Fists Smashed in Hot Sand!
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Ten no Haoh Episode 10
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.

Raoh faces an enemy who is related to someone supposedly on his side.
Original broadcast date: December 4th, 2008

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Notes


Synopsis

Raoh finds out that there is a village that his forces cannot conquer, which belongs to Meioh, a rival warlord. Soga says it is because the enemy hides itself within groups of innocent villagers, attacks, then hides again. Soga leads a unit disguised as villagers to this village, and tries to find out what is happening, but some of his men are killed. He and the others gather round the villagers and demand an explanation, but a mysterious voice calls out to Soga. The voice says that a tree can hide easily in a forest. Soga wants to know what he is on about so the voice explains: he hides amongst the villagers. Soga is then hit by a great force, and the voice explains that Soga now has only 2 months to live. He has just done something that will make his lungs rot slowly. The rest of Soga's team go to attack the villagers, but they all get blown away and killed. The voice tells Soga to go back to Raoh, and if he makes it, he should tell him that anyone who calls himself a King is foolish. Soga leaves the village and gets back to Raoh's castle.

When Raoh learns of what happened to Soga, he assembles part of his army and goes to the village. The village is hidden, but Raoh quickly uncovers it as he and his army start their invasion. Meioh's troops appear and a battle between the two sides begins. Ryuga encounters several villagers just standing around, but is suddenly taken down by Gaiya. Gaiya is a master of kokuzan ongyo ken (black mountain dark form fist) and has a power of the villagers, making them do what he wants. He confronts Raoh and tells him that he also controls Meioh. He believes Raoh is a fool for calling himself a "King" and what matters most is absolute control. He attempts to kill Raoh by using a secret technique -metten hajo (ruin heaven destruction), but Raoh uses his fighting spiritual energy to stop him without actually having to make physical contact.

Raoh tells Gaiya this is why he can call himself a King, as his god-given fists can destroy anything that get in his way. He pulverizes Gaiya and kills him. When Ryuga recovers, he tells Raoh that he has seen someone else use the style before. That someone is Sakuya! When they were fighting Jadam, she used the style to kill him. Meanwhile, Sakuya is seen reporting to the Holy Emperor, Souther!

Notes

-There were a few changes made to this episode's DVD released, click here to see them.

-There is no actual scene showing Soga making it back and informing Raoh about what happened, and he isn't seen again for the rest of the episode after he is shown stumbling back towards Raoh's castle. He does clearly make it off-screen though, as he appears in every episode for the rest of the series.