Foolish Survivor -Flying High-

Nerve fully restored, Fumihiko Takaba takes charge of the bout with Kenjaku. A run of nonsensical spectacles pours out of his imagination, each one defying sense and chipping away at the centuries-old opponent.

Kenjaku conjures Akuro-o Otake, a rebel spirit of special grade, but the move gets him nowhere: posing as a wasted motorist, Takaba simply rams the curse with a truck and erases it in one beat. Caught by the same vehicle, Kenjaku flips to a police officer and forces a breathalyzer rigged around a fish that is already dying, a scam Takaba immediately exposes. The skit shifts to a hospital, where both wear scrubs and try to revive the suddenly massive fish; the defibrillator jolts Takaba rather than the patient, and the creature perishes anyway. A nurse routine and a swung stethoscope come next, after which the two agree to let rock, paper, scissors decide.

When each throws scissors, they wind up jamming fingers into one another's noses, and the jolt drags Kenjaku briefly back to lucidity. He understands the power runs deeper than projecting fantasy, since it compels even his own thoughts to join in, a phenomenon he names soul resonance. A game show segment follows, with Kenjaku deliberately fumbling answers and getting scolded, before a sprint toward answer doors is cut short by a stray cat in the road facing a car. Takaba rushes over to rescue it. The supposed animal is Kenjaku himself, ears and all, mugging absurdly. Takaba is hit, becomes a drowning cat, and the pair finish surfing and jet-skiing, soaking each other in joy. Kenjaku admits no centuries have been this fun and says the fight repaid every ounce of Culling Game effort, just before the water proves to be Fanta.

Defeat dawns on him: his wounds keep stacking while Takaba shrugs off everything, so brute force is hopeless here. Satisfying Takaba's hunger for comedy is the lone path forward. Dropping the fight altogether, Kenjaku offers to team up, and the two mount the stage together as a comic duo.

Set during the Shinjuku Showdown Arc at the Lake Gosho Colony in Iwate Prefecture, the installment pushes the Fumihiko Takaba versus Kenjaku bout ahead, with Comedian squaring off against Cursed Spirit Manipulation and its rebel curse Akuro-o Otake. Its title sustains the running musical homage, and the joke-heavy pages teem with references to other anime, games, and Japanese pop culture.