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![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NmwMP.png)

At the end of the fight between [Souda
Emonzaemon](http://katanagatari.wikia.com/wiki/Emonzaemon_S%C5%8Dda) and
[Maniwa Pengin](http://katanagatari.wikia.com/wiki/Pengin_Maniwa) in the
[episode 11](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=270971), Emonzaemon starts
firing random directions with [Entou
Juu](http://katanagatari.wikia.com/wiki/Ent%C5%8D_J%C5%AB), and somehow a
bullet reaches Pengin's body to kill him. I don't understand how this
happened. Even when Emonzaemon fired directly towards Pengin, none of the
bullets reached him because of his extremely high luck. Then, how was
Emonzaemon able to shoot him by firing random directions?


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How does Pengin die in the fight with Emonzaemon?


He ricochets the bullets off of his other ninpo, the blue ball he sent
bouncing around the room.


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According to the novel, when Emonzaemon shot his bullets off all over the
room, he was aiming for things made of metal, like the nails on the
floorboards and columns in the room.

As his bullets ricocheted off metal objects, Penguin's luck was forced to be
pitted against the luck of the metal itself, which Penguin lost out to.

This was explained that no matter how lucky Penguin was, his luck would not
last forever, because like all humans, he will one day have to die. Metal, on
the other hand, has a much longer natural life span, far longer than that of
humans. Therefore the metal has accumulated much more luck over the centuries,
if not millennia, far surpassing the natural luck of any given human gathered
in their lifetime.


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