Yu Yu Hakusho - Volume 7 - The Test of the Knife, the Death Match Rhionae rhionae@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/3226/ Page 7 Koto: A tie!!! The two fighters are outside the ring!!! Countdown!!! Title: A Bloody Flower Kurama: They were both carried out by each other's blow. Perhaps this match is a draw... Koto: One Two!!! Page 8 Koto: Rinku's pulled himself up! Youkai: Yeah! One defeat for Urameshi!!! Koto: Four Five Rinku: Shit, I'm hurt... That coward, I'm going to have to regenerate because of him. Page 9 Rinku: That stupid Kuwabara's getting up! Damn it, he's really tough!!! Hold!!! [Yoyos bind Kuwa] Kuwa: ?! What? But - ? What is it with these yoyos?! Koto: Eight Nine Ten!!! Page 10 Kuwa: Are you scared of my face or what?! I can still fight!!! Rinku: [thinking] I've had it with his type!!! I've never seen a guy so serious! Kurama: He controlled the yoyos from a distance. Hiei: The rules permit it. Koto: The victory is given to the Six Youkai team. Kuwa: Hey, you!!! I'll wait until this is over, we can sort it out outside!!! Rinku: You're full of crap! Kurama: I'll go next. Roto: You must be bloody stupid to insist like you're powerful. I'll overcome you swiftly! Page 11 Title: With A Bloody Rose Page 12 Koto: Second match!!! Hiei: Kurama... Above all, don't show him mercy... You must finish it in one blow. Kurama: Yes, I know. Kuwa: Kurama, you know where he puts his rose whip? During training, that intrigued me. Hiei: They aren't real flowers. He knows how to transform all plants into weapons. A simple blade of grass can cut steel. Page 13 Koto: Second round, Kurama vs Roto!!! Roto: They say that you collaborate with the humans... I can't quite understand, is it worth the blow? Kurama: ... Shizuru: That long-haired boy is not ordinary... Keiki: Shizuru? You understand that? Roto: The death of humans makes you sad? Kurama: A kamaitatchi... Page 14 [Roto slashes at Kurama with his in built knives.] Hiei: That's not much, it's going to be easy. Your chance, you draw the number two in the band. Kuwa: In three rounds, I'll make it!!! Page 15 Roto: !!! Kurama: He seems a little thoughtless. I'm going to busy myself with you! Roto: The life of your mother is in my hands... What do you say to that? Kurama: !!! Page 16 [Kurama's cheek is cut] Kuwa: ?! But what was that about?! Roto: He he he, look well... By pressing this button, my accomplice... He's been tracing you parents. You see the plan? You are a nice boy, no? Page 17 Roto: Good plan, no? Too easy!!! You've been too corrupted by the hmans! [Roto punches Kurama, who tosses a seed back at him.] Roto: That's pathetic... A little rock for a counter-attack? You can't even touch me!!! You are my marionette, understand? Page 18 Roto: You want to fight, is that it? If you make a move I'll press the button, see? Kuwa: Kurama, what are you doing?! He's trying to free himself! Youkai #1: Yeah, he must be under hypnosis! Youkai #2: Go, finish him!!! Roto: You see, you are defeated! Well? He he he, he likes his mama, does he? Are you going to try to strike my arms? I'll probably have the time to press the button. Page 19 Roto: Try!!! Kurama: Grrr Roto: Haha, comical!!! I'm quite amused!!! I love vulnerable guys! Too funny!!! You're fucking with me... Page 20 Kurama: ... Roto: I don't like your stare. I want to see you suffer. You understand? You're going to stop!!! Lower your eyes!!! Page 21 Roto: My patience is at its limit. I don't need to abuse, you know? You're going to lick my boots. After that, I'll cut off your head. I think that you won't refuse. If you want to spare your mother. Your kind mother... I like this kind of situation, ha ha! Kurama: I refuse. Roto: ... What?! Page 22 Kurama: I've had enough fun. You can push the button. Roto: Ha ha ha, here you are at last unmasked! At the slightest difficulty, betrayal!!! You are like us!!!! Kurama: Go, push it! Roto: He he he, as you wish!!! You're a monster like us, you value nothing! Page 23 [Roto freezes in mid-action] Roto: Urgh?!! My thumb... It... I can't move it. Kurama: I'm going to give you some advice. Advice which I give to the whole world. [snatches controller from Roto] Your bet was quite audacious... The solution is thanklessly easy... Page 24 Kurama: Earlier I sowed a shimaneki seed. The roots have developed and now there is nothing you can do. Roto: ?! You did that?! The rock that you threw at me earlier... Kurama: A single word on my part and the plant will burst out of you... You're nothing but a guttersnipe. I won't deprive myself. Roto: Wait!!! I ask pardon!!! I beg you!!! Kurama: You must die. Page 25 Roto: [flowers bursting out of his body] Waaaah Kurama: Evil blood produces the most beautiful flowers in the universe... Page 27 Koto: A victory for the Urameshi team!!! We're at a tie here!!! Title: In the Flames of Hell Hiei: If it can reassure you, the demon isn't better than me. Kurama: ! You read my thoughts... Hiei: What do you think?! I'm mistrustful! Koto: The tournament continues!!! Kuwa: ?! Page 28 Koto: Zeru has already made his appearance!!! We're waiting for a fighter from the Urameshi team!!! Kurama: You think that's their boss? Kuwa: And the remaining two are for cleaning up? Hiei: I don't think so, that must be the boss... They must be drawing lots. He is for me. He'll pay well for our encounter yesterday. Page 29 Title: In the Flames of Hell Page 30 Youkai #1: Whoever is chosen, he's done for!!! Youkai #2: That guy is really powerful!!! Hiei: You use a kind of fire... Zeru: !!! Hiei: I saw the traces in the cup. You broke the cup with your flames... Not bad... Zeru: Yes, and so? Keep your mischievous comments to yourself. Koto: Let's go!!! Page 31 Zeru: [Surrounded by flames] I'm going to reduce you to ashes... Kuwa: Fuck, that's torn it!!! I have a bad feeling about this!!! Zeru: Well? Are you afraid? What do you say to this power? Hiei: Stop the chit-chat. I'm waiting. Page 32 [Zeru punches Hiei through the chest.] Page 33 Kuwa: Ah... A single blow! Zeru: For laughing at death... He is no more. Page 34 Zeru: Beautiful attack, that's damage. What... You're not dead yet? How? Impossible!!! Hiei: You're unlucky! You're going to be the first victim on earth of the Jaoh Ensatsu Ken!!! Page 35 Kurama: Jaoh Ensatsu Ken?!! He shouldn't use that on earth!!! That must even be impossible!!! Hiei: I don't have the control yet!!! It's only a question of time! Zeru: Black flames?!! He's successfully tamed the flames of darkness?!! Hiei: You'll have to be satisfied by my right arm. Sorry, but you must disappear... Page 36 Hiei: Look well, there was nothing to see with your amateur fire tricks... The power of the jagan. Zeru: Erps...!!! Koto: It's too... dangerous!!! Excuse me, but I have to get myself to safety!!! Hiei: You're going to die!!! Page 37 Hiei: From me, Black Dragon!!! Zeru: !!! Page 38 Koto: [hiding by the edge of the ring] ... ?! Page 39 Kurama: In one strike! Yusuke: [snoring] ... Koto: But... The wall... [Zeru's shadow is burnt into the wall, still smoking] 6 Youkai team member #4: I don't believe it... Hiei: A successful combustion... I leave his shadow as a souvenir. Koto: Ahh... I think it's useless to do a breakdown. Page 40 Koto: The victor is Hiei!!! Kuwa: Ha ha!!! Too easy!!! They can all tremble!!! His blow is deadly, far out... I never know, he can always change sides... Eh... Hiei: I assure you, I'm with you until the end of the tournament. My technique isn't yet totally perfected. 6 Youkai team member #4: You saw Zeru? ... 6 Youkai team member #5: He didn't make a crease... Page 41 6 Youkai team member #4: There's little I can do, I'm done for!!! Rinku: ! 6 Youkai team member #5: It seems we've been made part of a farce! [6 Youkai team members #4 &5 lose their heads - literally.] Hiei: !!! Page 42 Chuu: Ooops! Page 43 Chuu: These guys don't have any sense of humour! Really pathetic... Rinku: Chuu!!! Chuu: Hey you? I've come about the lost two members of the team. What must I do? Koto: We have a single replacement per team. You'll have to finish the tournament on your own!!! Chuu: So much the better!!! Koto: [thinking] He reeks of alcohol!!! Chuu: So, I must stuff around with the pathetic pair remaining! Page 44 Kuwa: That guy, I have a bad feeling... He's emitting less power than Zeru, there's a way! !!! Yusuke: And up! That stink of alcohol! It woke me up from my nap... Kurama: [thinking] Yusuke's come to himself to return the count... This guy is shady... Chuu: He's pissed his pants already? You can come in a pair!!! Page 45 Keiko: That idiot has finally woken up! Atsuko: Demolish him!!! Hiei: [thinking] This guy has nothing in common with Zeru... He's something else... Koto: Eh... You... Chuu: Come on, move your arse! Let's get this finished so I can have something to drink! Masked Fighter: ... Yusuke: I need the exercise, this one's for me! A little work-out to wake me up. Chuu: A work-out? Page 47 Title: The Drunken Fighter Youkai #1: That bastard Urameshi has just woken up!!! Youkai #2: He's going to live the last nightmare of his life! Youkai #3: Rid us of this guy!!! Youkai #4: Yeah, mash him up!!! Chuu: ... Page 48 Youkai: [chanting repeatedly] Kill him!!! Page 49 Title: The Drunken Fighter!!! Page 50 Kuwa: I sense a fearsome force... We don't know what he's capable of... Hiei: That's shit! It's a bluff, that's all. Youkai: Kill him!!! Kill him!!! Kuwa: Hm, I think that he'll do it. I think one of us will win! Hiei: ... Kurama: [thinking] It's not obvious... It's going to be hard... Zeru was really strong. Hiei was even obliged to take his strike... Page 51 Kurama: [thinking] He charred a master of flames... He must have compromised himself... Hiei must be paying a price... His right arm must be suffering... He sacrificed his right arm... He can't use it again... This guy is different from Zeru... He's emitting a strange, unknowable force... Page 52 Kurama: [thinking] Yusuke is making a big mistake with him!!! Chuu: You speak of a little exercise? Koto: Hey?! Chuu: [Grabs Koto's microphone] Give me that! One, two, one, two. Koto: Er I saw nothing! Page 53 Chuu: One word before we start!!! Listen to me well!!! Yeah, you're interested in hearing this. There isn't any janken, which I' bad at!!! I'm not afraid of anyone!!! Yusuke: ... Koto: What? I have to explain for you... Narration: Yeah, a real pro!!! Koto: This team decided the order of their participants by janken... Page 54 Koto: ... and that's how he became the replacement!!! It seems that he's the boss of the team!!! That's all!!! Rinku: What a fool! He's seriously stuffed! Kurama: ... Yusuke: Good, that's enough, shall we start? Chuu: Bastard!!! Don't you think of me?!!! I'm going to teach you!!! I'm a master of alcohol!!! Page 55 Chuu: The more I drink, the stronger I get!!! I don't have any rules!!! I use my instinct to bring down my opponent!!! You see? Rinku: [falls over] Incorrigible!!! Yusuke: That's the beauty of dispute... But... You must know how to do something else well. It's amazing that you don't know that talk! Chuu: ! Yusuke: You must have a special attack? Page 56 Chuu: You're insightful... At last a real opponent. You're going to amuse me. Page 57 Koenma: [thinking] He asked to become Genkai's student... He must know 'the technique'. That of the concentration of destructive waves! Youkai: Kill him!!! Kill him!!! Koto: Start!!! Page 58 Kurama: His movement is fluid!!! Hiei: Good self-control!!! He's going to be hard to judge. Page 59 Masked Fighter: [thinking] He's fast!!! Yusuke: !!! Page 60 [Chuu punches Yusuke in the chest] Hiei: He connected five blows!!! Yusuke: !!! Page 61 Kuwa: He's too fast!!! He can't counter him!!! Kurama: [thinking] His technique is impeccable, such self-control! Chuu: Oh? Page 62 [Yusuke punches at Chuu] Yusuke: !!! Page 63 [Chuu kicks Yusuke out of the ring and through the wall] Page 64 Youkai: [chanting] Kill him!!! Koto: Incredible!!! An unstoppable series of blows!!! Urameshi is outside the ring, defenseless!!! Chuu: I thought that you wanted to see my special attack? Well? Are you dying already? Youkai: [chanting] Kill him!!! Kuwa: That stinks!!! It's too much for Yusuke! Rinku's foolishness is nothing to this!!! Koto: He's out of the ring! The countdown begins! Page 65 Koto: One... Yusuke: Fuck, I almost had to stay there!!! Atsuko: Yeah, that's it!!! Show your guts!!! Yusuke: This fight is starting to please me. You too? Chuu: Yeah, it's cool... It suits me. Page 67 Koto: Urameshi has returned!!! We can continue the match!!! Title: A fight with equal weapons!!! Kuwa: What?! He dealt with that bloody kick with one hand?!! Good play!!! [Yusuke's hand is in position to fire the Reigun Chuu: ? Page 68 [Yusuke fires Reigun at the stadium roof] Title: A fight with equal weapons!!! Page 69 Yusuke: That's the first Reigun! I still have three. For the moment, I'm limited to four per day... But I still have the possibility of growing in power. Koto: Urameshi reveals his weaponry, he is incredibly naive!!! Never before seen in the tournament!!! Kuwa: Is he bloody stupid or what?!! He's taking a gamble with that drunkard!!! Chuu: Ha h ha!!! He's really thick, this guy!!! Relly too deadly!!! I had too many drinks during the wait... That's going to come up seriously on your face! Page 70 Chuu: I have a trick for you. A demonic drink 'The power of Demons' [Chuu drinks from a vial] Rinku: He's not going to do that?!!! Page 71 [Chuu lets out a rather large amount of... gas. Koto falls over] Yusuke: ... Page 72 Rinku: Really pitiful... But he's obliged to do that to get up his power. At last he's become even with him!!! He's an expert in the suiken technique, he takes his power from drunkenness!!! Yusuke: ! Kurama: He looks less drunk? No, he's trained to change it!!! Chuu: Pfooie, that's good... Page 73 Chuu: The technique of Renkinyou jutsu!!! Here, I saved this for you! Koto: He starts to emit a strange force... a force which strains to take form between his hands. Hiei: The Renkinyo jutsu... Strange demon... The alcohol won't serve to reinforce his strike!!! Page 74 Kuwa: That ball resembles a Reigun!!! Kurama: They have the same power!!! He made it in an instant!!! Chuu: The test of strength!!! Hold yourself ready!!! Yusuke: When you want!!! Page 75 [Both fire] Yusuke: Shot!!! Page 76 Kuwa: The balls are struggling!!! [Both balls disappear with a bang] Hiei: Equal. Page 77 Chuu: !!! [Back to fist fighting] Kuwa: They're taking advantage of the contact!!! Page 78 Kuwa: They're not taking any care!!! Hiei: If one of the two backs down, the other lands a hit. They must resist under pressure!!! Yusuke: Shit Kurama: Look out!!! Page 79 Chuu: [thinking] A play!!! [Makes a big ball] Rinku: It's now or never!!! Hiei: They're using too much energy.. If they continue, they're going to regret it. Kurama: [thinking] They're equal. They're not going to take a chance like that... Chuu: Take that, you!!! Page 80 [Big ball heads Yusuke's way] Yusuke: Enormous! Kurama: [thinking] More powerful than the Reigun!!! Hiei: He's badly placed, he's going to take it himself!!! Kuwa: Shit, it's certain!!! Page 81 Chuu: It's useless to resist, I've used all my force! [Yusuke fires a double Reigun] A double strike?!! Page 82 Koto: It crossed it!!! But the other ball holds his power!!! The two touch!!! Page 83 Koto: They've both disappeared!!! Have they dodged? Or are they dead? Hey?!! They're just behind me!!! They seem to have suffered some damage!!! Page 84 Chuu: You used the three remaining... What's more, you have burned up all your energy, you're empty. That's correct, right? Yusuke: Yeah... Chuu: Oh well. Me too! Yusuke: ... Chuu: Heh Yusuke: Heh Page 85 [Yusuke and Chuu laugh] Koto: They're bloody and they're laughing!!! Decidedly, I'm having a hard time understanding them! Chuu: It's time to finish. Yusuke: I agree! Chuu: [Pulling out two large knives] To finish... We'll play with the blade!!! Page 87 Title: The Test of the Blade, The Death Match!!! Koto?: The Death Match!!! Kuwa: He planted the two daggers in the ground. What does he want to do? Page 88 Chuu: Take off your shoes and place your foot against the dagger. Page 89 Chuu: The limit is fixed by the knife, you mustn't pass it. If you cross the line, you must die. It's my go, I'm waiting for the signal! Koto: Eh, yes! Chuu: A real body to body!!! An old-style of fight!!! Page 90-1 Results of first popularity poll (49885 votes): 1st - Hiei, 18162 votes 2nd - Yusuke, 17858 3rd - Kurama, 8154 4th - Kuwabara, 1633 5th - Botan, 1091 6th - Suzaku, 813 7th - Koenma, 582 8th - Keiko, 529 9th - Kirishima, 219 Last - The Toguro brothers Title: The test of the knife, the death match!!! Page 92 Rinku: The death match!!! [thinking] He has never lost and what's more he has a special attack for that!!! Atsuko: I feel myself boiling over! Gonda: [To Sakyo] Tch! You have interests to insure, I've made a large bet!!! Shadowy figures: ... Koto: Let's go!!! Page 93-4 [Savage exchange of blows between Chuu and Yusuke] Page 95 Yusuke: Eat that!!! Page 96 Kuwa: Ah... They haven't decided it yet!!! They're incredible!!! Hiei: [Thinking] I think that the resolution of the fight is close at hand... Page 97 Kuwa: Oh!!! ?: Now!!! Chuu: Die!!! Rinku: Yeah!!! The blow of Chuu's head!!! Unstoppable!!! Page 98 (&99) [Major headbutt] Page 100 [At last, Chuu falls] Page 101 Kuwa: Eh... You have finished it? Yusuke: He he, he was tough... That was the limit for me... Koto: Three Four Five Eight Page 102 Koto: Ten!!! Urameshi, victor!!! Three against one, the victory is for the Urameshi team!!! Kuwa: Yes!!!!! We've cleared the first round!!! Page 103 Rinku: Chuu? He's completely knocked out... He fights like that regularly... Someone who has a head so strong... I didn't think there was [anyone with a stronger head]! Yusuke: Hey, kid! Rinku: !!! Yes! Yusuke: When he wakes up, tell him that we can have a rematch whenever he wants! Page 104 Rinku: Eh, yes... [Thinking] He is completely cool, that guy... Youkai #1: Hey, enough with the chat!!! Youkai #2: We've made our demands!!! Youkai: [chanting] Kill him!!! They were bad!!! We want a real show!!! Death to the pathetic!!! Return our money!!! Rinku deserves death!!! Finish Chuu!!! Death! Rinku and Chuu must die!!! Page 105 Kuwa: The ghouls! Those bastards can't get enough blood. Rinku: Leave me to face it. They're too afraid to fight fro themselves. Yusuke: [shouting at the crowd] You loudmouths!!! Page 106 Yusuke: Come on you delicate things, we want to busy ourselves with your faces! Let's go, I'm waiting!!! Come down!!! Come play with us! Kuwa: I'm for it! Youkai: Eh... Rinku: Urameshi... Chuu: ... Page 107 ?: Those humans take the lead. They've forgotten the consequences of the tournament!!! Toguro: Karasu, how do you find Urameshi? We're going to have to do him ourselves. If he survives to win the tournament... Karasu: He's made a very large error... He can't use the Reigun anymore... Page 109 Title: Forward for the best eight!!! Narration: Second round. Yusuke and his team benefit by a chance to recover... Youkai: ...!!! Terrifying!!! Koto: Victor, M-3! Professor Ichigaki's team win the round!!! Page 110 Title: Towards the Best Eight!!! Ichigaki: Thanks to all! Page 111 Youkai #1: 3/0, we've been lucky. Otherwise, we would have suffered there!!! Youkai #2: Wait! We haven't finished!!! Koto: ? Youkai #2: Nothing to be done about the match, I must seek vengeance!!! Ichigaki: Fool... You're already lucky to be alive. Page 112 Youkai #2: Die!!! Ichigaki Team Member #1 (En, Ryo or Kai): Angel [attack] Ichigaki Team Member #2 (En, Ryo or Kai): Hand crow! Ichigaki Team Member #3 (En, Ryo or Kai): ... Page 114 Youkai: We saw nothing of the action!!! [Youkai#2 is missing his head and one arm] Ichigaki: They live on Urameshi's tomb!!! Page 115 Kurama: Amazing... Those three guys are under control. Curious to see humans here. Someone is manipulating them... Botan: [In the hotel room] Keiko, tell me why you want to meet Yusuke? You want to give him a correction, no? Keiko: ... I don't want him to lose concentration. Page 116 Botan: Bother him? That's impossible! You know well that Yusuke is... ! Keiko: If I see him now, I risk asking him to stop. You've seen what a good mood he's in. You must take advantage of it now... Page 117 Keiko: Yet a little... I want to watch a little. Botan: Keiko... Atsuko: You're keeping an eye on him, right?! How sweet!!! Shizuru: Go on, today you're entitled to drink! A toast for Yusuke's team!!! Cheers!!! Kazu... You shamed me... Page 118 Kuwa: Shit... What?! No more Reiguns?!! Yusuke: Hmmm [The bandages done by Kurama] Kuwa: You're worn out, that's all. Me too, I'm wrecked, but that can pass! Yusuke: No! In general, the following day I have a hard time coming out with the reiguns, but... Today, I can't concentrate the force on my finger. Kuwa: That's worrying... Yusuke: I don't know why... Page 119 Masked Fighter: You wasted too much of your power! The technique of the double strike... It isn't a beginner's trick. You are too young for that. Kuwa: [thinking] Wait! That isn't the old lady!!! She's young!!! Yusuke: [thinking] I thought it was the old lady, too!!! Masked Fighter: Abstain from using the reigun. If not, you risk damaging your arm. Page 121 Koto: It's time for the fourth match. It's the last of the series. The victor will join the best eight. That's as well as going to the selection for the finalists!!! And here is the victor for the preceding competition!!! The Toguro brothers!!! Team listing: Urameshi Team Ura Otogi Team Dr Ichigaki Team Kido Sentai Gorenja Team Gokukai Rokukyo Masyo Tsukai Page 122 Koto: The opposing team are Demons of Makai!!! Youkai #1: Where are your teammates? Toguro: I wish to do this match alone. The others are a little lazy. Youkai #2: He pits himself against us? Youkai #3: You against us five, you're sure? Youkai #1: No problem! Toguro: Or one by one. Page 123 Youkai: He plays hard because he's already won the tournament!!! That's the way! One against five!!! Koto: You... You're sure about your decision? Toguro: Always ready!!! Good luck for the arbitration! Koto: Let's go!!! Toguro: I'm going to do you an honour, and put myself at 45%. Page 125 Youkai #1: !!! Toguro: That's the day's fat! Page 126 Koto: Toguro, victor!!! The eighth team will be that of the Toguro brothers!!! Kurama: [thinking] He's strong...!!! Page 127 Narration: We're entering into the second phase of the tournament!!! Are here is the grid of matches drawn by lots. Yusuke: We don't have caretakers on this strike... Kuwa: It was all done to let someone against Toguro. Nobody asked our opinion!!! The finalists | ------------------------------------------------------ | | --------------------- -------------- | | | | ----------- ------------ ------------ Toguro | | | | | | | Masyo Gokukai Ura Otogi Gorenja Kido | Tsukai Rokukyo Team Sentai | Team ----------- | | Urameshi Dr Ichigaki Team Page 129 Title: The Second Part!!! [Dream sequence][The three members of Dr Ichigaki's team are gathered with others around a man lying on his sick-bed.] Students: Professor Mitamura!!! Hold on!!! Mitamura: This illness is a difficult test... I know it. I don't have a choice... Such is life... IT#3: We haven't the 7 million for the operation... IT#2: We are powerless... I can't leave it like that!!! Mitamura: Don't say such stupid things... I am happy that you are here. IT#1: No!!! You must fight!!! I'll do all that is possible!!! Page 130 Ichigaki: I'm called Ichigaki. I can treat him for free. With a single condition... Students: What is it?! We're ready to do anything if it can save him!!! Ichigaki: You three!!! You are going to serve as guinea pigs for me. You see, it's a very simple experiment... [End dream sequence] Kuwa: ... What a weird dream. Page 131 Kuwa: You see that kind of dream?! Yusuke: Yeah... Ichigaki? I already heard a bit about him... Kuwa: And what are Kurama and Hiei doing? Yusuke: Don't know. Kuwa: Hm... Not the type to back out of the fight? Yusuke: Don't worry! They'll come back. Let's go!!! Page 132 Title: The Second Part!!! Page 133 Yusuke: Hm? Koenma: You've done well in the first part. Yusuke: That voice?! And that stupid sucker!!! It's him?!! Koenma: Bingo!!! Yusuke: What?! Koenma?!! The human version isn't bad, but why the dummy? Koenma: Mind your own business! Today, I'm here as a spectator... but I would like to help you. Page 134 Koenma: You remember the egg that I kept for you? Yusuke: Hn? What egg? Koenma: Are you as bad as Togashi? The story of the egg which I filed before your resurrection!!! Yusuke: Ah! Koenma: I thought that you would care about it... It's for that that the egg was kept in the afterlife. By a miracle, you owe your freedom for the hour! Thanks to your soul it continues to harden. It won't be tardy in hatching! The monster who will emerge will be a valuable ally. Page 135 Koenma: It's only a question of days! Yusuke: Well, I've had enough of waiting. Koenma: Brat... What did you learn from Master Genkai? I would have thought that you were already prepared... Yusuke: I've continued the Reiko Hadoken technique. That consists of concentrating energy in a powerful light wave. Koenma: [thinking] He hasn't come very far... He is slow... The tournament isn't be such a bad idea after all... Yusuke: Let's go! We can't lose!!! Kuwa: [thinking] He's already forgotten that he'll be without the Reigun... Page 136 Narration: Meanwhile... Kurama: Hiei? You alright? Hiei: What are you talking about? Kurama: Your arm? You know that it'll be hard soon? Hiei: I didn't have a choice. It's too late... We must be sure. Page 137 Hiei: We must overcome them. [Two guys walk out of the woods towards Hiei and Kurama] Page 138 Youkai: What's this? They're missing some guys? Kuwa: That's crazy!!! I know them!!! [referring to Ichigaki's team] Those are the guys I saw in my dream!!! Koto: It's time to start!!! Page 139 Ichigaki: Fate has chosen well. As the fights go on, the number diminishes. Three against three, that's fair? Yusuke: Me, I'll fight... and you? You're there to subdue them? Ichigaki: I'm here to guide them. You're going to fight against my guinea pigs. I love to do experiments on men. Believe me, men are splendid animals. Without thought and other debilitating things, it's a perfect power machine. Page 140 Ichigaki: My dream is to create the ultimate genetic monster!!! A monster who doesn't think and who obeys, the perfect machine. And here are my three prototypes. It wasn't easy to obtain them. A simple machine isn't peculiar. Elsewhere robots are forbidden in a tournament. Yusuke: That's nothing to do with your story! Ichigaki: I am very interested in you two. I have a proposition for you. Page 141 Ichigaki: If I win, you give me your bodies. That will permit me to continue with my tinkering. Yusuke: If I win... You are a dead man! Ichigaki: Ha ha ha, of course!!! [thinking] Just like before... Without Kurama and Hiei, they don't stand a chance. Masked Fighter: I also have a request. I would like the fight do be done in one go. Page 142 Ichigaki: [thinking] Chance of success 99.95% [Aloud] As you wish! Ha ha!!! It's won!!! They're mine!!! My three minions together, they don't stand a chance!!! Page 143 Kuwa: [thinking] The Mask is right, without Yusuke's Reigun this is going to be closely fought... We're going to play it very hard. [Aloud] His story resembles my dream... It's not possible... Masked Fighter: I know these three guys. Kuwa: !!! Masked Fighter: They are pupils of a great master. They have enormous respect for their master... Kuwa: So? Have they been brainwashed? ?: They don't have consciences anymore!!! Koto: Let's start!!! Page 144 [Ichigaki's three team members attack] Page 145 IT#2: Hand Crow Yusuke: [thinking] I'm ready and I'm going to stick him one!!! Masked fighter: Behind you!!! Quickly!!! Yusuke & Kuwa: ?! Page 146 Yusuke & Kuwa: [Just managing to avoid the strike] ?! [Are hit by IT#3] Page 147 Yusuke: I saw nothing and we were attacked!!! If we hadn't dodged, we would have taken a direct hit!!! Masked Fighter: They are capable of concealing their ki... You weren't perceptive enough for that... You still haven't the capacity to see. Kuwa: Yeah, and what can we do about it?! Yusuke: ...!!! Page 149 Title: The Bloodthirsty Puppets!!! [Kurama and Hiei attack one of the two youkai who approached them] Youkai #2: Hm?!! Page 150 Hiei: They're clumsy... Kurama: They think to check us with these miserable things. Title: The Bloodthirsty Puppets!!! Hiei: They're going to die. Youkai #2: No thanks, I don't want that... A change in the team. Page 151 Youkai #2: The armored monster of destruction Hiei & Kurama: !!! Youkai #2: A masterpiece of the Professor's, it is invincible. Take them!!! Page 152 [Monster thing attacks] Hiei: [thinking] The sword is nothing against that!!! Youkai #2: Ha ha, its armour is made from a special substance!!! A metal sword will do nothing to it, it has nothing to fear!!! Page 153 Hiei: I must rid myself of this idiot!!! Ah!!! [Gets caught by Monster- thing's arm-claw] Kurama: Hiei!!! Page 154 Youkai #2: Ha ha ha!!! Useless!!! You're no more than a miserable pile of meat!!! Hiei: He's going to pay for that!!! [Starts powering up his arm] Kurama: !!! Don't do that!!! [Frees Hiei] Page 155 [Monster-thing's arms go for Kurama] Hiei: Kurama!!! Youkai #2: Good play!!! Crash into that shit!!! Page 156 [Kurama moves the arms apart] Youkai #2: Impossible... How?!! Kurama: I have much to teach him about pain. He suffers a little for each death... I come fairly to train him... It's really not difficult. And what is your decision? Obedience or death? Page 157 Crowd: Yes, that's it, like that!!! They must be overpowered!!! [IT#1 & 3 attack] Page 158 [Kuwa and Yusuke are hit] Masked Fighter: [thinking] They are very concentrated on the target... The two others would benefit from their attacks with remarkable precision. Ichigaki: One against one. The chances were already my way... The system fixed in their backs gives me total control. A plan without fault!!! Our chances are 99.95%!!! It's won!!! Page 159 [IT#2 attacks Yusuke] Yusuke: Shit... [Masked Fighter kicks Yusuke out of the way.] Page 160 [IT#2 knocks Masked Fighter back.] Koto: The Mask in covering for his teammate has taken the Hand Crow!!! He's been propelled out of the ring. Quickly, the countdown! IT#2: [thinking] He must be killed. Page 161 Kuwa: Wake up, shit!!! This fight isn't yours!!! IT#1 & 3: [Thinking] He must be killed... Kill, kill!!! Page 162 [Kuwa dodges an attack] Ichigaki: [Thinking] They can do nothing, he he he... I control their blood flow. These guys are real killers!!! Kuwa: Shit!!! Yusuke: [Thinking] It's not them whom we must confront...!!! Page 163 [Masked Fighter attacks, and the mask is cut off revealing a young girl.] Page 164 (Un)Masked Fighter: What are you waiting for, fools! You think perhaps that your deaths are going to save these guys? Koto: The return of the Maks!!! Surprise!!! It's a young girl!!! Page 165 [The youkai who'd been fighting Hiei and Kurama lands in the ring... head first. And bounces.] Koto: But what's that...?!! A member of the Ichigaki Team has fallen from the sky!!! He's going to crash into the ground!!! Page 166 [The Monster thing crashes through one of the spectator stands.] Ichigaki: !!! Yusuke: Hiei!!! Kurama!!! Kurama: Let us relate the tale. He promised to heal their master if they became his guinea pigs. They were ignorant that it was for murder. Kuwa: It's all explained!!! Kurama: And... Page 167 Kurama: Their master's illness is a trap set up by the professor. Kuwa: What! Yusuke: Damn! Ichigaki: He he he... [Thinking] Fools... They are very thick. They will hate me more. They will have a harder time fighting against the other three...!!! Two Shots completes Volume 7 - The Test of the Knife, The Death Match Rhionae rhionae@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/3226/