Recaps

Shiraki Uke entered the Kengan underworld, won a brutal match, and took a Nogi Group job that led him to Q Dalang’s deadly gambling tower. With Akagi Shigeru, Baku Madarame, and Takaomi Kaji, he raced to escape while mercenaries and a Kure Clan assassin entered the gamble. The group was still trapped in the tower as Q Dalang threatened Kure Fusui and the Kure Clan.

• Shiraki Uke discovered that his punch-drunk symptoms had vanished, accepted a Kengan match to settle his family’s debt, and began training with Ryu’s phantom.
• Shiraki Uke defeated Komada Shigeru in an underground fight, earning praise from Akagi Shigeru and Katahara Metsudo, while Teiai Group reduced his debt and stopped interest.
• Akiyama Kaede offered Shiraki Uke a dangerous Nogi Group job, and he tracked the missing salesman’s real estate contact to an underground casino, where he helped Akagi Shigeru confront crooked dealers.
• Q Dalang invited Shiraki Uke, Akagi Shigeru, and Baku Madarame to the Ninefold Tower, where they played mahjong before Q Dalang offered a deadly escape wager officiated by Kakerou.
• Shiraki Uke, Akagi Shigeru, Baku Madarame, and Takaomi Kaji accepted the gamble, navigated a trapped stairwell, and reached the rooftop as Q Dalang sent armed mercenaries after them.
• Shiraki Uke disarmed and fought the mercenaries, while a sniper hired by the Kure Clan wounded one of them and forced the attackers to retreat inside.
• The group regrouped on the seventh floor and began clearing traps on the sixth as Kure Fusui tracked the mercenaries and warned Shiraki they were approaching.
• Kure Fusui refused Yagyou’s demand that she stay out of the gamble, and Q Dalang threatened to target her and the Kure Clan after dealing with the participants.

Baku Madarame’s gamble against Q Dalang ended with Shiraki Uke and Akagi Shigeru winning the tower and Maruk surviving. Afterward, Shiraki Uke pursued his own idea of strength, accepted a path into the Kengan Association, and began meeting fighters and rivals in the underground scene.

• Q Dalang sent mercenaries after Baku Madarame’s group, but Shiraki Uke and the others subdued them and took their equipment.
• Q Dalang unleashed Lodem, who hunted the survivors until Shiraki Uke adapted to his new techniques and helped defeat him.
• Baku Madarame exposed Q Dalang’s surveillance and plans, while Lodem’s identity shifted back to Maruk after he learned Q Dalang had used him as an experiment.
• Maruk rampaged after Q Dalang fled and died, but Shiraki Uke fought him and urged him to consider how he wanted to live.
• Baku Madarame, Shiraki Uke, and Maruk survived their fall, and Yagyou declared Akagi Shigeru and Shiraki Uke the winners of the wager.
• Shiraki Uke sparred with Kure Fusui, accepted a loan and a Kengan Association opportunity from Akiyama Kaede, and resolved to pursue strength according to his own will.
• Shiraki Uke discovered an underground women’s fighting arena, advised Li Youba to defeat Tojo Ran, and met Nozomi Tenma and her friends afterward.
• Li Youba offered to spar with Shiraki Uke, who revealed he had destroyed the Sanjigumi and then defeated a group of street delinquents who confronted him.