All right.
We're finally at the entrance hall where Ryu and Horohoro await.
Yes.
Past here, it's a straight line up to the top level where Tao En is.
Let me get this clear. He's strong and inhumanely cruel to boot.
Are you prepared for this, Yoh?
-I sure am! -All right. Let's go!
EPISODE 12 REN VS. EN: THE END OF THE TAO
I shall not let you pass.
For I will make all of you
into corpses right here!
-Ryu! -Ryu!
-Horohoro! -Horohoro!
They were careless, which led them to this fate.
Just like you!
Now die!
Huo Jian Jiao!
What the…
Huo Jian Jiao?
It can't be…
Zhou Shi Dao Dan Jiao!
This is Lee Pyron's Dao Dan Do!
Who the hell…
Isn't it obvious?
Manta! You're okay!
The only person in this world
who can use Dao Dan Do should be Lee Pyron.
If someone other than Lee Pyron can use it,
only one person is conceivable.
A master of Rui-Chong Quan, which formed the basis of Dao Dan Do.
Pyron's teacher!
It's Sha Mon!
It can't be!
Sha Mon is that old man I Spirit Integrated with to fight, right?
He lived until he was 96 and was haggard from old age, right?
You know nothing of the terror that is the Five Curse Squad!
You know not of our power
that can destroy the mind and body of all who behold us in an instant!
I see.
The Five Curse Squad is a unit of Jiang Si
made by modifying the best cadavers to the extreme.
There's no reason they couldn't have their old flesh replaced with young.
That's vile!
En would kill an old man in order to get what he wants.
It seems the other four members of the Five Curse Squad
were decoys to lull the enemy into making a mistake.
Then, as they fall completely into the trap,
he finishes them off!
How very much like En!
The young master is as sharp as ever!
Indeed!
It is I, Sha Mon!
Yet you still must die.
Pryon!
You!
I thought Lord En destroyed you!
I repaired him.
I'm glad we made it in time.
Jun!
Oh, if it isn't Ms. Jun.
This is an honor, truly.
However, such mischief won't do.
Do you wish to be chastised by your father again?
It matters not how hard you've worked,
for Pyron will be of no use to you!
Do you think an apprentice
could ever destroy his master?
Maybe we were naive.
We didn't want to fight ever again if we could avoid it.
We thought it would be enough if we could just live our lives
without hurting anyone else.
But just now,
I've realized that there are enemies in this world
who must be vanquished.
What is this nonsense?
I don't have a shred of uncertainty.
I've already
made up my mind!
Anyone who lays a finger on Jun
will not go unpunished, whoever they may be!
You think a lowly student can beat the master?
This is for you!
Arcane of Rui-Chong Shung-Chong Quan!
Yu Zhou Zhan Kuo Zia!
There's no merit in living as a human with no heart.
Just as a corpse with no soul should not be alive.
Now. Shall we?
My sister snapped!
Amazing!
Now even Jun is joining this little rebellion.
So be it.
If that's your Tao,
I'll just have to show you mine.
It hurts!
My damn head's still spinning!
Will you be okay?
Well, it's hardly surprising.
Not only did we get our asses badly kicked,
but look at all this too.
What the hell is this place?
Dead bodies wherever you look.
Then the bodies start moving and attacking and you!
It's hard to believe anyone could live somewhere as messed up as this.
Ryu!
Don't worry about it.
I'm all too aware of that myself.
But being so weak-stomached won't cut it where we're going.
Like I keep telling you, this is my battle.
Anyone who doesn't want to be torn limb from limb should go home now.
Ren!
Such care for your comrades!
You've gone all soft in the short time since I saw you last, Ren!
Who is this guy?
And look at the size of him! And his beard!
Could this be…
Ren's dad, En?
Welcome!
It seems you've always been
such good friends to my boy.
Which means you're a serious nuisance.
Everyone, get down!
Bastard!
Bring it on, then!
Rumor has it you're pretty damn strong!
So we'll be going all out!
How optimistic of you!
You just showed uncertainty
in attacking a flesh-and-blood human!
His arms!
They healed?
Perhaps you fail to realize
that such hesitation will prove to be fatal!
Ryu! Horohoro!
Damn it!
I warned you guys!
Worrying about your pals again?
When did you become such a weakling?
You damn monster!
Too late. You're full of openings!
-En! -What?
I can no longer think
of a man like you as my father!
Now I'm going to put a hole right through your head!
You are talking too much, Jun.
Kill when it's time to kill. You must not waver.
Lee!
What is going on with this guy?
He doesn't bat an eyelid at having his arms cut off
or being struck in the head! It's crazy!
Is he invulnerable?
No human is invulnerable!
He must have some kind of…
Some kind of secret, you think?
You will never know what it is.
Because you are a weakling
who perverted your Tao and fell in love with the notion of friendship!
Tao?
Those who stray from Tao have no way.
What the hell is his secret?
Super speed?
Afterimages? Illusions?
Or is it…
Everyone has a way down which they should proceed.
But the weak, who are afraid to follow that way,
become uncertain and deviate to a side road!
Keep talking! We'll see who's full of openings!
Those who stray from the way
will never be able to reach its end!
Not to mention that there's only
so much shock I can take at that escape route being "friendship"!
Everyone has their own way.
And no two ways are ever the same.
For after all, people will never understand one another.
Falling by the wayside has borne uncertainty in you,
taking you further from the way.
If you still cannot see that, then very well!
You shall die!
GREAT TAO DRAGON
You shall die!
Yoh!
I won't let you die, Ren!
Yoh, was it?
Didn't you listen to a word of what I said?
How notions of friendship ultimately lead
to you losing your own way?
Yoh!
Now the comrades you brought along have been wiped out.
Isn't this enough, Ren?
Heed what I say
and follow the path you should as a member of the Tao Family!
For you are weak in both mind and body.
It's all my fault that they've been wiped out!
No…
Ren…
It's all my fault!
You're right. I am weak.
Yes!
So you finally see, Ren?
That's my boy.
Now let's start with your punishment.
However,
it means that I've attained a new power.
We told you,
we won't let Ren die, you freaky octopus!
That's the very reason we came all the way to China!
Anyway, we can't just leave him to you!
Fools!
Why do you stand back up?
Why must you do all this for a complete stranger?
This is my new power.
I don't know why,
but if it was the other way round, I'd probably do the same thing for them.
Why sacrifice yourself to save another?
Why are you able to put so much trust in people?
Why?
I will not permit this!
I will never permit this!
I love seeing you lose your composure.
En.
You just showed uncertainty.
The moment that happened, victory was mine.
I? Uncertain? Don't be absurd.
There is no doubt in my Tao!
I would never be uncertain!
Oh, dear.
It seems that as humans doubt themselves,
they can't help but lose sight of the way.
Hey, what are you doing? You can't just disengage your Over Soul!
Ren!
So you are human after all.
He's gone see-through!
What is…
It's Over Soul.
Over Soul is a technique
in which a Shaman uses Mana to materialize a spirit in this world.
But when the mental strength that generates Mana grows weak,
Over Soul weakens as well.
It can't be!
Jun.
The more we were faced with him,
the more we had to exert our strength as Shamans.
That's why we never noticed that he was using Over Soul all along.
I'm sure you can see now.
Unobscured by his Over Soul,
that is Tao En's true appearance!
I don't believe it.
What we always thought was our father was his Over Soul?
And that person there is…
I knew something seemed off.
Yeas. There's no way someone so gigantic could exist.
Turns out he was ordinary all along,
apart from his beard.
There's nothing ordinary about him.
For more than ten years, at the very least,
he has continuously maintained that enormous Over Soul.
The Mana that must have been required for it is extraordinary.
What's more,
he kept deceiving his own children like that
signifies an abnormal lack of trust.
I commend you for exposing my true form.
But I can't have you misunderstand.
There was never a shadow of uncertainty in my mind
that I must keep deceiving you.
I was merely taken by surprise for a moment just now.
That's uncertainty!
-Bastard! -Cut the crap!
Yes. Who am I to show such uncertainty?
Indeed, people are ugly and difficult to save.
If only you knew the truth.
Behold!
I'm sure they'll tell you all about it.
The souls of our Tao Family ancestors that span two millennia!
His body is covered in the spirit tablets of his ancestors!
My Over Soul, the Great Tao King,
is an assimilation of all their souls.
To keep their will alive as the successor of the Tao Family,
I must constantly be with their souls.
The Great Tao King?
Jun, Ren, and Bason.
I expect you know
the truth of the Tao Family's 2000 years of history.
Merely on account of being Shamans, we have been feared,
betrayed, and persecuted.
You know that to be our grim reality!
So how?
How can you trust people?
I shall never trust people.
Do you not care at all about this display before your poor ancestors?
Ren!
What are friends?
What is victory?
Other people are no more than strangers.
If you still wish to cut off your ancestral lineage
and proceed with this, I shall not stop you.
Show me just how strong your resolve is!
Over Soul! Great Tao Dragon!
All Tao souls of the past 2000 years!
Take all of my Mana!
Great Vorpal Spiral!
Yeah? And what?
I don't care a bit about that now.
I decide everything of my own volition and then follow that path.
Whether I trust people along the way or not,
whether I'm betrayed or not,
it's the way I chose for myself.
I have no uncertainty.
Bason
Golden Punch!
The souls!
Not yet…
I'm still alive!
I haven't lost yet!
That's enough,
En.
Your defeat was assured from the moment you lost yourself.
If you cannot see the reason behind that, En,
you must die!
My love, dying won't help anything.
Grandfather?
And Mother?
What exactly is all this about?
Oh, it's nothing really.
It's just that we never expected Ren to make any friends, and here you all are!
Think of it as a celebration of Ren's homecoming,
but also a kind of dinner party!
This guy isn't going to wake up
and start thrashing around, is he?
Of course not!
This is a treat for our guests.
Please relax and enjoy your meal!
I don't get it.
I thought the Tao Family were bad guys?
Very well.
Allow me to answer your question.
It's true that we, Taos, have slain a great number of people.
We're what one would call "evil."
However, concepts such as "evil"
are utterly meaningless in this ever-changing world.
"Ever-changing"?
Just look at our great, eternal land of China.
The fields and mountains are beautiful in the day,
yet at night they become a world of darkness that instills fear in people.
What is considered good and evil too,
can be turned on its head as history and perspectives change.
Just like light and dark or beauty and ugliness,
it's not a question of being only one or the other.
In other words, what's important is to have a heart
that accepts both sides of the same coin and to maintain a balance.
By becoming too fixated
on what justice means for the Tao Family and closing his heart to all else,
En ended up losing sight of his own way.
A small heart could never contain a huge spirit.
And so he lost
to you, Ren, who accepted everything and found value as a Tao.
What are you talking about?
I won because I'm strong, obviously.
Think that if you like, my foolish grandson!
He has done so well to have come so far, though.
Now I can rest assured and entrust the Tao Family to him.
Well, my business here is finished.
It's about time I leave.
So soon?
Come on, Ren,
why don't you spend some more time resting at home?
Don't be stupid.
The main round of the Shaman Fight is almost here.
I'll kill you!
Oh, go on then, Gramps.
Hey!
Why do you get to ride the horse?
Have you forgotten who saved your ass?
I don't remember asking anyone to come here.
Just do your best not to be late.
So your dad still won't show his face at the very end?
I don't give a damn.
You were a real help, Yoh.
Let's meet again.
Okay.
And so the curtain fell on our trip to China.
There is no right or wrong in this world.
That's what Ren's grandfather said,
but I'm not sure what he means as of yet.
But one day, I'm sure…
What do you want, Father?
Why won't you answer?
Do you want to fight again or something?
Take this.
-This is… -The Lightning Sword.
A treasure handed down to our family for generations.
I'm sure that this sword will cut open the way to your future.
Give it your all, Ren!
Of course!
I'd stake this great, eternal land on it!
FUNBARI HILL, TOKYO
MESSAGE RECEIVED
AOKI RECORDS
Yoh!
The main round of the Shaman Fight is finally about to start!
I sure do love me some Bob!
Subtitle translation by: Lewis Williams