His Highness Returns

Rescuers cut into the lab's safety cell, releasing Kimura unharmed. Banba has survived. though surveillance video shows the shadow monster clone entering Banba's old scar. In the operating room, a shadow monster grows out of Banba. Kimura orders his capture, but when the team arrives the medical staff are dead and Banba is gone. Banba confronts Kimura in the underground lab, attacks him using the shadow monster within him, and leaves the facility. He meets the woman with the shotgun from earlier episodes, now aged. She warns him she will kill him when the Kagewani takes him over. He walks away into the city.

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