Maruo Kaido and Ten vs. Kotton and Wakku

Powers and Abilities| **Superhuman Strength****Ceiling Warping** | **Ittan-Momen Physiology*** **Superspeed**

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**Maruo Kaido and Ten vs. Kotton and Wakku** is a tag-team ritual duel between the Urara Family members Maruo Kaido and Ten against the Todoroki Alliance's leader Kotton and Team 1 Captain Wakku.

## Prelude

Seeking help from the Todoroki Alliance to take down the Enma Syndicate, the Urara Family approach the biker gang at Shinjuku 04 during the middle of their ride but ends up causing them to be displeased with their road blocking. After ordering his men to settle down, Kotton shows himself to Urara, Maruo, and Ten to demand that they move out of his gang's way and threatens to run them over with his bike if they continue. Knowing full well that Kotton respected Kio as one of his previous executives in the Enma Syndicate, Urara reveals herself as Kio's daughter by showing him the tanto as proof. Kotton becomes convinced and bows down before Urara to apologize for being unable to prevent her father's death. He then declares to her that the Todoroki Alliance will be of service to her.

However, Kotton states his disapproval of having to work with both Maruo and Ten after viewing them as being worthless and demanded that they leave Urara's side. Hearing this, Urara puts off teaming up with Kotton but hears his refusal to allow her out of his sight out of respect for Kio. With Maruo also refusing to yield, Oboro proposes to the Urara Family a ritual duel where the Todoroki Alliance will agree to be under Urara's leadership and accept her allies if they lost. Urara and Maruo accept and agree on the condition that if the Urara Family lost then Urara will have no choice but to submit to the Todoroki Alliance and part ways with Maruo and Urara, who will violently tortured by the biker gang.

After the Todoroki Alliance sets up a barrier around the entirety of the Shinjuku 04 to serve as the ring for the ritual duel, Maruo and Ten come face-to-face with Kotton and the Todoroki Alliance's Team 1 captain Wakku, while Oboro serves as referee.

## Battle

After entering their yokai forms and finish uttering the sacred words, Kotton starts off the ritual duel by charging at Maruo with his ittan-momen high-speed movement. Maruo manages to stand back up, despite being badly injured from the attack, but is overwhelmed by Kotton continuously charging at him from all directions of the park, resulting in him being put back down on the ground. Seeing as how he is struggling, Urara uses her telepathy to communicate with Maruo and relays to him Kotton's weak points, which is head or heart-engine he needed to strike him at in order to defeat him. Maruo then sees Kotton charging at him once again and manages to react on time to grab on to him while he is running to strike his heart-engine from behind. However, Maruo sees that his punch did not go through Kotton's body entirely and is told by the ittan-momen that he was too slow in his attack. After having his hands tied, Maruo is led up to the sky where Kotton has him sent falling down to claim victory.

As this is happening, Ten is left having to fight Wakku and quickly admits defeat, seeing as how his yojutsu is unable to help him against his opponent's wanyudo yojutsu when there are no ceiling for him to phase through. Seeing such weakness being displayed, Wakku becomes disappointed by Ten and takes it as a reflection on Maruo and Urara and begins to insult them to his face. Furious to hear such mockery, Ten becomes resolved to face Wakku again and enters his yokai form after putting on his mask. After missing Ten with his yojutsu, Wakku causes the ground to flip beneath him and sees Ten dropping down the opening. Thinking that he is trying to escape, Wakku goes after Ten but sees that he is nowhere to be found, making him realize that he phased through the highway. After panicking to see his motorcycle falling through the ceiling, Wakku figures out that Ten's mask gives him the power to increase range of his yojutsu to drag objects down with him, which makes him realize too late that Ten phased the Todoroki Alliance's motorcycles through the ceiling to have them fall on top of the wanyudo. With Wakku out of commission from being buried, Ten becomes the victor and decides to hide until Maruo is finished with his match against Kotton.

Maruo manages to stop himself from falling by slamming his hand through the building in front of him and eventually lands on solid ground. He then hears from Urara that she has come up with another plan to defeat Kotton, which is to lure him to Shinjuku Nagara Falls, a fountain in the park, and have him soaked in the fountain water in order to weigh down his cloth body. Following her instructions, Maruo catches Kotton's attention by spouting insults at him and heads towards the fountain as Kotton starts chasing him from behind. Seeing him coming in close, Maruo moves out of the way on time to have the ittan-momen crash into Shinjuku Nagara Falls. However, realizing what was up ahead, Kotton creates a cloth parachute out of his arms to slow himself down right on time. To see that the plan is a success, Maruo comes in from behind to destroy the fountain and causes an eruption that will soak both combatants. Kotton then uses his speed to move back and dodge the oncoming droplets before he is covered by the eruption but is thrown through the fountain after Maruo grabs onto his leg.

Though Kotton is rendered immobile after his cloth body is covered in water, Maruo stops short on his punch to clarify to Kotton that the Urara Family has no intentions on bringing down the Todoroki Alliance but are not looking to lose again. Moved by his statement, Kotton admits to Maruo his defeat. Before passing out from exhaustion, Maruo happily tells a worried Urara coming his way that he won and that he had fun in his battle. Seeing Urara worrying about Maruo's condition, Kotton remarks that Urara is a good leader to her gang and that he has come to acknowledge Maruo.

## Aftermath

As per their agreement, the Todoroki Alliance officially ally themselves with the Urara Family and drive off with them on their motorcycles as they head to Kabukicho.