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Now branded as criminals, Ryuga and his companions go after the master of the Madou Horrors. Knowing they're walking into a trap, can they survive long enough to get answers?

In this special edition of ‘NEWS TIME with Rivera’, questions are answered, and secrets revealed. Just who is the “Lord” that Rivera is referring to?

Dream Garden Hills is a paradise in Volcity. Promising a better quality of life, with free education, healthcare, and rent-free housing, you'd be a fool to turn it down. The only catch to this dream arrangement? You're on the menu.

After donning their Soul Metal Armor, Garo and Zero have an epic battle with Jabi watching as the two combatants are forced out of their armor. However, before Rei can kill a weakened Kouga, Jabi intervenes and spirits him off to where Kaoru is. After Jabi tells her that Kouga was actually trying to find a way to save her life, a confused Kaoru runs off before Gonza finds her and brings her to the cabin where Kouga spent his childhood. As Kaoru regains her faith in him, after his wounds were tended to, Kouga asks Jabi to help him enter the Forest of Glen. After revealing the legend behind the Horror-eating Makai Knight and the true nature of the Eastern Watchdogs, Jabi proceeds to perform the ritual to send the Horror Daggers into the underworld with his help. However, before she could finish telling Kouga something important, Jabi is seemingly killed by Kodama, the Watchdogs' servant. Kouga attempts to fight the stronger Kodama as they fight for the Horror blades. Rei arrives, but is unable to send the Horror Blades to the other side as they turn into a giant Horror. Neither Garo and Zero could harm the titanic Horror as the Horror-eating Makai Knight appears and absorbs the beast before taking his leave.

After Kouga and Leo finish a training session, Zaruba spontaneously combusts. Kouga calls Jabi to help, who goes off to repair Zaruba, but the man in the red mask appears before her and attacks.

As the Makai Knights go to confront Sonshi, Burai heads for Zedom's crypt, aiming to quench the Horror's fury.

Ryuga is reunited with the group, and meets a long lost Makai Priestess. The horrific past of the Master of Madou Horrors is revealed.

The group has been separated. Now blinded and held in solitary confinement by SG-1, Ryuga attempts to escape and recover the Garo-Ken.

Rian and Aguri attend a weapons demonstration held by SG-1. Whilst there, Kensui Kaneshiro arrives, accompanied by Sonshi...

The Madou Horrors all take up high ranking positions within the city. With the Madou Horror detector completed, the Knights begin the hunt. When Rian finds a familiar clue, the hunt turns towards Kaneshiro Foods, and the horrors within...

In order to detect the Madou Horrors, Burai needs to obtain a sample of one. With a lead that there may be one at the TV station, Rian is sent undercover.

Kazami goes to Rivera for help publicising the existence of Horrors. The mysterious figure working with the Madou Horrors springs his trap.

Captain Enhou finds her dreams tormented since witnessing a Horror attack for the first time. But what is real and what is part of the nightmare?

While investigating Tousei—the estranged fourth son of the Kaneshiro family—Captain Enhou runs into Ryuga, who is on the trail of a Horror with the ability to jump into radios.

Mysterious disappearances surround Kaneshiro Construction manager Masahiko Washizu, a man said to be able to forge any contract, no matter the odds. Ryuga finds himself hunted down by the Volcity Security Force, SG-1.

The Makai Knights defeat Ganon, but Kouga still must honor his contract with Gajari. On his way home with Leo, someone arrives to greet him.

A Makai Knight is killed right in front of Rei and Leo says goodbye to Kaoru as she gets the final inspiration for her picture book. Rei and Kouga go hunting for the creature that killed a Makai Knight when they find the man in the red mask, and his identity soon becomes known.

As Rei manages to defeat Glum with Gonza's help, Kouga is unable to slow Messiah down as he is overwhelmed by the vast number of Horrors. By then, Karou's father appears to urge his daughter to complete the painting she started. This in turn cases Garo to assume his Winged Form as he grounds Messiah while Kaoru receives closure from her parents. Catching Messiah off guard by discarding his armor, Kouga manages to put Messiah back to sleep as Karou saves him from being consumed in the blast as they return to the land of the living. However, they are followed by Barago's animated armor, the Darkness Knight Kiba. After throwing Zaruba into the magic tear in response to being unable to summon his armor, the portal expands as Kouga takes his fight with Kiba on it as the stone descends across Tokyo's cityscape with Rei brieftly joining in. Eventually, the circle comes to stop at the wharf as Zaruba comes at the nick of time with Garo's armor. After Kiba is finally slain, Kouga disarmors as Zaruba dies from overusing itself. Later, as Rei gives Kouga a newly forged Madougu, which Kouga names Zaruba, Kaoru takes her leave for Italy, giving him a new version of the Black Flame and the Golden Knight with the illustration on the final page bringing Kouga to tears

Eiris appears in the sky throughout time, capturing both Rekka and Rian.

Daichi is tasked by Bikuu to retrieve three charms by the next morning.

Haruna is convinced by her brother to quit being a Makai Priest and just be a normal high school student.

Kain worries that Yuna is focusing too much on being a Makai Knight, and not enough on being a Makai Priest, when she cannot summon armor.

A schoolgirl hears a monster in Volcity High School, then suddenly transfers away after telling her classmates. Hiroki Tsuboi, an aloof classmate, goes looking for her, and runs into the Volcity Fugitive, Ryuga Dogai...

Burai has reason to believe the Horrors are being controlled by someone in Volcity. Ryuga finds himself followed by a former journalist with photos of a Horror.

A wedding reception is interrupted by screams of terror as a man in a black coat arrives. Tearing his way through the crowd, he draws his sword and points it at the bride.

Ganon has awakened. It's now up to Kouga, his friends, and an army of Makai Priests to stop it.

Kouga wants to figure out if Leo really is Red Mask; Makai Priests all over are turning on the Makai Knights.

Kouga is off hunting a Horror and so Kaoru tags along on Leo's journey to find a Spirit Beast.

Infuriated of Kaoru's confidence that her friends will save her, Barago sends Glum after Kouga and Rei as they entered the building. As Rei is forced into a physical and psychological battle with Glum before defeated by her Beast Glum form and seemingly killed off, Kouga arrives to the ritual chamber as Barago holds him off. Karou comes to by then, possessed by Messiah as Barago is devoured by the Horror as she then uses Karou to begin the summoning process while Glum holds Kouga off. After knocking Glum out, Kouga is joined by Rei as they attempt to restraint Kaoru as Messiah uses the girl's body to fight them. But at the last second, Kouga reaches Kaoru as she loses consciousness. With Rei holding Glum off, Kouga enters through the portal to where Kaoru's conscious is before entering the realm of the Horrors to face the titantic Messiah as she pint-pointed Kaoru's body to enter the land of the living.

Finding Kaoru with a Horror Gate on neck, Kouga learns of the Ulimate Horror Messiah and the goal of the Horror-devouring Darkness Knight. When Karou comes to and tell her dream of a man with cross-shaped scar, Zaruba reveals the figure to be Taiga's pupil Barago who became the Darkness Knight and killed Kouga's father. The revelation affects Kouga, who self-deluded himself into thinking a Horror committed the deed, as Kaoru later requests him to kill her if it save the world. However, Kouga refuses as Barago appears and defeats Kouga and Rei. Soon after, Kaoru reveals she met Barago as a child, with Kouga realizing that Barago manipulated the chain of events leading to now. As Gonza tries to cheer Kaoru up as she blames herself for Kouga's suffering while getting original copies of her father's book, Rei suggests Kouga of joining forces to fight Barago and protect Kaoru. By then, Karou enters the sanctum of Kouga's training room as she is made familiar with Kouga's armor to ease her worry before he and Rei take their leave to fight Barago and the Eastern Watchdogs after placing barrier around the manor. Seeing the irony, Karou accepts what fate dealt her.

Saving Kaoru's life, she and Kouga admit they are glad of the choices they have made, unaware of what is to come. During that time, Gonza encounters a strange man who leaves him a letter, calling out Kouga to Winter Gate. Though warned that it would be trap, Kouga goes anyway. Arriving there, he is meets the man as he tells him he has until dawn to kill him. Fighting through Horror-possessed gunmen before the host appears as the Horror Bonafletz, Garo manages to strike down the Horrors before striking Bonafletz down. However, Bonafletz turn out to be security guard as the host reveals himself to be not only human, but also the father of Misato Kamisugawa, the vessel of the Horror Moloch who Kouga killed. Kamisugawa then proceeds to ask if killing those possessed by Horrors justifies the sadness their loved ones had to endure as Kouga refuses to take his life. However, revealing the Eastern Watchdogs gave him the means to enact his revenge, Kamisugawa uses the Horror Dagger holding Molch's essence on himself. Becoming Moloch, Kamisugawa realized the pain his daughter suffered as he pleas Kouga to kill him as the sun rises. Back at the manor, Karou screams in fright when a strange mark appears on her neck.

With time running out, Kouga leaves for the Forest of Glen. Though knowing he would die, Kouga convinces the gatekeeper Tamu to give him safe passage after she tests his character. Fighting his way though the forest's traps and many Horrors, Kouga finds Kaoru's disembodied soul and convinces her to keep on living as he entrusts Zaruba to get her back into her body while he goes to the Barankas. However, Kouga ends up facing the Barankas Fruit's guardian. Enabled by the being to assume his Makai Knight form, Garo summons Gouten to battle Grou Dragon physically and ethically. Though Rei helped Kouga at the last second, Grou Dragon accepts its defeat before dissolving. With Rei carrying him back, Kouga manages to give Kaoru the Barankas fruit just in time.

After Kaoru runs off once learning the apparent truth that he used her as Horror bait, Kouga learns from Gonza that Amon has been murdered. Summoned by the Eastern Watchdogs, Kouga learns that a Maki Priestess named Jabi has took twelve Horror Daggers from them and was Amon's killer. However, not believing his childhood friend killed Amon, Kouga finds Jabi. Though asking why she stole the daggers, Jabi reveals that Amon was actually murdered by a rumored Horror-eating Makai Knight and that she intends to personally send the blades into the underworld. Forced into fighting Jabi for the blades, Kouga manages to restraint her. Rei, tricked by the Watchdogs to kill Kouga and Jabi for them, arrives with Kaoru as he demands the Horror blades. After tricking Rei, Kouga holds him off as Jabi takes Kaoru to a safe area.

The Horror Asmodai appears and, using his act as a puppeteer, causes groups of people to kill each other before devouring their remains. While going through her father's things, Kaoru discovers the unpublished book from her dreams with the blank page at the end of it. Asmodai strikes again before the Makai Knights eventually destroying him.

Kouga goes off to have all the evil ki cleansed from of him that has built up after each battle. After he returns, a Horror that can manipulate time appears and challenges the Golden Knight.

An ancient samurai makes a deal with a Horror and is resurrected in present day. He is in search of a worthy opponent and finds Rei, who reminds him of the Makai Knight he saw as a child.

A grandfather comes to Rekka for help after his granddaughter is attacked by the spirits of fallen Makai Knights.

Rei, Leo, Jabi, Rekka and Kaoru all head out to save Kouga; Ganon awakens and shows its true form.

The Makai Knights are all torn between giving up their armor and fighting Sigma, who has commandeered a train to the moon.

Rekka appears to help Kouga deal with a Horror. However, the Horror has decided to go through Kaoru instead.

Rei stumbles upon a car accident that left no bodies, which means a Horror must be involved. During his investigation, he finds a familiar face.

Kouga returns to take care of a new Horror, but afterward is attacked by a strange figure in a red mask.

Kouga arrives to the home of his father's old friend, the Makai Priest Amon. Explaining that this is a night when Horrors cannot enter their world, Amon reveals that he and Taiga played a game of Bar Chess and wishes Kouga to finish what his father started. During the match, Amon reveals he knows of Kaoru and suspects that Kouga is protecting her the same way his father protected him. However, Kouga admits he used Kaoru as a tool at first to find Horrors, but he grew to love her and is intent to save her. Impressed, Amon reveals he knows of the item Kouga intends to save her with: The Barankas Fruit within the Forest of Glen, which he intends to get for Kouga once it is ripened. Though Kouga is close to losing the game, and ten years of his life, Amon post pones the game like Taiga did years ago. But before Kouga leaves for home, Amon presents him with another revelation: the chance that his father's pupil Barago is still alive and events will unfold where he has to know who is truly friend and who is truly foe.

The trickster Horror Dantalian lures people to play his coin game but, when they lose in his fixed games, he devours their soul. Dantalian tries this trick on Kaoru and takes her soul. After facing off against Zero, Kouga encounters Dantalian and competes in his games to recover Kaoru's soul. He eventually succeeds, destroying Dantalian and reuniting Kaoru's body with her soul.

Thanks to the efforts of D. Ringo and Haruna, the location of Radan is finally discovered. Yukihime and Rian care for Haruna, who is fatigued from performing the secret technique. With Haruna recovering, they discuss their feelings about Ryuga, Gardo, Daigo and Radan. However, a suspicious man, Ginge (Nagira Kenichi), spies on the three of them from outside the restaurant...

Gonza is interviewed about Raiga and his duties as a Makai Knight.

A woman has created a 3D theater in a box that is a bit too real for its viewers.

Raiga gives Gonza the day off and so he meets with a lady friend. But Gonza just ends up musing about Mayumi and not being about to make her smile.

A music conductor is appearing in front of depressed people and sends Raiga an invitation to join his victims.

Nine horrors sealed in a stone tablet. Raikage and Mayuri begin their search for Eiris, who is said to be lurking in one of the nine horrors. Meanwhile, the horror Eksta (Hano Akinori) has been transforming into various objects and attacking humans. Then a mysterious young man, Crow, appears...

Elina Tokiwa (Hinako Saeki), an artist whose motif is death, kills a man in search of true death and is possessed by a horror succubus. Elina, searching for diverse deaths, takes an interest in Mayuri and invites her to her own greenhouse. Thunder Fang learns that Mayuri and the horror have made contact, but is told by Jiiru that the eradication of the horror is more important than the retrieval of Mayuri...

Luke (Sein Camus), who fantasises that people shine as stars after they die, commits murder and is possessed by the horror Stellas. Luke appears before the wishing people and turns them into stars one after another. Under official orders from the Senate, Crowe, who has been assigned to fight alongside Thunder Fang as his partner, immediately begins a search for Stellas...

A man who is attempting suicide is drawn to a house with a big, happy family inside. Upon being invited in for dinner, the family is a lot more sinister than they appear.

A manga artist flips out when one of his employees tries to quit and go solo; Raiga and Mayuri comes across a new manga that contains the ancient language of the Horror.

Crow tells Raiga of a ritual he's attending to wipe the demon blood from his sword, but the beast used for the ceremony escapes and must be stopped.

Some time after the battle in Line City. Doga Ryuga and Rian, who continue to fight as protectors, encounter a new horror in one of the cities. Meanwhile, the Demon Warrior Gen (Shimojo Atom) has gone to the shrine where the legendary Demon Castle, Radan, is sealed. With a determined look on his face, Gen draws his Dharma Sword. Gazing at him are the mysterious young man, Jinga, and the mysterious beautiful woman, Amiri.

Raiga gets nostalgic over a wind chime that he made as a child. Meanwhile, a man is selling wind chimes where the cartoon woman on it comes to life and kills its owner.

Training goes awry and Raiga realizes that he needs to be purified of built up evil ki. Afterward, Raiga meets a time stopping Horror that is difficult to defeat.

A young woman finds a small, fluffy creature and takes him home, but it turns out that this is a lost baby of a Spirit Beast and Raiga shows up to return it to its mother.

Mayuri takes care of a Slab Horror, but the Horror host it was in gets away; Makai Priest Shidou shows up to check on Mayuri after she faints in front of Raiga.

Raiga and company are sent to help a Makai Priest named Bikuu deal with a Makai Knight who has succumb to darkness.

A man and his daughter appear before Raiga and defeat a Horror for him, but the man is actually a Horror himself.

Eiji fights Raiga while Crow tries to stop Akari's rebirth.

Mayuri arrives to the battle between Raiga and Crow as Eiris is revived.

Crow is tasked with stopping Raiga while Mayuri tries to seal Eiris.

A man finds a naked woman outside and takes her in; Gonza finds a new pet beetle when the watchdogs call Raiga to take care of a Horror.

On his birthday, Raiga remembers when Rei came to train him on upon turning 10.

Crow chases down his former teacher, the one who released Eiris' seed; Raiga asks for Mayuri to be freed after Eiris is sealed, but is rejected.

D. Ringo succeeds in resonating between the Daggers, taking a hint from Gardo's words. Ryuga and Rian approach the Blue Dagger under the guidance of the Red Dagger. When the resonance stops, Jinga and Amiri appear in a black limousine. Jinga takes out the Blue Dagger and provokes Ryuga, telling him to defeat her and take it. Ryuga and Rian accept. However, Jinga had a secret plan.

Ryume continues his research into Radan and the Dharma Sword, as well as Jinga and Amiri, and discusses them together with Riang. At the same time, Ryuga, who is going around destroying objects in Yinga, is suddenly attacked by the horror Zelaza (Mi Yi mie). Ryuga struggles against Zelaza, who runs away through electric wires. Meanwhile, Gardo, who is searching for the whereabouts of Radan, happens to see Jinga and starts tracking him down.

Garudo falls into a trap and is captured by Jinga and Amiri, who put him under severe interrogation. Led by Haruna, a doll dropped by Gardo, Ryuga and Rian head for the Forest of Spirits. Haruna tells them about Gardo's spectacular past. At the same time, businessman Hedera (Yabe Kyosuke), walking near the Forest of Spirits, promises to retrieve the Dharma Sword to a blue butterfly, a servant of the flying Amiri.

Ryuga falls into Amiri's trap, and is sucked into the magical mirror, where he continues to fight the demonic beasts that lurk in the jet-black magical mirror space. However, Ryuga is exhausted both mentally and physically, and falls into an abyss. Meanwhile, Ryume rushes to Rian's side, but struggles against the onslaught of Jinga. The countdown to the awakening of Radan goes on mercilessly before the eyes of Gardo and Daigo, who have reached the end of the line.

Rian suppresses the jinga lurking in her mind with the help of Ryuga. However, the jinga has not yet disappeared from Rhyme's mind. Rhyme proposes a ritual to purify the jinga from Rian, who is still unable to wake up. However, Garde opposes this.

During the ritual at the Fountain of Sunshine, Amiri's trickery has brought Jinga back to life. Daigo, determined to keep Radan from awakening, challenges Jinga to a battle by himself. The power of the beast knight Giga gradually drives Jinga to the brink...

Leaving the injured Daigo behind, Ryuga, Rian, Lume and Gardo head for Ladan. Sitting on a throne, Jinga finally brings the legendary Radan Castle back to life in the present day. The Radan Castle contains a terrifying ability that will drive mankind to despair.

A school girl with an iron giant is attacking people at night and come face to face with Crow.

Ryuga and Rian feel the presence of horror in an abandoned building. But there was more than one horror. A large number of horrors inhabit the entire building. In Ryuga and Rian's crisis, the magical knight Daigo Akizuki appears. Rian tries to annihilate the horrors with a secret technique. She sees Yoshito (Konno Hiroki), who remains in the building. For some reason, Daigo stops Rika from running out to rescue him.

A stone tablet on display in a museum is destroyed by someone and a sealed horror is unleashed. Sekiya (Yuki Himura), a security guard who was there, is possessed by the horror Azdab from his past shadowy self. Saejima Raika receives an order to defeat Azdab, and learns that an emissary from the Senate is coming to visit him with a powerful magical tool...

The voice of the doll Haruna was the voice of Gardo's sister Haruna herself. She entrusts Ryuga and Rian with the Dharma Sword, and they rush to rescue Gardo. When Gardo refuses to yield to the horror Geril (Ken Maeda), Jinga and Amiri tell him that they have taken Haruna as a hostage. Gardo decides to prioritise being the protector over Haruna's life, and puts his life on the line to defeat Jinga and the others...

The location of Ladan is discovered, but the obstacle is Jinga and Amiri, who are waiting for them there. Thinking that it will not be easy to reach it, Ryuga and the others divide their roles and start investigating. Rian infiltrates inside, Gardo investigates the surroundings, and Ryuga visits Lume. Ryuga believes that he has no chance of winning if he does not break Jinga's dark wards...

Backed by D. Ringo, Yukihime and Haruna, Ryuga, Rian, Gardo and Daigo run towards Radan, which sits on the top floor of a high-rise building. However, Jinga and Amiri, who should have been cornered, smile wryly for some reason. Ryuga and the others reach the room where Radan is located, but the room suddenly transforms into a different space. Eerie moans echo through the room...

Riangli is captured by Jinga, who flies away. Amiri, who stayed behind to help Jinga escape, is conversely captured by Ryuga and his group. Telling Ryuga and the others to wait for instructions, Rüme goes after the jinga by herself. Amiri suddenly begins to suffer and faints. When Amiri regains consciousness, she calmly tells them that she is a Demon Lawyer...

Radan Castle, which sucks out all life just by walking. Ryuga rides into the throne and engages in a fight to the death with Jinga. Who will be the winner of the battle between light and darkness? Light up the darkness with the light of hope, Golden Knight Garo Sho! Blow the golden storm!

Yuki (Aki Umezawa), the woman they saved from the horror Hertzbai a few days ago, has asked Ryuga and Rian to help her find her missing sister Lisa (Emi Kobayashi). Lisa may have been attacked by a horror in the circumstances. Ryuka heeds Yuki's wish and follows Lisa's rumours to the bar's owner, Kaji (Hitoshi Katagiri). Meanwhile, Lisa is locked up in a mysterious room.

Riang wanted to fight together with Gardo, as they are also magical lawbreakers. Taking the Dharma Sword with him, Gardo mocks Ryuga, Rian, Jinga and Amiri, and discovers a wolfsbane rising into the sky. It belonged to Gardo's home, the village of the Fire Clan. That night, Sumida (Michael Tomioka), a man who pretends to be a gourmet, enters the restaurant. He becomes a horror-lessard and preys on the cook.

Daigo, who teaches the children who are the future Demon Knight, is visited by his brother Seiji Hinoha (Hiroyuki Takashima). Daigo and Seiji are happy to see each other again. Meanwhile, the training ground is attacked and the children are eaten by a horror. Ryuga and Rian chase the horror and arrive at Daigo's training ground. A mysterious man, Woska (Funaki Masakatsu), also shows up at the training ground.

The jinga was defeated by Garo Sho = Garo Darkness, who gained the power of darkness. However, he was unable to seal Radan. Ryuga and Lume devise a plan to save Rian, who has been knocked unconscious by Jinga's attack. Meanwhile, Daigo's proclamation is sent to Gardo, who feels responsible for everything and has lost confidence.

Remembering Kouga's words to her during the Morax incident, Kaoru decides to live in the Saezima manor's guest room to his dismay. Meanwhile, a pharmacist named Shitoshi Morino is one the run after being made a suspect in the murder of a woman named Reiko Sagashi. Kidnapping a high school girl as his hostage, he is confronted by his old rival turned cop Hanasawa. As Morino and Hanasawa get into an argument over the matter, they and the girl soon realize they are not alone in the warehouse. Arriving in the area, Kouga encounters a moth which embodies a heart-broken woman's final thoughts prior to becoming a Horror's vessel. Following the moth, Kouga learns the Horror is Lunarken, a sadistic glutton who corners her prey in order to feed during a full moon. Arriving to the warehouse and knocking the three humans out, Garo battles Lunarken and slays her. By the time the three humans came to, with no memory of the night's events, Morino is cleared of all charges against him.