Report 25: A Balcony Where the Sun Shined Brightest Part 1

Report #25: A Balcony Where the Sun Shined Brightest Part 1 is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Hyper Police manga, and the fourth chapter of Volume 4.
==Plot==
Believing her to be responsible for a large timespace anomaly, Sakura fires Natsuki as her babysitter. Natsuki insists her innocence; while accepting she does have a tendency to accidentally cause such anomalies, she makes an effort to fix the problem (citing an accident the previous week where she made sure the Mongol warriors she accidentally brought to modern Shinjuku were sent back). Sakura becomes ecstatic upon hearing the reward for capturing the person responsible for the anomaly has risen to 10 million yen.
Natsuki narrates, explaining the incident. A timespace anomaly appearing as a done spawned around the Arakawa's prohibited zone. As it grew in size, consuming more and more of Arakawa, the government sent in the First Expeditionary Force to investigate. Since then, more teams have been sent in and disappeared, with the Fourth Expeditionary Force being the most recent.
Sakura joins Tomy and Batanen as they investigate the dome from outside. They refuse to join her in her offer to go in, despite the promise of riches for rescuing the government workers and reversing the anomaly. Satisfied she has no one to share the reward with, Sakura sneaks out in the night. She becomes curious by five smaller domes around the anomaly, giving the anomaly the appearance of a five-pointed star. Believing her magic to be easily capable of protecting her, she flies in.
The following day, the gang return to the anomaly, believing Sakura's disappearance to be involved. With radio rendered useless by electromagnetism, the gang walk into the dome as a group to search for their friend. Passing through a dense fog, they arrive in a very different Arakawa populated by playing children. Having seen a photograph found in a recently discovered time capsule in Nerima, Tomy deduces they have traveled to the Shōwa period (1926–1989). Natsuki finds a uniform matching the Second Expeditionary Force's, meaning they probably went missing at this point.
Poe appears before Tomy, wearing sexually-provocative clothes and lures him away from the gang. Tomy doesn't listen to Natsuki and disappears from the two. While Natsuki had her back turned, Batanen has shrunk to the size of a young child. When he falls over and cuts his leg, Natsuki takes charge. While annoyed at the prospect of going through puberty again, Batanen is delighted with the prospect of cuddling with Natsuki's breasts and not being thought of as a pervert. The two notice something familiar about the area they are in, soon realising they are in Natsuki's old neighbourhood. Her old house in this time is still standing; intrigued, the two walk in, where Natsuki finds her father inside playing with their cats.
==Characters==
* Sakura
* Natsuki
* Tomy
* Batanen
* Poe (illusion)
==Sources==
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