Kyoto Sister School Goodwill Event - Team Battle, Part 6

By tapping the power bound up in his elder brother, Panda swings the momentum of his clash with Mechamaru. Once their exchange ends, the two former enemies discover a quiet common ground. On another part of the field, Kasumi starts to see the real scale of Maki's fighting skill.

A memory takes us to Panda's childhood, where Yaga revealed the existence of two elder siblings, a brother as well as a sister. The young Panda waved this off as wrong, so Yaga went on to explain. At birth Panda carried a trio of energy cores; two among them belonged to his siblings. Yaga trusted that each of them would one day be known to Panda, since both stood ready forever to feed him their power.

In the live fight, Mechamaru's one usable arm throws up an Ultra Shield, yet Gorilla Mode's brute force tears straight through the defense. Blocking does nothing to spare him, because the Unblockable Drumming Beat rattles its impact deep inside Mechamaru's body. Both combatants size up the situation. Mechamaru cannot endure a second Drumming Beat and has no Ultimate Cannon left, while Panda recognizes he has already crippled two cores; even so, Gorilla Mode devours huge cursed energy and is his absolute last resort, and in close quarters Panda owns the advantage Mechamaru would need.

Snatching a tile from the roof, Mechamaru flings it, then rockets behind Panda on elbow boosters to jab his core, praising the puppet for its showing. Panda grips the arm and discloses that he can mask his core's true spot by squeezing cursed energy into a lone point of his body. One devastating palm blow then ruins Mechamaru, caving the head and tearing away the surviving arm, and Panda tells him the defeat came from looking down on a doll. The two relate because neither feels the way their classmates do, yet Panda envies no human despite their crude habits; he simply likes them for traits he himself lacks, and he asks Mechamaru what drew him to this path. Kokichi wishes for a day spent walking among peers in a sound body, and Panda, untroubled by looks, takes his phone before walking off. Across the field, Kasumi can scarcely fend off Maki's barrage and realizes how absurdly strong she is. Set at Tokyo Jujutsu High, this chapter closes Panda vs. Ultimate Mechamaru and opens Maki Zenin vs. Kasumi Miwa inside the Spirit Bash Race, adapting into Episode 16.