Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
1997 vol. 21, episode no. 29
Translation by Yuki-chan

Tsukasa: {An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I thought that for a cop to be able to capture vicious criminals needed strong spirit/will and the "strength" to subdue the criminal. ---But Akira-san showed me that by just doing that doesn't rid the world of crime...... ---Right now I'm seriously impressed [moved?].} Picture of Tsukasa seriously moved by what had just happened. [What huge eyes she has...]

Suddenly a hand moves in front of her face. She manages to intercept it. It's Ryuji's hand.

Tsukasa: "...What's this......?"

Ryuji: "...What? It seems your eyes are overly teary so I was going to give you these eyedrops......" He's kind of cranky although he's not sure why.

Ryuji is holding a bottle of eyedrops, although who knows where he got it from. He's still trying to administer the eyedrops as Asago watches on.

Asago: {---What's with her... All of the sudden back to normal...}

Kamo-san: "Thank goodness things are back to normal. Even you wanted Tsukasa-san back to normal."

Asago: {You've got to be kidding. While she was strange from the effects of the treatment, she was an eyesore.} Picture of Tsukasa draped on Ryuji. {And now that she's back to normal she's an eyesore!!} Tsukasa, getting pissed off blows into Ryuji's ear. [It seems to be a weak point of his.] Tsukasa smiles wickedly, and points at him. {---On top of that...} Asago recalls asking Ryuji which was more important, her or just a regular bodyguard. {...Ryuji---...} She watches as Tsukasa is trying to blow into Ryuji's ear. He suddenly bends over as if to kiss her. Tsukasa freaks. {...Went to go back and save her...... He chose her over me...!!} Asago starts kicking Tsukasa. {To put it simply, I'm ticked off by her mere existence!!}

Tsukasa: "What's with this all of the sudden you violent person?"

Asago, angrily: "SHUT UP!! You...!" {I wish you'd just disappear and get out of our sight!!}

Ryuji: "...Asago...... ...You have something you want to say to me don't you......"

Asago: "...!"

Ryuji: "...So say it......"

Tsukasa: "Ow She kicked me so hard..."

A little distance away.

Male voice: "Give it up!"

Female voice: "No... He might still be alive!"

Male: "Even if he's alive we don't need a brat! We're behind in work! Come on!!"

Female: "No... Le......"

Crash!

The guy goes flying out of sight.

Tsukasa: "Onee-san, you lost your child?" [Onee-san = big sister, but also can be applied to women older than you if you're speaking casually or to someone close to you]

The woman nods.

From the way she's dressed, Tsukasa can tell that like her, she is not well off. She sympathizes immediately, and informs the woman that all the kids that were found lost at the resort were all rounded up in a nearby building.

Tsukasa: "Maybe your child is...... huh?" The woman is gone when she turns around. {...Now that I think about it, that kid [that she picked up at New Heaven] lost his mother...... I wonder if he found her......} She walks and overhears a conversation.

Voice: "---You're sure you won't take this special promotion? If you change positions to the control police you'll get a better salary?"

Tsukasa notices the police chief talking to Akira.

Akira: "...Thanks but... Disarming the bomb at New Heaven is not something I could have done alone......"

Chief: "...But...You assisted with the arrest of the terrorist bomber..."

Akira: "...That was just a coincidence that he opened his heart to me who was raised under the same circumstances...... ...It was not by my abilities alone..."

Chief, moved to tears: "......... ...In this age there are people who want to be promoted enough to take credit for others... and you... you..." His expression changes all of the sudden. "...Oh...?"

Akira, looking surprised: "N...?"

Tsukasa is standing behind Akira and looking up at him in admiration. Her eyes are huge [again]. {How respectable Akira-san is... How respectable Akira-san is... }

A little while later.

Chief: "...Hmm. So you helped with the bomb disposal too...!?"

Tsukasa, using female language: "Helped? I just wanted Akira-san to do his best."

Smack, smack, smack! She slaps Akira-san on the back leaving red marks.

Tsukasa: "I just cheered him on like this~~"

Akira: "~~~~!"

A cop approaches: "Chief! Sorry, but there's a phone call from the station......"

Chief: "Okay." He turns back to Akira. "...To be honest, in this era I think we need people like you who can relate closely with the criminals...... It's not violence that will change people......"

Tsukasa starts at this.

Chief: "The only thing that can change people's hearts are people's hearts...... Please think about it for awhile." The chief goes off.

Akira: "........."

Tsukasa, her heart beating wildly: "...Akira-san isn't the special promotion... Why won't you accept it!?"

Akira, laughs to himself: "...... I... may be fired soon."

Tsukasa, with a very deformed face: "EH?"

Akira: "...The department where I work, is a little different from the regular cops. It's a special department to combat with the increasing crime in the world...... special division crime control, also known as..."

Tsukasa, in English: "---GRAVE."

Akira starts, then continues: "With no specialization or jurisdiction, but having the ability to combat any crime, therefore they make the most arrests. Because of that it's the most dangerous job being so close to death all the time. So with that meaning the special division is called..."

Tsukasa, in Japanese: "Grave."

Akira: "...You seem to know a lot."

Tsukasa: "...Didn't I tell you I wanted to become a cop?" {...And also my parents were part of GRAVE too of the control police establishment......"

Akira: "Like you said, GRAVE has the no. 1 chance of making an arrest ...so those who can't make arrests don't have the right to call themselves members of GRAVE. ...I'm... to be honest in GRAVE's beta (middle) level, I don't have the confidence to do well in the control police gamma (upper) level..."

Tsukasa: ".......!"

Smack!! Tsukasa smacks him across the face. Akira looks shocked.

Tsukasa: "...Are you awake now......?"

Akira: {---...E?...}

Tsukasa: "...Akira-san you were just told you're needed by others......?"

Akira recalls the words of the chief.

Tsukasa: "You've been approved by others." {---Even I want to become a cop like Akira-san.} "...You have an ability that you know you surpass others in right...? No matter where you go, you just have to do the best that you can with all your might......"

Akira recalls the words of Kozuki Yutaka. '---Just try your hardest at what you think you can do, like you do now. Gambare.'

Akira, staring at Tsukasa in disbelief: "...... ...I've been thinking this for awhile now...... You..... sometimes remind of this person I used to admire by what you say......"

Tsukasa: "E?"

Akira: "You know, I talked about it before. The one who got involved with Kuryugumi's inner strife......"

Tsukasa: "...Ah... yeah, yeah..."

Akira: "Which reminds me I remembered that when I saw your swiftness at New Heaven. That person had 4 kids, and he used to say that of the middle aged kids, one of the twins 'has the speed of a fly'. I didn't get it then but when I saw you I thought oh, something like this..."

Tsukasa: {...How cruel of you Dad... Couldn't you praise me in a different way......}

Akira: "That kid has a strong sense of justice and wants to become a cop just like his parents, and that troubled them because he wouldn't listen." Tsukasa starts. "I guess as a parent they didn't want to push that topic since they were members of GRAVE and all. They say he's still 14 so maybe he'd change his mind." Tsukasa starts sweating. "So they sent their kids to the good private school Rokuo so that the kids would have a solid foundation for their future..." Tsukasa turns around and starts sneaking off.

Akira stops his long speech. "---Tsukasa...?"

Tsukasa, in a dog/rabbit form starts. "!!!"

Akira: "...Your name... What's your surname......?"

Tsukasa, looking really scared: "...Didn't I tell you......?"

Akira: "...No. I asked your name before but I didn't hear it then. ...By any chance... are you..."

Tsukasa, sweating: "...Ah..."

Akira: "...Kozuki...?"

Tsukasa drops down to her hands and knees: "...I'M SORRY!!"

Akira, looking a bit surprised: "...Why... do you apoplogize...?"

Tsukasa, looking up at Akira who crouched down to look at her: "...... ...Because... I've been hiding it from you... That I was Ryuji's bodyguard... ...My parents were killed by the yakuza... but still... while I say that I hate the yakuza......"

Akira: "...There's a deep reason behind this right... That's what you said earlier......" He takes her hands and helps her up.

Tsukasa: {---I knew that Akira-san admired my father... So...}

Tomioka, running towards them: "Akira---! The Control Police's GRAVE chief wants to see you! You too [referring to Tsukasa]."

Tsukasa: {I thought he would yell at me... that I'm so low---...}

Akira takes her hand and starts pulling her along. Tsukasa is blushing.

At the Control Police headquarters.

Tsukasa is a bit nervous, as is Tomioka and Akira. [They all have shirts and shorts now, though I don't know where they came from.]

"Excuse me!"

Akira's head goes into sea urchin form again. Tomioka and Tsukasa's hair goes up. They turn around.

Cop: "You're the Kise Akira-san who saved this child right?"

Tsukasa: {---It's that woman!} The child in her arms is the kid Tsukasa and Akira had picked up at New Heaven.

Woman: "...I learned... you saved my child and I wanted to say a few words... of an apology......"

Tsukasa, stopping the woman: "Wait a sec!! Don't you want to say 'thanks' and not an apology? And what is it with you anyway? Under this situation, to forget and leave your own child to escape."

Woman: "...That's not right......"

Tsukasa: "That's not right?"

Woman: "I didn't forget... I meant to get rid of him......"

Tsukasa: "~~~~~~~~..."

Woman: "...I'm sorry.. I was threatened that he would get in the way of work... That I'd/he'd be killed unless I got rid of him..."

Akira: "When you mean work... you mean prostitution?"

Everyone starts.

Akira, patting Tsukasa on the head: "...You can go on ahead... You're not used to this type of talk right?"

Tsukasa: "......"

Akira: "I'll be there soon."

Tsukasa: {...Akira-san...} She recalls the words of the mother and Akira's earlier words. {But isn't that the same for you------!!}

Woman: "I wanted to something motherly for my child in the end... So I took him to New Heaven..."

Akira starts. Tsukasa had taken his hand.

Woman: "...I'm really sorry......"

Tsukasa smiles up at Akira. Akira smiles back.

Akira: "...To be a parent... Before trying to be such a good parent" there are other things that you do unconsciously... Like... now. If you just don't let go---..."

The woman with tears in her eyes bows in appreciation and is led away by the cop for questioning.

Akira: "---Thanks..." Tsukasa shakes her head.

Akira: "---...To be honest... I... didn't have the confidence to give her kind words......"

Tsukasa: "You said that well."

Akira: "...When you're nearby I feel like I can do anything well......"

Tsukasa: "Really?" {Doesn't that make me the goddess of winning?} They're still holding hands.

Akira: "Tsukasa......"

Tsukasa: "...N...?"

Akira: "...Won't you stay by my side always......?" He squeezes her hand. [This sounds like a kokuhaku to me. Kokuhaku = confession, usually of love]

Back outside at New Heaven.

Ryuji looks like he's searching for something.

Asago: "Ryuji. ...Are you still looking for something......?"

Kamo-san doesn't look happy: "---..."

Ryuji: "...No... Nothing......"

He bends over to kiss Asago on the lips.

Ryuji: "...Let's go..."