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Montly Afternoon briefs (continued)
by Samura Hiroaki Overview: Manji is currently calling a sort of peace treaty and is teaming up with Magatsu Taito in a journey to Kaga to defeat Shira. However, Shira was waiting them with a new weapon embedded in what was his right arm (which Manji had sliced off)... This issue: Manji notes to Taito that Shira is still not
used to one-arm combat, and that Taito still has a chance in the woods where
ground is soft. Manji leaves, and on his way gets ambushed by a group of
thugs who repeatedly stab him to keep him from going on his way. Taito
tracks Shira down into a little hut. Shira laughs and tells Taito that
Anotsu is in trouble back in Kaga (all the while idly wondering if the thugs
were able to stop Manji from going on his way). Taito attacks, and the two
get involved in a fast-paced swordmatch.
by Takeda Toshiya and Utatane Hiroyuki Overview: The Diskartz succeeds in getting an anti-UN group on the moon to gain control over the entire satellite. Mazak, Kei and Sunao set out back to accompany Dr. Hydeman back to Earth, but in the shuttle headed for Earth, they are assaulted by the Diskartz. This issue: Anthony, an agent for Diskartz, is assaulted
and heavily wounded by Stray, a fellow agent who has a fetish for people in
pain (and dislikes Anthony to boot). Just before giving Anthony the final
blow, Stray runs off when he hears footsteps. The footsteps were those of
Sunao, Kei and company; Kei tells the group to treat his wounds. Sunao offers
to get the first aid kit from the lifeboat (where they were going to hide,
and Kei offers to come with him). Neither of them know that Anthony is one of
their enemies...
by Takahashi Tsutomu Overview: In the last story arc of the series, "LIFE," a shooting spree at the wedding of Aizawa Eriko (Kyouya/Ky's current partner) has left her new husband dead, alongside the corpse of Narita Atsuko who jumped in to cover for the newlyweds. The ex-chief of the homicidal division decides to honor his daughter's wish to be an organ donor...and her heart gets implanted into Amami Kei, an assassin. This issue: Kei puts herself into a trance to get to the
bottom of the emergence of a compassionate self. There, she sees a vision of
Atsuko and Kyouya talking in a church. Meanwhile, the doctor who gave Kei the
transplant asks Nakahara for advice on whether or not a donor's conscience
can enter the recipient. In a counseling session, Kei asks the two doctors
who her donor is. The doctors agree that they can't tell her; she replies
that someone named Astuko had died the day before her operation. Kei starts
to snoop around the Narita family for clues about her possible donor, and
sees Kyouya eating dinner with the old chief. Just then, Nakahara enters the
restaurant and explains that she was an old friend that was recently
stalking him. After the dinner, Eriko and Kyouya corner Nakahara where he
basically admits that Kei is the recipient of Atsuko's heart. The next day,
Kei shows up at the police station to talk to Kyouya.
by Ueshiba Reach Overview: The strange world for Matsubue Takaomi just gets stranger with each story arc. This time around, "Seirei" (spirits) have appeared in front of him, and opened the door to a dream world where imagination can change even reality. This issue: As Takaomi walks about on his evening stroll,
he bumps into the ghost of a toy soldier. The ghost is very surprised that
Takaomi can see him, and asks him to blow out the candle in his lamp because
beings like it will soon pass by, and some of the ghosts are very shy.
Takaomi realizes that it was a routine procession of ghosts when the toy
soldier tells him that all the ghosts were guardians of a priestess in the
castle. The soldier offers to have Takaomi meet the priestess, and takes him
to the castle. Inside the castle, the little priestess asks why people fall
in love. As Takaomi thinks, the castle blurs, and he is woken up by a
scantily and strangely clad girl next to a giant art monument of old toys.
As Takaomi realizes where the toys came from, the girl, named Yoshimoto
Tsugumi, explains how the monument came about, and that she was the leader
of the monument-building project. She then bikes off, chased by her parents
who tell Takaomi that she had woken up for the first time in an entire month
(and was therefore dazed enough to dress so strangely). Meanwhile, Tohko
hears that Tsugumi woke up, and calls Arika, saying that she wants Arika to
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