Report 29: The Green-Eyed Monster

Report #29: The Green-Eyed Monster is the twenty-ninth chapter of the Hyper Police manga, and the eighth chapter of Volume 4. It was used as the basis of the twenty-third episode of the Anime: "Sakura Becomes Insane".
==Plot==
Tomy and Natsuki walk through an area of Tokyo densely populated by humans, who are courted entirely as a status symbol. They notice Sakunoshin nearby, surrounded by women who find the very fact of him being human to be more than enough for them. Sakura watches from afar and explains to the two that she is confident they won't win and sees it as proof that he is indeed a good catch. Unaware to the others, her tail hairs puff out to indicate jealously.
Later that day, Natsuki leaves her apartment to visit Batanen, who is due to leave the hospital soon after the incident at the "sexual harassment" seminar. Sakura's response to Sakunoshin's attention is to insist they spend the rest of the day having sex. He is reluctant due to work which needs doing, and eventually brings up the children but finds Sakura has taken care of everything to prevent him finding excuses (to the extent of knocking the children out with cough medicine). After four straight hours of sex, Sakunoshin cannot bare anymore. Offered a cigarette, he accidentally calls his wife "Kasumi", the name of his fiancée in Medieval Japan. Realising virtually everything Sakunoshin says involves Kasumi, Sakura becomes angry, believing that her husband sees her as a cheap substitute.
Natsuki returns to the apartment to find the children cowering behind a table as their parents fight. Natsuki quickly takes them outside so they don't hear anything. Heading back in at dinner, Natsuki and Sakura discuss the recent events, and Sakura accepts quickly that Sakunoshin only just lost his fiancée a few months ago by his point of view so it makes sense for him to still think of her. However, when the children point out that Sakura's human impression (hiding her ears and tail) looks just like the woman in their father's paintings, Sakura stops trying to accept Kasumi. Angry over this, Sakura fires her gun around Natsuki, unwilling to shoot her husband. She flies out to her parents' house in Amagasaki to think things out. Sakura orders her father to send her back to the Warring States Period, intent on murdering Kasumi and saving her marriage with Sakunoshin.
Traveling back in time, Sakura goes out in search of Kasumi, starting with a nearby village. In the forest nearby, Kasumi is treating a wounded fox with ointment. Sakura sees the woman and flies down. Asking for her name to make sure, Kasumi confirms her identity. A gun is aimed at her face in response.
==Characters==
* Natsuki
* Tomy
* Sakunoshin
* Sakura
* Sakura's father
* Kasumi
==Sources==
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