A small child is walking around, and whilst he says to himself that he will save his "Auntie" he is quite clearly suffering from heat exhaustion and almost walks off the end of a broken road. However Kenshiro is there and catches him before giving him some water. The kid asks who he is, but Ken is already walking away from him.



Ken, Bat and Lin have arrived at another town and are having a drink in a bar when two guys walk in and find the guy they want: Kenshiro. There is a reward out to kill him which Shin has offered, and one guy lunges with a knife. Ken punches him into a wall and then someone drags him into the room behind a curtain.



The other guy pulls out a knife and tries to stab Ken, but a voice suddenly calls out for him to stop and come here. He does so and heads through a the curtain into a different room, where the voice tells him and his friend that they shouldn't be pick fights with people who are stronger than them, if they intend to live in this world. Both men are then killed when there heads are smashed together face first.



A guy called Jackal is the one who did this, and he just laughs before returning to his bath. He looks at Kenshiro, but then ignores him as that little kid from earlier walks into the bar and sees Ken. Ken recognises him and the kid begs him to save his Auntie and his village. Bat turns around and also recognises the kid, saying his name is Taki and he used to live in the same village as him. His village is quite a distance away from this place and walking around in the bright sun has made him go temporarily blind, although he hopes he will be able to see again soon.



Kenshiro speeds up the process by pressing a pressure point, and within seconds he can see again. He tells the others that at his village, the adults have all left but Auntie, who Bat refers to as "an old hag" is still there looking after children and trying to create a water supply for the village, so people come back. As Kenshiro's group begins to move out to the village, they don't know that Jackal has been listening to their conversation.



Jackal gets his gang together and tells them that if they just follow Bat's car, it will lead them to a source of water. As they secretly follow, Ken's group arrives at Taki's village, which is quite run down and seemingly deserted.



A gun shot narrowly misses hitting Kenshiro in the face, as a rifle wielding woman surrounded by a group of kids appears, demanding to know who these newcomers are. Bat then reveals himself and all the children are happy to see him again. Auntie Toyo also sees that Bat has returned and the two engage is some teasing banter. She welcomes Ken and Lin inside. It is explained that Toyo has been looking after these kids who's parents have died, or they were abandoned. She wants to create a water source for this town so it will become populated again. Bat says that will be impossible because when some geologist surveyed the site he said that the hard rock under the ground would be impossible to dig through, but Toyo is sure she can do it.



Later on everyone has gone to bed, but Lin and a few of the other kids wake Ken up and tell them that Bat and Taki have gone off to do something incredibly stupid: steal water from some punks in a nearby village. At this other village, Bat is filling up some containers when Taki notices someone approaching. They get into the car and drive off, which was a good idea since the someone was a guard armed with a spear.



As Bat and Taki leave they run into move bad luck when two biker punks see them and decide to chase their car. They charge down the hill shouting and this puts Bat into a panic, which makes him lose control of his car and make it crash.



Taki falls over and is about to be killed when Kenshiro steps in and takes out one punk. Punk number two doesn't suffer much better either and later Taki says not to be angry at Bat, as he was the one who suggested the water snatching plan. Ken says he understands.



The next morning, Ken leaps down the incomplete well and charges up his power into one of his hands. He strikes the ground with a punch, and after some rumbling, up shoots a lot of water!



Everyone else gathers round and is extremely pleased in having struck water, as it means that Toyo's plan to populate the town could now actually happen. But she and the children aren't the only ones who have witnessed what Ken has done for them. Not too far away Jackal and his gang have also learnt of what has happened. Jackal tells his men that they will go and steal water as soon as the man with seven scars leaves. Three of the punks say that they don't care about the water and that they just want to go down and kill Kenshiro, so they can collect the huge reward that Shin is offering. Jackal calls them idiots for going, but they don't listen to him and arrive in the village.



When they arrive Ken tells them to get lost as they couldn't possibly be a match for him, but they attack anyway. Ken strikes them twice, one time to knock them back, and then another to hit a pressure point on their heads.


HOKUTO SHU MUJIDAN!!

(North Star Finger Shot of Emptiness!!)



Kenshiro takes the men out of the village and then throws them to the ground, telling them that he has erased their memories for the past few days. Jackal has seen what he has done and tells his other men why they should not mess with the man with seven scars. As Kenshiro turns around, he is suddenly very surprised to see an image of Yuria in the sky!



Yuria only manages to say his name when Shin also appears, saying that with just one word he will have thousands of men sent to attack Kenshiro. Kenshiro then remembers that it is dangerous for him to stay in the same place, and if he stays at this village he would be putting it in danger. He starts to walk away. Lin, worried that Ken has been gone for such a long time, also runs out to the desert forcing Bat to go after her in his car.



With Ken and his two young friends gone, Jackal tells his men that now is the time to attack. They storm the village on their bikes and quickly start to drink as much water as they want. Jackal is so pleased with the taste that he says that he will make this village their new base and they will never have to go back to drinking rain water ever again. Whilst the kids have all been rounded up, Toyo has stayed back and attempts to kill Jackal, hoping to kill the gang leader so the rest of the gang will run away.



As she fires a shot, Kenshiro hears the loud boom from where he is, just as Bat and Lin pull up. Bat starts to say how cold it was of him just to walk off like that, but he just turns around and starts to head back to the village, fearing something is wrong. Back at the village, Toyo's shot hit Jackal in the head, but it didn't actually kill him. He yells at her, but she tells him her next shot will be in his heart. Jackal says that if she does that they'll all be blown to pieces, as he has a lot of explosives taped to his body!



Jackal takes Toyo's gun and beats her with it a few times. The kids try to attack Jackal but they can't do any good. The gang decide to kill them off one by one right before Toyo, just because they think it'll be amusing. Taki is the first one to killed and Toyo can't stop them from doing it, as she is kicked to the ground.



However, Kenshiro appears and kills the guy who was about to kill Taki. He jumps down to Jackal is and tells him that he is next. Jackal tells him that won't be the case and points to the direction of his second in command, Fox, who has two kids tied up along with two sticks of dynamite.



Jackal lights the sticks of dynamite and Fox places one stick into the ropes of each kid as he, Jackal and the rest of the gang ride away. The two kids, being idiots, decide not to just stay where they are but run off in different directions.



Ken goes after one kid and safely disposes of the dynamite, but even he can't get to the other kid in time. However, Toyo is after her and manages to remove the dynamite, but she only has time to throw it a short distance away from her. She is knocked down by the blast whilst protecting the child. When the others get around her it is clear that she will not live for much longer.



Bat suddenly splurts out that he always meant to come back here once he had gathered together a lot of useful resources like food. She tells him that he is a kind boy inside, before she passes away. As everyone starts to mourn her, Kenshiro decides that hunting down Shin will have to wait. He has a new target to destroy first: the gang known as The Warriors, along with their accursed leader, Jackal.


NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW

The death of Toyo enrages Kenshiro and he begins to hunt down The Warriors along with the gang's leaders, Fox and Jackal. Tune in next time for "I am Death Itself!! I'll Chase You to the Ends of Hell!!"