[Sekibayashi hums]
[Haruo] Master.
You sure that's all you need?
Really?
[Sekibayashi] Huh? Are you gettin' scared?
I am.
And, uh, we should hurry up if we don't want to be late for your pat-down.
[Sekibayashi] Don't worry about it.
Keeping them waiting is all just part of playing the game.
Making Muteba wait, you mean?
[Sekibayashi] I'm talking about the audience.
If we keep 'em waiting,
then the anticipation is gonna keep on building.
[Haruo] Oh.
[Sekibayashi] You can hear that, right?
Huh?
[Sekibayashi] Hmm.
[Sekibayashi laughs]
[crowd] Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi!
Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi!
-[sighs] -[crowd] Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi!
-All right! -[Haruo whimpers]
[crowd] Sekibayashi!
[Sekibayashi!] Let's do this thing.
[crowd] Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi!
[mysterious music playing]
[rock music playing]
♪ Mic check, one, two, hey ♪
♪ Now you listen to the sound of a rebel ♪
♪ Of rats running through Under cities and ghettos ♪
♪ A treasure box Always be found at the lower level ♪
♪ And I'm the rat That made a deal with the devil ♪
♪ Call a therapist, he's a bit crazy ♪
♪ No, I'm not pissed Feel free to hate me ♪
♪ But you gotta stop Forcing your opinion on me ♪
♪ I'm here for myself Not to make your day complete ♪
♪ Oh, why ♪
♪ Tell me why, tell me why Do you divide everything into pieces? ♪
♪ Tell me why, tell me why Should I treat you like a princess? ♪
♪ Don't try to judge me I'm not a suspect ♪
♪ It's too much, I refuse to accept it ♪
♪ Imagine why, imagine why ♪
♪ We all bleed the same red ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
[music stops]
THE CLOWN
[crowd] Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi!
I can't stand that we have to watch this over and over again.
TAKERU KIOHZAN (ELIMINATED)
Takeru, don't be so sensitive, man.
[laughs] You're the ones who wanted to sit as close to the ring as we could.
Sh! 'Cause I wanted to see the look in his eyes when he lost.
Well, all right.
If Sekibayashi wanted to take all that time
to brag about the strength of his conviction,
let's see how much of it was talk.
[crowd] Sekibayashi!
This is incredible. We're still only in the first round,
but the crowd has already picked a clear favorite here.
[Lihito] Suddenly everybody's a fan.
Hold on! When did I say you could sit here?
But you know what? I can see why everyone's excited.
Him being a pro wrestler, there's no way to know what to expect from him.
And he's up against that nasty destroyer this time around too.
You're right. He's different.
Muteba will be tough to deal with.
Yup. Wonder which of one of 'em is stronger.
-[crowd] Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi! -Yeah.
[crowd] Sekibayashi! Sekibayashi!
[Lihito] Hey. Where's Kazuo?
-[Kaede] He's still sitting with Ohma. -[crowd] Sekibayashi!
[Kaede] He said he can watch the match from there.
[crowd] Sekibayashi!
[Lihito] Got it.
[crowd] Sekibayashi!
[Sayaka] Death follows in his wake.
When the job is done, you won't find a single survivor left to tell the tale!
He's a mercenary, and a living, breathing legend of carnage!
Will our arena be painted red with blood
left in the shadows of a blind killing machine?
199 cm. tall, 122 kg.
One win and zero losses in the Kengan tournament!
Iwami Heavy brings to you
The Genocider,
Muteba Gizenga!
[rock music playing]
[music stops]
[crowd shouting]
TOMARI TOHGO IWAMI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESIDENT
[Tomari] Muteba Gizenga. The most powerful mercenary in Africa.
[Tomari snarls]
[Tomari] I can't believe those bastards.
They targeted my ship and blew it up!
I don't care what it takes.
Just get my merchandise back!
[Muteba chuckles menacingly]
[Muteba] You really don't care what it takes?
I like the sound of that.
You're getting a great deal, Tomari Tohgo. [chuckles]
Things might get a little rough.
But I guarantee you your merchandise will be safe.
I need to go change first.
[Tomari] Hold on a second, you.
[Muteba] Huh? There a problem?
[Tomari] Why waste time? Just toss your clothes somewhere. It doesn't matter.
[Muteba scoffs] This is why I hate amateurs.
[Tomari] You're pissing me off!
EXPENSIVE
[Muteba] Do you see my ensemble?
VERY EXPENSIVE
Everything I have on has to be handled very delicately.
SUPER EXPENSIVE
[Tomari] I don't give a shit!
What self-respecting man cares that much about what they're wearing?
[Muteba sighs] Like I said, amateurs.
[Tomari] All right, enough of that. You're pissing me off!
[Muteba] It's called fashion, lady.
It's not something you engage in for yourself.
You have to take other people's feelings into consideration
when you design an outfit.
Otherwise, you look self-absorbed.
It's important for the wearer to consider the occasion, like a wedding.
[Tomari] Whatever.
Look, you can tell me the rest of this later. Just do your job for now!
[Muteba] Never mind. It can wait until after I complete the mission.
[Tomari] Wait. We can lower the helicopter.
[Muteba] I don't need it.
I'm the strongest man in human history.
[Tomari] What? [gasps]
[Tomari] Come on. [scoffs]
[somber music playing]
[Tomari] Look at that.
[somber music continues]
[Muteba] Yo. I brought death to them all.
[Tomari laughs]
[Tomari] You managed to kill that whole group of armed pirates
in less than two minutes.
Well, I guess all the nicknames make sense now,
Mercenary of Carnage.
So then all the rumors that go with them must be true too.
[Muteba chuckles] You never specified that I needed to rescue the sailors.
That's why I decided to kill them instead.
You were the one who said that you didn't care what it took.
[Tomari] I don't have an issue with it.
These guys are small-time weapons traders.
They understood the risks when they took the job.
[Muteba chuckles]
[Muteba] You're pretty scary.
If we were to compare our number of kills,
I bet you've been responsible for way more deaths than I have.
So, don't you feel any remorse for what you've done?
[Tomari] Huh? Why would I?
And why do you think you can talk to me like that?
All the men you killed were just a pathetic group of low-life pirates.
The only thing these losers were good for was killing and stealing.
Don't pretend like human lives have equal value!
These guys have got no money, no education,
and not even the slightest hint of a conscience.
And these worms were stupid enough to try and steal my merchandise?
Frankly, I fail to see why I should have bothered to keep them alive.
[Muteba chuckles]
[Muteba] Like I said.
Hell of a lot scarier than any woman I've met.
But I can't say I disagree with you.
People with no money or power
sometimes need to be shown where they belong.
So,
how much is that fancy company of yours paying its fighters nowadays?
[scoffs] I finally got Shikano to agree to a little deal.
That whoever loses has to submit to the victor.
Now's not the time to start worrying about the stakes.
[man 1] Muteba! Come on, man! I'm betting on you!
[man 2] Kill him!
SAYAKA KATAHARA
Hey, Jerry! Is there anything our audience should know about the upcoming match?
All right! I would be happy to, my dear.
JERRY TYSON (ELIMINATED)
Sekibayashi's a pro wrestler,
which makes him unique, and that's a real advantage here.
However, it's a weak point as well.
And we know that Muteba is a cold-blooded machine,
as he was more than happy to demonstrate for us back in round one.
And he's proven he doesn't care what it takes to defeat his opponent.
Sekibayashi, on the other hand, is a whole different character.
His chances rest on whether he can control the match.
It's simply win or die for the pro wrestler.
If he can't get Muteba locked down,
then I'm a bit worried for the guy.
He might die!
You don't say! This'll be a tough match.
No one is getting out of this match unscathed!
-[siren wails] -Huh?
[siren continues]
[Kaede] Huh?
[Lihito] Huh?
Uh, urgent update!
I'm just getting confirmation right now.
Gandai is making a change.
They want a reserve fighter!
Beginning with this round,
they're switching the fighter they want to use.
Hey! What the hell's going on?
[Sayaka clears throat]
Okay, people. Let the reserve fighter enter the ring!
[bell tolls]
[bell tolling]
[Sayaka] He is summoned
straight from the darkest bowels of hell.
Height, unknown.
Weight, unknown.
Who or what in the world is this mystery man?
It's his first time fighting in a Kengan match.
He's won 100 trillion demon-world dollars for his corporation.
[rock music playing]
[Sayaka] Gandai has sponsored this demon from below.
The God of Hell!
[laughs]
[Sayaka] It's Marvelous Seki!
MARVELOUS SEKI DEATH MATCH STYLE
Huh? Are you kidding me? Why did they bring him out here?
Halloween's not for a few more months, man.
Aren't we still in July right now?
Yeah! Marvelous Seki!
His death-match style is legendary. I'm so excited.
[Himuro] What do you mean?
[Suekichi] Marvelous Seki, or Jun Sekibayashi,
he's a hellish monster that specializes in death-match-style fighting.
[Naoya] Huh?
He was only allowed to be active on the circuit for a single year,
but his impact was huge.
He almost exclusively fought in death matches.
He plunged Chonichi into the depths of terror.
Two years ago, he faced the God of pro wrestling, Karugo Kurachi,
in a match they still talk about today,
called the "Death Match of 10,000 Fluorescent Light Bulbs."
He disappeared, and we thought he went back to hell.
I never could've imagined
that he'd show up here at the Life-or-Death Tournament!
Wow. So, that's the story, huh?
-Uh-huh. -You know quite a bit about that.
What is it with the scrawny guys? They always love pro wrestling.
[Suekichi coughs] All I'm trying to say
is that Seki's fighting style is totally different from Sekibayashi's, I swear.
Did this old-ass idiot really waste his chance to swap his fighter out
just so he could bring some freakin' pro wrestler into the mix?
Indeed. Looks like things are getting interesting.
I can't say that I particularly mind,
but I also don't understand what the president is doing.
That old man's delirious, and he'd better quit messing around.
If he loses, I am not gonna forgive him.
[Muteba] Come on. First, a monster, and now a clown?
[growls] Whatever.
I guess I'm not that normal either.
Okay, okay. Time for me to make you dance.
-[Sekibayashi growls] -[Muteba] Dance, clown.
Hey, mercenary!
I'm gonna beat you to death just like we do in my circle of hell!
[laughs] All right. I hear you, big boy.
Just go easy on me, okay?
You know I have a little experience with pro wrestling myself.
But, uh,
yeah.
[Muteba] Not the greatest fit for a place like this. Hmm.
All right, fighters! Here we go. Ready!
Master.
Begin!
[Sekibayashi groans]
-[Kaede gasps] -Whoa!
[all] Huh?
[all gasp]
[gasps]
[groans]
[Sekibayashi chuckles]
Huh?
If you poke my eyes out, you're gonna scare the audience away.
You amateur.
[groans]
[Sekibayashi chuckles]
Huh?
If you poke my eyes out, you're gonna scare the audience away.
You amateur.
[grunting]
[Sayaka] Wow! Just look at that Mongolian Chop!
Nice punch! Reverse horizontal.
Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch!
Reverse horizontal. Wowee, that is like a boatload of hits!
Punch, chop. Punch, chop. Punch, chop.
And the attacks just keep on coming!
[Tyson] Damn! I can almost feel that punch from here. Painful.
[narrator] He's throwing consecutive hits using only the strength of his arms.
These attacks are different than a trained martial artist's.
The punches aren't as powerful as they look,
but they have much more weight behind the blow.
They knock you off your center. That's why they're so hard to block.
[rock music playing]
Ha. Are you feeling scared now, you bastard?
His attacks look like he's trying to push punch.
Seems pretty similar to our thrust punches.
There's no way his body is big enough to resist when he gets shoved back.
[Sekibayashi yells]
-[groaning] -[grunting]
[Sekibayashi] You all right there?
I don't want you to take the easy way out.
That shit won't work with him, dumbass!
[grunting]
Yeah!
[Sekibayashi] DDT!
[Sayaka] DDT!
-Oh! -What a move!
[cheering]
No, damn it! How could he have fallen for that?
That was so good. Yes!
GEN SHIKANO GANDAI PRESIDENT
[Shikano] No. He's been using his elbow to redistribute the force.
Be careful, Sekibayashi.
Muteba's not the type that will let you take him out.
[chuckling]
[Muteba] I don't get it.
Why would you put yourself into a position that sets you at a disadvantage?
[Sayaka] Whoa!
The tables have turned! Marvelous Seki is in a tough spot.
If his left hand loses its grip, then he'll be put in the mount position!
[chuckles] Why don't you try grabbing my hair?
[rock music playing]
[Sekibayashi straining]
[Sekibayashi] Is that the best you've got?
If you're not afraid right now,
then you do not know pro wrestling.
-[Sekibayashi yells] -[Muteba groans]
-[Muteba yells in pain] -[high-pitched ringing]
Now then, so what do you think?
Are you still able to see?
[groans]
[Sekibayashi grunts]
[Sekibayashi laughs]
-[grunts] -[high-pitched ringing]
[Muteba] Shit. You really did it this time.
[chuckling]
[Muteba] No problem.
There's a bit of noise in the way,
but I should still be able to use my left ear to fight.
He's five steps away.
Three. Two.
[high-pitched ringing]
[Muteba grunts]
[groans]
No!
[grunts] What? How is he still able to see?
-[Sekibayashi grunts] -[high-pitched ringing]
[Muteba] I've updated your location.
[Muteba grunts]
[Muteba laughs]
[Muteba] You don't know how to dodge, do you?
Perfect.
You're a great punching bag.
[whimpers]
[grunting]
[groaning]
[Sekibayashi laughs]
Huh?
[Sekibayashi] Come on now.
Are you going to run away every time I punch you back?
That's what I'd expect from a little sissy bastard like you!
Go on. Hit me as much as you want.
Haven't you realized yet that fighters are at their most vulnerable
the moment they go in to attack?
[laughs]
Have you never heard of losing a battle to win a war?
Japanese people don't make much sense to me.
Huh? What'd he say?
[gasps]
[Wakatsuki] Footwork?
[tense music playing]
What is this? Are you pretending to be a boxer?
[Muteba] All I need to do is pretend.
I don't need to be real if I'm fighting a fake like you.
[tense music continues]
[Sekibayashi yells]
[groaning]
[gasps] He's aiming for where he's injured!
-[Sekibayashi groans] -[Muteba laughs]
[Muteba] That must have hurt, huh? Don't be embarrassed.
It's natural.
-[Sekibayashi grunts] -Pro wrestlers are only human.
[both grunt]
[man] What is this? I didn't pay to watch 'em spar!
[grunting]
[Wakatsuki] Muteba totally changed up the way he's attacking.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Muteba's a professional mercenary.
[Sayaka] …punches flying!
[Wakatsuki] He's not an expert in hand-to-hand combat.
However, it didn't take very long for him to adapt to what the fight needed.
[grunting]
[chuckles]
[Muteba] So, footwork, huh?
I've never used that technique on the battlefield before.
[Sekibayashi grunting]
-[Sekibayashi roars] -[rock music playing]
[Sekibayashi groans]
[Muteba] But this part here? This is the same shit I do out there.
[Sekibayashi groans]
[Sekibayashi yells]
[groans]
Say good night!
[all gasp]
[both gasp]
[stifles cry]
[Haruo] Master!
[rock music playing]
[music fades]
[narrator] I don't care who I'm up against.
I just want to wrestle in my own style!
Look! This is pro-wrestling. This is what it's all about.
This is who Jun Sekibayashi is! Next episode, "Dignity."