Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
2000 vol. 23, episode no. 89
Translation by Yuki-chan
Image scanned by Venkarel
Episode title page features Ryuji and Kamo-san sitting side by side on a sofa in a quiet, relaxed moment.
Text: The "father and son" bond forever......
Back in the past.
Ryuji questions the abilities of his new bodyguard.
Young Ryuji: "...Kamojima...... ...How can you suck so much at shooting...?"
A very red faced Kamo-san: "It's all right! It doesn't matter if I can't shoot!!"
In front of them is a smoking shooting target...
Text: Only one mark hit.
Ryuji and Kamo-san have ear protectors hanging from their necks.
Text pointing to Ryuji: With eyes of pity.
Kamo-san pulls out his tanto. "Firearms are useless once you're out of bullets!! In a real battle, the only thing you can rely on is an edged weapon!!"
Text: An edged weapon for the gokudo!! It should be an edged weapon.
Young Ryuji looks worried and stares in silence. {... ...This guy (Kamojima)... is to be my bodyguard from now on......?}
Kamo-san: "...... ...I understand... what you're thinking right now..."
Ryuji lets out an exasperated sigh. {...Man... So my workload's going to increase......? Already my father has told me that I have to protect myself...}
Behind him, Kamo-san is in panic with circles for eyes. "Aaaa! I understand! I understand! Though I don't want to!! The voice from your heart!!" [Okay, that sounds cheesy. How about "What you're trying to say!!"]
Back in the present.
Kamo-san: {---Up until now, I didn't have to ask to know what Sandaime was thinking--------- But now------...!!} "Sandaime------!!" {I don't have any idea of what you're thinking------!!}
Kamo-san rushes after Ryuji.
The 3 Ultimate Weapons raise their right hands.
"!!"
Usui: "Cover them!!"
Hurriedly, the nearby kumiins raise their guns. "!! !"
Usui: "Hook* mode!!"
Text: * Like a bow.
Somebody: "Send a signal to Sandaime."
Voice: "Kamojima!!"
Kamo-san turns to see his friend. "!! ...Fujioka...!" Both of them are dashing after Ryuji.
Fujioka: "Hey, what's happening!?"
Kamo-san: "I don't know. Sandaime has gone off on his own.........!!"
Somebody: "Break!!"
An explosion occurs and Tsukasa and Ryuji are seen leaping to the right.
Usui: "Where's Sandaime!!?"
Tsukasa and Ryuji have managed to avoid the explosion.
Kamo-san [I think]: "He's fine. He's entered the building from a damaged wall!!"
Usui [I think]: "All right, we'll follow too!!"
Kamo-san dashes off. He has the yakuza look on his face.
Fujioka: "Kamojima!! Hey! Calm down!!"
Kamo-san: "I'm calm."
Fujioka: "That's a lie. You who's always so polite called me by my name!!" {Your keigo is completely gone!} [When Fujioka meant that Kamo-san called him by name, he's referring to the fact that Kamo-san didn't add -san/-sama/-chan etc or any sort of title that a person may hold. (He always refers to his friend as Fujioka's oyabun.) BTW, keigo = polite language. There are 3 levels but I'm not too familiar with the differences...]
Kamo-san starts. "!"
Fujioka: "Can you fully name the weapons you're carrying now at the top of your head!?"
Kamo-san glances down at his garb. Kamo-san's face returns back to the soft smile he usually wears. "... ---Of course, Fujioka's oyabun."
Fujioka seems satisfied. "Okay. Now that's Kamojima!!" {That sounded rather sarcastic!!}
Kamo-san: "No it doesn't."
Somewhere inside a ruined building.
Usui is attempted radio contact with Ryuji.
Usui: "---Sandaime. Sandaime, it's Usui. Tell me your current position. We'll move to assist you!!"
Ryuji is huffing out of breath as is Tsukasa. Ryuji responds through the transmitter on the headband like device. "...We're/I am fine here. You guys (the offense group) enter from the main gate as planned."
Tsukasa: "......"
Usui: "But...! All 3 of them have disappeared! They've undoubtedly gone after you Sandaime! That's insane! For you 2 against the 3 of them..."
Ryuji: "Don't make me repeat myself!! The main gate!! Understand!!?" [He's saying "main gate" with a Japanese accent but the kanji actually reads ''main entrance'']
Tsukasa: "---... ---..."
Ryuji cuts radio contact.
Tsukasa: "---...Ryuji... Could it be...... that you want to separate the bakemonos from the offense team......?"
Ryuji starts. "......!"
Tsukasa: "What we had planned...... You were the one who judged that it would be best to lure them (the bakemonos) through the main gate. Yet you were to first to stray from the plan. ...It's not like you......" She accuses him with her eyes.
Ryuji remains silent. "........."
Tsukasa: "---What's the reason------...?"
Asago: "---..." She gulps.
Before her is a sea of dead bodies. Men who are wearing the GRAVE uniforms.
Asago: {... Iyada---... ...Around here---... there are increasing numbers of police bodies......} She runs between the bodies, scanning each of them. Her heart races as her search becomes more frantic. {...Maybe he's around here too...... ...No way... If he's lying around here dead I'll never forgive him...!!}
Voice: "-You OK with that? Weren't you just called back by your master......?"
Asago's ear balloons out at the sound of the voice. She then whirls around, both ears huge (about the size of her head). "...!!"
Text on Asago's ear: Parabola.[Should be parabolic.]
Asago: {---This voice...!!}
The top of Asago's head sprouts an antenna with a little Munakata head on the tip.
Text pointing to the thing on Asago's head: A Munakata detector.
The Munakata detector: "This way. This way. This way." It seems to move in the direction of its goal.
Asago: {This way...!} She runs towards the voice. Peeking around the corner, she spots her target. "!!" {A!! There...!!}
Munakata is slumped against the wall clutching his abdomen. Blood is streaming down the left side of his face.
Asago smiles in relief. [You gotta see this face...] {...He's alive... ...Than...}
Munakata: "One of your buddies betrayed right? Ain't that a bummer. Isn't that why you were pumped full of the drug......?"
Asago starts and is suddenly on guard. {......!? ...What...?}
Munakata: "...They should have made androids..."
Asago: {Is someone there...?}
Munakata seems to be talking to someone some distance in front of him. "...If you're going to have a messed up body like that with all those weapons."
Pincers with serrated edges on the ends of thick cables dance in the air. It's likely the female Ultimate Weapon who hasn't made an appearance yet.
Asago: {---!! ...Could it be one of those bakemonos---...}
The pincers click as they stretch towards Munakata. Asago seems to be on the same side of the room as the Ultimate Weapon but she remains by the doorway, hidden.
Asago with a hand to her mouth: {......! ...No way------...!!}
Some time in the past.
Ryuji is riding in the car next to his father.
Nidaime: "---...You're---... ...almost the same height as me---..."
Ryuji starts.
Tatsuya: "Though when you were a gaki you were so weak---..."
Ryuji: "---...That... was the first time that father (Nidaime) showed such a ''fatherly'' face in front of me------... ...I had a bad feeling then..." {---For some reason it bothered me.} "...But, there was nothing I could do------..." He recalls how he had felt worried. "...Three days after that, father was assassinated---..."
Tsukasa: "......" {...Ryuji-...}
Ryuji holds a hand to his mouth, clearly worried. "---... ...The feeling won't go away---..." [Not a direct translation.] {Just like that time, it bothers me---...} "I saw Kamojima overlapping father and---..." {---Is it really unlike me to worry about something like that---...?}
Tsukasa's face softens. "...I understand... I understand how you feel." She has her hands behind her back as she smiles up at him. [DAMN he's tall.] "Even a kumicho is a human being. Well yeah, it might not have been the greatest idea to suddenly go off course like that as a kumicho~~~" Her face transforms into Wakasa mode. "As long as those bakemonos are destroyed it doesn't matter." [Not the greatest translation...]
Ryuji starts at her sudden transformation but then seems to realize. Without turning around, he pulls the pin out of a hand grenade. "..."
Behind him, Tsukasa had spotted one of the Ultimate Weapons.
Tsukasa: "---...I'll... survive------!!"
Behind them, an explosion rips through the pile of rubble upon which the Ultimate Weapon was standing. Tsukasa and Ryuji dive out of harm's way.
Tsukasa: {Until we lure them (the bakemonos) to the meeting point.
At the meeting point.
Kyuragi: "...Wh...!!? ...What's with you guys...!? Where's Sandaime!!?"
Kamo-san: "!! He's still not here!!?"
Kyuragi: "If he was we wouldn't be hanging around here!!"
Kamo-san turns away in search for Ryuji as people shout out orders.
"What's going on!?"
"Either way, we'll go back and meet up with Sandaime."
"Group 1 on standby here."
Meanwhile, Tsukasa and Ryuji are battling with the Ultimate Weapon.
This Ultimate Weapon fires bullets from the fingers from his right hand. His right thumb seems to have a metal tipped nail. A magazine of bullets is attached to his arm above his elbow.
Bullets rip through the air towards Ryuji.
Ryuji dives out of the way, firing his rifle. "...!"
Suddenly the Ultimate Weapon seems to disappear.
Ryuji: "!!"
The Ultimate Weapon reappears in front of Ryuji's face with a wild left punch.
Ryuji: "---!!" His eyes widen in shock.
Tsukasa manages to stop the punch with a kick but the Ultimate Weapon blocks it easily with his left hand (which is metallic and probably deflects/catches bullets).
Tsukasa: "...Chi...!"
The sunglassed man suddenly grabs her ankle and whips her to the floor.
Tsukasa: "!! UA!" {...Da... Dammit------!!} "Kuaaa!" She covers her head as bullets hit the floor around her. {I thought we wouldn't lose to these guys (the bakemonos)...!! I don't want to lose to these guys-----!!}
Tsukasa feels something tap the side of her head. Her eyes widen in fear.
It's the Ultimate Weapon's foot. He stands over and aims his fingers at her head.
Tsukasa: "---------------!!" Her eyes and mouth are wide open in fear.
Ryuji raises his rifle to aim.
Somebody: {---Sandaime------...!!}
Bullets rip through the air.
Tsukasa with dog ears and paws: "HYAAAAAAA" {DadMomTakuToshiSho---------!!" She covers her head with her paws. "..." An SD Tsukasa slumps to the floor as if playing dead. [You have to see the expression on her face... I'm not sure it will scan well though...]
She doesn't seem to be hit however.
Tsukasa: "..." She opens her eyes slowly. "...O...?" {Why, why?} She touches her head in search for wounds. "A."
Fujioka is crouched on the floor peering down at her. "He's alive. He's alive."
Tsukasa gets up. "!!"
Bun-san: "Are you all right Tsu-bo?" He's not wearing any glasses.
Text pointing to Bun-san: Bun-san in contacts.
Tsukasa: "Bun-san." {And the Gold Dragon Clan's mister!} [!!? I guess Fujioka is part of the Gold Dragon clan... Since Kamo-san calls him Fujioka's oyabun, he may very well be the kumicho for the Gold Dragon clan (which would mean he succeeded Shibata). He just might be the kumicho of a kogumi though. kogumi = small clan]
Tsukasa is looking around wildly. "Where's the guy?"
Bun-san, pointing upwards: "He got away." {Because of our attack.} "It looked like he was going to fire back but he only posed to retaliate and didn't let any bullets loose."
Fujioka looks in the distance and starts. "......"
Bun-san: "I wonder why."
Fujioka stands up. "...Kamojima..."
Tsukasa: "...E...?" She turns her head.
Bun-san: "...A......"
Tsukasa: {------... E......?}
Ryuji is crouched in firing position and it seems like someone is leaning against his back.
Tsukasa: {...What...?} "...I wonder what happened...?" She gets up as well. {...Ryuji------...?}
Ryuji is in wide eyed shock. Someone behind him is panting heavily. Ryuji's finger is pulling back on the trigger of the rifle but the firearm remains silent.
Kamo-san, between breaths: "...Could it be...... ...that you're out...... of bullets...... ...Sandaime---...?"
Ryuji is unable to say anything, his eyes going wider.
Kamo-san chuckles softly. "...I am too..." His useless gun clatters to the floor. He's leaning heavily against his kumicho and his vest is covered with dark splotches of blood. A long coiled cable seems to be protruding from his abdomen. "...Looks like... ...firearms are useless when you really need them..." Blood runs down his face.
Ryuji seems to be nicked on the face in a number of places but he doesn't seem to be wounded badly.
Young Kamo-san: "---...Ryuji-san...... Ryuji-san, you don't have to worry. Even if there are times that I protect you, there is no reason for you to have to protect me."
The scene moves back to the shooting range in Kuryugumi when Ryuji was young.
Young Ryuji: "... Chi ...You don't get it do you. I don't want to see you dying in front of me...!!" He has his hand on his hip and a popped vein on his head for emphasis.
Kamo-san: "...That hurt... I won't die."
Ryuji, in disbelief: "... ...Really~~~~~~?"
Kamo-san, smiling: "Really."
Kamo-san: "...Looks like the tanto is best for the gokudo..." He unclips a pouch on his vest and slides out a knife with a serrated edge. "...Especially ...against someone..... you have to stop---..." His eyes take on the gokudo look as he gazes towards the shadow behind a column.
There seems to be a figure standing in the shadows from which the cable seems to originate.
Text: ---The blade reflects the heart of its wielder.
The weight is suddenly gone from Ryuji's back.
Ryuji: "...!?"
Tsukasa, Bun-san and Fujioka race towards them. "...!"
Tsukasa: "Kamo-san!!?"
Bun-san: "!! Kamojima-san!"
Fujioka, who's behind Tsukasa and Bun-san: "!"
Ryuji turns to see Kamo-san staggering to his feet, clutching the cable in one hand, the dagger in the other.
Text: The more you want to finish your opponent, the deeper it penetrates.
Tsukasa: "Kamo-san!! Blood---!!" {You're covered in blood!! Don't move!!!} Tears are in the corners of her eyes and she has her fists clenched near her face.
Bun-san: "Kamojima-san, what...?"
Ryuji: "!!" Looking in the distance, he notices the figure. {Someone in the shadows...!!}
The figure yanks at the cable. "...!"
Kamo-san: "...No matter how much you pull, it doesn't seem to come loose...... ...The weapon on your thumb... it seems that it's made to open its wings when it penetrates flesh......... ... The fact that you used this..."
Ryuji pulls the rifle out of Fujioka's hands. "Hand it here!"
Kamo-san: "...Does that mean that you're out of bullets too...?"
The dark haired Ultimate Weapon is winding the cable around his forearm. He's not he one who was about to shoot at Tsukasa.
Kamo-san is suddenly pulled forward towards the Ultimate Weapon. But before Ryuji is able to fire, Kamo-san thrusts the blade into his opponent's open mouth.
Kamo-san: {---...Completely------...}
The Ultimate Weapon's left hand seems to glance off Kamo-san.
Kamo-san with the yakuza look in his eyes. "---...Useless------..."
Text: ---...It stabs deep with all of my might.
Kamo-san uses both hands to thrust the dagger in deeper and to twist it violently.
Text: ---I will have you gone from this world as well------...
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