Chapter 22

## Chapter Guide

**Share the Same Fate** (一 (いち) 蓮 (れん) 托 (たく) 生 (しょう) だからね, *Ichi ren Takushōdakara ne*?) is the twenty-second chapter of *Ayashimon*.

## Summary

Not wanting to disturb the hotel guests, Maruo and the Todoroki Alliance face off against the Kori Hotel employees inconspicuously. After managing to have the guests leave the lobby, Tamagawa challenges Maruo to a ritual duel, to which he accepts. Upon the ring being set up, Maruo becomes surprised to see Doppo appearing before him.

## Plot Details

After Maruo knocks out a Kori Hotel employee at the entrance, Tamagawa is informed by an employee that the Todoroki Alliance have gathered around the hotel. Maruo telepathically alerts Urara that he and the Todoroki Alliance have arrived to save her, Ten, and Kotton and hears from her that they are at risk of being sealed away for a century by exorcists if he and the others aren't able to get past all 1,000 Kori Hotel employees within five hours. Maruo then promises Urara that they will save them on time and sees a mother and child walking out of the hotel in shock to find a Kori Hotel employee out cold on the ground. To cover up his actions, Maruo pretends to be an employee who finds his superior asleep on the job, which manages to fool the mother and child as they walk away.

Seeing as how the human guests have nothing to do with the quarrels concerning the two sides, Maruo suggests to Oboro in fighting off their enemies without having the guests notice, which at the same time, also becomes an order by Tamagawa to the Kori Hotel employees. The Todoroki Alliance willing follow Maruo's recommendation and engages the Kori Hotel employees in an inconspicuous battle. As Maruo starts fighting, Urara advices him to target the tails of the Kori Hotel employees since that is the weakness of both a kitsune and tanuki and waits calmly for him to come rescue her as she states to a worried Ten that she has faith in him. As he heads to the lobby, Tamagawa puts out an order to quickly look into Maruo's identity. After Maruo accidently causes a scene by sending an employee crashing into a wall, Tamagawa appears to cover up the incident by wishing a guest, Daigo Nonaka, a happy birthday and explains to him that the fighting was in celebration for the occasion and that he and the other guests would have to leave the lobby in order for the hotel to clean up after the showcase.

With all the guests out of the lobby, Maruo is challenged to a ritual duel by Tamagawa and accepts, stating his refusal to allow Tamagawa to get in the Urara Family's way. With the challenged accepted, the Kori Hotel employees set up the ring with musical instruments being played alongside the tsuzumi drums, as a way to maintain the classiness of the hotel and to further prevent any guests from noticing the fighting. Tamagawa then informs Maruo that the person he will be fighting will not be him. Hearing the classical music being played, Urara takes it as a sign that the ritual duel has started and is warned by Kotton that Tamagawa is not to be underestimated since he is a foe who likes to use underhanded tactics. Back at the lobby, Maruo looks in shock to see Doppo Akari, instead of Tamagawa, standing in front of him as he utters the sacred words to the ritual duel.

## Navigation

 Volume 3 | 17  •  18  •  19  •  20  •  21  •  **22**  •  23  •  24  •  25

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