* Yuu Yuu Hakusho Manga Translation * * Volume 4: Challenge from the Youmajutsu * * Chapter seven (33): Challenge from the Youmajutsu! * Keiko: He isn't back yet? Atsuko: He said he'll be heading to the mountains, and he's been gone for half the month ever since. Keiko: Unbelievable! Atsuko: He did call back. I think he's still alive. Mentioned something about training. Keiko: Shouldn't he be studying before that? *Just what is that boy up to?* Ah! Yuusuke: Hm? Keiko: Yuusuke!! Yuusuke: Yo! Long time no see! (the scene moves to the streets) Yuusuke: So that means your arm's fully recovered? Kuwabara: That's right! My wrist power is stronger than before, too. Even the doctors were dumbfounded. I owe this all to my strong reiki. Wanna try it? Yuusuke: Don't gimme that. It wasn't easy for your arm to recover. Kuwabara: By the way, how was your training then? You don't seem to look any different from previously. Yuusuke: Man. Now that I think about it again, I still feel like I was in torture land! Genkai: Concentrate your reikohadou on one point. Stay in this position for 12 hours! Yuusuke: How is that possible! Genkai: The kind of training to withstand the opponent's reikohadou I'm giving you will cause your death if you do it the wrong way! HAH! (she blasts Yuusuke away) Genkai: You must train yourself till you are able to withstand the blow without moving! Get up! [He can't hear anything now!] Yuusuke: Later, we had fire-sitting exercises... oh, and sleeping on needles... Kuwabara: Wah! That's enough! Stop it! I can feel the pain by just listening. Yuusuke: But I've increased the variety of my attacks because of it, too. Kuwabara: Really? Wish I could see it. Yuusuke: Hey... Kuwabara: Hm? Yuusuke: We've been followed. Kuwabara: Unfamiliar faces. Wanna go for it? Yuusuke: Got nothing to do anyway. Let's play with them! (they move to an abandoned construction yard) Kuwabara: Do you know who I am? Number 1 of Sarayashiki, Kuwabara! Yuusuke: By golly, there he goes again. (the enemies flash out knives) Kuwabara and Yuusuke: !! Kuwabara: Hey! These guys are for real! Those are knives they got there! Boy: Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill! WAHAHAH! KILL YOU! Kuwabara: WAH! People: Kill! Kill! Die! Die! Kuwabara and Yuusuke: Woah! Yuusuke: Are they being controlled? There's something wrong with their eyes! People: Wuhuhu... heheheh! Yuusuke: Chi! Can't help it! People: DIE! DIE! Kuwabara: Urameshi's fist is glowing! Yuusuke: I'll let you all lose your strength first! HAH! Kuwabara: Wow! You didn't even touch them and finished them all in a split second? Just like a shotgun! Yuusuke: This is the basics of the Reikohadouken. Just what's going on with these guys? Kuwabara: Mm? Hold it! There's a strange reiki around here... not that of a human's! Ah! That's him! Hey! Don't run! Weird reiki guy: Woah! Chi! !! WAH! Kuwabara and Yuusuke: !! Botan: Looks like they've got the upper hand! Yuusuke: Botan! Kuwabara: *The pretty lady last time!* Yuusuke: You know who he is? Botan: Yes! A citizen of Street Youma. Same kind with those people who were ambushing you just now. Yuusuke: Street Youma? Botan: Yup. That's where the criminals of the other worlds go for hiding. [Originally, Street Youma was the headquarters for many underworld criminal activities, led by their leaders, the "four saint beasts". It was not known when the criminals started to run there for shelter, but it has become an evil street where no man can go as of now.] [Those fellows have forced a request upon Reikai now.] Yuusuke: What request? Botan: The right to move into Ningenkai. Yuusuke and Kuwabara: ! Botan: In order to disallow them meddling with human affairs, Reikai has set up a barrier to lock them in the Makai. What they want is for Reikai to dismiss the barrier. Yuusuke: Well just refuse them! Botan: Take a look at the students who attacked you just now. Yuusuke: Mm? !? (a worm crawls out of one's mouth) Yuusuke: Yucks! Weird worms are climbing out of their mouths! Botan: Makai worms. Parasites who like to distort the hearts of people. The hosts' would usually have a sudden destructive notion, and the desire to kill. The four saint beasts seem to have released thousands of such worms in this city. Yuusuke: WHAT? Then find a way to inform everybody! Botan: It's no use. Normal people cannot see these worms. They only see the crazed serial killer these parasites live in! The only way is to destroy all the worms. That's why we need to destroy the worm whistle. Yuusuke: Worm whistle? Shouldn't it be dog whistle? Botan: If the whistle is destroyed, the worms wouldn't be able to live in Ningenkai. Although they did say that they would hand it over once the barrier is dismissed, we know that everything'll be over if we do that. Yuusuke: Over? Why so? Botan: They can finish off the entire city's residents in just one day. Yuusuke: So there really is only one way to... Botan: That's right! Destroy the worm whistle. Yuusuke: And you're asking me to go to that terrible criminal city by myself? Kuwabara: Isn't there one more person here? Botan: Eh... AIYA! You mean Kuwabara could hear me all along? Kuwabara: Of course I could! Since I saw those monster worms as well, then I cannot stand being a sitting duck! [Kuwabara the man, he loves his hometown] Kuwabara: If we don't hurry and destroy the whistle, wouldn't the city be filled with terrible people like those? [2 hours later, the two have arrived just on hte boundary of the stated place] Yuusuke: Is that the maze city of our enemy? [We're moving as fast as tv serials] Yuusuke: I'm telling you! It wouldn't be as easy as simply breaking a few bones like the last time! Kuwabara: Can I bear to just put the fate of the whole city in your hands? Voices: Heheheh... I smell something fishy... Kuwabara and Yuusuke: !! Cloakcladcreatures: They're humans! Heheheh! I smell humans! [Hungry monster ghouls: Lowest form of residents in Street Youma. Feeds on decayed meat, especially fond of human meat. Obeying the command of the four saint beasts to want to raise in status.] Ghoul: Finally! A decent meal! Heheh! Let's eat! Yuusuke: Idiot! Kuwabara: Sneaky brats! Yuusuke: This wno't do! There're too many of them! We'll be killed this way! Voice: If you act the goat some more with these fellows, you'll never have a chance to enter the city at all! Yuusuke and Kuwabara: !? (More cloakcladcreatures appear, as they knock down the ghouls before them) Another voice: It must be tough having only two in a team. Kurama: Let us help you! Yuusuke: How in the world... END TRANSLATION 9/2/99 (c) 1991 Togashi Yoshihiro Translation: fwah@geocities.com