Episode 26: The Last Monster

On learning that poor farmers like his late parents are going to start a riot, Dororo also volunteers to join them, and parts with Hyakkimaru. Hyakkimaru continues his journey alone, defeating monsters one after another. Now he need kill only one more monster to make it the 48 monsters he needs to get his body back. Then a strange old woman says to him, "The last monster is your father, Daigo Kagemitsu." Kagemitsu, who has given his soul to a monster in order to become a general, seems in the end to have become a monster himself. In order to defeat his father, who has put a curse on him, Hyakkimaru runs to his father`s house. There he finds Dororo held in captivity. Kagemitsu is executing the rioting farmers. When he sees Hyakkimaru, who has killed his beloved son, his fury is uncontrollable. He offers his wife, Onui, as a sacrifice, and asks for the unearthly power of monsters. Then he becomes the 48th monster, and the last fight between Kagemitsu and Hyakkimaru begins. Source: tezukaosamu.net