- Koto: What is wrong with the Urameshi team? Have they forgotten how to throw a punch? How to do anything but run like sissies? Give us an offense.
- Shizuru Kuwabara: They're going to lose this round. It'd be a hard match even if Yusuke and my brother were fighting with everything they have, but they're not. They just feel too sorry for these guys.
- Dr. Ichigaki: [laughing] I can imagine the fun my robot's having right now with Hiei and Kurama. Against their statistics his percentage of victory was just over 80%. Yes! All my inventions are doing splendidly. My varuki most of all. Millions of micro-electronics pumping through their blood, controlling the nearby cells. The circulatory system reaches a human's every inch. Control the blood and the body is yours.
- Koto: In a selfless act unprecedented in the Dark Tournament, the masked fighter has taken a direct hit from M3 in order to save his teammate. Naturally I'll go check on the gruesomeness of his injuries.
- Sakyo: You should read our history books. We humans have always found brutalizing each other to hold a certain charm.
- Dr. Ichigaki: Give my invention its credit, dear boy. It's scientifically impossible for a person to resist the control of the varuka.
- Kazuma Kuwabara: They're good people, Botan. They'd never do this if they were given the choice. When the doctor found them, they were really upset and vulnerable... All they wanted was to be with their master. Ichigaki acted like it was just a little thing and then they'd be back together... I bet he never told 'em they'd be forced to murder, and that they'd never see their master again. It wasn't fair.
- Yusuke Urameshi: Stupid troll doctor! Ugly people shouldn't be allowed to smile that much.
- Koto: Hiei and Kurama, can you tell us where you've been?
- Hiei: Sorry. A thirty foot killing machine wanted a word with us.
- Kurama: Those veruki on the human fighters' backs are the source of Dr. Ichigaki's mind control. And in their present state I'm afraid it would be fatal to remove them.
- Dr. Ichigaki: You're unscientific minds are so trivial, fully blind to the larger picture. So maybe I DID infect Mitamura, maybe I lied to get their bodies, and maybe I enjoyed it. Who cares? Behind every lab discovery are a few poisoned rats.
- Genkai: Stop and think, boys. He's manipulating your emotions. You're losing what little focus you have.
- Yusuke Urameshi: I don't care if it's a trap or not - his troll ass is meeting my foot!
- Yusuke Urameshi: [to the fighters blocking Dr. Ichigaki] Give me a break! You're still protecting this guy?
- Kazuma Kuwabara: Come on, guys, at least say something. You heard the doctor himself. He doesn't care about...
- Dr. Ichigaki: [laughs] Have you learned nothing yet? Nothing you say can matter. Their old selves aren't in control. As the blood from the veruka enters the subject's skull, the micro-electronics alter their brain's chemistry. Their entire personality is changed. This isn't a simple hypnosis or once-suggested command. I'm talking about a constant voice in their head and, every waking moment, controlling them from the inside. They're not protecting me because I've given the command. Their new brain actually wants to.
- Kazuma Kuwabara: Their old selves haven't been erased, just covered up.
- Ogre: That boy is too kind-hearted for this tournament.
- Koenma: There comes a time when everyone has to stand up for what they believe in. Kuwabara may just have stood on the wrong foot.
- Yusuke Urameshi: These guys must be in a war with their own bodies, and they're losing.
- Yusuke Urameshi: [charging up his spirit gun] I'd say this is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you, but I don't like to lie.