Ancient Relic of the Royal Family

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**Ancient Relic of the Royal Family** (王室家の古代の遺物, **Ōshitsu-ie no Kodai no Ibutsu**?) is the second stage of *Chuhou Joutai 2: Paraided!*, given to KRDF recruits Susumu Takajima and Kagami Ochiai by Crown Princess Konata. Although post-battle cutscene is dark in nature, it is a major stage in the entire game, setting the game's plot to find the Mini-Hakkero in motion.

## Stage context

The stage opens a couple of days after the previous stage left off. Driller meets up with Crown Princess Konata in her Kozankyo University dorm room, checking on the status of her incoming bon festival to be hosted the following day. She tells Driller that she is resting from pulling an all-nighter by printing and laminating flyers for the festival. Driller then travels to Downtown Kozankyo where he meets up with Kagami who takes a bike ride to Kozankyo's Union Station to attack a group of Crimsonites coming into the city. After an initial Crimsonite, being Kazuo Ozawa, is defeated by the duo, he is angered and prepares for revenge. The day of the festival comes anyway, and while Driller, Kagami, and Konata discuss their yukatas, the same band of Crimsonites Driller and Kagami encountered the previous day appear and take the festival attendees hostage. The Crimsonites tell the hostages they are going after the Mini-Hakkero which the Kozanese Royal Family has owned for generations. Once Kazuo places an explosive on a door, Driller and Kagami begin to fight Kazuo, and he ends up getting defeated in the end. In an attempt to stop the raid, Maika Ohtake, which the duo fought the previous week, shoots and kills Kazuo with a blaster. Another Crimsonite in retaliation shoots Maika, killing her as well.

The next morning, Driller tells his elder brother Hiroki about the raid, and how he'll vow revenge against Maika's killer.

## Forces encountered

### New enemies

* Gomi Gunner
* Karanah

## Deaths

* **Kazuo Ozawa** - Killed by Maika Ohtake to stop the raid.
* **Maika Ohtake** - Killed by Kichiro Nakasone in retaliation for killing Kazuo.

## Aftermath

### LifeConnect posts

* **Crown Princess Konata** - *"I am in complete shock. The Koseimi ward of Kozankyo has been torn apart. If the ward doesn't get any traffic today, nothing will happen."*
* **Some random eyewitness** - *"I caught a glimpse of the raid that happened nearby in Koseimi while I was playing Melee. You may have seen a fox or a falcon on their last stand - like something out of a stamina battle for real!"*
* **Susumu Takajima** - *"For those who don't own a blaster, go and buy one. If you can't, just go to a convention or become a collector. That's what happened to Maika Ohtake who tried to stop the raid before getting martyred."*
* **Maika Ohtake's boyfriend** - *"RIP Maika Ohtake. You were a beautiful girl who danced and sang for me whenever I wanted you to. May Queen Yukari accept you as a martyr."*

## See also

* Ancient Relic of the Royal Family/Script

## Behind the Scenes

* The setup of the raid is based on the bank robbery featured in the 1995 film *Heat*. The depiction of Maika Ohtake killing Kazuo Ozawa is based on a scene from the 1991 film *Point Blank* where a hostage kills a robber before getting killed themselves.
* When Driller questions Kazuo about why they're being friends, Driller states that it is like "green dinosaurs committing tax fraud." This is a reference to the *Yoshi Commits Tax Fraud* meme from the 2011 game *Fortune Street*.
* The last line uttered by Kazuo when Maika kills him, *mein liben*, is actually a single line of German and roughly translates to "my life." This could also be a reference to the 1992 game *Wolfenstein 3D*, which some enemies utter upon death.
* This is the first *Chuhou Joutai* stage to:
	+ Take place at night.
	+ Involve a hostage situation the player must escape.
	+ Take place over the course of multiple days in the game's timeline.
	+ Have different character sprites to fit the stage's theme.
	+ Have more than one character die in a single scene.
		- This is also the first stage to depict a character other than Fred Fawkes getting killed.
* Due to the post-battle cutscene's subject matter, this can be considered to be the darkest moment out of any Drillimation game.

## References

1. ↑ https://drillimation.com/2021/03/10/aftermath-of-chuhou-joutai-2s-events-in-local-kozankyo-news/ Aftermath of Chuhou Joutai 2's events in local Kozankyo news