Ancient Relic of the Royal Family

Ancient Relic of the Royal Family (王室家の古代の遺物) is the second stage of Chuhou Joutai 2: Paraided!, given to KRDF recruits Susumu Takajima and Kagami Ochiai by Crown Princess Konata.

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.

New enemies

 * Gomi Gunner
 * Karanah

Opponents

 * Kazuo Ozawa (midboss and boss)

Deaths

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

The Daily Bunbunmaru
"A daring raid on a local bon festival west of Downtown Kozankyo last night has left one Crimsonite dead alongside multiple police and civilian fatalities. The prime suspect behind the raid was Kazuo Ozawa, a convicted felon from Kourindou. Eyewitnesses said that three men wearing Yakuza attire entered the location where the festival was being held and took the attendees hostage, one of those caught in the attack was Crown Princess Konata. After Ozawa blew the door to a nearby building open with an explosive, brave maiko-in-training Maika Ohtake, who was arrested last week for illegally entering a restricted area of the Hakurei Shrine, tried to stop the raid but was subsequently murdered in cold blood. Two of the other Crimsonites left the festival with a royal artifact owned by the Royal family and fought their way through police and the KRDF teams on foot before escaping on the local bullet train. The KRDF is now estimating that the Crimsonites caused a quarter of a million ingots worth of damage."

- The Daily Bunbunmaru, July 10, 2004

KBN This Morning
"The first headline for today is a daring raid that took place at a local bon festival hosted by Crown Princess Konata for the Kozanese Royal Defense Force cell The Unforgettable west of Downtown Kozankyo. One of the Crimsonites involved, Kazuo Ozawa, was killed during the raid. Ozawa had previously been convicted of an armed robbery in the 1990s. A maiko-in-training named Maika Ohtake, who was arrested and released last week for illegally entering a restricted area of the Hakurei Shrine, attempted to stop the raid but was murdered. The Kozanese Royal Defense Force is on the lookout for the Mini-Hakkero, a royal object that was stolen in the raid, and two other suspects."

- Official report from KBN This Morning, July 10, 2004

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."

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  where a hostage kills a robber before getting killed themselves.
 * 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 , 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.