Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
2000 vol. 5, episode no. 74
Translation by Yuki-chan
First image from the Hana to Yume website, other 2 scanned in by Venkarel

The episode title page is a double spread with Tsukasa in the centre, Ryuji in a panel above her and Misumi below her. It's very red.

Text: The end of the century... Two great men clash over a single goddess......!! [end of the century!!!? It's 2021 in TCP!!!]

Clan head: "The man with the scar on his forehead and the other young one!"

Clan head: "Get those two to talk about Ayabe Wakasa's daughter!!"

Tsukasa, in panic: {...Th....... They're gonna find ou~~~t!!} She sways visibly, doing a silent scream. She grabs a nearby chair and heads for the oyajis. {W...! Waitwaitwaitwait you oyajis~~~!! Okay the leader is...!! I'm going to do it...!!" She raises the chair when a voice interrupts her action.

Ryuji: "What's all the racket?"

Asago: "......A"

Ryuji appears with his left arm in a sling: "Quiet." {You guys are making so much noise.}

Tsukasa breathes a sigh of relief: {...Ryuji...} "...Th... Thank good..." She then notices his arm. {...Ryuji...... Your arm......}

Ryuji catches sight of Asago: "......"

Asago: "...Ryuji..."

Tsukasa: "..."

Asago: "...I'm sorry. ...I heard about you... and I... couldn't sit still...... ...Your orders..." [Remember, Ryuji told Asago not to enter Kuryugumi grounds. I think it was more like a way of releasing her from her duty as seisai, since the engagement is broken off... Clan heads obviously took that as a direct order, that Asago should not be seen on Kuryugumi grounds at all.]

Ryuji: "---... ...Looks like I worried you........." He pats Asago on the head.

Asago: "......!"

Ryuji: "...It's nothing big."

Meiko, sarcastically: "...Only a 15 cm gash that damaged the 'muscle that extends all your fingers' so much that your fingers didn't move......" [Sorry, I'm not in med so I'm not sure what this muscle is called, though I do remember 'extensor carpi radius' from high school... It may be something else.]

Tsukasa freaks inside: {!! ...A... That time......!!} She recalls during the fight that a guy had slashed at Ryuji's arm. {Then, at that time too---...} She remembers how Ryuji had fallen on top of her when the door closed, trapping the drugged people in the chapel [before the nama chichi incident] .{---He was hiding it from me again, tricking me like that------!!} She pouts. {Since he looked fine and did such a stupid thing like that I thought it wasn't such a bad wound!! If it hurt and if he said so, I wouldn't have been so rough------!! And then I wouldn't have beaten Ryuji enough to have Kamo-san call me a devil!!} [She's kinda rambling here so if it doesn't make sense it's not my fault.]

The clan heads murmur among themselves.

Ryuji, looking slightly pissed: "...I told you not to say..."

Asago: "...Ryuji... Is it true?"

Meiko whistles away: "Wh~y not? Sandaime, you try to carry all burdens on your shoulders."

Ryuji: "It's no big deal."

Tsukasa looks sad: "......!" {...You---...!} She's about to step forward.

Asago: "...Ryuji... will it heal...? It will heal right...?"

Ryuji: "Aa. Nothing to worry about."

Asago: "...Thank goodness..."

Tsukasa starts and glances behind her, noticing the clan heads. "......"

The clan heads are murmuring again.

"The wound on his arm?"

"It seems bad."

"But it's Sandaime........."

Asago: "I know the pain when your arm doesn't move like how you want it to... So when it gets bad, tell me and let me help..."

Ryuji: "...All right... I'll remember that......"

Asago wraps her hands around Ryuji's waist: "...Ryuji......!"

Ryuji holds Asago with his good arm. Tsukasa stares in surprise.

Tsukasa: "------..."

Ryuji pats Asago on the head again. "...I'm fine. Don't worry."

Tsukasa looks jealous: "......"

"That's what I was going to do~~~~"

Tsukasa: "......!"

Meiko: "...That's the face you have right now." She smiles slyly.

Tsukasa: "...W... What are you talking about?" She tries to look cute.

Meiko: "Don't joke around. When the guy you fall for is hurt you want to hold him. You want to ease his pain."

Tsukasa: "-----..." She remembers when she did exactly just that. [The cute scene where Tsukasa hugged Ryuji from behind.]

Meiko, lecturing: "It's natural to feel like that."

Tsukasa: {---...I know---...}

Meiko: "Since you're a girl---..."

Tsukasa: {...But---... in front of the oyajis, I can't do something like that.} She remembers when Meiko had told her that it would be kakkowarui if it was let out that Ryuji was close with a guy. {---...That's right, not just among the clans or the kumiins, but the Shirogami-Ryuji-is-a-homo story would pass around in the gokudo network and his status will go down big time!! No matter where he goes, he'll be ridiculed!!} [Note, in Japan, they say someone is a 'homo', and not 'gay']

Tsukasa does a one person play.

For example, at a banquet.

Tsukasa transforms into some oyaji. "Sandaime, we have some goo~~d entertainment lined up today." [Yes, meaning women...]

Tsukasa transforms into Ryuji holding a drink: "......"

Tsukasa, back as the oyaji: "Oh forgive me, Sandaime prefers beep with a guy more than beep with a woman."

The oyaji laughs heartily, as do a bunch of other oyajis, all portrayed by Tsukasa.

Tsukasa: "It'll definitely become something like that------!! I can't let something like that happen---!! Damn you oyajis---!!" She's doing a one person fight now, kicking at the air. Seems like she's alone all of the sudden, and outside.

"---I'm sa~ying that you should stop dressing like a guy." Meiko's words cross Tsukasa's mind.

Tsukasa's fist is in mid-air. "......" The sliced open protector is dangling from her elbow. {...I can't do that ... 'Kozuki Tsukasa' is a boy. For me to abandon my style now to live as a girl... seems like I'm destroying 'Kozuki Tsukasa'---... as if I'm acknowledging that I'm 'Wakasa's' daughter----... It's seems I can no longer be myself---...} "...I don't want that......" {I don't want to return to being a girl...} "I can't return---..." {---...But... ---...but......} She remembers how Asago had just hugged Ryuji.

Somewhere else in Kuryugumi.

Clan head: "Sandaime!!"

"The story about the Hogou's seisai having a daughter!"

"The kage no seisai's daughter!"

"The rumour that she has something that we can use to counter Garyukai!"

"We should hurry and find her!"

"Sandaime, we should begin the search!"

"We heard the man with the scar on his forehead and the young man talking about the 'daughter'!"

Ryuji and Asago are walking along with a trail of clan heads. Both of them are trying to ignore the noise around them.

Ryuji: {...... ...How noisy.}

Kyuragi: "Sandaime, we have to press those 2 about the 'daughter'!!"

Ryuji finally starts: "...Stay out of this." [Not a direct translation]

Mooka: "What do you mean 'stay out of this'? If we find out where this 'daughter' is then we may have in our hands a way to defeat Garyukai!!"

Usui: "That's right Sandaime! Once we gain everything those 2 know about the 'daughter' then we will,"

Ryuji: "...I said... I'll handle the business with 'Wakasa's daughter'..." He turns to the clan heads with one of his menacing looks.

Text that's curling around Ryuji: ...That's what I'm saying! Keep out of this or I'll kill you uh?......

Mooka: "...So it seems he's saying." {By his aura.}

Usui: "...But..."

Kyuragi: "...Though he says so,"

Kawazoe: "This isn't,"

A clan head: "Just Sandaime's,"

Another clan head: "Personal matter."

Another clan head: "......"

Text below the clan heads who are now some distance behind Ryuji and Asago: If we take too long then wouldn't Garyukai beat us to it......?

Away from the clan heads, Ryuji lets out a sigh.

Ryuji: "......"

Asago, dreamily: "...The kage no seisai's 'daughter'~~~..."

Ryuji looks sideways at her suspiciously.

Asago: "I've never seen Hogou's kage no seisai in real life but I've al~~~ways admired her. Her (the kage no seisai's) daughter is probably like her mother and has amazing fighting powers." She puts her hands together, and for some reason there are flowers around her.

Ryuji: {...Well rather un-human in that sense......}

Asago, now with her eyes closed: "And she's probably compassionate, beautiful, stylish, the very image of the gokudo's wife,"

Ryuji, interrupting her: "Asago. ...You shouldn't spin such images in your head......" {Not to be mean or anything......}

Asago with round eyes: "Oh... Why?"

Ryuji: "Because you may want to take all that you've just said back..." {Knowing you...}

Asago: "?" There are question marks popping around her head. "Speaking of disappearing, I wonder where Baka-zuki went?" [Okay, this doesn't make sense. The phrase that I translated as 'take that back' isn't a direct translation and Ryuji actually used a word that can mean 'nullify' or 'disappear'.]

Ryuji: "..."

Asago: "Leaving an injured person alone like this that cold hearted person!"

Ryuji, not looking too happy: "......" [Pouting?]

Asago thinks for a moment: {...Cold hearted---...} She remembers how Tsukasa had heel dropped on Kyuragi's head. "......" {...She didn't have to help me. Doing that...! Baka-zuki you baka good-natured person---!!} [Yeah, yeah, good-natured person isn't the best translation in the world but that's what my dictionary insists. But I can't think of a word that describes someone that moves for others without being asked, and goes out of his/her way to do things that benefit others, unselfish etc.]

In another room in Kuryugumi.

Shiki stares down.

Tsubaki glares right back.

Shiki: "...What you gaki... You still have a problem?" He's lounging on a sofa.

Tsubaki: "...... I understand your relation to Azuma and the reason why he should yubitsume. But that's the past! Azuma is now one of our (Kadokawa's) kumiin and he's my attendant so you don't have the right to order Azuma!! So I won't let Azuma yubitsume!!" [yubitsume = cutting off one's finger, a typical way of compensation or asking for forgiveness among the yakuza. This may be stereotypical but I'm not a yakuza so I can't say for sure.]

Azuma: "...Tsubaki-san."

Azuma has his left sleeve rolled up and a single-edged knife in his right. He had spread out a cloth or something on the table and had placed his left hand on the cloth. Tsubaki however had both his hands over Azuma's.

Azuma: "Tsubaki-san, this is my way of showing......" {Please... your hands...!}

Tsubaki, angrily: "You don't have to do that!! Time's up!! The reason that you couldn't protect him 14 years ago wasn't because you were playing or anything. You were on the verge of dying so that's enough!!"

Shiki doesn't look impressed: "......... ...Hai ha~~~~~i OK OK. I understa~~nd."

Tsubaki and Azuma: "!"

Shiki gets up and shakes his head. "I can't follow this anymore." {It's getting so baka, that I can't listen or wait any longer.}

Azuma: "!!"

Shiki walks up beside the table and whips the knife out of Azuma's hands. "Fine you gaki. Go on, protect the man like that. I'll make you regret it immediately." He has a menacing look.

Tsubaki's hands are still over Azuma's as Shiki brings the knife blade down towards the table.

In another hallway in Kuryugumi.

Tsukasa: "......N?" She stops mid-step. "......Huh...? Wasn't that!?" She runs back the way she came. "Hey---!! Kamojima Toshiyuki (42)------!! What are you doing there!? Stop there------!!" The protector she was carrying flies out of her hand as Tsukasa makes a mad rush towards her target. [I guess Kamo-san is 42 years old]

Kamo-san, who's carrying files: "!?"

The door to Kamo-san's room has a duck on it, with the word kamo [duck] on it. Seems the conversation continues in Kamo-san's room.

Tsukasa, angrily: "What are you doing walking around!!? You're injured!!"

Kamo-san, smiling: "...Not much... just some work I had to get done......"

Tsukasa, with fangs: "Give it to someone else to do!!" {Your wound was finally closed up through surgery. What are you going to do if the wound opens!!?} "GET SOME REST!!"

Kamo-san: "You can't be a gokudo resting over something as trivial as this."

Tsukasa: "Asago's father rested!! So you rest too!! Right now!! Immediately!!"

Kamo-san: "...Well that was..." {Because Sandaime ordered it......} He starts, then smiles slyly. "...... I understand. ...I will rest but..... only by Sandaime's order."

Tsukasa: "Oka-y, fine."

Kamo-san: "Or, if you order me, as an order of the seisai then I will comply.........?"

A silence passes between them.

In the next frame Kamo-san is seen slumped over the bed with a steaming bump on his forehead and spirals for eyes. Tsukasa has an equally big lump on her head, which is steaming as well.

Tsukasa, walking out of the room: "I'll call Ryuji!" {And have him order you!}

Kamo-san: "......" He watches her turn to leave. {...There was a moment before the Butting Crush (the powerfully destructive head butt)...... When it comes to this topic she usually stops me before I manage to finish what I'm saying.........} [Seems that Kamo-san has given Tsukasa's head butt a special name.]

Tsukasa starts as she notices something on Kamo-san's desk.

Kamo-san: {...Maybe... Tsukasa-san is gradually starting to think about seriously becoming the seisai......!?}

Text on Kamo-san:This is my chance!!

Kamo-san has a serious face but the bump on his head takes away from the seriousness. He starts as he notices Tsukasa bent over staring at something on this desk. "N?"

Tsukasa is staring intently: "......"

Kamo-san comes up beside Tsukasa: "...Is something the matter Tsukasa-san?"

Tsukasa, her face in deep concentration: "...Just~~~ I have this feeling that I've seen this somewhe~~re but I just can't remember it." Her arms are crossed in concentration. "This poorly made potty."

Tsukasa is pointing to a object made from clay.

Text: A potty -- Something that a sick person or a young child can use in one's room.

There is a picture, shown as an example. A kid is using a swan shaped potty......

Text: For some reason the swan shaped one is popular.

Kamo-san, looking a bit embarrassed: "... ...Tsukasa-san... ...That's... not a potty but an ashtray."

Tsukasa, who's now holding the 'potty': "!!!" {A... An ashtray...!!! Th... That's right!! I remember experiencing this kind of shock before!!! That was... that's right, when I was still a gaki (in grade school)...!!}

Here's the part that was shown as a special preview.

Tsukasa, narrating: That day was close to Father's Day I think. And for art class we were making 'Father's Day gifts'...!!"

Young Tsukasa is seen kneading the clay.

Boy: "Zuki~~~ What are you making~~~?"

Young Tsukasa: "Me? An ashtray!!" {Since my dad smokes cigarettes!!}

Text pointing to Tsukasa: Zuki (her nickname at the time).

The young Tsukasa is covered in scratches and bandages.

Boy: "I see. I'll make one too. Dad doesn't smoke but I can't think of anything else."

Tsukasa, narrating: And after I happily answered, I just happened to glance to the left and saw something horrible, something I've never seen before.

The young Tsukasa is seen freaking out as she spies Ryuji moulding the clay.

Young Ryuji: "..."

Tsukasa, narrating: Ryuji, the Ryuji that didn't participate in other classes, much less art class was!! Starting to make something strange looking before my eyes......!!

The teacher is seen crying from happiness: "Shiragami-kun is participating in art class for the first time...!"

Young Tsukasa can't stop herself from glancing over to the left.

Text pointing to her: She's really curious.

Young Tsukasa: {...Wh... What could it be...? What the heck is that...!!?}

Text pointing to Ryuji: He's really concentrating.

Tsukasa, narrating: And when that strange thing took shape... I was convinced...

Young Tsukasa, freaking out: {...I... It's a potty---!! This guy's making a potty------!! This guy...! He's going to give his father a potty. ...Why a potty? Is that something your father would enjoy getting from you!? What kind of father is that!? Why a potty of all things---!!?} [Even as a kid she used to freak out it seems...]

Tsukasa is overcome with the desire to ask Ryuji. {...I! I want to know...!! I... I want to ask...!! Dammit~~~!!! But Mom and Dad said not to talk to some yakuza's son!} She's bent over her desk trying to calm herself without much success. Breathing heavily from the stress, she tries to think it through herself.

Tsukasa: {...Th... That's right! Maybe the yakuza have this thing where they have to give a potty or something! Maybe that's a way of showing respect or something!}

Tsukasa, narrating: And so I forced myself to end that episode in my head, keeping a lid on the storm of questions that were about to pop out of my mouth. However...

Some time later, the projects are all lined up on display. All the projects are labelled as Grade 1 project, from the 2nd class. Students wrote their names and the title of their project on little tags with their projects. Everyone's is written in hiragana, but Ryuji's is written in kanji.

Young Tsukasa is standing at the table in front of Ryuji's creation: "...Teacher, what's this say?" {I can't read it...}

Teacher: "A... Aa. It says ash tray."

Tsukasa's mouth is hanging wide open.

Back in the present.

Tsukasa: "It wasn't a potty... That time... was the first time I learned what it meant to be 'shocked'..."

Kamo-san: "...... Maybe because it was too elaborate......"

A diagram describes the 'potty'. Think of is as two shallow containers stuck together side by side, with one taller than the other. The lower one has little indentations for cigarettes and also has a lid. The taller portion is for holding the lighter and cigarette pack while the covered portion keeps the ashes from being blown away.

Tsukasa: "...Which reminds me...... Why is this ashtray in your room Kamo-san?" {Wasn't it supposed to be a Father's Day present?}

Kamo-san smiles softly. "...Sandaime from day one was raised as the future heir. Even then (back in Grade 1), Nidaime was not by Sandaime's side as a father...... There was more conversation between Sandaime and myself, who was appointed as an attendant to Sandaime..."

There are pictures from the past. One shows Kamo-san and Ryuji (age 3) in a bath. Kamo-san and Ryuji are reciting the multiplication table. A picture from Grade 1 shows Ryuji playing poker with Kamo-san, who's freaking since Ryuji just won with a royal straight flush. Strewn around the room are also a mah-jong set, hanafuda [another type of card deck I think], and the stats of horse racing.

Kamo-san: "...On Father's Day, Sandaime gave me the ash tray that I thought he was going to give as a present to Nidaime."

In the past.

An expressionless young Ryuji: "This is for you Kamojima."

Kamo-san: "But wasn't that a Father's Day gift...?" {You should be giving that to Nidaime......}

Young Ryuji: "It's all right. I made intending to give it you."

Kamo-san: {---Maybe,} "He may have been looking for a 'father'......" He smiles at the memory.

Tsukasa: {...Now...... I kind of understand why Kamo-san always thinks with Ryuji in mind......}

Text: He's an oya-baka... A serious disease that can't be cured...... [oya-baka is a term that refers to someone who is very into being a parent, especially those who are the type to constantly beam with pride when talking about his/her kids, keeping all art projects done by the kids, taking zillions of pics etc.]

Kamo-san is smiling like a father would: "If Sandaime sees me with this he would probably want to throw it away so I usually hide it but sometimes I take it out and look at it."

Text pointing to Kamo-san: High grade oya-baka.

Tsukasa: {---But... Those feelings towards Ryuji,}

Meiko's words echo in Tsukasa's mind: "When the guy you fall for is hurt you want to hold him. You want to ease his pain---"

Tsukasa: {Now---... I understand---...} She remembers how Asago had hugged Ryuji in front of the clan heads. {I understand but---...} "---..."

Kamo-san: "......" He notices the sad expression on Tsukasa's face. "...How strange........."

Tsukasa: "...E?"

Kamo-san: "Don't you think? If you weren't raised as a boy though you were born as a girl, then I would never have spoken to you about that moment in Sandaime's past......"

Tsukasa: {...A......}

Kamo-san: "You never would have been in the same class as Sandaime from Grade school to junior high school in the seat next to him or have become his bodyguard."

Tsukasa: {...That's right...}

Kamo-san: "None of that would have been possible........."

Tsukasa: {If I had been raised as a girl...} "...Yeah......" {I never would have known this about Ryuji---...}

Kamo-san glances at Tsukasa casually: "I think this must be fate. The reason you were born a girl but raised as a boy was to meet with Sandaime. So that you meet as life partners to be married. Don't you think!?" {Isn't that right!? That's what you should think!}

Tsukasa: {---...That's right...--- ---...that may be right...} "Yeah..."

Kamo-san: "Tsukasa-san!" He looks overjoyed.

But it's clear that Tsukasa was actually thinking about something else.

Tsukasa: {Then... That means,} "I'm Kozuki Tsukasa!!"

Kamo-san, clearly confused: "...He!?"

Tsukasa, energetically: "Thanks Kamo-san! I was about to lose myself!!" {I've seen Ryuji's past!! This is a rare item!!} [You know, like in RPGs]

Text below Tsukasa: I feel better now!!

Kamo-san: "... E?"

Tsukasa: "I'm ashamed at myself for thinking that I have to change the course of my life all around for being jealous at Asago being able to console Ryuji like that in front others!!"

Kamo-san blanches: {...Wha... ...Could... this... mean... The opposite effect------!!!}

Kamo-san pictures himself holding the sign at the goal of a race which reads 'Here to the life of a woman' [or something to that extent]. In front of the goal, Tsukasa as a long distance runner is seen doing a U-turn away from the goal. Kamo-san is crying, his hand reaching out towards her.

Kamo-san: "Aa---! Tsuksa-sa----n!"

Text at top: But! The goal is right in front of your eyes---!!

Tsukasa: "Wrong path---!"

Ryuji appears out of nowhere in Kamo-san's room.

Ryuji: "...Ho---... So you were jealous of Asago consoling me in front of others......" {What, that's it? I thought you were tired of me and I was pouting.} [(^_^)]

Kamo-san: "Sandaime." He quickly hides the ashtray in his suit jacket.

Tsukasa turns to see Ryuji approaching: "A! Ryuji!" {Just at a good time!} "I was just about to go look for you, What the hell are you doing!!?" {You bastard! Why are you taking your clothes off!?}

In the next frame, Ryuji is reaching towards Tsukasa, minus his shirt. His arm is still in a sling. Tsukasa just delivered a punch on his chin.

Ryuji looks serious: "Can't you tell that I'm going to allow you to console me?" The bruise on his chin stings.

Tsukasa, with fangs: "NO I CAN'T!! People who will be tended to look weaker and don't show it that they want to be consoled!!" {And they don't take their clothes off!!}

Ryuji suddenly has his shirt back on and uses Kamo-san's bed to dramatically look like a pathetic weak person. "........." His eyes stare at her hungrily however.

Text explaining the aura emanating from Ryuji: I can't move anymore. I'm this weak. If you don't console me now then I'll die soon.

Tsukasa: "You accusing me with those hungry looking eyes that make you look like you'll eat me alive for going near you doesn't make me want to console you."

Ryuji is suddenly sitting up, puffing on a cigarette, with a popped vein on his forehead: "Humph. ......It's a joke that you wanted to console me." {I knew. You're that type of liar.} [Okay, I've been using the word console but it can also mean 'to take care of', 'tend' etc.]

Tsukasa: "What did you say!!?" She hardens at that mention (of being called a liar).

Kamo-san watches as the usual play fight erupts in front of him.

Tsukasa: "What the heck are you saying you---!! I don't want you calling me a liar!! That's shingai!!" [shingai = unexpected.]

Ryuji: "Don't you mean shingai?" Tsukasa spoke with the wrong kanji. [Actually, there's another meaning for shingai (with different kanji) that means violation (of privacy) etc... Maybe Tsukasa was trying to make up a new word (by mixing up kanji) that best described Ryuji. ...Maybe it's just my imagination...]

Tsukasa: "Sh! Shut up! If you didn't do something strange then I would have------!!"

Ryuji: "Strange thing as in what. Something like this?"

Touch, touch.

Tsukasa: "Gyaaaa!!!"

Kamo-san lets out a sigh. {...Well, well... Is seems that this time Tsukasa-san is the winner...... But...... there's still a chance... They say the emotions of a woman in love are unstable. Just watch Sandaime, next time---...} He laughs to himself.

Narration by Tsukasa: ---I never knew about Kamo-san's secret plan but afterwards, when asking Taku-nii about fixing my damaged protector, I never thought that something else other than the 'kagi', some other kind of important 'kagi' was hidden in the protector---...

Meanwhile, the play fight continues.

Ryuji managed to sit Tsukasa on the bed and is trying to push her down with his weight. His good hand is on the back of her head.

Tsukasa, who's trying to keep Ryuji off of her has one hand on his hair, one on his shoulder.

Ryuji: "Damn you!! I'm a weak injured person you know! So console me will you huh!?" He has a popped vein on the side of his face.

Tsukasa: "I don't want to console any guy that uses suspicious Japanese like that---!" Tsukasa's face is a bit red and her teeth are clenched.