This is really great!
I'm just so pleased
that Team Ren won!
Though I was sweating when his joke missed the target!
Like hell I missed!
You missed.
What exactly was meant to be the funny bit?
What was funny? Let me tell you…
As usual, the company for these little banquets
is really lacking.
Cool guy, aren't you? It's not like your whole family's here cheering you on!
What did you say, Horohoro?
You guys seem to be having a good time!
-Hey! -Hey!
BōZ!
What the hell are you doing here?
We wanted to say thanks.
We're no longer Hao's followers, nor are we BōZ.
We dropped that name already.
What?
I mean, after all…
We're really just regular monks.
KUSA 2, GUNMA PREFECTURE KOUSENJI TEMPLE
We dreamed of being the world's first Buddhist monk band,
laying down funky sutras on top of the temple drum beat.
One day, as we were in the middle of a long band practice,
he suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Hao?
I asked him,
"How old are you, son?"
"Where's your mommy?"
You can skip the details!
Then, as if he could see right through us, he said…
Come.
I'll take you with me.
And this was our response.
That didn't take long!
Pathetic!
Yes. It is pathetic.
Leaving our dream up to someone else was a mistake.
But as long as we're still alive, we can do anything.
We came to thank you for giving us the chance to start over,
Mr. Joco.
I just did what I had to do.
Well, we'll get out of your hair now.
Wait.
You say you're ditching your name.
So what should we call you from now on?
We're the exciting new folk monk duo,
Bozu!
We'll release a CD one day, inspired by this experience,
so be sure to buy it!
Well, see you around!
Hey! The next match will be starting soon.
My Oracle Bell has the match card…
Your pompadour, Ryu!
This can't be right!
Please, say it isn't so!
Lyserg…
All right! It's time for Match Two of the Shaman Fight in Tokyo!
Let's get it on!
First, the mystery men in white,
X-I!
Oh, who is that?
Is that a combatant?
The X-Laws' top team is starting early.
This should be interesting.
The Iron Maiden.
Inside that is the X-Laws' boss.
But even more interesting
is that the boy I met eight years ago is now a member of the X-Laws.
I can't wait!
What will Yoh do, I wonder?
I knew it…
I knew he'd left…
This was somewhat predictable, though.
What do we do, Yoh?
If he's made up his own mind, there's nothing we can do.
It's a ten-minute walk to the stadium.
Let's Funbari-dash over and cheer him on!
So the famous X-Laws
are actually just a four-eyes, a kid, and a heap of metal.
This looks more like a school play.
The magic of my native Egypt is the best in the cosmos.
We're here to remind the world of that fact.
The best embalmer in the cosmos, and commander of mummies,
Khafre.
Generating infinite Mana with the cosmos' greatest Pyramid Power,
Nakht.
And the supreme king of the cosmos, I, Anatel,
command the spirits of 10,000 workers who helped build the pyramids.
Are you quite finished?
Sorry, but whatever your reasons are for being here, I'm not interested.
What did you say to me?
Stop it.
You're in the wrong here, Marco.
Insulting others is the root of evil.
Forgive me, Ms. Maiden.
Lyserg.
Marco seems to be all worked up.
I wish to see how much you've grown.
Would you like to start off
fighting all three Niles members by yourself?
Me?
Bastards!
We'll teach you not to underestimate us!
You think a kid like him could take all of us on…
Understood.
I'm not very confident, but if you have such high hopes,
I'll give it my all!
Oh, my! Lyserg is raring to go!
Now let's get to it!
Shaman Fight!
Nakht! Damn you and your little toy!
Sorry.
The mummy you use as an intermediary is in that coffin, right?
How dare you do that to Khafre?
There's no escaping from my pendulum now.
Now I'm going to cut you to pieces, just like I did to that mummy.
For the sake of justice.
Hey! You're kidding, right?
Don't do it! Please!
Sorry, Yoh.
Playing nice won't save anyone.
I won't kill you.
You're villains, but you're far too insignificant for that.
So I just gave you a little fright.
But I think I've made the situation clear.
Admit defeat
and retire at once.
So this…
is the X-Laws…
Anatel!
I thought I told you to retire.
Surely, you don't want to die, right?
You must have families.
I know a little bit about the pain
of losing a family.
So do my comrades.
All of us have received pain
at the hands of a certain evil.
And if that evil goes unchecked, it will claim even more victims.
Therefore,
I must progress at all costs, including killing you.
Playing nice won't save anyone.
That's what justice means to me.
I don't believe it!
The Lyserg I know would never say something so heartless!
Killing people for the sake of justice?
Where's the justice in that?
Ryu…
He definitely seems to have changed.
You took your time!
Where have you been?
Every-damn-where!
Ren didn't even try to Funbari-dash!
We had to drag him the whole way!
Is that the Lyserg you talked about, Yoh?
Yeah. We became friends in America.
Aren't you upset, Yoh?
Seeing your friend act this way?
It's fine.
He just chose the option
that made the most sense to him right now.
We can't pretend to understand the sadness inside of him.
So he sought out friends who could.
If he feels at home with them,
I'm happy for him.
But feeling at home or not, killing people is…
If he really does do something like that,
I will never forgive him.
Yoh…
Right or wrong,
people are free to make their own choices.
But when you kill someone, choice goes out the window.
I trust my friend.
That's why I came to cheer him on.
Exactly!
Idiot. That's why you're naïve.
Once something's done, it's too late.
Foolish compassion will be your doom.
You think?
That's nonsense.
Right, Anna?
Right.
Come on! Are you going to cry all night, Ryu?
If Lyserg is important to you, then watch him!
Okay!
Good luck, cutie-pie!
He sure can go.
I'd expect no less from Yoh.
Lord Hao…
What? This is getting really good.
Do you want to see or something?
No…
It's just that I feel utterly outraged.
What? I bet it's over something stupid again, isn't it?
No! It's not stupid at all!
It's that X-Laws brat!
Not only did he call you "evil,"
he basically equated you to nothing more than a mass murderer!
And?
"And"?
He's badmouthing you when he doesn't know the first thing about you, Lord Hao!
How petty of you.
Just leave it.
Facts are facts, aren't they?
As far as I'm concerned, though,
we're both as bad as each other.
Ms. Maiden,
it seems Niles is not making a move.
Are they really going to concede?
Have faith, Marco.
Doubt is the root of evil.
But just in case they do make a move…
Rest assured.
My education of Lyserg Diethel
was very thorough.
I don't believe it.
My royal face, completely humiliated in front of these unwashed commoners…
I'll punish you for this!
Stop it, Anatel!
We have no way to fight back now!
So what?
The blood of great kings flows through our veins!
We are Egyptian Shamans!
If we give up now,
we will never be worthy of even being
in our ancestor's presence!
Wings of Death!
We can still go on fighting! My arms may be torn to pieces,
but I'll kill you with a curse instead!
-Wings of Death? What's that? -You don't know the curse of the pharaohs?
The people who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen all died mysterious deaths.
Inscribed on the walls of his tomb was this,
"Death shall come on swift wings
to whoever disturbs the peace of the pharaoh."
So this is the ace up his sleeve, huh?
Well, this way
we'll get to see what Lyserg will do.
These feathers glide into your body
and destroy your windpipe!
The Wings of Death
can evade even the wind stirred up by your wire
like it's nothing!
What a shame.
You only just had your life spared.
Now,
I have no choice but to kill the conjurer behind the spell.
The Wings of Death
must have got to him first!
Why?
Why did you stop the attack?
Morphea!
Why are you looking at me with such sad eyes?
Please! Attack!
Or else I'll…
Just do it! I'm begging you!
It seems you're of no use to us after all,
Lyserg Diethel!
Ms. Maiden!
What are you…
Get out of the way.
I cannot allow anyone with the faintest uncertainty to fight.
But I…
Lyserg!
If you truly wished to defeat the enemy with all of your heart,
why didn't you control your Spirit Ally?
That you lost a battle of wills to your Spirit Ally
can only mean
that you harbor uncertainty deep down inside!
There's no room for disguising your true intentions in the Shaman Fight.
I'm disappointed in you.
But if you still wish to be our comrade,
you can receive your punishment later.
Yes, sir…
Lyserg…
Punishment?
Some team you are!
Silence, villain.
Not only did you shun our mercy,
but you also said you would fatally curse the gentle-hearted Lyserg, did you not?
And what are you going to do about it?
Those are big words for some dirt lying on the ground!
Sinner, it seems you leave me no choice
but to judge you and administer your penalty myself.
That must be a lot of Mana.
Look how much my beads are shaking.
Ms. Maiden! She's finally…
Stand me up, Marco.
Right away!
Count your blessings.
Ms. Maiden's judgment is absolute.
Be grateful that you
will be graced with the sight of her as your penalty is administered.
Get a good look!
Suffering the pain of the whole world, you are about to behold our Lord!
The Holy Girl,
Ms. Jeanne the Iron Maiden!
She's a sweet little girl!
And she's stark naked--
Surprising, isn't it?
Inside the Iron Maiden was that little girl.
The boss of the X-Laws…
Absolutely brutal!
That's got to hurt!
Were those spikes stabbing her for real?
It's the only way.
This Iron Maiden
is one of Medieval Europe's
dreadful torture devices.
Criminals would be shut inside the Iron Maiden
and impaled by her thorny embrace.
Most of her victims would either confess out of fear
or die of shock before succumbing to their actual injuries.
Many of you must be wondering
why I would be inside such a contraption.
It's a symbol of my resolution.
The world is currently cloaked in colossal darkness.
Morality has been lost.
Wickedness runs rampant.
People commit sin upon sin and do nothing but hurt one another.
I want to amend that.
I want the pain and the sin to be gone.
That's why I swore to our god
I would bear all of that with my own body.
If he would grant me the power to save the world,
I would become an Iron Maiden myself
and carry the burden of the people's crime and suffering.
So that the world may know peace!
-How wonderful! Like the Holy Mother! -I hope she becomes the Shaman King!
That is why I fight.
To destroy the evil of this world.
What a load of drivel.
The dreams of a silly little girl
should stay in her silly little secret diary!
Ms. Maiden!
Fear not.
The power attained by our Lord
can never be defiled by anyone!
What's happening to me?
I can't move an inch!
Don't tell me this is that girl's Over Soul?
Shamash, our God of Justice.
Cast your solemn judgment
down on this sinful man!
Shamash, the sentence.
Death!
Anatel…
Most regrettable.
Ms. Maiden's Spirit Ally, Shamash,
is a God of Justice
who decreed humanity's first laws in the Code of Hammurabi!
Laws exist to let people live and protect the peace!
Those who break them
will be convicted and punished accordingly!
The "X" in X-Laws represents "ten."
In other words, we are ten laws!
And we deliver justice in accordance with the ten laws!
Right now, right here,
we shall realize the X-Laws' will!
Behold our Lord,
the Holy Girl,
Jeanne the Iron Maiden!
Her Spirit Ally's power completely healed her wounds.
She has part of the spirit possess her intermediary,
the Iron Maiden's mask,
while she covers her own body with an impenetrable Over Soul…
Watch closely,
all you Patch Officiants.
She may well be our next Shaman King.
This is the power of a God-class Shaman!
You…
Your leader, Anatel, is dead.
He violated the laws of justice, and so had to be put to death.
It's not too late to be forgiven.
Leave this place
before you become his accomplices,
Niles.
He had to be put to death?
For what justice?
For what crime?
Full Pyramid Power!
I'll turn you into a mummy for what you've done!
There's such a thing…
As human emotion, you know!
Why do you continue to sin?
Shamash!
Over Soul! Instrument of Torture:
Interrogation Chairs!
Damn you!
This pain…
It's nothing compared to the disgrace Anatel suffered!
All right. Bind them tighter,
Shamash.
I inflict pain
so you realize both the gravity of your crimes
and the importance of the law
and repent.
Laws are rules for life itself.
They are natural and inherent to the universe.
The pheasant chick who doesn't heed his mother's word
cannot sense danger and will be taken by the hawk.
The wicked bloodline of the wolf who abandons mother and cubs
will end when those cubs starve to death.
In nature,
those who break the rules are in the wrong
and are doomed.
However, human society has become complicated,
and people can no longer entrust themselves to nature's providence.
That's why they need laws.
Absolute laws, divinely enforced.
In the 1700 BCE,
the human race's first laws were handed down
by our God of Justice,
Shamash.
Now beg for forgiveness.
Repent.
Who the hell…
Would believe in that?
I see.
I…
am very sad.
Over Soul! Instrument of Torture: Guillotine!
Over Soul! Instrument of Torture: Statue of Apega!
Marco, Lyserg, let's go.
Victory belongs to us, X-I.
That was the Holy Girl, Ms. Maiden?
-Manta! -Manta!
Emergency! Get a doctor, Mic!
It's hardly surprising.
He's never seen someone die before.
How could such a cute girl
do something so horrific?
They call this justice?
It was the same back in the States.
They killed Boris without batting an eyelid.
It makes sense, though.
Whoever's going to be the Shaman King is going to have to be strong.
Ren!
She's got quite the ego,
this Iron Maiden or whatever she's called.
So arrogant.
Yoh!
It will just have to be me then.
I'll become the Shaman King.
Subtitle translation by: Lewis Williams