Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
1997 vol. 3; episode no. 13
Translation by Yuki-chan

At Ryuji's place early morning.

Tsukasa: "E? Toshi and Sho hadn't come home since last night?"

Taku: "Last night I got a call from them at work asking me if it's okay to get another job. I didn't agree with it, but they said that they'll check it out when they were finished... I haven't heard from them since."

Kaya, looking worried: "Apparently, there's been a lot of that lately... Youths disappearing after being introduced to some job... Maybe Toshiyuki-kun and Shohei-kun..."

Tsukasa: "...What kind of job is it?"

Kaya: "I'm not really sure but... Something about modelling... with a minimum of half a million for one time..."

Tsukasa recalls the business card that she got from Izushi and Yabu.

Taku: "I don't know where they can be reached since that's all we know...."

Tsukasa: "Wait a minute... Hey Kamo-san, do you still have that plate card I had yesterday?"

Kamo-san: "E?" He fishes around his pockets. "This one?"

Tsukasa: "Yeah, that one. Okay, let's go call them. Umm... Sun Road Modeling Club... The phone number is..." [These business cards (plate cards as they call them) are really cool. It's like a mini computer like those really thin calculators.]

Taku, who's standing behind Tsukasa: "...Tsukasa... What happened to your face? " He noticed the bandage on her cheek.

Tsukasa: "This? Oh yesterday..." She stops all of the sudden. "...I got scratched by a cat." {I can't tell him I was grazed by a bullet... I'll worry him even more...}

Kaya: "You seem to get scratched by cats a lot." {Didn't you say that before?}

Tsukasa: "Yeah, I'm not on good terms with that cat."

Taku: "....." He turns to look at Ryuji, who stares right back.

"The number you have reached is no longer in service. Please check the number and try your call again. The number you have reached..."

Tsukasa: "Takunii..."

Taku: "...Huh...?"

Tsukasa: "Maybe we should call the police...?"

They get in contact with the police. [The phones they use are the types with a display so that you could see who you're talking to.]

Officer: "What? Kids not coming home after going to work? Oh, there's been a lot of that lately in the last 2-3 days."

Taku: "They supposedly went to a modeling club called Sun Road, but when I called, the number was out of service. Could you check it out to see if there's a connection?"

Officer: "...Isn't it just that the place went out of business?" Well we're looking in on the case, so if I could just have your name and number..."

Tsukasa gets up all of the sudden, looking very pissed.

Kamo-san: "Tsukasa-san, where are you going? It's too early for school."

She ignores them and continues on her way. {What was that? What was that? And we rely on police like that?} She recalls the officer on the phone. "You bastard!! Were you really intending on seriously listening to us!!?" She starts yelling and beating up an invisible person. "You're not the cop I'm ever gonna want to be!!" {What's he gonna do if something happens to Toshi and Sho...} She calms down and starts running for the door.

Kamo-san: "...She's always ready to go..."

Ryuji: "She's the type to take action before thinking... ...I bet she didn't even think about what may happen. How troublesome..."

Kamo-san: "...Does that mean... that you're going as well Sandaime?"

Ryuji: "...Hook me up with Ginza's Aura Garden." [Ginza is an area in Tokyo]

Tsukasa reaches the place where Sun Road Modeling Club is situated, but the door doesn't open.

Tsukasa: "Shit!" She kicks the door, but it doesn't budge. She leans on the door, wondering what to do next. {Aa--ah! There's nobody here, what now?}

The door suddenly opens and she falls back. A man with several boxes comes out.

Man: "! What are you doing here?"

Tsukasa: "I want to become a model."

The man walks past her: "Sorry, but we have enough guys."

Tsukasa: "I'm a girl!!"

The man: "Liar. I said we don't need any guys."

Tsukasa: "No, really, I'm a girl." {I don't care anymore. It's for Toshi and Sho. Sorry Mom. Sorry Dad!}

Woman on the phone: "Ryuji-kun~~ I haven't talked to you in ages! You never come over anymore. Oh, I forgot, you're Kuryugumi's third kumicho now."

Ryuji: "...Forget the formalities. Kawara, has there been anything happening in Ginza?" [Kawara is a last name.]

Kawara (the woman): "Legal or illegal?"

Ryuji: "...Why would I ask you about legal?"

Kawara: "Don't get ma~~d! I haven't talked to you in a~~ges."

Ryuji: "Sorry, but I'm short on time. Hurry and give me the information."

Kawara: "Fine, but come to our next function okay?"

Ryuji: "Okay, okay."

Kawara, muttering: "Does he really mean that?"

The screen is soon filled with dates and times for the illegal happenings of the next while. Kamo-san is looking over Ryuji's shoulder.

Kamosan: "They're still big in the news. Gambling above ground, black market underground, just like last year. Is there anything left this year?" Ryuji scrolls up. "There! For today. Pandora's Box at the Golden Castle Club. It's been 2 years since they last came out. You don't even know what they're selling until you go. From rumours, I've heard that they had rare and exotic animals frozen and preserved as living art."

Ryuji: "....."

Kamo-san: "Sandaime?"

Ryuji: "What."

Kamo-san: "Wasn't there something on the news then about famous people's pets disappearing from kennels and other places around the same time?"

Ryuji, sighing: "Kamojima."

Kamo-san: "Hai?" [Hai = yes]

Ryuji: "Get the car ready. We're going out." {That girl. So troublesome....}

In the basement of Golden Castle in Ginza.

Man 1: "Did you get enough of them?"

Man 2: "We found enough men but we're a little short on women."

Man 1: "What? No deal if there's not enough."

Man 3: "I'm sure you'll find them of good quality though."

Man 1: "Let's take a look."

They look into a locked room full of girls of varying ages. They're all dressed in the same outfit, a tight fitting, short, off-the-shoulder dress. One girl in particular catches the man's eye. She has loooooooong black hair [that would reach the floor if she stood] and dark eyes. It's Tsukasa. [Yes, in a dress, and wearing a wig.]

Man 1: "OK. OK. Let's enter into negotiations!" He says this in English. He skips away happily.

Man 2: "What did he say?" Man 3 translates.

Man 2: "...What's with him?"

Man 3: "He likes the traditional type of Japanese with long black hair."

Man 2: "Whatever. Well we can sell now."

Tsukasa: {Sell? Trading people? That gaijin said something about the deal being done. Does that mean we're going to be sold off to him? Or could it mean we'll be sold out of the country... I gotta get out of here!!} [Gaijin = foreigner]

Voice 1: "...Toshi~~~ Do you think we'll be sold to some other country~~?"

Voice 2: "Sounds something like that..."

Voice 1: "No~~ We should have listened to Takunii after all---..."

Tsukasa: {E? In the next cage!! Toshi and Sho!?}

She's about to call out their names when she notices a guy with keys just outside her cage. She decides to try and charm him with a real strange lie. Pretending she has a weak heart, she tries to get the guy to come in and massage her chest. Sho: "...Could it be my imagination... Toshi... Doesn't that voice kind of... sound like Tsukasa's.....?" They're leaning against the wall right by the door.

Toshi: "...You must be hearing things... Tsukasa wouldn't be in a place like this and plus she wouldn't be talking like how girls normally do..."

Tsukasa manages to entice the guy to opening the room where she was held. Knocking him out, she opens the next room where Toshi, Sho and other guys were being held. All of them are wearing the same type of pants and shirt.

Tsukasa: "Toshi, Sho, are you here!?" [Wow! Her hair really does touch the ground!]

Toshi and Sho: "Tsukasa!!!" They embrace in a hug.

Tsukasa, scolding but with tears in her eyes: "Why the heck did you come to a place like this without listening to Takunii?"

Sho, with tears in his eyes: "...Because..." He brushes the hair away to reveal the bullet wound she had gotten yesterday. "...We saw you... getting hit by a bullet..."

Toshi: "...We thought that if we didn't hurry and get you away from Sandaime's side as bodyguard..."

Sho: "You'd die or something... So we thought to make a lot of money and..."

Tsukasa with tears in her eyes, hugging them both: "...Baka..."

She suddenly notices someone staring her right in the face.

Yabu: "....."

Izushi: "...Are you really Tsukasa!?" {Cross dressing?}

Tsukasa: "Izushi and Yabu!? You too!?"

Izushi: {Wow it is Tsukasa.} "Hey what's w-w-with these breasts? They look real." He goes to grab them.

Tsukasa: {Forget about that!} "WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!"

Izushi: "Oh yeah."

In the lobby of the Golden Castle Club.

Bartender: "...Welcome... What would you like?"

Someone, placing a special coin on the counter: "---A caricature." The coin has the word 'caricature' carved into it.

Bartender: "...Please make yourself at home as this will take a moment."

Another server: "...Please, this way."

Ryuji: "...Aaah."

Using the keys Tsukasa got off the man, they sneak into a hallway. Her wig is so long that she has Toshi, who's behind her, carrying her hair so that he won't step on it. The other guys and girls follow closely.

Tsukasa: {If we meet with anyone we'll have to fight our way through...} They see bright light coming from a doorway. {The way out...!?}

They round the corner and see several glass cases with very human like statues.

"...Are these all... people...?"

Tsukasa notices that each case has a machine hooked up to it. {...They're alive...}

Toshi: "Tsukasa! There's the elevators!!"

Tsukasa: "Normal and freight..." {If we use the one for freight then maybe we can get out of here without running into anybody.} She presses the button, opening the door. "Everyone, hurry and get in. Toshi, Sho, go up with everyone."

Sho: "E?"

Toshi: "What about you!?"

Tsukasa: "I'm going to free these people."

Sho: "But!"

Toshi: "Then I'll stay behind too! I can't leave you here alone!"

Tsukasa: "You guys go to the police!! Get out of here and bring the police! That's your job!!"

Toshi and Sho: "...Tsuka..."

Suddenly, the other elevator door opens and 2 men step out.

Tsukasa: "Yabu!! Shut the door---!!"

Startled, he does and as the doors begin to close, Tsukasa shoves her brothers in.

While the doors shut, Toshi and Sho see her turn to leave.