第21話

あらすじ

日本語の要約がないため、Englishで表示しています。

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Jet receives an old, cryptic message from Pao Pu-Zi, an acquaintance with expertise in feng shui. When he visits Pao's grave on Mars, assassins attack him, and Pao's daughter Mei-Fa helps him escape. She believes the message proves her father may still be alive and asks Jet to help locate a special “sun stone.” Using feng shui principles, they trace the object to a moon rock displaced during the Astral Gate disaster. Their investigation is repeatedly targeted by men connected to a syndicate that once used Pao's knowledge. The stone finally acts as a resonant key, revealing that Pao is trapped within a hyperspace stream near a gate rather than living normally elsewhere. Mei-Fa and her father communicate only briefly. He explains enough for her to understand his disappearance and says goodbye before the unstable phenomenon collapses. Jet cannot rescue him, but he gives Mei-Fa the chance to replace years of uncertainty with a final conversation. Her initial attachment to Jet partly reflects the father she has been missing; by the end, she can separate those feelings and continue her own life. Jet returns to the Bebop after helping another person confront a past that cannot be repaired.