Kenshiro: There is certainly no confusion or hesitation in your fighting spiritual energy.

Falco: If I feared for my own life, I wouldn't challenge you. My body is the last gate to the imperial capital!

Kenshiro: I'll get through you for my friend's sake! There are no other bridges to cross.

Falco: You will not pass, even if it costs my life!

Rihaku: The heavens have been split.

Lin: Ah!

Bat: What's wrong? Hey, Lin! Lin!

Lin: He's weeping... the celestial emperor is calling for me, and he's crying!

The Celestial Emperor is Finally Revealed!!

Bat wonders what this could mean. Lin says she doesn't understand it either, but she could clearly hear the celestial emperor calling to her. Bat says they'll infiltrate the imperial capital, and rushes off with Lin. Ein leaves Asuka with Joseph, and tells her to wait for him -he's got a big job to do. Meanwhile, back at the fight, Falco thinks Kenshiro's art is amazing. But Kenshiro tells him he still doesn't know the true power of the North Star divine fist. Falco tells him that he'll get to taste the power of the Source Star, and uses a technique:

GENTO HAKUKA DAN

(Source Star White Flower Bullet)

Kenshiro blocks Falco's strikes, and then starts exchanging attacks with him. Rihaku looks up and see that the heavens have split, and thinks that perhaps Kenshiro and Falco have each claimed part of the heavens.

Inside the capital, Ein punches down a guard. Lin points out the way to where she can hear the emperor, as the cries are getting stronger and stronger. Nearby, Myu has been exposed, as a guard beats her down. She drops the detonator.

The guard asks her if she thought she could really deceive Jako, and beats her again. She lands on top of Saiya, who has also been beaten up. The guard takes the detonator to Jako, and explains that this was something that Falco had setup.

Jako realizes Myu only got close to him so she could try to find out the location of the celestial emperor. He says he won't forgive her, and orders for her to be killed. The guard goes to beat her, but Saiya gets in the way, and gets his several times. However, Bat then shows up, and stops the guard.

Lin also enters the room, but stays back. Jako sees her, and can't believe it. The guard tries to attack Bat...

...but Bat quickly defeats him. Ein confronts Jako, thanking him for keeping security so light around here. Jako warns him he'll be in for it if he lays a hand on him, but Ein says that sounds like fun. Jako thinks he must want to die...

...so Ein responds by punching him in the face. As Ein tells him he's put them through all sorts of hell, Jako presses a button on his throne, which causes it to spew out a purple gas.

Ein and Bat realize it's tear gas. Ein still wants to fight, but Myu tells him to stop. Jako must not die, as he holds the celestial emperor's life in his hands. She says she would have killed him herself a long time ago, if she could. But then Falco's fatal battle would be for naught, if she did. Jako laughs, and says they can't lay a hand on him. Ein says they'll force him to talk, but Jako says if they even try, the celestial emperor will be in danger.

Ein and Bat then suddenly get blasted out of the way. Taiga appears, asking them what they're doing. Jako says he knew Taiga was the only one he could count on. Taiga says he won't allow anyone to oppose Lord Jako. Ein thinks they've finally got someone who's fun here, and goes to take him on. But Taiga uses one of his techniques:

GENTO RYOK KOU HIDAN

(Source Star Green Light Flying Bullet)

Ein leaps back, as Taiga's attack just misses him. It hits the floor, blowing a part of it to pieces. Ein tries to counterattack, but Taiga hits him with his bullet technique.

As Bat and Lin check on Ein, Jako calls them all fools. He presses another button, which causes a trapdoor to open up. Myu, Saiya, Bat, Ein and Lin all drop down.

Jako laughs, and says that any who oppose him will die. He tells Taiga that he truly is his right hand man, and doesn't want him to ever leave his side. Back outside, Kenshiro and Falco continue to fight.

Kenshiro asks Falco to tell him one thing: just who is this celestial emperor, who he's risking everything to protect? Falco says the heavens have split in two, and a celestial emperor is among Kenshiro's allies, as well. Back in the capital, Bat's group start to get up.

They realize that they aren't alone, and a woman walks out of the shadows. Lin says she looks like her, and asks if she is the one who called to her.

The woman nods, so Lin asks her if she is the celestial emperor. The woman nods again. Myu says this person is Lui. Back outside, Kenshiro's battle with Falco continues.

Kenshiro asks what Falco means about there being two celestial emperors. Falco says he won't say any more about it. Kenshiro hits Falco with a punch that shatters his armor. Falco thinks that he was the one who split the heavens in two. It was he, in his foolish youth, who has brought on today's chaos...

Falco and Jako look at two babies, who are twins. Jako says there is no need for surprise, they just need to simply follow the code. He picks out one of the babies.

He passes her to Falco, and tells him to kill her. They only need one celestial emperor, and leaving both of them alive would bring certain misfortune. If they try to raise two stars, the heavens will be split. He tells Falco that it's his duty as the Source Star imperial fist successor to kill her. It's how his predecessors guarded the heavens, and their celestial emperor. To break that code would be to defy the celestial emperor. As he leaves, Falco places the baby back in the basket.

He goes to split her in half, but the baby suddenly opens her eyes, and smiles. Falco stops his attack.

Unable to abandon his own humanity, Falco decided to spare the baby's life...

Back in the present, Myu has just told everyone the same story. Lin realizes Falco had saved her, and Myu says he'd left her with someone he could trust, to hide the secret of her birth. Ein says he knows how Falco must have felt, as nobody who kills women or children is even human. Bat says Falco must be fighting now to fix what he had caused.

Back at the fight, Falco thinks about how he was surprised to see Lin grown up... he never thought she'd be connected to the North Star. He tells Kenshiro to ask him nothing more, as he must settle everything with his own hands now. He must put an end to the sad destiny of the twin stars! Kenshiro punches him, but Falco blocks it, and moves back. He then uses a technique:

GENTO KOUKEN OUGI: SHOU NO RIN

(Source Star Imperial Fist Secret Technique: Rings of Opposition)

Kenshiro gets hit by this attack, and falls to the ground. Falco tells him nobody has ever been able to take that, and remain standing. He says this is the end, and leaps up. He then dives towards Kenshiro, telling him to perish.

Kenshiro does manage to get up, and throws out a punch. But Falco lands on his fist, and says this is the tenshou bu (heaven opposition dance). He then blasts Kenshiro.

Kenshiro gets hit, and smashes onto the ground. Falco asks Kenshiro what's wrong -is he too scared to move?

Kenshiro gets up, and tells Falco it seems that that fake leg of his is keeping him from stepping into range. He points to the heavens, and then hits a pressure point on his own leg.

He says he struck the jouketsukai pressure point, and now he can't move his right leg freely. Rihaku says that Kenshiro still insists of fighting Falco as an equal. Joseph wonders why Kenshiro is doing this when Falco is so powerful. Kenshiro tells Falco he knows he gave Raoh his leg without fighting him. He thinks that if he killed him, it wouldn't please Raoh. It's not how a warrior of the North Star divine fist fights.

Falco says this is just what he'd expect from a man of the North Star. He tells Kenshiro that he's chosen to die with honor, and then attacks him again. The battle resumes.

Back in the cave, Lui says she's heard about Lin, the sad story about her little sister. She asks where she is, as everyone realizes that Lui cannot see. Saiya says that this cave is so deep, no light can reach it. All Lui could do is dig for water.

Lin places her hands over Lui's. Lui tells her sister that she has been put through so much hardship, but Lin tells her that though she was abandoned, life was much happier for her.

At long last, the sisters have been reunited.

NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW

Lin and Lui embrace, and the heaven that has been split becomes one. But destiny longs for Ein's life! Next time, on Fist of the North Star 2: "An Elegy for Ein! Die Bravely Than Live Without Honor!!"