Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
2000 vol. 21, episode no. 87
Translation by Yuki-chan
The episode title page is in colour featuring Tsukasa in camouflage wear. She's holding a Japanese sword so that it's resting on her shoulders. Behind her there is an image of 6 other arms, each bearing different weapons... The image of the Durga.
Text: Women (the seisai) eventually become the Asura.........!! [Now I'm not too sure but I think that the Asura is another Indian god... If anyone read RG Veda by CLAMP, this plot is loosely based on the legend... I think Asura is the destroyer... but then again, I could be totally wrong... Sorry, too lazy to research this one... and I think someone already did somewhere (in the mailing list?)...]
Somewhere inside.
A large explosion is heard. Dust and dirt fall from the ceiling. The sound echoes a few more times.
"!!" Everyone looks up unconsciously.
Kamo-san: "......"
Ryuji: "......"
Bun-san: "...... ...What's that...?"
Kamo-san: "...Is something happening outside...!?"
Ryuji whirls. "...Let's hurry.........!!"
Back outside.
The kumiin with laser guns start as the ground is heaved up into the air again.
"------!!" Bits of rubble shower over the kumiin.
Kumiin 1: "...Kuso...!" [kuso = shit, damn]
Asago: "------...Wa...... ...What did you say......? That Baka-zuki ......!?"
Behind her, Tsukasa's brothers have shadows over their faces and their mouths are hanging open. Toshi and Sho have their hands to their faces.
Taku: "...!"
Sho: "No way."
Toshi: "...!"
Asago: "That's insane!!"
Mooka: "We had no choice!! His speed is unbelievable!! Our attacks do nothing against him. But look there." He points.
Asago follows looks in the distance, seeing Baldy. Tsukasa however is nowhere to be seen.
Mooka: "That elastic thing that used to be wrapped around his finger is loose!!"
Just as Mooka says, Baldy seems to be using his ribbon extension as a whip.
Asago: {!! That finger... Wasn't it...} She recalls that Tsukasa had melted some of it with the laser.
Mooka: "We have no choice but to follow this risky plan!!" [Not a direct translation.]
Baldy pivots, then jumps into the air... and seems to disappear.
Kumiins with the missile launcher: "!!"
Baldy: "Ha ha ha ha. You're so slow. You're so slow you slowpokes."
Kumiin 1: "Wh... Where did he go?"
The kumiin look rather small, meaning that Baldy is high up in the air. They stop firing, looking around for him.
Baldy: "Can you kill me if you can't see me!!?" He seems to be jumping/climbing a building which seemed to have been cut up with a laser.
As he jumps up towards the top of the structure, he sees a figure. It's Tsukasa, wearing some sort of backpack-like contraption.
Tsukasa: "---...Hei." [hei = hey, with a Japanese accent]
Baldy looks over at her in surprise, as if shocked that he was seen.
Tsukasa points right at him, her eyes slitted. "---...I can see......"
Baldy's ribbon flashes in front of her.
Tsukasa: "Your tail------!!" She jumps out and grabs at the ribbon, catching it.
Baldy is pulled off balance: "!!"
Kumiin 1: "Kumicho!!" He points up in the air where Tsukasa has Baldy by the ribbon like thing.
Kyuragi: "!!!" {...I can see him...!!} He prepares to fire.
Moments earlier.
Tsukasa: "He will take machine gun bullets with his body but he's always protecting his head."
An image shows Baldy with his right arm up protecting his head, and his huge left hand with the ribbons extended.
Tsukasa: "I'll catch him so you misters aim for his head------"
Tsukasa: "BUCHINUKE---------------!!" [buchinuke is a very vulgar way of saying ''penetrate'' or ''break/punch through'']
It looks as if Tsukasa is falling and dragging the big guy down with her.
Kyuragi: "...! ...Eei... Don't complain if I hit you------!!" He raises his gun (which has a scope) to aim for Baldy.
A hand reaches out and grabs Kyuragi's shoulder.
Kyuragi turns in surprise.
Tsukasa starts as well.
Wrapping the ribbon around his left hand, Baldy suddenly closes in on Tsukasa.
Tsukasa, as she's suddenly yanked in a different direction: "---!!"
Kumiin 1: "!!"
Kumiin 2: "...Watch..."
Tsukasa: {---A ---------...Asa------...!!}
Below her, Asago is aiming her hand gun, her legs in a wide stance and both hands supporting her gun. Asago's eyes focus on the target.
Three shots are fired.
The kumiin behind Asago seem to retreat backwards.
The shots fire past Tsukasa.
Baldy's body convulses as the shots rip through his head. [Yeah, yeah, maybe that was kinda gory but you can also see stuff flying out of the back of his head... Oops sorry, didn't mean to gross you out...]
Something explodes.
The kumiin freak and retreat as a... umm... huge padded ball rolls passed them. [Someone else have a better description?]
There's the sound of air being released.
Kumiin 1: "...It... It stopped......" He sweatdrops.
The ball unravels, revealing Tsukasa and Asago. It seems like the ''ball'' was like a safety pillow that forms a cushioned sphere around the wearer (it came from the backpack-like contraption).
Tsukasa: "...O...! ...Owww~~~~ It opened too late..." {I didn't get enough lift.}
Asago is sprawled on top of her. She looks up. "......!"
A little distance away, the kumiin slowly surround the body.
Kumiin 1: "...Wow..."
Kumiin 2: "One bullet wound in the forehead between the eyebrows." {Not that he had any eyebrows though} [!? Really? I didn't notice.]
Kumiin 3: "She fired about 3 shots..."
Kumiin 4: "I saw them all go in."
Tsukasa: "......"
Asago: "......"
Both are now sitting up in the deflating cushion. Tsukasa removes the strap from the safety pillow from her shoulders.
Tsukasa: {...Wow...} "Sasugadana..." [Okay... there's no word/phrase that quite describes this word... and it's been driving me insane for awhile. It means something like... ''not bad'' or ''cool!'' or ''that's so like you'' or... I dunno... It has a lot of different meanings... Choose one... I hope I didn't ruin the flow of the story...]
Tsukasa: "I was prepared to be hit by the mister a couple of times." {I thought that I wouldn't die though...... since he had a scope on the gun......}
Asago: "......!"
Tsukasa: "...I didn't expect you to come Asago."
Asago is shown with a huge popped vein on her forehead. A shadow covers half her face. "... ...You're suuuuuch a baka animal......!!" {Your brain is too small!! You were prepared for being hit you say~~~!!?}
Tsukasa has Ping-Pong balls for eyes.
Asago: "I should have shot through a baka like you too."
Tsukasa, in dog form is cowering, her ears laid back. "...!"
Text pointing to Tsukasa: A baka animal.
In the background, Tsukasa's brothers rush up to meet with her.
Asago: {That you put yourself in a plan that may fail... What obligation do you have for the people of Kuryugumi!!?} Her speech is accentuated with popped veins. {Even then......!} She recalls when Tsukasa was trying in vain to slice through Baldy's ''ribbon'' to cut her loose. "......"
Taku: "Tsukasa, are you hurt!?"
Tsukasa: "I'm okay. I'm okay."
Sho is hugging her from behind, as if he'll never let go again. "Mu~~~"
Toshi, with tears in the corner of his eyes: "You're so insane."
Asago recalls another phrase.
"---Well actually, I can't leave those in trouble alone......"
Looks like Tsubaki came as well and is glad to see Tsukasa in one piece. Sho is hanging onto her back.
Behind Tsubaki is a sullen looking Azuma, who seems to be pointing to himself. "..."
Text pointing to Azuma: Waiting in line.
Tsukasa, suddenly: "---A! It's Ryuji!!" {I just caught his scent!} Dog ears and the muzzle appear again.
Asago: "!"
Tsubaki: "E?"
Sho: "Where?" {I can't tell.}
Tsubaki: "Shirogami's scent you say... Not in a place like this." {How funny~~~ You're still the same Kozuki. A ha ha ha.}
Moments later.
Ryuji: "---...What...? You (Tsukasa) with Kyuragi's assistance......!?"
Text pointing to Ryuji: He was here.
Tsubaki, with a shadow over his face. {...He really is here... Shirogami...That your scent was detected so far away means..... No... Or is it that Kozuki is abnormal......}
Ryuji: "That bakemono......!?"
In the background, the kumiin are still crowded around Baldy's body. [Oomaiga, Baldy was HUGE!! He must be at least 4 m tall!!]
Kumiin 1: "My god this guy's really huge......"
Kumiin 2: "A real bakemono!"
Tsukasa, happily to Ryuji: "Yup!"
Kamo-san: "......"
Tsukasa: "I knew that even I would have trouble chasing after and capturing him but I thought that if he came towards me then I could catch him." {That's why I had the misters attack so that he would escape in my direction.} She points her thumb in the direction of the clan heads.
Kyuragi: "..." It looks like he's sulking.
Tsukasa: "And I was thinking of having mister finish him when I caught him but,"
Kamo-san: "......"
Tsukasa: "Asago came."
Asago, with her arms crossed, looking embarrassed: "........."
Tsukasa smiles a goofy smile: "Thanks to her, the iffy plan went through perfectly!!" There are flowers in the background as she shows a victory sign.
Asago is still looking embarrassed: "..."
Kamo-san, shocked: "---..." {I don't believe it......... ...Asago-san... assisted Tsukasa-san, and the clan heads actually followed Tsukasa-san's lead...!? Those who were so against her, calling her a katagi, a cop kid among other things...!?}
Tsukasa: "...Thanks a bunch Asago. Arigato." [arigato = thank you]
Asago: "..."
Tsukasa: "Your shooting is great as always. You're kakkoii." She smiles.
Asago thinks back again.
"---...Her (the kage no seisai's) daughter is probably like her mother and has amazing fighting powers."
The battle scenes that Asago had seen flash through her head. [Yeah, yeah, they're cells from when Tsukasa protected Akira from Shibata, the battle at Tokonome Island and the battle she just witnessed.]
"---And I'm sure that---..." There's a pic of Asago looking up dreamily.
Asago remembers all the times Tsukasa had stuck up for her and protected her. [Yeah, yeah, they're cells from when Tsukasa lent Asago her protector, how Tsukasa worried about her etc. and the way Tsukasa had pointed out that it was obvious that she helped women in distress.]
Asago smiles. " ---...So you say but---..."
Tsukasa looks surprised at first then returns the smile. She and Asago knock fists.
Ryuji and Kamo-san stare open mouthed.
Kamo-san: {---...She made her accept---... Before I even went through my plan of proving Tsukasa-san's worth.}
The darkened frame is a scene where Kamo-san is in deep thought, thinking of how he could reveal her roots to the kumi. Bun-san is looking on suspiciously.
Kamo-san: {She has proved that she has the right to live in this world (of the gokudo)---... all by herself---...}
Tsukasa turns to the clan heads. "Misters, sankyu for agreeing to my plan." [sankyu = ''thank you'' with a Japanese accent]
Kyuragi: "... ...Oh...Um... Yeah..."
Ryuji looks on silently: "........." He then starts bellowing orders. "Everyone, prepare for battle. There are still more of them."
Kumiin 1: "!"
Kumiin 2: "! No way, are you serious!?"
Kumiin 3: "Hiee~~~"
Kumiin 4: "There are still more of them, but how many~!?"
Baldy wasn't wearing shades but his right eye seems to be covered with a lens or something. [It's reflective.]
Kumiin 5: "I hope there isn't a bakemono bigger than this one."
Seems that Baldy's right eye transmitted images, like Shiki's shades.
Sakaki is watching from a laptop. Ouguro is seen behind him. Seems that the lens thing transmits audio info as well.
Sakaki: "Hey! The big one was killed...!" {Damn! Wakasa's daughter and that sailor girl!!} [Meaning the girl in the sailor uniform.] "You other ones!! Shirogami Ryuji and Wakasa's daughter are at the hotel entrance, the east end!! Hurry up and return to finish up!!"
The other Ultimate Weapons: "!! Roger, we'll return immediately."
"Sakaki-sama." A head shot of one of the Ultimate Weapons appears on the lap top. He's a non descript guy in a suit with shades and short dark kinda curly/wavy hair.
Ultimate Weapon: "I'm sorry. I've lost Shiva-sama."
Sakaki: "!! You aho!! You lost him you say!!?" {He will definitely come here!! To come and kill the one who betrayed him. He'll definitely come for me!!} "What ever you do, finish him so that he'll never appear before me again!!"
Somewhere else.
It seems that the hilt of Misumi's sword is hollow. He screws off the bottom.
Two golf ball like things fall out into the palm of his hand.
Misumi is sitting on the floor leaning against the wall. He looks down at the things in his hand, his face expressionless...
Back to Ryuji and co.
Tsukasa: "---From what I've seen, it's hard to defeat them in a gun fight. No matter what, you have to stop their movements first."
Ryuji: "---..."
Seems that Tsukasa and Ryuji are a little distance from everyone else, who's preparing for the upcoming battle. Tsukasa is standing up, leaning on a container. Ryuji is sitting down on another one.
Tsukasa: "...I guess, like this time... ...I'll."
Ryuji: "!! You don't have to go that far."
Tsukasa: "But among everyone here, I'm the only one who can even slow those bakemonos."
Ryuji: "It's my job to plan the battle here!!" He stands and whirls, putting his hand on the container beside Tsukasa, blocking her path.
Tsukasa looks up in surprise: "!"
Ryuji: "In this world (of the gokudo), the one who takes the most dangerous position is the kumicho or the seisai."
Tsukasa has wide eyes.
Ryuji leans in close so that his face is close to hers. "...Will you... become my seisai------...?"
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