Villains!
Ready Your One-Way Tickets to Death!!

Kenshiro's group have come to a stop in the middle of a desert. They've come across the remains of a camp fire, and Kenshiro says it's still new. Bat thinks whoever here was stupid, it won't do them any good if they keep leaving tracks behind for them to find. However Kenshiro says he doesn't think that's the reason they did this. He's seen that there are three snipers taking aim at them.

He tells Bat and Lin to get down on his signal. As they get out of the way, Kenshiro takes out his nunchaku and starts using them, as several knives are shot at him. He deflects them back to where they came from, killing the snipers.

At Southern Cross, a large man with a whip is lashing a villager. Balcom tells everyone to look well -this is why they punish those who break Lord King's rules.

Saki then runs over and gets hit by the whip. She gets up and asks them to stop this, as her brother, Temujina, didn't break any laws. Balcom says that law of Southern Cross is to punish those related to anyone who has opposed Lord King. Saki says she'll take the punishment.

Temujina tells her to stop it, whilst Balcom tells her her love for her brother is admirable. But this is Lord King's law. The torturer says he loves to hear the screams of men, but hearing girls scream is so much more satisfying.

Yuria then appears, telling them to stop this at once. She asks Balcom to please tell them to stop now. Balcom asks what brings her here, and tells her she's always beautiful to see. Yuria asks him to release Temujina and Saki, but Balcom says that he cannot go against Lord King's law. The torturer is about to use his whip again, but someone stops him by grabbing the end of it.

He turns around and punches at the person who stopping him, but his punch is blocked. His hand is then crushed, as it's revealed that Shin was the one who stopped him.

Shin kills him, and as he collapses, Shin asks Balcom who authorized this action. Balcom starts to talk about the laws Shin had set...

...but Shin kicks him in the head. He says that he's the law here, and then walks over to Yuria. He tells her he knows he'd told her she could go anywhere she wanted in Southern Cross, but this really isn't any place for her to be. Yuria asks him to pardon Temujina and Saki, and Shin says she can do as she wishes. He then tells Balcom to come with him.

Meanwhile, Kenshiro's group are on the move again. Kenshiro tells Bat to head towards the mountains, and a sandstorm is coming. Lin says if they go now, they'll lose the tire tracks they were following, and Bat says he can handle a sandstorm just fine. Kenshiro tells him again to go to the mountains, and Bat turns the car.

They stop at the mountains, and pitch a tent. The sandstorm has begun, and Bat thinks even the weather is on the bad guy's side. Kenshiro says the journey will be dangerous from this point, and once the sandstorm clears, he wants the two of them to go back to Gina village. Bat says they want to help, but Kenshiro asks what if he said they just get in his way? Lin says she wants to stay with him.

Elsewhere, two of Shin's armies are on the move. Garekki, leader of the Golden Wolf army, tells the man with seven scars to just wait -he's going to take his head! Up in the skies, the Blackbird army is out in their gyrocopters.

Mahari says that his army will kill the man with seven scars. Back at Southern Cross, Saki mentions the man with seven scars, and Temujina says he's heard of him -he's the man who keeps beating Lord King's armies by himself. Yuria says Southern Cross was built in secret, so Ken won't know where they are.

Temujina asks her if she thinks Kenshiro can beat Lord King's armies, and set the people here free. Yuria says she knows Ken can do it. Temujina says this is their chance, and he'll bring Kenshiro back here to Southern Cross. Despite his wounds, he swears he'll bring him back. He gets on a motorcycle, and heads out via the sewers. He exits the sewers, and jumps right over...

...some guards, and heads away. Back at Gina village, Jennifer and another guy are watching out for any forces of King. The sandstorm ends, and they see that something is heading towards their village.

Garekki's army have arrived. Garekki tells the residents of the village to send out the man with seven scars, but is told by one of the villagers that he's already left.

Someone asks Garekki what they should do. Garekki says to use the normal plan, but then his watch goes off... it's time to eat. Garekki tells the villagers that they'll wait three hours, and they should send out the man with seven scars in the meantime. The villagers once again say that Kenshiro isn't here.

Garekki says the attack will begin in three hours, but now, it's time to get some food cooked. One of his troops says that'll take too long, and if Balcom found out about this... before he can finish, Garekki slices him in half. He says that the Garekki family always keeps to its meal times. He tells the others to get the food ready -first, some soup. And they'll end off with coffee.

Later on, Jennifer and her guard duty buddy race out of the village. Some of Garekki's mean are immediately after them, and Jennifer's bike gets destroyed.

She jumps over to her friend, and her bike falls over, causing their pursuers to crash into it. Garekki is told about what's happened, but he tells him to leave it. Everything is set now.

Out in a desert, Bat's car has broken down. But then Jennifer shows up, and says that King's army is attacking her village. Meanwhile, Garekki gets told it's time.

Outside his tent, the balloon has a guy shout coordinates out. The cannons takes aim, and start firing. But rather than firing shells, they fire people!

NANTO NINGEN HOUDAN

(South Star Human Cannonball)

Kenshiro races back towards the village, but Mahari and his Blackbird army arrive. They start dropping bombs.

Kenshiro avoids being blown to pieces, as the Blackbird army start shooting spears at him. He avoids some of them, but eventually has to abandon his bike. He then has to leap back from even more bombs.

Mahari thinks they got him, and his army start to fly away, but Kenshiro has survived. He starts throwing some spears through the gyrocopters, causing them to crash into each other.

Mahari and what's left of his army go back to get him, only to find he's disappeared. Kenshiro hides behind a cliff, then leaps up and hits pressure points on Mahari. Mahari says he can't move, and asks if he's already dead. Kenshiro tells him he's not dead yet -there's something he needs him to do. He's hit the pressure point known as to-wa, and now his body will move how he wants it to.

Kenshiro gets Mahari to fly right back into his own forces, and as they scramble out of the way, they end up smashing into each other. One pilot tries to fly back to Gina village, but Kenshiro moves above him, then moves down. This causes his rotor blades to smash to pieces.

He crashes, as Garekki's forces look on. Kenshiro then gets Mahari to crash in the middle of them, causing a big explosion. Kenshiro leaps away from it.

Garekki sees Kenshiro, and tells him that he knows how to make a flash entrance -that'll make killing him so much more fun. Kenshiro asks him if he'll release the villagers, and Garekki says he will -if Kenshiro survives. As this is happening, Bat's gotten his car fixed, and takes the others back towards Gina.

Nearby, Temujina is racing towards Gina, but has several guys chasing after them. They start firing knives at him, and he gets hit a few times. He manages to lose his pursuers by jumping across a canyon.

Garekki has his army use the South Star human cannonball, and they launch themselves at Kenshiro. But he starts hitting pressure points, and taking them out.

Bat and the others manage to enter Gina village without being seen, and start freeing the captured villagers. As this is happening, Temujina has ditched his bike, and stumbles towards Gina village.

Garekki says he'll just have to finish Kenshiro off himself, and draws out his sword. He launches himself at Kenshiro, and says he was the one who invented this technique -nobody can do it as well as he does!

NANTO NINGEN HOUDAN / HOKUTO KOKU ZAN

(South Star Human Cannonball / North Star Sky Slash)

They both land, but Garekki finds that he can't move. Kenshiro reminds him of his promise to release the villagers, but Garekki would rather have them all killed. He tells his men to do it, but Bat and Jennifer kick the remaining ones down.

Garekki says he still has those kids. and reveals that he put two of them in his balloon, which is now floating upwards. Garekki asks Kenshiro what he's going to do, so Kenshiro decides to load him into one of the cannons. Kenshiro tells him to be happy -his technique will finally be useful to people.

Bat takes aim, and then Kenshiro gives the order to fire. Garekki is launched right up into the balloon, which he pieces and deflates.

Garekki lands some distance away, where he explodes. Jennifer and her buddy go to check on the kids, whilst everybody else starts to celebrate.

However, Temujina then arrives, and keeps saying Kenshiro. As he falls, Kenshiro catches him, and says he's Kenshiro. Temujina tells him to save the people of Southern Cross, and says the city is located in the green land, in the eye of the demon. He tells him to save Lady Yuria, and save their people.

He tells him to save his sister, Saki, as well, but then dies from his injuries. At Southern Cross, Joker reports to Shin that both the Blackbird and Golden Wolf armies have been destroyed. Shin can't believe it, but Joker then says a slave escaped from Southern Cross. The slave managed to reach Kenshiro, and then died.

As Yuria consoles Saki, the location of Southern Cross is seen. Kenshiro says that a man whose name he didn't even know struggled to stay alive to meet him, all for the sake of others. Bat says it was all for nothing, but Kenshiro says that's not so. That man's last words were the key... the green land... the demon's eye.

"Shin! I can finally see your shadow. I will kill you! And then I'll set those people, and Yuria, free! Wait for me, Shin!"


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Shin's blazing troops are on the move! The cannon of Southern Cross fires on Kenshiro! Next time, on Fist of the North Star: "A Nightmarish All-Out Battle! My Fists Pack 100 Volts!!"

Kenshiro: You are already dead.