Now furious than ever, Kuri, who was just exhausted a minute ago from his previous fights, displays a strong spiritual power and out of nowhere attacked Shourin as the finals of Genkai's competition started. Kuri kicked the hell out of Shourin out of his anger and beat Shourin down. Then Shourin flew to the air and then dischargeed another special attack, the wind cutter, as air forms into circular cutting tools and injured Kuri hard. Now Kuri could not attack frontal since the circular cutters would tear him apart, but still continued his assault. He leapt up and passed through the middle of the circular cutters all the way and smashed his arm right through Shourin's neck and brought him down big time.
Kuri survived and promptly thought he just won the match.
"The game is not over," Genkai said.
Suddenly an earthquake arises and out from beneath Shourin's body starts to lacerate, and a demonic creature arises... now Kuri had to face her worst nightmare as she confronted the person he was looking for all this time - Randou.
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Randou appeared in front of Kuri and his intimidating presence started to give Kuri the creeps. Kuri started giving Randou a barrage of hard-hitting punches but it did not even make Randou budge. Then Randou countered with some death strands that bonded Kuri as she became immobilized. Randou then hung Kuri from a lake, then with his powers summoned some flesh-hunting killer sharks around Kuri. Ninako tried to convince Genkai to stop the matchup but Genkai did not give in, saying the show was not finished and they had a confrontation to finish. Then out of nowhere Randou pointed his finger into Kuri and unleashed... a sword attack! Randou imitated Kuri's key attack and knocked the tree he was hanging in, as Kuri fell down the lake with the killer sharks waiting.
Kuri seemed to have given up and was ready to die. Reiko sensed she was in danger and her strong desire to be in two places at once caused her to astral project. Her spirit form was in the lake with Kuri!
"Kuri…" she said. "I didn't get injured for you to die off in our second mission! Slacker! Get off your ass and kick that Randou in the balls!"
With that, Kuri regained her strength and broke her bonds, killing off the sharks and shocking Randou off. Randou tried to nail Kuri with his sword attack, but Yusuke blasted off from behind him and, using his full strength, he then unleashed the real Hiko from her sword.. Randou countered with his own version but the real one was just too powerful it blew Randou off and destroyed the lake with him.
Kuri went down with all his strength used up and believing he just beat Randou. Just then Randou rose from the now destroyed lake and, now totally enraged, started beating the hell out of the now unconscious Kuri with a shower of attacks. Now Randou decided he should crush Kuri just like what he did earlier to Reiko, and then starts uttering his dwarf invocation technique again. Expecting he was about to finish Kuri off, something went wrong... Randou was the one getting smaller! Now Randou turned into a peewee.
"That's the problem with stealing techniques and not earning them," Genkai said. "You don't learn your own faults! For this attack, a wise person will just cover his ears upon hearing the invocation, and the technique will backfire and bring the caster down to mini-size."
"What did ya say?" Kuri asked, pulling some dirt out of his ears.
Randou decided to repeat the invocation technique again, but Kuri gave him an enormous super-duper elbow drop and knocked Randou out of the game.
Genkai heals Reiko back to her normal self as Kuri rejoiced over winning the competition.
She then ran over to Reiko. "Hey you how'd you lecture me out of body like that?"
Reiko laughed weakly. "Astral Projection was a natural power development of telekinesis. You being in danger just…kinda…brings out the best in me."
"Well now that you're out of danger we can both go home!" Kuri said, delighted.
"No way!" Reiko said. "I still can't hug my brother! You're staying for the training. I'm returning to my master. I'll see you again in a month or so."