Strike the Hidden Power Point!
No Requiem for the Wicked

Kenshiro stands outside the tower that Mad told him to go to. After thinking about God's Army and the terrible things they've done, he says he can't forgive them. He opens the tower doors, and heads inside.

As the doors close again, two soldiers run up and see Kenshiro went inside. They think Kenshiro is a fool for going inside, as that's where the Colonel is. They think the Colonel will slice him to pieces. Inside the tower, Kenshiro makes his way through an empty room. He then enters a room which is full of statues.

He walks through it, but senses something. He kicks down a few of the statues, revealing that some solders were hiding inside them. Hitting their pressure points, he kills them all.

Meanwhile, at Johnny's bar, Kei, Rima and Lin are watching Pel having a drink. Bat is telling Johnny about how the North Star divine fist is unbeatable, and believes Ken will have taken care of God's Army by now. Johnny tells him he doesn't know how bad God's Army can be -especially their boss, the Colonel. On top of having studied every method of murder known, he uses some kind of super power.

Johnny explains that there were a bunch of 10 tough, ex-pro wrestlers that they hired to attack the Colonel. The wrestlers surrounded him, but he took out two boomerangs and threw them out. They boomerangs sliced through the wrestlers...

...and killed them all within seconds. Colonel knew Johnny was hiding nearby, but let him live.

Back in the present, Johnny says in the blink of the eye, the wrestlers had been totally defeated. He thinks even Kenshiro will have no chance against the Colonel. Two men then come in with a coffin, and tell Johnny it's done. Bat can't believe it, but Johnny tries to explain they should at least have a decent funeral for Ken...

Lin sees otherwise, and starts smashing the coffin apart with a chair. She says Ken won't die, and knows he'll come back. Bat encourages her to smash it, whilst Johnny thinks they're hopeless.

Back in the tower, Kenshiro enters another room. Two beams of red light shine on him, as two large tigers approach. They leaps towards him, but he hits pressure points on them.

He tells them to sleep for a while for him. He then enters the next room, and is hit with a yellow light. Something is then fired at him, which he hits and snaps in half, but half of it imbeds into his chest.

More of these needles are launched into his chest, as a few more soldiers appear and tell him this is as far as he goes. One tells him his chest has been pierced by some needle knives, which will drain the blood out of his body. Once his blood has been drained out, he'll die. Kenshiro tells him the North Star divine fist is invincible, and starts to unleash his energy. In doing so, blood stops spurting out of the needles.

He then forces the needs out of his body. He tells them that he came here to fight the Colonel, he has no business with them. They pull out knives, and rush towards him.

He defeats three of them straight away, leaving only their Captain left. The Captain rushes towards him, but Kenshiro leaps up, and kicks the back of his head:

KOSHU HATOU KEN

(Successive Neck-Breaking Head Fist)

The Captain says Kenshiro will never defeat the Colonel, but his body is then ripped apart. Kenshiro arrives at the top of the tower, and opens the doors to the last room. He finds a ripped up wanted poster of himself on the floor.

He also finds a painting of Shin on a wall, and wonders what it's doing there. He then senses someone behind him, and turns around to find the Colonel staring at him.

Colonel sees he's made it this far, and explains that the man in the picture is their God. He says they are one with their God, and from him they've received a commandment: kill the man with seven scars. As Kenshiro goes into a stance, the Colonel draws his boomerangs.

Outside Johnny's bar, the wreckage of the coffin is placed with some other junk. Johnny tells Lin he's sorry of not thinking of their feelings when he ordered this coffin. As Bat walks off, Johnny follows him, leaving Lin to think about Ken. She imagines he could be in danger, calling out for her.

She then finds something in the wreckage: a club. She eventually manages to pull it out. Inside the bar, Johnny and Bat suddenly hear an engine starting, and Bat realizes it's his car. They run back out, only to see that Lin driving. She speeds off before they can stop her.

They tell her to come back, but she ignores them, and thinks that she doesn't want Ken to die -if he does, then she wants to die with him. Bat wonders what to do, but Johnny starts to walk off. He tells Bat he has something to show him...

...and reveals a crate full of grenades. He loads them onto a truck and says that he traded them for a day's worth of food a while ago. He never thought he'd actually use them, but now... he can't seem to keep himself from helping them. He starts up the truck, and they head after Lin.

Back in the tower, the fight begins. Kenshiro leaps over the boomerangs the Colonel throws at him, and lands right behind the Colonel. However the Colonel doesn't seem bothered at all, which is because the boomerangs suddenly return, and slice Kenshiro's legs.

Kenshiro asks how this happened, and the Colonel explains that he's telepathic -he can predict every move he plans to make. No matter what he tries, these boomerangs will cut into his flesh. He then throws the boomerangs out again, but Kenshiro remains still.

As the boomerangs close in, Kenshiro swiftly moves around them, and then leaps up into the air. The boomerangs get sliced to pieces.

KU KYOKU RYUUBU

(Ultimate Energy Flow Dance)

Kenshiro says this technique lets him study how the air flows, and follows its movements. Now he can't attack him from any direction any more. The Colonel sees this is the legendary martial art of the North Star divine fist. He says he's mastered every form of killing art there is, and the Chinese martial arts are his specialty. He tells Kenshiro he must have heard of this, the most powerful killing technique in the world: Nanto muon ken (South Star silent fist). He equips claws onto his hands, and tells Kenshiro he won't be able to touch him. Kenshiro starts attacking, but the Colonel easily evades every move he makes -he knows what he's going to do before he does it!

He slashes Ken's face and ribs, and asks where he should hit him next. Outside, Lin arrives at the bottom of the tower, and believes Ken is inside. Before she can go in, a group of soldiers appear, and one of them grabs her. They think she must be a friends of the man with seven scars.

She swings her club and hits one of them on the head. They're about to get her when Bat yells out here's a present for them. He throws a few grenades, which take care of the soldiers. He tells Lin to hurry and get in, before anyone else comes.

However Lin goes inside the tower. As Bat chases after her, Johnny says this is a case of in for a penny, in for a pound. Back at the fight, Colonel asks Kenshiro what he's doing.

Ken has gone into a stance. He knows the Colonel can predict his movements by seeing where he's looking, and by the subtle movements of his muscles. But if he suppresses all of his body's aura, he won't be able to predict what he's going to do. The Colonel says he'll also suppress his own aura, and seemingly disappears into the darkness. He asks Kenshiro how he'll fight, when he can't guess his movements. He moves behind Kenshiro...

...and starts striking at him. But Kenshiro effortlessly avoids every swipe. As the Colonel goes for another attack, Kenshiro grabs his arm, and then:

HOKUTO HYAKURETSU KEN

(North Star Hundred Crack Fist)

Kenshiro hits the Colonel with one last punch, sending him flying back. As he starts to get up, he thinks this is impossible: Kenshiro was actually able to touch him. Kenshiro tells him all he does is mimic the martial arts. But he's a professional, who has been trained since birth. The blood and technique of the 2000 year old art of the North Star divine fist flows through his body.

Just then, Lin enters the room, and tells Ken she'll help him fight. As Ken tells her to stay back, the Colonel grabs a spear and says God has not abandoned him. He throws the spear at Lin...

...but Kenshiro grabs it just in time. However a second spear pierces through his arm, as the Colonel laughs and calls him a fool -his amazing power has vanished due to one little girl. He tells him he can't fight with a wound like that.

He's about to resume fighting Kenshiro, but then screams about his eye. Kenshiro tells him he pressed his doumei pressure point, and now he'll have his turn to fear the darkness. The Colonel starts swiping wildly, but doesn't hit anything.

Kenshiro grabs his wrist, and tells him there'll be no light for him tomorrow. He then hits another pressure point:

HOKUTO KAIKOTSU KEN

(North Star Bone Crushing Fist)

He tells him he's already dead. The Colonel asks why he lives like this -with his power, he could have anything. He could do anything he wanted, even become God. He tells him he'll regret this, but then his ribs cave in...

...his head bulges out, and then his body explodes into nothing. As Ken crouches down, Lin runs over to him.

She says she's sorry, just as Bat and Johnny show up. Everything has turned out alright.

At Southern Cross, Shin finds out from Joker that God's Army has been destroyed by Kenshiro. He thinks Kenshiro has gotten better, and then watches Yuria play her harp. He then swears he'll send Kenshiro to hell.

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