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During the match, Gao and Rouga conflict over their ideals in friendship and start to have fun in the process. The match would have ended in a draw due to Big Surprise Pandora 's ability, but Gao managed to win by destroying Brave Equipment, Glory Seeker and revealing Cecilia's Spell Disarm , thus winning him the match.

As promised, Rouga returned Kiri into Gao's hands; acknowledging him as his rival in the process of escaping Tasuku and the Buddy Police. After the Buddy Police give Gao and his friends a ride back home, they celebrate Kiri's return at the Mikado residence. Much to their surprise, they realize that Kiri went to Sengoku Academy on purpose and that Paruko mistook Rouga taking Kiri as him being captured. Gao faces Kiri using his Magic World deck and wins, but after the fight Qinus Axia decides to leave Gao in order to find his own buddy.

While finishing his paperwork with the Buddy Police to register Drum's new forms, he and Drum go for a ride with the Buddy Police with Stella Watson and Tsurugi Takihara and they also witness the Buddy Police in action. Gao also gets a look at the powers of Hero World and meets the legendary hero Captain Answer.

When Kiri left Aibo Academy to move to his new school, Gao was surprised to receive the news and received a letter from him after a month. After an intense battle, Gao wins using Thunder Knights, Bastard-sword Dragon and learns that Kiri chose to receive the Dark Core's power from Davide Yamazaki in order to get stronger and win more battles.

Shocked by the sudden change in his friend's ideals, Gao decides to wait for Kiri in front of his school, hoping he would show. Gao fails to find Kiri, and then he runs into a battle between Kazane and Davide and learns of Darkness Dragon World 's powers. Unbeknownst to him, a new power was granted to Gao as shown in his dream,in which he was chosen to cleanse the darkness; transforming his impact card into a new, evolved form.

By challenging Davide to a Buddyfight at Buddy Fest and agreeing to win using his impact card, Gao surprises everyone by winning the match using his new impact Roaring Slash!! Gargantua Punisher!! Gao blocks the attack with his Blue Dragon Shield and is revealed to be able to use Future Force, much to everyone's shock, even Tasuku.

When a mysterious criminal calling himself "Grim Reaper" appears, he and Zanya work together to capture him, but Zanya is defeated and Tsukikage is taken away.

Gao then realizes that Grim Reaper is none other than Kiri,. Together with Tasuku and Drum, they arrived at the Disaster hideout. He buddyfights Kiri and managed to make Kiri realize his true feelings.

Using Roaring Slash!! Joker decided to help him, admitting that he was controlled too. He then returned to Tasuku but realized that he had lost to Kyoya and Azi Dahaka and later was taken away, then when he sees stolen the Buddy Monsters who were controlled, his anger causes Future Force to be activated, making the power of Roaring Slash!!

He then buddyfights Elf Kabala and rescued Tsukikage from Disaster. He was invited to the Gaen Cup but was unsure because he knew of Kyoya's true intentions.

However, thanks to Zanya and Tetsuya's encouragement, he decided to participate to reveal Disaster's and Kyoya's true colors. Balle du Soleil's opponent for the first round was Team Goddess and Gao's opponent was Paruko who nearly beats him but Gao manages to win and advance his team to the next round.

Gao watches the following rounds, during which he was surprised that Rouga "used" Disaster Force and called Kyoya a friend and then finds out that Noboru has returned to Japan and is participating on the tournament. After the Purgatory Knight is revealed to be Tasuku, Gao tries to confront him believing he's being controlled by the Dark Core, but Tasuku states that he joined Disaster on his own will. Sofia tries to erase his memory of the conversation but is rescued by Kiri who reminds him that everyone is supporting him, and then entrusts him with Jackknife Dragon.

Gao's opponent for the second round is Gremlin , Baku's cousin. He will be facing off against Purgatory Knight Tasuku in the final round.

He and the rest of the team find it suspicious but are willing to do it to stop Kyoya and Disaster. Gao and Tasuku's rematch finally begins, both quickly reducing each other's life quickly and Demios Sword Dragon defeating Drum.

Gao is pushed to a corner and has the chance to activate Roaring Slash! Baku convinces him to activate Gargantua Punisher!! At that point, Great Evil Dragon, Samael Apocalypse appears a portal and breaks through into the arena. After Tasuku is knocked back, Gao's Future Force activates again, except this time by his own will and when it activates he looks just like the Mighty Sun Fighter.

With Dragon energy, he sends the dragon back into the portal. Kyoya reveals the audience that the Gaen Cup's "real objective" is to recruit kids to use Disaster Force so they can combat an incoming invasion from Darkness Dragon World and gains the support from everyone besides Gao's friends.

He and Tasuku continue the match, and Tasuku reveals his reasons for joining Disaster and attacks Gao, but Gao defends. On his next turn, he calls Jackknife Dragon, yet is unable to defeat Tasuku. After the match, Kyoya offers him a Dark Core and his friendship, but Gao immediately rejects both knowing they're lies. Kyoya proceeds to reveal his real plan: tricking kids into using Disaster Force so they fuel the portals for the invasion to begin.

Determined to put an end to Kyoya's ambition once and for all, Gao demands a fight against Kyoya. While preparing for his buddyfight against Kyoya, Gao is forced to watch as the world gullibly believes Kyoya's lies and see him as a messiah while they see him as the bad guy.

Gao remains positive and confident as usual knowing that he's fighting to reveal the truth, but doubt manages to flood his mind anyway. Tasuku visits Gao the night before the fight and thanks him for making him realize his mistakes, and to encourage him for the fight. Gao still remains doubtful however, but Drum reminds him of their first fight together and reassures him that they are buddies.

With his spirit revived, Gao goes to fight Kyoya. Right before going to the fighting arena, he finds all of his friends waiting for him and they all give him pieces of advice and encouragement. The fight begins, with Kyoya revealing his special Flag Dragon Ein , which Tasuku had warned him about the night before. Kyoya quickly takes the lead, but Gao manages to reduce his hand to zero. Kyoya reveals to the world that he plans to solve the world's problems by removing all individuality, and explains that Disaster Force is created by a spatial rift in reality caused by Buddyfight cards.

Gao tries to convince Kyoya that if everyone were the same, life and Buddyfight would be boring and activates his Future Force.

Kyoya taunts Gao by showing him that he has a Blue Dragon Shield. However Kyoya remains perfectly calm, his goal was never to win the match, but to activate Gao's "Disaster Force", but to his surprise Future Force, while having the same capabilities as Disaster Force, it's different, its power comes from the potential of the future.

Gao's Future Force closes the portal to Darkness Dragon World, and Tasuku destroys the portal generator, putting an end to Kyoya's goal once and for all.

Gao, however, doesn't hate Kyoya for everything he did and instead offers Kyoya to become friends. Future Force Tasuku ver. During a buddyfight, he asks Drum if he was ready, and he said that he was born ready for the fights ahead. She told him to decide if he was the savior or oppressor of the city. Believing Fisk's love for Marianna would endanger their business, Gao decided to join forces with Leland Owlsley and together they planned to poison Marianna at the benefit Fisk was attending.

Although Marianna did drink the poison, she was rushed to the hospital in time to be saved. Gao tells her men to attack the Masked Man. While in her warehouse , Gao watched over her blind workers as they continued producing Steel Serpent Heroin.

However, she spotted the masked man in her warehouse, who was snooping around to find for answers about the drug trade in New York City. Gao yelled a warning to her workers and ordered them to attack, hoping that their numbers would overwhelm him and he would be detained long enough for her to escape. While her workers found and surrounded the intruder, Gao took two armed guards with her and attempted to escape the warehouse during the fight.

However, just as Gao quickly moved through the warehouse towards safety, they were attacked by the masked man who quickly defeated the guards and confronted Gao, causing a fire to break out when one of her guards shot a nearby barrel. With just Gao and the man alone in the slowly burning room, Gao stood tall and prepared for the confrontation with the feared vigilante who had so far defeated both Nobu Yoshioka and the Russian mob.

Gao is confronted by the Masked Man. The man demanded to know why her people had been blinded, but Gao assured him that they had blinded themselves because of their faith in what she stood for, and now the masked man had taken that faith away from them.

The man questioned if their faith was in her drugs, but Gao insisted it was about more than heroin and that he had no faith at all.

When the man asked about Wilson Fisk , Gao struck him in the chest and knocked him a few feet across the floor. As the man recovered from the shock, Gao vanished without a trace, while the warehouse and all of her heroin burned down. Gao has a meeting with Leland Owlsley. Having escaped from her warehouse before the New York City Police Department could find and arrest her and her business burned to the ground, Gao met with Leland Owlsley to discuss the recent events.

She greeted Owlsley in English, apologizing for her lateness. She informed Owlsley about the encounter with the masked man and the destruction of the heroin. When Owlsley suggested she bring in more heroin, Gao explained that she never had any real interest in selling drugs.

Gao decides to leave New York City. They then discussed the risk of Wilson Fisk discovering their plan to assassinate Vanessa Marianna , with Gao noting that Fisk believed that the poison was meant for him.

Owlsley then asked if Gao was responsible for killing James Wesley as well, but she assured him she was not as Wesley had never shown her discourtesy. As Gao left the meeting, she then informed Owlsley that she was returning to her homeland to reflect upon the future. Knowing that Fisk would likely learn the truth about Marianna's poisoning, Gao told Owlsley that they would not speak again as she walked away. Madame Gao is confronted by Daredevil. Gao either returned or never left New York City , continuing her heroin trade despite eventually running into some new trouble when a rival dealer known as the Blacksmith began stepping into her territory to sell his own heroin.

Gao was visited by Daredevil who demanded to know how and where he could find the Blacksmith. Once Gao had ordered her men to leave, they discussed the Blacksmith's operations in private, with Daredevil threatening to call the New York City Police Department to her location if she had refused to assist him in the search. Gao tells Daredevil about the Blacksmith. Madame Gao started to explain how the Blacksmith was eliminating her chemists and street dealers, causing trouble for her.

Daredevil assured her that he could end the Blacksmith's career that night. Gao directed him to the docks as her men believed he brought his drugs over by ships although she did not know which pier and so could not have him killed herself, advising him that the Blacksmith's ship would be well guarded.

As Daredevil thanked Gao for all of her assistance and prepared to leave, Gao then warned him that his path would not be an easy one before allowing him to leave.

Gao orders Harold Meachum to kneel to her. Furious at Meachum's actions, she left a Hand print on the outside of his window. While Meachum was training later that night, Gao arrived in person to reaffirm his cooperation. Shocked at Gao's arrival, Meachum accidentally broke a glass, only for Gao to order him to kneel on the glass as a sign of respect to her, causing Meachum to cut his hands and knees on the broken glass, causing him pain.

Gao shows Harold Meachum his daughter. Due to the threats made against him, Meachum did as he had been instructed by Gao, as a reward Gao had him wear a blindfold and took him to take a look at Joy Meachum from the building across from hers.

As he looked at his daughter who he had not seen since she was a child, Meachum noted that his daughter had been hit, as Gao explained that she had had a run in with the Yangsi Gonshi , only to have been rescued by her bodyguard.

Meachum asked for one more favor, which Gao granted, to be allowed to personally execute the man who had injured his daughter in the attack. Gao orders King to kneel down before her. Gao had Meachum, through his own son Ward Meachum , purchase a pier property with the intention to smuggle a scientist into New York named Radovan Bernivig to produce all of their heroin. However before he arrived, Iron Fist intercepted Bernivig and escaped.

Having inspected the truck with Iron Fist had punched through, Madame Gao killed the bodyguard assigned to secure Bernivig and left his head behind in the abandoned truck for Rand to find, along with a challenge to him, as to free Bernivig's daughter from her would be to then complete her upcoming Da Jue Zhan contest. Gao greets the Iron Fist for the Grand Duel. As expected, Danny Rand arrived into the location where he set the terms for Gao that if he won the duel, she would be forced to free the captured Sabina Bernivig and the Hand would leave New York City , never to return.

Gao accepted this and in turn demanded that if he were to lose the contest, then he would never get involved with the Hand's activities again, with Rand accepted. Gao and Rand then washed their hands as she led him to the first challenge.

Gao watches Iron Fist fighting her champions. Gao led Rand through the warehouse were he was first challenged by Andrei and Grigori Veznikov , who mocked the Iron Fist for not taking his place at K'un-Lun before drawing blood from their own hands to make a ring around them all, explaining that if the Iron Fist fell out of the ring or died, who would lose. Gao watched as Iron Fist battled the brothers who together attempted to overpower him by using their expert teamwork and knives to their advantage: however, the Iron Fist soon got the upper hand and forced them to yield.

Gao watches the Bride of Nine Spiders beaten. Gao took Rand into the next room which was filled with smoke where he was then was attacked by the Bride of Nine Spiders who tried to first seduce and then poison Rand.

With all the Iron Fist's senses damaged by the Bride's poison, he struggled to continue fighting, allowing the Bride to beat him mercilessly. However, Gao watched as Iron Fist regain his strength and he fought through the pain and eventually defeated her as well. Gao watches Iron Fist fighting against Scythe. With one last chance to destroy him, Gao took Iron Fist into his final opponent, Scythe , who used all his skills with bladed weapons to try and kill the Iron Fist. Gao watched the fight unfolding, seeing Scythe put up a good fight; however, he was not as skilled as Danny Rand , so she made a silent retreat.

Rand used the power of the Iron Fist to punch through his weapon, smashing it apart before landing a final blow on Scythe. Gao threatens to murder Sabina Bernivig.

However, before Iron Fist could lay the killing blow, Gao revealed herself and threatened Sabina Bernivig 's life, promising that if he did not withdraw from the Da Jue Zhan , she would kill the hostage by cutting her throat. Rand insisted that this action was dishonorable, but Gao made it clear that she did not care about the honor of the duel as long as she came out victorious in the end.

Despite being haunted by Lei Kung 's lessons about being merciless against all his enemies, Rand eventually chose to withdraw with great reluctance and Gao released the hostage to him, laughing to herself. Gao comments on her memory of K'un-Lun. Gao said she found it amusing that the Iron Fist had saved an innocent life over defeating the Hand , questioning why he was in New York City. Gao mentioned that she had met previous Iron Fists and made it clear that she had been to K'un-Lun herself.

While talking about Rand's honor, she then mentioned Wendell Rand 's lack of honor, but before Rand could then learn more, Gao was able to throw him back without physically touching him, and she was gone by the time he recovered. Gao personally arrives into Rand Enterprises. Seeking to speak with Danny Rand in person in the wake of the Da Jue Zhan , Madame Gao and her own henchmen travelled directly to the Rand Enterprises Building where she found Rand in a meeting with Joy Meachum as she was confronting him over his own work ethic.

With Rand having seen her arrival, Gao calmly entered Rand's office and waited for him there, putting a plant down on a table for decoration and noting on how poorly designed the office was, as Rand looked in in complete shock.

Gao tells Danny Rand to end his mission. As Rand questioned how Gao had gotten into the building, she just calmly explained that she had been a part of Rand Enterprises far longer than Rand himself had, noting that she did not plan on ever leaving.

Seeing Rand was ready to fight, Gao noted he could not be seen attacking an old woman in public. But Gao continued discussing the Iron Fists and how they would have never surrendered a duel to save just one innocent girl 's life. Gao gives Danny Rand one final warning. Gao noted how over her own long life she had seen the world greatly change, but with the arrival of Daredevil and Luke Cage among some others in New York City , she felt this change would be significant.

Gao suggested that perhaps with him having broken tradition and left K'un-Lun , the Iron Fist and the Hand could now end their battle and become allies.

Gao told Rand to enjoy the life he had left K'un Lun for, suggesting that he end their ages old war now and instead spend his days with Colleen Wing and Claire Temple , enjoying his money by buying a yacht and eating at various fancy restaurants. Telling Rand to focus on his business and claiming that this would be the best offer he would get, Gao went to leave his office only to be stopped and asked about her relationship with Wendell Rand.

Gao, however, refused to answer Rand's question and simply walked out, also reminding Rand to continue watering his new plant. Entering the lift with both her bodyguards, Gao used her Rand Enterprises key card to activate the lift and be taken to her floor while Rand watched in horror. During the ride down, Gao felt a bump in the elevator but she and her bodyguards chose to simply ignore the noise.

Gao is updated on the Steel Serpent sales. On the thirteenth floor, Madame Gao had a meeting with one of her subordinates about how the Steel Serpent heroin was to be moved by the Russians and the Dogs of Hell using the Rand Enterprises trucks across New York City.

When the woman referred to the Dogs of Hell as Gao's partners, she corrected her that the Dogs of Hell worked for the Hand but were not their partners. Gao noted that she would soon be dealing with Hai-Qing Yang and also that Radovan Bernivig was going to surrender his heroin formula to them shortly. Gao left the office, also noting that it needed more light. Gao explores her own heroin factory in China. Having forced Radovan Bernivig to give up his heroin formula, Gao had him killed and then departed for China.

Gao soon came across Zhou Cheng , the watchman of the factory, who was sound asleep and still drunk, so Gao kicked him and ordered him to move aside so she could explore her own heroin factory. Gao gives a clear warning to the Iron Fist. Before long, however, Cheng was defeated by the Iron Fist in single combat, at which point Gao revealed herself to him and claimed that she could teach him how to control his rage which had almost lead to him beating Cheng to death.

Iron Fist demanded to know more about Gao's own relationship with Wendell Rand , but she refused to answer, ordering him to keep his distance from her. Gao then ordered Iron Fist to surrender to her and the Hand , claiming that if he did as he was instructed then both Claire Temple and Colleen Wing would be granted a merciful and pain free death by her own hands. Gao being almost destroyed by the Iron Fist. Iron Fist vowed that he would die before allowing Temple and Wing to come into harm's way, at which point Gao claimed that she would not allow him to die just yet, and ordered her men to kill the women and leave Iron Fist alive.

Gao watched her soldiers attack the group only to be defeated; however, one of her own men stabbed another, revealing the poisoned blades which Danny Rand recognised as the same poison that killed his parent's pilots resulting in their deaths in the plane crash.

In a fit of rage, Iron Fist destroyed the wall behind Gao and proceeded to take her into his own custody. Gao is questioned personally by Danny Rand. Having been taken back to Chikara Dojo , Gao simply watched with satisfaction as Danny Rand argued with Colleen Wing over why she had been taken there, with Gao noted that the would never end up in the hands of the New York City Police Department. Rand demanded to know about the Hand and Gao's relationship with Wendell Rand , but Gao refused to answer.

Rand threatened to strike her with the Iron Fist, but Gao was still unaffected, smiling at all of Rand's efforts to intimidate her.

Gao attempts to manipulate Claire Temple. While waiting, Gao was given some water by Claire Temple who also questioned if Gao was uncomfortable. Gao quickly deduced that Temple was the sort of person who ended up close with people with gifts like Rand, as well as Daredevil and Luke Cage , claiming that Temple wanted to be special like they were.