Battle 557

Battle 557 is titled Outbreak of War.
==Summary==
A unit of Yami's soldiers are seen marching and the captain warns them to stay on their guard against enemies, whether they be armed or not.  A soldier reports movement inside the forest and the captain immediately orders a bombing despite having some of their allies within.  Helicopters bombard the forest and it is engulfed with fire but the masters of Ryōzanpaku, along with Kagerō Kiii, James Shiba, and Danki Kugatachi, knock out the front line of soldiers and calmly walk away from the fire. 
A unit takes aim at the Ryōzanpaku unit and fires their guns but the masters are too quick and they dodge the barrage.  The masters proceed to incapacitate the soldiers en masse and Danki asks for Apachai's assistance to throw him towards the helicopters.  Danki knocks out the pilot for one of the helicopters and warns the rest to jump out, as he rams the helicopter towards another and crashing them.  Yami's command center reports that Ryōzanpaku has already taken down an entire battalion of soldiers and Saiga Fūrinji calls the soldiers useless, commenting that masters can only be fought by other masters.
Kagerō and Danki notice that the forces are thinnning and it is time for them to advance, while Kōetsuji chides James to be more serious.  James observes that it is not necessary, adding that his "objective is just one person" as he places his hand over his eyepatch.  Danki calls for them to advance as an arrow flies towards him, which is quickly parried by Kagerō's hoe.  Mihai Știrbey aims a strike for Danki but he catches the scythe with his cane and Sakaki kicks at Știrbey who jumps away into the smoke of the battlefield.  Sakaki forces the smoke away and the masters of the One Shadow Nine Fists and Hachiō Executioner Blade are gathered together, prepared to fight the Ryōzanpaku unit.
Further away from the island, the submarine carrying the Shinpaku Alliance has surfaced and the passengers are seen riding inflatable rafts towards the Yami base.  Okamoto warns them to stay hidden and to travel fast; while the masters are engaging Yami in combat they need to infiltrate the base and render their missiles useless.
==Characters that Appeared==
*Kagerō Kii
*Shio Sakaki
*Akisame Kōetsuji
*Kensei Ma
*Apachai Hopachai
*James Shiba
*Danki Kugatachi
*Saiga Fūrinji
*Mildred Lawrence
*Mihai Știrbey
*Edeltraft von Schiller
*Isshinsai Ogata
*Marmaduke Brown
*Mikumo Kushinada
*Sōgetsu Ma
*Akira Hongō
*Cyril Rahman
*Rin Tachibana
*Raki Hoshinano
*Agaard Jum Sai
*Okamoto
*Ikki Takeda
*Kisara Nanjō
*Kaname Kugatachi
*Kōzō Ukita
*Kenichi Shirahama
*Miu Fūrinji
*Hibiki Kugenin
==Navigation==
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