In Toyo's village, Bat is playing his harmonica, whilst the other kids sleep. Lin is watching a fire, and is thinking about what happened earlier with Toyo, and the Warriors.

Toyo sacrificed herself to save one of the kids. Bat then comes over to Lin, and says she must be thinking about Ken again, but tells her not to worry. The North Star divine fist is invincible! Kenshiro will definitely come back, once he's dealt with Jackal and his gang.

I am Death Itself!! I'll Chase You
to the Ends of Hell!!

At a village, some members of the Warriors arrive. They start blowing things up and stealing things, all whilst killing anyone who gets in their way.

However their fun soon comes to an end the moment they realize Kenshiro has appeared. They try and attack him, but he counters their moves and hits a few pressure points, killing them all.

One guy tries to escape on his bike, but Kenshiro kicks a rock at his head, causing him to lose control and fall off. He asks Kenshiro to wait, as he didn't do anything -he was just following Jackal's orders. Kenshiro tells him to get up, so he does, but asks to be spared. He tells Kenshiro that Jackal is the one he should be mad at.

Kenshiro hits pressure points either side of his head, and tells him his body has now become a message. He tells him to go on, and return to Jackal. The guy gets back on his bike, but tells Kenshiro to mark his words -they will kill him. He then rides off.

He meets up with the rest of the gang, who are driving through a desert. Jackal sees him and orders his gang to stop, so they all do. The guy tells Jackal he just saw the men with seven scars, and that he said that his body has now become a message for him. Jackal asks what that means, but he and the rest of the gang then see there's something wrong.

The guy's head suddenly rips itself in half, killing him instantly. The gang wonder what this "message" was meant to mean, but Jackal knows: this is Kenshiro's formal challenge to them. It seems he intends to fight them head to head. He's saying he'll kill them all like this. Some of the gang realize that Fox's group haven't come back yet, so they'd better warn him.

Jackal says to wait -that won't be necessary. He thinks that Fox may be able to beat the man with seven scars, and even if he loses, he'll give them enough time to get far away from here. The gang are surprised by this statement, but Jackal tells them to move out. Meanwhile, in another town, a group of villagers come across the body of a man. They think he must have collapsed from exhaustion.

After seeing the guy's face, they think he must be a criminal. They decide to finish him off, and go to stab him with their spears. But just before they can stab him, he suddenly vanishes.

They don't realize they're up against Fox, who has levitation powers. He floats above them, then reveals hidden blades in his arms. He then dives back down and quickly slaughters everybody.

CHOUTOU CHIHAI KEN

(Levitating Blade Back Fist)

He tells his men to come out and start collecting food, but the two guys with him suddenly explode. Fox wonders what happened, and takes cover behind a wall. He looks at the bodies, but then a fist punches through the wall...

...and grabs his face, slamming it into the wall. Fox sees the man with seven scars is here, and asks how he is. Kenshiro says he's just fine, as he can see. He then shoves Fox's head right down through the wall.

He then breaks through the wall. Fox gets up and goes to attack him, but Kenshiro punches him in the face. Fox drops to his knees and claims he's not going to fight him, and seems to surrender. He tells Kenshiro he's not asking him to spare him for free, and offers to tell him where Jackal is headed.

Kenshiro tells him he thought he was Jackal's loyal servant. Fox says they only banded together to survive, and they use each other. Kenshiro tells him that they thoughtlessly kill people to survive. As he walks off, Fox asks him if he doesn't want to know where Jackal is going.

Kenshiro tells him it'd be fairly easy to get him to talk, whether he wanted to or not. Fox says again that he doesn't want to fight him, and collapses. He asks Kenshiro if he would really kill a helpless man like this. As Kenshiro stares at him, Fox just wants him to get closer, so he can slice him up. However Kenshiro suddenly walks off, and goes up to a large boulder.

He picks it up and throws it at Fox, forcing him to move. He stays in the air and tries to find Kenshiro, but Kenshiro strikes him on his back. Kenshiro tells him his weakness is the way he can leap around like that, as it ultimately leaves his back wide open.

He then hits pressure points on Fox's back by kicking him, and then tells him to say where Jackal is going. Fox refuses, but then finds his mouth is moving by itself. Kenshiro explains that he struck the pressure point known as shin-ichi, which will make Fox naturally tell him. Fox says that Jackal is heading to Villainy Prison, a prison for the worst of the worst criminals -it's where Jackal escaped from. Kenshiro says that's all he had to tell him, but eventually, he will have to die. He kicks Fox high up into the air.

Fox flips over and brings out his blades, but as he comes back down, Kenshiro kicks him in the face, sending him into a wall and killing him. Kenshiro thinks about Jackal, and thinks he is a beast who has only thought about hunting down other people until now. He'll give him a taste of the terror of being hunted.

At Southern Cross, a young girl called Saki approaches Yuria. Saki says that starting today, she is to serve her. She calls Yuria refined and beautiful, but she seems so lonely, and wonders why.

Yuria thinks back to that fateful day, where Shin defeated Kenshiro, and then took her away. Shin had told Kenshiro that the difference between them was that he had no ambition. Back in the present, Yuria says Ken's name.

Meanwhile, Jackal's gang arrive at a bar. As they enter, Jackal says Villainy Prison is their old home, and it hasn't changed a bit. He tells the bartender it's long time, no see, and asks for some water. The bartender tells him he's not getting any more free water from him.

Jackal grabs him and asks where he picked up that kind of attitude from -what happened to the hospitality he used to show him? The bartender tells him he doesn't have to show him any hospitality anymore, so Jackal threatens to kill him. The bartender tells him that death is coming for him and his gang, and knows that the man with seven scars is after them. Jackal asks how he knows about that, so the bartender points out the souvenir Kenshiro left him: Fox's corpse.

The bartender tells them he's going home, and tells them to feel free to use whatever they want. As he leaves, the gang look at Fox's corpse, and are all shocked that he died. They quickly realize that the man with seven scars must be here, and since none of them want to die, they decide to leave.

They get on their bikes, only to find they won't start -someone has drained the gas tanks. They then see their truck is still there.

They rush over and tell the driver to start it, only for his head to explode. Another gang member is then dropped down onto them from above.

They look up, and see a man looking down at them: Kenshiro! He points at them, and it makes them believe that if he's after them, all that's waiting for them is 100% certain death! They think there is a way they can save themselves...

Back in the bar, Jackal stomps on Fox a few times, cursing him out for telling Kenshiro where they were. He turns around to see the rest of his gang have come back in, and one of them says they're going to take his head. If they kill him, the man with seven scars may let them live. Jackal tells them Kenshiro wants to hunt them all down.

One guy says it would be better if he was only hunting Jackal down, but Jackal then reveals a hidden wrist blade, and slices the guy with it. He then quickly jumps onto the bar, and jumps through a window.

He then lights up some dynamite, and throws it into the bar without a second thought. The entire gang are killed in the explosion, but then someone stomps on Jackal's head.

Kenshiro tells Jackal that he finally has him. Jackal says he's found him at last -he wanted to apologize, so can't they be friends? He asks for forgiveness, but then attempts to stab Kenshiro. Kenshiro tells him he's revealed his true nature, and chops him with enough force to send him flying back.

Jackal says Kenshiro is no human, he's a monster. He decides to run for it, and after going down a few streets, hides behind a wall. However, Kenshiro appears behind him, and tells him it's no use -even a mouse shows its fangs when cornered. He tells Jackal to stop running away all the time, and try fighting.

Jackal pulls out a stick of dynamite, goes into a stance, and says the name of his style, Nanto bakusatsu ken (South South explosive kill fist). An amused Kenshiro asks him if he calls throwing dynamite around a martial art, but Jackal says hey -as long as it works. He throws dynamite at Kenshiro, which seemingly blows him up.

Jackal thinks he got him, and says he didn't run from Kenshiro because he was scared, it was because he just likes to choose the safest path for when he gets that one in a million chance to win. But as the smoke clears, he realizes Kenshiro's remains are nowhere to be seen. Kenshiro then calls out to him, and says there are no one in a million chances with the North Star divine fist -it always wins. Jackal runs off, but sees the shadow of someone ahead of him.

He starts throwing dynamite around, but none of it hits Kenshiro, and soon he's only got one stick left -and Kenshiro is right above him. He decides he must draw Kenshiro in close to finish this, and lights it up. He hides it behind his back and runs out, and tells Kenshiro he sees how powerful he is. He admits the North Star divine fist is invincible, and asks for forgiveness. Kenshiro tells him that without his dynamite, he's a harmless mouse. He jumps down...

...so Jackal throws the dynamite at him. However Kenshiro kicks it back at him, and after he fails to put out the fuse, he has to jump away.

He gets knocked down by the blast, he sees Kenshiro standing over him. He asks to be forgiven, and says he will even work for him. Kenshiro says what would he want with a filthy lackey like him, and kicks him away. He then tells him it's time to begin his punishment.

Just then, Kenshiro has to strike something thrown at him: a playing card. Joker suddenly appears, and he tells Kenshiro it has been a while. He says he'll take care of Jackal, and throws out a whole deck of cards. Kenshiro starts destroying them...

...but by the time he's done, both Joker and Jackal have disappeared. At Southern Cross, a messenger pigeon delivers a note to Shin. Shin finds out Kenshiro is now at Villainy Prison. He says that the terrifying embodiment of evil awaits Kenshiro there...

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The embodiment of evil, Devil Rebirth! How will Kenshiro fight against this giant's fearsome strength? Next time, on Fist of the North Star: Arhat Deva King Fist! Once Released There's No Stopping It!!

Kenshiro: You are already dead.