In this episode, we learn our first important spell and head to Edo City, where the local warriors have suddenly become lazy.
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When you leave Yokan, go south, take the bridge to the west, then keep going south. At the pair of bridges, go around the mountains to the east and keep going west. Go south when you can't go west anymore, and keep to the west coast. You'll find a cave.
When you enter this cave, you'll meet Princess Leila and play the Janken House mini-game. She will play another card matching game, but this time it is a rock-paper-scissors (or Janken) game. The open hand is paper, the two fingers held up is scissors and the closed fist is rock. Rock blunts scissors, scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock. You don't have to pay anything to play this, but if you do well enough, you can win a spell. Once again, you can only miss three times. If you win three times, however, you win the Vitalizer spell, which lets you recover health at the cost of 10 M icons.
Now that we have the Vitalizer spell, you'll want to make your way to the east. You can come here before getting the Vitalizer spell, but the earlier you have Vitalizer, the better. This leads to the Samurai's Tunnel.
Samurai's Tunnel
At this point, I start using the sword given to me back in Yokai. Guess what? You can hit enemies more times for even more damage than with your fists alone. You'll have to be almost right next to the enemies to get the multiple hits; if you're too close, you'll knock them down in one hit, but not destroy them.
You'll meet a new enemy here: a flaming face that will fly at you. It laughs at you before it comes at you, and you will want to get on a platform and hit it with a punch or with your sword in mid-air. (I recommend the sword.) These enemies will give you quite a bit of experience for this point in the game. Also, unlike the other battles you've been in, this one takes place on a side-scrolling screen rather than one where you can move in eight directions.
The path through here is pretty simple, though there is another mini-game here where you can play with the Red and Blue Gems. Once again, this is a game of concentration where you will be matching objects. Whatever you match, you will get, and if you match the skulls, you get nothing and lose one of your chances. This game costs 100 Sen to play.
The Cupsule will come in handy later. For now, if you get one in the concentration mini-game, hold on to it. Also, you can get a Meat Bun in the game, which will heal a lot more health. The only drawback is that you can only hold one Meat Bun at any time.
There is a path to a chest if you go past the exit. When you see the X in the wall, stand next to it and use a Boo Bomb on it. The chest just contains a Sweet Bun, though. If you have the maximum number of Sweet Buns you can carry, the chest will contain nothing.
The onis with the clubs will, of course, hit you with their clubs, and it does not take them long to do it. They give just as much experience and money as most of the other enemies you've met so far will give you. At this point, you should be using your sword in every single battle.
When you reach the exit (which you'll have no choice but to do your first go-around in this cave), you'll meet a samurai who says he has all the information on the robbers that you'll need. From there, you can go back and take the path to the chest.
Remember the boss from Mt. Sampin? Well, they are regular enemies at this point. At least you know how to fight them now.
When you exit the cave, you will come out of a cave on an island to the west. This is Tamagi Island. Go south and you will reach Edo City.
Edo City
When you talk to the people here, you will find out that the samurai here are rather idle, and that whoever kidnapped them cast a spell on them to make them lazy. You'll also learn that the cave west of here will take you to Mt. Wasabi.
One of the buildings across from the entrance to the city is Samurai Scorpio's dojo. He will tell you to pick two words that do not appear on the list of flashing words on the left side of the screen. Take your time, as there is no time limit. If you get it wrong, you'll have to re-enter and try again. If you get it right, Interestingly, the words are names of characters from other Culture Brain games. If you win, you'll just get a Dragon Egg as well as instructions on how to use one to ride a dragon in the action scenes. The answer will always be Sheherazade and Jack no matter what.
You can buy Cupsules here, as well as the Shogun Sword and the Eastern Gear (which are stronger than what you have now). The Cupsules are used if you are petrified during battle, but that will not be for a while.
You'll meet King Toro and Princess Tamago in the palace. They'll tell you that the robbers that you stopped made the samurais here lazy, and that they are hiding inside of Mt. Wasabi. They will tell you to come back when you stop them.
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