said Kurama, which Koenma had already thought. "I'm afraid you will only find the other two guards dead somewhere.The thieves should have been over the mountains long ago with the DVD. "
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Konema collapsed like a pile of misery. "What am I saying to my father?"
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"Best of all, the unvarnished truth. Two thieves killed two guards, rubbed themselves with a mixture of their blood and lugwort juice, and thus spoiled their appearance for about four hours. They then stole the DVD during the shift and put some pure lugwort juice on the cover Pure lye root juice has two effects on the senses of demons, firstly it fools them into thinking that they are seeing what they expect to see, in this case the DVD on the pillow; The last delicious meal they had before, in this case the dessert from lunch. It is not for nothing that the juice comes from the carnivorous lugworm vine, which fools its victims into a tasty bite and then strangles them as soon as they get too close. "<br />
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"All of this will not interest my father," sighed Koenma. "You know how easily my father gets angry. We should warn people about earthquakes, storm surges and volcanic eruptions ..."
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"Don't look so black right away," Kurama tried to calm down. "We drum up Yusuke, Hiei and Kuwabara and you are already wondering if there is a way to somehow locate the golden DVD."
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Koenma took a deep breath and took a long swig of water from his glass. "That was the beginning. My special troop for difficult cases could not locate the DVD, but they found the weapons of the real guardians. The guardian demons themselves were not only killed, but wiped out, so that their non-being for a sensitive demon like This could be seen with his third eye, and it turned out that at least one of the thieves is not a demon but a human.This made us believe that we could easily track him down. "
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"A quick question," put in Gokou. "What is so valuable about this DVD? Just because it's made of gold?"
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Koenma and Botan shook their heads in sync. It was Koenma who finally provided the explanation. “The golden DVD is that infinite document where the fate of all people is stored. Who is born when, how his life goes, when, where and why he dies, everything is on it These people have special abilities and influence their surroundings. This has led to a number of nasty incidents in the course of history. In order to be able to take countermeasures if necessary , my father created the golden DVD that updates itself as soon as a fate is fulfilled or a new person is born.A special department has the authority to browse the golden DVD once a month and search for special cases. "
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"So it's not the end of the world if it can't be found again right away, is it?" Asked Master Kaio.
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Botan nodded. "The theft alone would not have been a reason for Koenma-sama to leave his reality. The only problem is that it didn't stop there."
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"The story continues?"
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Koenma sighed. "Unfortunately. The trail of the thief leads down into the demon realm. Because of a gap between the borders of the realms, there was once a time when some people could develop a special auric power that they could only develop within a certain radius in the human world, the" territory The loophole was closed and the people we knew about were placed under supervision. Again, the gold DVD was of great value. It seems that their data had gaps and at least one of these people got on one of us not yet known way into the demon realm.His ability must have deterred the demons so much that they left him alive. Even within the demon world, not everything is bliss, there is a lot of rivalry and bad blood. So far, this has been to our advantage and that of people. Because of the quarrel among each other, there was never a general uprising of all the demons. But as it seems, a very powerful demon named Gesceto has managed to gather a considerable troop. We suspect that one of his inner circle was the second thief and that the person whose name we do not yet know works with or for him. "
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"And what should such a demon do with the DVD?" Enma asked curiously.
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"Well, the same thing we do with finding people with special abilities. However, he will probably spoil them like this one and pull them over to his side. We've had a case where such a misguided person has a whole crowd of such talented around him and with them and a demon caused the rift in the border between the realms.You can't imagine the chaos back then. Apparently Gesceto had a plan how he could create an even bigger hole with the help of these people and lead his troops into the human world as well as into the hereafter. He certainly didn't plan to just marvel at the sights and buy a few souvenirs. "
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"Why do you always talk in the past?", Uranai Baba asked with her own disrespect, which she never missed the Enma of this reality.
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"Well watched," Koenma grinned weakly. "Apparently a mistake was made while reading the DVD in the fortress of this demon lord, as he calls himself. We do not know what exactly happened, but there seems to have been an unfortunate amalgamation between the DVD and the abilities of this person In any case, the extinction that this person is capable of, reinforced by the DVD (after all, it is a creation of my father and thus connected to him, his office and his power) over to the hereafter. "<br />
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"In what form?" Asked Enma urgently. Slowly the story took on an increasingly threatening appearance.
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"It's hard to explain," Koenma rubbed her forehead and considered. Then his gaze fell on Uranai Baba "Is this crystal ball capable of showing things that are happening far away?"
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“But yes.” Uranai Baba, ready to help, hopped off her ball and conjured up her powers. As fog billowed in the heart of the sphere, she shot Koenma a questioning look. "What should it be?"
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"Hmmm ..." Koenma and Botan exchanged a long look.
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"Sector 3-32-7 in the eastern district has been hit the worst," said Botan after a moment's reflection.
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"Since our worlds are still connected ..." Koenma looked at the gullet that hadn't changed a bit, "do you think it would be possible ..."
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"We'll see," said Uranai Baba and mumbled the wish to her crystal ball.At first it seemed as if the fog would hang forever in the sphere, but then the picture cleared up. Master Kaio and Gokou gathered around the ball with Botan and Koenma, King Enma bowed his head low and tried to catch a glimpse from above.
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The sight the sphere was ... well, terrifying would be an understatement. One part of the picture looked halfway normal: hideously overgrown trees, rocks, cloudy, yellowish rivulets dug their way through gray dust. But about in the middle the picture suddenly became blurred, rocks like trees seemed to become transparent, to fade and right over there was ... yes there was simply nothing more. It was as if someone had wiped it with an oily rag. A glossy, white film covered this gap in the landscape.
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"You should get your ball charged again," said Gokou and pointed to the strange spot. "She has a picture loss."<br />
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"Oh nonsense," said Uranai Baba indignantly. "This is the best prophetic crystal ball currently on the market. It can't fail."
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“So?” Gokou tried to wipe the film away with spit and his sleeve. In vain, of course.
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"Hey!", Uranai Baba glared at him. "You're spoiling my ball for me!"
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"But there is nothing to be seen!", Gokou defended himself.
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"Exactly," Koenma said in a tone that caught everyone's attention.
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"There is nothing."
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"So does it really look so ... so empty there?" Gokou asked, concerned.
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“And not only there.” Botan looked very unhappy. "The extinction has already spilled over into other realms of the hereafter. We have already tried to stop or reverse the apparition ourselves, but ..." She shook her head.
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"What will happen if it continues like this," asked Master Kaio.
<br />"The souls will gather in the remaining places, it will become narrower and narrower and at some point they too will be captured by the extinction and extinguished. But before that, according to current calculations, my father's palace will be captured," Koenma explained dryly . It sounded like he was taking it very calmly, but his frozen face and clenched fists spoke a different language.
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"But ..." interjected, horrified, "what about all the newcomers?"
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"Without access to the hereafter, there will be no new admission," said Botan, expressing what Enma feared. "That means that no one on earth can die."
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Gokou thought of all the losses he and his friends had suffered. "Immortality?" He whispered hoarsely.
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"Not really," said Koenma sharply. "Those who die don't do it just for fun, but for a specific reason. Because of an injury, old age or illness.Imagine someone chopping off your head but you wouldn't die from it, your blood flows out of your body, your brain can't work without oxygen, but anyway, you stay alive. In this condition."
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"Zombies ..." breathed Master Kaio and turned pale.
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"Exactly. Everyone who would otherwise have slept peacefully with the hope of rebirth will lie, sit or stand where they would have died. They will not breathe, talk or eat, but they cannot be buried either. because their bodies will not rot. Anyone who buries them anyway will bury someone who is fully conscious, who is still aware of what is happening and above all someone who will be forever trapped underground and lose their mind .... . "
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"And what makes you believe