Kanda, superior in speed, and Skin, superior in power, fight to an apparent stalemate. Skin reflects on his past while barraging Kanda with blasts of lightning; Kanda responds by using his Nigentou. Kanda then activates his Kinki Sangenshiki (Taboo Three Illusions). The room shakes, signaling that it will soon collapse. As Kanda uses his first move, Eight Flowers Praying Mantis and then second move Sublimate his life force is partially drained by his Nigentou. Kanda remembers Komui telling him that the duration of his life, is like a lotus blossom that as it loses petals, it symbolizes the amount of time that he has left. Suddenly Skin’s dark energy chains materialize, connecting Kanda to Skin. Skin uses these to throw Kanda around, telling him that the Noah can never die. Kanda endures as he is still protected by Miranda’s Time Record Innocence and unleashes a final attack. As Skin falls, Kanda tells him that anyone can die as long as they remain mortal. Sure of his victory, Kanda heads for the exit as Skin slowly reawakens saying that Noah are immortal.