A review by samiism
Flame of Recca, Volume 6 by Nobuyuki Anzai

4.0

Spoiler

50 - Saicho and Recca fight using paper and fire.

51 - Saicho uses a thousand paper cranes to attack Recca all at once, but Recca summons Nadare's fireballs from the ground, incinerating all the cranes. Saicho loses; he has a heart condition and cannot fight for more than 15 minutes. Even though Team Hokage wins, Recca challenges Kukai to one final round.

52 - Kukai the Buddha seems calm and unaffected by two of Recca's hits. On the third, his demon side comes out.

53 - Kukai is beating Recca. However, Recca summons a third dragon, Homura. This creates rings of fire around his arm.

54 - Team Hokage advances to the second match for the next day. Kurei greets them after the match and the two brothers have an icy confrontation. Recca, Yanagi, and Fuuko learn that tomorrow, they will be fighting Uruha Maboroshi.

55 - Because of Recca's antics yesterday, the arena is being reconstructed so the fight is pushed back. Fuuko tours the castle with Raiha, one of Kurei's mild-mannered Uruha member. However, she disobeys him and gets trapped. The fight against Uruho Maboroshi is starting but Fuuko hasn't shown up yet. The first opponent is Shiju, a monster who defeated and then ate all five opponents yesterday. Recca, Domon, and Mikagami are the only fighters in Team Hokage, but at the last second, Kaoru Koganei volunteers to join the team in place of Fuuko.

56 - Team Hokage accepts Koganei and he fights Shiju first, partly because the rest are scared of Shiju and because Recca doesn't want to be betrayed at the last minute.

57 - Genjuro uses psychic surgery to level up Shiju, who has lion DNA mixed into him. Koganei beats Shiju by transforming his Kougun Anki into a bow and arrow.

58 - Genjuro suggests that the winner of the first round continue on to the second. That means Koganei has to fight again. Team Hokage accepts. However, it is revealed that the second opponent is none other than Nagai himself, Koganei's former partner. Koganei mistakenly turns his back on Nagai, who uses that opportunity to transform into a tree and engulf Koganei.

59 - Koganei, now swallowed by Nagai, lost the second round. Mikagami goes on to battle Nagai on the third, switching with Recca. Perhaps that instead of attacking Nagai with fire, Mikagami's sword will have a better chance of rescuing Koganei.