Sunday, February 9, 2020

Chapter 10 Episode 17: The Light in the Darkness 2

Things begin with a flashback of an everyday nostalgic memory. This takes place at Yoyogi Academy, where it’s time to go home for the day as the bell rings. Despite that, Ashigara and Yasuyori are still in the middle of a match, which eventually ends in Yasuyori’s favor. Ashigara gets back up and says the score is now 19-20, then challenges Yasuyori to another match.
 
Yasuyori points out that the end of day bell rung, so they should actually start cleaning up. Ashigara brushes that off and says it can wait and finds it more important to keep wrestling until he wins. Yasuyori declines because rules are important.
 
Yasuyori starts grabbing things to clean up the place, ignoring Ashigara when he starts hanging all over him and pestering him for another match. Ashigara complains about Yasuyori’s lack of sympathy for him and tries to convince him that the request of a classmate is totes important. He also tries to taunt him into joining by claiming he’s quitting while he’s ahead.
 
Ashigara complains some more about how earnest Yasuyori is and eventually resorts to pestering for any response at all after being continually ignored. Daisuke (labeled as Taurus Mask for some reason) laughs about the odd couple being at it again, and Kyuuma comments that they don’t seem tired of doing this routine every day.
 
Lots of the people at Yoyogi have come over to take a look at the show that happened every day without change. It was a time he always thought would go on, but back to the present, Yasuyori asks why Ashigara is here. After a moment he decides to run after him and tells him to wait.
 
Scene shifts over to the Ouji neighborhood in Kita Ward as the flashback ends. Some time has apparently passed as Tanetomo was just told about how Yasuyori got agitated and had to be subdued by the other NCOs. Tanetomo also repeats that Yasuyori made the choice to take the “re-education” of his own volition.
 
Narration explains that re-education means being put through Tezcatlipoca’s endless war memories and experiencing them again in his mirror. Mixed feelings appear on Tanetomo’s face as he thinks about how Yasuyori must be feeling to make that choice willingly. He then says he understands and asks that Yasuyori be escorted to the prison with the other new recruits.
 
Back over at the auction area, Ashigara actually breaks free for a moment and knocks away the guys holding Yasuyori, but Yasuyori attacks Ashigara back for a moment before the two are recaptured. Suzuka and Tetsuya are close by as Suzuka points out the transport trucks/buses/whatever meant to take people to the prison school. The one with Ashigara and Yasuyori has already driven off, but there’s a lot left still. Suzuka says if they get in one of them they shouldn’t be found out.
 
Suzuka comments that it’ll be convenient if the cars take them to where Ibaraki and the others are, then says to Tetsuya they should go punch some dudes out now. Tetsuya however stops her to point out the guards around, and mobsters are radioing in to Daikoku about there being nothing strange going on, then saying the next squad will be reporting in.
 
Tetsuya figures it’ll be hard to distract the guards somehow, and he also figures something will be need to be done about the rumored police chief. Suzuka grumbles about the inconvenience and calls Tsukuyomi to report their end of things.
 
Back inside the auction house, Shirou comments on how a bunch of soldiers that were there are gone now. Tsukuyomi’s phone rings so he picks up. After hearing what she’s said, he says it’s time for him to do something. He tells the two to wait and to call him back if something changes.
 
The game glosses over Tsukuyomi keeping Shirou and Moritaka in the loop as he starts making a new call to make their next move. He talks about how this is the time to take advantage of things, saying all that’s left is the guards and the police chief. Tsukuyomi also says that if their attention is drawn away, Shirou and Moritaka should have a chance to sneak onto the prison car.
 
Shirou asks what Tsukuyomi means by drawing attention. Tsukuyomi starts talking about an eye for an eye and all that, leading to setting the police onto the police. He then finally calls Hougen at this point to signal it’s their turn.
 
Back outside, the guards standing on duty by the entrance notice some intruders without an invitation showing up and threaten them with their guns. Hougen doesn’t say anything, so the guards start thinking he’s with Daikoku and ask for the invite. Hougen says he has neither that nor an arrest warrant, but who needs that if there’s a crime in progress happening right in front of him?
 
The guards are shocked to see Real Policemen show up as Hougen has brought some of his personally trained elite students with him. Hougen comments on how bold they are to do trafficking in the center of Shinjuku and that he got a tip from someone inside. He also asks about them grabbing random citizens and his other students too, telling them to step aside so he can go in. The guards respond by opening fire.
 
Hougen commands his group to spread out, then comments that the guards being so trigger happy must mean they’re aware of the dirty business they’re in. He has to punish naughty little kids like that, then pulls out his wings. The guards keep yelling about shooting until they realize they lost track of Hougen.
 
Hougen pops up behind the mobs and comments on how bad they are at staking a place out and at aiming. He laughs that in his dojo he’d be punishing them with three ass grabs for that. The mobs are taken by surprise, and Hougen quickly kicks all their asses before tying them up and groping them. One mob is shocked at how fast that happened while another freaks out about being handcuffed by the tail.
 
Hougen tells his backup to go look for Tajikarao and the others. As he talk about how they should be there, he notices more grunts running in and firing, so he decides to deal with the reinforcements. Hougen does so by activating his NP apparently and blasting the guns out of all the mobs’ hands, then tying them up and taking the time to grab ass while he’s at it.
 
Hougen boasts about his NP, the power of life and death, and his genius talents at swordplay, gunplay, and rope play. He declares himself an instructor for Kioh Police Academy, the Kiichi Hougen, then challenges people to come at him. A mob starts calling for help over the radio, and as more come over, Suzuka and Tetsuya find their chance to sneak in.
 
Back at the auction house, Daikoku looks a bit alarmed as he directs his minions to let the customers out through certain escape tunnels, only to hear the ones he picked are blocked up. He asks who could it be that knows what he’d do when he gets distracted by Tsukuyomi turning on his theme and making his entrance all flamboyant as usual.
 
Tsukuyomi comments on what a nice night it is and starts greeting Daikoku by a certain form of address before switching it to Police Chief Daikoku. I’m inclined to believe he was going to say Mahakala but he was leading with 大黒 without any ruby text to subtitle it, so take it with a grain of salt. Daikoku is enraged by Tsukuyomi’s appearance, at which note the episode ends.

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