Chapter 4
There's No Use in Even Voting
Day 10
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al and Rei)
"Well, that was interesting?" Kaji remarks.
"I'd say so," Kyon replies.
Rangiku looks over at the rest of the tribe with a look of disgust, just shaking her head.
"I thought for sure I had everything under control, but someone went against me last night," Rangiku says. "I'm going to find out who it was, and he will pay the price."
Rei looks pretty concerned about the amount of food the tribe has remaining.
"Are you sure we have enough rice to make it until a potential merge?" she asks her tribe members.
"I'm pretty certain we'll be fine," Al comments.
"Yes, but we should be careful," Kyon says. "The Rukongai tribe didn't really bring over all that much rice, and we've had to make up for them ever since they joined us."
"Rukongai was pretty useless," Meilin adds, with Al seeming to be pretty upset by her and Kyon's words.
Meanwhile, Rangiku angrily calls Spike and Kaji into the woods to talk to them.
"What was the meaning of last night?" she asks.
"What do you mean?" Kaji questions.
"You know what I'm talking about," she replies. "One of you two flipped, and I want to know which one it was."
Spike sheepishly raises his hand. "I voted for Shikamaru," he admits. "I'm sorry."
"Why?" Rangiku asks angrily. "I had everything perfect for our alliance, now we're in trouble."
"I'm sorry, I just thought that Shikamaru wasn't helping out our tribe that much at all, he didn't care," Spike replies. "I thought that voting him out would be better in the long run."
"That won't matter if in the short run one of us gets voted out thanks to Meilin now having the power in the tribe!" Rangiku snaps.
"What about Kyon?" Spike questions.
"What about him?" Rangiku responds. "He's obviously with Meilin, no matter how much I try to convince him. I don't know what he finds more attractive about her than me."
"Maybe it has nothing to do with attraction, maybe he's just more comfortable with her," Kaji suggests.
"Well, I will do my part to keep the three of us in this game," Rangiku says. "Whether you two will do the same is up to you."
"So Spike decides he's just going to vote on his own whims, instead of following my lead," Rangiku says. "Doesn't he realize that now he's put our alliance in the minority? What a stupid decision. If I could vote him out, I would, but I need him on my side for now."
Sokyoku Tribe
(Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
"We've got treemail!" Misato announces to the rest of her tribemates, returning with the treemail along with Maes.
"It's some sort of ladder," Maes adds, pulling out the part of the ladder that was included with the message.
The two players bring the piece of paper over to the other tribe members. Misato hands it to InuYasha, who begins to read it.
"Put together your team's ladder
And your team will be much gladder
As you'll be immune for this day
If you are the first to climb all the way."
"Boy, is that a bad poem," Ryoko comments.
"I guess we're going to be building a ladder and then climbing it," Light remarks.
"That shouldn't be too difficult," Li adds.
"This tribe is so much better than our previous one," Light says. "We just won two challenges, and I wouldn't be surprised if we end up winning two more."
Immunity Challenge
"Come on in, guys!" Jet Black shouts.
The two tribes walk into the immunity challenge area, which is a bizarre-looking field with only two trees in the middle of it.
"Sokyoku, getting your first look at the new Gotei tribe, Shikamaru voted out last Tribal Council," Jet comments.
No response is given to Shikamaru's ousting.
"We now bring in Haruhi, returning from Exile," Jet says.
Haruhi walks into the area with a scowl on her face, carrying her bag, which instantly several of her teammates try to peek in, but she pulls it away.
"Let's get to today's immunity challenge," Jet states. "For today, you'll have the pieces to put together a tall ladder. Each of the rungs has different ends, so each of them can only fit into one spot. Once you have put together the whole ladder, you will put it up against your team's tree, and one tribe member will climb to the top of the ladder and grab your team's flag to win immunity."
"And what if someone slips off the ladder and falls?" Ryoko asks.
"Then they'll probably be too hurt to continue in this game," Jet replies with a grin. "Anyway, Sokyoku, you must sit out two members, and you cannot sit out the same players in back-to-back challenges. Who are they gonna be?"
"Misato and Li will sit out," Haruhi announces, without conferring with her teammates.
"Okay, Misato and Li are out for this challenge," Jet says, before anyone can protest Haruhi's decision. "Get over to your ladder pieces, and wait for my go."
Both Misato and Li scowl at Haruhi as she joins her teammates for the challenge.
"Survivors ready?" Jet shouts. "Go!"
The tribes begin going to work on building their ladders. Unfortunately for Gotei, they seem to be having bad luck with fitting their pieces together, but it does not help that they are completely disorganized.
"No! That goes over here!" Meilin cries.
"I think it should be on this end," Rangiku replies.
"No, it should be in the middle!" Al shouts.
Sokyoku, meanwhile, is having their own problems, because InuYasha quickly put several of the pieces in the wrong positions, where others are trying to put the correct pieces.
"Hey! What are you doing?" InuYasha asks.
"Putting this together the right way," Light responds.
Due to both tribes' problems, they seem to cancel each other out, and they both end up on the same pace.
"Sokyoku, putting in the last few pieces!" Jet yells. "Gotei, also close to being finished!"
Both tribes finish their ladders at nearly the exact same time, then put them up against their trees.
"It's going to be a race to the top!" Jet shouts.
InuYasha begins climbing the ladder just a bit before the tribe has it against the tree, while Kaji waits for his tribe to get the ladder all the way against the tree.
"InuYasha, with a bit of an advantage!" Jet announces.
InuYasha keeps his lead as he climbs up the ladder. He makes it to the top first, grabbing his team's flag.
"Sokyoku wins immunity!" Jet shouts.
The Sokyoku tribe begins to celebrate while the Gotei tribe looks on dejectedly.
"This is for you," Jet says, tossing Kon to Haruhi.
"Hey, why did you toss that to her?" InuYasha says as he comes down from the ladder.
"Well, she appears to be the leader of your tribe," Jet replies.
"What did you say?!" InuYasha screams.
"You're right, Jet, thanks for agreeing with me!" Haruhi exclaims. "Now let's go back to camp, everyone!"
"Hold it one minute," Jet shouts. "One of you is going to be sent to Exile by the losing tribe. Who's it gonna be, Gotei?"
"We want Haruhi to go back," Kyon suggests.
Haruhi scowls at Kyon as Jet hands her a map. She then gives Kon to Misato.
"Have a nice time at Exile," Jet tells Haruhi, before she stomps off into the distance. As she goes, she is laughed at by members of both tribes.
"Sokyoku, you can head back to camp," Jet tells the winning tribe.
The Sokyoku tribe heads back to camp, with Misato hugging Kon triumphantly.
"As for you, Gotei," Jet says, as Kaji comes back to the ground, "it's Tribal Council for you tonight – the third straight time since the merge. I got nothing for you, you can head back to camp."
The Gotei tribe begins their walk back towards their camp.
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al and Rei)
"We lost again!" Al complains.
"This one was close," Kaji comments. "Just a little better strategy and we would have won."
"I think they simply are better athletically than us," Rangiku suggests. "They have bigger and stronger people. If we're going to start winning, we're going to have to get rid of the ones here who aren't doing their jobs."
She gives Meilin a cold stare as she says this.
"I don't know what Rangiku has against me, but I'm sure she wants me out of here," Meilin says. "The goal is going to be to try to get her anger off me and on someone else."
"Meilin is the weakest link of this tribe, there's no question about it," Rangiku says. "We needed to get rid of her before, and now we're paying for it."
A little later on, Meilin goes to talk to Kyon alone.
"Look, we're in a lot of trouble," she tells him.
"You are in a lot of trouble," Kyon corrects her.
"Whatever," she replies. "Look, you've got to help me out here. If you do, we could go a long way together."
"I already tried helping you," Kyon sighs. "Rangiku now has every reason she needs to get rid of you, as well as the support of almost everyone in the tribe."
"Well, why can't we convince people that someone else isn't pulling their weight?" Meilin asks. "I didn't think Al did a very good job in the challenge."
"Neither did I, but what can I say?" Kyon asks. "I can't put myself out on a limb just to try to save you."
"Yes, you can…" Meilin suggests.
Kyon sighs.
"How do I always get myself controlled by girls?" he wonders.
Sokyoku Tribe
(Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
"This is a win-win situation," InuYasha says. "We get immunity, and we get rid of that annoying Haruhi for a while."
"I want to get rid of her as soon as we have the chance," Kenpachi adds.
"But what if she found the immunity plushie?" Misato suggests.
"Come on, do you really think she's that smart?" InuYasha asks.
"You never know," Maes says.
Exile
Haruhi enters the same pitch-black cave as before, sighing.
"This time there's no plushie," she says. "I really wish there was another one."
She sets her bag down and tries sitting down. As she does, she feels something soft underneath her.
"What's this?" she wonders.
She picks up the item and begins to squeeze it.
"I think it's a plushie!" she exclaims. "But then what's this thing I have in my bag?"
She pulls her original item out and squeezes it.
"They both feel like plushies," she says. "I guess I'll just keep both and see what happens."
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al and Rei)
During the evening hours, Kyon begins to suggest to Rei that Al is the one who should be voted out instead of Meilin.
"You know, I really think Al hasn't done enough around here, not Meilin," he says.
"Well, I agree, but we don't have the numbers," Rei replies. "We can vote for him, but there's only three of us."
"I know," Kyon says. "If we could only get one other person…"
Spike walks by as Kyon says this, but as Kyon is about to talk to him, Spike holds out his hand as if to say "no."
"You're our only hope," Kyon tells him. "Kaji is completely under Rangiku's spell, and if we don't get your vote, Meilin will go for sure."
Spike shrugs his shoulders, saying nothing, then walks away nonchalantly.
"I guess that seals Meilin's fate," Kyon comments.
"There's no use in even voting for Al, then," Rei adds.
Tribal Council
(Gotei)
The tribe walks into the Tribal Council area with their torches ablaze while Jet watches them.
"Interesting day today," Jet comments while they sit down. "Let's talk about today's challenge. You guys were so close, but you ended up just losing, and now it's three losses in a row."
"It's frustrating," Kaji replies. "It seems like no matter how good of an effort we give, we just can't win."
"Is it just bad luck, or is your team inferior?" Jet asks.
"We are inferior," Rangiku answers, to Jet's surprise, as his expression shows. "There are certain members on this tribe – or maybe a certain member – who are just not pulling their weight around here. Until they are removed, we have no way of beating Sokyoku."
Meilin gives Rangiku an angry look as she says this, giving Jet an opportunity to pounce. "Meilin, you looked upset with Rangiku about her comment," he says. "Why is that?"
"Because I know that she's using this excuse to try to convince the rest to vote me out," Meilin replies. "And if she knew better, she'd realize that I'm doing a much better job than Al is."
Al suddenly looks surprised, causing Jet to turn to him. "Al, you were just called out by Meilin as not doing a good job for your team," he says. "What do you think about that?"
"Well, obviously I think she's wrong," Al responds. "I don't know where I haven't been pulling my weight."
"You screw us up in the challenges!" Meilin snaps. "That's where you mess up!"
"Excuse me?" Al says.
"You think you know what you're doing, but you don't know any better than the rest of us," Meilin replies. "And that's what's costing us, not me, like Rangiku thinks."
"Meilin, obviously you've got some animosity against some of the others in your tribe," Jet comments. "Do you worry that these members might have that same feeling towards you?"
"So what if they do?" Meilin questions. "If I go home tonight, it'll be for the wrong reasons, and this tribe will pay the consequences."
"Well, we're about to find out who goes home tonight," Jet says, "because with that, it is time to vote. Al, you're up first."
The Tribal Council theme "Tally the Vote" plays as Al begins to get up from his seat.
Al goes to vote.
"Meilin, I didn't know you had something against me, but it's too bad for you that pretty much everyone sees that you're the biggest problem in this tribe," Al says. "Sorry."
Kaji goes to vote.
Kyon goes to vote.
"I'm sticking with Meilin to her bitter end, which I believe is tonight," Kyon says, holding up his vote for Al.
Meilin goes to vote.
"You're not keeping your weight, you scrap heap of metal," Meilin says.
Rangiku goes to vote.
"No more games," Rangiku says. "Meilin, you're going home."
Rei goes to vote.
Spike goes to vote.
After Spike comes back from voting, Jet states, "I'll go tally the votes."
Jet takes the votes, gathers them, rearranges them, then comes back to the players.
"Once the votes are read, the decision is final, and the person voted out will be asked to return to the world of the living immediately," Jet says. "I'll read the votes."
He pulls out the first vote.
"Meilin," he reads.
Meilin crosses her arms angrily.
"Al," Jet says. "One vote Al, one vote Meilin."
He pulls out the next vote.
"Meilin," Jet says. "That's two votes Meilin."
He takes the next vote out of the urn.
"Al," Jet states. "We're tied, two votes Meilin, two votes Al."
He opens up the next vote slowly.
"Meilin," Jet reads. "Three votes Meilin, two votes Al, two votes left."
Meilin stares angrily at Jet, figuring her fate is sealed.
"Al," Jet says, reading the next vote. "We're tied again, three votes Meilin, three votes Al, one vote left."
Jet takes out the final vote, then opens it up very slowly.
"Ninth person voted out of Survivor: Seireitei Forest," he says.
He finally opens it up for all to read, and a certain woman gasps.
"Al," Jet says. "That's four, that's enough. You need to bring me your torch."
Rangiku gives a death glare to both Spike and Kaji, whispering her demand: "Who did this?"
Meanwhile, Al grabs his torch, then holds it out in front of Jet.
"Al, the tribe has spoken," Jet tells him, snuffing out his torch. "It's time for you to go."
Al then enters the gate to the world of the living.
"Tonight's vote was all about pulling your weight," Jet remarks. "Al mustn't have, because he was voted out. Grab your torches, head back to camp, good night."
The players take their torches and go back to their camp.
"It just isn't fair," Al says. "I know for a fact that I was doing more around camp and in challenges than Meilin, but someone obviously turned on me, and now I'm out instead of her. I don't get it, but it's too late to do anything about it now."
(Who voted for whom:
Al – Meilin
Kaji – Meilin
Kyon – Al
Meilin – Al
Rangiku – Meilin
Rei – Al
Spike – Al)
Day 11
Sokyoku Tribe
(Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
Light and Erika are sitting together near the fire that morning, eating a little bit of the team's rice.
"You sure look lovely today," Light tells her.
"Oh, thank you," a blushing Erika replies.
"You know, if it were up to me, I'd get rid of everyone else here just so it could be the two of us," Light continues.
"Oh, Light…" Erika says.
"Good, Erika, you're just buying into the plan," Light says. "I'll take you as far as I need you, then if you get too likable, I'll send you home next. It's as simple as that."
Ryoko goes over to talk to Maes and Misato.
"Hey, remember when Light was talking about voting out InuYasha?" she asks.
"Yeah?" Maes replies.
"And then he changed it to voting off Li?" she continues.
"Right?" Misato responds.
"Well, which one is it? We need to know, soon!" Ryoko shouts.
Maes and Misato try to calm down Ryoko before she gives away their plan, although at this point Li has already given away the first plan to InuYasha.
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon and Rei)
"We've got treemail!" Rei shouts.
"Oh, boy," Kyon replies sarcastically.
"We got another poem," Meilin says.
"Well, why don't you read it?" Spike asks.
"Okay, here goes…" Meilin says.
"Your team must work together
For it will be better
If you cut down your tree
And win immunity."
"Boy, is that a lousy poem," Rangiku comments.
"I guess we have to cut down a tree somehow," Rei remarks.
"That should be fun," Kaji says.
"It's a big challenge coming up here," Meilin says. "If we don't win this one, then I can't count on staying around much longer at all."
Immunity Challenge
"Come on in, guys!" Jet Black shouts to the players.
The players walk into the challenge area, noting that it is exactly the same as the last one: two lone trees standing in a field.
"Sokyoku, getting your first look at the new Gotei tribe: Al voted out last Tribal Council."
No one responds to Al's ousting.
"We now bring in Haruhi, from Exile," Jet states.
Haruhi comes marching in angrily over to her tribe.
"First things first, I'll take back the immunity plushie," Jet says.
Misato tosses Kon to Jet.
"Thank you," Jet states. "Once again, immunity is back up for grabs."
He then pulls out two axes.
"These will be what everyone will use today," he says. "Each of you will take turns trying to chop down your tree. Each player may only take one cut at the tree before handing off the ax to the next player. The team who gets their tree to hit the ground first wins immunity. Sokyoku, you have two extra members, so you must sit out three players, and you cannot sit out the same players in back-to-back challenges."
"I'll sit out," Erika offers.
"So will I," Haruhi says. "And Ryoko will as well."
Ryoko glares at Haruhi angrily.
"Okay, get over to your trees, and wait for my go," Jet states.
The players walk over to their trees, line up behind them, with their lead player holding the ax.
"For immunity! Survivors ready, go!" Jet shouts.
InuYasha and Kaji take simultaneous swipes at the tree. InuYasha gets a lot more power on his cut, although since it is not his Tetsusaiga, he cannot knock it down in one blow.
The players then hand off the ax to their next teammate in line. This time it is Kenpachi and Rangiku. Kenpachi naturally gets a lot bigger cut on his then his opponent.
"We need a new strategy!" Meilin exclaims. "Instead of cutting as hard as possible, we need to cut as fast as we can and get more cuts in than the other tribe!"
Meilin's strategy seems to work at first, as the quicker cuts taken by the Gotei tribe allow them to catch up to the Sokyoku tribe, whose ax gets stuck in the tree several times. However, the brute strength of InuYasha and Kenpachi gives back the lead to Sokyoku.
"Come on, just a little more!" Misato shouts.
But Gotei begins to catch up again, taking shorter swipes and getting more cuts in. Eventually, both trees are about to fall, and it is Kenpachi and Rangiku both cutting down their trees at the same time.
"Which one will hit the ground first?" Jet shouts.
Gotei's tree then barely hits the ground before Sokyoku's.
"Gotei wins immunity!" Jet yells.
The Gotei players begin to celebrate their first win as a merged tribe. The Sokyoku tribe members look on in shock.
"Gotei, this is for you," Jet says, as he tosses Kon to Rangiku.
"Thank you!" Rangiku replies, squeezing Kon to her chest happily.
Oh, Rangiku! Kon thinks happily.
"Now, Sokyoku, you get to choose one player from Gotei to send to Exile," Jet states.
"Kyon!" Haruhi shouts.
Kyon simply shakes his head, as if he knew it was coming.
"Kyon, here's your map, have fun," Jet says, giving him the map.
Kyon heads off towards Exile while his teammates head back to camp.
"Sokyoku, I'll be seeing you tomorrow for Tribal Council, where for the first time, one of your nine will be going home," Jet states.
Sokyoku's players begin their trek back to camp.
"A little bit of strategy beat a lot of brute strength," Misato says. "I hope people paid attention to that."
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji and Rei)
"We won! We finally won!" Meilin exclaimed.
"Great strategy, Meilin," Rei tells Meilin.
"They may think they're bigger and stronger than us, but we had three women cutting down that tree, and we managed to beat them!" Kaji exclaims.
"We're strong women," Rangiku comments.
"Now we can start making a comeback in this game," Spike comments.
All of the players put their arms out and their hands meet in the middle of the circle.
"One, two, three, Gotei!" they all shout.
Sokyoku Tribe
(Haruhi, Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
"Losing this one hurt," InuYasha says. "We definitely are the stronger tribe, there's no reason we should have lost this challenge."
"I'm really surprised their strategy worked," Li comments.
"They thought ahead better than we did," Light remarks.
"We're still going to have the numbers on them after this vote, though," Ryoko says.
"Right, but someone is going home," Maes states.
Meanwhile, Haruhi is arguing again with Kenpachi and InuYasha over who should be the leader.
"You two failed in that challenge, which just proves all the more that I should be the leader!" Haruhi shouts.
"Would you shut up already?" InuYasha asks. "You wouldn't have stood a chance at cutting down that tree, that's why you sat out."
"I clearly was getting much better cuts into the tree than InuYasha," Kenpachi comments. "I think that proves me as the leader of this tribe."
"No way!" InuYasha remarks. "I'm still the main leader here!"
The arguing continues well into the night.
Exile
Kyon sits down in the dark cave, bored to death. He tries feeling around for any sign of a hidden immunity plushie, but he cannot find it.
"Thanks, Haruhi," he sighs, before going to sleep.
Day 12
Sokyoku Tribe
(Haruhi, Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
The players are sitting around the fire eating some rice. Li notices that Light is not talking to him at all.
"Hey, are you still upset about what happened before?" Li asks.
"Well, you did just go right out and spill the beans on my plan," Light replies.
"I'm sorry about that," Li replies. "Do you think we can patch things up?"
"Well, if you want to go ahead with that plan, we can," Light whispers. "Voting out InuYasha."
"I'm all for that," Li whispers back.
"Poor Li, thinking he's going to survive this one," Light says. "No way. He's going to pay for deciding that he wants to just give away my plans."
A little later, Kenpachi and InuYasha go to have a talk.
"We need to get rid of Haruhi, and now," Kenpachi says.
"Right, but who can we get to vote with us?" InuYasha asks.
"I'm sure the others around here are getting sick of Haruhi," Kenpachi replies. "They'll probably end up voting her out in due time."
Haruhi, meanwhile, goes around bragging to her fellow tribe members.
"You know, if I had taken part in that challenge, we would have won," she announces. "But I decided to stay back, and let you guys handle it for once. I didn't think you'd lose without me!"
"Would you put a sock in it?" Ryoko asks.
"I don't know what you guys would do without my leadership abilities!" Haruhi continues.
"I know Light wants to get rid of Li, and then InuYasha, but Haruhi's really getting on my nerves," Ryoko says. "I may just throw a vote into the box for her."
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji and Rei)
That afternoon, the Gotei tribe is talking about their future plans.
"We've got to win two more challenges in a row, to even up with them in numbers," Kaji says. "Then, depending on when the merge is, we'll be even with them."
"I think the merge comes after we are down to 10," Rangiku responds. "So if we win the next four challenges in a row, we'll have the advantage."
"We've got to at least win three out of four," Spike says. "Then we'll have a real opportunity to get far in this game."
"I just hope they don't throw any tricks into the mix," Meilin complains. "You know there's always something strange that could end up happening that could ruin our plans."
"Come on now, let's not think like that," Rei replies.
Sokyoku Tribe
(Haruhi, Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
That evening, Sokyoku is going over last-minute voting strategies.
"Everyone vote for Li," Light tells Erika, Ryoko, Maes and Misato, who are all gathered together.
"Are you sure?" Ryoko asks. "I'd like to vote for Haruhi."
"Li will spill the beans on any of our plans, as you saw earlier," Light comments. "We've got to get rid of him."
"Light wants us to vote for Li, but Haruhi has caused us the most problems in this tribe with her attitude," Maes says. "I'll just have to see."
Kenpachi and InuYasha are set on voting for Haruhi. They try to convince Li to do the same.
"Okay," Li says. "Are you sure that's the right decision?"
"Yes," InuYasha says. "We're voting her off."
"I was going to join Light in voting off InuYasha, but I've decided that going after Haruhi is a better decision," Li says. "Hopefully it works."
Tribal Council
(Sokyoku)
The Sokyoku tribe walks into Tribal Council with their torches ablaze. They set them down in their respective places before taking their seats across from Jet.
"It's been a long time," Jet says. "Let's go all the way back to the merge. Ryoko, what did you think about joining this new tribe, after yours had lost twice in a row?"
"Well, certainly it was a change in culture," Ryoko replies. "We go from a losing tribe to one that's actually found a way to win."
"You really have found a way to win, for three straight challenges, until this past one," Jet states. "Light, what went wrong in losing this one?"
"The other team had a better strategy than us," Light responds. "If we had thought faster and figured out how to match their strategy, we might have pulled this one out, but instead we stuck to what we were doing, and just barely lost."
"I think our strategy was fine," InuYasha says. "They just got a little lucky in this one."
"So you think it was luck, InuYasha?" Jet asks.
"Yeah, we're definitely more powerful than them," InuYasha replies. "They just were able to get their tree to fall faster. Our luck had to run out sometime."
"You've got a big tribe, and naturally in a big tribe problems are bound to emerge," Jet comments. "Kenpachi, have you seen any of these problems begin to happen?"
"Haruhi has been really annoying," Kenpachi states. "She keeps on claiming to be the leader of this tribe, while no one has elected her as such."
"Is this true, Haruhi?" Jet asks.
"I am the leader!" Haruhi shouts. "I'm the one who's made the most decisions around here! I am the clear leader, and everybody knows it!"
"Let's see a show of hands, who thinks of Haruhi as the leader of this tribe?" Jet asks.
Only Erika raises her hand.
"Thank you for your honesty, Erika," Jet says. "Why do you think she's the leader?"
"She speaks up for everyone and tells us who we should sit out of challenges most of the time," Erika replies. "She really steps up and tries to lead."
"Thank you, Erika," Haruhi responds.
"So, you do have at least one supporter here," Jet says. "Anyone else willing to admit that Haruhi's been a leader to the tribe?"
No one else speaks up.
"Well, from what I've seen myself, I would have to say that you have led the most of this tribe, Haruhi," Jet states. "Perhaps this tribe hasn't been the same when you have gone to Exile. Anyway, with that, it is time to vote. Erika, you're up first."
The Tribal Council theme "Tally the Vote" plays as Erika gets up from her seat.
Erika goes to vote.
Haruhi goes to vote.
InuYasha goes to vote.
"I'm sick of being bossed around by you," InuYasha says, voting for Haruhi.
Kenpachi goes to vote.
Li goes to vote.
"You may be the leader, but you're also annoying," Li says, placing his vote for Haruhi.
Light goes to vote.
"This is what you deserve," Light says, voting for Li.
Maes goes to vote.
Misato goes to vote.
"I'm sticking with the plan, voting for Li," Misato says.
Ryoko goes to vote.
After Ryoko comes back from voting, Jet states, "I'll go tally the votes."
Jet gathers the votes, rearranges them, then returns to the players.
"If anyone has the immunity plushie, and would like to play it, now would be the time to do so," Jet states.
Everyone looks at Haruhi, who does not make a move.
"Why would you vote out your leader?" she asks.
"Hey, no talking!" Jet reprimands her. "Anyway, once the votes are read, the person voted out will be asked to return to the world of the living immediately. I'll read the votes."
He pulls out the first vote. "Haruhi," he says.
Haruhi makes no response.
Jet pulls out the second vote. "Li," he reads. "One vote Li, one vote Haruhi."
Jet takes out the third vote and opens it. "Li," he says. "Two votes Li, one vote Haruhi."
Li starts to get nervous upon seeing this vote.
Jet takes out the next vote. "Li," he says. "Three votes Li, one vote Haruhi."
He pulls out the next vote. "Haruhi," Jet reads it. "Three votes Li, two votes Haruhi."
Jet opens the next vote slowly. "Haruhi," he says, with Haruhi looking quite angry at this point. "We're tied. Three votes Li, three votes Haruhi."
Haruhi gives Li an angry glare, while Li simply shrugs his shoulders. Jet, meanwhile, pulls out the seventh vote. "InuYasha," he says. "Three votes Li, three votes Haruhi, one vote InuYasha."
InuYasha gives no response to seeing this vote.
Jet pulls out the next vote. "Li," he reads. "Four votes Li, three votes Haruhi, one vote InuYasha, one vote left."
Jet pulls out the final vote and opens it very slowly. "Tenth person voted out of Survivor: Seireitei Forest," he states. "Li. That's five, that's enough. You need to bring me your torch."
Haruhi smirks while Li gets up and retrieves his torch.
"Li, the tribe has spoken," Jet says, snuffing out Li's torch. "It's time for you to go."
Li walks through the gate to the world of the living.
"Leadership is key if you want your tribe to continue to hold the advantage over your opponents," Jet states. "Grab your torches, head back to camp, good night."
The eight players take their torches and begin their trek back to their camp.
"In hindsight, I really shouldn't have given away Light's plan," Li says. "That came back to bite me. Of course, Light is a liar, because he told me he was going back to the plan of voting for InuYasha. I guess it's my fault for believing him."
(Who voted for whom:
Erika - Li
Haruhi - InuYasha
InuYasha - Haruhi
Kenpachi - Haruhi
Li - Haruhi
Light - Li
Maes - Li
Misato - Li
Ryoko - Li)
Scenes from our next episode:
The players are surprised when the schedule is changed:
Maes and Misato go together to see if there is any treemail. However, when they get there, they are surprised not to see anything.
"Usually we'd have a challenge today," Maes remarks. "Why isn't there anything here?"
A twist occurs in the game with a totally different type of immunity challenge:
"Let's get to today's immunity challenge," Jet states. "You will be playing for individual immunity, not team immunity."
And it all comes down to a tiebreaking challenge in Tribal Council:
"So since we're still tied, we go to a tiebreaking challenge," Jet states.