Fushigi Yagi: Byakko Senki manga volume 3 features story and art by Yuu Watase.

Just as Suzuno reunites with Karm and Kasal, the brothers she met on her first trip into The Universe of the Four Gods, false priestess Ning-Lan unleashes a brutal attack that leaves Kasal mortally wounded. In the aftermath, Karm must come to terms with stepping into his newly awakened powers as a Celestial Warrior. But as the group begins their search for the other Celestial Warriors, something sinister awaits them out in the desert...