Chapter 110 of the Jigokuraku manga.
Summary[]
With the Zhu Jin-fused Banko's tandens destroyed, all traces of its remains start to wilt away. However, Jikka and Gantetsusai see that the giant body is still alive, due to it already being morning as warned before by Mei, and must take on the task of destroying the tandens simultaneously again. Chōbei sees that the Wood tanden is beginning to slowly regenerate from the sun and finds himself low on power to make another attempt at destroying it again. Tōma yells out suggesting to Chōbei in leaving the monster behind and trying to find a way off the island together so that he would not end up dying similarly to their late father. Despite his brother's plea, Chōbei uses his vines to dig into the Wood tanden after coming up with the idea of destroying the roots of the other tandens as a way to cut off the regeneration link to the main body. His plan ends up becoming a success as the body of the Zhu Jin-fused Banko starts to wither away. Having used up all his strength, Chōbei falls to ground and hears his brother crying out to him, causing him to remember the time he held Tōma in his arms as an infant in front of his parents and realized that he must protect him as his older brother. In the afterlife, Chōbei kneels down before his parents and apologizes for the sins he had committed in his life but was happy to know that he was at least a good brother. A young Chōbei then runs to his parents with open arms as his life comes to an end but then notices a hand reached out to him. After the death of his older brother, Tōma kneels down in grief while holding on to what seems like a plant ovule. Meanwhile, Mei and Yuzuriha run out of the palace, while complaining about the foul odor in the air, and encounters Gui Fa as a child while holding on to the Basin.