In order to defeat Suzaku, leader of the Four Saint Beasts, and the only remaining one, Yusuke has rushed into his tower. However, in order to upset Yusuke, Suzaku used the bug flute to control people, making them attack Keiko, which he then showed him. Now, a violent battle to the death has unfolded around that bug flute. Can Yusuke keep himself from being carried away by this strategy, and defeat Suzaku?

Secret Techniques Clash!
The Seven Suzaku

Yusuke tells Suzaku that, starting now, it will all be about his counterattack. He rushes forward and does a barrage of punches, which Suzaku manages to block with just one arm. But Suzaku thinks that Yusuke is a whole level faster than before, and then Yusuke manages to hit his left hand. This causes him to drop the bug flute.

Yusuke immediately goes for the bug flute, but Suzaku punches him before he can reach it. Suzaku picks up the bug flute, but Yusuke then charges into him and shoves him into a wall.

He zaps Yusuke, which causes him to let go. He then leaps back and tells him that his tenacity in taking the bug flute is incredible. He asks if Keiko means that much to him, but Yusuke tells him that's none of his business. He starts to run towards Suzaku again, but then stops when he sees what's been displayed on the monitor. Several people are chasing after Keiko and Botan, and Iwamoto is now armed with a pair of scissors.

Suzaku says that what's happening in the Human Realm must be at its climax. He tells Yusuke that whilst he managed to survive his previous attack, will he be able to do it again? But he then thinks that how difficult it is, even for him, to fight Yusuke one-handed. Murugu suggests she holds the bug flute for him, but he says that won't do. If she took it, Yusuke would just go after her. Instead, he tells Yusuke to watch closely, and be horrified. He then goes into a stance.

At the school, Iwamoto grazes Keiko's arm, but she avoids a direct hit. Botan leads her into a room, and locks the door.

Iwamoto and the others start breaking the door down to get in, with Iwamoto telling Keiko there's nowhere left for her to run. Botan wonders what they should do, whilst Keiko thinks about Yusuke. In the castle, Suzaku performs his technique...

...which results in him creating multiples of himself. He says this technique allows him to divide himself into seven, and is the highest level of sorcery. He says he'd like to ask Yusuke which one he thinks is real, but he'd better explain how this technique works: all seven of him are real!

ANKOKU YOROJIN

(Dark Demon Cage Formation)

In the Spirit Realm, Koenma says this is bad. Jorge says that Yusuke had enough trouble fighting with Suzaku one-on-one, but now it's one-on-seven. Koenma wonders what Hiei, Kurama and Kuwabara are doing. Back at the castle, Kuwabara and the others are still fighting against the cultivated humans.

Suzaku tells Yusuke that the other six will be his opponents, and warns him again: he'd best not think that they are illusions or after-images. They all have his will. He then tells him to receive the union of his secret techniques, as he and his clones all leaps into the air. They create bows and arrows made out of electricity, and take aim at Yusuke.

RIKUGOKU ANKOKU RAUKOU HA

(Six Hells Dark Lightning Light Wave)

The Suzakus all fire their arrows at Yusuke. Yusuke manages to avoid some of them, and hits a couple of others with his spirit energy, but then one of the arrows hits him.

He crashes to the ground, as Suzaku says that his arrows are hardened by his own demon energy, and are capable of shattering even diamonds. He thinks it was marvelous that Yusuke managed to avoid six of them, but just one is enough to guarantee his death. He then turns away and heads off to go and deal with the other three, only for Yusuke to get back up. He tells Suzaku to hand over the bug flute, so Suzaku comes back and punches him down. Suzaku wonders what's going on, and thinks if Keiko's life is that precious to Yusuke.

This just makes him look forward to Keiko's death even more. He has Yusuke held before him, and asks him to promise that he'll devour Keiko's heart. If he does, Suzaku says he will purify his soul in the Demon Realm, and turn him into a demon. Yusuke says he'll kill him, but Suzaku doesn't like this attitude. He tells him the look he must show is one of terror and adulation. He then has two of his clones constantly electrocute Yusuke, and tells him this shock won't cause him to lose conscious, but he will listen to him whilst he experiences this agony. He then tells him to watch Keiko and her friend.

He says the two have reached the final stage, and only have despair waiting for them now. The door won't last another minute, and Yusuke can then watch what the Makaichu-possessed humans will do to them. He tells Yusuke he's lucky, as he's both a spectator to this cruel, sad tragedy, as well as being its star. At the school, the door finally gets broken down.

As Iwamoto and the others enter, Suzaku says there's nowhere left to run. He wonders if Keiko and Botan's final struggle will be them hiding themselves whilst trembling. Iwamoto and the others don't see anyone in the room at first, but then see part of Keiko's scarf trapped between the doors of a locker. They arm themselves with brooms, and start striking the locker.

Suzaku laughs and says Keiko must have been skewered. As Yusuke cries, Suzaku tells him he doesn't have time to be indulging in sentimentality, as it's his turn to die now. Murugu gets excited and wants Suzaku to kill him and get it over with. Suzaku has his other clones hit Yusuke with streams of electricity.

In the Spirit Realm, Jorge says that even Yusuke, a spirit detective with a strong spirit energy, is only human -there's no way he could have defeated Suzaku. And if Yusuke is unable to take the bug flute away, all the people throughout the world of the Human Realm will be controlled by the Makaichu. Jorge then asks what will happen if King Enma were to return -if he finds out the Four Saint Beasts weren't defeated, even 10,000 spankings won't be enough punishment. Koenma says this is bad... can't somebody do something?!

Outside the tower, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama are still fighting against the cultivated humans. Kuwabara thinks all this is doing is tiring him out, and he looks at the window Yusuke went through. He decides to try and make his own way to it, and extends his spirit sword. He uses it to launch himself up, but comes a little short, and ends up crashing into the wall.

Kurama then asks him what he's playing around for, as Hiei points out they can now enter through the front door. He drops down and follows them, but as they head up the stairs, they encounter more of the cultivated humans. Suzaku sees them, but says their resistance is useless. He'll hurl their remains to the Spirit Realm, and then turn the Human Realm to Hell.

Yusuke is still in immense amounts of pain, but he suddenly hears Genkai's voice. She calls him a bonehead and tells him what good is it for him to give up after just this? Yusuke thinks that Keiko is dead, but Genkai tells him she isn't. At the school, Iwamoto and the others break into the locker, only to find that Keiko isn't there. That's because she and Botan were actually hiding behind a curtain. They jump out...

...and take down everyone before running off. Suzaku is furious -nothing makes him more angry than when things don't go as expected. Yusuke then laughs at him, so he tells him to stop making that irritating smirk. He joins in zapping Yusuke.

Yusuke hears Genkai's voice again, telling him this is his fault for smirking. She tells him to remember his training, so Yusuke starts to think back. Genkai told him what would they do if he just gave up after this? It's only when he thought it was hopeless that the real contest begins. Yusuke was balancing on top of a spike, channeling his spirit energy through one finger to stay up. But he told Genkai that he'd used up all his spirit energy, and if he kept this up, he'd die.

Genkai told him to keep going until he died, and Yusuke questions that. She said that, to be precise, he must keep going until just before he dies. She called it critical action -this was training where he would acquire the powers that only began to come into play once he was near his limits. She told him that making his heart as one is the only way for him to control himself, once he has gone beyond his limits. But with his worthless heart, which can do nothing but complain all the time, he'd probably keel over before he realized this. Yusuke got mad and asked why he had to go through something like this. Suddenly he emitted more spirit energy from his hand.

Genkai told him this is what she meant -look at how much spirit energy he had left! This just proved to her that he wasn't taking his training seriously. Yusuke told her to shut up, and intended to blow her away and go home. But before he could fire off a spirit gun blast, she leapt up behind him at a great speed, and then punched him from behind.

As he crashed back down to the ground, Genkai told him if he concentrated his idle thoughts into anger, he could bring forth his dormant strength, as he did just now. The more earnestly he concentrated his mind, the stronger that power becomes. Back in the present, Yusuke is still screaming, but thinks about what Genkai told him.

Suzaku tells him the time is now, but Yusuke thinks that he's not going to die like this. He starts to think about his mother...

...and his friends, and thinks there's no way he's going to lose! His fists emit spirit energy.

Suzaku tells him to die now, and fires out another powerful bolt of lightning. Yusuke tells him he is going to beat him, and unleashes an explosion of spirit energy.

Suzaku and all his clones get knocked down. He is amazed that Yusuke was able to release more spirit energy than ever before, whilst Yusuke tells him one thing: fight him.

While thinking of Hiei, Kurama, Kuwabara, Botan and Keiko, those who are his friends and loved ones, Yusuke has made his heart one, yearning, and like a phoenix, has risen from a state near death. However, his opponent is Suzaku, who through his dark demon cage formation technique has become seven! Is there any chance of Yusuke winning?

NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW

(Yusuke is speaking)

Suzaku, fight me! No matter how many times it takes, I will keep getting up until I have settled things with you! If I were to keel over here, I wouldn't be able to face everyone! I will fight you until my life has burned out! Take this, Suzaku! This is my greatest power! Next time: Yusuke's Life or Death Counterattack. The Other World's not watching for nothing!