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Episode 2 -	No Need for a Princess!
	Ōjo muyō!
First aired -	9th April 1995

Far away across the galaxy, a spaceship is on a direct course for planet Jurai. Its occupants are princess Ayeka, crown princess of planet Jurai, and her two guardians, Azaka and Kamidake.

Meanwhile, on Earth, Tenchi is busy with his chores around the family shrine. Mihoshi is also busy. She is setting up her Galaxy Police multifunction control cube as a distress beacon, despite the fact that the odds of being rescued on such a remote planet are stacked against her.

By a million-to-one chance, Mihoshi's distress signal is received by Azaka on board Ayeka's ship. As Ayeka is not currently on any urgent business, she decides to check it out.

Minutes later, Ayeka's spaceship arrives in Okayama. As it passes overhead, the delighted Mihoshi runs to meet it at the landing site. Ryoko looks concerned, however; the spaceship seems all too familiar. The ship lands on the lake near the shrine, and Tenchi, Ryoko and Mihoshi are there to greet the visitor. When princess Ayeka steps out, she and Ryoko recognise each other immediately, and neither is pleased to see the other. The two of them immediately begin quarrelling with each other, and Ayeka is about to leave in a temper when Mihoshi finally gets her attention and points out that she needs rescuing first!

A short while later, the bickering twosome have been separated. Ayeka takes tea with Katsuhito in the family shrine, while Ryoko, Tenchi and Mihoshi have snacks together at the house. Mihoshi asks Ryoko how she came to know Ayeka. Ryoko tells them how, as a child, she was playing in a field of flowers on planet Jurai when she was approached by a young princess Ayeka. Ayeka told Ryoko that she was trespassing on Juraian soil, and took away the flowers she had picked. Meanwhile, Ayeka is conversing with Katsuhito. She is telling him all about planet Jurai. Tenchi turns up with a plate of teacakes, and Katsuhito asks him to take Ayeka on a walk in the surrounding countryside. As they enjoy their walk together, Ayeka finds herself attracted to Tenchi by his kindness and gentlemanly conduct.

When they return from their walk, Ryoko meets them. She thinks Ayeka has been flirting with Tenchi, and starts taunting her. The two are soon at loggerheads again, and Tenchi and Mihoshi have to pull them apart. Ayeka warns Tenchi about Ryoko's character. She tells him that, when she was a young princess, she was playing in a field of flowers on Jurai when Ryoko ambushed her and stole the flowers she had picked; practically the opposite of Ryoko's version of events! Ayeka loses her temper, and Ryoko clings to Tenchi for protection, which just makes Ayeka all the more angry.

Ayeka has had enough of Ryoko's impertinence, and boards her ship (with the desperate Mihoshi clinging onto her robes) to attack. Ryoko summons her spaceship, Ryo-Ohki from its resting place on the other side of the hill, and boards it along with Tenchi. The two ships launch into space and engage in combat. They open fire on each other with a barrage of laser beams. Ayeka seem to have the upper hand, and opens a communication channel with the Ryo-Ohki. She is shocked to see Tenchi aboard her nemesis' ship, and doubly shocked when Ryoko boasts that she and Tenchi have vowed to fight and die together. Ayeka is grief-stricken, and decides to blow Ryoko out of the sky using her own ship. Ayeka's Ryu-Oh smashes into Ryoko's Ryo-Ohki and the two ships plummet Earthwards, splash-landing in the lake and wrecking them both.

That evening, there are three more guests for tea at the Masaki home. Azaka and Kamidake have joined Ayeka as lodgers in the Masaki home, but Ayeka herself is still sulking in the bedroom. Despite losing her ship and being stranded with her worst enemy, Ayeka thinks that, with Tenchi around, she might yet enjoy a brief holiday on Earth.

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