The air is calm and the temperature is cold but not much for those who wore long sleeve cloth. Super Shinken Red (Hiro) and Mukuwarenai Ai (Ran) stood a distance away, with the latter pointing her dagger towards the former.

Both are just moving in circle while keeping their distance away. Though at one point, they stopped moving after hearing a violent blowing wind. It last for a while but the moment the sound of the violent wind vanished, the battles begun. The two of them clashed against each other but in the sense that their own lives are on the line from the outcome of the match.

Everyone else who is watching from the elevated ground was indeed worried. How come they are not? Hiro and Ran are lovers, meaning they love each other as who they really are. They felt each other are important in their life. There is nothing more painful than having two people who are important to each other to turn against each other in a deadly match.

Mukuwarenai Ai clashed against Super Shinken Red violently and devoutly, using all possible techniques. Super Shinken Red apparently can only parry and run from all her incoming attacks. "Will Hiro be okay?" Jessica asked worriedly.

"He will" Ban assured her. "I don't know what is that suiting he's wearing or what power he gains but I'm sure Hiro got something in his mind" he stated. "I do hope so" Jessica replied. There is not a clue of the blondie being relief from the statement.

"I understand what are you trying to say, Jessica-san. I feel the same way." said Yuuya. He sure looks gloomy. Everyone else who glanced at them did not seem to understand why the those two were like that. "Hey, what is it that you guys know?" Asuka questioned. "We don't understand what you are trying to convey"

Jessica and Yuuya take a deep breath before they try to explain things properly. "You all knew that Ran learns karate, right? But do you guys know that she also learns kendo?" Jessica asked. Getting the idea of what she tried to convey, the rest were astounded by what Jessica said. They all do know that Ran is a martial arts fighter and professional in karate but not kendo.

"Kendo? Ran can do kendo?" Ami asked. "Yes. She actually did from little and when she visits her distance relatives in Kyoto" Yuuya confirmed. "But how come we never seen her do kendo?" Kazu asked. "Because she's not so interested in it and for her, kendo doesn't fit her stylish sense of martial arts" Jessica explained.

"As far as you two remember, just how many years she had experienced in that?" Gouda asked. "About three years if I am not mistaken" Jessica recalled. "Three years?!" Jin repeated. The rest were astounded too as they all continued watching the battle. "If that's the case, I guess Hiro really is in a pinch" Gouda deduced. "Hiro..." Ban muttered.

For Super Shinken Red, he had been doing nothing but parrying and avoiding all Mukuwarenai Ai's attacks. While clashing weapons against the girl he loved the most, he recalled about what happened yesterday.

(Flashback)

This scene took place at the same mountain, where Hiro and Kaoru, the true 18th successor of Shiba Clan first met. The princess took out something from within her kimono and gave it to the bluenette. Much to the bluenette's surprised, he saw three Secret Discs.

Two of them are white embedded with the kanji '倍' (Double) and the other one seems to be made of glass embedded with the kanji '奇跡' (Miracle). "Double and Miracle Discs? What are they supposed to do?" Hiro inquired. "This Double Disc is capable of creating a copy of your current weapon to be used simultaneously. One is for you and the other one is for Takeru. This Miracle disc is capable of completely dispelling any evil spells on the victim and it would be less harmful compare to any other Mojikara disc" Kaoru explained.

"Is there any risk of using the Miracle Disc?" Hiro asked. "There are risks. This disc can only be used once if you decided to use it at full power and while I said it is less harmful, it doesn't mean that it can't kill the victims. It just reduces the probability of killing the victims when Mojikara was infused directly to them" Kaoru warned. "You can keep the double discs but are you willing to use this Miracle Disc?" she asked.

In response, Hiro closes his eyes and began to think. After a moment, he had his eyes open and stare at Kaoru with full resolute. "If this can reduce the chance by a little bit. I am willing to take the risk" Hiro proclaimed. He promptly took the discs from the princess's hands.

(Note: There is only one black box [Inromaru] available and it is currently with Takeru, not Kaoru. She only got a hold of it and Takeru's other arsenals when she reappears in episode 44 and onwards]

Later at the Shiba mansion...

Hiro is standing inside his assigned room, doing a reflection about what he is going to do in the upcoming fight. Then, he heard the door slide opened that causes his eyes to direct towards the person that did the action. He saw Takeru approaching him and in his hand, is the black box called Inromaru.

"Hiro, I'm lending you this to use in the challenge" Takeru informed, giving the Inromaru to the bluenette. "Are you sure about this? I thought you would need this more than me" Hiro argued. "I was about to say the same thing to you. I'm sure you got some plan and needed this. As for me, don't worry. I'll use the Kyoryu disc" Takeru assured him. Hiro then takes the Inromaru gladly and gives a nod to Takeru.

(Flashback end)

Remembering that did caused Super Shinken Red to lose focus a little for a moment but he was aware of the situation while parrying his opponent's attack. Mukuwarenai Ai then pushes him away and had attacked relentlessly until she sent him flying.

Everyone gasped in shocked as they saw this. Super Shinken Red quickly regained his stance and fight back. "This is bad" said Kirito. "We got to hurry and stop them" Ban suggested. All of them were about to make a move but halted when they heard a voice said, "Don't interfere. Looks like this match is already decided"

Everyone turned to the direction of the voice and saw a man who is slightly bearded and moustache not too far from where they were. His hair was messy and he had a pair of slightly swamp-coloured eyes. He wore a smooth black shirt layered by a ragged dark red patterned kendogi and a white furry cloth, black pants, belt. and boots.

He also wore two necklets, one is white and the other one is a mix variations of brown colour. For the Gedoshu and Shinkengers sans Hiro who never met him, this man is a stray Gedo named Fuwa Juzo.

This is the man who was obsessed in getting pleasure in fighting someone strong using his sword Uramasa. His main interest is to fight Takeru to the death due to the latter having something twisted/warped about himself. By that he meant that Takeru is someone who had a big pride-humiliating secret that he cannot afford to let it be known by anyone else.

"Who are you?" Kazu asked. "Doesn't matter" Juzo replied, not even giving his name to them. "More importantly, it is crystal clear that one of them is about to be finished" he stated. The rest were shocked as they immediately interpreted Juzo's saying that the one he meant was Hiro. "No way...Hiro is finished...?" Jin guessed.

"Wrong. The one who's finished is that girl" Juzo corrected. For a moment, everyone was stunned. Mukuwarenai Ai (Ran) was finished? Questions began to raise in their brains as to why her and not Hiro?

Going by the textbook, it is obvious Hiro would lose due to his lack of experience in swordplay compare to Ran. Though they let Juzo to continue and explain his reasons of doing so while watching the violent clash of Super Shinken Red and Mukuwarenai Ai.

"That girl is pretty zealous, but in the end, all she uses are techniques. She's just tried to gain a point. To say it simpler, she's just trying to impress others. Of course, that is great in the dojo. It's enough if you're just fighting for sports. But it's different in a real battle. What is needed is the ability to move according to your situation and... One must consider his/her endurance when there is no time limit" Juzo began.

Throughout Juzo's explanation, Super Shinken Red began to fight seriously against Mukuwarenai Ai. Instead of being defensive, this Shinkenger went for the offensive strategy. Yet, Mukuwarenai Ai would not just sit by and get beaten so she fights more brutally.

However, her attacks seem pretty weak and Super Shinken Red parried all of them until one moment, he kicked her down. Mukuwarenai Ai gets up, picks up her weapon, holding it with both hands and pointed her dagger towards Super Shinken Red although she could barely stand properly.

Super Shinken Red did nothing but follows Takeru's habit of resting the sword on the shoulders while holding the Shinkenmaru attached with Inromaru. He began to open his legs a little while trying to grip his weapon tight. Everyone who is watching then noticed something.

Mukuwarenai Ai's arms are shaking involuntarily while Super Shinken Red does not react the same way as they hold their respective weapons. "That stance...Isn't that the best way to minimise arm fatigue?" Juzo pointed out. Then everyone saw Mukuwarenai Ai lowered down her weapon due to exhaustion.

Ban and the rest then gets the idea that Mukuwarenai Ai actually is getting more exhausted and her arms was too fatigued to hold her dagger properly. "The momentary opening when one's opponent tries to gain a point, I'm sure that's what he is waiting for. That guy...he's not trying to gain a point. He's trying to get an attack in" Juzo concluded.

Regardless of her arm fatigues, Mukuwarenai Ai charged towards Super Shinken Red at full force. "Ran-san, brace yourself!" Hiro declared. As Mukuwarenai Ai tried to land an attack, Super Shinken Red blocked it and pushes down her weapon as low as possible.

Then, he quickly spun the disc at Shinkenmaru, channelling the katana with some spiralling flames around it and uses this opening to slash Mukuwarenai Ai on her stomach with full force. Ban and the rest were shocked at first as none of the two budged a bit while not facing each other.

Then they saw the character '奇跡' appeared on Mukuwarenai Ai briefly and she began to shriek in pain that had everyone's attention. Her current Gedo form quickly began to fritter and faded into thin air as tiny crimson particles. The process left Mukuwarenai Ai into reverting to Ran again and the redhead immediately collapsed towards the ground.

As for Super Shinken Red, he also collapsed towards the ground while reverting to Hiro in the process. Ban and the rest took immediate action and went towards their collapsed friends while calling out their names. Juzo snorted as a response while watching what Ban and the others did before he turned around and walks away.

The next one will be longer than usual so I hope everyone will have patience until then. Like always, please rate and review.