Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
1996 vol. 16; episode no. 3
Translation by Yuki-chan

Tsukasa: {This smell. It was strong enough to mask the smell of the drugs!! There's no way that I'd forget it! Th... This is the same cologne on the guy I almost strangled to death the other day---!!! Can it be the same person!?}

The SAC president: "What are you doing?"

Tsukasa: "You stink... The cologne you're wearing is like the smell of a rotting hard-boiled egg in a washroom." {Iyaan. My nose is going to fall off.}

Guy: "......"

Tsukasa: "An elite person like you shouldn't be using that brand. It gives you the image of some good-for-nothing yakuza..."

The guy glares at her.

Tsukasa: "!" {...What...!? He doesn't like being compared to a yakuza...!? N...! Nah! My dad used to say ''When a cop can't trust his nose then he's finished''!! Oh, maybe it was ''instinct''?} She poses, with a dog's ears, a muzzle and tail. She turns back to Kaibara. "...Hey mi---ster! I have to tell you something---! Yeah, you might not believe me but that elite looking SAC president is actually the drug---"

Kaibara cuts her off, holding her out in front of the guy by the scruff of her neck [She's in dog form again.] "Ikazaki-ku---n. You have to take this student with you right---?" [Ikazaki is a last name.]

Tsukasa turns back to the principal. "Hey! Mister! Listen to..."

Kaibara: "Mister, mister you say. How vulgar you are. It's because of students like you that our school loses its discipline."

Tsukasa: {...Wh...! WHAT~~~~~~!!? You bastard---! You're saying that I, of the disciplinary committee am disrupting the decency!? You......} "You ready to see the other world aah-----!!!?"

Kaibara: "So Ikazaki-kun." He tosses her into Ikazaki.

Tsukasa: "!!"

Kaibara: "Make sure you take care of things......" [Not a very good translation (-_-').] He turns and walks away.

Tsukasa: "Wha!? Hey principal---!" Ikazaki grabs hold of her and prevents her from chasing after Kaibara. "Why are you leaving things to this guy!? This guy is---! This guy is------!!"

Ikazaki: "---..." He holds his hand over her mouth.

Outside Rokuokita.

A number of reporters are hanging around the front entrance. [I think there's 5 of them.]

Reporter: "---Darn---. The gate's already blocked." {Did they know we were coming!?"

Reporter [I'm not sure how many of them are talking]: "Damn! I was thinking of interviewing the sister school about the alleged drug dealing going on at Rokuominami." {We can't get in at this rate.}

Reporter: "Let's at least try to get them to talk."

Reporter: "That's no good. No matter how many times we tried, they said ''no comment''."

Ryuji, Kamo-san and Bun-san also arrive.

Kamo-san: "...It appears that the emergency security system is turned on."

Bun-san: "The emergency security system, which must mean that some emergency situation has occurred."

Kamo-san, looking serious: "...How about forcing the doors open with a spell bazooka..."

Bun-san, looking equally as serious: "How about a laser?"

Kamo-san and Bun-san: "Sandaime!"

Ryuji walks up to the school gates calmly and presses the intercom.

"This is the management room."

Ryuji: "I'm from Rokuominami. I wish to transfer here. Please open the doors."

Kamo-san and Bun-san look on in awe. "Oo--- There was that route!"

"Do you have any identification?"

Ryuji feeds his student card into a slot.

"Verified. The gates will open momentarily."

The reporters cheer. "Thanks oniichan---!" [oniichan = older brother; guy]

The gate opens.

Inside the school.

Student 1: "What's going on?"

Student 2: "I heard it was a security check or something."

Student 1: "H---m."

Tsukasa: "........ Hey oniisan, where are we going? Let's go find the drug pusher." [oniisan is a nicer (more formal) way of saying oniichan.]

Ikazaki: "..." He's walking down the hall with Tsukasa following behind him.

Tsukasa: "......" {...He wouldn't want to... if he's the drug pusher then there's a possibility that he's linked to that two-some. I suppose that the SAC president (who like represents the school) hanging out with the good for nothings (who are like the cancers of the school) is not something that so easily believable... They don't seem the type to be committing crimes.} "........." She thinks for a moment. "A~a---... I'll stop being mean so I wish those people will come back~~~ I was wrong~~~ Ratting like that to the principal." She's on her knees with her hands clasped in prayer, looking rather angelic. "But listen god! Those people wouldn't sell be drugs because I'm a cop's son... daughter!!! They force everyone else to buy drugs but not me. It's so unfair----!!! I would have done anything! The fact that I said that I'd sell you out to my parents is just a joke!! If you sold me the drugs then I'd never tell my parents!!" [The last part of this speech goes into major slang mode, plus language that you'll normally hear from a guy's mouth.] The SAC president and a few other male students are watching her act.

A few of the guys: {...What a foul mouth... but she's so cute...}

Ikazaki: "......... ...You really have no intention of ratting?"

Tsukasa: "No, because I...... ......! ......! I..." {Mom, Dad...} "I HATE my parents---!!! {I'm sorry---!!!}

There's a pic of her parents as angels telling her that it's okay.

Tsukasa: "Just because they're cops, they've controlled me for 14 years of my life. Do this! Don't do this! Everything I did was restricted by rules and if I disobeyed, I never heard the end of it! So I wanted to defy my parents just once so that I wouldn't choke to death in rules!"

One of the guys: "Yeah. Yeah."

Another guy: "I understand!"

Tsukasa: "..." {...E...?}

Another guy, nodding: "My parents are like that too. Since they were a part of the SAC when they studied here, they say I have to follow the same path or that I'll shame them. So whenever they open their mouth all I ever hear from them is ''Study!''."

Two other guys are nodding in agreement in the background.

Tsukasa: {...Well... You have to be in the top class in terms of money and intelligence in order to become part of the SAC at Rokuo...... }

The SAC members start talking.

"They even schedule my whole day with cram classes and things I have to know for when I inherit (the company)."

"Even though it's my own life, they never let me choose for myself."

"Sometimes I wonder what we're living for. It's like we're dead on the inside...!"

Tsukasa starts at this. An image of Ryuji pops into her head. {---...Him---... I wonder about him------...... He too... has his life planned out since he was born......... and forced to carry a huge burden that threatens to crush him if he lets down his guard---...} She pictures him with the members of the kumi all standing behind him. {He's always had that expression on his face as if he was dead or something, ever since he was a kid---... ...Could it be... because...it's...}

One of the guys grabs her hands. "You're just like us!"

Tsukasa: "O!?" She starts. "Yeah!" She shakes her head. {Oo~~~!! Man! Why do I have to think about the guy and be so blue!! For a guy that only thinks of me as a protection against bullets!!}

Text: She's holding that against him.

One of the guys: "Ikazaki-kun, let's give her some of the drugs."

Tsukasa: "...E?"

Guy 1: "She wants to prove that she's not a doll to control! I'm sure she'll become one of us!"

Tsukasa: "...E?"

Guy 2: "...You will won't you...?"

Guy 1: "It's too late to turn back you know."

Tsukasa: "...E...?" {...What...?} She looks confused.

Ikazaki looks at her sternly. "...Are you going to become one of us... or not? How we treat you depends on your answer."

Tsukasa: {...An accomplice...?} "Ha---i I will ©" {...Hey... ---If the principal were to learn of this then he'll flip---...}

She's finally led to the SAC office where she and Ikazaki talk. She takes a seat across from him.

Tsukasa: "...Wow--- I didn't expect that a group or the elite class from Rokuo were selling the drugs---"

Ikazaki: "......" He glares at her.

Tsukasa: {...Uh.........?}

Ikazaki: "...Don't mention the word elite.... ...It makes me want to puke!"

Tsukasa: "...So you too became a pusher because you wanted to prove that you weren't a doll?"

Ikazaki: "Our final goal isn't that."

Tsukasa: "?"

Ikazaki: "While we live under our parents, we have to be elite. Even when we go to (senior) high school or university, what we have to do will still be the same. When we finally go to work, it'll still be guided by our parents' rule. No matter where we go, we're only allowed to rise higher towards a more unreachable goal. Everyday, we're chased towards their goal... ...To have only that kind of future waiting for us... we had to do something about it. We plan on escaping from these chains..."

Tsukasa: "...How?"

Ikazaki: "By becoming yakuza."

Tsukasa: "You're going to become a yakuzaishi...?" [yakuzaishi = pharmacist]

Ikazaki: "Ya ku za."

Tsukasa: {Wha......!!!! What the hell are these guys thinking!?} "U... Um oniisan! You don't have to become a yakuza!" {And here I am trying to get away from them!} "There's got to be a better way. Think it over."

Ikazaki: "It's too late. We already know what syndicate we're joining. We've been selling the drugs for that reason." {I already feel like a yakuza.}

Tsukasa: {...N... Now that I think about it... This guy did talk and act like a yakuza---... The cologne he used wasn't a normal type either. ...Huh...? Then doesn't that mean...?}

The male student she helped the other day: "They said they were Kuryugumi's kumiin---"

Tsukasa: {Th... Then... these...?} "B...By any chance... is that group you're gonna join..."

Ikazaki: "Kuryugumi."

Tsukasa: "NO---------!!!!!!" Tsukasa starts throwing a tantrum yelling and screaming. {That bastard---!!} She transforms into Ryuji [actually, only her face transforms into Ryuji's, so it looks like Ryuji wearing a sailor uniform...]

Tsukasa, with Ryuji's face: "No, it's not us (Kuryugumi)."

Tsukasa: {So he said------!!! He lied to me again------! I'll never forgive him! I'm never going to talk to him again~~~~~~ Not that I was ever friends with him to be able to do this, but I'll never talk to him again~~~!!!} Tsukasa is seen slumped in a spot light.

Ikazaki: "So... you want to come with us? I'm sure if you become gokudo, you can have fun and live the free life you've always wanted." [gokudo = wicked, evil, criminalistic; can be used as an adjective/noun]

Tsukasa: {...Free...?} She remembers Ryuji's expressionless face.{Fun......?}

Ikazaki: "If your parents get in the way then just have them killed by Kuryugumi...."

Tsukasa: "------!!!" She darts out and suddenly punches him in the face.

Ikazaki: "!!?" He gets knock off the couch he'd been sitting on. His glasses fall to the floor. "!? !? !?" He looks up with wide eyes.

Tsukasa lands on top of the table: "...You...! I dare you to say that in front of me again...!" {You don't know how I felt when my parents were killed by the yakuza, how Ryuji felt when his father was assassinated by people he thought he could trust!!} She waves her fist in front of his face. "...I won't let you off as easily as this.........!"

Ikazaki looks at her suspiciously. "......... ...Didn't you... hate your parents......?" {Why do you get so angry over that?}

Tsukasa, making excuses: "A...A! Um! Tha tha that...!" {That's right, and I thought I hated him (Ryuji) too...!} "A! U! Oh yeah! There are some students here selling the drugs claiming to be Rokuominami students. Do you know why?"

Ikazaki eyes her. "......"

Tsukasa: "......?"

He moves in closer.

Tsukasa: "...Wh... ...What is it?"

Ikazaki: "......... I was just thinking... you're my type..."

Tsukasa: "...Ha!?"

Ikazaki: "If you let me kiss you, then maybe I'll tell you."

Tsukasa: "...Wh! What are you saying!? What are you saying!?" {Type you say!!?} "I'm usually dressed like a guy and I'm foul mouthed and I live like a guy!!!"

The SAC president backs her up so that she's leaning back on the table. He starts fondling her breasts. "There's something in here that I don't have... And I want to see it all......

Tsukasa beats the crap out of him. Ikazaki is kinda folded over with numerous bumps on his head. She bares her fangs. "There's only 2 breasts here! If you had something like these wouldn't that be sick!!?" {Isn't that obvious!!? After grabbing, he wants to see too? Are you Ryuji's clone!!!?}

There's a picture of Ryuji budding off little Ryujis. [Gyahahaha!!!]

Somewhere else in the school.

Asago: "A!" {There!! It's Ura!! I'll ask him if he knows something about them!!}

Text: Them refers to the 2 guys that tried to sell Tsukasa drugs that morning.

Ura is walking with a couple of guys.

Guy 1: "Seems that Ichinomiya and Furukawa were selling drugs, which is fine. But it seems like they tried to sell to some of our students too and that their faces are known now." [Ichinomiya and Furukawa are last names.]

Guy 2: "They're so manuke. I wondered if they were ever going to do something stupid like that." [manuke = stupid, dumb] Both guys have bandages on their faces.

Ura: "Chi! And after they were told not to show their faces. Those retards! What are they going to do if they cancel the deal to let us into Kuryugumi?"

Asago: {---...E...? ---...What's that---...? Into Kuryugumi---...? What are they talking about?}

Ura: "So where are Ichinomiya and Furukawa?"

A third guy replies. "...We don't know......... They're probably hiding out somewhere......"

Asago's jaw drops as she recognizes the guy. "!!!" She points at him. "Aaah!! You're what's-his-name from the SAC!!!"

All the guys freak. "!!"

Ura turns: "Asago!! ©"

The guy: "Not what's-his-name! I'm Dootori Kotaka!!"

Ura: "I'm glad. You came looking for me right!?" {Any time's fine with me Asago ~~~©} He hugs her and tries to kiss her.

Asago's trying to hold him back. {I'm not looking for anyone like you!} "Hey! What's going on!!?"

The guys look at each other, then start talking.

"...Well..."

"We were told not to tell. Something about the gokudo having their own rules so if we tell Asago then they might cancel the deal." {Since this is a kind of special treatment.}

"But won't she find out soon?"

"I'm saying not before we get in." {Blah blah blah.}

Asago's getting pissed off. "Auugh!! So what's this all about Ura!"

Ura: "Well, I'm not supposed to say..."

Asago puts her hand to Ura's cheek. "If you tell me I'll kiss--"

Ura: {WA~~~! We were told that if we sell drugs claiming that we're students from Rokuominami then we'll be introduced to Kuryugumi.!!" He smiles in anticipation.

His buddies: "...Ura..." {You're so...} They sweatdrop.

Asago is shocked. "...What... are you saying......? Drugs are prohibited at Kuryugumi!"

The guys look shocked. "...E...?"

Asago: "And... that they would let people who have dealt with drugs is...!"

Ura: "...A! It's them! Those guys..."

Asago: "!!" She whirls to meet them. "..?"

Two guys in black suits and shades are approaching them. They draw guns and aim for them.

Asago: "!!?"

Ura: "...E!?"

Asago's eyes focus on the crest worn by the men. The image of a dragon shocks her. {---...Wha......?}

In the principal's office, Ryuji and the media are packed.

Kaibara: "...Wha... ...Wha...... What are you guys doing here!?"

Ryuji: "I want to transfer to this school."

Kaibara: "We've heard about you from the management room! I'm asking about the people behind you!!" {I didn't give permission for the media to be let in!} "I'll call the police saying I have trespassers!"

The reporters. "E?" They all stand behind Ryuji. "We...! We're his family!!" {We're not the media!!}

"I'm the eldest!"

"I'm the second oldest!"

"I'm the third oldest!

"I'm the fourth oldest!

"I'm the fifth child and this one is the youngest named Tomezo!!"

Text: What a fake sounding name...

Kaibara: "Liar------! I'm calling the police!" He starts dialling, but Ryuji stops him.

Ryuji: I'm Tomezo, the youngest."

The media guys look up to him, thanking him but Kamo-san and Bun-san are shocked and don't know what to do.

Ryuji: "Why are you so jittery?" {Did you do something?}

Kaibara: "Wha!? I look jittery!!?" {Don't say such strange things!}

Ryuji looking expressionless: "...Oh... Then... do you have a TV?"

Kaibara: "Ha? No!" {What's this!?"}

Ryuji: "How cheap. I heard that the principal's room at Rokuominami has a wide screen TV..."

Kaibara starts. "!!" Hitting a remote, a huge TV screen unfolds as he flicks it on.

"A scandal at the private junior high school Rokuominami! Apparently, there's a student from Rokuominami selling illicit drugs!!"

Ryuji: "......"

Kaibara: "......"

Ryuji: "It seems that there are people who go around naming what school they're from when they sell drugs..." {Are they dumb or what?}

Kaibara: "W...Well---..." {I don't know things like that.}

"You've got to be kidding! I can't leave my precious son here! It will ruin his future! We were just leaving to transfer him to Rokuokita!" The TV shows a number of concerned mothers with their children.

Ryuji: "...Haven't there been a lot of students coming here the past two, three days like that...?"

Kaibara: "...A... Well... yes..."

Ryuji: "It must be a lot of trouble..." He looks the principal in the eye.

Kaibara: "...Well... yes..." He looks nervous.

"---Please wait!! You keep saying that it's one of our (Rokuominami) students but there's no proof!!" It's Kiryu.

"But principal Kiryu! It seems that there are student from the sister school Rokuokita who are also victims!" A number of reporters are pressing questions at Rokuominami's principal.

"There has also been complaints filed from the general public naming Rokuominami!" {Isn't this evidence enough!?}

"No! It's not one of our (Rokuominami) students!" Kiryu is desperately trying to defend his students.

Ryuji, watching the screen: "...An escalator type school for elementary, junior high and senior high level... If the problem gets this big then the vice principal can't keep quiet. The principal there (Rokuominami) will undoubtedly be fired......"

Kamo-san, watching the screen: "Isn't it strange that the bad rumours of this school is now shifted to Rokuominami?"

Kaibara: "..."

Bun-san, also watching the screen: "It's like the heavens flipped upside down." [The Japanese way of saying that ''the tables has turned''.]

Ryuji, Kamo-san and Bun-san turn to the principal as one.

Ryuji, looking the principal straight in the eye: "They say that in this world that even good people don't live long lives but... ...you... ...what do you think...?"

The principal is sweating in fear.

Back in the SAC office. Tsukasa is poking at the unconscious Ikazaki who's out on the floor.

Tsukasa: {...It's no use... He won't come too yet~~~ He~~y can you really become a yakuza like this~~~ I guess I hit him a bit too hard---} She sighs. "...At this rate I can't ask about why they're drug dealing claiming they're Rokuominami students. The other SAC guys said they were going for the drugs and they're not back yet." {Not that I really want them or anything~~~} She sits on a chair and rests her chin on the table. "......" {...Drugs is it---... ---...Dad... Mom... I... don't get him...... ---...Is... he really involved with the drug dealings---... He said it didn't involve Kuryugumi.........}

She starts wondering about Ryuji's innocence, and spots a 100 yen coin."......" {Okay! Heads and he's innocent! Tails and he's involved!!} She spins the coins and looks on in horror when it looks like it's going to land as tails. {Ba Bakayaro---! Don't fall that way------!!!} She starts blowing at the coin. She stops in surprise. {Ha...!? ---...What am I doing......?} "..." She glances at the coin. It's heads up. {------...Maybe... I------... ---want to deny that he's---...}

There are two men in black suits and shades on. One has a machine gun with a scope. Tsukasa immediately notices the badge, the same type that Ryuji wears.

"We've come to pick you up... ---We're from Kuryugumi..."

The room is showered with bullets as the guy opens fire. Tsukasa lands on the desk. She got nicked across her right breast and her clothes are torn, but otherwise she's fine.

Tsukasa, glaring at them: "---What... did you say...!!?"