Episode 27

涙の言、乱れ髪の美少女！

 Tears of a maiden

Mikagami had defeated Mokuren and now had to fight against Uruha Moboroshin’s assistant leader, Menou...

Mikagami looked hard at Menou, turned and walked away, saying that he had been defeated. Recca was very annoyed and wanted an explanation from him. He saw Mikagami’s bleeding arm. Mikagami fell upon his shoulder and said that he had been badly beaten up by Mokuren and didn't not have the strength to continue. So, Recca had to take over.

Fuko found it strange that Mikagami didn’t want Yanagi to heal him. While she bandaged his arm, she dug out from Mikagami that he didn’t want to fight because Menou was a girl. Recca yelled at him for tricking him, he too didn't want to fight a girl but Mikagami rebutted, mentioning that he fought with Fuko, who was also a girl. Recca said that that was a different story because she was not feminine enough. Domon agree and was beaten up by Fuko.

The referee started the fight – Menou from Uruha Moboroshin VS Recca from Hokage. Menou’s blue hair started to grow, Koganei yelled at Recca to be careful. Menou’s hair transformed into a sharp knife and strike. Recca defended himself, remarking that he was not her barber. Genjurou gloated since Menou was the best fighter that he had created. A sand hourglass was placed onto the arena; he told Menou that she had 10 mins to kill Recca.

Menou attacked Recca with her extremely extended hair even though Recca had used Nadare and Saiha. Kagero was amazed by the enhanced power of her maudough – the hair animator. Saicho from Ku explained that there were 2 animators – a paper and a hair animator.  Kagero recalled using the hair animator to turn her strands of hair into dangerous sharp needles. She never expected the power to increase that much when combined with the human body. However, Menou was distracted from time to time, causing Genjurou to remind her of the time.

Saicho wondered why did Genjurou place a sand hourglass in the first place? Kagero found it odd and used her Eikai to check. She saw a man inside the hourglasses, hammering onto the glass wall, saying something. Yanagi, somehow knew how to lip read, discovered that the man inside the hourglass was Menou’s father! But how could a man fit inside a small hourglass? Kagero giave the answer, the maudough that Genjurou has was the Mugen, which had the ability to shrink people and it was lethal when placed in the hands of a man like Genjurou. Meanwhile, Menou drilled Recca into a wall, the Hokages wanted to help but the referee stops them. If they help, the match would be disqualified.

The Hokages realized that Genjurou had used Menou’s father to make her work for him. Genjurou denied it - it was Menou herself who agreed to work for him. Some time ago, Genjurou had been trying to combine the maudough with animals but it wasn’t successful. So, he intended to use it on humans. The only man who objected was Menou’s father who found it inhuman and unethical to do so, causing Genjurou to dislike him a lot. Then, one day, he saw Menou giving her father a lunch box. His eyes was set on Menou’s shining hair.

Genjurou persuaded Menou to allow him conduct his experiment on her if she wished to help her father. While the experiment was about to take place, Menou’s father barged into the operating room, demanding for her release. Genjurou refused and even said that since he disapproved of him being human beings for his experiment, he was going to use Menou. Menou’s father tried to rescue Menou but was pinned down by the bodyguards. Genjurou found him a menace and used Mugen on him – shrinking him into a size fit enough to be placed into an hourglass. Menou was then forced to agree to Genjurou’s conditions.

The experiment became successful and Menou was sent for training. At first, she didn’t want to but Genjurou threatened her, turning over the hourglass that contains her father. Within 10 minutes, she had to defeat all those fighting holograms or else her father would be buried under the sand and died. Menou lost control of her emotions and attacked. Since that time until the Urabutousatsoujin, Genjurou had trained Menou to be an emotionless killing machine.

Recca actually survived the attack by using Saiha to block the full force of Menou’s attack. He said that Genjurou had failed into turning her into a killing machine since she was crying. Genjurou commanded her to attack, Recca dodged, running towards Genjurou but was blown away by his psychic barrier. Recca, intending to save Menou’s father, punched the psychic barrier with his bare fist. Kagero shouted at him not to do so unless he wants to have his whole arm rip off. Menou whipprf Recca from behind, he turnrf and told her that he was not her enemy and he wanted to rescue her father. Menou was stunned. Genjurou ordered her to kill Recca. Menou struggled with her inner conscious, transformed her hair into a spinning drill, aiming for Recca. But it hits the spot where Recca was forcing his fist into the psychic barrier. Menou wantsd to stop people like Genjurou who controlled people’s lives without feeling any sense of guilt or remorse.

Genjurou, angered by  her betrayal, used Mugen on her. Recca somehow managed to insert his hand into the psychic barrier and used Homura to destroy it. Genjurou was slightly burnt and tried to run away but Recca sent Nadare after him, breaking the Mugen to pieces. Menou’s father was released from his hourglass-prison. Both father and daughter hugged each other in joy. Menou told the referee that Recca was the winner.

Another victory has been won for the Hokages. Now Recca had to fight Genjurou.

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Menou	The destroyed Mugen