Shulato #5"Feathers, tell me the Truth!"Synopsis by Arcadia
On the Mahava, Renge, her arm in a sling, begs Gai to send her after Shulato again, so she can avenge Takshaka and Ranban. Reiga is sitting in a corner, obviously distracted by something. Kuuya tells Renge that she shouldn't go out while she's wounded, but Gai says there's no time to sit around waiting. He calls the assassin Kali and five identical men wearing identical Shaktis drop from the ceiling. Gai tells them to kill Shulato and they leave, obviously very happy about the order.
Reiga leaves soon after. Since there's nothing to do, he says he'll go take a nap. "What a selfish guy", says Renge. In his room, Reiga remembers something he saw earlier that day. Flashback. Reiga is wandering around the Mahava when he sees Indrah and Gai. They stop in front of a wall. Indrah pushes a panel with his staff and a secret door opens. Reiga jumps up and pushes the panel himself and follows them.
Indrah ordered Kali to kill Shulato and places him under Gai's command. Reiga says it's like Indrah was switched with a different person. He casts a Karula Reishiha and sends a feather after them. Finally Shulato and the others have gotten out of the mountains. Shulato wonders why Vishnu didn't teleport them somewhere closer to Tenkuuden. Hyuga gets mad, but Shulato says he's just kidding.
On the Mahava, Gai is chanting. He is the one making the barrier. This way, Hyuga and Ryouma can't help and Kali can kill Shulato without any trouble. Shulato tries to transform, but he gets caught in Kali's webs and drops his Veda.
Lakshu tries to stop Kali, but he throws her off. Kali starts to attack again, but Reiga's rings cut through his webs, and distract him long enough for Shulato to transform. Reiga tries to tell Kali what really happened, but he doesn't care. He's only interested in killing, and the reason for it is irrelevant. Shulato cuts the head off one of the clones, and slashes through the others, but the severed parts just reattach themselves. No matter how many times he wounds them, it all heals. The Kali clones fuse back into one, and Kali jumps back onto the pillar. Shulato doesn't realize where he went, and Kali is able to surprise him. Lakshu asks Reiga why he doesn't do anything to help, and Reiga says he'll do something when he's ready.
Shulato realizes which one's the real Kali, too, and casts a Shura Mahaken. The real Kali in disintegrated. Without Kali, the clones can no longer exist, and soon disappear. Gai's barrier falls, too.
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