Report 16: Spring Fever

is the sixteenth chapter of the Hyper Police manga, and is the second chapter of Volume 3.
==Plot==
Sakunoshin has been given board at Natsuki's house to recover from his electric shock. Sakura is hard at work cooking rice porridge for him, romanticising looking after him. The others are perplexed by her cooking skills, as she has undersold her skills previously to get Natsuki to cook for her. The gang ponder if she is trying to kill him by hiding poisoning in her seasonings. During this Batanen lets slip he has tasted human flesh before, though not eaten. The two and Tomy are finally ready to ask her what's going on, as she previously put a bounty on him.
Sakura ponders more about her meeting Sakunoshin. Having previously believed it was an attempted rape, she is starting to realise he was in fact trying to take care of her. This only irritates her further, as he has displayed total ignorance in her not being human. The three tie her up, just to be sure she isn't still trying to kill him. Tomy observes Sakunoshin's sword, and determines it to be from the Sengoku Period. Sakunoshin awakens, startled by being in a room full of strange creatures. He fights them, breaking Natsuki's Orihalcon sword and severing one of Batanen's arms. Freeing Sakura after a fight, she immediately slaps him for treating those who helped him so poorly. He apologies and prepares Seppuku, but is cut short by Sakura, who only wants to know why he took her clothes off. He is shocked to discover the woman he was with was even Sakura at all, and explains that he undressed her in order to tend to her wounds but, unfamiliar with her clothing, found it too difficult to put back on.
Tomy asks Sakunoshin about himself, suspecting he is somehow a time-traveller. Sakunoshin makes clear he is not fully aware of their language, being different to his own but familiar, which he assumed meant he was on another part of Japan. Asked when he thinks he is, he replies it is the tenth year of Tenshō, putting it at 1583. He is given a short history lesson on the important events of history until the present, which he takes well. What he does not take well is Natsuki's claim that Bob is the master of the house.
==Characters==
==Further notes==
* Tomy alludes to there being problems in the Holy Era's record keeping with 2-300 years being "lost". He estimates the Tenshō period to be 7-800 years in the past, placing the events of the series in the 23rd or 24th century.
==Sources==
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