Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
1999 vol. 14, episode no. 62
Translation by Yuki-chan

The episode title page is in colour, featuring Tsukasa with blue hair and blue eyes... Someone is tilting her head upwards.

Ryuji slowly opens his eyes.

Kamo-san is peering down at him: "...Sandaime......"

Bun-san is also leaning forwards looking down at him: "...Sandaime!"

The other clan heads are also clustered around Ryuji's bedside: "Sandaime is conscious!"

"Sandaime."

Ryuji sits up. He's topless and seems to have no marks from the bullets he took. "------..."

Kamo-san, leaning over worriedly: "Sandaime... You shouldn't move yet..."

Ryuji: "...I've been having this bad dream..."

Kamo-san: "...E...?"

Ryuji, looking thoughtful: "------..." {---Though I wake up numerous times, each time, the reality placed before me is not perfect and then I realize that it's not 'my world'. ---I'm in a maze where I can't find the right exit------...}

Voice: "A---! Ryuji's awake------!!"

Ryuji: {---Is this really 'my world'------... ---Was I really able to come back ------...}

It's Tsukasa. "Ryuji---!!" She suddenly hugs Ryuji, very unlike her... "I was worried! You took so long to get up------!!" {I was lonely you bakayaro---!}

Ryuji looks a bit worried: "......" {...This may be wrong......}

Tsukasa, with her hand to Ryuji's cheek: "...What...... you won't even greet me with a kiss though we were apart for so long.........?"

Ryuji: "......" {This seems really wrong.......}

Tsukasa looks sad: "...You... Don't care about me anymore......"

Ryuji: {...No...} "...Not that but..." {Um how do you say it...}

Tsukasa: "...Fine... ...I see... Then I'll just go to a guy that wants me more than you do~~~~" She turns and starts walking away. The clan heads and Ryuji's bodyguards have dots for eyes.

Ryuji freaks: "WHAT!?" There's a large popped vein on his forehead. He also has fangs. "Wait a minute!! I don't care if this is a dream or what but I'm not going to let that happen!!"

Tsukasa: "...It's too la--------te..." She smiles slyly. "...I've already decided......"

A shadowy figure steps behind Tsukasa. It vaguely looks like a tall man with long dark hair.

Ryuji: "!!"

Tsukasa: "...Later......" The shadowy figure partially envelops her.

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

A sea of blood slowly engulfs Ryuji.

Ryuji: {------!!!} "...A...!" {...My body...!!} He watches as Tsukasa turns and walks away with the shadow. His hand reaches out but he can't more forward. {My body... ------...won't move---...}

There is the sound of wheels.

Ryuji's right hand twitches.

He's still asleep.

Shiki: "......Oh. Hey, thanks oneesans."

Two nurses had wheeled Ryuji to Shiki, who was standing alone in the hallway...

There is the sound of running feet.

Tsukasa: "A!" Behind her are Akira and Taku.

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

Kamo-san: "A!"

Tsukasa: "Kamo-sa----n!!"

Kamo-san: "...Tsukasa-san...!?"

Tsukasa: "Kamo-san! Where's Ryuji!?"

Kamo-san: "......A... ...It seems... that he's disappeared from his room."

Tsukasa in SD: "WHAT!? What do you mean by disappeared!!?"

Nurse: "I... Um... Shirogami-san's condition has improved so we were talking about moving to a general room. ...But when I checked with the head doctor... he said he hasn't given permission to do so yet...... We... were just going to contact the police..." [Yes, I'm going to replace Ryuji's last name as Shirogami...]

Tsukasa: "...!" {------Could it be ---Garyukai...!! I was one step behind.........!!?} She turns to the nurse. "Nurse!"

Nurse: "! ...Hai."

Tsukasa: "...What is the easiest way to get out of the hospital while avoiding running into people......!?"

Shiki: "...So... I'll see you where we met yesterday." He shoos the 2 nurses away.

Voice: "---So you've trained the nurses with the drug... Dolls that listen to your every word."

Shiki: "...A..."

Owner of the voice, Misumi: "What was the bait you used when you injected them with the drug? ---Money ...or sex...?" Misumi is wearing his hair loose today. [I bet it reaches halfway down his back...]

Shiki: "......Sex..." {Don't you know well. Got them while doing something H.}

Misumi: "I don't think too highly of that. You're wasting the drug......"

Shiki: "Why not? For me, those nurses will become assassins. And putting that aside, why are you in a place like this?" {When you always sit around like a rock and not move.}

Misumi: "...Knowing you, you're too easy on people on whom you have no grudge. ...I was thinking that maybe you would bring him to me alive."

Shiki's mouth opens in surprise as Misumi pulls out a gun and points it at Ryuji's head.

Voice: "He~~~Y Wait Wait Wait Wait Wait Wait Wai--------------t!! Enough of your evil ways Sada Gonzaemon (a false name), head of Garyukai---------!! I'll have you put that gun away------!!" [Remember, Tsukasa doesn't know Misumi's name.]

Tsukasa is all out of breath and dressed in... I'm not sure... But it does look like ancient clothing, and she is carrying a lantern and a jitte. A jitte is a weapon that the police of the past used to use. Kinda like cop's baton/club but with a second bar running parallel to the first. It's made out of metal, in case you're wondering, and the 'hilt' part is usually ornamented. I think it was also used as a status symbol for power/authority as well... Okay, maybe that didn't make any sense. Would anyone like to scan in this pic? It's the bottom of page 187 of this volume of Hana to Yume.

Shiki clamps both hands over his mouth to keep from bursting out with laughter. His cheeks are full though. "......!"

Misumi is labelled as Gonzaemon. "...... ...Well... My, my... ...How surprising... That you would come out on your own before we even do anything...... Like a moth drawn to a flame isn't it..."

Tsukasa looks confused: {WHAT!? Am I a cicada or a horned beetle?}

There are pictures of summer insects above Tsukasa's head, including a cicada and a horned beetle. [The only thing is though, the ones shown here aren't the type that are drawn to light...]

Text: Summer insects.

Tsukasa: "You were going to lure me out!?"

Akira, Kamo-san and Taku finally catch up with Tsukasa.

Tsukasa: "You bastard...! You were going to use Ryuji as bait...!!"

Misumi: "...How sharp... Exactly......"

Kamo-san, out of breath: "......" {...That......? That is the don of the Kansai gokudo that has been shrouded in darkness for so long!!? What's this? ------He's awfully young!! Well... I can't say much for us as well...}

Tsukasa: "---...OK. Fine... I'll take on that challenge (fight)..." {Since I am a summer insect.} She takes out her blade. "I'll have you return Ryuji."

Misumi: {---...A sword...} "......" He smiles. "---There is another option. If you come with me, I'll return him now without harm---..."

Tsukasa keeps her blade in front of her. "... ...And if I say no......? "

Misumi: "You'll want to come with me."

Tsukasa: "Who the hell would do that?"

Misumi suddenly fires his gun at the hospital bed.

Tsukasa's hair stands on end like a black sea urchin. "Gyaaaaaaaaaa"

Misumi glances back at Tsukasa: "---...Next time, I won't miss..." He smiles.

Tsukasa: "...! That's dirty!! You bastard---!!" {You must have green blood and not be an inhabitant of this planet------!!}

Misumi: "...That can't be helped... I was planning to use him to catch you like this anyway. Since you weren't caught so easily, I had to come out like this. That's all."

Smoke rises from a spot on the pillow right next to Ryuji's head.

Shiki glances at Ryuji's face. {...N...?} "......" {...Is it my imagination...?}

Tsukasa is visibly angry. "......" She steps forward.

Taku: "!! ...Tsukasa!"

Tsukasa: "...Don't worry Taku-nii... We have more people on this side." {We even have more guns on this side.}

Taku: "...Don't."

Tsukasa: "When I get to his side,"

Taku: "...Stop it Tsukasa..." {...Please... don't say such words with those eyes...}

Tsukasa: "Tell everyone to get into a fighting position..."

Taku: {You look like a yakuza------!!} "---Tsukasa!!"

Tsukasa steps forward towards Misumi. She has that yakuza-like look on her face.

Misumi: "...Finally..."

Tsukasa: "...... ...Just thought I'd let you know, me and my brothers weren't given any important secret about Garyukai that you would want to know!!"

Misumi starts: "...Your brothers aren't involved in this... The only one who was given it was you..." [Ummm... the word I translated as 'given' can also mean inherited...]

Tsukasa: "I'm saying," {Why me?} "That I wasn't given anything!!"

Misumi: "No... You must have been given something."

Tsukasa: "I don't know what secret Mother stole from Garyukai 14 years ago..."

Misumi: "------Not that parent."

Taku's eyes are wide in surprise. {------...A...}

Tsukasa also looks surprised as well. "---...What... do you mean?"

Misumi: "..." He extends his hand towards Tsukasa. "......Come......... ...In your body runs blood that differs from that of most people------..."

Tsukasa's eyes are wide. As if mesmerized, the blade falls out of her left hand and she accepts Misumi's hand.

Misumi: {---...So return---... to where your blood belongs------...}

Tsukasa is pulled forward by Misumi, alongside Ryuji's hospital bed. She suddenly snaps out of it when someone grabs her right arm.

Tsukasa: {------...E...?}

She slowly turns around.

Kamo-san: "......A..." [Hey, looks like Bun-san is here too...]

Voice: "...Th ...This time...... I've caught... you......"

Tsukasa's mouth is hanging open. It's Ryuji. He's finally awake.

Ryuji rolls over weakly, still hanging on to Tsukasa's arm. "...I won't let... you... get away again---..."

Asago is pissed. There are 2 popped veins on her forehead.

She's squishing the wrapper in anger and eating another hamburger. Both actions are done using only her left hand.

Munakata: "...... Hey, hey are you still going to eat?" {How extreme, you're going to get fat.} The sound of the car engine is in the background.

Asago: "Yes!!" {Do you have a problem with that!?}

Munakata: "...No... It doesn't really matter... If you have feelings and feel the 3 basic drives then there's nothing to worry about." [The 3 basic drives meaning the desires to eat, have sex and sleep.] "So, haven't you lost your will to die......?"

Asago blanches. [A very un-Asago like thing to do.] She turns away from the cop. {...That's right...... I thought I wanted to die...... But here I am taking in energy like this...!! UuUU!!!} She shakes her head. {But I can't help this!! If I don't keep up my strength then I may be attacked by this cop again~~~!! Just earlier he put his hand in my skirt! He tried to undress me! He was going to rape me!!} [Then why is she still in the car...?]

Text: But since there were a lot of people around, he stopped.

Munakata is humming to himself and pulls out another cigarette with his left, his right hand on the wheel.

Asago: {I have to at least keep up my strength until I get away from this guy...!! I must have been desperate when the guy called on me for me to have gotten into the police car...!} She turns back to glare at the cop.

Munakata is exhaling deeply, sending out a puff of smoke.

Asago: "..." {---...And plus... this guy's words have caught me---}

She recalls Munakata's earlier words.

"To die in compensation is something that a person who has no intention of compensating does."

"Even a monkey can pull such a stunt by dying."

Asago remembers and squeezes the hamburger in her left hand. Ketchup and mayo (or whatever is in the burger) oozes out on to her hand.

Asago: {Like a monkey......!!} She pictures herself as a monkey. [Asago's face on a monkey's body] {He called me a monkey!! This guy!!! The fact that what he says is logical even makes me angrier......!!}

Munakata glances at Asago, who's deep in her own thoughts.

Asago finally starts, and looks at the mess in her left hand. {...Aa......! How disgusting!}

Munakata tosses a package of wet napkins to her.

The box lands in Asago's lap but she just stares at it dumbly. "---......" She glances at her messy left hand, and down at her still right hand which is resting on the car seat beside her.

Munakata: "---...What... you can't even wipe your own hand?"

Asago starts, then glares at him with tears in her eyes.

Munakata notices her look, then turns his eyes back on the road. "---...Sorry... ---...I kinda realized it... When you pointed the knife at me, while you were eating and even just a moment ago [when he started to make a move on her] you didn't use your right hand at all." He takes out a wet napkin. "...Here, give me your hand." {It's a wet one so it'll come off nicely.} Looks like he parked the car somewhere.

Asago, with the mess still in her hand: "~~~~~~ ...No......!" {That's embarrassing!} "You! You're treating me like a child aren't you!?" {Don't make fun of me!}

Munakata starts: "...Child?"

Asago: "Pass it here! I'll do it myself."

Munakata: "I wasn't thinking you were a child."

Asago pauses, then glares at him: "...That's a lie... No one has ever treated me like an adult......" {---...Even Ryuji... has always treated me like a child...!!}

Munakata: "---I don't think that anyone who ages enough can just suddenly become an 'adult'. The world is full of people who are getting older but whose brains are still like that of a child, people who are pretending to be adults." He wipes his own hand first. "People who seemed to have never actually lived on their own, the type of people who can't get up themselves if they are tripped, the type that have that giddy look on their face because they don't know the pain of 'living', they make me sick." He tosses the used one and takes out another napkin. "---...Since I'm in this job, I can usually what type of life someone has lived just by the look in his/her eyes."

Asago's eyes are wide.

Munakata turns to her: "...You seemed to have lived a rather hard life."

Asago starts.

Munakata: "...And one that teeters on the brink between life and death..."

Asago: "..." {------That's right...... ---That's... the life I've lived...}

Munakata: "Everyday, your nerves are on end, and every time it seemed you would break under the pressure, you suffered alone." He takes her hand in his and starts to wipe the mess off.

Asago: "!!" {---To 'overcome it by myself' was obvious and I acted so that nobody would realize them so nobody knew ---my feelings------...}

Munakata: "---Even when the ground gave away beneath you, you always tried to stand up by yourself."

Asago: "---......!" {------But...... this guy------}

Munakata: "---You probably don't realize it yourself, but compared to other gakis your age......" He's still wiping her hand.

Asago: {How did he uncover the feelings in my heart so easily---------...?}

Munakata pauses for a moment when he notices something. "---------...... ......You......."

Asago: {---Why......}

Munakata: "...know the pain of living. You have the eyes of an adult------..."

Asago: {Why won't these tears stop flowing------...?}

The last pic shows Asago crying, as if she finally got to release the feelings she had cooped up within her for the first time in her life.