Seina's adventures
in the Galaxy Police have, for now at least, ended, and he has returned
to Earth. Finding himself back amongst familiar surroundings, he can
scarcely believe that he has been to places and seen things than nobody
on Earth ever will. He gazes up into the sky and remembers the events
that took place just a short time ago...
After
her meeting with Seto in the previous episode, Airi calls Seina to her
office where, much to his surprise, his parents and his sister Yoshiko
are waiting. They have come to witness Seina's first mission — getting
married! The shocked Seina asks who his bride will be, and his mother
tells him he will wed Kiriko, Amane, Ryoko and Neiju. As Seina
goes into a panic, his father goes on to tell him the marriage is a
purely political affair, and his mother tells him the wedding will be
held on the far side of Earth's moon. Seina is outraged, but a pair
of guards drag him off before he can object any further.
Soon after the meeting,
Seina and his family returned to Earth to prepare for the wedding. The
night before the wedding, the Yamada family sit down to dinner at home,
but Seina doesn't join them. As he stares at the moon, he imagines each
of his brides-to-be rejecting him; Amane confessing she has been in
love with Seiryo all along; Ryoko accusing him of trying to bring down
the Balouta dynasty; Neiju blaming him for forcing her to marry him;
Kiriko telling him to go home and never venture into space again. Seina
wakes from his nightmare with a start. Morning has already broken and
the day of his wedding has arrived.
Spaceships of every
shape and size flock towards the venue, a palatial space-station in
low orbit on the far side of the moon, as the wedding guests arrive.
Airi and Mikami are already overseeing the preparations, and with guests
coming from five families and no end of other relations, organising
it is no small feat. Lady Seto has already picked up the Yamada family,
and her husband Utsutsumi is rehearsing his speech for the ceremony.
Seina is already aboard the space-station, sitting in his chamber and
nervously awaiting the beginning of the wedding. Airi arrives to help
him prepare for the service, but Seina is still having doubts. He wonders
if the girls are really willing to enter into a marriage, political
or otherwise, with him, since he hasn't even spoken to them about it
yet. Airi asks him if he likes the girls, to which Seina bashfully admits
he does. Airi decides to quell his worries once and for all, and drags
him off to ask them in person.
Seina
arrives at the girls' dressing room, and his four brides-to-be are a
sight to behold indeed, each in a magnificent wedding gown. Even Fuku
is bedecked in a pretty white ribbon! Blushing, Seina tells them they
all look beautiful, which elicits overjoyed reactions from the girls.
Fuku meows to seek Seina's approval as well, and he tells her she also
looks pretty. Airi comments that since Seina will now be the owner of
the Kamidake, he is effectively "marrying" Fuku as well! Before
long, the girls start to bicker over who has the better dress, and Seina
is finally satisfied that they are willing to go ahead with the wedding.
Just then, a valet arrives to take Seina to be fitted for his suit.
The valet leads
Seina to a room, but when he enters it is not a dressing room but a
storage bay. Locking the door behind them, the valet shoves Seina violently
into the room. He strips off his disguise to reveal he is no valet but
Tarant Shunk, now with more artificial body parts than ever after his
narrow escape from Seina and the Idol (see episode
24). He punches Seina in the stomach, knocking him to the floor,
then lunges at him with a sharp spike that springs from the knee of
his cybernetic leg. Seina dodges, and the spike pierces the floor. Gloating,
Tarant draws Seina's old pocket knife and tells him that after he kills
him he will move on to Kiriko as well. Seina gropes for the control
panel on the wall and activates the cargo bay sealant guns (just like
his encounter with Komachi in episode 9). The
sealant gel covers the hole left in the floor, trapping Tarant's leg,
and Seina launches a ferocious kick at his head. Tarant's leg snaps
off at the knee and he crashes against the door. The sealant guns fire
again, covering Tarant from head to toe in sealant gel. Seina approaches
the immobilised pirate and gets the shock of his life when he appears
to still be moving, but fortunately it is only the door opening as Mitoto,
busy cleaning as usual, enters!
Even after this
little incident, preparations for the wedding remain in full flow. Alan,
Barry and Cohen have been assigned jobs as waiters at the reception,
but they are still under the command of their pompous ex-captain Seiryo,
who has been appointed head waiter (after all, the wedding space-station
is on hire from his family's corporation!). Meanwhile, while Mitoto
bandages Seina's wounds, Airi and Mikami apologise for the lapse in
security that allowed Tarant to come aboard. Nevertheless, they are
impressed that he has gained enough skill to single-handedly capture
Tarant.
Soon, Seina's family
arrive in the company of Seto, Utsutsumi and four of Seto's attendants.
Mikami greets them and leads them to the reception hall, while Yoshiko
goes off to see her brother before the service, and Seto's attendants
sneak off on a mission of their own...
In
the reception hall, Rajau frantically searches the assembled diners
for signs of his "dear Elma", and Ryoko unexpectedly shifts
back into her old Elma form for a moment when she sneezes! At another
table, Komachi is enjoying a glass of wine when Seiryo approaches her.
She is surprised to see her old prisoner working here, but not half
as surprised as when he places a single red rose with a diamond ring
on its stem in front of her! "For your birthday," he explains,
and their eyes meet in an adoring gaze.
Seina has just
put on his suit when Yoshiko arrives to wish him luck. Surprisingly,
she
is hand-in-hand with Kiriko's brother Kai, and Seina jumps to the obvious
(and correct) conclusion. Kai even starts referring to Seina as "oniichan"
("brother"). Seina tells him he is a little presumptuous
to start addressing him like that yet, but Kai reminds Seina he will
be marrying
Kiriko soon anyway, so they will already be brothers-in-law. Kai
goes on to mention his surprise at the discovery Seina and Kiriko had
gone into space, but his life hasn't been free from excitement either;
he and Yoshiko seem to have become engaged! As the besotted duo become
absorbed in each others' gazes, Seto's four attendants enter the room.
They remove their hoods and robes to reveal that they are in fact Hakuren,
Karen, Gyokuren and Suiren, the flirtatious foursome who have dogged
Seina's every visit to Seto's palace. They explain that they are actually
emissaries of the Renza Alliance government, a nation outside of the
Galaxy Federation. Their nation has been plagued by space pirates,
and
after seeing how he defeated the Da Ruma Guild they want Seina to lend
his assistance. Seina tries to make excuses — he is, after all, just
about to get married — but the four won't take "no" for an
answer...
Meanwhile, Airi
begins the wedding ceremony by first greeting the guests over the hall's
PA system. She then announces the arrival of the brides, and Kiriko,
Amane, Ryoko and Neiju step out onto the stage. Next, she announces
the arrival of the groom, and a spotlight picks out a platform that
approaches from the far end of the hall. Suddenly, the guests fall silent
and the music and applause stops; Seina is not on the platform, but
Yoshiko and Kai instead! They announce that Seina has been kidnapped,
and amidst cries of shock from the assembled guests, the brides rush
to the Kamidake and give chase.
Still in their wedding
dresses, the crew of the Kamidake head after the Renza ship. Ryoko soon
gets a lock on their craft, the Kaeisho, and they give chase. Aboard
the Kaeisho, the Renzan girls and Seina are crammed onto the ship's
tiny bridge. They know that outrunning the Kamidake will be difficult,
but Suiren observes that the ship is feeling rather sluggish. Gyokuren
checks to see what the problem is and discovers NB hiding in a closet
with his collection of chikuwa fish sausages!
The wedding guests
watch the pursuit on large video screens set up in the reception hall
(all except Seiryo and Komachi, who are still gazing adoringly into
each other's eyes). Airi demands an explanation for Seto's servants'
behaviour, but Seto is only surprised that they chose this moment to
act. She assures Airi that the Kamidake should be able to resolve this
situation with very little trouble. Airi contacts that Kamidake and
asks the girls not to use excessive force on the Kaeisho; although she
doesn't believe Seina is at risk, he is still their hostage.
Aboard
the Kaeisho, the Renzan girls decide they need to jettison as much weight
as possible to get their speed up. They all strip and toss their clothes
overboard, but the ship is still overweight. This leaves only NB and
his chikuwa collection to dump, and Gyokuren mercilessly pulls
a chain that flushes them both out! Floating in space, NB hears the
cries of NaBiko, who has snuck aboard the pursuing Kamidake, and he
is moved that she has gone to such lengths to find her beau again. His
joy is short-lived as the Kamidake catches up with him and, once again,
spears him painfully on its prow!
Despite tossing
almost everything overboard, the Kaeisho is still too slow and the
Kamidake
soon catches it up. Much to the shock of the crew (not to mention the
watching wedding party), they find Seina surrounded by the naked
Renzan
girls. Kiriko is the first to blow a fuse, screaming at the girls to
release Seina. They protest that what they are doing is for the
sake
of justice, and go on to tell the brides they have eloped with Seina.
Of course, the brides don't believe them, so the Renzans jump on
Seina
to make them believe! At the wedding reception hall, Mikami
observes that the argument sounds more like a lovers' tiff. Airi begs
Seto do something about it, but Seto just finds the whole thing extremely
amusing. With an audience of thousands listening, the sounds from aboard
the Kaeisho grow steadily more obscene (with whole words having to
be
bleeped out!), while Seina's brides scream with rage as they try to
stop the Renzans' space-borne orgy!
Some time later,
the Kamidake is back on duty and chasing space pirates. The usual crew
has grown somewhat; Hakuren, Karen, Gyokuren and Suiren have somehow
wangled themselves into the arranged marriage and have joined Kiriko,
Amane, Ryoko and Neiju as crew members. Between his eight wives, NB,
NaBiko and their numerous robo-children, the bridge of Seina's ship
has become rather crowded! Nevertheless, they have a job to do, and
Seina orders his crew to chase after the pirate ships at full speed.
With a resounding meow, Fuku powers up the Kamidake and it blasts off
into the distance, off on the first of their new adventures.
