While Houtarou is serving New Years Food to Rinne and the others, he's wondering who is the Orange Gotchard that appeared during Christmas, and the sudden strengthening of the Malgam...
Suddenly, a Malgam appeared before Houtarou! Houtarou transformed into Gotchard, but he struggled against the empowered Malgam. As the Orange Gotchard appeared, he tells the shaken young man "As you are right now, you'll never defeat that Malgam."
A suprising development awaits Houtarou and co. as a person starts to move after Geryon's revival...