Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
1999 vol. 9, episode no. 58
Translation by Yuki-chan

Takuma is featured on the episode title page (not in colour).

Sumire is running down the hallways.

Sumire: "Hurry, hurry. Hurry hurry."

Text pointing to a large building: Dormitory for Rokuo Junior High School students. (Guardians can also reside here as well.)

Video recording: "...Hey... You the hime-san back there... If you care for the welfare of your party then come here......"

Azuma, who's watching the video: "------......"

"If you don't do as I say then we'll slice these people before we take you away!!"

Sumire, all out of breath: "...What Azuma-san, you're watching the video from the graduation trip again?" {And always the same part at the Time Travel World.} "You rea~~~lly don't get bored with it do you~~" [For those who have forgotten, the video clip is from the graduation trip, specifically episode no. 45, where Tsukasa and her group visits Time Travel World. It's the part where 4 ninjas try to kidnap Tsubaki but Tsukasa stops them.]

Azuma: "!?" He starts.

[The "video" is really cool. It's more like a 3-D holograph. But there's also a TV screen in the background. Does that mean you can watch it in both 2-D and in 3-D from different angles?]

Sumire, shaking her head and sighing: "Azuma-san, you really love Tsubaki don't you~~~" {Did you fall in love with his cross dressing?}

Azuma, getting up: "Sumire-san! ...You're back early today."

Sumire: "Yeah, since there's somewhere I have to go." {So I skipped extra curricular activities for today.}

Azuma: "Somewhere you have to go?" {Where would that be?)

Sumire: "That's a secret. I can't tell you since you're a yakuza!"

Azuma, confused: "...Ha?"

Sumire, putting on a jacket: "I got the news from Tsuka-chan since I promised that I wouldn't let any yakuza know."

Azuma: "... 'Tsuka-chan'?"

The video: "You fools...... You claim that you can kidnap the princess in front of me, the one known as the famed guardian of the princess......"

Sumire, pointing to the video: "See, that one, that one. I told you awhile ago remember, Tsubaki's friend." [Looks like Tsukasa has another nickname, Tsuka-chan]

Azuma: "!"

The video: "If you can take the princess from me... then try to do so...!!"

Sumire: "The boy named Kozuki Tsukasa! Even (though he looks) like that, he's a boy! Isn't he pretty!?"

Azuma: "---..." He pauses the video at the scene where Tsukasa is wielding her sword, ready to protect the "princess" (Tsubaki). "---...He......... truly is, no matter how you look at him------..."

Sumire, freaking out: "Uwa!! You're a shotakon!!" {You've looked at the video from all directions have you!?} She starts dancing in circles away from Azuma. "There's a shotakon here~~~!" {My god~~~! You feel that way about Tsubaki too!? Hyaaa---!}[Okay, okay... to be quite honest... I don't know what a shotakon really is, and it's not in my dictionary, but I can make guesses. I'll let your imaginative minds do the thinking here.]

Sumire, laughing and exiting: "I was kidding~~~ I'm leaving now------!"

Azuma: "Sumire-san, what time will you be coming back......"

Sumire: "I dunno~~~!"

Azuma: "...... ---......A shotakon am I------... ...I give up------..." [Yeah, this is a crappy translation here but I can't think of something better...]

Somewhere else. [At school I think.]

Tsukasa: "...Ha~~~..." She sighs again. She's leaning on the veranda, looking out in the distance. "...Aa~~~... I feel like I've wasted a whole day... ........." {---...Ryuji... I wonder if he's fighting his way back by himself------...} She looks down. {...I... ...said that I would be by his side------...} She cracks. "Uwoooooooo I'm such a liar!!!!!! AAAAAAAA! Ryuji's probably resenting me, he probably hates me, he's cursing me~~~~~~!"

Tsubaki: "...Hey, hey... If you're so worried about him, then why don't you make a short visit to the hospital?"

Tsukasa: "...Bu~~~ I was told that if I even went to the hospital for a short period of time, then that would mean breaking my relation with my brothers~~~"

Tsubaki: "Isolation!? Now isn't that a hard to deal with...... How did that come about?"

Tsukasa: "...I dunno~~~~~~"

Tsubaki: "...What do you mean you dunno~~~~......" He stands next to her.

Tsukasa: "..." {---...I don't know but...} She recalls Taku's angry face. {...Takunii was strange yesterday...... Getting mad and all when he heard 'Garyukai'...... It wasn't like he was mad like a 'guardian' would.... more like... he was fearful of something...}

Tsubaki: "...But really~~~ Will Shirogami... regain consciousness within one week~~~...?"

Tsukasa: "!! Of course he will!!" {Don't state something so obvious!} They both step back into the school.

Tsubaki: "You seem so sure of that...... What's your basis?"

Tsukasa: "I sent him a threat via telepathy saying that if he doesn't regain consciousness then I'd never speak with him again!!" She looks determined to follow through with her threat if necessary.

Tsubaki: "...Never speak with him again is it... If you're going to threaten him then why not say something like you're going to get another guy or that you're going to cheat on him. Wouldn't that be better?" {I'm sure he'll get up right away.}

Tsukasa: "...Ha...!?" She looks totally confused.

Azuma: "...Tsubaki-san!"

Tsukasa and Tsubaki both turn at the sound of the voice. Azuma is seen at the doorway to the classroom, all out of breath.

Azuma: "......Thank goodness...... I'm sorry for being late..."

Tsubaki: "...Azuma......" They're now outside. "...What now. Didn't I tell you since the thing with Takarabegumi is over now that you don't have to keep following me around like this~~~~~~!" {Over and over---!}

Azuma: "...Yes~~~... But it's become habit now."

Tsubaki: "I'm not a kid anymore either~~"

Azuma glances at Tsukasa. "......"

Tsukasa looks totally zoned.

Text pointing to Tsukasa: Her mind is probably at the hospital.

Azuma: {...This is... the kid 'Kozuki Tsukasa-kun'......} He pictures the Tsukasa he knows from the graduation trip video. He begins to doubt himself. {...Isn't it......?}

Tsubaki: "...A... There's the shuttle bus to the dorm." {Lucky, I don't have to wait.}

Text: It's a 10 minute bus ride to the dormitories.

Tsukasa starts as well.

Tsubaki: "Azuma, I know you came to pick me up and all but I'm going to take this back."

Azuma, at a loss for words: "A... H... Ha..."

Tsukasa: "...... ...Today......" She sort of mumbles. Azuma and Tsubaki start. "Who wants to come to my place------!?" {Raise your hand---------!!} She raises her own hand.

Tsubaki raises his hand. So does Azuma.

Tsukasa and Tsubaki: "...He...?"

Azuma starts.

Tsubaki: "...Azuma...?"

Azuma: "A... Um... I... wanted to meet with Kozuki-san's family......"

Tsubaki: "Meet with them!! No way! That's kakkowarui!! Do you think that there's anyone this age that goes to a friend's house accompanied by a guardian!?"

Azuma looks down: "....."

Tsukasa: "Well, well, why not Tsubaki-dono." {It just shows how much you're loved.} "So how about the three of us going." She links arms with Tsubaki and Azuma and starts skipping along. "Skip, skip la la la------" [Don't ask. She's singing to herself...]

Azuma and Tsubaki are being dragged by her skipping. There are flowers in the background.

Azuma, with concern: "Wait! While wearing the Rokuo uniform!! If you're going to go then let me bring the car around!! You'll be hunted after by the street kids around here~~~!"

Tsukasa stops mid-skip: "Ha!? That's right! If we go by your car then I can get home for free!? OKAY!!"

A figure stands silently nearby behind the corner of some building. "......"

Tsukasa pivots suddenly, swinging Azuma and Tsubaki around violently: "Since that's decided it's back to Rokuo---!!"

Person: {...Hey, hey.} It's Shiki. "Going by car again? ...I guess that means that I should have gotten her first thing in the morning to avoid all the hassle~~~."

Text pointing to Shiki: But with his low blood pressure, he hates mornings and had slept in. (He's running things completely at his own pace.)

Shiki: {...But... If I don't hurry and catch her and get back then the bastard will start demanding...}

Shiki's phone goes off suddenly, scaring the daylights out of him. He's in a really weird position. "~~~~~~!!" He takes out his phone as if it's the plague (he's holding it with 2 fingers). "...S... Scaring me like that...!!" {Already you bastard---! What a short tempered general!} His heart is racing and he looks pale. He opens the phone (well the phone/laptop thingie). The phone rings again. "...I... I'm not scared of him...I'm not scared. I'm not scared...! Not scared!" His hand is shaking. "I'm not scared!" He finally hits the talk button.

Misumi appears on the screen. "---...It's me."

Shiki has a total personality change. All of the sudden he's glaring at Misumi with eyes of hatred and talks in a firm tone. "---Yo. You were late. I got the info you wanted." Shiki holds up a picture of Tsukasa. "---Kozuki Tsukasa, age 14. It seems that her cop parents were both killed last year and her surviving family consists of 3 brothers." He holds up pictures of Tsukasa's brothers. "There's nothing suspicious about these siblings. ---Except for that the fact that this one is a 'girl' just like you said." He flashes the picture of Tsukasa again. He has the the phone set up on a stack of boxes.

Misumi: "---..."

Shiki: "...What?" {No response?}

Misumi: "...No... Just knowing that that is female is enough...... Just capture her......" Misumi starts. He then glares at Shiki. "...... ...Could it be... ...that you already failed at one attempt..."

Shiki: "E? When I actually got close enough to be able to tell that he's actually a girl?" {Ha!!} "You've got to be kidding. There's no way that I would make su~~ch a manuke blunder." He shakes his head. {Think a bit will you~~~?}

Text: A complete liar.

Misumi: "...... ...Fine...... ...Then hurry and get that Kozuki Tsukasa to me by the end of the day. There's much I want to ask her in person."

Shiki now has his hands in his pockets and is leaning against the wall. "For starters, why are you raised as a boy though you're a girl and such. Yeah, yeah, O~~~K~~~."

Misumi glares again: "--...By today......" He hangs up.

The monitor goes blank.

Shiki: "..." He takes a deep breath. "BAKAYARO---!!! YOU BASTARD---!! Stop kidding around like that---!! If I could catch her by the end of the day then nobody would have any problems---!!" He starts taking his anger out of the surroundings. He punches the wall several times and knocks the boxes over, letting the phone fall to the ground. "And who's the one that's going to fight with the girl again!!? HUH!?" {He makes it sound like it's not my problem---!!}

Shiki starts. "...... ...AA... ...That's right... I should make it someone else's problem!"

Scene change.

Sumire: "...Ha...!? Asa-yan went back to Tokyo yesterday!? What the...! How stupid. What did I pay all that money for the high speed, high altitude flight!"

Kamo-san looks on sympathetically: "......"

Looks like they're at the hospital.

Sumire: "...Fi~~~ne. Then I'll go back to Tokyo... I should go to Kuryugumi (to see her) right?"

Kamo-san: "...A... No... It may be that even if you go to Kuryugumi you may not be able to meet her......"

Sumire: "Why?"

Kamo-san: "Last night, her health went down suddenly and she's not at all in a state to take visitors."

Sumire: "...... ...H---m...... ...I... have this feeling that Asa-yan has all these troubles on her shoulders.... and all since the engagement announcement!"

Kamo-san: "...No way..."

Sumire, angrily: " 'Shirogami Asago'!! See! Doesn't it sound horrible!? If she were to do an onomancy the results would probably be the pits!!" {I bet that it's a name that takes all the misfortunes of the world!!} There are little popped veins all over the cel.

[What's onomancy? Well it's not in my English dictionary but it is my Japanese-English dictionary. In Japanese onomancy is seimei handan, or "full name" and "judgement". It's a type of astrology like test where the number of brush strokes in one's name (written in kanji) determines one's fortune. I guess it's kind of like numerology.]

Kamo-san: "...Is it that bad........."

Sumire, turning away: "If the guy's only going to make Asa-yan unhappy then she should break up with the guy!! Life is long! There's no point in walking towards unhappiness!" She exits.

Kamo-san: {...AA... She just said her mind and left... Not even a word about Sandaime... ...Sandaime... is not well liked I see....} "---..." {---... 'her health went down suddenly'...---...} "---...If... that was true then it would have been much better---..."

Somewhere in the hallways of the hospital.

Sumire is stomping and talking to herself in anger. She stops suddenly when she overhears voices.

"...Aa. We'll try to trace Asago ojyosan's steps from here."

Sumire: {...Asa-yan...?}

"...Aa. If she really went back to Tokyo then she would have went with her father...... She disappeared suddenly and none of the kumiin have seen her."

Sumire peeks around the corner to see 2 men talking on the phone.

Man: "There's no way she's heading for Tokyo. Though she's no longer here in Nagoya, she's probably in the Tokai area."

Sumire: {--...A...! Asa-yan's disappeared------!!?}

In front of the Kozuki residence.

Tsubaki: "...O---... So this is your place. What the... Though you always say you're poor this is a pretty good place."

Tsubaki is a bit nervous.

Tsukasa: "Actually, we can afford this place because of the landlord's goodwill." {Other places are full and actually the rent is pretty high.} She spots someone. "...Huh...? Taku-nii."

Taku, who's sitting on the steps to the apartment: "Oh. ...It... was good that I got off work early but now that I think about it, I don't have a key~~~"

Tsukasa, Tsubaki and Azuma take places next to Taku.

Tsukasa: "...I guess we'll have to wait until Toshi or Sho come back home."

Taku: "...I guess so......"

Text: Note, Kaya-san is at work too.

Tsukasa also does not have a key.

Azuma and Tsubaki: "..."

Taku, looking sorry: "...Sorry... You came all this way..."

Tsubaki, very nervous: "...A, not at all! I! It's the first time I've been to a friend's house! So I'm happy for just being invited here!"

Taku: "...First time?" He looks suspicious.

Tsubaki: "Hai!! Actually, my family in Osaka and are members of the goku..."

Tsukasa gets up all of the sudden and starts screaming, scaring her listeners. "UWAAAAAAAAAAAA" She holds her head and starts rolling around. Her brother, Azuma and Tsubaki look on in wonder.

Tsubaki: "K... Kozuki!?" Tsukasa starts rolling away. "Kozuki---! What's wrong------!!?"

Someone watching nearby [probably Shiki]: "......"

Taku, not looking pleased: "......"

Azuma looks completely confused: "......" There are question marks around his head.

Tsubaki manages to stop Tsukasa under his foot some distance away: "KOZUKI!" {Stop!}

Tsukasa, wearing pajamas [!!?] and with eyes drawn as inward spirals: "...Fu fu... Finally, just the two of us........." {I thought that you would follow me.}

Tsubaki: "Ha...?"

Tsukasa whispers in Tsubaki's ear.

Tsubaki: "---... ...Really---..."

Tsukasa: "... ...Especially after my parents were killed by the gokudo......" {...And he's even stranger since yesterday... he'll probably tell me to cut ties with Asaba-kun too...} "...So Asaba-kun, the words 'gokudo' and 'yakuza' are forbidden in front of my brother!!"

Tsubaki blanches as he sees something behind Tsukasa. "...Kozuki... ...It's too late......"

Taku has his arms crossed and is standing directly behind Tsukasa. Azuma is behind Taku, looking a bit bewildered. Taku looks rea~~~~~lly angry. There's a black flame surrounding him.

Tsukasa blanches too: "........."

A little while later.

Tsukasa: "...Taku-nii~~~ Asaba-kun is not a yakuza. It's just that his family is."

Taku: "...I know that."

Tsukasa: "Then~~~~~~~"

Taku: "I know! But I don't want you to be associated with people who have the word 'yakuza' attached to their names!!"

Tsukasa: "Why!? Why do you say that all of the sudden!? Well yeah......! Up until now you weren't too pleased with me being with Ryuji, but you didn't try to separate us by force! ...Taku-nii... You're acting strangely."

Taku refuses to meet Tsukasa's eyes. "......"

Tsukasa: "You've been acting weird since you heard the name 'Garyukai'!!"

Taku starts, as does Tsubaki and Azuma.

Tsubaki: "---...Garyukai..."

Azuma: "------..."

Tsukasa: "...Taku-nii------... ...Are... you hiding something from me......?"

Taku smiles sadly: "...You baka. ...I'm not hiding anything......."

Voice: "...Really~~~~~~...?"

Tsukasa whirls at the sound of the voice. {...A......}

Voice: "...There's 2 ways to find out if the oniisan there is hiding something or not."

Shiki and 3 guys approach: "---...One is to come with me......"

Tsukasa: {...Scorpion~~~!! Again---!}

Shiki: "The other is for you to fight these guys and bleed like Kuryugumi's Sandaime. Then we'll have the oniisan there talk to keep you alive."

Tsukasa: "......"

Taku: "......"

Shiki: "...Which do you prefer?"

Tsukasa, looking pissed: "...... ...Neither. ...Taku-nii said he's not hiding anything! There's nothing you have to tell me either!"

Shiki: "...Still, there's much I want to let you know. ...You... may be the 'key' to make the world bow at the feet of Garyukai------..."

Tsukasa looks stunned.

Taku: "!!?"

Tsukasa: "......What's that supposed to mean......"

Shiki: "I dunno~~~ I wonder what. {I can't say anything else from these two lips~~~}

Taku: "......"

Azuma glances at Taku: "......"

Shiki: "...So this is it. Let's go to the main issue here. The boss is rea~~~lly interested in you, and he wants to meet with you no matter what. So, so matter how much you struggle today, I'll take you there in chains."

Tsukasa: "...You've got to be kidding...... Do you really want to be beat this time~~?" She moves into a fighting stance.

Taku: "...Tsukasa!!"

Shiki looks pleased: "...You better not......" He snaps his fingers.

The 3 guys move at that sound and slowly approach Tsukasa. They look pretty freaky and are quite tall.

Taku tries to hold back his sister: "Tsukasa, if we call the police then it'll be fine! Don't do something baka!"

But Tsukasa is not paying attention to her brother's words. Instead, she's watching the 3 guys. One guy has rather long hair and is holding a knife in his right hand. He smiles slyly. His movements tip Tsukasa off.

Tsukasa starts. She recalls Rui's slow and deliberate movements. {...A...} She suddenly shoves her brother away. "Get away Taku-nii------!!"

Taku: "!?"

Tsukasa: {These guys... that drug...!!}

Taku: "Tsuka......"

Azuma and Tsubaki: "!!"

Tsukasa manages to whip out her own knife in time to block the guy's blade, but another guy is behind her and the third is still approaching.

Tsukasa: {3 of them......!!}

Shiki stands there quietly, watching.

Tsukasa: {I may be in a fix------!!!}