"So many opinions, I don't know what to beleive... But I want to live!! I would never make such a deal, killing people, even if it means I'll be dead! Tell me, why did you do such a thing?! WHY?!" Sherry asked, trying to understand why the woman opposing her would do that. Sakura Yuuko then closed her giant fan behind her, landed on the water-like ground, then said:
"I wanted to be alive... I wanted to live! And I still do! I tried all the methods I could think of - including slashing that tree, but a ghost like me couldn't do it... Hear me well, you four from the living... I want to be alive again, at all costs! Even if it means to become evil myself! I will prove to you... that my will to live is far greater than yours!!"She then spread her hands, and after that, some sort of a third hand formed close to her right hand, the third hand holding a sword with a symbol of a pink five-petaled flower.
"Then I guess we have no choice... But I'll finish this with a one on one, I can't let you all get hurt. I'LL BE YOUR OPPONENT, GHOST!" Riyu said, drawing his sword and stepping forward.
"The only thing I cant do now, is to float or be immune physically like the ghost I am now, for these are the rules of the final ordeal - a fair fight. However, I'll defeat you, in this final ordeal! For my life!"The moment after the fight has been declared, the tree responded, in an even brighter blossom. The life or death battle was about to begin now.