The Heavens' rage, appease it
Pray, worship
A lonely night, feel the love
Drown in love, hunger for love
Split paths, carved into the heart
Begrudge time, envy others
This body is colored by the troubled times
These drenched fists are tied down
A lonely night, feel the love
Drown in love, hunger for love
Days of disgrace, seek excitement
Fear the past, frozen by darkness
Torn eyes, entwined minds
A hoarse voice lingers about
The more we struggle
The more we run
The grief becomes endless
Endless, endless
You may take everything there is
Your wishes may be granted
You'll still be swallowed by the emptiness of being alone
Feel fulfilled, feel fulfilled
Legends of the Dark King Feel fulfilled, feel fulfilled
Legends of the Dark King Fist of the North Star Feel fulfilled, feel fulfilled
Legends of the Dark King Fist of the North Star
Feel fulfilled, feel fulfilled
Humankind, indulgent during peacetime, fell into madness
and was eventually struck by a hammer.
Nuclear flames scorched the entire land.
Everything was destroyed.
Order and human compassion were left in ashes,
and the few survivors were left to face the dark end of an era.
A world where power was everything.
Power was justice.
A time where those with power had everything,
and those without power could only cower in fear.
My Fists are for the Heavens!
You okay, old timer?
Yes...
We're almost to the village.
I know.
It was worth the long trip.
With this much milk, the infants in the village...
Oh, no!
Hide!
What a great haul!
I love this era!
We can take whatever we want by force!
Be it liquor, meat or women!
The world was now made up of those who took and those who they took from.
Those without power could only clench the dry soil and pray...
for a savior to bring peace in these troubled times.
We won't have to worry about finding food for the time being!
Son of a bitch!
Why's a big fella like you standing still there?!
We almost scratched Bro's precious wheels!
Get outta the way!
Out of my way.
Huh? What did you just say?
Are you retarded?
Don't you understand the situation you're in?!
We're the invincible Jirai Gang!
You're the one who's moving out of the way!
Stop wasting time on this moron and move on!
I really want to kill you, but I'll let it slide this time.
C'mon! Let us pass!
I refuse.
Huh?
If I stray from my path, the Heavens will laugh.
The Heavens?
Got a few screws loose?
Get lost before I'm done counting down.
Got it?
Five...
Four...
Three...
You son of a bitch!
Kill him!
You people are loud as sin.
Jirai, the Bro!
The Heavens will laugh?
What kind of bullshit is that?
What have the Heavens ever done?
They merely razed the land to bring about this age of power.
That's our bro!
Spoken like a learned man!
You can do anything you want if you have power.
Which means this is our time.
On closer look, you've got a nice body.
How about it?
Wanna join the Jirai Gang?
I might even make you a captain if you work hard enough.
Too petty.
Huh?
You're not satisfied with being a captain?
What do you want then?
Liquor? Meat?
The world,
the entire world at my feet.
Foolish dumbass...
I'm going to teach you a lesson.
That dumbasses and weaklings can't survive in this age!
Take this!
Chain Whip!
What?
My Chain Whip was...
Cheap tricks will not work against my fists.
You're exactly right.
The foolish and weak cannot survive.
Jirai, the Bro!
It's a monster! Jirai, the Bro!
It's a monster! Run for it!
Help! Run for it!
W..We'll let you pass!
PI..Please go right on ahead!
Let me pass?
Cowards who cannot even stay on their own path!
Leave!
To carry the tales which will shake the world.
My name is Raoh.
Ra..Raoh...
I've kept you waiting, Souga.
You really walked straight here.
One cannot turn from his path.
Turn and the Heavens will laugh.
You haven't changed.
Where's Reina?
We're meeting up ahead.
It's finally come.
I pledge to the gods that I will rule.
I shall use the fists the Heavens have granted me
to save this world.
Hey, it's this way.
They say to go around when you're in a hurry.
I do not turn from my path.
Do as you like.
I'm going on ahead.
Devil Rock Castle
Well done.
Very well done, Reina or whatnot.
It's as if an angel has come down to this steel fortress, Devil Rock Castle.
I am honored by your praise, Demon King.
You please me, Reina.
Starting today, you will be my courtesan and dance for me every day.
Myself?
My officials and vassals will rejoice when they can admire your dance at every feast.
A splendid idea!
No, she'd be wasted on you fools.
Become my wife instead of my courtesan.
Then you can have any luxury you desire.
Your words are more than a humble dancer from another land could ever deserve.
With all due respect, Demon King,
might I ask for one favor?
Let me hear it.
I'm willing to grant one or two hundred favors for you.
I have been journeying with my flute-playing brother, Souga, along with a koto player.
I would ask that you hire them to work in this court.
Yes, very well.
A simple matter.
Thank you very much.
So, your name is Souga?
You are quite skilled with that flute.
Thank you very much.
I am truly grateful for the Demon King's grace.
And where is the koto player?
He appears to be a little late,
but I believe he should arrive shortly.
He insists on staying to his own path without taking any shortcuts.
Hmm? What do you mean?
The sound of his koto is so beautiful
that once it's paired with Souga's flute, my dance will shine brighter.
I look forward to seeing it.
But it doesn't appear that he's arrived yet.
So, let us first
have some fun by ourselves!
Hey, hey, hey!
Who are you?
You're not from around here, are you?
Do you have any idea what this place is?
Goram the Demon King's Demon Rock Castle!
And we're his bodyguards, the Demon Army!
I was invited here by your Demon King.
What's that?
Don't make me laugh!
The Demon King would never invite a hooligan like you here!
Hmm? Is that a koto on your back?
So, what?
You're a musician who was invited to the feast?
That's right.
A musician with such a huge body?
Sounds fishy.
Then, why don't you play something for us right now to prove it?!
What? What's wrong?
If you can't play anything, we won't let you through.
This instrument isn't meant for the ears of fools like yourselves!
What was that?!
This son of a bitch wants to die.
Take him!
Wh..What's that?
You missed?
H..Hey!
S..Son of a bitch!
What do you think you're...
Take me to your leader...
so I can let him hear my koto.
Please let me go!
You will become my wife,
so it should not matter.
Show me the fair skin underneath that costume!
Please wait!
I will not wait!
No!
Demon King, it's terrible!
Why are you making such a racket?
Th..That is...
There's a man claiming to be a musician who wishes to meet you.
He destroyed the soldiers who tried to stop him.
Very well...
That man is one of Reina's companions.
Let him in.
Yes, my liege.
You are the Demon King?
You're the koto player?
This man has been ill-mannered since birth.
Please forgive him.
I'll refrain from making Reina look bad.
Let me hear it.
Listen well
to the sound of my koto!
I cannot play the koto!
Who are you?
This place pleases me.
I shall take this castle to be a base for my rule.
What did you say?
Y..You bastard!
Do you understand what you're saying to the Demon King?!
The Demon King, huh?
In the land of Asura where I was born,
the Demon King would be the king of the dead.
It is laughable to call yourself the king of the dead.
How can you say such things to the Demon King?!
Come, guards!
There is a villain among us!
Are you the villain?!
Don't expect to leave Demon Rock Castle alive!
Pissants should keep their mouths shut.
This is a battle between kings.
Shove it!
Kill him! Shove it!
Prepare to die!
Don't do anything stupid.
Reina, you...
The gypsy dancer was merely a disguise.
And I'm not...
actually a musician.
It was part of an act I devised to get into this castle.
Of course, this man wasn't cut out for his role.
So, you intend to conquer this castle with the three of you?
Yeah...
We just need to defeat the king.
In other words, you.
Fools who don't know their own place!
Prepare to be crushed by Goram the Demon King's Emei Fist!
Emei Fist's Stance of the Furious Mosquito...
You appear to have some skill.
What are you talking about?
The Demon King will end you with one blow!
Destroy him, Demon King!
The Emei Fist is like child's play in the face of my Divine Fist of the North Star.
Divine Fist of the North Star,
passed down for eighteen hundred years under the seven stars in the sky.
A fearsome assassination art which attacks the vital points of a human being
causing its victims to explode.
The technique is only passed on to one successor per generation, never to an outsider.
Over eighteen hundred years, it has never been defeated by a different martial art.
It is said to have protected emperors generation after generation
much as the North Star protects the Heavenly Lord.
D..Don't tell me you know the Divine Fist of the North Star!
My name is Raoh.
Take that name to Hell with you.
It is said that the world will fall into chaos when the North Star appears.
Do you intend to send the world into chaos, Raoh?!
It is the other way around.
I shall use the fists the Heavens have granted me to save this world from chaos!
Nonsense...
Emei Demon Fist!
Cheap tricks will not work against my fists.
You saw through the Emei Fist's hidden weapons?!
These hidden weapons have sent many martial artists to their deaths!
Pathetic tricks!
Poisoned hidden weapons are not fit for martial arts.
Show me your secret techniques, Goram!
You are supposed to be a man who is called king!
Raoh!
Receive the Emei Fist's secret technique!
Hades Fang Fist!
Become part of my legend and descend into Hell, Goram the Demon King.
Divine Fist of the North Star secret technique:
North Star Iron Palm Wave!
What will you do?
Our objective is to take over this castle,
not to kill all of you.
Will you accept Raoh as your king?
Any who object to my being king may challenge me.
I shall give you an instant death.
Listen, men!
Now that I am king, my name will be the King of Fist!
The King of Fist! In other words, the king who uses his fists to conquer the world.
The Heavens have granted Raoh the power in his fists to bring a new order to this ravaged world!
I will become the ruler of this world.
That is the destiny of the King of Fist.
All who oppose or betray me
will meet terror and death!
However...
All who swear fealty to this fist
will receive whatever they desire!
All honor the King of Fist!
This was the beginning of the rule of the King of Fist which would be told of for generations.
Raoh...
Rule, you say?
Don't make me laugh.
You may have taken my Demon Rock Castle, but don't be too sure of yourself.
The Holy Emperor will notice your ambition.
Holy Emperor?
Who's that?
It matters not.
All who impede my rule
will be crushed by these fists!
So, he conquered Demon Rock Castle.
Raoh, I shall stand witness to your fate.
I long to reveal these feelings for you in my heart
The shadow floating on the river
Looked so sad and on the verge of drifting away
Follow the red thread which binds them
Like a bamboo leaf boat flowing with the current
Oh, it's becoming clear, so clear
The fog begins to lift
Oh, it's flowing away, it flows
Carrying this body
Drowning in a river of tears
Next Time
Kings Understand Kings!