Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
1996 vol. 20; episode no. 7
Translation by Yuki
Images scanned and edited by Yuki

The next morning. Ryuji enters Asago's room.

Text pointing to the window as a left sails through it: An open window.

Text beside the hand holding a slipper: A slipper Asago left behind.

Text beside Tsukasa's dangling chain: The chain that Tsukasa left behind.

Text: The guy who was left behind.

Ryuji: "...What's going on...." {Where did the two of them go?}

He notices a holographic disk addressed to him. "---..."

The members of Sumongumi had gather to view the message. The holograph is of the guy.

Holograph: "---Hey you guys from Kuryugumi. Are all the manuke heads here? Sorry for the suddenness, but I have Sumon Asago. If you want her back, then you must come to this place I have chosen. The deal is through... Kuryugumi Sandaime, Shirogami Ryuji." The image points.

Sumon starts and looks around the room for Ryuji. He then fixes the machine so that the image is facing Ryuji.

Holograph: "You must come alone. If we detect anyone else, then we'll send Asago to the other world by express. You have until 10 am. At 10, she'll be dead. Of course, I'll video tape it for you, but I want you to see it live so come before then."

Sumon glances at his watch: "...Th... There's less than 2 hours left. We don't even know where to start looking... That's impossible."

The image: "About the place... Since it's no fun if I tell you, I won't."

Sumon takes out his gun and is about to shoot the machine. His kumiin move to stop him.

Kumiin: "Kumicho! Calm down, calm down!!"

The image: "---But I'll give you at least a keyword. The keyword is... betrayal."

Ryuji starts.

Image: "Just knowing that should tell you where we are. If Miss Asago is important to you then don't be late, Shirogami Ryu..." Ryuji turns off the machine.

Ryuji: "The bastard... I knew I couldn't get to like that guy...." {What does he think he's doing?}

Some of the kumiin: "What!? Sandaime! You already thought this guy was suspicious?" {Wow!}

Ryuji: {That's not what I meant... but... oh well...}

Sumon, turning to his kumiin: "Still, how come of all nights, nobody was doing a screen check? What do you think the hidden cameras were for?" There's an image of the guy flashing a victory sign at one of the cameras.

Kumiin: "Sorry...." {Since it was rather busy......} They all hang their heads in shame.

Sumon: "Wait a minute... Could it be that they attacked me to plan something like this? Sandaime, forgive me. It seems that there's a traitor among my group......"

Ryuji: "It may be too early for you to be disappointed."

Sumon: "...Ha...?"

Ryuji: "Where was it that the guy who killed my father planned my assassination?" All the kumiin start. "There's no time. I'll leave now."

Sumon: "A! Sandaime, I'll go too. Can't rely on..."

Ryuji turns to glare at Sumon "......"

Sumon: "No! I wasn't talking about you Sandaime! I'd never..."

Ryuji: "....She's all right. Believe in your own daughter." {She's okay. As long as she's with Asago.} "......" He sees Tsukasa's face in his mind. {------Tsukasa... protect Asago will you---...}

Tsukasa's image talks back to him. "What? Wait a minute---!"

Ryuji: "I'm counting on you." He turns away from the image he sees.

Kamo-san: "Sandaime, what will you be taking?"

Ryuji: "I'll go by car."

Kamo-san: "Huh? You could drive?"

Ryuji: "No, not at all."

Kamo-san: "What!?"

Somewhere else.

Tsukasa: "WAIT A MINUTE-----!!!!" She wakes up. "What... Oh it was a dream." {And what an awful dream it was.} "I don't know what was going on but I was some prince of some kingdom of the middle ages and at 12 midnight, I suddenly turn back into a girl. And then these people come after me to kill me and when I escape I drop this glass slipper. I finally manage to get away spending my life as bodyguard to Ryuji when these guys come back with the glass slipper and then Ryuji goes and sells me off for 300 000 000 yen!!!" That's when she woke up. She starts yelling.

Asago: "You...I can't believe you have such a dream and can be so emotional about it."

Tsukasa: "!!? Asago? What are you doing? Why are you posted up there against the wall?"

Asago: "Well you are too." [Don't know what it is but Asago and Tsukasa are handcuffed and strapped up in a standing position.]

Tsukasa: "What the hell is this!? I thought it was kind of tight here!" She looks down at herself and realizes that she can't move.

Asago: {Ryuji, why did make such a manuke person your bodyguard?} "!!" [Manuke = dumb, stupid]

Tsukasa: "What's wrong?"

Asago: "...Nothing. I feel sick and I feel like throwing up."

Tsukasa: "Were you hit?" {I think I may have been hit too...... My head hurts.}

Asago: "...It was due my own inexperience...! Don't sympathize, it makes it more pathetic!"

Tsukasa: "..But hey, you are a girl..."

Asago: "Didn't I tell you that I have my pride to become Ryuji's seisai!? Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean that I can be spoiled!!!"

Tsukasa, surprised: "...You want to become Ryuji's seisai that much?"

Asago: "Yes... Because... I loved Ryuji since I was little..." {...From a long time ago......}

Voice: "...H~~~~~~~~~o...! So you actually love him do you?" Some guys enter. One of them is the dark haired kid.

Tsukasa: "You..."

The guy: "Well if you didn't, it wouldn't be as fun..."

Asago: "You!! You betrayed us!!?"

The guy: "I didn't betray you... I was planning on doing something like this in the first place. I could have killed your father if it weren't for that excellent bodyguard of his."

Tsukasa is happy for some reason. {I'm happy for you Aoki. He says you're excellent. See you're not worthless after all.} She has tears in her eyes. [Aoki is the bodyguard who protected Sumon and is now in a coma.]

The guy: "...But then again, we were able to capture you, who we're going to use as bait."

Asago: "Bait...!?"

Tsukasa: {Ha! I shouldn't be rejoicing at a time like this.}

Asago: "...What are you planning...!!?"

The guy: "Seisai. In this world (of the gokudo) it's an important role isn't it? They say that if she dies, then the husband is no longer sane. Though it didn't hurt my father at all, I wonder what he (Shirogami Ryuji) will think... Doesn't it interest you?" He takes out a knife and approaches Asago. Using it, he flings off a button on her outfit. [She's wearing a long sleeved, long gown, probably her pyjamas, that has buttons down the front.]

Asago: "!"

Somewhere on the road.

Splash!!

Ryuji: "---..."

Washer fluid streams down the windshield.

Text: Pressed the lever to turn on the washer fluid instead of the turn signal.

Ryuji: {...Darn... I missed the left turn...}

Text pointing to Ryuji: He thinks that the car won't turn unless you put the turn signal on.

He pictures Kamo-san coaching him before he got into the car.

Kamo-san, earlier: "Make sure you activate the blinker when you're going to make a turn, otherwise you'll surprise the person in the car behind you."

Text pointing to Kamo-san: A kind yakuza.

Ryuji: {Let's reverse and try again.} He stomps on the break. {Ummm... Was it this one?}

Text: Sudden braking.

Crash!!

He gets slammed into the steering wheel, hitting the horn.

Text: He'd taken off the seat belt earlier.

"Oh my God! I'll never be able to pay for this even if I worked for life!!" A guy gets out of his car behind Ryuji and starts panicking.

Ryuji's confused now. {Let's just hit all these buttons.) He rolls down the roof of the car and suddenly, there is enka music blaring. [Enka is a traditional style of Japanese singing.]

The radio: "It's now 9:20 am"

Ryuji starts panicking even more. He floors the car into reverse, crushing all the cars in the way.

Back where Asago and Tsukasa are held captive. The guy just avoids getting smashed in the head with an empty bottle.

The guy: "You... Do you want to die?"

Tsukasa, glaring back: "Don't you lay a finger on Asago." She's balancing an empty beer bottle on her foot. Asago looks surprised at her outburst.

The guy: "Hmmm... By any chance are you in love with this girl?"

Asago: "Wha!?"

Tsukasa: "N.. No! I just...!!"

Asago: "Stop joking around! This guy isn't my type!!"

Tsukasa: "I just don't want to see a girl being hurt...!" {As a fellow female......}

The guy: "...... ...Hmmm... I've always loved doing things people hated..." He activates a switch on the wall and releases Asago from the bindings.

The guy: "I was thinking of bludgeoning you to death and damaging Shirogami Ryuji emotionally, but there are other ways of inflicting damage."

Asago: "!" {...This guy...!}

Guy: "Seisai... Even if she's 'violated' would you still call her a seisai?"

Three guys surround Asago and move to remove her outfit.

Asago: "You've got to be kidding!!" She breaks free from their grasps. {Are they using me to get at Ryuji!!? No way! I don't want to drag him down!!} "Who are you? Using such filthy ways to get at Ryuji...!"

The guy: "...Oh... me...? I'm Hizaki. Hizaki Tooya. I'm planning taking over after Hizaki Sakae as the top gokudo in the Kanto region."

Tsukasa and Asago's mouths drop in surprise.

Tsukasa: "Hizaki!? You're that tako's son?"

Tsukasa's black book appears.

Text/Narration by Tsukasa: Hizaki Sakae. Kanto area's no. 2 in the gokudo world. Hizakigumi's kumicho. Nickname Tako. Views Kuryugumi as a rival. The ring leader behind the plot that killed my parents and Ryuji's father!! Loves jewels and young girls.

Asago: "Hizaki doesn't have a son......!" {I've checked it though.} "Hizaki no longer has a seisai and even among his past lovers..."

Tooya interrupts her. "That's because I'm a gaki he produced with a girl as a one night thing while at play (rape)."

Tsukasa: "Asagooo!!"

Asago: "!?"

The guys suddenly attack her from behind.

Tsukasa: "Asago---!"

Asago: "Wha!? What are you doing!? Stop it you bakayaro---!

Tsukasa turns to Tooya. "Hey! You!"

Tooya: "The tako said that he'd recognize me as his real son if I killed Shirogami Ryuji. So to be quite honest, my name's not 'Hizaki' yet but who cares. Oh, that's right, I have to show Shirogami Ryuji this before he leaves for the other world so I better do this right." He fiddles with a camcorder. "I want this to be a good picture. I can't wait to see Shirogami-kun's face when he sees this." He sits in a chair leaning on the back watching the scene open before him.

Tsukasa: "Stop them---!!"

Tooya: "I feel happy when I see others unhappy." He doesn't turn to glance at her.

A vein pops out on Tsukasa's head. "!!! Ka-------!!!" Although she's still stuck, she starts kicking all the empty beer bottles at the guy, knocking him off the chair.

Tooya: "...Y..." He turns with his gun in his hand. "You! Die!!"

Suddenly, a huge chunk of concrete nabs him right in his face. He falls, unconscious.

Tsukasa (who's suddenly in dog form), shaking her right leg: "Piiii My toes, my toes~~~" She wails with tears in her eyes.

Asago: "Iyaaaa!!!!!"

Tsukasa starts. {Asago!!}

Asago: "S Stop it---! ......!!" {No......! NO......!} Her wrists are uncuffed and the guys move to violate her. {I can't even be of help to Ryuji, and I can't even protect myself... I can't stand this anymore. How pathetic. I'm so pathetic...} Her outfit is torn from the neck down. {Ryuji---!!!} She has tears in her eyes and she gives up fighting.

Tsukasa, who's looking on in horror suddenly yells. "Bakayaro!! Asago!! Don't give up to something like that------------!! Didn't you say you had your pride being Ryuji's seisai!? Don't give up!!!!" She has tears in her eyes as well. [Bakayaro = stupid]

The words her father had said to her echoes in her mind. "If you're embarrassed then hurry up and become a worthy seisai candidate for Sandaime."

Asago starts fighting back. "Let go of me you bastards! You! You! You!"

Guy 1: "Ow!"

Guy 2: "Bakayaro! Hold her down properly!"

Guy 3: "So you say but! Ow!"

Tsukasa is meanwhile trying to get herself loose. {If I could just reach that switch... I shouldn't have used all those bottles...} She tries in vain to reach for one of the bottles on the floor. Suddenly, she realizes she still has her shoes on. {......Oo!}

Guy 1: "You bitch---! You're gonna die sooner or later!" He slaps her.

Asago: "...!"

Guy 2: "So don't struggle!"

Guy 3: "I'm surprised that you're wanna do a gaki so young." {I prefer them a bit more ripe.}

Guy ?: "Well even if she's a gaki, she's still a girl." {I'm second eh?}

A figure stands before the group of guys.

One of the guys: "N?"

Although her hands are still cuffed, Tsukasa looks like she's ready to kill. She stands behind a guy. A freaky aura surrounds her.

Tsukasa: "Would you like me to tell you what I hate the most? ...Rape... murder... Hizakigumi!!!!"

One of the men: "That's not our motto...!"

Tsukasa: "Shut up!" She starts beating them up. "Asago, get away! Hurry!" Asago dashes off.

One of the guys: "A! Wait!!"

Tsukasa slams two of the guys together.

Guy 1: "...You... gaki~~~"

Guy 2: "Think you're so big or something?"

Four men surround Tsukasa, their guns pointed at her.

Guy: "I've heard that you're Shirogami Ryuji's special bodyguard. I'll have you die a death that'll give him nightmares for the rest of his life!!"

Tsukasa starts laughing and pounding the floor: "Nice try, but I'm just a bodyguard." {And not just a bodyguard but really JUST a bodyguard.} "Hurting me won't affect Ryuji at all...." She laughs. "---..." A shadow falls over her as she crouches on the floor, feeling depressed. (T_T)

One of the men: "Hey, he's getting hurt by his own words..." He sweatdrops.

Tsukasa stops. {---...Well let's put that aside for awhile shall we?} "Right now, escaping has its priorities! Tornado Crush!!!" She spin kicks them all, spinning so much that it makes her dizzy. {Ooh, I shouldn't have done that.} Her legs look like jelly.

Asago's running down a hallway.

Asago: "Ow!" She stumbles to the floor. {...I've cut my foot...} She looks around at her surroundings. {...Red cross...... This is remains of a Red Cross hospital...}

In the background, Tsukasa is slowly wobbling towards her. {Ohhh I feel sick.}

Asago: {Wait a minute... wasn't this the same place that Hizaki chose to try and assassinate Ryuji in the past.....}

They hear footsteps and they stop and stare in disbelief.

Asago: "H........."

Tsukasa: {...H......... Hizaki~~~~~~!!!}

Meanwhile somewhere on the roads.

Ryuji's sitting in the car and there's a car horn blaring at him. "......"

He's head to head with a car in the middle of a street. "Hey guy! This is a one way street! Move back! Move back!"

Ryuji: "..." The music is still blaring away.