Apachai Flashback Arc

The Apachai Flashback Arc is the ninth arc in the Kenichi: History's Mightiest Discple manga series. It was omitted in the anime, but consist of chapters 106-109 in the manga.

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Story Outline

Kenichi was doing Miu’s chores an apology for forgetting to tell her that Ryozanpku would keep the cat. Kenichi then found that Hayato bought an ink painting that was really expensive. He wanted to tell Miu, but the elder propose to tell Kenichi how he met Apachi so he wouldn’t tell. Back when Miu was a child, Hayato and Miu came to a dying village that has no children. When the villagers recognize Hayato they paid him with what little money they could get to stop drug and weapon smugglers that took their children and other things from the village. Hayato refused the money, but took the job anyway. The villagers warned the elder that the smugglers have Apachi working under them. The two saved a child by some thugs. While Miu was resting to have lunch, she saw Apachi (though didn’t see who he was with a cloak he has on). She shared rice balls with him and saw him being kind to some animals.

The elder and Miu got to the ship by running across the water with defeated a lot of smugglers until he met Apachi. While Hayato fought Apachi (which was breaking the ship), Miu was looking for the missing children only to be captured as well. When it looked like Apachai was going to lose, the smugglers were shooting at Hayato from all directions (even directions that would hit Apachai as well). The elder found out that Apachai was working for the smugglers, because they fed him some food by the boss when he was starving and thought they were taking the children to an amusement park. Apachi knew they’re lying and helped the elder beat the smugglers and returned the children home. The boss was about to shoot the elder, but the elder used Shockwave Forgetfulness Technique to erase his memories. Four days later, the children were returned to the village and gave them the smuggler’s treasure that they salvaged. The elder did take the money the villager’s money that was offered to them, because of their gratitude. Before leaving, the elder gave the villagers info on whom to get for protection from further threats. Apachai then followed Hayato and Miu all the way from Thailand to Ryozanpaku and was welcomed there. Back to the present, Kenichi was about to tell Miu about the saving spent, but Hayato used the same forgetting technique to make Kenichi forget about the elder’s spending. Kenichi continued to do Miu’s chores for at least one more day.

Story Impact

• Apachai's past and how he met the Elder is shown.