Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Hana to Yume
2001 vol. 3, episode no. 92
Translation by Yuki-chan

The episode title page is in B&W, featuring Tsukasa holding a suspicious looking bunny (a white rabbit with Ryuji's sullen eyes.) She's wearing short shorts and an "army" jacket... and a cowboy hat. She also has a combat knife strapped to her left thigh. There's an emblem on the jacket sleeve and the hat which reminds me of the horridly annoying Mokona from Magic Knight Rayearth. Anyways, Tsukasa is holding the bunny lovingly and she might be kissing its head.

Text: So when was the next Rabbit Year..........? [Year of the Rabbit]

Kali purrs as Misumi scratches him under the chin. [Gee, wasn't he a cyborg...?]

Misumi is crouched down at Kali's level, his sheathed sword leaning against his shoulder. He turns to stare at one of the buildings in airport.

Misumi: {---...It should be soon---...}

A lone man [android?] steps closer, his right hand bearing his weapon. It's one of the Ultimate Weapons, the one that Misumi tamed [but he took his shades off... don't know why].

Yeah, yeah, in case you've forgotten, this one has semi-dark hair (brown?) with long curly bangs and the rest of his hair swept back. His weapon is the type where all 4 fingers of his left hand shoot bullets and his right thumb has a metal talon. To be quite honest, I forgot about him too... he first made an appearance in ep. 88.

Sakaki: "---Man. This isn't the time to be playing!! Can't you obey my orders!!? Freya!!" [Not a direct translation.] Behind him stand a group of men in dark suits and ties.

The Ultimate Weapon is standing in the doorway. He slowly lifts his right hand and aims at the members of Garyukai who are surrounding their new leader Sakaki.

Sakaki is continuing to yell at Freya. "If you don't obey me then I won't give you any more of the drugs!!"

Freya stops and ponders this for a moment.

Freya: "......" {...That won't do... ...But... he lacks force~~~...} She puts a finger to her chin and gazes upwards at nothing in particular. {I bet that if I threaten him back, he'd fold...... I'd rather be ordered by Shiva~~~... He's a good looking man and he's my type.}

Suddenly she hears gunfire and the sound of glass breaking through her ear piece.

Sakaki is heard screaming. "W...! What's this---!!"

Freya: "N?" {...What's this? It suddenly sounds like something's going on over there.....}

Freya: "... Oh well." {I don't know what's going on but,} "I have my own things to do~~~" She starts walking down a hallway, following a trail of blood. "I've just started the game (hunting)------..." She chuckles to herself and her heels echo in the hall.

Blood continues to drip to the floor.

Someone's panting heavily.

Asago: "...... ...Hey..." She looks worried with concern.

Munakata: "...N? ...Why... are you giving me such a pathetic look......?" He's leaning on the wall to keep himself up and he's hurt bad. He's holding his left side and seems that he wounded in numerous places.

Asago: "...Because......!" {Before you looked more sure of yourself...!!} [Not a very good translation...?] She recalls when she first met Munakata and how he had been. [back in ep. 64 & 65] "...Hey... You shouldn't move anymore."

Munakata: "...Daijyobuda......"

Asago: "You are not!!" {With such a pained face...!}

Munakata: "...If you don't have me...... you have nothing to use as a shield......"

Asago: "!!! 'As a shield' you say!!"

Just moments before, Freya had attacked, the 5 serrated pincers on thick cables lashing out towards both of them.

Munakata had shielded her, taking the blows from each pincer.

Asago: "Don't talk as if I'm using you as a target so I'll survive!!" {...No......! That's not what I want to say...!!}

Munakata: "...That's sound judgement...!" The trail of blood is still following him and his face is beaded with perspiration. "I'm the one who said that I'd protect you......!"

They made their way back to the room littered with the bodies of the fallen GRAVE officers.

Munakata suddenly staggers and is about to fall.

Asago dashes to his side as if to try and catch him from falling. "!!" [God, she's so short! ......I guess it's more like God, he's so tall!]

THUD!

Asago: "!!!" She had cushioned his fall. "------!!!"

Munakata starts. "......!!" Asago is sandwiched beneath his bulk.

Asago: ".........!"

Munakata: "...Ba...!" {Wha...! are you...!?} "What normal person would become crushed by my weight......!?" [Not a direct translation.] "It's not my fault if any bones are broken...!"

Asago's eyes are wide in fear as she recalls Meiko sensei's worried face and her words.

"---You don't know for yourself what's going on inside of you...!!" [A translation that makes more sense would be "You don't know if there's anything wrong with you...!!"]

Munakata manages to prop himself up on one arm but Asago is overcome with shock.

Munakata: "...Hey... Are you all right...!?"

Meiko sensei's words echo again.

"------You haven't coughed up blood or anything right------...!?"

Asago stares down at her left hand which is covered with blood. Her chin and lips are also stained red.

The clicking noise is heard softly in the distance.

The GRAVE cop starts. "!!"

Freya: "So~~~ I wonder how far my little mice have escaped~~~"

The pincers on her left hand click as they move about as if in search of prey. [You know... it kinda looks like she's walking them...... don't ask...]

Freya: "...N...? Huh...?" She taps at her ear piece. "The sound of gunfire and destruction have stopped over there (the commanding crew)." All she hears is static noise. "Hello--- isn't anybody there~~~? No way, has everyone died? No way, even commander Sakaki!? Hey, then what about the kagi!? Hello--- Is the kagi safe!? Is there really nobody there------!? Hello---" [Sounds like she's now addressing Sakaki as commander.] The static noise continues. "...Iyada... ...No way......" {The drugs......} She turns to race back, then stops.

Freya: "...... ...The blood trail of the little mice ends here---..." {...Blood hides blood---...?} "...Perhaps... they're hiding amongst the dead bodies........." She stares down in Munakata's vague direction with from the corner of her eye.

Munakata: "------...!!" He's lying among the dead GRAVE members beneath one of them.

Asago: "------!!!" She's hiding behind a thick pillar to Freya's right where she's hidden. She's sitting with her knees drawn to her chest.

Freya: "...I wanted to play longer------... ...It's too bad but..." Her long hair straightens to numerous long needles. "This is," Each hair pierces the floor. "The final blow."

Travelling through the floor, her hair thrusts up at all the fallen bodies, Munakata included.

Asago turns her head in horror. "------!!!"

In another part of Megafloat Airport.

Kuryugumi's kumicho sighs.

Ryuji: "......... ...Hey... Tsukasa..."

Tsukasa: "......... ...What... Ryuji...?"

Ryuji: "...Do you... feel something......?" Seems like everyone has removed their combat vests.

Tsukasa: "The presence of the enemy......!?"

Ryuji: "...No... the unusual looks of the kumiin........."

Tsukasa: "...Aa..." She turns to see the kumiins plus the clan heads whispering amongst themselves while they follow their leader.

Ryuji: "...I... have this feeling that they're looking as if searching me over."

Kumiin 1, whispering: "Really? I can't see."

Kumiin 2, also whispering: "Baka! Don't stare so much! He'll get suspicious!"

Ryuji: "Is there something strange about me?" {Something unusual? Something suspicious?}

Tsukasa shakes her head: "Nooo. You're normal Ryuji. You look just like any normal person would. Just that to the kumiin that 'normal for a human' look is shocking to them."

Ryuji: "......" {What's that...?} "...What's that supposed to mean...?"

Tsukasa: "N?" She points at his face. "You're eyes are red. Just like a bunny."

Ryuji: "------!!!" He tries in vain to cover his face. [I can't describe his expression... but his hair is standing up... like a softer version of the sea urchin. His face is half in shadow... Gotta scan this in......]

Sweat beads Ryuji's face. {That's right...!! Humans are made so that their eyes become red when they cry...!! I had forgotten!! This is like announcing that I cried when nobody was looking...!! Ka..... kakkowarui~~~ !!} The Ryuji bunny [a little bunny with a big butt and with Ryuji's face] cowers in the corner, covering his face.

Tsukasa: "..."

Ryuji: {The pride and dignity I've built up until now------!!!}

Tsukasa smiles softly and pats the bunny between its ears.

Ryuji: "......"

Tsukasa: "Daijyobu, daijyobu. It looks like they're relieved to see how human you are."

Ryuji sweatdrops as he turns to see his kumiins' reactions. "..."

Kumiin 1: "Ma~~~~~n. I'm surprised. Sandaime does have tears........." Behind him, a bunch of kumiin are kinda blushing and smiling.

Kawazoe: "I had truly thought that he was genetically engineered without pain sensors or tear glands so that he wouldn't be born with them."

Kyuragi: "To be honest, I had thought at times that he was an android."

Kumiin 2: "Thank goodness. Sandaime's a 'human' just like us." His 2 buddies beside him have tears streaming down their faces.

Text beneath the crying kumiin: Happy...

Tsukasa: "...And just because the kumiins' reactions weren't bad ones doesn't mean that you can laugh or cry or jump or skip around or be sparkly anywhere, anytime." She has her arms crossed as she addresses Ryuji with accusing eyes. [Sparkly is the literal translation, in case you're wondering.]

Ryuji's sweat drops. "...Who would...?" {The one who jumps and skips and is sparkly anywhere, anytime is you.}

There are little SD pics of Tsukasa jumping, skipping and being sparkly which are labelled with the hiragana "tsu", for Tsukasa.

"---...There is such a person..."

Ryuji hears the words echo in his mind.

"A woman who will accept all of your strengths and weaknesses---... for certain---..."

An image of a young, smiling Kamo-san appears in Ryuji's mind behind his closed eyelids.

Ryuji: "...From now on... you are the only one who will hear me voice my weaknesses---..."

Tsukasa is stunned for a moment then remembers.

The scene moves back to after the incident between Kuryugumi and Sakahogigumi.

Ryuji who had broken a few ribs refused to let down his kumicho face even in front of Tsukasa, though nobody else was around.

Tsukasa had approached him with concern. "---When you're alone with me, it's all right for you to complain that you're 'tired' when you're exhausted......... ---You've never said such words for the 14 years you've lived right?"

Ryuji had looked up in surprise.

Tsukasa had turned SD and suddenly had that teasing look in her eyes. "So go on, say that you're 'tired'."

Ryuji: "...... Iyada."

Tsukasa: "!"

Tsukasa: "......!" She blushes furiously.

But before she manages to say anything, the collapsed rubble beside them begins to move.

Pieces of debris start raining down.

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

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

The kumiin all start.

Tsukasa does the sea urchin when a huge fist suddenly penetrates the wall right next to her face.

Tsukasa: "UWAAAAA!!"

Kawazoe: "Wha!!? One of them (the bakemonos)---!?"

Kumiin 1: "!"

Kumiin 2: "!!"

Kyuragi: "They read our plans!? I... It's huge!! Attack first!! FIRE------" He points and the kumiin nearest him aims his gun.

A huge foot steps out of the newly made hole.

Tsukasa's jaw drops. "Wait, DON'T FIRE------!!"

The wall seems to explode when Akira steps out.

Akira: "...Da------------!!" He's covered in dust and dirt but he seems unhurt. "Ha! Finally out------!!!"

Tsukasa is staring open mouthed, as are the kumiin and Kyuragi.

Tsukasa: "...A... Akira-san......!!"

Panting heavily, he finally seems to notice that he has a crowd. "...E... ...A...?"

Text pointing to Akira: Definitely big. Perhaps a bakemono.

He looks up in surprise. "............ ...Tsu... Tsukasa...!?"

Tsukasa: "...How... Wh... Why did you come out from a place like that...? Did something happen Akira-san...?"

Tears fill Akira's eyes. "...Tsu... Tsukasa~~~!!!" {Wa~~~n A Buddha in this hell~~~ I missed you~~~} He suddenly gets up and moves to hug Tsukasa.

However, a gun is suddenly cocked.

Kawazoe, Kyuragi and the surrounding kumiin are sweat dropping and staring in disbelief.

Akira: "...What...... You're still alive......?"

Ryuji: "...... ...Same to you ..."

Sparks fly between them.

Kumiin 1: {No way...!! ...He's a homo...!} [homo = Japanese for gay]

Kumiin 2: {That cop is homo too...!!}

Kumiin 3: {A love triangle of 3 guys!!}

Text below to Akira's right: A battle between men over another man......!!

Kawazoe: {No way!! I thought that Sandaime's interest in that katagi was a bit strange but!} He's sweat dropping and has both hands to his head. His jaw is also hanging open.

Kyuragi: {Not with another man!! Not with another man---!!} He has the look of absolute horror.

Text below to Ryuji's left: What's this......!? While he claimed he was bodyguard, in reality...!?

Ryuji is holding a rifle (machine gun?) to Akira while Akira is trying to edge closer to Tsukasa.

Tsukasa meanwhile is between the men and is looking down in shame. "..."

The next frame shows a large lump with Tsukasa's anger (a small SD pic of Tsukasa punching downwards) branded in it.

Tsukasa: "---...H-m... I see...... So when you went chasing after the young one who ran off..." Her boots are squeaking on the tiles again.

Ryuji is walking beside her, pouting with a huge popped vein. "......"

Text pointing to the egg on Ryuji's head: He received a blow from Tsukasa.

Akira is helping the young GRAVE officer walk, supporting him.

Text pointing to the other GRAVE officer: The young one.

Akira: "...Aa. We were attacked by this bakemono with a extendible arm who's even bigger than me... The next thing I knew we were buried under all this rubble..." {Luckily we were stuck in an air filled space though...}

Tsukasa: "...So... Akira-san, did you manage to see how many of the bakemonos there are...?"

Akira: "I saw it. It was just momentarily but I saw 7."

Kawazoe: "..." {...Seven of them......}

Tsukasa: "...Then..."

Scenes fill her mind. Baldy, whom she and Asago defeated, the one Kamo-san finished and the 2 who were fried with the dengekibans.

Tsukasa: {That means---} "...Three... more left---..." [They would be Rai, Freya and the one Misumi tamed.] She transforms momentarily into Wakasa form with the cold eyes as she thinks of Kamo-san.

Akira: "---..." He looks down at her in surprise. "...Tsukasa---..." {---...Why......} "...Why are you in the front line of the battle between Kuryugumi and Garyukai......?" {Why do you occasionally have those eyes which make me think you're not a katagi---...?} "...You're... strange... You look like a gokudo who's about to settle a fight (get revenge) ---..." Tsukasa and Ryuji turn in synch and give Akira the look of determined gokudo members as they pose at the bottom of a set of stairs.

Akira: {------...Ah... ---...What... was that just now---...!! What the heck is going on------...?}

In another part of Megafloat Airport.

Looks like Misumi has entered the room where Sakaki, Ouguro and the Garyukai members who sided with them had been standing when the Ultimate Weapon let loose [the fallen guys are in suits, not army gear or anything].

Nobody stirs as he steps between the bloodied fallen bodies. Kali accompanies him silently. He stops in the middle of the room with his one hand carrying his sheathed sword, the other in his pocket.

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