Shachi and Leia headed to the Holy Temple of the North Star clan, to find the hidden technique that must be passed down to Kenshiro. But who awaited for their arrival? Sadly, Shachi's strength was no match for the Demon!

Leia: Stop!

Leia's feelings for Shachi have opened the underground chamber. A female statue, the very symbol of the North Star clan, stood smiling!

Shachi: Leia... run, Leia!

This is when the miracle happened!

The Fighter of Love, Shachi, Dies!
My Friend, Love Is Everything!!

The statue shines brightly. Kaioh thinks the statue is crying, and he can't stand the noise. He thinks it has to be some kind of illusion.

The statue suddenly shines even more brightly, and an aura surrounds Shachi. Shachi begins to get up, and Kaioh can't understand why he has been revived.

Shachi floats in front of the statue. Lin thinks it has to be this female statue that's doing it. Outside, Kenshiro can hear a sound, as if a voice is calling to him. His feels his blood is boiling as he gets closer to the temple.

Elsewhere, Hyoh has had to stay behind, which he's not happy about. He wants to go and help save Shachi, but his injuries are too much. Tao tells him not to push himself, and gives him some water. As Hyoh drinks it, Tao asks him about Kaioh, and how he used to respect him as a brother. He asks if you can fight a man who's like a brother. Hyoh says he did grow up with Kaioh, and fought alongside with him. But Kaioh also killed his own sister for his personal gain. Kaioh is a Demon, but there can be no happiness in a land ruled without love. All there would be left are ruthless and bloody fights, so this world ruled by a Demon must come to an end. He wants to use this short time he has left in life for Kenshiro, and for the future of this land.

Back in the temple, Kaioh thinks that it's almost as if the female statue is driving Shachi on. He tells Shachi that no matter who lends him their strength, his fists are no match for him!

He goes to punch him, but Shachi avoids his attack. Shachi then strikes Kaioh's hand. Kaioh doesn't understand how Shachi was able to dodge his attack, and then strike him back.

Shachi then strikes Kaioh again, and leaps onto his back. He starts to choke Kaioh. Kaioh thinks that this power isn't Shachi's own. Shachi tells him it's no use trying to stamp out the feelings of love for others. Love won't perish, and he's fighting now feeling Leia's love.

Kaioh tells him to shut up, he refuses to listen to the words of a mere insect. He hits a pressure point on the back of Shachi's head.

However, he realizes its done nothing -and he doesn't know why it hasn't worked. Lin tells Leia that her feelings for Shachi, and his desire to protect her, reached that statue, which gave him strength. The statue is communicating to him about love. It's love that is the hidden technique of the North Star clan.

Kaioh thinks the statue must really despise him and the North Star lapis lazuli fist if it has lent strength to the pathetic Shachi. He lifts Shachi off of himself, and says that he'll shatter his body to pieces.

He slams Shachi against the statue, and then hits him with a powerful attack. Shachi falls, but Kaioh staggers back, as he can hear that noise again.

He looks around and can see what appear to be several spirits, who circle around him. He thinks it's as he thought -he was never fighting Shachi, but the ghosts of the North Star clan.

He tries to attack them, but he's unable to hit any of them. He keeps attacking.

Lin and Leia can't see the ghosts, and Lin says Kaioh is falling before some unseen enemy. Kaioh collapses, as Shachi tells him that his job is done -Ken is already here.

Shachi says that noise the statue was making, that was making Kaioh suffer, was a voice calling to Ken. Kaioh stands up and tells the statue that if it wants to side with Kenshiro, then so be it. If the secret of the North Star divine fist is love, then the secret of the North Star lapis lazuli fist is evil! He'll defeat Kenshiro and his hidden techniques, to prove to the ghosts that evil rules over love.

He walks up to Lin and Leia, and tells Lin to come with him. He picks her up and says evil will flourish, and then takes her away. They leave the temple.

Kaioh tells Lin to just watch -both Kenshiro and the history of the North Star clan will end! Back inside the temple, Shachi tells Leia she doesn't need to worry.

Kenshiro then arrives, and asks what happened. Shachi says that the female statue is the symbol of the main family of the North Star, and it had given him strength. Thanks to that, he was able to protect Leia. The statue then emits a strange light.

Kenshiro thinks it's calling out to him. Shachi says that the key to break the seal was really here. The statue starts to crack.

It crumbles to pieces, but as the dust clears, it is revealed that there was something inside it: a Holy Spire.

Leia says there are some kind of symbols carved onto it, and wonders what they mean. The spire starts to glow, emitting a light which surrounds Kenshiro.

Kenshiro hears a woman's voice, telling him that she has been waiting for the day he would come. He is the only one who holds the power to real the symbols on this spire. She then tells him to hit the shihorin pressure point on himself. Kenshiro does so, and can see the symbols.

He places his hands on the spire, and the voice tells him he will experience one man's life instantly. Kenshiro can see a warrior, standing before images of people suffering. The voice tells him to cry with him, for the endless sadness of this world.

Kenshiro cries, as something happens. His fighting spiritual energy is flowing from his body, as the voice tells him his body now trembles with a heaven-shaking rage.

The voice then tells him he will now inherit the great final words of "that man". The light enters Kenshiro, as the spire stops glowing. Shachi asks Ken what was in the spire.

Kenshiro says that it was the life of the creator of the North Star divine fist, and his great legacy was engraved upon it. Shachi asks him if he now has the hidden technique. Kenshiro nods, and tells him that he has helped him gain it. Shachi says his blood has run dry, and he has showed him the courage to fight for love. It's why he was able to keep on fighting.

He tells Leia that when he fought, he was always thinking of a new era. An era where she would be able to preach love to the children under the sun, not in the darkness below the ground. He asks her to hear him out one last time -he lived for her love, and will die for her love. He has no regrets. Just then, a light appears.

The Holy Spire is shining again, and Shachi thinks the statue of the North Star Clan is shining for him. He tells Leia farewell, and dies.

Leia thanks Shachi, as now she truly feels she can speak of love. Kenshiro thinks he will take Shachi's love, and it will live on within him.

NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW

Before the deadly battle with Kenshiro, Kaioh's evil fist takes aim at Lin! Next time, on Fist of the North Star 2: "A Sad Victim of Love! This Is The Origin of The Evil Kaioh!!"