"Kei, are you still listening Kei?" Reika calls out to Kei in her apartment. The whole Gantz team is having a meeting once more to prepare for the so called 'Katastrophe'. It's only 3 more days until the forecasted time.

Kei is snapped out of his trance like state. "Huh, what was that?" Everybody looks at him. "You know Kei you've been zoning out a lot lately." Katou is concerned about his friend. "Is everything ok?"

"Uh-huh everything is okay." Kei covers up. "You guys shouldn't be worried about me haha" It was untrue, for the past week he just can't get rid of Yusuke's ability to easily rid of those two aliens. He wants that power, he thirsts for it. Kei looks over at Yusuke who is taking a nap in the corner of the room.

"Any of you guys wanna wake him up?" Kei points to Urameshi.

"I don't think we should, He looks pretty tired." Reika looks at Yusuke as well. "I think we should just let him sleep, he seems pretty capable enough anyways."

"Yeah, we really got lucky getting him." Katou joins in. "He is really strong, it was unbelievable.." He trails of.

Kei's envy sparks up again. He hates himself for it, but he can't help but crave Yusuke's strength.

"Well I think that is it for today guys." Katou stands up. "We can't really discuss what this Katastrophe thing is without Nishi." Everybody stands up, they have been at this gathering for over 3 hours now, discussing formations and effective survival tactics.

"Well see ya guys!" Reika says her farewells to her friends. Everybody starts walking towards the door, it is just a bit of time after lunch time.

Kei looks at his watch, and it read 1:35. "I still got time to meet Tae if I hurry up." Kei agreed to meet Tae for a date at the mall. Kei hurrily goes out so he can catch the bus to the designated meeting place.

Katou looks at Reika. "Should I wake Yusuke up?" Reika looks at Yusuke's sleeping face.

"No, its ok just let him sleep there for a while."

"Okay, then." Katou puts on his jacket. "Take care Reika, we don't know whats going to happen three days from now."

"Thanks, I will." Reika closes the door as Katou leaves her house. It is now just her and Yusuke in the house.

Kei barely catches the bus. "Thanks for waiting Mister!" Kei mutters while he is short of breath. He pays the fare and goes on to sit down in the back of the bus.

Kei looks out the window and zones out. The events of the last mission still fresh on his mind. "What I wouldn't give to have power like that..." Kei sighs as he remembers Yusuke finishing off the last two boss aliens without a suite and without fear.

It was amazing to Kei how a goofy kid like that could fight without fear like he has been fighting for hundreds of years. Kei's mind then wanders off from jealousy to uncertainty.

He fears the unknown thats going to come in 3 days time. Nobody, not even Nishi knows what will happen. It is all a mystery. Kei remembers how he didn't care whether he lived or die before, but now he has something to live for. Images of Tae's warm smile floods his mind.

As Kei's thoughts wander from subject to subject, he is taken out of his concentration by a crime scene that the bus passed by. Everybody on the bus looks over to the crime scene, there was a lot of cop cars, about 5-7 all with their lights on.

The building looks like a night club. It is taped off with yellow tape reading "Crime Scene". The night club's front door was busted open like someone forced their way into it. As the bus slowly passes by, Kei could get a glimpse of what seemed to be bloody corpses inside the night club.

Kei was desensitized by aliens from human corpses horribly mutilated, so it did not really bother him. All he could think of was "Too bad for those people".

Kei goes back to his thoughts while people in the bus still has a morbid curiosity towards the macabre.

In the night club two policemen were searching the place for survivors.

"You really think anyone is going to survive in this?" An officer asks his partner while covering his mouth and nose from the pungent smell of dead flesh.

"Probably not, it looks like a gang war and the people who did this looked pretty through." The two policemen continues walking through the sea of corpses. They continued upstairs.

They see a the night club's owner's room. The door is slightly open. The two officers open the door and were greeted by a more grotesque sight. As they continue to search the room, they get called from downstairs.

"You guys up there? any survivors on there?"

The two police officers, after a quick look through in the room finally decided that no one could've survived this assault. They then walked back downstairs, as the two officers meet with their colleague they hear rattling from the women's rest room. The 3 officers look at each other in shock, until one of them finally speaks out. "Theres a survivor in there!"

All three of them run to the restroom and open the door. What they see is a woman in a suit shaking as she uses the sink for support. She had long black hair and had a hime-cut. She turns to the police, and the officers could see terror in her eyes. She was one of the vampires that led the attack on Kei's apartment and was taken into Gantz apartment. Her blood-covered face shows fear and terror.

"What are you guys doing! help her out!" One of the officers run to her and she collapses into the officers arms.

"Well I guess we should take her into our custody for questioning and protection." They take her and wash her face and they take her to their headquarters.

Back on the bus Kei is still replaying what happened in the last mission. Yusuke singlehandedly killing such strong aliens, he really wishes that he had that kind of power. Finally his thoughts are interrupted as he looks and sees that the next stop is his. A subtle "ding" signals the bus drivers that he wants to get off at the next stop.

The bus slowly creeps to a stop as Kei steps out. He is meting his beloved Tae for a date, however he sees two guys talking to Tae cornering her to a wall. Anyone could read her face that she doesn't really want to be bothered. He starts walking towards Tae and as he gets closer he calls out. "Tae, Tae! I'm here"

Tae looks up and sees her boyfriend and her face lights up as she sees Kei. "Kei-kun!" She waves at him enthusiastically and runs towards him breaking the wall the two guys have made.

Back in the police headquarters the police were interogating the only survivor of the night club slaughter. They sit her down.

"You okay?" One of the detectives asks her. "You want something to eat?"

"No thanks" She shakes her head in refusal. "I'm OK".

One of the detectives that took her in enters the room and sits down. "So what really happened last night?"

Her eyes tears up. "There were two guys, they came in demanding to see the boss of the place."

"Wait only two guys did this?" One of the detectives interrupts her. She nods, "Yes, it is unbelievable but it was only two guys."

The detectives were in awe. "What did they look like?" They looked like they were in their late teens, about 18-19 years old."

"Hey Tae! nice to see you" Kei hugs his girlfriend. "Were those guys bothering you?" Tae shakes her head to be polite to the two teens that was talking to her but she really didn't want to be near them. There was something off about them. She couldn't explain it but it was something she knew.

The two guys walks up to the couple. "Yo bro you got a pretty cute looking girlfriend there!" Kei looks back to see two guys in their late teens, about 18-19. They were both wearing a white sports jacket with a brown shirt underneath with jean pants.

One of them had his shirt buttoned up and had a tie, but the other looked more sloppy and his shirt was unbuttoned on the top 2 buttons.

Kei thinks that these kind of people were a nuisance and was about to give them a warning to leave them alone or get beat up, he was afterall wearing the GANTZ suit.

"You guys better lea-" Kei is interrupted by the proper looking one. "Mr. Kurono forgive my associate." He points to his partner that initially greeted Kei and Tae. He fixes his glasses.

"But do understand that we have a proposition for you."

"One of them looked really proper while the other one was rude" She continues shuddering while remembering the grisly details.

"They told us that we were failures and that the project is being terminated" She looks confused as she retells the story. "I didn't even know what they were talking about!" she recalls in frustration.

"But the higher ups in that place seems to know." She calms down. One of the detectives picks up the tape recorder to make sure it is recording.

"They were furious when the two guys said they were being terminated." She sits back in her chair. "They tried to kill them both but I didn't know what happened, next thing I knew everybody is dead and they knocked me out."

The detectives were intently listening. "So what happened next?" The detectives asked the girl who was on the verge of tears.

She starts to cry. "Thats when I met you guys". Her crying fills the room as the detectives tries to console her.

"Really now?" Kei smirks. "What if I refuse?"

"I don't think you will" The proper looking one smiles. "By the way how rude I have been, my name is Saito and my associate over there." He points to the sloppy looking one. "His name is Ryuhi" Saito extends his hand to shake Kei's hands.

Kei looks at his hand and stares at it for a second. However Kei turns his back and looks at Tae. "So what do you want to do today?"

Saito now sees how difficult Kei could be. As the happy couple walks away he yells out.

"Some nights ago you witnessed a great power and since then you have been wanting that power do you not Mr. Kurono?"

Kei stops in his tracks. "Whats wrong Kurono-kun?" Tae asks worriedly. Kei did not know how they knew his desires. Indeed he wanted the kind of power Yusuke showed.

"Tae I'm really sorry but I don't think I can go on that date afterall." Kei's face turned serious and Tae knew Kei wasn't joking around. "Go one home ahead of me for now." Kei sends his girlfriend home.

"So you finally understand huh?" Ryuhi teases Kei as Tae leaves. Kei turns around. "How?" Kei is confused and interested at the same time. He has never felt this feeling before. "How did you guys know?"

"I have my sources Mr. Kurono." Saito reassures Kei. "Please follow us" Saito leads the trio to an isolated back alley. Saito stops.

"Mr Kurono, do you trust me?" Kei seems to be confused as to why they stopped at such a shady place. "Huh what did you say?"

"I said, why did you trust us so easily Mr. Kurono?" Saito reiterates the question as he pulls out a knife.

"Hmmmm I see what you guys are doing." Kei finally realizes what is happening. These people are one of those fanatics on the internet who wants to know more about GANTZ.

"Oh let me reassure you Mr. Kurono we don't want the suit, what we want is you." Saito starts to walk towards Kurono slowly as Kei prepares to fight.

"Heh fuck off man, I will kill you right here right now." Kei takes off his sweatshirt to reveal the Gantz suit. He almost never leaves home without wearing it, it became a second skin to him.

Kei then swings to hit Saito right in the face, however Saito disappears. Kei starts to turn around, but before he knew it, he felt cold steel penetrate his body, he lost count after the 13th stab. Kei falls to the ground, bleeding.

"Woooooh daaaayum Saito you didn't have to stab him 57 times" Ryuhi says laughing. "It was 60 times actually" Saito says cleaning the blood off of his knife as he sheaths it.

Kei is now delirious as he lays dying on the ground. He thought that anytime now GANTZ would transfer him and all his injuries would be healed but no such salvation came.

"See you on the afterlife Mr. Kurono." Saito's words were the last things Kei hears.