The Absolute King

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**The Absolute King** is the thirty-ninth episode of Cap Revolution Bottleman DX. It first aired in Japan on TV Osaka on December 25, 2022.

## Content

### Summary

The Bottle King Citrus fell down mysteriously!? The venue is agitated, but he gets up and continues the Bottle Battle immediately! The attacks fired one after another from Dragogina DX are calm and accurate. Ryo is at the mercy of the four simultaneous vertical shots. He is chased by the shots without a chance!! Continuing to dodge with a narrow escape, Ryo boldly stands up! In addition, Cota also joins the fight! What would happen to the future of Bottle Battles~!?

### Plot

After waking up from his unconsciousness, Citrus suddenly seems to have become more robotic and emotionless, and attacks Ryo unprompted. He soon outwits Ryo's maneuvers, eliminating Ryo, who finds him behaving oddly, out of the Bottle Royale. In fact, everyone finds Citrus peculiar for suddenly having superhuman speed and reflexes, while also being emotionless. Before Cota can react, he is already out of the match as well, and he in confusion watches his friend running away as if they don't know each other.

As Citrus strikes the Deluxe Target, everybody has different reactions. While Machiko is too astonished by the turn of events, Io is concerned.

Citrus is then interviewed, but instead he shows a hacked projection regarding Vital Sync's development, claiming that it is the source of disorder of the Bottle Battling world, and that both B-DACT and BMA are both responsible for its invention. Being exposed, Machiko soon scrams for her life, with Rootbeer accompanying her into hiding. Citrus then continues with how he was being used as part of the experiments for Vital Sync, and despite being unscathed, he decides that the nation no longer needs the organizations as regulations, and will push forward with a new Bottle Battling format firstly by wiping rankings clean. Due to his status as the Bottle King, most of the audiences aren't suspicious of his sudden change in demeanor, cheering for his notion instead.

However, some other players, like Shiman, finds Citrus's actions too unfair to BMA, despite BMA and the authorities needing to take responsibilities. Seimei also remarks that calling the new kind of proposed tournament "birth" instead of creation is also very sketchy.

A week later, Citrus begins initiating the new Bottle Battling format through Team Citrus, which is to hyper-optimize Bottle Battling by removing emotions, and also forcing its members to wield a standardized model of Bottlemen. The targets also have high performance sensors built into them to judge the abilities of Bottle Battlers, and the winners are purely determined by the skills of the players using the standardized Bottlemen. However, those with outstanding skills are given personalized Bottlemen, while those who fail constantly, like Santa, will be forced to keep training through electrocution. In fact, the electrocution is called Reburst, which is an advanced version of Vital Sync built into every Bottleman that is intended to remove all emotions. Citrus also insists there will be no danger imposed by Reburst at all.

After watching the video report about this new format, Iroha finds it to dull for Bottle Battling. Mitsuya then arrives, adding strongly that this format shouldn't even be considered as Bottle Battling at all, and tells Cota and Iroha then he has decided to opt out of Team Citrus, since he doesn't want to abandon his partner Arrowcider DX. Mitsuya is in fact disappointed with how removing emotions is Citrus's ideal, and worries for Santa's well-being.

Other major players also have different reactions towards this news. Kaori is mad that Citrus has made his players homogeneous, but is interested in prying into his mindset. Shiman, however, is angry that this format removes individuality of players, which is unethically unfair. Ayata also wants to help Cota stand up for the justice of Bottle Battling. The three of them then meet up unknowingly, and share a knowing smile.

Shiman, Kaori and Ayata then proceed to find Leo, who leads them to many other Bottle Battlers as well as Tsubasa. Kochaka Dean then helps them interrupt the news report about Reburst and Team Citrus, with Tsubasa rallying other players to challenge Citrus against them in a rematch. Ryo, after watching the hijacked broadcast, then decides to consult and confront Io about the deal of Vital Sync, as his way to investigate.

## Trivia

### In the episode

* This is the last episode to use Readycap! as the series' theme song. The following episode and the rest of the series use ResQ!! as its replacement onward.
* This is the second time Cota is eliminated during a Bottle Royale since Episode 34.

### Characters

*Note:* All characters are listed in order of their first appearances in the episode. The time they appear is the time from the Japanese dub.

## Gallery

### Title screens

#### Title Cards

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