Gamaran 174: Sengoku Iori vs. Jinsuke draws near

Recap of Gamaran chapter 174:

Ranmaru and Naoyshi are feeling the bloodlust behind the door.

Suddenly, between the door comes a huge hand holding the guard of this room, apparently dead.

On the next page a huge bald character who has scar on top of his head comes through the door asking where is Naoyoshi-shama..

This huge monster seems to be one of Bakufu's dogs and is ordered to kill both Naoyoshi and Ranmaru. Of course Bakufu's goal isn't just the obliteration of the Muhou school but all of Unabara.

Naoyoshi and Ranmaru are completely surrounded by Bakufu forces.

The huge monster reveals the weapon he uses, it's a metal rod shaped a bit like sword (looks a bit like a kendo sword)

After showing off his metal rod Ranmaru instantly cuts the hand holding the rod off and quickly after slashes his neck so that his head almost comes off. Ranmaru intends to kill all of the Bakufu forces surrounding them.

We see that Bakufu forces have infiltrated everywhere. Gama is slashing them right and left and even people who were with Gensai are having some trouble with being surrounded by them.

Shin and Zenmaru are talking somewhere, it seems that Shin had predicted the infiltration of Bakufu forces to some extent. He then tells Zenmaru to go to the innter citadel and settle his destined battle.

And finally we see some of Sengoku Iori smoking his pipe and talking with some dude. He's going to head into the inner citadel also to face off Jinsuke.

Comments and Predictions

A set up chapter, but not a bad one by all means.

Regardless the other people in this chapter, it's great to see Sengoku Iori once again, he's easily one of my if not even the most favorite character in Gamaran. He's going straight towards Jinsuke and I think that the battle between them draws really near. He may encounter one or two enemies before arriving to him.

As sad as it may be I think that Jinsuke will kill Sengoku Iori, since it wouldn't really be suitable for him to beat Jinsuke since it's in the end the main protagonist's aim for the whole series. Regardless of that I'm very interested to see the battle between the two.