[She's lying, he thinks at first. It's impulsive, even a touch irrational; he has no reason to think she'd lie, and yet there's something that still isn't adding up in a way that he can't precisely make fit.
Four fights in the finals of the Dark Tournament. Someone had to have lost. Yusuke won, which rules him out, and the younger Toguro would have gone last anyway, so it's only natural that the loss must have preceded him.
(Who was their fifth fighter? Yusuke said it was a girl...strange. She must have been in the fifth slot, then. Risky, but...)
No. If they make it out fine, if Yusuke manages to defeat Toguro, then they must win the tournament. Yet to go to four matches, someone must have lost. And to have never made it to the fifth, then Team Urameshi must have suffered one loss and three wins.
The obvious loss, of course, would be Kuwabara against the elder Toguro. And yet Keiko confirmed that he is alive — and no one who fought a Toguro brother would be able to suffer a loss that didn't also end in a death. Implausible as it is, if Kuwabara is alive, then he must also have won...
So. Hiei, or himself? Who could have lost?
To have made a transformation like that with no apparent catalyst — I suppose it would suggest that I was in some extreme form of danger.
She'd stammered.
He was attacking you. You were having trouble.
There are no draws, no stalemates, no mercy to be had in the finals of the Dark Tournament. So it only follows, logically, that if he were the one being pushed around, if he somehow managed to access Youko's latent abilities, then he must've —
And yet she hadn't looked surprised to see him alive when she'd arrived. Would she have even thought to hide that, so early on? Likely not.
Nngh. Something here isn't adding up. He's missing something, and he's asked too much already; he shouldn't have even pushed her as far as he did. That was his own error. He's going to have to live with that now.
He can tell already that this is going to bother him for a long, long time.]
That's good to hear.
[She wouldn't lie to him about her friends being okay. If nothing else, he's certain of that.]
I appreciate it, Keiko. And if there's something you want to ask me in return, I'll answer it. Please don't hesitate to; after all this, you're certainly entitled to that much.
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Four fights in the finals of the Dark Tournament. Someone had to have lost. Yusuke won, which rules him out, and the younger Toguro would have gone last anyway, so it's only natural that the loss must have preceded him.
(Who was their fifth fighter? Yusuke said it was a girl...strange. She must have been in the fifth slot, then. Risky, but...)
No. If they make it out fine, if Yusuke manages to defeat Toguro, then they must win the tournament. Yet to go to four matches, someone must have lost. And to have never made it to the fifth, then Team Urameshi must have suffered one loss and three wins.
The obvious loss, of course, would be Kuwabara against the elder Toguro. And yet Keiko confirmed that he is alive — and no one who fought a Toguro brother would be able to suffer a loss that didn't also end in a death. Implausible as it is, if Kuwabara is alive, then he must also have won...
So. Hiei, or himself? Who could have lost?
To have made a transformation like that with no apparent catalyst — I suppose it would suggest that I was in some extreme form of danger.
She'd stammered.
He was attacking you. You were having trouble.
There are no draws, no stalemates, no mercy to be had in the finals of the Dark Tournament. So it only follows, logically, that if he were the one being pushed around, if he somehow managed to access Youko's latent abilities, then he must've —
And yet she hadn't looked surprised to see him alive when she'd arrived. Would she have even thought to hide that, so early on? Likely not.
Nngh. Something here isn't adding up. He's missing something, and he's asked too much already; he shouldn't have even pushed her as far as he did. That was his own error. He's going to have to live with that now.
He can tell already that this is going to bother him for a long, long time.]
That's good to hear.
[She wouldn't lie to him about her friends being okay. If nothing else, he's certain of that.]
I appreciate it, Keiko. And if there's something you want to ask me in return, I'll answer it. Please don't hesitate to; after all this, you're certainly entitled to that much.