

But, contrary to Ash's plan, Saiki finds him to be a suitable new host, manipulating the youth's body as his own and desiring to complete the job by fighting the winning team once again.

Before he can suspect his followers of betraying him in some manner, Ash uses this moment of weakness to rob Saiki of his spirit. He then suddenly notices that, instead of opening, the Gate was closing. With their combined strengths, Saiki faces the fighters, hoping to sacrifice them.Īfter the fight, Saiki remarks that they are doing well, though not good enough to satisfy him. When Mukai volunteers to deal with the winning team, Saiki isn't up to seeing his follower fail yet again and absorbs Mukai's energy into himself. In the tournament finals, he appears to the winners to kill them, in order to gain the energy required to open the gate. To do so, he requires a particular ceremony to open a direct doorway to it.

A being that has been described be the Western emissary of Gaia, he desires to gather life energy throughout the tournament to reawake Gaia's will and use the entity for his own means. Saiki is the leader of Those from the Past, the mysterious aforementioned "master" from the early games of the Ash saga arc.
