This was a fate
that I wasn't expecting.
Ryo.
Kaori.
There're lines all over your face from where you slept.
No way.
I'm kidding.
It looked like you were having a nightmare, though.
Are you okay?
Jeez, that scared me.
Just a dream.
She's probably tired.
You've been making her do all the wedding preparations by herself.
Well said, Holly-neesan.
And that's my fault?
Yes, it is.
Hey, hey, Kaori-chan, how about here?
They clothing rentals, too. It's my pick.
You're right.
I like it.
Right?
Hey, wait.
What is this?
I'm never wearing this thing.
You don't have a say in this anymore.
The groom wears a tuxedo. It's been that way for a long time.
And who made up that rule?
I'd have gotten a chance to see Kaori,
in all her glory, if my eyesight were a little better.
A Kaori special, to help you wake up.
Thanks, Falcon.
Give me a coffee, too, Umibozu.
Don't call me that.
I'm asking to be topped off.
And I'm refusing.
How is Kaori-chan supposed to wear a wedding dress if you don't wear a tuxedo?
White.
It's all white, head to toe!
It's not my style!
Right, Mocchie?
It's all right, you'll look good in it.
Do you want me to get you changed?
Come in.
Welcome, ma'am.
Are you here alone?
Um...
Allow me to help you with your belongings.
Now, this way, please.
Make way!
Have a seat, please.
Come, come, come.
What's your pleasure, mademoiselle?
Ow, ow!
That isn't your job, is it?
It hurts, Kaori.
Wait, isn't she Reisen-san?
Who?
Please, Rocco, you don't know her?
She's a fortune teller. She's famous for being spot-on.
Excuse me,
I was told that I could meet City Hunter here.
That he would take on a job if I said the secret word.
The secret word?
What are you talking about?
X Y Z.
Angel Heart
Thank you very much.
My name is Kawamoto Reiko.
Kawamoto Reiko Fortune telling and divination
The other day, when I read a client's fortune, I saw a future in which he dies.
He's a plastic surgeon named Suzuki Kengo, who works in Setagaya.
Um...
You just said you could see his death in the future, didn't you?
I can see people's fates.
Fates?
But that's just fortune telling, right?
Go on.
I didn't think the police would take me seriously.
I heard rumors about City Hunter.
Would you please protect him?
Why do you care so much when you're a complete stranger?
I've predicted the misfortunes of many of my clients
and I've never once been able to do anything about it.
I can't take it anymore.
I thought maybe City Hunter could change the future.
The most accurate crystal ball fortune teller today, Reisen
That's him.
I wonder why he got divorced.
Divorced?
Weren't you listening when Reiko-san was talking?
Suzuki-san broke up with his wife five years ago.
Ah.
Hey, do you really believe she can see the future?
You must have taken on the job because you had a hunch she was the real deal,
didn't you?
Abandoning a woman, after seeing her tears, isn't a many thing to do.
Minori-san.
The arrival of his new girlfriend, I guess?
Minori-san!
Minori-san, wait!
Sorry. Here.
Minori-san!
Minori-san.
Let me finish talking.
True, we had some enjoyable meals together.
But that wasn't because I was trying to get with you or anything.
He won't believe you.
You might really end up getting killed.
Please.
Could you at least pay him so that he doesn't get agitated?
I'll pay you back later, I promise.
No.
You don't need to worry about me.
If something ever happened to you, Sensei, I....
Hey, hey, lady!
Wanna mokkori with me?
So?
Did it look like he was going to pay?
Nope, not at all.
What a pain.
In that case, we'll just make him sign up for life insurance and then kill him.
That's so scary.
A badger game?
Yeah.
Suzuki-san was being threatened out of 10 million yen in damages by a violent gang.
"Punk, do you have any idea what's going to happen to you if you don't pay up?"
The usual.
He hasn't realized that Minori-san is in on the scam.
Please, let us handle the case.
Your predictions sure are amazing, though.
How do you see fate?
I do my fortune telling through crystal-gazing.
Whoa.
I have my clients tell me about themselves and about their troubles,
and I focus on a crystal, and I see their futures.
With this sphere, huh?
It's said that inspiration plays an important role in your ability to see the future.
Likewise with channeling and precognitive dreams.
Precognitive dreams?
Yeah?
Oh, maybe I should have you check out my fortune, too.
Kaori, I talked to them.
Huh? What?
What do you mean, "what"?
We arranged to meet up.
With that badger.
Really?
Have some going-away gifts.
No, no, no.
I'm not going to war, dude.
Who the hell are you?
Suzuki Kengo-san's representatives.
Representatives?
Lawyers?
Yeah, something like that.
Fine.
So, the money?
Money?
Well...
Crap, I don't have it.
Not right now.
So here's a proposal.
Proposal?
I get it, you're pissed.
So for five minutes—No, ten minutes— I'll keep my hands to myself.
Meanwhile, you can beat me up. Okay?
And if I don't get on my knees, you forget about the money.
What is this bullshit?!
And if you do get on your knees?
I'll double your price: 20 million.
Not a bad deal, is it?
If you're lying, I'll hunt you to the ends of the earth.
Oh, my.
Yamazawa.
Yes?
Keep time.
Yes.
I'm so sorry!
You okay?
Twenty million, remember?
Stop!
See.
Ryo, you're a minute over.
Oh, really?
Then that minute was a freebie.
I guess it's game over.
You!
Now, now, that's cheating.
Shut up.
So this is how it goes down, huh?
One, two...
Kaori.
Are you okay?
Put your guns down!
Shinjuku Nishi Station.
You're under arrest for violation of Swords and Firearms Law.
Secure them!
Saeko.
That was just a little late, wasn't it?
I heard gunshots, so I figured it's about time.
Are you all right, Kaori-san?
Yes.
And you investigated their other crimes for us, didn't you?
Huh?
Oh, yeah.
Seta Minori fessed up everything.
Oh, yeah?
Who is that Saeba guy, anyway?
Oh, right.
I promised not to ask.
You're dismissed.
Yes, ma'am.
Excuse me.
Superintendent Nogami Saeko
Thank you so much.
I'll deposit your rewards right away.
Why did you lie about Suzuki-san being a client?
Huh?
Your tears, when you came to request our services.
It was hard to believe you'd shed such tears for a complete stranger.
Suzuki-san's divorced wife...
That was you, wasn't it?
You're still worried about him, even though you're apart.
So you were reading his fortunes, correct?
Why did you have to break up if you love him so much?
That was our fate.
Fate?
You saw a future in which your being by him caused him misfortune.
There was nothing I could do.
But I don't regret it.
Even though we're apart, I can still watch over him.
This is my expression of love.
Have a look at this.
Name: Reiko
Your husband hadn't filed the divorce papers.
Marital status: Wife
I think, even now, five years later, he's still waiting for you.
He's praying that the future will change for the two of you someday.
I wonder why they had to part ways when they love each other so much.
Reiko-san and Suzuki-san.
Oh.
Well, I think one is happier not knowing the future.
Actually, I've been having dreams lately.
Dreams?
The same dream, over and over.
They're strangely vivid.
I've been thinking maybe they're precognitive.
I'm so silly, huh?
No matter what happens, I'm going to be with you forever, going forward.
Say, Kaori,
about what we were talking about earlier...
I'll wear it.
Wear what?
It.
Are you talking about the tuxedo?
Really?
But you said it's not your style.
Yeah, I did.
I'd rather kill myself.
Don't remind me!
You're ruining my determination.
But
you want to wear a wedding dress, and I get that.
Quit crying.
But I didn't think you'd say okay.
Stop the bleeding.
Yes.
Gauze.
Operation in Progress
Operating Room
Makimura Kaori-san is suffering severe inflammation in the brain.
There's a high chance that she'll become brain dead.
I'm told they'll be doing the second brain death diagnosis.
Ryo,
here.
It was in Kaori-san's belongings.
Organ Donor Card
Dear Ryo,
If you're reading this now, I guess I'm on a hospital bed.
Or maybe I'm...
I'm really sorry about keeping my donor card secret.
Since I met you, since I spent time with you,
since you became invaluable to me, I decided I didn't want you to die.
And I want to live on, so that you wouldn't be alone.
That's become my wish.
But one of us might pass away first.
There are people like me who want to live,
and people like me who have someone they wish to live.
If it comes to it, I want to make myself useful to those people.
That's why I made this card.
Besides,
I figure if I can live on inside those people, you might be a little less lonely.
So please don't be sad.
I'll always be by your side.
Always.
Thanks for everything, Ryo.
One Year Later
Dad!
Is this woman really going to wake up?
Do something, please.
We need this woman.
But I think the rest is up to her.
She's been comatose for a year.
Why are we spending so much money to keep this woman alive?
Code name Glass Heart.
I've heard of her before.
Glass Heart? Her?
She completes her missions flawlessly without ever revealing her face.
She's one of the top assassins in the organization.
Alas...
Despite her impeccable skill, she had too sensitive a soul.
She seemed to be faint-hearted, just like her name would suggest.
Who's her heart donor?
You don't need to know.
Don't die.
Please, don't die.
Ryo.
I want to live.
I don't want to be apart from you.
Jeez.
Hey, sexy lady.
Are you looking for a taxi?
Wanna go for a drive with Ryo-chan instead?
You're lucky I just happened to be passing by.
You're painful to look at.
Don't be so cold.
I can tell you're trying to be normal.
That's why you're painful to look at.
You're so hard to deal with, Saeko.
It's been a year now, since Kaori-san's heart was stolen.
We've lost all our leads.
You still haven't given up, have you?
You know it's faster if we take a right here.
No.
This way's a shortcut.
Here we go.
You're scheming something again, aren't you?
I'm sorry.
When does Ryo plan to get over it?
He hasn't taken a single client this past year.
You're like a loose kite.
You're going to fall unless you change something.
You'll never go back to being a proper human being again.
I would never have entered this line of work if I were ever a proper human being.
Sure, I'll quit.
After my last job.
You still haven't found the transplant coordinator's vehicle?
No.
The time limit for a transplant is three to four hours after extraction.
They couldn't have gotten far.
But there's no sign at any hospital of her transplant operation.
I'm afraid Kaori-san's heart is already...
He might still be looking for it, though.
For Kaori's heart.
What happened here?
She got away.
She woke up.
What is it?
Glass Heart has escaped.
Bring her back immediately.
If she resists, you have permission to take her out.
Okay.
Carlito.
You go with them.
Ryo.
I want to live.
Ryo.
X
Y
Z.
Oh, dear.
You there.
Are you okay?
X
Y
Z.
You're looking for City Hunter?
Ow, ow, ow!
Wait, what are you—
What is, "City Hunter"?
I wouldn't know.
Ow!
What is "XYZ"?
Me Chinese, no understand Japanese.
Actually, I might be Parisienne.
I guess... sumnida.
Well, you see...
Please, mister.
Mister?!
Hey, I'm a Miss!
You— Ow, ow, ow!
A secret word!
XYZ is a secret word!
You say it when
you want to make a request to an underground sweeper named City Hunter.
I swear, that's all I know.
Help me.
Is that...
Oh, my.
Kaori?
Sorry.
Wrong person.
My eyesight isn't great.
There you are.
It smells good.
It's delicious.
Why?
I don't know this shop.
I've never had this drink.
This isn't me!
Is it true?
Yeah.
She said it was delicious.
Ryo-chan!
There you are!
Ryo-chan!
What? What?
Hear me out!
Are you all right?
And that woman had this huge scar on her chest.
And I'm dainty, right?
I thought she was going to kill me.
You sure brought home a wacky one along with your information for Ryo.
My.
What a handsome man.
Oh, dear.
You're wearing the same clothes as that woman.
Where's Glass Heart?
Oh? Her name's Glass Heart, huh?
That's an odd name.
City Hunter.
Help me!
Take me to the woman.
You make it sound easy.
Are you going to walk around town with that wicked thing?
Who is the woman?
Is the wound on her chest from a heart transplant?
Is it my partner
Kaori's heart?
Answer me.
It is.
Who is she?
She's an assassin for our organization.
Assassin.
Why was it transplanted into her?
Because she was a distinguished human resource.
Then why are you after her?
She betrayed the organization.
So you're going to take her down.
X
Y
Z.
She's fine.
She's not in mortal danger.
Sorry about this, Doc.
I couldn't take her to an outside hospital.
Give me a break.
You do this all the time.
We're done.
Thanks, Tomo-chan.
You can go home for the day.
Okay.
I'll see you soon.
Yup.
Oh yeah, there was a surgical wound on her chest.
Yeah.
An assassin?
Why didn't you interrogate him further?
He's also an assassin from that organization.
He might have bit off his own tongue if I cornered him.
I was wondering who all those strange people in town were.
That explains it.
The name Glass Heart is a code name the organization gave her.
Secret organization Legion, huh?
All I know is the name.
I don't know the details, but they're in Tokyo, San Francisco, Taiwan...
There are records of crimes
thought to be of Legion's doing elsewhere across the world, as well.
Pattern based on images 3 and 2 (no matches)
So the transplant recipient was an assassin.
How ironic.
Wait a second, that unsolved case...
It was exactly a year ago.
Dad, I bought it.
Dad. Dad!
Dad!
Dad, are you okay?
Dad!
Your next mission:
Board flight AH-512 from Haneda to Seattle.
Are you listening, Glass Heart?
She jumped to her death?
A bystander called an ambulance.
That might have been her that was taken to the hospital.
But I thought there weren't any records of a heart transplant at any hospital.
She disappeared the night she was taken to the hospital.
I guess the organization recovered her, huh?
Because she was a distinguished human resource.
In that case, they would be the ones who hijacked the organ transport vehicle.
But Glass Heart...
She betrayed the organization.
Apparently, Legion gathers orphans from around the world
and trains them to be assassins.
They don't hesitate to take them down if they betray the organization.
They're dispensable. Pawns.
A sensitive, faint heart, as if made of glass.
Hence "Glass Heart," eh?
Ryo.
What do you think you're doing?
I still haven't heard her request.
She said it.
X
Y
Z.
Where am I?
Who the hell are you?
Xin-Hong.
You're safe.
Let's go back to the organization.
They deployed not just standard soldiers, but Carlito to capture you.
We have to go back soon,
or they'll kill you.
I can't go back.
Just come with me.
Kill me.
Then you kill me.
I can't.
I want to die.
So, why?
I want to live.
I don't want to be apart from you.
Ryo.
It's gotten a bit cold, huh?
I guess I'll order another.
For you, as well.
It's so loud.
I can hear your heart from here.
What is this?
I've never heard your voice before, yet...
This isn't me.
These aren't my tears.
I've been waiting for you.
For me?
For you.
For you, who's living with Kaori's heart.
Impressive.
You knew it was bullet-proof glass, huh?
Please don't get my shop wrecked, Ryo.
Umibozu.
My name is Falcon!
Take it.
Thanks, man.
Want to go for a walk together?
It's raining bullets.
They're long gone.
They escaped from behind.
Two targets escaping.
All units, position yourselves within a kilometer from Cat's Eye.
Once you have them, kill them.
LS1 here.
Targets confirmed.
Ground team, form a perimeter around the building.
Shoot.
Close one.
Infiltrate the adjacent buildings and cut off their escape routes.
Just kidding!
Go.
Why would you take such a risk?
I'll give this heart back.
Take me back to the hospital and remove this heart there.
If I die, they'll stop chasing us.
Hurry up and kill me.
Take this heart out.
I can't do that.
A heart can't survive two transplants.
If they took it out of your body, you and the heart both will die.
To me
and Kaori, you are hope.
You need to live with the belief that there are two lives within you.
The ten-year survival rate for a heart transplantee is fifty percent.
Either way, I won't live very long.
All the more, you need to live.
To your fullest.
Even if you live only until tomorrow,
live today to your fullest.
Well then, that's the end of our break.
Oy!
Just how many are there?
Stop.
Drop it.
Don't move.
Xin-Hong.
You.
Explain this.
I'm leaving the organization, too.
You understand the punishment for traitors?
Go.
Tell the organization brass.
If they have business with her, they'll have to go through Saeba Ryo.
They made quite a scene, huh?
I've been dragged into a terrible mess.
Chief, we can't identify the origin of the bullets.
This has to be an organized crime.
Yeah?
Long time no see, boss.
How many times have you been raided now?
Dunno.
What's the deal with this shop?
It's a café.
A café?
Would a café use bullet-proof glass?
I have hobbies.
Enough chit-chat.
Go make inquiries.
Yes, ma'am.
Seriously.
So, what happened to Glass Heart?
She's quite a girl.
Looks like her body's all right, at least.
Doc,
could you take care of her for a while?
Hm?
Sure, why not.
The rooms are empty anyway.
Thanks.
Is she a client?
I haven't heard her request yet.
I hope I will someday.
This is the first time you bring back disappointing news.
What exactly happened?
We were interfered with.
Interfered?
By City Hunter.
City Hunter.
Saeba Ryo, is it?
Yes.
I see.
Thank you.
For saving her.
Oh.
Could you give this to her when she wakes up?
Her real name is written there.
She's only had the code name Glass Heart.
She was born knowing neither
her parents nor her own name.
How do you know?
I've wanted to tell her one day, so I snuck into higher-clearance and looked it up.
Excuse me.
Wait up.
What are your own plans?
I have none yet.
But
I can't go back to the organization.
Then stay here, in our town.
We all look like we're having a blast, but we're all burdened by our pasts.
This town's a gathering of people with baggage.
It also has the capacity to take you guys in.
You be the one
to tell her her name.
Thank you.
Wait, that hurts, that hurts.
That hurts, dammit!
Sorry.
Don't you have any sense of control?
I'm sorry.
This is her name?
Yes.
It's read Xiang Ying.
I see.
Xiang Ying
Xiang Ying.
Kaori
I guess this might be fate, too.
Ever heard of City Hunter?
This man is dangerous.
No matter who he is, right now, he's wounded.
Brings back memories of before you became City Hunter.
I don't want to see her tears.
Who are you trying to make me kill?