What do you think? Pretty sweet place, right?
It's creepy as hell...
All these weird burnt mannequins everywhere.
What, are you scared?
Like hell I am!
This place is the perfect hideout.
Apparently it used to be a mannequin factory.
Behind you!
Oh man, your face...
You asshole!
Quit being such a wuss.
How are we gonna score any chicks if you're scared of ghosts?
You being such a baby might actually help, though.
No one'll come checking around here if they're all scared of some ghosts.
What? What is it?
He's trying to pull the same trick I did on him. Like we'd fall for that!
Give it a rest, let's just go find some girls...
It happened again!
They haven't been able to get a hold of some guy from my brother's school for a week.
I've been hearing about that.
Maybe he just moved out of town? This place is so dull.
What if he was "spirited away"?
I bet that's it!
You really do love that kinda stuff, huh?
Not as much as you.
Minamino!
What do you think?
Perhaps he just ran away from home.
That's so boring! Can't you think of anything else?
Like maybe he was abducted by aliens, or kidnapped by a secret cult,
or warped to another dimension!
Not seeing how any of those are realistic.
That's just because you're too naive.
The aliens are among us!
I hate it.
Give it a rest. Maya's only got eyes for Minamino.
Stupid—
What's that?
Oh, nothing.
Amazing...
Disappearances...
I shudder to think the thought, but...
I can't deny the fact that the miasma around town has been dense lately.
Kurama...
You're dead meat, man.
This town is gonna be our turf.
Hedoki...
I left you near death and warned you to never come back.
Or did you forget?
I'm gonna kill you...
Because now I've got the kinda help...
that your scrawny ass couldn't dream to compare to!
Such a low level demon...
To have the courage to vow his revenge after narrowly escaping with his life before...
Whoever is on his side now must be a serious threat.
I don't like using my demon powers if I can avoid it...
But if they're after humans, and choosing this town as their hunting grounds...
Then I have to fight.
Not as a human,
but as a demon with a claim to this town.
What was that?
Was that... a ghost?
Amazing! I could see it so clearly, too.
What a shock... I never thought the first I saw one would look like that.
I believe you might be seeing things.
She saw him?
I was afraid about this.
Being around me is making people more spiritually sensitive.
You can't brush this off! I know what I saw!
And it's just like I thought!
You have some kind of psychic powers, right, Minamino?
You were talking with it just now, right?
This is awesome!
I knew something was different about you from the moment we met!
I've always liked occult stuff, and been on the lookout for someone with powers.
And to think it's my first love... Talk about dramatic, huh?
You never realized how I felt, did you?
You should really go home.
Well, you haven't told me how you feel.
It's okay to just say it.
I'm prepared...
for whatever the answer is.
I'm sorry, but...
I understand.
I'll head home.
Stay close!
I barely sensed him.
He's nearby... Our levels are about even.
This is bad.
I'm surprised you dodged that.
Are you alright?
Yeah. What about you, Minamino?
I'm pretty heavy...
We have bigger problems than that.
Run!
I knew he was different, but...
This has to be a dream, right?
Not bad!
What's someone like you...
doing working as hired muscle for Yatsude?!
What?!
Yatsude?! He's in this town?
You...
You mean to tell me you're not one of his hitmen?
This explains something.
Put your sword away. I'm just living in this town.
What a sad joke.
I must've been more desperate than I thought...
Blood?
Hey!
The eight limbed demon, Yatsude...
I can't beat him with the kind of power I have now.
This just became a real problem.
You heal quickly. I'm surprised.
Up after only four hours...
Impressive, after how deep that wound was.
I went ahead and treated you.
I used herbs from the Demon World. They're very effective.
By the way, there was something you mumbled in your sleep...
Who is this Yukina? Someone you know?
You weren't born with that Jagan Eye, were you?
Judging by your demonic energy, you've only got it recently.
The process for getting one of those is quite severe...
There must be a compelling reason for it, then?
Did Yatsude do something to that girl?
You run your mouth too much.
I'd have killed you if you hadn't patched me up.
In exchange for thanks, here's a warning.
That softness is going to kill you someday.
Off to fight him again?
You'd be better to bide your time.
The more he eats, the stronger he gets.
Why don't you go to bed, you coward?
You don't mind telling me your name, do you?
Hiei.
Hiei, the bandit from the Demon World...
I've heard of him before.
But even with his swordplay... If he's fighting Yatsude...
Hello, Minamino residence.
Hey. This is Tasaka from school.
Kitajima's parents called me, saying she hadn't come home yet.
She better not be with you!
This is the worst case scenario.
I'm going to accompany you.
Something make you change your mind about being a coward?
The situation's change.
It's the girl, isn't it? You really are soft.
Well, we both have our priorities.
You talk too damn much. It's annoying.
An old factory...
Bastard's got bad table manners.
There's half eaten human bits amid the mannequin parts...
You again?
Real persistent, aren't you?
I'm only going to ask one more time.
Tell me the name of the Ice Maiden you ate.
Can't say I can remember!
You kidnapped a girl today.
Where is she?!
What do you think this is?
Bastard—!
Talk about useless!
Doesn't matter how many of you there is, if you're all so pathetic!
Where are you hiding?!
Get out here!
Why are you risking so much to find this girl?
I could ask you the same.
You're not like the trash demons that hide in the Human World.
What are you doing here?
Well...
Never mind. Don't care.
Whatever our reasons, we need to survive this.
Right?
Given our current situation, there's only one way...
that we can win.
There you are!
I'm in!
What a stupid trick!
A little improvised teamwork, huh?
You'll have to do better than that!
He's gone?
Is what I say to psych you out, when I know...
One of you is in the air!
A mannequin?!
Not bad...
Here's a reward for your trouble...
The girl's alive.
And I haven't eaten any Ice Maidens.
If I had eaten even a single high class Demon like that...
The two of you...
wouldn't have stood a chance.
Huh?
Minamino? Why...?
Oh, I know.
This is a dream, huh?
That's right, you're dreaming.
And when you wake up, you'll forget it ever happened.
You smell nice.
Forget everything... including how you feel about me.
Mugen Flower pollen, right?
Erasing her memories?
It's what's best for her.
I never got your name. I'll make a note of it.
It's Kurama.
Unable to truly share their feelings, Kurama and Maya's relationship comes to an end.
Hiei would continue his journey to find Yukina.
The two of them would later team together again with Gouki,
and fight Yusuke, one year from now.
The Gates of Judgement have been taken over?!
And they got a hundred hostages?! Including Koenma and Botan?!
How the hell...?
It's a terrorist cult.
An armed religious movement, called the All Holy Warriors.
We have two demands!
The removal of demons from the Human World, and the restoration of the barrier!
If they are not met in 24 hours,
we will kill one hostage for each minute that passes!
And if our demands have not been met one hour after that,
we will fire the Dimensional Cannon at the Human World!
All Or Nothing
Dimensional Cannon?
A relic from the old days...
When we pretended to be God.
So the Spirit World has its share of religious strife too, huh?
Not only that, but there's some people
who still think that they're the chosen arbiters of divine justice.
Here you go.
Oh, thank you.
I appreciate it.
The Spirit World isn't heaven.
It's just one of the destinations the spirit ends up
after it separates from the body.
The cultists don't see those of the Demon World
as just another race of beings, but instead as servants of the devil.
They believe that purifying humans
is their duty, given to them by God.
And the most extreme sect among those who believe this...
are the All Holy Warriors.
Long ago, they were the dominant force in the Spirit World.
Once a millennium they used the Earth's life force as a power source...
to cause natural disasters with the Dimensional Cannon under the guise of "divine retribution,"
purging what they saw as degeneracy among humans.
If you're going to kill anyone, kill me.
But doing so won't change anything.
Our comrades once thought the same.
But views like that made them weak, letting you so-called pacifists usurp their power.
Ootake...
Prepare the Dimensional Cannon to receive it's charge.
Right!
So this thing is in underground storage, beneath the gates?
It was supposed to be inoperative.
But several engineers and security managers were secretly among the cultists' ranks.
With King Yama gone, along with wild policy shifts, and the unease of Spirit World's people...
They've waited for a moment just like this to strike.
What's that sound?
I heard the planet's chi was in flux today.
24 hours huh? The timing's a bit rough,
but I should be able to recall all demons back from the Human World.
Nah. The bad guys would like that.
Plus, if their stupid revolution works out, that's giving them exactly what they want.
But we should really try and avoid any casualties,
even if it means capitulating a bit...
24 hours is plenty of time for me to wrap this up.
All I need from you is some help.
Sure, anything.
There's about 30 guys we're dealing with here.
I could handle that myself easy, if it wasn't for the hostages, but...
I'd love to go, but I think I've been overworking lately...
My back is a real mess.
Hey, take it easy. You're no demonic spring chicken.
I was hoping to put the band back together, but we're missing a guy.
Could you kick his ass over here for a bit?
Gotta love that presidential authority!
That was faster than I expected.
I swear that I'm going to win the next tournament.
Aw yeah, I'm fired up like the old days!
Well, then, I'll escort you to the Spirit World.
Please leave your bodies.
How the hell am I supposed to do that?!
It's a bit like sleeping with your eyes open.
Get a move on. We're short on time.
Falling asleep will work for now.
I can awaken your spiritual bodies.
Man, how are we supposed to sleep at a time like this?
Crazy old bitch!
You're in for it when I get home!
This is the layout of the inside of the gates.
The only entrance is the main gate.
If we try to break in through the exterior or approach from the sky, an alarm will go off.
10 hours remain!
It'd be nice if we knew exactly how many guys there are, and where.
There's 33 in total.
Three is a sacred number to the All Holy Warriors.
The hostages are all in the meeting room on the fifth floor.
There's 13 cultists in the room with them.
There's lookouts posted in 10 locations.
They've got gas masks, night-vision goggles, and guns.
They're staying in contact with the lookouts, and checking security cameras regularly.
We're pretty much screwed.
We'd be better off to start arranging funerals for the hostages.
Kurama, any ideas?
First we'll need to manipulate the feed for the cameras.
The main control room for security is here...
Wouldn't there be guards there?
Are there any places we could get access to the feed?
Any tampering with the cables and the security alarms will go off.
The switch to shut down the alarm is also in the control room.
So first we get inside the building, and then that room, without anybody noticing...
As I said, we're screwed.
Quit yer bitching and think, man!
You first.
Give it a rest, guys.
Grr...
There's nine hours left.
Main gate, anything to report?
Nothing at the moment.
Nothing in the front hall.
All clear on the security cameras.
Right.
The monitor's in the meeting room...
The feed is scrolling through the 10 locations at half second intervals.
So it takes five seconds for a location to cycle back around...
Huh?
We'll have to beat the guards in front of the control room,
and swap places with them, within five seconds.
Kicking their asses won't even take one second.
But the real question is how we sneak in, right?
That sounds like a job for you, Kuwabara.
Me?!
Wait, you mean my Dimension Sword?
Whoa, hang on! It's not some Anywhere Door, man!
I can't just slice my way into any place I want!
Hell, I can barely even use the thing as it is!
Hang on.
They're talking about something...
It looks like the Dimensional Cannon is targeting Sarayashiki.
Say what?!
Well, from their point of view,
Yusuke was the one responsible for the barrier's removal.
He's the root of all evil, in this case.
Makes sense they'd want to blow the town he lives in off the map.
Please, be careful.
Gentlemen, we're moving out!
This guy...
A convenient lie, then?
Idiots are like knives. It's all in how you use them.
Control room, check in.
Nothing to report.
All clear on monitors.
Kurama, how long's this gonna take?
Not very.
There. The feeds are now showing recorded footage.
But we only have two hours.
Alright, let's split up and take down the other guards.
Front hallway, you find anything?
Nothing here.
All clear.
Clear.
That's all of them.
Hey! Get a load of this thing!
"Disassembly is impossible. Will self-destruct." it says!
And there's three main buttons, too.
Two of them are probably dummies... Meaning if you pick the wrong one, blammo!
Well, hell.
Guess we'll have to ask their boss in person.
That just leaves the meeting room, and the hostages.
There's 13 bad guys...
That's three a piece, give or take.
Barricade
Hostages
We just need the right chance...
There's only one door...
An ambush would be wise, given the hostages.
Let's sneak into the room and wait for the right timing.
Hide? How the hell are we gonna do that?
You hide a tree in a forest.
Have they responded yet?
Yusu—
Shh!
Kuwabara! Kurama! Hiei!
Seven hours to go.
The monitors are all cl—
Dumb Ass
What's wrong?!
Now!
What are you doing?! Get them!
Come on, Spirit Sword!
Rose Whip!
I'll show you...
flames from the most demonic depths!
Dragon of the Darkness Flame!
You—
Spirit Gun!
Hey! Which button is the real one?
Is it the red, blue, or yellow one?! Fess up!
Our ultimate teaching...
is that of a third party's intervention.
Fate is ultimately not decided by the faithful,
but by a third party...
The will of God will not be defied!
No matter how much it seems someone has made a decision of their own free will,
it is all as God commands!
There's only three outcomes.
The Dimensional Cannon fires on Sarayashiki.
The Gates of Judgement are blown away in the self-destruct.
Or nothing happens....
You will choose. But the outcome is God's to decide.
That much is certain.
Hey! You asshole—
Poison... They don't even fear the death of their spirits.
That thing is seriously pointed at Sarayashiki?!
I suppose not every lie is false.
Hey, guys.
Get out of here. As fast and as far as you can.
Huh?
Kurama, Hiei, Kuwabara.
Haul ass back to the Human World and evacuate everyone we know.
Screw you! We're not leaving you here! I'll—
Just get moving!
You want us to be the only ones who get to safety?!
What about everybody else?! If you—
Shut the hell up!
Stop your bitching and go!
If I screw this up...
I'll just beg and apologize to everyone until they've had enough.
Let's do as he says.
He's trying to save our friends who don't know about this, and their families.
I've got this.
Multiple choice questions are my thing.
ALIEN INVASION
5 minutes left
Puu?
Puu!
Dammit, man, you're still here?
Fly out of here, quick!
Puu...
Pretty sad, huh?
I'm seriously freaked out.
Feels like it'll fire no matter which button I press...
Yusuke, you dimwit.
You really are one pathetic piece of work.
All that tough talk, and now you're sniveling.
That voice...
Just press one. Choose at random if you have to.
If you screw up, I'll apologize with you. How's that?
Yeah...
It's almost time.
Okay... let's do this.
Wait a minute! Yusuke's spirit body is in the Spirit World, right?
If it self-destructs, and the Gates of Judgement are blown away...
Then Yusuke's spirit is going to die!
Yusuke—!
Yusuke apparently pressed the blue button.
That's your favorite color, ain't it, Yukimura?
You know what that dumbass actually said?
"If they're gonna trust their God, I'm gonna trust my goddess."
Running through a crowded town, bumping shoulders up and down
And yet I find myself all alone
In an endless field, the wind blowing by
And still, I'm all alone
Where would I rather be, if I felt like crying? I don't know
So I'll just check off yes to both and feel a little more grown up
When up against a really stiff wall, I have to wonder why it is...
That I'm suddenly filled with the courage and power to smash it all down
If it's all because of the really harsh people I've come to know
And when they show me unexpected kindness,
I'd have to tell them this:
Thank you all so very much!