Todoroki Alliance Arc

## Arc Chronology

The **Todoroki Alliance Arc** is the third story arc of *Ayashimon*.

The arc focuses on the Urara Family going up against the Todoroki Alliance in hopes of having them as allies for their plan to take down the Enma Syndicate.

## Summary

### A New Resolve

After entering the Shinjuku Subnade as suggested by Ten, Urara and Maruo manage to escape from the Enma Syndicate through Ten's yojutsu that allows him and others to phase through ceilings. While hiding at an unused tunnel, Ten watches over Urara and Maruo and helps them to recuperate.

After two weeks had passed since the Enma Syndicate's gang violence, Maruo makes an early recovery while Urara finally wakes up from her rest after dreaming about her father. Urara then receives news about the Enma Syndicate using their connections with the police to cover up their activities and hears from Ten being unable to get in contact with Hashihime through her work number, causing her to assume that the worse has happened to her. Ten then suggests to Urara in giving up on her plans to take down the Enma Syndicate due to the three of them being outclassed. In response, Urara sincerely apologizes to both Maruo and Ten for taking advantage of them in her plans to avenge her father, to which she has come to realize that she was simply trying to vent out her frustrations from the times she never gotten a chance to meet her father before his death. To raise her spirits, Maruo gives Urara a manga to read and blames himself for not living up to her expectations as a strong bodyguard. He also gives his sympathy about having conflicting relationship with fathers and tells her that is willing to commit to serving under her, as well get payback at Doppo. Having been delighted to hear this from him, Urara engraves an irezumi onto his back, instead of having Ten sketch one as per her subordinate's request to show his determination, and extends her own. She then asks for Maruo's and Ten's assistance as she prepares to confront the Enma Syndicate again.

### Losing is Not an Option

Realizing that their best course of action to fight back against the Enma Syndicate is to seek out the Todoroki Alliance's assistance, Urara, Maruo, and Ten approach the biker gang at Shinjuku 04. The three are then met with hostile due to interrupting the gang's meeting on the road, which results in the leader Kotton making his appearance to force them to out of the way. Knowing that Kotton was one of Kio's former executives in the Enma Syndicate who had the most respect for the chairman, Urara reveals her identity to him as Kio's daughter in hopes that he might comply with her. After reacting in shock, Kotton bows down before Urara to apologize for not being at Kio's side to prevent his death and tells her that he and the Todoroki Alliance are more than willing to assist her. Though they managed to have the Todoroki Alliance onboard with their plan, Maruo finds himself thrown by Kotton after he found him and Ten useless subordinates to Urara and demanded that they leave their site. With Maruo refusing to listen to Kotton, along with Urara refusing to abandon them, Oboro suggests settling the matter with a ritual duel where if her side wins then the Todoroki Alliance will submit to her and her allies but, in the event that the Todoroki Alliance wins, she will have no other choice but to follow with Kotton's demands and have the biker gang do whatever they please with Maruo and Ten. After hearing the terms, Maruo and Urara agree to the challenge.

Seeing as how she can't maintain her yokai form for more than a minute, Urara has Ten pair up with Maruo as they face Kotton and Wakku. The match then starts out with Kotton and Wakku gaining the upper hand against their opponents, as Maruo becomes unable to dodge the leader's ittan-momen high-speed attacks, and with Ten leaving himself wide open for Wakku to strike him over the head and realizing that his powers to warp through ceilings can do nothing to help him when there are none around. To help Maruo, Urara secretly communicates with him through the irezumi on his back to give him information on Kotton's race and that he must strike at either his head or heart-engine to defeat him. Going off of Urara's info, Maruo grabs onto Kotton as he is speeding and strikes him from behind to reach his heart-engine. However, Maruo sees that his fist did not go all the way through, leading to Kotton telling him that he was slow in his attack and that he needed more than brute strength to defeat him. Kotton then leads Maruo up in the air to have him fall to his death.

At the same time, Ten finds his head spinning around his body, due to the effects of Wakku's wanyudo yojutsu, and is kicked away after vomiting from being dizzy. Not wanting to fight anymore, Ten tells Wakku that he gives up on fighting him. Wakku becomes disappointment with Ten for being weak and believes that this weakness also applies to Maruo and Urara, leading Ten to becoming furious with Wakku as he starts to throw out insults at his comrades. Refusing to let him get away with this, Ten changes his mind in giving up and faces Wakku again by putting on his mask. After avoiding being hit by Wakku's yojutsu attack that leads to the wanyudo striking the ground and causing it to flip over, Ten dives down the opening to phase inside the highway and tricks Wakku into going after him below by making him think that he is trying to escape. Though he realized that Ten used his yojutsu to hide himself after dropping down, Wakku figures that he has nothing to worry about since Ten could not hide forever. Upon noticing his motorcycle falling through the ceiling, Wakku panics and checks to see if there was any damage done. Realizing too late that Ten's mask increases the range of his yojutsu, allowing him to bring down anything from above, Wakku looks up in shock to see the bikes of the Todoroki Alliance falling through the ceiling and becomes buried, resulting in Ten's victory.

To stop himself from falling, Maruo grabs ahold of the building he is falling from and lands on the roof below to hear Urara out after she informs him that she has come up with a new plan to defeat Kotton. Kotton becomes impressed with how Maruo managed to avoid defeat but, while rocketing towards him, states that the Todoroki Alliance are the only ones capable of protecting Urara. Maruo then falls once more after Kotton destroys the roof he is standing on but luckily lands flat on his back on the platform beneath. Having shared the same pain as Maruo as he was falling, due to her telepathy, Urara is noticed by Oboro to be looking unwell and covers up her secret communication with Maruo by telling him that she was merely feeling back pain. After shifting locations, Urara explains to Maruo her plan to defeat Kotton, telling him that he needed soak him in water by luring him towards Shinjuku Niagara Falls, the park fountain, since cloth becomes heavy when wet. While willing to follow her instructions, Maruo asks Urara as to why she was going to such great lengths to help him and Ten since, according to the bargain, she will end up with the Todoroki Alliance as allies either way. Urara responds by yelling at Maruo for questioning her and explains to him that she can only rely on him (as well as Ten) since she believes that he understands her better than anybody.

Having reached the park, Maruo tricks Kotton into chasing after him by throwing insults and heads towards the fountain. As per Urara's instructions, Maruo moves at the last minute Kotton comes charging towards him to have him crash into the fountain ahead. However, Kotton uses his cloth arms to create a parachute to stop himself as he comes close to the fountain. To ensure that the plan is a success, Maruo comes in from behind to destroy the fountain and causes an eruption. Before the eruption could cover both combatants, Kotton quickly backs away and avoids having a single droplet touch his body. However, Maruo grabs Kotton's leg and throws him into the fountain, resulting in the plan to weigh him down succeeding. Although he is presented with an opportunity to finish off his opponent, Maruo stops near Kotton's face to tell him that, despite the Todoroki Alliance trying to terminate the Urara Family, the Urara Family has no intentions on taking down the Todoroki Alliance but are not willing to lose either. Amused by his statement, Kotton happily admits his defeat. Maruo then sees a worried Urara coming in to check on him and tells her that he won in his fight and that he had fun. Watching Urara worrying for Maruo in her arms, Kotton tells her that she is a good leader to her gang and that he has come to acknowledge Maruo.

### Chairman Kio

After regaining consciousness, Maruo finds himself tied to Oboro as he is riding on his motorcycle and sees Ten and Urara riding with the Todoroki Alliance as well. Honoring their agreement, Kotton announces to Maruo that the Todoroki Alliance will officially support the Urara Family. While riding off, Kotton takes the time to tell them about how he met Kio and joined up with the Enma Syndicate to be a part of the chairman's plans to unite the country as a way to make way towards a bright future for Ayashimon. After the chairman died risking his life for the Enma Syndicate, Kotton explains to them that he disbanded from the organization since he only wished to serve Kio and had placed the blame on the organization for his death. As for how Doppo became Kio's successor, Oboro tells them that it wasn't until late at Kio's funeral that Doppo showed up with Kio's will, along with the lawyers in charge of holding them, that has him declared as the next chairman of the Enma Syndicate, which meant for Maruo and Ten that only he knows why he was appointed. Kotton tells the Urara Family that it's too soon for them to confront the Enma Syndicate since Kabukicho has now become a dangerous area and that they need more allies on their side, which he recommends Rokurogi of Ayakashi ☆ B-Stars.

Meanwhile, Rokurogi and the members of Ayakashi ☆ B-Stars are defeated by an unknown group of females, which leads to Rokurogi assuming that they are underlings of the Enma Syndicate. One of the females corrects him by saying that they are associates of Enma and kills Rokurogi by stealing his shirikodama, much to her partners disapproval since he would have became their underling after having already won against him in their ritual duel. The female then reveals themselves to be members of a newly opened cabaret called Cabaret Undine to a active B-Star member.

## Battles and Events

* The Urara Family escape from the Enma Syndicate with help from Ten's yojutsu, while also killing a few members from the yakuza group in the process.
* The gang violence caused by the Enma Syndicate is covered up by the police.
* Urara and Maruo spend two weeks recuperating in an unused tunnel in the Shinjuku Subnade while being attended by Ten.
	+ Hashihime's fate is left unknown to the three.
* The Todoroki Alliance agree to ally with the Urara Family.
	+ Maruo Kaido and Ten vs. Kotton and Wakku

## Characters Introduced

* Nobusuma
* Hishaku Watari
* Oboro
* Wakku
* Kotton

## References

*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 10.
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 11 (pp. 1-5).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 11 (pp. 6-23).