Nine-Tail Fox? Sakura Appears

is the second episode of Hyper Polices anime adaptation. In the "Image Entertainment" English dub it is known as "Sakura the Nine-Tailed Fox".
==Summary==
==Plot==
The episode starts with Sakura's dream of her past as a young kitsune being bullied by spirits for having one tail and waking up to go to a run down city to buy food. Meanwhile Natsuki is woken up by her cat named Bob and gets ready for work and meets Batanen. Cuts Back to Sakura beating up a pair of tough looking pig and bulldog humanoids. She realized she does not have money and pickpocketed Batanen as he was distracted reading dirty magazines in a dirty magazine stand. Sakura used his money to buy food while Batanen searches for his wallet to buy the magazine. Natsuki then meets Batanen striped down and told him to put back his clothes. Sakura thinks of finding someone with a lot of power but easily knocked down while she eats the noodles in her soup. She notices Natsuki and sees her as a potential prey. She begins to stalk Natsuki but Natsuki notices someone is watching her but doesn't know it's Sakura while walking with Batanen to a swordsmith. Natsuki asked the swordsmith to turn the broken Orihalcon sword into a dagger and the swordsmith responded that it will cost a lot. Natsuki is then at the office talking to Naoko about the sword and deciding to hunt criminals that can get her the money. She began going around to find a bug monster looking criminal and found it. Then Sakura shows up trying to know Natsuki down with her parasite. She then tries to eat her but realized Natsuki is still alive and realized that Natsuki is very powerful as she has two parasites then one. Natsuki's parasites then activates to save Natsuki and Sakura leaves but still want to eat Natsuki. Sakura then used her bounty money to pay for her sword to turn into a dagger and goes to the Lamp Cafe to show it to her friends that work there while knitting but Batanen shows up to tell her that Mr. Mudagami wants her at the office. She then found out that Mr. Mudagami paired her with Sakura as Sakura is joining her job to find an opportunity to kill and eat her.
==Characters==
==Further notes==
*This episode was released as part of the Volume 1 Laser disc collection.
==Sources==
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