Wind Coiler

The party confirms Guts is himself again before dodging another advancing spout. When his Brand of Sacrifice stirs, Guts concludes that Daiba is an Apostle or something close to one, and the thought briefly lets the Beast of Darkness clamp the helmet shut around his head. Schierke's astral form peels the creature off his ego once more, and the helmet retracts.

Warned that he must stay clear-headed or lose himself, Guts steadies his mind by recalling the harm he did to Casca under the Beast's grip. He then calls Serpico into the fight, and the two make towering leaps from the wharf toward the mage. Guts carves a chunk out of a passing waterspout to draw Daiba's eye, and Serpico closes in with his sylph sword, only for the razor wind to be swallowed by another column of water.

Split between two attackers, Daiba grabs a nearby spout that yanks him up and out of Guts' reach, leaving him rattled atop the swirling water. Still certain of victory, he readies another spell and instead takes a serious wound to his flank from an explosive hurled by Isidro.

With his focus broken, Daiba's levitation collapses and he tumbles onto the galleass among its rowers. As Guts rushes in for a finishing strike, the mage summons his most fearsome working yet: the Kundalini, a vast serpent formed entirely of water. Rising from beneath the vessel, it splits the deck in two and coils around the mast with Daiba riding its head. Schierke understands that this creature is the true source of his effortless mastery over water, and warns that its power dwarfs any astral being Guts has met. The serpent lowers its head toward him as he springs clear of the wreck.

The chapter spans twenty-one pages within the Millennium Falcon Arc and debuted in Young Animal issue 08 on April 14, 2006. Isidro's thrown explosive marks the first solid hit anyone lands on Daiba during the harbor clash. The episode title nods to Daiba's whirling waterspouts, the coiling wind-and-water columns he wields throughout the battle.