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[At the school]

Yusuke:   Hey!!! Kuwabara!!!   My VCR is broken - can I watch this at your place?

Kuwabara:  Hm?  But...  That's another video...  That's Koenma's instructions?  I'm fed up with it!

Yusuke:  Me too. It craps me out, but it intrigues me...

Keiko:   I've seen you! You're not supposed to cut school!

Yusuke:  Let up a little!

Keiko:  What's that video about?  Can I see it?

Yusuke:  Uh...

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{Keiko: The next time, you tell me first! Promise?}

Yusuke: [remembering] ...  It's my instructions from the underworld for the next mission.  I haven't had time to watch it yet.

Keiko:  What mission? The underworld?

Yusuke: You go too far!  You know very well that I have to fulfil these missions with Botan!

Keiko: Hm?  Oh, yes.  You're Botan's apprentice, right?  Is the underworld the name of the detective agency?

Yusuke: [falls over]

[At Kuwabara's place]

Yusuke: Eh, Botan?
 

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Narration box: Yusuke has decided to become a serious young man... He has asked to become an assistant to a famous private detective...  Unscrupulous drug traffickers took over Yusuke's school in order to make a profit from their bad trading.  The teachers were bewitched into becoming common criminals...  Keiko, who was in the building at the time, became a witness to the madness of the murderous zombies , rescued by Botan...

Yusuke: What kind of an explanation is this?!

Botan: Wait, I'll explain!  I can't make any references to Reikai.  I had to make up a believable story, you see?

Yusuke: [aside] You have the best part...

Botan: If the truth were exposed, the witnesses would be in grave danger.  You understand why we have to hide the truth?  Our mission is top secret!

[Botan makes a cat face to move Yusuke to pity.]

Yusuke: Yeah... Maybe...

Kuwa: Well?  Shall I play the tape?  I want to see it too...

Yusuke:  Go ahead, if you intend to help us...

Kuwa: Everyone ready?  Hmm...
 

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Heading:  Kuwabara's Springtime

Koenma: My father has returned to his duties.  I'm now busy directing the investigation service.  Here's the information for your next mission!  This video is encrypted.  You're the only one who can see it.

Kuwa: What?!  That kid is a lord of the underworld?!  That kid?!!  Are you sure?

Yusuke: I had exactly the same reaction...

Koenma: Are you listening to me or what?
 

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Koenma:  Your mission...  ...is to save a young girl.  This girl is not human.  Nor is she a complete stranger to you...  She is actually imprisoned in an abandoned town called Honetdale.  My informants helped me to locate it.  She is one of the ice maidens, also called snow women.  She is capable of producing precious pearls of legendary purity, hiruiseki.  The man who has imprisoned her wants to enrich himself by making her produce these pearls.  These pearls come from...
 

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Koenma: ...her tears.

Botan: Her tears... are crystal... They're worth millions on the black market!
Kuwa: These types will do anything for cash...

Koenma: The man who's holding her is called Tarukane Konzo.  He's a powerful criminal who has amassed considerable wealth thanks to some shady business dealings.

[Botan, Yusuke & Kuwabara are eating chips, eyes glued to the screen]

Kuwa: He's really a filthy mug.

Yusuke: Yeah, he has the face of a monster.

Koenma: Our informants have sent this image of the young girl.
 

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Koenma: She's imprisoned in a room in Tarukane's estate. We think there are wards that prevent her from escaping.
 

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[Kuwabara stands up suddenly]

Yusuke:  Wah!

Kuwa: I had a flash...

Yusuke: What?

Kuwa: We're going into that bloody hole!!!

Yusuke:  What?  Now?

Kuwa: Of course!!!

Yusuke: The video hasn't finished yet!

Kuwa: Idiot!  We already know enough about it!  The poor girl...  Hurry up or I'll leave without you!!!  Can you get the money?

Shizuru: To travel to Honetdale?  But isn't that just nearby?!  [carrying drinks] What's up with him?  He's made tracks.  Take your time...

Botan: Yes, yes, not a problem!

Yusuke: Is he stupid or what?

Botan:  Hm.  I thing its springtime for him...
 

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Narration: At Tarukane's estate.

Sakashita: We've been expecting you.

Tarukane: Well?  Has Yukina cried today?

Sakashita No... not since the last time...  We have a hard time extracting tears from her.

Tarukane: Poor thing... We'll see about that. Here's a professional for the job.

Sakashita: Who is it?
 

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Tarukane: The bringers of darkness. The Toguro brothers!!!

Sakashita: The bringers of darkness?!!!  Really?  The famous monsters who deal in supernatural business?!!

Tarukane: Biological weapons made for torture...  Experts in genetic manipulation...   The torturous path of evil spells... They do it all...
 

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Yukina: You are lucky... You can fly freely.  [surrounded by little birds]  You know...  I can't even put my hand outside.  Go!
 

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Tarukane: It has sensed my arrival.  It has insight.  Here's our monster.  Even her face is icy.

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Tarukane: She's not sad, even after we've subjected her to all possible and unimaginable cruelties.  It's been beyond our means to extract a single cry or tear.

[Toguro moves forward and cuts her cheek.  She doesn't react.]

Yukina: ...

 [the birds return]

Yukina:  Ah! Don't come near!

Toguro:  Brother.

Little Toguro: Yeah.
 

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[Little Toguro grabs two birds]

Yukina: Stop!!!

Tarukane: Calm down!

Toguro:  These birds are your friends, they share your sorrow... right?

[Little Toguro squeezes the birds to death.]

Yukina: Noooo!!! Stop!!!
 

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Yukina: [weeping]  I implore you...  stop...

Tarukane: Woah! Ha ha ha! Voila! Ha ha ha! The pearls!  [Crawls on the floor after the teargems]  Here I am rich again with several millions!!!  I have to ask myself what's in your head, if you're so sad to see a bird die?  So today you won't have to eat roast bird.  Let's go!  Business won't wait!
 

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Toguro:  [to Yukina] If I were in your place I would make myself weep every day.  It would prevent me from being cruel in future and simplify your life.

Tarukane: I think I've done well investing in you.  Sakashita, you go check that there aren't any other pearls.

Sakashita: Sir, I have to tell you...

Tarukane: What?  It's not possible!
 

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[Shot of Kuwabara and Yusuke climbing a gate.]

Tarukane: Intruders?   Some naive kids who want to uncover the mystery of the hiruiseki...  They'll serve as fertilizer for my trees!!!

Toguro:  I've placed a man there for security.  They won't get far.

Yusuke:  Hell... an hour and a half by bus and train to get to this hole.

Kuwa: We can follow the tyre tracks...
 

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Kuwa: Wait for me!  I'm coming to rescue you!!!

Yusuke: This is a lightning blow...  You can see who didn't watch the end of the video.

{Koenma: Yusuke, you should feel obliged to behave. You are indebted to someone.  Her name is Yukina.  She's Hiei's little sister.}

[Short guy in a suit appears.]

Security guy: This is a private estate.  You're busted!

Kuwa: We're lost.  We can't leave.

Yusuke: We want to get to Tarukane's place.

Security: That's impossible.  So much for you.

[His legs turn into tentacles.]

Kuwa: ?!

Yusuke: Eep!

Security: You'll return home... as corpses!
 

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