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Dick intervenes just in time and takes the blade in the shoulder instead of Garis. Lulu gets taken away again by Proist, and Garis and the others return to Daiku-Maryu. There, Sakon, Daimon, and Franklin reveal Garis and Lulu’s secret.

Daiku-Maryu gets attacked by Vestarnu and her Steel Beasts, and Lulu gets kidnapped. To get her back, Proist tells Garis to come alone to the place where he hid Tenku-Maryu.

Concerned about Captain Garis’s odd behavior, Dick and Daiya take off on a surveillance mission and land in a ruined city. There, Dick runs into Proist, and Daiya into Noza.

The Daiku-Maryu idol contest enters the final round in which the candidates become an idol for the deciding popularity vote. They each make a performance that will attract the crew’s attention.

The Daiku-Maryu crewmembers start seeing pink hippos everywhere on the ship. Dr. Franklin informs them that they are hallucinations from Limitation Syndrome, which occurs when people feel stressed out.

One day, Shizuka looks frantically for Dr. Sakon, but he is nowhere on the ship. Shizuka becomes furious and takes off on Stinger to go find him.

One day, Yanma, Haccho, and Booby, in an attempt to prove their usefulness, force themselves onto Gaiking with Daiya. But Gaiking gets captured by the enemy, and Daiya and the trio are taken back to the enemy warship.

Lulu starts reading people’s fortunes when one day, she predicts that Bry, the rebel fighter and Daiku-Maryu supporter, will reunite with someone special. Meanwhile, Daiya gets jealous watching her read fortunes for other people.

One day on a deserted island, Garis proposes a race to go find Windarium, a mineral ore that can counterattack Darius’s ice beam. The winner will become the Daiku-Maryu captain for a day, and ten crewmembers decide to participate in the race.

Daiya meets the crew of Daiku-Maryu, which includes Lulu, Gaiking’s supporter; Captain Garis; Vice Captain Rosa; Shizuka and Daimon in charge of the engine room; and Puria, the pilot of Stinger and the ace fighter of Daiku-Maryu.

Powerless against the enhanced Steel Beast, Stinger, Serpent, and Killjaguar retreat to Daiku-Maryu for the time being, but they learn that Proist ordered a public execution for Gaiking.

Dick attacks Gaiking to get to the enemy, and while the enemy falters, Gaiking counterattacks. Although they managed to get through the battle, everybody is furious at Dick for his dangerous tactic.

Daiku-Maryu arrives in the lawless city of Zangyle. Captain Garis tells Rosa to oversee the ship while he goes into town.

One day, Lee goes on a recon mission and saves Vestarnu, who is being attacked by droid soldiers at Proist’s secret quarry. She gets gunpowder in her eyes and becomes temporarily blinded.

During a battle in the air, a civilian airplane asks Daiku-Maryu for help, and Lulu agrees to let him come onboard. The pilot, a Darius man named Jan, demands to be taken to the surface world and tries unsuccessfully to hijack Daiku-Maryu.

After the battle with Noza, Daiku-Maryu and Gaiking get repaired in a new fort built by rebel forces in an abandoned desert city.

After the battle with Noza, the captain and Daiya fall ill, and Daiku-Maryu, as well as Stinger and Serpent, are badly damaged. Captain makes Lulu command the ship in his absence, and reveals his identity to Daiya.

While Grotecter warships are forming Death Cross Point, Noza challenges Daiya to another duel. Daiya goes against Garis’s order and accepts, even though he is daunted by Noza’s strength.

One day, Grotecter warships of Northern General Noza fly past Daiku-Maryu. They are on their way to create another Death Cross Point, the hole that connects to the world above the surface.

As Daiku-Maryu approaches the dark continent of Arkholand where the Darius Army headquarters is located, Lulu starts having nightmares about her childhood and the black flame.