01x82 - Gemu Masuta Kyoi no Jitsuryoku

[bunniefuu]

In order to prevent the completion
of the boundary tunnel,

Yusuke and the others infiltrated
their way into Irima Cave.

However, there was a boy waiting for
them there, blocking their way.

The Gamemaster, Amanuma.

He is capable of turning the world
of a video game into reality.

The only way to get through his Territory
is to be the first one to win four games.

Mitarai competed first in a tennis game
and narrowly managed to win.

"Gamemaster's Fearsome Aptitude."

Nicely done! That's one win!

Right. Let's go on to the next game.

sh**ting

BATTLE HELI

LEVEL 6

It will be impossible for you
to conquer my impenetrable base!

sh**ting, huh?

If the Genie's level is only six,
I can beat him.

I'll do this one.

Please do.

Ba-san, are you sure you're okay?

You can use up to three helicopters.

If all of your helicopters crash,
you lose.

In the end, if you can sh**t down
the Genie's helicopter, you win.

Now then, start!

She's good!
She cleared Stage 1 with no misses!

You won't get this one, Ba-san!

Hitting that target
is one of the hardest parts of the game.

You bunch of noisy brats!

I'm about to show you
how good I really am!

She slipped through?

Awesome! So you can use that trick, huh?

I haven't lived all these years
for nothing!

How dare you destroy my base?

So you've finally appeared, have you?

You're no match for me!

Game over. The winner is Genkai.

Wow, that was incredible, old lady!

Why, that guy's enjoying this!

Are you sure you should have done that?

Using such a good player so soon?
You're sure to regret it later!

It's okay, let's go on! I'm next!

ACTION BATTLE

DARK MARTIAL ARTS

LEVEL 1

Come and get it,
if you're confident in your abilities!

All right! Action battle, my favorite!
And the Genie's level is one!

Easy win!

Don't be careless, Yusuke!

Sure!

You can use up to three players.

If all of them are defeated, you lose.

Now then, game start!

How do you like that?

Player 1 dies.

Player 2, stand by.

What?

Bonehead! You have to be sure
to aim for their vital points,

or you won't defeat them!

Dammit! This time I'll get them for sure!

Hurry up and get the giant-growth drink!

Right!

He's had it!

I just barely made that one in time!

Okay, come and get it!

Game over. The winner is Urameshi.

All right! That's three wins now!

Well, well...

It appears to be my turn!

He's mimicking the lines from the game.

The time has come.

Yes. Up to now,
it's just been simple warming up.

This is the real thing.

Yusuke, listen closely.

Here is my honest opinion.

If Amanuma plays at the same level
as the actual game's boss,

then eight or nine times out of ten,
Kaito or I will beat him.

But then, Amanuma is undoubtedly stronger
than the real boss.

That's why he chose this game.

So he's in a different league than
the Genies we've fought against until now?

That's right.

And so, if Kaito and I should lose,
think of a way to escape from here.

Escape?

Kurama had never been
as wary as this before.

I've never seen him like this.

Okay then!

Failure to feel out how strong
an opponent is isn't just aggravating,

it's also a little eerie.

Now then...

It sure has been a long time,
and I'd like to play an action game!

QUIZ

GENERAL

LEVEL G

Oh, no. Quiz?
That's not my strongest area.

All right! Lucky!

I'll do this one.

We're counting on you, Kaito!
If you defeat him, we can go on.

For someone
who says this isn't his strongest area,

he looks like he's pretty sure of himself,
doesn't he?

Mitarai-kun, could you tell me any details
about Amanuma's ability?

Actually, this is the first time
I've ever seen his ability myself.

BATTLE QUIZ

So I don't know anything more than
the fact that he can turn a game

into reality.

Best of luck!

The real Game-mao
wouldn't ask for a handshake.

Okay. You're no fun.

In this buzzer quiz,
you answer from among four choices.

The first one to answer
ten questions right wins.

Answering incorrectly
does not make you lose any points.

However, miss three times,
and you lose immediately.

I know.

Okay then, shall we begin?

Game-mao versus Kaito, Quiz Start!

Game-mao versus Kaito, Quiz Start!

What are you trying to pull?

I'm giving you a handicap.
Five questions or so.

I'm just going to stand here,
watching quietly.

You can go ahead and answer on your own.

I doubt that will be necessary.

Very well, on to the first question.
"Amazo..."

QUESTION 1: AMAZO...

A. PIROROCA
B. PAROROCA

C. POROROCA
D. PEROROCA

C. POROROCA

Correct!

You mean, he knew the answer

after only three syllables
from the question had appeared?

The total number of questions in
the Battle Quiz General version is 17,000.

Among those, there are only three
questions that begin with "Amazo,"

all of which deal with the Amazon.

The answer is either "Pororoca,"
"Piranha," or "The Amazon Highway."

You've memorized all the questions?

And each answer,
for nearly 20,000 of them!

That's incredible!

You could be the champion
on a TV quiz show, couldn't you?

Incidentally, Question 1 was...

"Amazon's Araguari River basin
features a natural phenomenon,

where the river water flows backward.
What is this called?"

Do you see now
that I don't need a handicap?

The second question is about to start.

I see. The situation has become
that urgent, has it?

Yes.

Then there is little choice.

I will consent to your petition.

Thank you very much.

Oh, that was frightening, huh,
Koenma-sama?

I suppose so.
But I did get Pop's permission.

Yes.

Well then, I'm off, Jorge.

Will you take Jorge too this time?

Don't cry! It's disgusting!

I want to go with you! Koenma-sama!

Correct!

Kaito has won five questions in a row;
Game-mao, zero.

All right! It's 5-0 now!

He's incredible!

Even after hearing the answers, I haven't
gotten any of the questions right.

Amanuma has just been standing there,
watching the screen.

Is he truly just giving him a handicap?

No, I bet that Kaito
is just too awesome for him,

and he can't even get a turn!

That's not it.
Take a good look at Amanuma.

Those are the confident eyes of someone
who is aware of his own victory.

How can that be?

Is there a way of choosing the correct
answers faster than Kaito does?

It's not possible!

All right! Got it!

All right, now to start fighting back!

"Got it"? Got what?

Are you saying

you've just been sounding out my ability
for the past five questions?

What are you, an idiot?
It is something completely different.

I haven't been concerned
about your ability from the start!

You'll understand after the next question.

Question 6. Here goes...

What does he think he's doing?

When the button is pushed before even
one letter of the question is displayed,

the answers aren't
even shown on the screen!

So does he mean to answer
based on nothing but intuition?

He can't get them right that way!

Question 6 is "What is the name
of the asteroid that was the subject

of a theoretical collision
with Earth in the year 2000?"

The answer is B, Toutatis.

Correct!

What?

It's true!
That's the question he just said!

He knows the answers
before even seeing the questions!

How can that be?

Don't tell me he has clairvoyance!
No, it has to be some kind of foul play!

No, that's not it. He's memorized
the quiz questions and their order,

as well as the placement of their answers!

That's impossible!

The order of the quiz questions and
answers are all supposed to be mixed up!

You're too accepting.

It may look all mixed up,
but there's actually a rule for it.

It takes about five questions
to figure out what the formula is.

Perhaps a five-question
handicap wasn't enough.

Question 7.

Correct! Kaito, 5 questions;
Game-mao, 2 questions.

At this rate, Kaito's defeat is assured!

Yes.

Hey, Hiei, what are you planning to do?

Correct! Kaito, 5 questions;

-Game-mao, 3 questions.
-I'm going to destroy that game.

Can you get away
with doing something like that?

That's crazy!
We're inside Amanuma's Territory!

All of our actions outside the game
must conform to Amanuma's will!

That's right!

This is sure to turn out the same way
it did when you tried it with Kaito!

It's better than standing
here looking on in silence.

Game-mao, 4 questions.

He did it!

Correct! Kaito, 5 questions;
Game-mao, 5 questions.

Score tied.

Sure enough, it didn't work.

It's no use. Hiei, give it up.

Hey, there, could you not interrupt me
in the middle of my most fun time?

Sorry about that. Pay no mind,
and go back to what you were doing.

Damn! Does that mean we're powerless?

It appears that the only thing we can do
is best Amanuma at the games.

Question 11.

You can press the button before me,
but you can't compete on intuition alone.

There's a 25 percent probability here.
That's not all that bad a number.

Incorrect! Kaito's first error.

Dammit!

After that, Amanuma kept
answering correctly,

while Kaito continued to rely
on intuition to compete with him,

but made yet another error.

And then, on the 17th question...

Incorrect! Game over.

Kaito is eliminated after his third error.

I've been utterly defeated.

I didn't realize that there was a rule
to the order of the quiz questions.

But you did put up a good fight.
You're good at this!

I'd sure like to fight
in the next game against you!

He's no slouch.

Now, all we can do is count on Kurama.

What? Come to think of it,
since the three of us won so easily,

I didn't worry about this,

but what the hell happens to us if
we lose inside Amanuma's Territory?

Sorry.

Still, there was something
out of sync about that Amanuma guy.

It's like he just
enjoyed playing the game.

I wonder,

did he really understand what Sensui
was doing when he joined up with him?

Kaito, is there anything unusual
about you?

No. Since Amanuma is
the one with the ability,

I was prepared to have him at least
take my soul or something, but no.

All right. If that's the case...

What? Have you figured something out?

We can probably lose at this game over
and over, and nothing will happen to us.

But if we give up, we'll all die.

What? How do you mean?

In the real game,
once all the heroes lose,

the "Game Over" screen appears,

and afterward, there's a screen
that asks you to continue or give up,

and you choose one or the other.

If you continue,
then the opening is omitted,

and you can restart the game
from the first character again.

But if you choose to give up,

the words "The End" appear,

with the heroes' graves in the background.

Hey, hold on a minute.
So then, are you saying

that until we beat Amanuma,
we have to just keep on playing the game?

We don't have time for that!

Amanuma was never after our lives
in the first place.

His goal is to buy time,
until the boundary tunnel is open.

That's right! Once the time comes,
I'll dispel my Territory right away.

All you have to do is to enjoy playing
these games with me for a few hours.

It truly is going smoothly.

I can feel my ability
heightening to a surprising level.

It probably won't take more than two hours

before the hole is completely open.

Look, Shinobu. Behind me.

The Demon Realm's hard-hitters
that have gotten a whiff of the light

are gathering together in droves!

Two more hours, huh?

That's just about the time
when this movie will be over.

I'll be expecting a favorable response
from you then, Kuwabara-kun.

I'll die before I cooperate with you!

Urameshi! There isn't any time!

Hurry up and get here!

Only two hours remain
before the boundary tunnel is complete!

Will Yusuke and the others
be able to defeat Amanuma

and put a stop
to Sensui's scheme before then?

"Gamemaster"
is an appropriate name for him.

There's nothing half-assed
about the way he plays.

But what is Sensui having this kid do,

when he only thinks of his Territory
as a plaything?

I doubt this battle is going to end
over just some game.

Next time, "The Remaining Measure!
Kurama's Resolve."

The Other World's not watching
for nothing!