<p>Because Okumura was told by his grandpa that if they destroy "the other world", he and his brother can turn back to human. And to open the gate, they need a lot of blood of the devil, so he sacrifice Rin. This is revealed in episode 22.</p>

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2014-05-13T10:01:05.937Z
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hale
<p>Yukio didn't know that Rin was going to be sacrificed. As you can see in the second last episode of Season 1, Yukio was surprised that Rin's blood was going and he had said yes because he wanted to protect Rin by turning him back into a human, but when he saw that Rin was going to die, he stepped in.</p>

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Saitama
<p>Title says it all: why does Yukio sacrifice Rin? It was in the last couple episodes, when Yukio became the Paladin. </p>

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Why does Yukio Okumura sacrifice Rin?
# Why does Yukio Okumura sacrifice Rin?
Posted by: username_0 on 2014-04-06
Title says it all: why does Yukio sacrifice Rin? It was in the last couple episodes, when Yukio became the Paladin.
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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-05-13. Score: 2
Because Okumura was told by his grandpa that if they destroy "the other world", he and his brother can turn back to human. And to open the gate, they need a lot of blood of the devil, so he sacrifice Rin. This is revealed in episode 22.
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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-10-24. Score: 0
Yukio didn't know that Rin was going to be sacrificed. As you can see in the second last episode of Season 1, Yukio was surprised that Rin's blood was going and he had said yes because he wanted to protect Rin by turning him back into a human, but when he saw that Rin was going to die, he stepped in.
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