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3x3 Eyes Volume Summaries - 16
Written by: Mr. Kaiyanwang
Email: Sanjiyan82@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.geocities.com/mr_kaiyanwang
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Characters:

Pai/Parvati IV - The last and most powerful Sanjiyan Unkara alive. Has a split personality; the 
cute and adorable Pai, and the arrogant and powerful Parvati IV. Apparently the fiancee of a 
creature named "KoKo"?

Yakumo Fujii - The Wu of Pai/Parvati. Yakumo is a 17 year old (technically) "normal" HS student 
turned immortal. Pretty angry with the apparent forced marriage between Pai and the creature.

S. Connelly/Madurai - An old gambler that resides in Wales. Seems to be quite rich, too. Was 
injured in the last volume and will be in Yakumo's care for a couple of chapters.

Galga - He has become another of Benares' men. Fights Pai-tachi in this volume.

Chen Aguri - Yougekisha's chief editor, and first appeared in volume 1. Looks to be traveling 
with Pai-tachi throughout this volume.

Haan Hazart - The magic merchant Yakumo encountered during his search for Pai. It is from him 
where Yakumo gets his Beast Magics. Falls in love with Yohko in this volume. Heh heh heh.

Yohko Ayanokouji - Formerly a servant of Benares, and also the water sprite Houasyou. She is 
one of Pai-tachi's most trusted friends. Helps Yakumo on his search for more Beasties.

Mama-san - Yakumo's boss from Culture Shock. Right now she's the fiancial answer to any and all 
of Pai-tachi's fiancial problems. ^^;;

Naparva - The same monk that Pai-tachi (or is that Yohko-tachi?) met during their volume 4-5 
days. Helps sent Pai-tachi (or is that Sanjiyan-tachi?) to the Holy Place.


Summaries:

Rubbed The Wrong Way - Yakumo is having flashbacks about what happened in the past volume, 
and appears to be pretty frustrated. It shows when Pai asks him to have dinner with her. He 
demands to know why Pai pitied the creature in the flashbacks, but Pai pauses and doesn't say 
anything. "Forget it", Yakumo said before taking off. Meanwhile, Chen Aguri is talking to the 
creature's mother about Benares over dinner. He tells her that Yakumo and Pai are the only 
ones capable of defeating the powerful Benares, to which the mother laughs. Just then, Yakumo 
arrives and asks for a cattle. He announces that he's going to take Connelly and leave. Chen 
asks him to have dinner, but Yakumo refuses. At that point, Pai's "fiancee" appears, glares at 
Yakumo, and says something to the effect of, "Now that he's leaving, I'm overjoyed. I'm gonna 
eat a big hurl!" Yakumo comically responses by devouring everything on the dinner mat. The 
creature throws a fit ("Bastard!") and Yakumo responses quickly ("You wanna fight!?"). He 
takes Connelly on his back and begins to leave. Chen asks him,"What about Sanjiyan?" Yakumo 
replies that she could do whatever she wants. He's not supporting this "forced marriage". And 
guess who arrives at this particular moment? Pai looks at Yakumo, almost pleading with him. 
Yakumo tells her to take care and leaves ... for good?

Run! - Somewhere in the liquor storage room, the creature, "KoKo", is having a blast that 
Yakumo left and is drinking. Let's hope he doesn't have a car. Anyway, he gloats to his 
mother how he won and that Pai now "belongs to him". The mother scolds him and tells him that 
Pai doesn't belong to anyone. A drunken KoKo screams at his own mother about how he was 
never loved because of his ugly looks. He drinks some more. Meanwhile, Pai is in her room 
crying her eyes out and flashing back to the last chapter when Yakumo left. At that moment, 
KoKo's mother enters her room. Pai tries to hide her tears away, but the mother knows other 
wise. The mother brings Pai to the liquor room, and tells her KoKo's story. It seems that 
he had a fiancee long ago, but killed her when the Liquid Power turned him into a monster. 
She called him a monster, and he killed her as a result. The mother then proceeds to tell Pai 
that she should be with Yakumo, so she must run! But wait ... KoKo has awakened and has 
apparently heard everything!

Release - KoKo screams in anger about how Pai and his own mother sees him as a monster, and 
attacks! He slashes Pai away, and his mother yells at him. "You're drunk, child!" she scolds. 
KoKo tears off his clothing to reveal a talisman paper on his body. He grabs it, screaming 
that he doesn't need it because he's human, too. Elsewhere, Yakumo is in a shelter somewhere 
nursing the injured Connelly while Chen is snoring like a pig. He walks out and shoots a 
Kuan-Yaa into the sky as practice. Suddenly, someone comments about the speed of the Kuan-
Yaa -- it's Connelly! He apologizes about not knowing the effects of the Liquid Power as well 
as Pai. Yakumo tells him that it was Pai's decision, and that he doesn't understand what she 
could be thinking. Connelly tells him that maybe she pities KoKo. This is where Yakumo is 
frustrated -- why would she pity KoKo?? Connelly suggests the following: "Maybe she knows 
exactly how he feels." This obviously confuses Yakumo, and Connelly continues: "Where Pai-
sama is standing, what that creature looks like now ... may be a foreshadow of what she will 
look like in the future." Yakumo is shocked, and wants to know more -- but wait! An explosion 
surprises the hell out of both of them (as well as Chen), and they see some sort of monster. 
Yakumo goes off to investigate ...

We Will Die Together - KoKo is thrashing wildly, killing some unfortunate civilians. As 
Yakumo arrives on the scene, he notices Fei-Oh transporting Pai and KoKo's mother? Over 
there, Pai is trying to reason with KoKo. She tells him that she understands his pain, but 
KoKo isn't convinced. "How would you understand!?" he screams, thrashing everything in 
sight. The mother explains to her child that Pai understands Liquid Power and knows that she 
might turn into a monster like him. She tells KoKo that Pai was hiding that fact from 
Yakumo all along. But is Mr. KoKo listening? No. He attacks the two of them by bashing Fei-
Oh and spitting some gunk at them. But wait! Before the gunk could touch Pai or anyone else, 
a blast blocks it away! It's Yakumo! "Now I know what you were hiding from me." he said, 
appearing from behind all of the smoke. He looks sternly at Pai. "If you turn into a monster 
and lose your sense of being, I will end your life. We will die together." he said as he held 
out a hand to our favorite Sanjiyan. Pai takes his hand and the two are reunited ...! KoKo, 
on the other hand, doesn't care for this reunion and decides that he wants to kill everyone. 
His own mother tries one last time to stop him, but of course it doesn't work. Yakumo tells 
the two to back away and blasts a Kuan-Yaa at KoKo!!

Pulverize - The Kuan-Yaa blasts KoKo and causes a large explosion that knocks our cast 
around. Yakumo tells Pai to evaculate the town. Pai asks him where they should go, but the Wu 
isn't sure yet. KoKo's mother suggests for them to use the paper talisman to calm her son 
down, but they tell her that they can't touch it. He further attacks KoKo to the mother's 
distaught. Yakumo tells her that he won't kill her son, he's just going to blast off his arms 
to leave him immobilized and unable to hurt anyone. Pai notices that KoKo's wound was 
spewing off poisonous gunk and calls Yakumo to look. He does, and a solution comes to him. He 
plans to boil KoKo with his gunk! Yakumo considers using Kuan-Yaa because the Beastie has 
extremely high temperture, but it also does high damage. KoKo attacks, interrupting his 
thoughts. Pai gets away safely with Fei-Oh, but Yakumo and KoKo's mother are knocked into 
some couple's apartment. He tells the couple living there to run away (which they do), then 
uses Tou-Chao to slice KoKo's incoming tentacle. More poisonous gunk spews from the wound 
and lands on Yakumo, causing him pain. Yakumo finds a nearby lamp and smashes it onto 
KoKo's tentacle, burning it. The monster cries in pain and thrashes Yakumo!

Fire Trick - Pai is worried, and KoKo cries in pain and speculating that Yakumo wants him 
dead. Below, the village people watches in awe. One blabbermouth laughs and says that there 
really IS a monster. KoKo resents that remark. Yakumo yells for Pai to use Fei-Oh to throw 
a barrel at KoKo. She apologizes as KoKo cries in pain. Suddenly, KoKo claims that he 
has the power of the Liquid Power and yikes! -- he smashes Fei-Oh into the ground. The impact 
knocks Pai almost unconscious. Yakumo checks up on her, and she tells him to save KoKo. 
Yakumo tells her that he understands, but that he's got no other choice. Pai begs him not to 
kill KoKo, but Yakumo couldn't reply. Above in the sky, KoKo calls those below "stupid 
and insensitive", and threatens to kill them all. He tells them that it's what God has fated 
on them!! Yakumo and Pai gasps, and Yakumo decides to fight back with Kuan-Yaa to the 
horrors of Pai and KoKo's mother. However, Kuan-Yaa makes several swift turns around 
KoKo just before the death blow ...? Yakumo screams in pain as he makes his arm turn and 
turn ... the result being Kuan-Yaa completely "wrapping" KoKo!

Please Don't Say Only Sad Things - Elsewhere, Connelly and Chen are watching the events. Chen 
comments on the giant "Lightball" and Connelly explains to him that it's really a rotated 
Kuan-Yaa. He explains that it must be BOILING HOT inside. However, Connelly alsos says that 
if Yakumo dares to expell such powerful Beasts as Kuan-Yaa for any extended amount of time, 
it'll affect him ... "A kinda stupid move, in other words." Meanwhile, Yakumo is exhausted, 
and Kuan-Yaa dissolves. Out comes KoKo back in his "normal" form, and he continues whining 
about how he could never be understood of. He demands to know why it's "wrong" to be ugly and 
why it's "wrong" for a monster to love a human being. He tells them that they're all dead, 
and proceeds to slash ...... and Pai gets in the way. She tells him that it's not "wrong", 
and KoKo then demands to know why he;s hated. Pai replies that no one hates him; that it's 
only because they can't see the real him inside. KoKo decides that Pai has said too many 
lies, and resumes his slashing when suddenly ...... he's kissed by Pai! She tells him not to 
say anymore sad things, and that he isn't a monster.

Harmony - Pai hugs KoKo and tells him that he isn't a monster. Yakumo and the mother watches 
in awe. Pai, in tears, tells KoKo that the only one whose ever really thought of hims as a 
monster was himself! At that moment, KoKo screams, and, with his tentacles, suddenly abducts 
Pai! Yakumo and KoKo's mother gives chase in the name of Fei-Oh! Elsewhere in the mountains, 
Pai tells KoKo that he needed not to do this. She ain't gonna go anywhere. To her surprise, 
she finds KoKo in tears. There's a cave nearby, and they go in. Yakumo isn't far behind and 
jumps into the cave, too. Inside, Yakumo and mother could hear KoKo tell his story to Pai. 
They decide not to show themselves just yet. KoKo says that Pai was the only one able to get 
him back to his senses, and really hates that he can't complete with Yakumo. At this point, 
the Wu gets his cue and appears. KoKo greets them calmly. KoKo's mother hands him the paper 
charm, and he rips it to pieces. He says he doesn't need such things, and proceeds to offer Pai 
the Liquid Power and if he could join her. She accepts.

Trouble On Earth - Pai tries the Liquid Power again, sitting in front of a Sanjiyan skeleton. 
Yakumo and KoKo are there as well, and Connelly watches from the cave entrance. The ball 
from the skeleton seems to be absorbed by Pai, and everyone watches in awe. Later, Pai is seen 
asleep peacefully, and KoKo asks her mother if Pai is alright. Chen can be seen in the back-
ground eating. The mother replies that Pai has been sleeping, and the three of them assumes 
that since there hasn't been any physical changes to Pai, then she must have passed the Liquid 
test. Mean-while, Yakumo is screaming in pain and agony. Connelly is there with him, and he 
explains that the pain should be expected because of the Liquid Power in Pai. He then tells the 
Wu to attack him, and Yakumo replies with a "no way". So Connelly will have to force an attack 
out of the Wu, which is exactly what he does. Yakumo finally attacks. Back to KoKo, he and 
Chen are talking about the effects of the Liquid Power, when at that moment, Pai awakes ...? 
Going back to Connelly, he deflects the Kuan-Yaa that Yakumo had threw at him earlier, and 
comments that his speculation was right. Pai's little to no physical changes and Yakumo's weak 
Kuan-Yaa had confirmed that something was right about the Liquid Power -- at that moment, 
Sanjiyan appears and tells us that "the Liquid Power is weakening. Something's happened."

Dive - Yakumo is surprise to see Sanjiyan. Sanjiyan tells him that she could not have been 
affected by the Liquid's little power. Connelly suddenly bows down to Sanjiyan and tells her 
that this is the first time he's been in her presence and that he apologizes for the times 
he's gotten her into danger. Sanjiyan tells him not to worry -- she can't be harmed. Yakumo 
agrees, because Benares needs her for the Humanity Ritual, and as long as he needs her, she 
can't die. Connelly thinks that might make sense ... but if Sanjiyan is being protected by 
Benares or his men, why couldn't he sense them? Parvati and everyone else speculates that they 
aren't far off if they said Benares had something to do with the Liquid Power. Back in the 
cave, Connelly feels the Sanjiyan skeleton's skull, and comments on how weak the power is. He 
thinks that some-one must have sucked away most of the power inside the skull. Parvati and 
Yakumo decides that they will look inside the skull and uses a spell to do so. Before 
departing, Parvati tells Connelly that if they aren't back in 5 minutes, pull them away. 
Inside the skull is an astral surrounding, and two shapes are formed -- Yakumo and Sanjiyan. 
While Yakumo appeared in normal clothing, Sanjiyan is ... well, naked. Yakumo comments on her 
nudity while she explains to him about what she speculates will find, and the Wu gets a punch 
in the face for not listening. She tells him that if he wanted to see her with clothes on, 
then all he had to do was think so. So does, and out comes Parvati in a "Sailor Moon" like 
outfit. Yakumo calls himself a pervert. He wonders why he didn't choose a t-shirt or a swim 
suit for his Sanjiyan Master? A nurse or a police officer outfit would also be a good joke to 
pull on Sanjiyan right now. Parvati, on the other hand, is apparently shocked by something. 
Suddenly, they are pulled vaccum-like into a pentagram! They get sucked in, and on the other 
side was none other than Benares!!!

Weakening - Yakumo exclaims this fact rather loudly, and Sanjiyan tells him to hush up. She 
explains that he can't see them -- but any wrong move and Benares WILL notice. They quiet down, 
and watch as Benares summon a giant spider-like Beast with clown faces. The thing shrieks, and 
we can see Benare's bones under his jacket. Energy from the clown-spider is absorbed by the Wu 
and Benares's body heals. Yakumo wonders why Benares, a Wu, would need to have his body healed 
in this fashion? Sanjiyan tells him to shut up, and yanks him away to somewhere else. Yakumo 
demands to know where they are going, and Sanjiyan tells him that he's loud. At that point, 
they find themselves standing inside a chamber. They enter like ghosts without opening the 
doors, and inside they find a container surrounded by creatures. Sanjiyan walks up to the 
container, and tells her Wu that if she's correct, then Kaiyanwang should be inside the 
container. Yakumo is obviously shocked. Suddenly, the chamber doors open, and Benares is there. 
He demands to know who's there, and threatens to trap them in the astral plane so they could 
never return to their bodies. However, as he prepares to use his spell, his arm breaks away. 
Sanjiyan and Yakumo takes this a a cue to run away, and they escape with valuable information: 
Benares is pretty weak at this point, and NOW is the best time to fight him if they want to 
win!! Parvati then says to hurry and contact Yohko!

To The Treasure Room - Elsewhere, Haan is seen in a village somewhere. He finds a man sitting 
down and the two of them exchange secret codes. After the exchange, the two briefly hug. The 
man asks Haan when did he came back, and Haan tells him "last night". So anyway, the man asks 
what he could do, and Haan tells him that he needs directions. At that moment, two man appears 
and tells the man and Haan that there was a "strange looking transvestite" causing trouble. 
Haan's face turns blue because he knew who it was -- Mama-san! They find her, and she's with 
Yohko. Haan says that he thought he told Mama-san to stay at the hotel? Mama-san is enraged 
because she says that since she paid for th etrip, she can go anywhere she pleases. Haan tells 
Mama-san that she's not the one he was worried about, and Yohko goes into defense that she 
could take care of herself. She goes on to ask the man that Haan was talking to about a place. 
The man tells her that there are lots of monsters in that place. Meanwhile, Yakumo is making 
calls, and he is told that Haan, Yohko, and Mama-san departed to Pakastan for a while. Steve 
and Ling-Ling are also gone, though no one knows where. He'd left a phone number for them to 
call when they get back. Drinking, Parvati tells Yakumo to wait for someone to call. Back to 
Haan, his friend had brought to them a temple looking place. He tells them that ever since 
its owner, Saruraama, died, there has been thieves and robbers. However, no one has ever made 
it out alive. Yohko says that she would be fine, and that she has "water". Without another 
word, she goes inside. Haan follows her, obviously worried about her well-being. And find her 
he does! He finds her in the middle of a kill, and, instead of intimated (as Yohko believes), 
he finds her appealing. Yohko tells him that she doesn't blame him for dispising her, and 
Haan is in disbelief. Suddenly, a monster appears without warning! At that precise moment, 
Haan's hand glows and extends! It forms into a axe-like weapon and slashes the monster dead. 
Haan and Yohko both have hilarious expressions on their faces. Meanwhile, Yakumo is staring 
at the telephone, waiting for a call and wondering if his summoning of his Beastie on Haan 
has worked while a drunk Parvati drools.

We Meet Again - Fur away, Benares tells Galga that someone was trying to get to his master in 
the astral plane. He says that even though he isn't sure who it was, it was troubling. Else-
where, Yakumo and Parvati has finally found Yohko and friends. Yohko was explaining that in 
the heart of the Holy Land, in "Kaiyan City" was where Benares would often call forth his 
servants when he needed them. She expects him to be there. Connelly agrees, and Yakumo decides 
to go find Naparva so they can go to the Holy Land. Yohko regrets about not having able to 
find another Beast Magic for Yakumo, but the Wu tells her that it's alright. Benares is so 
weakened that one or two extra Beasties won't make any difference. At this point, Haan comes 
in with a HUGE Beast Egg. He says that this must be the special Beast Egg that Saruraama's 
clan had specially raised. Yakumo opens up the egg, and everyone is hopeful that it'll be of 
great use. Out comes a ... giant balloon thing. Yakumo carries on one of the most hilarious 
expressions in all of the manga. He adopts the Beastie anyway, and the gang decides to go to 
Tibet. In Tibet, Connelly says that his method in defeating and sealing off Benares for good 
has two flaws: 1) The Benares now is stronger than the Benares then. He isn't sure if the 
spell would even work for the current Benares anymore. 2) He's too old to perform the spell. 
Yakumo offers himself to be taught, but Connelly says that he's too weak. Houasyou, too. 
Naparva offers himself, but Connelly says that oridinary human beings will crumble if they 
try. KoKo? No chance. His ki is too spread out (Haan has a hilarious expression on this 
panel). And this spell is too dangerous to be taught to Parvati. Connelly then goes on to 
explain how and why he executed the spell: There was once an evil Ryuushin (Dragon God) that 
ate and ate the Holy Land for three days straight. One the third day, it gained intelligence 
and a human form. It continued to do evil things, and finally, Connelly had to seal him up. 
Naparva hands a knife to Yakumo, and they all (Yakumo, Pai, Haan, Yohko, Connelly, KoKo, 
Chen Aguri) reach the Holy Land in time. Connelly continues his story; that he had to seal up 
Benares for numerous reasons. In the shadows, Galga watches.

Recollection - All of this happened 4000 years ago, Connelly explains. He was in what is 
known now as Wales, and he sealed him there. However, after his spell was completed, he lost 
all interests in everything and lead a normal human life. That was why 2000 years later he 
could not stop this meeting ... 2000 years later, he could not stop Shiva from meeting 
Benares. But something was wrong -- Yakumo wanted to know just how Shiva knew where Benares 
was? How did he know that Benares was sealed up in Wales?? At that moment, Parvati 
interrupts her Wu -- she could sense something foul in the air. Even Haan could tell as he 
announces their arrival -- several shapes suddenly appear and distort themselves to look 
like ... Parvati's! -- to Sanjiyan's horror. Connelly announces that it's all illusions, but 
the Parvati-clones were flirting with almost everyone! This was enough to cause Sanjiyan to 
blast them all into smithereens!

Galga Again - Sanjiyan grins, obviously proud of what she did, then briefly faints. Her 
attack had cause a rather big explosion, and now everyone is scattered around. Yakumo comes 
to, and looks around for his friends. He finds an unconscious Pai lying on a rock. He rushes 
to her, but before he could get any closer, he is stopped by Galga! They exchange blows, and 
Galga eventurally gets the upper hand by impaling Yakumo's body with his entire arm. At this 
point, KoKo appears and tries to fight Galga. He gets his face blasted. Galga gloats about 
his upcoming victory, but is suddenly interrupted by Connelly!!

An Oridinary Day With Yakumo-kun - Pai is alone in her apartment, having a drink and eating 
a bag of potato chips. She whines about how she's hungry and Yakumo was late for dinner. She 
mumbles and mumbles and mumbles ... until she gets a crazy idea about surprising Yakumo by 
cooking dinner! So Pai grabs a bunch of things -- squid, fish, shrimp, crab, curry, some 
vegetables -- and place them all inside a spell. Meanwhile, Yakumo is walking down the street 
with a takeout order of Eels. At that moment, Pai greets Yakumo ... with a giant monster with 
the body parts of a fish, crab, shrimp, and squid. Good grief!

END OF VOLUME 16 SUMMARY

(Special thanks to 3x3 Eyes Digest (http://www.sazan.net/digest) for some of the character's 
names as well as chapter titles!)