* Yuu Yuu Hakusho Manga Translation * * Volume 5: Concentrating my willpower! * * Chapter five (40): Prelude to the massacre! * (bird comes flying in) Bird: Lord Suzaku! Suzaku: It's you. Bird: Looks like the three of them lost didn't they? Suzaku: Mind your business! What have you found out for me? Bird: Oh yes! I found something very interesting. Please look at the situation in the Ningenkai now. You can say this would be that boy's fatal weakness. (an image float onto the big screen they have in the room) Bird: This is the girl! Yukimura Keiko, classmate of Urameshi. Suzaku: His lover? Bird: Hohoh! Similar! Just a little more childish. Anyway, this girl is his biggest weakness. Suzaku: Very well! I shall order the worms to concentrate their attacks on that school. Spill the fresh blood of that young girl to open the melodious prelude to the massacre! I shall teach them how foolish it is to go against me, I shall let them see the brutal death of that female! Bird: A devastating tune. Beautiful, Lord Suzaku! (at sarayashiki) Iwagoto: Yukimura! Aren't you going off? The semetrials are coming soon, better go back and eat your books! You have the ability to make into the top ten. Keiko: I'll go after I gather some information for the school newsletter committee. Iwagoto: And one more thing, something I've been repeating... split up with Urameshi! Keiko: Yes! (at the meeting room) Keiko: Oh well! Time to begin! (door opens) Keiko: What is it, teacher? Iwagoto: Didn't... I tell... you to go... home and... study? Keiko: Teacher? (he clenches his fist into a ball, until blood erupts from the veins) Keiko: !! (she screams and ducks as the teacher flies a punch at her) Iwagoto: Disobedient students should die! No, they MUST die! YUKIMURA!! Keiko: *His eyes don't look right! Why did he suddenly...* (she stops at the school gate to realize lots of other dumbos waiting for her) Iwagoto: Yuki... mura... (Keiko takes off) Keiko: *Those people are all abnormal! What's going on? (she stops near a bush, where a hand reaches from within to grab her) (back at Maze City) Yuusuke: Just one more enemy left! Kuwabara: Head straight! Yuusuke: I'm worried about the city's situation. Let's hurry! [BEEP] Yuusuke: I'm here! Botan: "Yuusuke, this is Botan." I'm at your school with Keiko-chan. We've been surrounded by people possessed by the demonic worms. Keiko: What're you talking about? Yuusuke: !! Botan: They're obviously trying to find Keiko to hurt her. Yuusuke: What? Keiko: Ah! Iwagoto: How dare you wear casual clothes to school! Botan: Hurry up and retrieve the whistle... Keiko: Danger! Iwagoto: What's the meaning of that! (the communication thingie drops to the floor and gets crushed) Yuusuke: Ah! Hey! Botan! What happened? Darn! Gotta hurry! Won't make it if we don't now! Suzaku: Heheh... he's lost it. It'll be very interesting when he gets to see the dire situation that girl is in now. Therefore, we must disrupt their march before the girl is captured. We'll use the Plant People! Yuusuke: That's the tower! We'll reach the topmost floor after climbing up! Hm? (they notice some spastic looking people walking out of the doors by the side of the tower) Yuusuke: Who're THESE fellows? [Plant People: Possesses the outer form of man but has no thinking abilities. Has retarded movements, no will of their own and submits only to the instructions of the one in control. Food of Byakko and Genbu.] Yuusuke: It's too time-wasting to beat them one by one! Kurama: It'll be extremely troublesome trying to break through them. Hiei: Because they have no sense of pain or fear, just like living puppets. Kuwabara: Suzaku's one horrible puppeteer for that matter. Yukimura won't last long if this goes on! Yuusuke: Sheesh! They're troublesome! I'll use my shotgun to decimate them with an eruption of fists! Kurama: Cool it. No point wasting reiki. You're walking into Suzaku's snare by being edgy. Yuusuke: But do you have any better ideas to break through that? Hiei: Yes. Look above them. We'll have to use that window. Yuusuke: What? Don't utter nonsense! We're not grasshoppers! How're we going to reach that height? Hiei: I have a good idea. [BUSUT] (everybody towered above Kuwabara) Kuwabara: Why me... *I'll kill you sooner or later, Hiei!* Kurama: (standing on his shoulders) Can you manage? Hiei: (standing on Kurama's shoulders) Kuwabara: Darn! Going for the kill! (he runs, with Kurama and Hiei still on his shoulder) Kuwabara: Urameshi! I'm not going to be responsible for the consequences for this unauditioned jump! Yuusuke: Watch me! OOOO! Going up! (he steps on Kuwabara's back, then on Kurama, then on Hiei, and manages to barely cling onto the window) Kuwabara: He did it! Yuusuke: Kuwabara! Kurama! Hiei! Thanks! I'll give you all a treat if I come back in one piece! Kuwabara: Just don't die! Yuusuke: *flashes thumbs up* I guess it's over there! (runs up a flight of steps) Yuusuke: Huh? Keiko! Botan! Suzaku: A beautiful melody isn't it? I was about to offer it as a funeral tune to your girlfriend, but you surprise me by arriving too early. Yuusuke: Demented jerk! Suzaku: I am the leader of the four saint beasts, Suzaku. It's rare chance, so sit back and watch carefully how your girlfriend's going to die. Yuusuke: Return the whistle! Maybe I'll spare your life after that. Suzaku: And if I refuse? Yuusuke: Then I'll kill you! END TRANSLATION 24/2/99 (c) 1991 Togashi Yoshihiro Translation: fwah@geocities.com