Kenshiro and Falco continue to fight, as Bat, Lin and Ein head into the capital. They find Jako trying to kill Myu and Saiya, and stop their execution, but before they can make him reveal where the emperor is, Taiga appears. He uses a technique called ryok kou hidan (green light flying bullet) to knock Ein back, and then Jako makes the group fall into a pit.

As the group recovers, they are all surprised when they find someone else down there. Myu recognizes the woman immediately -her name is Lui, and she is the empress! She also looks a lot like Lin -the reason for this being that she is Lin's sister. Myu explains that years ago, Jako ordered that Lin was to be killed -Jako said that out of these two baby girls, only one could be raised as an empress, that is their law. Falco was given this task, but could not do it, and instead secretly gave Lin away to some trusted friends to raise. Back at the fight, Kenshiro takes a hit from one of Falco's powerful techniques.

Kenshiro gets up and points to the heavens, and then hits a pressure point on his leg. He says that he is now on equal ground to Falco, as that is how a warrior of the North Star divine fist fights. He knows Falco gave one of his legs to Raoh, and Raoh would not be pleased with him if he killed Falco whilst having an advantage. Falco says he expected as much, and that he must be ready to die with honor. As the two of them continue to fight, Lui calls out to her sister. Saiya explains that due to her being down here in the darkness, she cannot see anything at the moment. Lui says that she feels sorry for the hardships her sister has had to go through, but Lin says that they were nothing to how Lui, an empress, has had to live her life. The sisters are finally reunited.

Manga Differences

-The fight between Kenshiro and Falco is has different choreography in the manga -such as Falco using the heaven opposition dance before the white flower bullet technique.

-Bat, Lin and Ein are still around watching the fight when Kenshiro disables one of his legs. In the anime, they had already moved into the capital before this happens.

-In the manga, Bat, Lin and Ein split up inside the capital -Ein says he's still a bounty hunter and wants Jako's head as a trophy, so he heads off to find him whilst Bat and Lin continue to head towards the emperor. In the anime, it was changed so Ein doesn't need to go a different way.

-In the manga, Jask is the one who beats Myu and Saiya. The guy is on crutches (as his father stabbed him in the leg previously), but then Ein finds him and knocks him out with a really powerful uppercut that sends him flying into a pillar. In the anime, the Jask character doesn't exist and was replaced with Taiga.

However, the scene was changed anyway, having some random guard instead who Bat uppercuts.

-Jako releasing the tear gas from his chair was not in the manga.

-In the manga, Ein, Myu and Saiya fall into the pit together and realize there is someone else down there. They can't see that well, so Ein lights a match and reveals Lui is there. In the anime, Bat and Lin are also present, but Ein never lights a match as apparently it isn't as dark down there.

-The way Bat and Lin fall to where Ein and the others are in the manga is that Bat, confused that Lin is saying the Emperor is beneath them even though they can't go any lower, leans on a wall and hits a hidden switch. This causes the floor they are on to collapse, and the two of them tumble down to where the others are. This doesn't happen in the anime because they fall with Ein.

Notes

-The recap for this episode features clips from the previous one, with a few differences -click here for details.

Errors

-Suddenly, Ein is wearing gloves. He hasn't ever had them before, but now he does. There is a reason for this that will be explained in two episode's time, but part of the blame can be on the character designers for the anime (in the manga, Ein always had gloves).
-Of course, Ein having gloves meant a change to Ein's character model, but the animators at Toei forget occasionally. This means that there are a couple of times during this episode where Ein doesn't have his gloves on, like here.
-When Lin is waiting next to the pillar, her headband is colored yellow instead of pink.
-Not long after the above error, Lin's headband is then colored red instead of pink.
-Ein's gloves cover his entire hand during this shot, they're meant to be fingerless gloves.
-When Falco tells Kenshiro to perish, there is a shot of Kenshiro without his jacket on, even though Falco hasn't destroyed it yet.
-During this shot, Falco suddenly has his armor back on, despite it being destroyed earlier.
-During the close-up of Kenshiro's hand pointing upwards, his arm band is colored white instead of black.
-Lin's headband is colored red instead of pink again during this shot.
-The next episode preview segment has a shot of Jako with yellow hair. This shot was corrected when shown in the next episode, however.