Episode Title:
Heart and Reason
Episode Description:
Genji is fatally wounded but when Sagiri tries to help him, he tells her to run. Just as the monstrous Rokurota is about to attack her, she is saved by Gabimaru. Gabimaru tries to assesses Rokurota's abilities but he is unable to find any weakness. The dying Genji realizes that Sagiri as treading the middle path between, heart and reason, weakness and strength, and gives her his blade. She uses it to slice off one of Rokurota's fingers, and together she and Gabimaru attack him however they are completely overwhelmed. Gabimaru is forced to use his Ninpo Ascetic Blaze Mode techniques to attack Rokurota with balls of flame. The jungle catches fire, producing smoke which starves Rokurota of oxygen and he collapses to his knees, enabling Sagiri to decapitate him. The island's giant monsters are attracted by the flames so Gabimaru and Sagiri free from the inferno in the direction from which the monsters came. They both realize that the sooner they find the elixir, the more lives can be saved and the quicker they can leave the island. They meet up with Senta and the ninja criminal Yuzuriha and the small group arrives at a village. Meanwhile, after slaughtering the monsters who attacked them, Chobei Aza and his younger brother Toma come across two naked androgynous lovers kissing in the jungle.
