Desert Punk (砂ぼうず)

I am the one!

Push on ahead as you like, yeah

Oh, listen closely to me

and speak the name of the desert god

Clench your teeth

When your heart starts to tremble with heat...

Stop it! It'll only bring destruction

Let's do it, oh, angel

Now is the time to stand up and be strong

A sad history, a hidden big story

That's the mystery

There's nothing certain about what tomorrow holds

so living through this moment

is my mission alone

The Great Kanto Desert.

The temperature exceeds 50º Celsius in the afternoon,

and plummets below freezing at night.

Here lie the ruins of a civilization whose transgressions

brought about its downfall centuries prior.

One could even say that they are grave-posts for those who died here.

As for their surviving descendants...

... they clearly haven't learned a damn thing.

"Ghost and Boobies"

Honey!

Hurry up! We're dead meat if they catch us!

Are you all right, Namiko?!

Mommy... I'm hungry!

This isn't the time for that!

Honey!

Whoa!

You ain't goin' nowhere!

No! Stop!

Let Mommy go !

Namiko!

Ain't no escape now!

Leave everything ya got on the ground!

Not like it matters, we're gonna rob your corpses anyway!

Oh no! I'm going to be raped !

Damn woman, gettin' our hopes up!

...Who'd ever want you ?! ...Damn you!

Hey, you from the Kawazu Clan?

...What the? ...You're a puny li'l runt!

You the guys who attacked the oasis transport trucks

at Water Station #45 three days ago?

And what if...

...we are?!

...What if we are?! ...What if we are?!

I've been hired to retrieve someone's treasure from you.

Just so ya know, if you're a government official then you're dead!

And you're dead if you're a bounty hunter!

Let's just say you're dead anyways!

No government official would ever come somewhere this dangerous.

And all bounty hunters do is bully weaker people.

Though it's thanks to them that jobs come my way...

If you tell me where your dumbass boss is, I'll let you go.

Did I make you mad ?

What a pain...

Think we wasted too much ammo?!

Look up there!

W-w-what?! He's flying!

...Is he a ghost?! ...Wait, a ghost?!

The "Ghost of the Desert"?

Huh?

What the hell did you do to us?

Tasteless, odorless, and colorless!

Super instant paralysis spray! Works good, huh?

That ain't fair...

I'm known far and wide for always carrying out my jobs.

I don't want to lose that reputation...

...so I'll do anything.

Now tell me where your hideout is!

...Take this! And this ! ...You're so mean!

57, 58, 59, 60...

Well, then.

You sure were lucky to be saved for only 200,000 a head.

See ya.

Honey!

Forgive me for being so weak!

I can't say no to a ghost!

Honey!

Eh? Masami's group is missing?

We can't get 'em on the radio, either...

They were supposed to be in charge of West 33 today...

They're probably off having "fun" elsewhere.

Well, they can just forget about their after-dinner pudding!

Yessir! I'll give them a talking to!

- No pudding, no pudding! - No pudding, no pudding!

I will eat their pudding.

"Kawazu Clan Boss. Kawazu Makoto, Age 37"

Pudding, pudding! My dear pudding!

Yummy!

Bad news!

...What's wrong?! ...There was a letter at the entrance!

It's a letter from the Sunabouzu !

Sunabouzu?

That handyman who's been crushing various clans lately

with his strange "magic"?

Sounds interesting. Read it.

Yes, sir!

"Dear Loser Kawazu Boss..."

"I've come for your head. Fight me!"

"There's no point running, 'cause I'm gonna kill your sorry ass."

"I also took care of your three loser henchmen."

"See you soon, Idiot Boss of the Moron Clan."

Eep...

Whoa, even after all that trash talk...

... he's not upset one bit...

- Talk about cool... - That's our boss!

"P.S. Your mommy has an outie!"

Mommy does not have an outie!

The boss is mad!

...His Hulkosis! ...Run!

None of my business.

Fine, whatever.

Ok, now!

A babe!

With boobs!

Are you all right, Miss?! Allow me to...

Aah!

"Handy"

I'm sorry. I thought you were a bandit...

B-but what are you doing out here?

In those sexy, I mean, light clothes,

you'll develop heatstroke and blisters in half a day!

Actually... I'm!

I'm!

Please save me!

Save you? From what?

That awful, vicious Kawazu Clan forced me to go with them,

but I just managed to escape!

Hey, there!

Forced?!

Their boss told me I was going to make pudding for the rest of my life

in his mom's place...

Isn't that just horrible?

Forced? To do what, exactly?!

- Forced? To do what, exactly?! ...But I guess I'm just too cute, so...

Please! You're my only hope!

Don't cry, Milady.

I, too, have some business with the Kawazu Clan.

Once I'm done, I shall accompany you to an oasis.

Come to think of it, they did say they lost some guards ...