- Koenma: Okay, everyone, here's how it shakes down: There are four stages to such an apocalyptic breach. Stage One - Demon energy thickens in the human world, allowing demon parasites to thrive. As the size of the breech increases, we move to Stage Two, in which normal humans find themselves blessed with unusual powers. Now Stage Three is where things really heat up. Demon energy floods the streets and low class monsters spawn at will. They aren't smart or strong, but they are excessively violent. In the fourth and final stage, the border tunnel breech achieves a stabilized diameter of over two kilometers, allowing total passage.
- Koenma: Are we as dumb as my ogre monkey-boy? Dumb as Jorge Saotome?
- Ogre: [misty-eyed] Sir, that's... the first time you've ever used my name.
- Koenma: Shut up!
- Koenma: Spirit World ranks every demon according to their power. I never told you this because there wasn't any point. But here's a nifty frame of reference: All the demons in the upper level B-class are the same strength as Toguro.
- Sensui Shinobu: [reflectively] Never satisfied, never full, they eat and destroy with grubby hands until nothing is left but piss, but now the judgement of all humans has begun.
- Kazuma Kuwabara: [anguished] My life - it's just starting! There's still things I need to DO! I need to marry a girl, grow my first mustache... but now you're tellin' me that someone's makin' a big hole so that, pretty soon, a whole bunch of demons just like Toguro can start attacking us all at once?
- Genkai: A soul is fragile without a body or ghost to protect it. In one full day it would break apart.
- Yusuke Urameshi: There's gotta be something we can do. Can't you close the hole back up?
- Koenma: The only way is to stop the tunnel's creator. This isn't a normal hole. It's not physical, yet. It's a distortion in space/time, 1.3 kilometers wide, but once it hits 2 kilometers, it stabilizes, changing from energy conduit to a physical space. You don't use a drill to make a hole like this. You use a psychic nested at the center point.
- [Genkai slams Yusuke to the floor]
- Yusuke Urameshi: Damn it! What is this, Be Bitchy Day?
- Genkai: Here's a brilliant concept: Try learning from your mistakes! What I wouldn't give for a successor with a brain.
- Genkai: You can not go into this without understanding your enemy's powers. YOU WILL LOSE!
- Yusuke Urameshi: And you've gone deaf again. Koenma said we can't wait.
- Kazuma Kuwabara: If the tunnel completes, we're doomed.
- Genkai: That still allows us three weeks, and three questions to answer: How many fighters in their group, who is their leader, and what's the true nature of their powers. Without those answers, attacking would be suicide.
- Hiei: [set to leave] You already have your fox, your clown and your hag. I'm a moot point.
- Kazuma Kuwabara: You're just gonna walk away?
- Hiei: This is your world to look after, not mine. I don't intend to hinder your cause, but I'm not going to help it, either.
- Kazuma Kuwabara: Coward! Real men help when they're needed.
- Hiei: Save that idealism for your fairy tales.
- Kurama: Humanity's destruction was Hiei's former dream. These new developments leave him much to consider.
- Yusuke Urameshi: How come every case I get is even more impossible than the last. I think Koenma hates me.