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Battle 1: Reclamation 3

FIGHTING BLOOD
Battle 2: Awakening 31

TORN ASUNDCR
Battle 3: Values 56

BCRSCftKCRS REBORN
Battle 4: Resurgence 85

HCLl TRRP
Battle 5: Responsibility 141

CONQUERING RNGCl
Battle 6: Struggle 193

THC TCRRS OF RN RNGCL

Battle 7: Compassion 219

STORY and art by YUKITO KISHIRO

Translation/Fred Burke Si Sterling Bell and Matt Thorn

Touch-Up Art & Lettering/Wayne Truman

Cover Design/Viz Graphics
Editors/Sato ru Fujii &Trish Ledoux
Assistant Editor/ToshifumiYoshida
Executive Editor/Seiji Horibuchi
Director of Sales and Marketing/Oliver Chin
Publisher/Masahiro Oga

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