There's nobody else around but us!

What about Ms. Maiden?

Right! The only one who can stop them now

is Ms. Maiden!

No, let's handle this ourselves, Lyserg.

Why?

Marco's strength may be a little greater than my own,

but Luchist is in a whole other league.

If Mana is mental strength,

he must have nerves of absolute steel.

If he didn't, he wouldn't be able to bear being around Hao

knowing his mind is being read.

If Luchist meant business,

Marco would be long dead.

He isn't giving it his all

because he needs to conserve his Mana for some reason.

You don't mean…

Yeah.

He's planning on taking Maiden out as well.

So

if we called her for help,

we'd be serving Ms. Maiden up on a silver platter for him?

Little Marco.

You still have so much to learn.

Let's go, Lyserg.

Marco's in trouble.

It's no use.

He's got his sights set on Ms. Maiden.

How are we supposed to be a match for him?

Don't worry. We'll make it work out!

Now, the coup de grâce.

You with me?

Over Soul! Spirit of Sword!

Your logic baffles me.

You came here to ask for the favor of being reinstated

in the Shaman Fight.

With the X-Laws out of the picture, that wish is granted.

That wouldn't be asking for a favor!

I thought you said you'd use force.

So effectively, your actions would differ in no way from ours!

You're wrong.

I still came for a favor!

What matters is your heart!

Even if I lose,

I see it as my responsibility for allowing my heart to change!

Your heart?

Damn right.

I will become the Shaman King, no matter what!

That's the one thing I can't give up!

You go so far as to fight for your own heart?

How noble!

But first and foremost, foolish!

You must think that by virtue of being Lord Hao's younger brother,

I cannot harm a hair on your head.

Angels shatter souls,

but I will shatter that Spirit Ally of yours!

The Shamanic Oracle!

Amida-Style

Giant Halo Blade!

Too bad, I'm afraid.

Have you said your last goodbyes?

Farewell, Spirit Ally.

Farewell, Amidamaru!

Lucifer's Hammer!

Why… now?

Iron Maiden Jeanne!

The boy…

The fear must have driven him to call for help, after all.

Lyserg. Use Imari and Shigaraki

to create a false Maiden and distract him.

I'll buy us time while you do that.

It's no watertight plan,

but the only option we have left

is to go for broke.

We have one shot!

Shamash…

And Jeanne!

This is what I came to crush.

The girl I sought far and wide for so that Lord Hao might be defeated!

Just a little more determined than most.

Just a little more sensitive to spirits than most.

Just a little girl with no family…

But now she's grown so much, and it's my responsibility to stop her.

I'll send you to your grave.

That is,

the real you, of course!

Over Souls don't cast shadows!

Using Over Soul to create a fake Jeanne

and a fake Shamash was a clever move.

First,

I'll kill the boy who's presumably behind the Over Soul

as a lesson for Lord Yoh!

Now die!

I believe that's checkmate.

You took the bait, Luchist.

Shamash here was the only thing

that was the real deal.

I see!

While I was busy with you,

the boy Lyserg left an Over Soul double in his place

as he hauled Jeanne out of the sea with Zelel

and told her to send Shamash!

Behold!

The Holy Girl, Iron Maiden Jeanne!

You were always going to find out that she was a fake.

I knew that when you did,

you would attack the one who made the Over Soul, Lyserg.

Then both Over Souls would disappear at the same time,

and you could go right back after Amidamaru.

You needed to beat Maiden too,

and you're smart,

so you would use the least wasteful method.

I left the fake me in the shade of Ark X

so you wouldn't notice the lack of a shadow.

But we owe our gratitude to Ms. Maiden more than anything else.

Just as we had planned,

she rescued you with Shamash.

Well, we could go on all day.

But first of all…

Lucifer is going down!

The moment I spotted that Jeanne was an impostor,

I jumped to the conclusion that Shamash also was

and stopped thinking entirely!

Lord Hao…

Lord Yoh is truly…

I'm surprised.

All it took

was his Over Soul to be broken, and Luchist is out for the count.

It's probably because it took so much Mana to command Lucifer.

More importantly, though…

It must be a shock.

To find out she's not some Holy Girl specially procured

by Marco and Luchist,

but just an ordinary girl.

What can you do?

To be blunt, the idea she was some kind of god was…

Yes, even I know that.

There's no need to go on.

Sorry.

That's okay.

I can't believe

that his angel's true form is actually a car, though.

Souls inhabit well-used, beloved items.

We call them tsukumogami in Japan.

Tsukumogami?

They show up in old picture scrolls too.

The owner's feelings of attachment must have accumulated

and taken on a form of their own.

What an awesome ride, though!

It's a supercar.

It's fitted with a V12 DOHC engine

and has a top speed of 315 kilometers per hour.

It was his baby.

And this is my Michael's true form.

If Ms. Maiden is just an ordinary girl,

then I was an ordinary president.

-President? -President?

Of a dealership specializing in supercars,

Super Marco Limited.

Super Marco…

…Limited?

My company, set up with Luchist's backing.

The profits steadily grew,

and eventually, we designed our own car

to put on sale.

That's when it happened.

That's when he appeared before us.

Hao!

I lost everything I had.

My home, my children…

All that I held dear.

I wanted you two to hear it as well.

The beautiful, sacred boys' song that I conduct.

Marco…

All I wanted to do

was kill Hao.

Rejoin the tournament. Do whatever you please.

The X-Laws are no more.

Ms. Maiden…

I did something truly unforgivable to you.

Denbat,

Larch,

Porf…

Thank you for your hard work.

Meene,

Kevin,

Venstar,

I hope to apologize to you in the next world.

And Lyserg…

That Ms. Maiden of yours was really something.

But you forgot the keyhole.

That's a vital part.

Goodbye.

-Marco! -Don't be stupid!

No, Marco!

There is no act more wicked

and far from righteousness!

Ms. Maiden…

There's no longer any need for you to do anything like…

This is how I really feel.

I've already come to terms with the truth.

Ever since that day you found me and gave me guidance,

I've made fate my own

to make it to the present day.

Mont-Saint-Michel, where I grew up,

is a holy mountain on which the Archangel Michael himself descended.

To me, you are none other than Michael himself.

I do not doubt anything for a second.

For whoever you and I are,

laws are needed in this world!

Ms. Maiden…

As the leader of X-Laws, this is an order.

Let's keep sticking together,

Marco!

Such compassion! It's truly miraculous.

Do you see this, Luchist?

This is the Holy Girl I raised!

By the way, Yoh Asakura.

As it happens,

it seems you have saved us on this occasion.

Yet we remain enemies.

Let's settle this back at the Shaman Fight another day!

Sure.

The Holy Girl I raised has just now become

the true Holy Mother!

X!

MARCO (SERIOUS ATTIRE)

LUCHIST LASSO (SERIOUS ATTIRE)

GUESTHOUSE

Why, every damn time

that anything happens,

do we end up with more people here?

Well, you know…

It's kind of a long story.

This is good, is it not?

Lord Yoh's reentry into the tournament has been secured.

That deserves a toast!

It's good to do things like this between matches once in a while.

Says the villain who only last night made an attempt on Ms. Maiden's life.

What did you say?

Please give it a rest, Marco. It's too early to be dressed like that…

Have a Belgian chocolate. It will calm you down.

You're right.

Denbat. Will you make me a coffee?

No.

I don't give a damn if you can't eat chocolate without a coffee, Captain.

You deceived us.

It's true.

It's my fault that X-III…

It's okay, Marco.

I take full responsibility.

Please don't quarrel.

We must now all take a new step forward

as the reborn X-Laws.

-X! -X!

Enough crap!

How about you just get to the damn point?

Right. I thought I might as well do this when everyone's together.

I guess this is kind of like a summit meeting.

The important thing I have to tell you…

First of all, allow me to reiterate,

the winner of the Shaman Fight will be Hao.

It's obvious, right?

His Mana is 1.25 million.

That's a number that nobody can deal with in a straight-up fight, whoever they are.

So what the hell are we fighting for, then?

I'll tell you.

This is information that Hao left with the Asakura Family,

and Silva has confirmed it for me.

There's no questioning its veracity.

To become one with the Great Spirit,

the Shaman who wins the Fight

undergoes a cleansing ritual and enters a sleep of temporary death.

That's when we'll strike.

This is all a lot to take in,

but isn't that kind of underhanded?

Not at all. It's not underhanded one bit.

I, your enemy, am present to hear it,

and it's nothing that Lord Hao doesn't already know.

To reach the king, one must defeat the ten Patch who guard him.

That is the true duty and main purpose of the Patch Officiants.

In addition to them, Lord Hao has us.

That is the reason

Hao recruited so many more allies after his latest reincarnation.

I don't understand.

If that really is how the system of the Shaman Fight works,

why go to the effort of holding matches?

If it's all to decide one king,

why do something that could mean it all goes to waste?

Because not just anybody can walk in.

Only a limited number of Shamans hold the key to that place.

The twelve people

from the four teams that win the primary tournament.

The last of the first-round bouts happened yesterday.

The Tathagatas walked through Haiti 800.

The Devas also had an easy win over the Cow Boys.

Both teams are part of Gandhara,

one of the so-called three great powers.

It's safe to say they're a pretty formidable foe.

Vidyaraja, who is seeded,

is another Gandhara team.

Team The Ren…

They're your opponents today.

So I guess we have to win, right?

Idiot. Hasn't that always been the case?

If you've had your sights set on being Shaman King, at least.

What a shock, though…

If this is true, we'll have to fight the Patch too.

The problem is today's opponent.

Other than the fact that they all have Kami-class spirits,

we know nothing about them.

I thought information was power!

You can't catch information that isn't circulating. Dumbass.

-What did you call me? -Enough!

Have you forgotten that after them, we're up against Yoh?

We're in the same block,

which means that only one of us can win the primary tournament.

Save any extraneous concerns until after that.

I will fight him.

And I will win.

Today's opponents are nothing more than a stepping stone.

Match one of the second round of the primary tournament!

Team The Ren versus

Vidyaraja!

Round two of the tournament is finally upon us!

Which team

will the glory of victory belong to?

Vidyaraja of Gandhara…

You can tell how tough they are just by looking at them.

But I'm not afraid.

Because…

I am already looking at what's past them!

Joco. Horohoro.

I'll go first.

Then you take it from there.

-Got it. -Okay.

We are strong.

Regardless of what this match might cost us!

Victory is certain!

Vidyaraja, masters of Kami-class spirits…

Let's start by seeing

just what you're made of!

Here's my signature move, Sword Mirage!

I've never seen so many blades!

They hit Vidyaraja clean!

Could it be? Over!

Impossible.

There was far too little resistance.

What's going on?

How did they evade my Sword Mirage?

Well, then…

I'll just have to cut you up with Bushin directly!

It can't be!

You have a keen intuition.

You evaluated each of our capabilities

and singled me out to reduce the threat we pose.

My name is Yainage.

Yes.

Yainage, the weakest of the three of us.

My Spirit Ally's name is Kundali.

His hands of salvation reduce all Mana to nothingness.

If your attack and defense

both rely on Mana, then all of your tools

will be negated.

I was planning on mercifully pushing you out of bounds with a single attack,

but I see that your new Over Soul has kept you in by the skin of your teeth.

Mana negation, huh?

I see.

So you've erased all of my Sword Mirage blades, have you?

Impossible.

It's something that comes from nothing.

An Over Soul forged by your own mind

can't be erased by another!

Interesting.

I don't know what your trick is,

but I'm sure it will be worth my while to expose it!

What can you do?

Any attempt to fight back now is utterly futile.

At least let those two statues there tag in for you.

Or rather, perhaps you should admit defeat

before anything that can't be undone happens.

The merciful thing would be--

Asshole!

We're no damn statues!

And we're not admitting defeat!

Ren told us to take it from where he left off!

That Ren!

Do you know what that means?

Kado, Jackson… Do you mind?

Team The Ren, you've piqued my interest.

Interest? You insult me.

Those who fail to find their foe's weakness will fall.

They will not be saved.

Mana cancellation.

I'll smash you to pieces.

Because you are nothing more than a stepping stone for me!

Next episode, "Humility."

Subtitle translation by: Lewis Williams