* Yuu Yuu Hakusho Manga Translation *
* Volume 4: Challenge from the Youmajutsu *
* Chapter six (32): Decided! The successor to the secret skill! *

(Randou fires a shot to cause Yuusuke to fall into the pond)

Botan: Yuusuke!!

Yuusuke: WAH! *I'm done for! If I just dropped into the pool of digusting
fishes to be eaten alive... If I'd knew this, I would've played more! They
say memories strike a person before he dies... but I'm full of nothing but
complaints, darnation!*

Randou: Come on! Give me a beautiful spray of blood and a terrifying shriek
of pain! When his bones float to the surface, the master should begin
teaching me the secret skill.

Botan: Yuusuke!! Master, if this goes on, Yuusuke'll be...

Genkai: Yes...

Kuwabara: ...

(Yuusuke submerges into the water. Incoming fishes)

Yuusuke: *The game ends now?* !?

Voice: Aren't you a little too lousy to be announcing your failure now?

Yuusuke: *That voice is... Ku... Kuwabara?*

Kuwabara: In order to win a coward like you, I gave my best shot! Now that I
think about it, I was really an idiot! Listen up! If my body recovers, I'll
keep on pestering that guy till I win him!

Yuusuke: ... !

Kuwabara: You might as well die like this now! You loser! You lost to some
fishes in the end, fishball!

Yuusuke: KUWABARA --- !!

(struggles)

Yuusuke: OOOOoooooooo! Don't look down on me!

Randou: !?

Kuwabara: Heh... You can still do it with a little pushing, idiot!

Botan: Eh?

Randou: What was that just now? Somebody emitted an amazing amount of reiki!
How is it possible...

(looks at the pond)

Randou: The demonic fishes have all been killed! Did he unravel the youki
threads? That burst of reiki couldn't have been his... Looks like you've
used all your energy to escape! But when you emerge from the surface of the
waters, you shall die immediately still!

(prepares a finger pointing at the pond)

Randou: Come on! Come on out!

Botan: Yuusuke... could he be so totally exhausted that...

(a bubble emerges)

Randou: You're there!

Yuusuke: Apologies!

Randou: There's no reason! How did you come up around to my back?

Yuusuke: This pond is linked to the mini one I sank into during my fight
with Fuwan! *This is my real strength! I'll give you ALL my remaining power
in my last punch!*

(wham)

Yuusuke: Heh... finally it's ended. I've no energy to even clap now... *I
beg you, don't stand up anymore! Just sink down!* !!

(Randou climbs out of the pool he's been punched into)

Yuusuke: Woah.

Randou: That was a pretty effective punch!

(he punches Yuusuke, who falls down on the ground, unmoving)

Yuusuke: I can't move now! Just do whatever you like!

Randou: Seems true that you can't... then I'll use this rare chance to let
you die under the chant as well!

Yuusuke: *I think he's saying something, but my mind's in a whirl, I can't
hear him at all...*

Randou: When my chant is complete, you'll not even have a shimmer of hope in
winning.

(begins the chant)

Randou: It's ended! Your body shall become smaller and smaller! So how
should I finish you off now? I'll smash your bones and then crush it like
ants, how's that?

(notices something)

Randou: ? Eh? WHAT? How could it be? Did I... Did I shrink myself?

Yuusuke: ?

Botan: What's going on...

Genkai: Randou, you're now sowing what you reaped. If you use a chant and it
should fail, there's a danger of the effects returning to you. You shouldn't
have used it again.

Randou: I failed? No reason for that! The chanting was perfectly accurate!

Genkai: The chant for shrinking is transmitted through the opponent's ears
to his brain, then branched out to the entire body. It can only be used on
unsuspecting opponents, a totally uncompleted skill. If one manages to know
this point and stops his hearing at that point of time, the effect of the
chant equals zero.

Randou: Even so! He shouldn't have knew it at all!

Yuusuke: !? I couldn't hear a thing from just now...

(knocks on his head)

Yuusuke: Oh! There were some seaweeds stuck in my ear!

Randou: !!

Genkai: To have been concentrating on merely ripping off the moves of others
yet never understanding the true facade of that move, you've totally lost!

Randou: Lost? Don't be kidding! Once I reverse the chant, I'll be normal again!

Yuusuke: Heh... do you think I'll wait for you to finish your chant?

Randou: !!

Yuusuke: Do I look like such a nice guy to you? I may have no more strength
to punch you, but... at least I can still fall down on you!

Randou: AAAAAH!

Yuusuke: Elbow smash!

(he falls to the ground)

Yuusuke: I can't stand up anymore! No more strength to even adjust my fly!
So how was that, granny? I may look terrible now, but at least I still won!

Genkai: The one to inherit the secret skill has been decided! And he's
Urameshi Yuusuke!

Botan: YAHOO!

[20 metres away, a distressed Kuwabara lays forgotten...]

[Therefore...]

Botan: I'll just bring Randou back this way to lock him up!

Yuusuke: Trussed up by the threads he created himself!

Botan: By the way, the master's healed Kuwabara's broken bones with the
Reikohadou.

Genkai: That wasn't what my Reikohadou is supposed to be used for.

Yuusuke: All right! Mission accomplished! Now I can go for my World
Wrestling Federation Tokyo Royal Rumble isn't it?

Botan: You're not afraid after having so much injuries?

Genkai: What are you babbling about?

Yuusuke: Eh?

Genkai: Yuusuke, didn't I tell you I'll be passing you the secret technique?
I'm going to teach you the proper basics for the Reikohadouken, so you'll be
staying here for the time being.

Yuusuke: Eh? WHAT DID YOU SAY?

END TRANSLATION

6/2/99
(c) 1991 Togashi Yoshihiro
Translation: fwah@geocities.com