TM Chapter 9

Samurai Showdown (サムライショウダウン, Samurai Shoudaun) is the twenty-ninth chapter of the Trigun manga. It is also the ninth chapter of Trigun Maximum.

Summary
The fight between Vash and Rai-Dei continues. Wolfwood tries to interfere, but Rai-Dei exudes a blast of pressure that stops Wolfwood from doing so. Rai-Dei notes that hunting skillful humans have become disinteresting, so he hopes to hunt something else. In Wolfwood's inner monologue, it's revealed the each of the Gung-Ho-Guns have sacrificed something that made them human to gain ultimate power. Vash then tells Wolfwood to not interfere, as his intention is to kill. Vash then faces off against Rai-Dei and the samurai uses his ultimate technique called Double Nebula. The move is adroitly dodged, thanks to Vash using his gun's recoil to move out of the sword's path and parry the attack with his gun. Retaliating using his prosthetic gun, to which, Rai-Dei forgot to read the report on it. After the gun runs out of bullets, Rai-Dei uses the Double Nebula attack again. Hoping that he would do this, Vash counters the move and defeats Rai-Dei.