Maruo Kaido vs. Hashihime

## Maruo vs. Hashihime

Powers and Abilities| **Superhuman Strength*** Super Smart Attack

**Maruo Kaido vs. Hashihime** is a battle between the Urara Family member Maruo Kaido and Shinjuku Gyoen's border guard Hashihime.

## Prelude

In order to enter Shinjuku undetected by security, Urara leads Maruo to Shinjuku Gyoen and has him face the border guard Hashihime. After arriving and encountering Hashihime, Maruo becomes baffled by the Ayashimon's large yokai appearance. Though he was ready to face her, Hashihime easily defeats Maruo after knocking him back into a pond with one blow, giving Hashihime the impression that he is weaker than a fly.

With Maruo out of the way, Hashihime, in her human form, bows down to Urara, her former attendee after the death of her father Kioh. She then requests to the little Ayashimon that she stay away from Shinjuku due to the Enma Syndicate becoming more dangerous than before, as well as her being at risk of being targeted if others where to discover her true identity as Kio's illegitimate child. Urara tells Hashihime that she refuses to abandon her goal to seek revenge on the people responsible for her father's death and take back the family crest as the one memento Kio left for her.

After Maruo emerges from the pond full of exhilaration in knowing that he can experience more monster fights in Shinjuku, Hashihime enters back into her yokai form and faces Maruo in a one-on-one fight, with hopes of having Urara give up on her ambitions after defeating him.

## Battle

Maruo rushes in to attack but is unable to withstand Hashihime's solid blows that sends him crashing into the gardens. Seeing as how he is unable to overpower her, Maruo opts to using his brain in battle by throwing a powerful punch that breaks Hashihime's left arm, much to the Ayashimon's surprise since she pointed out that her wax body is stronger than steel. Maruo becomes thrilled that his strategy, which he credits to a manga he previously read, worked but gets the impression that Hashihime doesn't want to fight anymore. He then tells her that he is not willing to fight anyone who is not willing to fight back since it was no fun for him, which ticks off Hashihime after hearing him perceive their battle as being fun.

As the two continue on with their battle, Urara watches as a spectator and witnesses the garden being demolished, which she commented on as being a little too much for a fight. In the end, Maruo becomes the victor and leaves Hashihime lying on the ground defeated.

## Aftermath

Urara thanks Hashihime for her devotion but says that she will be on her way. After Hashihime states to Urara that she can tell that she is using Maruo as her pawn the same way as her, Urara asks her if she felt upset about this. Hashihime answers no, since she approves of how frighteningly strong Urara became since the last time they met.

Before allowing him leave, Hashihime informs Maruo that he should be cautious of the four most dangerous groups in Shinjuku, which are the newly reformed Enma Syndicate, the Todoroki Alliance, the Ayakashi ☆ B-Stars, and the Kori Hotel Group, and that he needs to learn the rules of the ritual duel in order to protect his bosses honor as a yakuza. Hearing this, Maruo finds himself being overwhelmed with the amount of new information sent to his brain.

## Trivia

* Maruo compared his fight with Hashihime to Kenshiro's fight against Devil Rebirth, even going so far as to use Kenshiro's trademark technique during the battle.

## References

*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (p. 6-7).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (p. 8-14).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (p. 14-16).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (p. 16-20).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (p. 21-22).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (p. 22-23).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (p. 23-25).