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Xiang Ying is having the same dream over and over: she’s a child, about five years old, and she’s walking in the city alone, looking for Ryo.  After having that dream again she talks about it to Ryo, and he tells her to tell Doc during her check up.  When Xiang Ying arrives at the hospital, Doc is sleeping.  When she comes in and he wakes up, he mistakenly takes her for Kaori, and tells Xiang Ying about the time that Kaori was a nurse there.  Ryo is late picking Xiang Ying up, and in the meantime she has fallen asleep.  She is still having the same dream, but now she’s found Ryo.  Only, he has a shotwound and is dying.  Panicking, Xiang Ying is triying to call people to help him, but she can’t touch them.  Then she succeeds in grabbing someone’s hand, and the woman goes and check on Ryo.  Xiang Ying sees it’s Kaori.  In her sleep, she calls out Kaori’s name, and both Ryo and Doc are very surprised.  The next scene Xiang Ying sees is Kaori making breakfast for her brother, Makimura Hideyuki, who is a detective.  They are having an arguement about Kaori studying to be a nurse, but then Kaori goes off to the hospital.  There she is taking care of Ryo, who is still unconscious.  Her brother is there too, and he doesn’t trust Ryo, because all his papers are fake, but Kaori tells him as long as Ryo’s wounded her brother can’t take him away.  Doc later tells Makimura that the reason Kaori became a nurse isn’t because of him, but for him.  Upon hearing that, he goes to Kaori and tells her that her cooking has become very good.  During the night Ryo gains consciousness and he breaks a bottle to have a weapon.  Xiang Ying then realizes that he’s just like her when she just arrived in Shinjuku.  Kaori comes to check on Ryo and first it seems she didn’t notice he’s awake, but then she turns around and tells him to open his eyes.  As she is bending over him, Ryo picks up the broken bottle…

And they leave us with a cliffhanger!  I hate it when they do that  Anyway, I really liked this episode, seeing more about Kaori and Ryo’s meeting.  I guess Xiang Ying will also learn more about Kaori upon seeing this dream (actually Kaori’s memories), but I feel sorry for her she can only watch and not participate.

  
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Xiang Ying is still planning on killing Kishimoto.  Meanwhile, Ryo has spotted Tanya’s father, with the help of Umibozu.  He then takes Tanya out to the playground she always goes to, and she introduces him to her best friend, Kuma-san.  It seems that the bear who heands out balloons at the playground is actually Katsumi.  Ryo sends Tanya away for a while and goes and talk to Katsumi.  He tells Ryo that Kishimoto had gotten funds to build a school in the Ruzen Republic.  However, Kishimoto let a crooked construction company build the school and kept the money for himself.  Katsumi feels terrible for letting those children die and not doing anything about it.  He doesn’t want Kishimoto to die, but he wants the truth to be found out, to make Kishimoto see his mistake.  At Cat’s Eye, Xin Hong is worried about Xiang Ying and he wants to go and look for her, but Umibozu stops him.  Xiang Ying is still checking out the best sniping position.  The next day she has her chance to shoot Kishimoto, but when she wants to pull the trigger, she can’t.  Ryo is very proud of her, but Xiang Ying thinks she can’t be City Hunter if she can’t shoot.  Meanwhile, Ryo has asked Master Li to let the news about Kishimoto leak out to the Taiwanese Press.  Ryo and Xiang Ying then go to Tanya’s school with Tanya’s mother.  There, Ryo tells Tanya that he isn’t her real father, and Tanya already knew, but she thinks her real father is dead and really wanted a daddy.  Then Kuma-san turns up and exposes himself to a surprised Tanya and Irina, who are very happy, finally their family is together again.  xiang Ying starts crying seeing the family reunited again, but doesn’t understand why.  That evening, Xiang Ying is constantly practising her shooting, until Ryo comes to stop her.  He tells her that Kaori couldn’t shoot either, nor did she know any martial arts, and still she was a wonderful City Hunter. When they’re at home, Ryo finds Xiang Ying sleeping, completely exhausted.  He touches her chest and hears Kaori’s voice, telling him that Xiang Ying has a very fragile heart and to take good care of her.  Ryo then realizes it was Kaori who stopped Xiang Ying from shooting.  He leaves the room, leaving a tear on Xiang Ying’s cheek.

This was a good episode.  A lot of things happened, Tanya’s case is solved and Xiang Ying’s character has also been developed a bit more.  Ryo even got to talk to Kaori now ^_^  I’m really starting to like this series more and more.

  
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