"Yu Yu Hakusho"
In a crowded city, as I bump shoulders, I'm all alone.
On an endless prairie, as the wind whistles by, I'm all alone.
Which one is it that makes me want to cry more, I wonder.
Marking it with twin circles, I feel a bit more grown-up!
It must be, that when I run into these terribly difficult walls,
and unexpectedly, for whatever reason,
The courage and power to break through rises up from within,
All because of how, when I run into these terribly difficult people,
they show me kindness, I bet!
Thank you very much!
Hina gave birth to twins!
One of them is a baby boy!
Abominable child! It is an abominable child!
Give him back! Please, give me my child back!
We will not! Abominable children are cast out!
Rui!
You need not pity him.
Rui! Don't!
Tch! That dream again?
"Unforgettable Memories! A Time of Birth"
There are three great powers in the Demon Realm--
Mukuro,
Yomi,
and Raizen.
These three, according to their own prospects,
have each called to the Demon Realm, respectively,
Hiei,
Kurama,
and Yusuke.
Yusuke, upon meeting both his distant ancestor and father, Raizen,
challenged him to fight right from the start.
Yusuke-san, wouldn't you be better off not being so reckless?
Shut up!
You guys, stop holding back on me, and fight like you mean it!
It's not training otherwise!
There's no way I'm giving up until I put my damned old man's nose out of joint!
And you guys are going to come at me with that same kind of determination!
My my, what will we do with him?
Hmph. Miserable die-hard. What a disgraceful display.
Kirin, how is he doing?
Him? Oh...
You mean the Yokai you summoned here from the Human Realm half a year ago,
named Hiei?
If you mean him, he should still be in the underground ring,
fighting with the subordinates.
I see, has it been half a year already?
As you instructed, Mukuro-sama, he has been sent 500 A-Class Yokai,
so at this time, he could be dead.
Kirin, how long has it been since you became my Number Two?
It has been about 250 years, I guess.
In that case, I should have sent at the very least 1000, instead of 500.
Mukuro-sama, why are you so interested in this man?
He's just an ordinary A-Class Yokai...
Damn! Are we the only ones who survived?
Let's go! We can defeat him if we move now!
Wait! He's about to go into hibernation!
All right! Let's all take him at once!
Now!
You're all ours!
You guys are pushovers.
Ice Maidens avoid interaction with the outside world,
and live in the Land of Glaciers, which is enveloped in thick clouds.
Hina gave birth to twins!
One of them is a baby boy!
What? Did you say a baby boy!?
Abominable child! It is an abominable child!
Hina had an affair with a man
during the time of division that happens every century!
What an unclean, dreadful young woman!
An Ice Maiden's lifetime is infinitely long.
Every hundred years, during the time of division,
we give birth to a single child...
...without any help from anyone.
The children are indeed a part of us, and are all female...
...so long as there are no relations had with men...
A twin boy and girl...!
This is the first time this has happened among the Glacial Village!
Elder, what shall we do?
Even before I was born, my eyes saw, and my ears heard...
I may even have had enough power to burn alive the old women
I heard in my ears...
Give him back! Please, give me my child back!
Hina, you have violated the prohibitions of the Ice Maidens.
You must know of the calamity that befell the Glacial Village when before,
an abominable child came upon us.
I do...
Baby girls are our sisterhood.
However, baby boys are abominable children!
They will surely bring disaster upon us!
In that case, I will leave the village. I will raise the child.
So please, give him back to me!
We will not! Abominable children are cast out!
There is a reason why Ice Maidens are forced to live their lives
adrift in a wandering castle.
Whenever Ice Maidens interact with other races,
only boys are born to them.
What's worse, it's extremely common for them to possess cruel,
brutal natures.
Further, Ice Maidens that bear baby boys come to death, without exception.
It is done out of fear for the preservation of the Ice Maiden species.
Rui,
I know that you and Hina are close.
However, there is no need for pity.
You know how many of our sisterhood have been killed by abominable children.
Still...
You need not pity him.
Don't!
I had the self-confidence to survive.
As soon as I was born, I had a purpose in life, and I was glad for that.
I would kill all of the glacier women!
Tch! That dream again?
Yo, are you awake?
The A-Class Yokai can't even gang up to defeat you any more, huh?
How about you try going one-on-one with one of the warriors directly beneath me?
To be honest, I didn't think you would progress this far in just half a year.
You're something else.
It feels to me like the stronger I get, the more distant you become,
you rotten monster...
What the hell kind of Yokai are you? What does your face look like?
Would you like to see?
Now, don't be impatient.
It's not as though I'm going to say "I am your father!" or something.
But then, maybe it is about time for you to see what I look like.
All right. I'm going to go bring one warrior here.
He probably has about the same level of power that you do.
If you can beat him, I will show you what I look like.
I just have to beat him then, right?
That's right.
In addition to my lower-class warriors,
I always keep 77 carefully selected warriors with me as my attendants.
There isn't any deep meaning to that number-- I just like it.
I'm going to bring one of those warriors back here.
If you beat him, I will show you what I look like.
In addition, I will bestow upon you his title of Warrior.
You are thoroughly annoying me, you bastard.
I don't need any title.
Oh, don't say that. It'll be convenient for you.
Just by being one of the warriors beneath me,
most Yokai will become cooperative towards you.
It makes looking for things easier, too.
I'll be back in five minutes.
What an utterly creepy bastard...
He acts as though he can see right through everything...
Please, take this with you.
Hiei-san, you're going to the Demon Realm too, right?
In that case, please take this with you.
It's a memento of my mother.
When Ice Maidens bear a child, they shed one tear.
It becomes a crystal of a different color than a regular Hirui stone,
and is given to the child that is born.
They say that my mother, Hina, shed two tears.
I have one,
and my brother should have the other one.
You're lucky that pig bastard didn't steal it from you.
I had it hidden inside my stomach.
Why would you give me your memento?
My brother is said to have been encircled with a fiery Yoki.
It was so bad that he couldn't be held
unless his whole body was wrapped in curse-confining talismans.
That's what Rui-san said.
Rui?
A friend of my mother.
She's the woman who tossed me.
Brother...!
Ah, I mean, I think my brother is of a race similar to yours.
If you meet anyone who has something like that,
I'd like for you to give it to them.
Also, please tell them that I am in the Human Realm.
He has to be dead.
He was abandoned from a castle that was flying in the sky, right?
I'm sure he's alive.
Why do you think so?
It's something else Rui-san said.
That boy knew about us.
I'm sure that someday, he will come to take revenge.
I believe so, too.
Come back to us alive...
And when you do, kill me first, would you?
That will be all I can do to make this up to Hina.
What are you doing, Rui?
You need not pity him.
If it means having to let your hearts freeze over
for the land to survive for a long time, then I'd rather...
...I'd rather it was destroyed. That's what I think.
Hmph... So that's the reason you fled from your land?
That would mean your story about the Land of Glaciers
allowing you to search for your brother was all a lie, huh?
Listen to me. Don't pretend to be so helpless.
If you want to destroy them, do it yourself.
Don't go counting on some brother who you don't even know is alive or dead.
You're right. You really are.
Somehow, I think that if I ever met my brother,
he'd tell me the same thing!
My Hirui stone has my Yoki infused within it.
And yet, I still haven't been able to locate it, even with my Jagan.
There's a pretty good chance that someone is concealing it
within their stomach.
Thanks for waiting.
You...!
The Demon Realm Physiotherapist, Shigure!
"Shigure (Late Autumn Shower)"
Since when were you one of Mukuro's men?
Since right after I performed your Jagan transplant.
You know each other?
We were doctor and patient, that's all.
I also showed him the barest forms of swordsmanship.
It appears that he has polished that into a form of his own.
I see.
Although, you know, I am surprised.
Did I really perform an operation on you?
The Jagan transplant alters ones abilities--
which is to say, it signifies a rebirth.
Therefore, one's spectral power sinks down from its previous level
to that of an infant.
Your spectral power must have dropped,
reducing you from an A-Class Yokai down to the lowest level of Yokai.
To think that you would appear before me
in the few years it has been since your operation,
with even greater spectral power...
You truly surprise me.
Hmph. Is that right?
You mean that before I knew it, I became as strong as you are?
It appears that you've already located the Hirui stone you were looking for.
This one isn't mine.
Ho? That would make it your sister's stone.
Either way,
it means that you have found one of the things you were looking for.
That sounds interesting. Tell me more.
In order for Hiei to find two things he was searching for,
he requested that I perform a Jagan transplant on him.
Two?
One was the Land of Glaciers, where his sister was.
The other was a Hirui stone, that was a memento of his mother.
I judge whether or not I accept such requests based on whether or not
I am drawn to the life of the patient.
And so, as payment for the operation,
I take a part of the patient's life afterward.
The fee for services that I accepted from him
was that even if he did locate his sister,
he could not tell her that he was her brother.
If you defeat me, I will return to you your payment for services!
Like I told you before the operation,
I never intended to reveal who I was in the first place.
The heart is a variable thing.
Well, that's enough reminiscing. A fight is a fight.
You will stake your lives.
An earnest battle is the best, regardless of one's capabilities.
At the moment when it is decided,
the journey taken by both sides blossoms and scatters like fireworks.
Begin!
Hiei's hidden past has become more and more clear.
Standing before his eyes
is the man who brought about the crossroads in his life, Shigure!
Even as his destiny is being tossed about,
this inevitable battle is speeding him toward his fate.
The Demon Realm Physiotherapist, Shigure...
Not only was he once Hiei's teacher,
he is also the creator of Hiei's Jagan eye.
Why did Hiei seek the Jagan? Why did Shigure give Hiei the Jagan?
The battle that will reveal of the answers is about to begin!
Next time: "The Secrets of the Jagan Revealed"
You know, this Mukuro guy, who set up this fight,
is nothing ordinary!
When my letter reaches you, don't break the seal,
just leave it alone, and after some time has passed,
I'm sure you will understand how I feel now.
This is my first, and last, request.
As gently as we could, it wasn't very hard,
with one purpose, we foolishly embraced.
As twilight closes in, I shoot an arrow of courage
from a distant window, toward your back, as you leave.
Although it still has not stopped raining outside,
the drenched people and the city still believe in the sun.
An old melody, and a blurred silhouette.
Living the easy life doesn't make for a very good picture.