The battle between Kenshiro and Raoh ended in a draw, but the amount of blood spilt in Mamiya's village was high. Lin and Bat are outside looking at all the bodies of the people who died in the battle between the villagers and Ken-Oh's forces, and Lin asks why this had to happen. Bat said that it couldn't not be helped and that only the strong survive in this world -it should of been their blood. But he says that he will become stronger.



Later on, Kenshiro is healing well after the battle, but despite managing to draw with Raoh nobody is in the mood to celebrate -Rei has been given just three days left to live. Rei suddenly screams in pain as his left arm begins to bulge up.



He leaves the room and tells Airi not to follow him, but Mamiya decides to go instead. Toki stops her however, explaining that Rei doesn't want anyone to seem him in pain -especially her. Rei is put into more pain as he waits outside and he believes that this is what Raoh was talking about -knowing to fear him.



Kenshiro arrives and says sorry. Rei asks what he is apologizing for and Ken says that he was the one who dragged him into his own battle, and now he will die because of it. Rei says it is O.K. however, as he has no regrets and thanks him. Because of him he met Mamiya, Bat and Lin who showed him that this world isn't totally doomed yet. But now all he has to think about is how he has three days left to live, and what method he will use to end it all before then.



Mamiya has been listening to the two talking, and she decides to try and help. She begins to pack a lot of food into her bike. Bat sees her and asks what she is doing. She says that she is going to go to a place known as "Medicine City" which is known to be the best place to find various medicines. She may not be able to save Rei's life, but she hopes to be able to at least ease his pain.



She soon sets off on her bike. Later on, Ken and Rei return to the room, but they notice that Mamiya isn't there. Bat says that she has gone to Medicine city. When Toki hears this he is concerned -the place was ruled by Ken-Oh, but now that his reputation has been tarnished thanks to Kenshiro, the place may have fallen to lesser punks, and be in chaos.



Meanwhile, Mamiya reaches the city and from her view, things look normal. However, as she makes her way down she doesn't know that things aren't normal in this city at all. People are trading but suddenly stop when they see a young boy pinned down by a large dog.



The mother of the boy begs for people to help but they refuse, not daring to strike the dog. However, the dog is suddenly killed when someone bashes it over the head. One man has dared to strike the dog, but even though the child is saved he drops his weapon and realises what he has done.



Within seconds, several men gang around him and before he knows it a large dog collar is placed round his neck! And then a really big man known as Lord Galf appears and starts to choke the man, as he is not happy that he killed one of his dogs.



The mother of the rescued child begs Galf to spare the man's life,,as he did what he did just to save her son, but Galf is not pleased. No matter what, all he can see is that the man killed one of his dogs and the life of a dog is far more important to him than the life of a child. He then calls over his own personal pooch, Seki, to ask him what he thinks of the situation: is the man innocent or should be be put to death? The dog gives a single bark.



Galf says that the man has been found guilty. He snaps his neck and begins to laugh, before telling everyone that now Ken-Oh is gone, he now runs this city and the first law is that the dogs rule. Mamiya has seen everything and states how terrible it is, but she can't take Galf and his gang on by herself. Instead, she gets on with her primary goal of finding some medicine for Rei.




Back at Mamiya's village, Rei has decided to go after Mamiya, but he has decided that he must go alone as she went alone for him. Everyone is really concerned because of his injuries, but he still leaves whilst telling the others not to tell Ken. Lin can't do that though and lets Kenshiro know where Rei is going.



Airi and Toki watch Rei leave from up on a building. As Airi begins to pray for Rei's safety on his journey, Toki thinks about how Mamiya has also seen the star of death. Mamiya has not had any luck finding anything of use for Rei and is about to give up when she sees a large storehouse. Several villagers are carrying goods out of the place, so maybe there is something useful inside it. She waits until they have gone, and gets up to the top of the building. There are only two guards at the entrance, so she jumps down...



...and kills them. With them out of the way, she heads inside the building. It has got many shelves inside it, each one full of various items.



She doesn't get to look for very long when she hears some growling. Turning around, she sees a dog running straight towards her, but as it leaps up, she kills it with one of her yoyos. But as soon as she does this, she sees two men have appeared in the room.



And then worse than that, Galf also appears, and is very upset that Mamiya has killed one of his dogs. He orders her men to get her, but she stabs through the hands of the one who tries to grab her. She then leaps up, lands on the shelves, and runs towards the exit.



Galf decides to step in, and throws a large dog collar at her. He throws it so fast that by the time she sees it coming, she has no chance to get out of the way. It hits her in the back, making her fall to the floor and lose consciousness.



Meanwhile, Rei is suffering, and is still having random moments of horrendous pain. He falls to the ground and looks up into the sky, and realises that he can see the star of death even during the day now. He gets back up and almost falls down again immediately, only for Kenshiro to catch him. Ken doesn't say anything other than they'd best go on. Rei is glad he's there, although he doesn't admit it.



"You sure can't mind your own business, can you..."



Meanwhile, Mamiya has been tied up to a post and Galf tells her what happens to people that hurt his friends: they become dog food. Several vicious hounds are then released and encircle Mamiya, before jumping up and biting at her.



Mamiya looks up, and she can also see the star of death in broad daylight. Elsewhere in the city, two punks are making a villager show respect to a dog by making him get down and bark like one. Kenshiro then arrives to spoil their fun.



Rei kills one of them, whilst Kenshiro finds out from the other one about Lord Galf. He then hits pressure points that make him unable to walk, but he can crawl around on his hands and knees like a dog. With them dealt with, Kenshiro and Rei go and look for Galf.


NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW

Rei and Kenshiro must save Mamiya and defeat Galf, but Rei finds out something shocking from Mamiya's past. Tune in next time for "Fate Without Tomorrow! And Yet, A Woman Believes in Love!!"

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