Sensui stares calmly at Toushin Yusuke and murmurs, "Fabulous!" Kuwabara thinks he's boasting, but Koenma counters that Sensui looks more aware of the situation and not as arrogant as he had in the Irima cave. Kurama notices that his fighting spirit isn't as fierce now either.

"Do you descend from the Evil Clan?" Sensui laughs, but not in a mocking way. "I'm a very happy man. I'm glad for having the chance of fighting a youkai of your class."

"Hn, I'm going to make you change your mind," Toushin Yusuke snorts - his voice has now a double timbre, enriched by a deeper tone. A lightning strikes and he attacks, starting a session of brutal spanking to which Sensui offers - or can't offer - any resistance. More of the landscape explodes around them, but this time Sensui's body is wounded as well. After short minutes he's completely dominated by Toushin Yusuke, who holds him up by the neck. "This is the end for you."

Toushin Yusuke throws Sensui's body in the air and prepares a Reigan. But the real Yusuke snaps awake. "What? What happened to me? What are you doing?!" he asks with his normal voice.

"Shut up and go back to your corner," replies the deeper voice.

"Stop!"

Ignoring the protest, Toushin Yusuke shoots the Reigan. The next moment Yusuke regains control of his body - his hair turns from white to brown - and screams, "Get out of the way, Sensui!" His teammates are perplexed by the sudden change of heart.

Sensui hears the warning and sees the Reigan coming, but doesn't move. He's hit full force on the back, and the energy ball pulls him through a forest, creating a large, many-miles-long gash in the green. Yusuke runs after him, Puu and Youko Kurama follow.

They find Yusuke grabbing an unconscious Sensui by what is left of his shirt and yelling, "Wake up, Sensui! Open your eyes! Let's fight again! Wake up!"

"Are you nuts, Urameshi?" Kuwabara exclaims. "You won already."

"But it wasn't me who shot the Reigan," Yusuke argues. "It was me and it wasn't. When I came to, it was too late, he had shot already." Needless to say, Kuwabara doesn't understand a thing.

Yusuke asks Kurama to heal Sensui with his plants, but the Youko says he spent too much of his energy in the battle. All he can do is offer the wounded fighter something to soothe the pain. But Itsuki steps through a portal from the limbo and gravely asks them to let Sensui die: "Shinobu had only half a year to live anyway."

Itsuki explains that Sensui's body was completely taken by the evil disease. Sensui confirms it, but points out that that wasn't the reason why he lost the fight. "Your powers are far greater than mine," he admits to Yusuke.

Yusuke denies that those powers were his, and urges Sensui to live. "At least a few days more, you have to live! Live and fight with me again!"

"I don't believe it," Hiei mumbles. "He wants to fight again?" With that the Kokuryuuha aftereffects finally have the best of him and the little youkai faints. Before he falls on the ground, Puu catches him with his beak and lays him on its back.

Yusuke asks Koenma to help Sensui. "I could if I still had the Mafuukan energy," answers the Prince of Reikai. "But Shinobu worn me out. And since I had to resurrect the boy, now I don't have anything left. I'm sorry."

Back in Ningenkai, Amanuma wakes up on the back of the pickup. Genkai tells him that Koenma used the Mafuukan to bring him back to life. "I'm thankful," the boy says, seeming deeply disturbed.

Sensui reveals that he had planned it all: causing Amanuma's death to force Koenma to waste the Mafuukan energy before their confrontation. But Koenma doesn't understand why Shinobu was so determinate to come to Makai.

"Makai is the homeland of the many demons I killed," says Sensui. "Since I was a child I was different. I didn't know why I could see demons when no one else could. Why did they hate me? Why were they trying to kill me? Not knowing why, I fought to become stronger. Certainly I had been chosen to be the warrior of justice, and they were evil monsters that threatened the humankind. But I never questioned these two concepts.

"However, I was wrong. The humans I was protecting were evil creatures of the worst kind. When I thought of the demons I killed, I felt so empty and weak. When I found out that my days were coming to an end, I thought I was going to explode. I didn't care if I was right or wrong anymore. My only goal was to be here.

"I'm glad I came here, to the demons' homeland. All I wanted was to die in Makai, killed by a demon. Of course, this won't make up for my past.

"Urameshi, while we were fighting I could see a spark in you. It was too quick, but for the first time I fought with enthusiasm. Thank you." Another lightning strikes as Shinobu Sensui dies.

Itsuki doesn't allow Koenma to touch the body. "Enough. Aren't you satisfied? Let him rest in peace. His dream was to be killed by a stronger demon in Makai. Urameshi, who resurrected as a youkai, was the enemy he was looking for. He was very happy with it. In order not to fall in contradiction, he invented the seven personalities and died in his purest state, the child Shinobu. At last Shinobu's spirit found some peace."

He makes Sensui's body levitate and takes him in his arms. ""When I die, I don't want to go to Reikai," that's what Shinobu told me. I won't let you judge him or keep his spirit. If you wish to go on fighting, go look for another enemy; we are tired. From now on we will rest in silence, just the two of us." Itsuki carries Sensui's body back to the limbo and closes the portal.

Yusuke is frustrated, feeling that Sensui left as the winner. "You're right," Kurama agrees. "They made their ultimate dream come true."

Yusuke suddenly - and finally - notices what happened to his hair and body and freaks out. Koenma tells him that his ancestors were S-class demons that must still be alive somewhere in Makai. "So that was probably the guy who kept tormenting me during the fight," Yusuke guesses.

He explains to his teammates what happened and says he wants to find the guy who interfered in the important combat. "I won't forgive him!"

Koenma reminds him that the Tokubetsu Boueitai will have the tunnel sealed in two days; if they stay there after that, they won't be able to go back. "You have only two options, Yusuke. Stay here or go home. You'll have some time to think about it."

"I don't need time to think," Yusuke replies categorically, making his teammates cringe. But Yusuke smiles and adds, "Let's go back to Ningenkai."