The impact of the Four Saint Beasts being defeated was bigger than Drake had imagined.
The entrance to the demon world had been sealed, and the ones who could come to the human world through spatial rifts were all guys whose youkai aura was weak.
So the youkai in the human world and the spirit world weren't that strong in reality.
The Four Saint Beasts were already the top existences among the youkai in the human and spirit worlds, and Yusuke Urameshi and his group, who had defeated them, could also be considered to have become famous.
After returning home, Stella had told Drake that she had heard news about this spirit detective Yusuke Urameshi in the dark world.
And another piece of news that Stella had brought back was that the Dark Martial Arts Tournament was about to begin. Having replaced Kanesada Kurama's seat in the dark club, Stella had also received an invitation.
It wasn't an invitation to participate of course, but was instead an invitation to form a team as a boss.
That's right, as a member of the dark club, Stella now also had the qualifications to form her own team to participate in the competition.
The Dark Martial Arts Tournament was a quite complicated competition. Although most of the participants were youkai, the organizers were humans.
According to the introduction in the original plot, humans wanted money and benefits, and youkai wanted to release their killing desires, which was why the Dark Martial Arts Tournament had appeared.
At the start, it had been because the big shots of the dark world had needed a method to resolve disputes or distribute benefits.
And the measure that they had discussed was to hold a competition, and to decide the structure of the dark world based on the results of the competition.
After all, having the ability to recruit stronger youkai was also proof of strength.
And for the youkai, a race whose blood flowed with violence, this kind of competition where they could vent to their heart's content was also extremely popular.
At the same time, for the spirit world, the difficulty of managing the youkai group could also be lowered by allowing them to vent in this kind of slaughter-like competition.
So the spirit world had always had a one-eye-open-one-eye-closed attitude towards the Dark Martial Arts Tournament.
So this competition, which had been convenient for the three parties, had been held until now, and seeing that the new competition was about to begin, the relevant humans and youkai had also begun to get busy.
Stella had originally thought that the Dark Martial Arts Tournament was something similar to the Seven Star Sword Art Festival, but after hearing Drake say that there were so many complicated things within it, she had lost interest.
After Stella had expressed that she only intended to go as a spectator, the black suit who had been delivering the message had respectfully left.
Then, not even two days later, Stella, as a VIP spectator, had also received the list of participants for this competition.
In his words, the person who had been delivering the message had also told Stella that there was also betting at this competition. It was said that the amount of money that flowed through the betting at every Dark Martial Arts Tournament was calculated in the trillions.
Money in this world didn't have much meaning to Drake to begin with, and what Drake was more interested in was one of the teams on the list of participants.
The name of the team was Team Urameshi, and the boss was Little King Yama. And the members of the team were precisely those five people in Drake's memories.
Drake remembered that in the original plot, it had been because Toguro Ototo had seen Yusuke Urameshi during the Kanesada Kurama incident that he had invited him to participate in the Dark Martial Arts Tournament afterwards.
Because the people who had been invited to participate in the Dark Martial Arts Tournament would be hunted down by the entire dark world if they refused, Yusuke Urameshi had actually been forced to participate.
And this time, because Drake had taken action, Yusuke Urameshi shouldn't have had the chance to attract Toguro Ototo's attention, so who had invited him to participate in the Dark Martial Arts Tournament was worth thinking about.
Without needing to fret, Drake had quickly gotten the answer.
The next day, even though the holiday had clearly begun, Kuwabara had found Drake, hoping to carry out very strict training. Because he was also going to participate in this Dark Martial Arts Tournament as Yusuke Urameshi's teammate.
Actually, after the Genkai trial, Kuwabara had sensed that Drake's guidance to him all along had also contained the aspect of spirit power. So he was very clear that Drake wasn't an ordinary PE teacher either.
Therefore, there was no need to hide anything about youkai and such either. Drake had also learned what had happened from him.
What had surprised Drake was that it was still Toguro Ototo who had invited Yusuke Urameshi to participate in the Dark Martial Arts Tournament this time, and the cause had been that Yusuke Urameshi had encountered an attack from the Toguro Brothers during a job that Little King Yama had arranged for him to escort a certain big shot.
Kuwabara hadn't said much about the specific situation, but thinking about how Yusuke Urameshi had looked depressed those few days when the incident had happened, he should have been hit quite hard.
Drake had originally thought that it had been because he had taught him a lesson, but he hadn't expected that it had been done by Toguro Ototo.
Rather than saying that it was because of coincidence or fate that had made Yusuke Urameshi encounter Toguro Ototo when the Dark Martial Arts Tournament was about to begin, Drake felt that Toguro Ototo had been keeping an eye on Yusuke Urameshi for a long time.
Thinking about the original plot, Kuwabara's performance hadn't actually been worse than Yusuke Urameshi's in the final battle of the Kanesada Kurama incident. But it was still Yusuke Urameshi whom Toguro Ototo had invited.
The only explanation was because Yusuke Urameshi had become Genkai's disciple, and Toguro Ototo had wanted to know what kind of person the one who had inherited the Spirit Light Wave Fist was.
Even the entire incident had appeared because of this purpose, and it hadn't been Sakyo who had proposed the plan, but had instead been Toguro Ototo.
So even without the Kanesada Kurama incident, Toguro Ototo had still found other opportunities to run into Yusuke Urameshi.
Clearly, Yusuke Urameshi had reached a certain standard of Toguro Ototo's, which was why he hadn't been killed directly, but had instead been invited to participate in the Dark Martial Arts Tournament.
Drake had sorted out the details, but he also had to sigh that there always had to be some kind of special connection between the villain and the protagonist.
Which had led to how many villains clearly having the opportunity to directly end the story when the protagonist was weak, but had instead let the protagonist off the hook for various reasons, and had then been overturned by the protagonist, who had become stronger, in return.
But what Toguro Ototo had wanted was originally for someone to be able to defeat him, so it wasn't strange that he would make this kind of decision.
But compared to Yusuke Urameshi, Drake felt that Toguro Ototo's target was himself.
The person who had come to send the invitation this time had been especially enthusiastic, as if he had been afraid that Drake wouldn't participate.
If Drake hadn't guessed wrong, Toguro Ototo would launch a challenge at him in the end if Yusuke Urameshi couldn't satisfy Toguro Ototo this time.
And he would give Drake a reason to unleash his full power, for example, turning the arena into a trap that would make everyone die together.
After all, Sakyo had done that in the end of the original plot, and he, like Toguro Ototo, had a tendency to self-destruct.
But Drake hadn't thought of avoiding it, and since he was bored anyway, it would be a waste to not go and see so many famous scenes.
But before that, he still had to deal with Kuwabara's special training. Drake didn't want the disciple who had trained with him to only be used as a tool to stimulate the protagonist to explode in the end.
Kuwabara, seeing the expression on Drake's face, had a feeling that his back was turning cold because of his outstanding intuition.
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Time had passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it had become the day of the opening of the Dark Martial Arts Tournament.
As VIPs, Drake and Stella naturally wouldn't take a cruise ship to the tournament venue, Hell Island, like Yusuke Urameshi and those participants.
First, a luxurious private car had picked the two up, heading to the airport, and then they had taken a private helicopter to that Hell Island.
But for Drake, that couldn't be called enjoyment.
On the helicopter, Drake, who had been half dead, had seen the huge youkai aura that had been entangling on the island, proving just what kind of place where a group of demons were dancing wildly it was.
But looking at it this way, it wouldn't be so boring at least!
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