Cheers!
Everyone, drink up!
Sure thing!
Let's do it!
To Operation "Lovey-Dovey"!
This is...!
Are you worried about Mashisu and Misao?
Yes, a little.
It'll be alright, so far it's the same as last time.
That's true.
I'm sure it'll go well!
Mashisu, Misao!
All right! Time to rise the curtain at Their Lovey-Dovey Theatre.
Oh no, Chobimaru is....!
This is bad! This shot is going to hit the Earth!
I see, this is how it ties together.
The Universe (Tenchi) Is Clear But The Waves Are High?
Unbelievable! It still ended up this way! I told you not to send that mail!
I don't recall sending it, but before I knew it it got transmitted...
Bleh!
Well, this is Mihoshi so that's probably how it was. That aside, what...
Eh?
Where did this little squirt wonder in from?
How rude! I was the one who restored the space you guys destroyed!
Could you be... Tokimi?
Heh, you're looking awfully cute.
Don't come getting familiar with me!
Pretty dumb of you to pick a fight with Tokimi, the best battle specialist among the Choushin...
Couldn't you say that ahead of time...
Tenchi, sisters, please excuse me now as I have to go and rectify the eternities in other space-time.
Thanks for the hard work!
Yeah, get out of here...
Silence among the spectators!
I'm sorry you had to be exposed to this disgraceful behavior.
The young people these days...!
It's not your place to say something like that while failing to see the beam in your own eye.
Eh?
Minami, you are demoted from GP Marshal to the Head of Maintenance Dept.
But, sister, this is too unfair!
You sure are brave these days, talking back to me!
But...
Then, theres the issue of the other two. Mashisu Makibi, you are assigned to cleaning toilets at the GP HQ for six months.
And Kuramitsu Misao, you are assigned the Obligatory Labor Service of the men of Kuramitsu family for 10 years.
Obligatory Labor?
Yes, that thing... it means doing manual deforestation following the example of the down-and-dirty pioneering settlers. You could say that it cultivates proper moral character.
Lady Makimi, I have one request.
What would that be?
Please allow Mashisu to come with me!
Do you realize the meaning of what you're asking?
I don't want to be separated from her again.
Misao...
Hey!
Yay, congratulations Misao and Mashisu!
Uh?
Only the person's wife and children are allowed to accompany him.
Then...!
I won't permit this! I won't permit this! As the eldest son of the Kuramitsu family you must marry someone worthy.
Minami!
No, sister, I have to say this! There's no way the family council will respond favorably to this!
That's true... I can't help admitting that the probability is low.
Lady Mikami!
What a crock! Talk about a "distinguished family"...
Shut up! An outsider and a pirate shouldn't butt in!
Drop dead from a horse-kick!
You little...!
Well, how about handling it this way. Mashisu, would you be interested in becoming my daughter?
Wha...?
I'm asking if you'd be interested in bearing the name of Kamiki Jurai like Noike does. Or you could become a Tatsuki, they could use more international reputation!
Would you still be dissatisfied if it's a member of the Jurai royal family?
I couldn't ask for anything better. Kamiki. Seto. Jurai-sama.
Leave it to Grandma!
To seal it with the Kuramitsu firstborn... is worthwhile even for Jurai.
I'm opposing this! You can never know what will happen if you accept something involving the demon princess of Jurai.
Yesss! I approve!
Ah, mom!
Mom?
W-Where did she come from?
Mitoto, why are you here? And with that mop?
I'm so happy! Me and Noike were thinking that it would be nice if Mashisu would become Misao's bride.
Hey, this isn't decided yet! I said I'm opposed!
But everyone at the family council gave their approval!
Everyone?!
I pleaded with them really hard and they were all kind enough to agree.
Mitoto!
Am I the only one who feels major anxiety about how she pleaded with them?
Lady Seto, big trouble! The details of this incident are leaking out in many places!
Now we have no choice but to agree to the marriage of Misao and Mashisu...
Using Kuramitsu-Jurai joint military exercises as cover should be pretty convincing...
Mitoto!
Anyway, I guess congratulations are in order...
I'm back!
Tenchi, I brought you some souvenirs!
Sister?
Aloha!
So what is this important thing?
Well, you know...
What, here too...
Tennyo, could this be...
The situation of those two is gonna come out... but there's another problem...
Another?
Well, you know... well, I mean...
Tenchi, there are two important topics. The first is about your mother Kiyone.
About mom?
It's about time we told you too. About why Kiyone died.
Eh?
So, where shoud I begin... Yes, this happened six months before Kiyone passed away...
She went to bring herbs from deep in the mountains when Tenchi was badly hurt after getting into it with some boys.
Why did that fool have to go to such a dangerous place!
So because of that accident, mom...?
No. Badly injured, she made it down the mountain on her own and took a bus to the hospital. Since she was covered in blood, but perfectly calm, they nicknamed her "Zombie".
And then?
Kiyone had been hospitalized for two weeks when Tenchi caught measles and developed a high fever, so she got extremely worried.
Then, because of this traffic accident, mom...?
She recovered from her six-month worth of serious injuries in only two months, and in half a month she was well enough to go out hunting with a hunter we knew and carry an 80 kg wild boar down the mountain on her shoulders.
Then how did mom die!?
You should remember. On a cold winter morning, she passed away in her sleep.
Kiyone was 248 years old and decrepit.
De....crepit...?
She was the type that didn't show too many outward signs of aging.
But mentally she was a bit of an old hag...
She had a taste for foreign fashions.
And she kept wanting to wear the sailor uniform.
All the relatives were telling her to stop that.
So these previous accidents where she fell down and had a traffic accident...
Had nothing to do with it.
Are you fucking with me, grandpa and dad!?
No, listen, Tenchi.
There is a very good reason for this.
What fucking reason can there be for making fun of mom's death!?
But it's all a true story.
You said it had nothing to do with her death!
Nobuyuki, wasn't this story you just told scripted by Kiyone?
Eh?
It was her last will that when we told you, we had to begin it like that.
Book title: Mother is happy-go-lucky, you see.
Well...
Tenchi!
Geez, you guys are kidding around too much! Oh, poor Tenchi!
Your name is listed here as a co-author...
I thought you'd be here.
That must have been quite a surprise. I also think this joke went a little too far, even for Kiyone.
The mother I knew was always smiling quietly.
I suppose it could look like that through your eyes.
Fool (baka)
Mom was gentle and serene.
I see. But I feel sorry for Kiyone.
Eh?
The mother you carry inside you is not Kiyone.
So are you saying that talking about something important as if it were a comedy routine was her?
Everyone expresses love differently. Kiyone took it quite seriously when she made that script.
Take care of the rest, OK?
Noike?
Um... well...
I'm so pathetic.
It's natural for a child to idealize a parent. There's nothing wrong with you thinking about your mother that way.
But that's only a part of her, and it can be far removed from reality. I told you before that I grew up in an orphanage, didn't I?
That's true. Compared to you, I shouldn't...
I'm not trying to say that my misfortune was special. No, just that I was like you.
Like me?
Why was I abandoned? There must, must have been an inescapable reason. My father and mother wouldn't have abandoned me otherwise.
That must be it! If that's how it was and they had no way but to abandon me, how sad it must have been for them.
Ever since childhood, I was looking for a reason I could accept.
Noike...
I met my mother during a minor incident after I left the army and joined GP.
Eh?
In a DNA-check to confirm someone's identity, I realized that was my mother.
And did you find out why you were abandoned?
My father left her when he found out she was pregnant with me and I was in the way when she ran away with a new boyfriend, was what she said.
Oh...
She was pretty unconcerned about it too.
"You've grown up quite nicely! It wasn't easy for me to find a good orphanage for you. So, could you please do your mother a favor and overlook this incident. I've found someone really nice this time, he's a department head at a big government office."
It's true that the place was good and the teachers there were really kind, so she had shown some motherly love. Leaving aside whether to forgive her or not, I've recently began to understand my mother's feelings.
That there are times when there's nothing you can do.
The mother I carry inside me is not Kiyone, huh...
The mother-image I've created is actually Reia. And that idealized image has overtaken mom.
Tenchi...
I'm sorry, mom.
Washu, you...
Come on, we can give her that handicap. As you saw it was Noike who could give appropriate advice to Tenchi right now.
Says the onlooker, wondering if the handicap may have been too big.
Heh, pretty fascinating.
When did you...?
And your reaction is also pretty fascinating.
Sorry about before, dad.
For the child, the mother is sacred. That's why when father and I saw Kiyone's script, we were bracing ourselves because we were sure you'd get mad. But your mother really was a kind and good person.
But she sure had a pretty bizarre way of expressing herself.
Well, she is Airi's daughter.
Oh...
What is it?
If you'd explained it that way in the first place, it would have been easier to understand.
Could be.
Definately, dad!
What's that suppose to mean!?
That was kinda harsh.
Listen, Tenchi...
What?
Well, you know, there's this other important thing.
About you and Reia getting married?
How did you know?
Dad, did you seriously think you could hide that?
Yeah.
I like her. And besides...
And besides?
It's been pretty much like that already, right?
You think so? I guess it has!
Congratulations once more.
Reia was so beautiful.
Yes she was.
It's nice to be a bride, makes me yearn for it too.
Misao beat you to it, didn't he.
I envy Misao.
One day, I too will...
Only after Sasami you will...
You better be careful yourself or Ryo-Ohki will beat you to it.
No way...
Mya!
More importantly, why was Tokimi parading around at the ceremony?
Moreover, she even stood at the altar. What was that all about?
I was there... and stood at that place for a certain reason.
What is the reason?
It's a sec-ret!
Oh, Washu, with all this ruckus I forgot to tell you something.
What? Maybe you wanted to say that I should be your bride?
It's about when I was cut by Z.
Speaking of Z, you were saying something to Noike right before he attacked.
Right, and Noike's behavior was strange too.
Oh, Z was surveiling us through Noike's eyes.
Whaat?
You were a spy!?
Damn it!
Why did you keep quiet about something so important until now, Washu?
It's not like Noike was doing it consiously.
Aha, we have results!
Heh, it really is Clay...
Clay?
What is this all about?
Um, well...
Why don't you ask something like that from the real victim.
You're the girl from back then.
As I expected.
What do you mean by that?
She was dislocated from her materialization time-point when a temporal matter was altered when she was with Tenchi or by the action of the person in question.
Anyway, she was picked up by the person Noike thinks of as her mother and reverted all the way to a baby as a means to hold on to a man.
Anyway, that illegal modification is by Clay. That modification divided the astral level, creating two personalities, and Z used the conciousness of this girl who wanted to meet Tenchi.
Sorry! But I wanted to meet Tenchi, I wanted to say that.
So that's why. It's OK. I'm glad we could meet.
Thank you for saving me that time!
By the way, what did you mean that time when you said you were also...
You mean when I said I was also Kagato?
Eeh?
Kagato?
I'm the female portion of Kagato's body.
Now that you mention it, you look exactly like he did as a child!
Wha-wha-what's the meaning of this, Washu?
Kagato was originally a hermaphrodite.
Eh?
Well, she hated women or should I say motherhood. I sure never thought we would meet like this. Truly fact is stranger than fiction!
Are you sure you're not leaving anything out?
Isn't it maybe Washu's fault that Kagato hated women?
Washu!
Well then, what should we do about this...
You! Don't try to cover it up!
Oh well... So, what should we do?
If you release the protection of that mark I really hate, I can assimilate into Noike!
After all I only have the mass of a newborn baby and won't have much of an impact. And my memory will remain. Of that time I met with Tenchi too. So it's OK, right?
That dream was your dream, wasn't it. All right, I'll receive you.
Let's do our best!
Yes.
I'm releasing the protection.
Oh yeah, let's have meals and take baths with Tenchi again!
Hey, you, what was that just now!?
What were the two of you doing!?
It's pretty lively down there.