An item of the highest quality, I wouldn't let it out of my sight either.
Sorry about smashing that statue you value more than your own life.
I did the job at the request of a woman you betrayed.
A woman's revenge. Scary!
Oops, I've been spotted.
Flying!
A flying tush object!
This way! This way!
Oh, no.
Hurry!
Too late, she's gone!
Damn you, Phantom 305! You got away again.
She can't be far away! Let's split up and search for her!
Yes, Sir!
What do you know? Phantom 305, the one that's got everybody in an uproar.
That sure was one nice tush though.
A job for a young woman?!
Right.
Do it?
I'll do it! I'll do it! Oh, yes!
I knew you would, so I've already set up a meeting.
Something's not right. You usually hate it when the client's a woman.
Your client is a seventeen year old high school girl!
She's actually a bit too young for me to be calling her a woman.
No, I don't want to be a babysitter!
Too bad! I already accepted payment in advance!
That Kaori, making me babysit.
On the other hand...
Kaori, looks like you've underestimated the high school girls of today.
"Too young" you say? Not at all. I'm full of mokkori.
To be sure, it wasn't like this in the old days.
They were more plain, with braids an' all.
Yeah, yeah, like her.
There's one in every class the all work and study, student rep type.
You're Mr. Saeba, aren't you?
Mr. Saeba?
Yes?
What's your name?
I'm Kasumi Aso.
That's a nice name.
So, what is it you want me to do?
There's something I want you to help me steal.
Okay, thank you very much.
Please wait, I'm not finished.
I've got no time to be playing pretend-thief with you!
I'll return your advance payment.
So just go on home and study for your entrance exams or something.
Are you going to help me? If not, I'll shoot.
That's just about enough of that!
What?
What are you doing? Here I am!
That tush is...
The flying tush object!
I'm known to everyone else as Phantom 305, you know?
I get it.
That night you saw my skill with a gun and fell in love with me, right?
Right. If you insist on refusing my request, I'll pull the trigger.
Go ahead and try.
I've taken the bullets out.
No way!
I'm a pro. You think I'd let you get my gun so easily, otherwise?
I'm done babysitting!
But if you're talking about me being the assistant of the beautiful Phantom,
it sounds interesting.
So, you'll do it for me, right?
On the contrary, it is I who should be asking you.
What are you...
Here's to you, flying tush object!
Now to get right down to business...
Just a second!
What is it?
I'm your partner, you know?
Get rid of that disguise so we can talk seriously.
I believe that is unnecessary.
Wrong! I just can't take this seriously if you don't!
Will this do?
No.
What now?
I believe you work in a leotard.
I'm not wearing it today!
That excuse won't work on me.
So put it on quick, quick!
How long have you had this Lolita Complex?
Hitting on a high school girl...
She's prettier than I am.
Please have something to drink.
I'm sorry! What if it makes a stain?!
Looks like you'll have to change into your leotard!
Time to put on the leotard!
The leotard... leotard...
What in the world is it you want Ryo to help you steal anyway?
A black tulip.
Black...
...tulip?
I've never seen such a thing.
Growing one of them is a horticulturist's dream.
There is only one man who has such a bulb.
The owner of the bulb lives in this mansion.
That's a weird place.
What is that?!
This is Sanchez, the man who serves the mansion as a butler.
Was I ever surprised!
He's got a huge face!
This man, the owner of the mansion, is the self-proclaimed,
world's top specialist in supernatural phenomena, Professor Fritz Lang,
in other words a specialist in psychic phenomena and the occult.
Something suspicious about that "self-proclaimed" business.
That's the face of a fraud.
Professor Lang has convinced himself that someone is after his research.
As a result, it seems that his security system is quite extensive.
Do you have some way to steal it then?
I will impersonate a psychic.
A psychic?
And that's where Ryo's skill fits in.
I don't have psychic power.
Your skill with a gun.
I'm leaving now. Take care of things while I'm gone.
Yes, Master. Please take care of yourself.
Professor Lang invariably sets out on Sundays to hold a psychic experiment.
What kind of experiment?
An experiment in which he tries to influence the movement of baseballs.
Foul! Foul ball!
That pitcher's getting tired.
Hit it! Hit it hard! That pitcher's getting tired.
The ball drops in front of the batter, he hits nothing but air!
Damn, and I thought my powers were at their peak today.
What are you doing, Mister?
Me? I'm engaging in a worthy experiment in psychokinesis?
Psychokinesis?
Look! I'm attempting to move that ball with my will.
What? Is that all?
What do you mean, "Is that all?"
I'm staking my career on this, you know!
But even I can do it!
You can do it?!
Shall I show you?
Sounds interesting. Why don't you go ahead and show me then?
I'll make that fly ball into a homerun.
If you so sure you can do it, then go ahead.
Here it comes.
This is what you call a real pinch hitter.
Okay!
Bang!
See, Mister?
This is fun!
Bang! Bang!
See? I did it, right?
You! You have such wonderful potential!
You must pay a visit to my mansion as soon as possible!
It would be greatly to your benefit as well.
Okay.
If I dissect that young woman and analyze her brain structure,
I should be able to understand the mechanisms involved in psychic ability.
Master,
it looks like your guest has arrived.
She's arrived, has she? My cute little specimen.
What?
I apologize. I was worried about coming alone.
Thank you for having us. We're close friends of Kasumi's.
She's lovely!
Thanks, Mister!
I'm honored.
Please...
Looks like we've cleared the first hurdle.
The next problem is the location of the black tulip.
He makes me ill.
I've never met anyone like her.
Sanchez!
The girl with the glasses is the only one we want.
We're getting rid of the others.
Getting rid of?
Including the girl with the short hair too?
I can't do it.
In any event,
deal with the guy.
This is my laboratory.
Man, just like something out of one of those old horror movies.
Looks like Dr. Frankenstein made it or something.
Hey...
Do you, just you, want to see something nice?
Something nice?
A really stimulating young lady.
Where? Where is the mokkori?
A man after my own taste. This way, this way.
Hurry, hurry!
Just be a little patient now.
What's this handle for? Do you have a basement or something?
Master Lang!
How awful!
You! Look what you did to the Master!
Hold on! I didn't do anything!
Your words aren't going to help you!
Saeba!
Ryo!
Look! I just detest violence!
You have a crush on Kaori!
I don't know what you're talking about!
Now's our chance, while Professor Lang is unconscious!
Okay, Sanchez, where is the black tulip?
You think I'd tell you something like that?
I'm not much to look at, but I don't talk. And don't forget it!
Please, please tell me.
It's in the basement.
You sure don't talk.
Thank you.
I could just die!
Hey, Kasumi, isn't it about time for the leotard?
There's no time to change.
But you can't beat a leotard for a burglary.
I'm asking for it now!
And you got it, didn't you?
This room is nasty!
What?
These are all stolen items!
So, that Lang is a thief?
Probably.
"Supernatural phenomena," he says. That fraud!
Let's hurry up, and find the black tulip.
All right, I feel better stealing from him knowing he's a thief himself.
So heavy...
Wake up, Sanchez!
Have you found the black tulip yet?
I see, she was a little thief after my tulip!
You tricked me! You brats! Now you've made me angry!
That short-haired girl sure is nice.
Silence!
I'm sending all three of them to Hell!
No, Master! I want the short-haired girl saved!
Shut up!
What's happening?
Do something!
This is what happens to those who dare cross me!
I'm saving the short-haired girl.
What is this?
It's okay now.
I'm helping you.
Sanchez?
Please, Sanchez, tell me where the black tulip is hidden!
Master, please forgive me! It's so hard being a man consumed with love!
There it is!
It's about to bloom.
So this is it. We've done it!
Thanks, Sanchez.
I'm so happy.
Just you shut up!
You! I'll never let you leave here alive!
Damn!
Hurry! We'll be trapped!
Faster! Faster!
You brats!
Hey, hey! It's about time for the leotard!
You don't give up!
I'm looking forward to it; don't disappoint me!
Okay then!
All right, the leotard!
She's not the only one!
Tada!
Me too!
Not necessary!
Damn, looks like he's not going to let us leave through the front door!
What'll we do?
We're going upstairs!
A balloon! It looks like our balloon has come in!
Hurry, Saeba!
What's keeping you, Ryo?
Man, why does he have to tie it so tight?
Okay, got it!
Saeba!
Ryo!
Wait!
Ryo, faster!
Saeba, grab my hand!
Just a little more!
Yes, yes!
Got him.
You saved me.
Stop! Stop! I won't let you get away!
That old geezer doesn't know when to give up!
Damn you! I'll give you a personal demonstration of psychic power.
Sanchez, take the wheel.
Yes, Master.
Fire!
Fly, fly, o dynamite, and blow the balloon and those in it to smithereens!
It's not working.
Well, I never.
You mean I have no psychokinetic ability?
That short-haired girl sure is nice.
To the hospital, you say?
Yes, I'm going to return this tulip to its real owner.
Owner? Looks like you have something to tell us.
Just who is it?
Right, you can tell us now, can't you?
He is an elderly horticulturist without much time left to live.
And he happens to be my grandfather.
My grandfather devoted his entire life to developing this black tulip.
My grandfather is now at the very doors of death.
Before he dies, he wishes only for a glimpse of this flower,
the tulip whose development he poured his life into.
What's wrong, Kasumi?
The tulip!
When a tulip is developed,
its color must remain constant for at least three generations
before it can be recognized as a new variety.
My grandfather succeeded in blooming a black tulip through two generations.
However, someone stole the bulb,
making it impossible for him to verify that it could produce a black bloom.
So, it was Lang who got his hands on it?
While he lived, I wanted to be able to tell him that he had succeeded
in developing a black tulip,
but...
This flower is not black.
Nothing you can do.
You've got to show it to him, and tell him the truth.
It's you, Kasumi.
I was thinking you might be coming by today or so.
My sixth sense has become keener of late.
Your tulip, Grandfather, I found it, and have it with me.
Kasumi, what color is the flower?
You went to all the trouble of bringing it to me,
but my eyes are almost completely worthless.
Tell me, Kasumi, what color is this flower?
It's black.
Really?
Black you say?
I'm certain it's beautiful like your hair.
Grandfather!
The old man...
I wonder if he was really blind?
I don't know.
But I expect he saw a black tulip in his heart.
A black tulip that bloomed in his heart.
Here he comes! The commando!
A dubious character who's after Atsuko the teacher!
She says the one they are really after is Takuya.
The two of them fled to Japan from the Republic of Amalia.
A teacher and a boy fleeing a coup d'etat
as they continue their dangerous adventure.
I've fallen in love with Atsuko.
I'll take care of it. So, why don't we all just live together in peace?
That won't be necessary.
Takuya is starting to act just like you, and it's giving me headaches!
See you then!