Liu Fei Yan seeks to protect Erika, but is ill himself. Meanwhile a Japanese military office is assassinated near the airport and Kitaoji tells Kenshiro that the Japanese will march on Shanghai in response, and that a world war is likely to break out. Liu Fei Yan delivers Erika to Yu Ling for safety before he goes to fight Kenshiro, claiming is his destiny and telling her that the List of Hope is memorized inside Erika's head, not written in the books...