Copyright Masami Kurumada. Summary of Saint Seiya Manga 25 - Chapter 1. Version 1. April 11th 1995. By : Carene Veanc,on. And : Jean-Luc Leger. Title : A clash ! Garuda (divine eagle) Vs Phenix (Immortal bird) p10 : Welcome in the 5th Prison where dead bodies burn eternally in their grave ! <11-1> Ikki : "Come on, who is my adversary ?" Aiacos : "All right, in accordance with your wish, I'll be your adversary" p12 : Ikki attacks him but Garuda Aiacos moves faster and avoid his fist. p14 : Aiacos hits nape of Ikki's neck. The later falls down. Aiacos grabs Ikki's head with one hand and releases his Garuda Flap. p16 : Ikki disappears in the sky. Then Aiacos draws a X on the ground with his foot. <17-1> Aiacos : "In 3 seconds, he will fall here .. Here is Phenix' graveplace." Ikki falls exactly there. p18 : Yet he gets up. Aiacos is astonished. He releases once again his Garuda Flap and draws another X. p20 : Nevertheless 3 seconds later, Ikki doesn't reappear. Aiacos doesn't understand. Suddenly something hits his back and he falls down. p22 : <1> Ikki : "That mark become your graveplace." <2> : "The same technique doesn't work twice on a Saint" "Now, this is an elementary knowledge !!" <3> : "Come on, which one is the next ?" <4> Minos : "Hum .. So you hope you have killed Aiacos ?" <5> Ikki : "What ?" Ikki is hit by an energy wave. Aiacos stands again. He decides to use his most powerful technique : p24 : Galactica Illusion. p26 : Ikki falls down. Aiacos announces Kanon they can resume their fight. <3> Kanon : "Hum .. So you hope you got rid of Phenix ?" Specters are astonished. <27-1> Kanon : "Formerly, I, too, fought Ikki but ..." "Anytime he was defeated, he came to get up" <27-2> "And each time he rebirths like the name of the Phenix, he increases his power !" And Ikki is getting up !!! p28 : Giudecca. Shun/Hades wakes up. He feels something. p30 : He asks Pandora what is this offensive cosmo he feels. She explains it's Phenix's He orders her to bring Phenix here. p32 : Back to 5th Prison. <1> Aiacos : "(You mean) that he increases his strength at each resurrection?" <2> "(if it's) so I'll do that you don't relive twice" Yet Ikki avoid his attacks. <33-1> Aiacos : "This guy !!" <33-2> "Wh .." <33-3> "It .. it's impossible" "(it means) that this man exceed my speed !" <33-4> Ikki "Aiacos ! You showed me enough your offensive speed a moment ago" So Ikki can kill him now. p34 : Ikki hits him with his finger. Aiacos is surprised because he doesn't feel anything ! He'll show Ikki what a deadly attack is : Galactica Illusion ! p36 : But, this time, his attack doesn't have any effect on Ikki. <2> Ikki : "How many times I have to tell you for your understanding that the same technique doesn't work twice." <3> Aiacos : "It .. it's impossible." <4> Ikki : "Perish yourself by your own technique !!" He hits him and destroys Aiacos's body. p38 : Suddenly, Aiacos's body is whole again. It was an illusion, it was Phenix GenMa Ken (Illusion demon fist) ! Ikki tells Aiacos, he doesn't have, any more, enough power to kill him. Aiacos doesn't believe him. He is really one of the 3 most powerful Specters so he can't be defeated by a Bronze Saint ! ikki replies Athena and Shun need him so he doesn't have any reason to keep on this fight. That's why he attacks with the Phenix' flap which breaks even stars ! p40 : Ho-YokuTenSho- (Flaming wings takeoff) Ikki kills Aiacos p42 : Radamanthys and Minos are astonished. Ikki asks them who the next is. Suddenly an aura surrounds Ikki and when it clears, Ikki has disappeared! p44 : He reappears in Giudecca. Pandora teleported him. Pandora presents him to Hades as the one with the agressive cosmo. Ikki wakes up. Next Chapter : Greatest Eclipse. =============================================================================== Summary of Saint Seiya Manga 25 - Chapter 2. Version 1. April 29th 1995. By : Carene Veanc,on. And : Jean-Luc Leger. Title : Greatest Eclipse p45 : Ikki recognizes his young brother. p46 : <1> Pandora : "Don't move !" A lightning comes out from her spear and strikes Ikki who kneels down. He holds out his hand towards his brother : "Shu .. Shun" <47-1> Pandora : "You mustn't hail him" "He is no more your young brother" <47-2> : "He is Hades king of the Dark world" <47-3> Ikki : "It's .. it's impossible .. "Who notices a such silly thing ?" <47-4> Pandora : "Hum .. Ikki, you may have forgotten it, but .. "already at that time, your brother's body became Hades" <47-5> Ikki : "What do you .. ? <47-6> Pandora : "It's not impossible that you don't remember" "Because, at that time, I made so that in case of separation your memory becomes dim" <47-7> : "That, at best, you remember only, and roughly, the fact that you met me" "Ok. Now, I'll make things about that time revive in your brain !" p48 : Several years ago ... <2> Ikki : "Muu ... the universe .. ?" "What's that your holding .. ?" <3> Pandora : "I may have told you .." "it's dark king Hades' soul !" <4> Ikki : "Hades ?" <49-1> Pandora : "That's right. In the whole universe .. the ruler of every lives .." "Hades resurrected again on this Earth after 200 and several 10 years" "When Hades has been revived on Earth, he has to melt in the body of the purest human being on that Earth." [Note : Women are of course ineligible to compete !] "Your brother has been choosen to be Hades' body in this time" p50 : <1> Ikki : "Don't make fun of me !! Who would allow a such capricious thing ?" Pandora : "That you allow it or not, I already told you, that child received life on this world and is destined to be a god" <2> : "And because of this, he must live as a god" "You would rather be glad to be his big brother" Ikki doesn't agree and tells her. So she changes her way of acting : electric current surround Shun's body. Ikki can barely still hold him. As he seems to bear it, she decides to increase the intensity ! p52 : Ikki collapses and loses consciousness" Pandora comes near Shun. She plans to take him with her and to bring him up carefully. Yet she can't touch him. A powerful cosmo forbids it ! She doesn't understand. p54 : Ikki wakes a few and stretches his arms out around Shun. Pandora is impressed by his tenacity, his will. So she decides to give him Shun "in custody" until the day when Specters will be resurrected. Yet she makes a pendant (the one with Yours Ever) appear at Shun's neck. That pendant makes any escape useless. p56 : Back to present day. ikki understands Shun's pendant wasn't a souvenir of their dead mother but a chain which ties him to Hades. Pandora explains it's what is written on it : Yours Ever ! It means that Shun's body will be Hades' forever ! Ikki moves towards Shun. Pandora releases another lightning. p58 : Pandora tells Shun's coming was unexpected. She never planned that the little boy would enter the Dark World as a Saint. Then, she thinks he was guided by Hades' soul. Ikki explains her she's wrong : Shun came here to kill himself ! He moves again towards Shun. Pandora tries to stop him. p60 : Ikki takes the pendant at distance and crushes it in his fist. <61-4> Ikki : "Hades ! I pulverized the chain that tied Shun to you !" p62 : <62/63-1> Ikki : "Now, go away from Shun's body, Hades !!" <62-2> "Otherwise, I will pull you out !" Ikki moves upstairs. Pandora blocks the way to Hades. p64 : So Ikki hits her (what a slap !) He takes her spear and threatens her with it. <65-1> Ikki : "Contrary to Seiya & Co, I am not a feminist !" "Even if my adversary is a woman, if she's evil, I will fight her without hesitating" <65-2> "If you have understood, you withdraw !" And he drives the spear in .. p66 : In the ground between her legs ! Then he comes close to his brother and slaps him too. p68 : As Shun doesn't react, Ikki slaps him again and again. Pandora reminds him he's raising his hands against a God ! Finally, Shun speaks but it's Hades' words ! He doesn't think Ikki will hit him and injure his own brother's body. p70 : Shun's body and Hades's soul won't never split off. If it comes that they split off, it will be when Shun's body is dead ! Then Hades releases his cosmo which pushes Ikki back downstairs. p72 : Pandora threatens him with her spear and would have killed him if Hades doesn't stop her : he still has something to reveal to Ikki. p74 : Saints' fight will soon be useless : the Earth will be in darkness. <4> Hades : "I planned to line up every star belonging to the solar system by my great power. I called that .. Greatest Eclipse.." <75-1> : "On Earth, the Sun light will be intercepted by the Moon. Stupid human beings will think it's a simple eclipse. But they won't see the sun light any more. It's an eternal Eclipse." p76 : <1> : "After that, the Earth will enter in an era like the period of big glaciers 1 million years ago." "It will change to a world of ice and darkness where every living beings would have died out and the vegetation faded out" <2> : "So to speak, by closing the Sun light, .. ".. the Earth will become like the Dark world .. a world of death! Next Chapter : Ikki's wailing fist. =============================================================================== Summary of Saint Seiya Manga 25 - Chapter 3. Version 1. April 29th 1995. By : Carene Veanc,on. And : Jean-Luc Leger. Title : Ikki's wailing fist. p77 : Even Athena can't intervene any more ! The greatest eclipse will be soon visible. So it's useless to keep on sheding blood. It's better to wait calmly death. p78 : But Ikki is determined not to stay inactive. Hades wonders what he wants to do against god's will. Ikki replies he will stop that will and, to do this, he will cut his life off. Hades reminds him that if he try to attack him, he will only injure his brother's body. Then Hades asks him if he plans to kill Shun by his own hands. Ikki thinks about it and decides to attack. p80 : The flaming wings takeoff ! p82 : Ikki has destroyed a part of the temple but his attack had no effect on Hades. Pandora tries again to kill Ikki but Hades forbids it to her. He tells Ikki wants to die since the beginning and that he [Hades] is going to provide him with death. Ikki tries again the Flaming wings takeoff attack. p84 : But Hades releases again his cosmo and throws Ikki downstairs. Then he asks Pandora to bury Ikki's body in the appropriate place. p86 : Nevertheless, Ikki isn't dead and gets up again. He doesn't think Hades used God-level power. He attacks and Hades hits him again with his cosmo. p88 : Once again, Ikki heads for Hades. Pandora wonders why Hades' power is useless. Hades decides to release a more powerful attack (several thousand times) so that it will pulverize Ikki's body. p90 : Hades realizes his body disobeys to his will. His hand raises by itself and grabs his neck to strangle him. p92 : Shun's soul appears behind Hades and tells his brother to kill Hades without caring about him ! p94 : Pandora is astonished that Shun's body rebels against Hades. Ikki tells Shun accomodated Hades in his body with the intention of dying. Pandora is amazed to discover that Shun let Hades take his body, with this aim in view, although he has to sacrifice his own body. Ikki explains Shun behaves in accordance with the name of his constellation. p96 : <1> "In order to save the Earth, Andromeda sacrificed her own body .." "Shun, surely came to fight while making the sacrifice of his own body, always as the Saint of that Andromeda constellation" "If someone is saved by his being hurt .." "He's a man who will sacrifice himself with pleasure !" This means that Shun isn't born to become Hades' body but as Andromeda Saint who has to protect Earth. Shun tells his brother to hurry, so Ikki begins to concentrate his cosmo. Pandora decides to stop him with her spear. p98 : She drives it in Ikki's back and tries to kill him. But something pushes her back. p100 : It was the Rolling Defense with Andromeda Chain ! Shun implores his brother to hit him otherwise his body will be dominated again by Hades' soul. p102 : <1> Shun : "Brother, don't be sad .. I'm glad. "By my only life, lot of people of the Earth will be saved .. Consequently, without hesitating any more ... <2> "Attack me without hesitating ... "Brother .. p104 : Ikki attacks. <1> Ikki : "Shun !! Your life .. in order to save the Earth" <2> Pandora : "It.. It's impossible !!" "Stop Ikki" p106 : But Ikki hits his brother. Meanwhile, somewhere between the 5th and the 6th Prison, Shiryu and Hyoga feel it : <107-2> Hyoga : "What !?" Shiryu : "The cosmo (we have) just (felt)" <107-3> Both : "Ikki killed Shun !?" p108 : Back in Giudecca. Blood is flowing out on the ground. Pandora is paralized from surprise. Ikki is crying. p110 : His fist is thrust in Shun's chest. <111-2> Ikki : "Fo.. Forgive me ... Shun" <111-3> Shun : "Hu .. Huu .. Bro .. Brother .." p112 : <1> Ikki : "Now, I will grasp Hades out from your body .." <2> : "C'mon Come out Hades !" <3> Shun : "Uguaa .. (cry of pain)" Ikki moves his hand in Shun's chest and takes out an hideous heart-like monster. Ikki wonders if it's Hades. p114 : Ikki throws it on the ground and crushes it with his foot. Finally the hideous thing disappears. p116 : Ikki rushes at Shun who knelt down and shakes him. Shun tells him he is OK but, suddenly, he spits blood. Then, he tells his brother to hurry because Hades is coming back. Another hideous thing gets out of his chest. p118 : But this time it's an human-sized monster. It opens it's mouth and gets ready to bite (or eat !) Ikki's head (and probably half of his body too !) Bloods spouts out. Someone shouts ... p120 : Seiya wakes up. He is in the frozen river : Cocytos. <2> Seiya : "Ik..Ikki killing Shun .. Then .. that .." "that .. "Did I see a dream .. ? <3> "I have no memory since Shun has been infected by Hades, but .." <4> "This place .." <121-1> "Where is this place !?" p122 : Back again in Giudecca. Ikki is standing close to Shun. <123-1> Pandora : "You stopped your fist Ikki, didn't you ? "But your fist has been rather hurt because you stopped that terrific speed [Page 110-119 : Seiya's dream] <123-2> Hades : "Why did you stop, Phenix ? "You are a more sweet-hearted man than I thought" <123-3> "The life of your only brother is even more precious than people of Earth who are several billion (thousand million). "But then your little hope you may prvent the Greatest Eclipse, you made it vain .." <123-4> Ikki : "Huu ..." "This is .." p124 : <124/125-1> Ikki : "Shun's flex-colored hair have changed to black !" <125-2> : "This is the same phenomenon than formerly when Saga change from goodness to evil" <125-3> : "It .. It's impossible" <125-4> Hades : "That's right !! Shun's body has become fully mine !" "Perfectly till single hair !!" p126 : <1> Hades : "Shun's soul has already been fully annihilated !" Then Hades releases his real power and hits Ikki p128 : who falls down unconscious. <2> Hades : "Pandora, Settle that man's body with courtesy" Pandora : "Yes .." Suddenly Hades feels something. <4> Hades : "What !?" "What is this Cosmo !?" Next Chapter : The deadly battle of Cocytos. =============================================================================== Summary of Saint Seiya Manga 25 - Chapter 4. Version 1. May 6th 1995. By : Carene Veanc,on. And : Jean-Luc Leger. Title : The deadly battle of Cocytos [Ice Hell] p129 : <1> Hades : "It's impossible. This cosmo is .. !!" p130 : Pandora bending over Ikki's body, touches the injury she made in his back. She seems really worried. Then she gets up and removes any feeling from her face while calling a servant. Valentine appears. She orders him to manage Ikki's body in Cocytos. She explains who Ikki is so Valentine must do it with a sincere courtesy. Valentine agrees. p132 : Valentine leaves with Ikki on his shoulder. Then Pandora noticing Hades' amazement, asks him about it. He tells her he had an unpleasant premonition but he adds he may think too much. She suggests he may be tired and asks him if he will go back to his temple. He won't, he preferes to rest here a little while and orders nobody enter. Pandora withdraws. p134 : A moment later. <3> Hades : "Who is here ?" <135-1> : "I'm under the impression I said that anyone mustn't enters for a little while .." : "You'd better step back immediatly" But the intruder refuses : he came here to meet Hades. He comes closer. p136 : Virgo Shaka ! <137-1> Shaka : "Hades ! I'll kill you !!". Hades is amazed. p138 : Cocytos. Ikki is thrown down without courtesy near Seiya and begins to sink into the frozen river. Seiya asks why he's also here. Valentine replies it's because this place is the Hell for those like them the Saints. The 8th Prison, called Cocytos, is the Hell where are those who planned to rebel against gods. Every corpses who are around Seiya was an Athena's Saint. p140 : Then Seiya notices Mu's, Aioria's and Milo's dead body. Finally, Seiya remembers he had already seen this Specter in Hades Castle. Valentine also recognized Seiya. p142 : Seiya reminds Valentine the promise he made in Hades Castle : they would fight if Seiya came in the Dark World. As Valentine refuses to fight an opponent who is almost dead, Seiya offers to give him Athena's cloth. Valentine is perplexed. p144 : He decides to take Seiya out of the frozen river and asks him where he hid it. Seiya tells him he will give him but, in place of Cloth, he gives him a kick. p146 : The kick is only used by Seiya to escape from Valentine. It will never be useful against him. Seiya suffers from frozen injures. p148 : He attacks Valentine who avoids easily his fist and kicks him several times. p150 : Seiya tries another kick and then begins to make his life-fire burn. Valentine understands and decides to blow this little fire out. p152 : He attacks with his "Grilled (??) the life" p154 : Back in Giudecca Hades asks Shaka where Athena is. Shaka replies he doesn't need to know it because he will die soon. Then Shaka attacks Hades. p156 : Suddenly a voice tells Shaka not to attack Hades. Soemone appears in the room. Hades recognizes this person as the one with the cosmo he felt earlier. This is Athena !! p158 : In the Cocytos, Seiya, falling down, drops Athena's cloth which slides on the ice. Valentine moves near to take it but Seiya crawls and gets it before falling uncounscious again. Valentine is amazed by his persistence and decides to kick Seiya's arm in order to force him to release the cloth. p160 : Yet Seiya doesn't release it. So Valentine gets ready to hit him with his cosmo but Seiya's own cosmo begins to burn again. Seiya has just felt Athena's cosmo and has reminded he has to bring her her cloth. Valentine worries and decides Seiya's reprieve has ended. p162 : Unfortunately, Seiya kicks him first. Valentine reminds him almost dead person's kick will never have an effect on him. Yet, this time, Seiya's kick is destroying his Sapuris !! Next Chapter : Follow Hades !