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14 year old assassin code named Glass Heart from the Suzacu unit doesn't want to kill anymore. Every time she kills her heart breaks and all she wants is to break free. Will her answer to her problems be the right one and solve all her problems like she wants. She’s not a lost cause yet and one year later Glass Heart is about to learn what her heart truly wants. Meanwhile somewhere else another broken heart wonders the streets.

Given a new chance to live Glass Heart escapes from the surgery and decides to seek the meanings of her visions. She must find Saeba Ryo but when she gets to Shinjuku she finds it hard to leave old habits like killing behind as her heart is not made of glass anymore. Will she find what she is seeking without losing herself in memories that dont belong to her and the places which are familiar to a part of her but she has never been to.

Upon hearing Umibozu's statement that Kaori has returned, Saeba Ryo prowls the streets of Shinjuku, aimlessly looking for Kaori. At the same time, Glass Heart, with a whole-hearted desire to meet Ryo, uncovers clues about the secret message board code "XYZ" to contact City Hunter. She goes to the location of the message board at Shinjuku Station guided by visions of Kaori, however the board has been removed because it is no longer used.

After recovering consciousness in the clinic, Glass Heart has an encounter with Kaori in a mirror, which sparks a feeling in Glass Heart that her mind and body are being usurped by Kaori, creating hostility towards her heart donor. Witnessing this, Doc, the doctor, goes to Umibozu's cafe where he tells Ryo, Umibozu and Superintendent Saeko Nogami that the girl with Kaori's heart also has her memories.

Li Jian Qiang, the boss of Zheng Dao Hui, was critically wounded in the assassination attempt. Saeko, the superintendent of Shinjuku West police station, sets up an emergency response headquarters because of the potential power vacuum in the Shinjuku gangland if Li dies.

Ryo recalls the time, 22 years ago, when he rescued Li Qian De from a country's guerrillas on the request of his twin brother Li Jian Qiang. Ryo visits the Zheng Dao Hui medical facility where he recognizes Qian De and says goodbye to him as he takes his last breath.

Glass Heart becomes acquainted with Ryo in Umibozu's café, but the Qing Long, the infantry branch of Zheng Dao Hui led by Zhao, are close behind. The two manage to escape and lead the soldiers of Qing Long through the locked down the streets of Kabukichou area in Shinjuku.

In preparation for the gunfight with Qing Long, Ryo takes Glass Heart into a district that is blockaded off, and they finally reached the Hotel Kojyo. Waiting for them there is a large group of Ryo's friends including Umibozu, Saeko and Doc in the midst of a party.

While unconscious, Liu Xin Hong recalls his training days, when he and Number 27 trusted and supported each other, but they were forced to fight to the death in the final test when Number 27 thought that she had killed him. When he regains consciousness, he reveals that he was the sniper who had shot Master Li, but he only stayed alive to see Number 27 again.

Master Li is reunited with his unconscious daughter Xing Hong, now known as Glass Heart. Li decides to liquidate Cho, one of his ambitious lieutenants, who was behind the assassination attempt and who ordered the Qing Long unit to kill Glass Heart. Genbu and Xin Hong race to kill Cho but Xin Hong is stopped by Grand Chamberlain Chen, Master Li's right-hand man to allow Genbu to punish Cho, however he is sniped first by Ryo.

Xin Hong loses his confidence at the last second and decides not to tell Glass Heart her real name, but he accidentally says "Xiang Ying". Embarrassed, he tells her that Ryo made up the name and she accepts it. Ryo arranges for Xiang Ying to show Master Li around Shinjuku, without revealing that Li is her father. Li and Xiang Ying ended up taking pictures together at a photo booth, and when the photos are printed out, they realize they are both wearing the same expression.

Ryo and Xiang Ying attended the funeral of Qian De, who was her uncle. Jian Qiang tells Ryo how he met Xiang Ying's mother, Lin Xiang Ping, and how it was his caring brother Qian De who brought them together and encouraged him to have children. Although he lived in his brother's shadow Qian De was happy to be out of the limelight, and especially enjoyed that Xiang Ying thought that she had two fathers.

Ryo and Xiang Ying adjust to life together and she insists that Ryo undergo a medical exam and he is pronounced healthy. When Xiang Ying also undergoes an examination, it is discovered that there is an unusually high level of compatibility between her and Kaori indicating that her heart is unlikely to be rejected and that she may outlive Ryo, to her great relief.

Xiang Ying has trouble adapting to normal life away from the battlefield while Ryo accepts his first City Hunter job since coming out of retirement. His first client is Nagisa, a high school drop-out who carried out a "roofie robbery" on a member of the yakuza.

A little girl, Tanya, leaves a message for City Hunter and Xiang Ying decides to take the job herself without telling Ryo. Tanya wants to find her father "Shinjuku's One-Shot Wolf" and her description matches Ryo. Ryo and Xiang Ying find that her mother Irina was engaged to Katsumi Kurahashi, however he was framed for the activities of Kishimoto, a corrupt politician, and went into hiding to protect his family. Xiang Ying's solution is to kill Kishimoto and she begins to scout sniping locations.

Xiang Ying prepares to snipe Kishimoto, the man responsible for framing Tanya's father, Kurahashi. Meanwhile, Ryo finds that Kurahashi is working as Mr. Bear, a mascot handing out balloons to children in a playground were Tanya plays. He then leaks information from Kurahashi about Kishimoto to the Taiwan media exposing Kishimoto's corruption.

Xiang Ying has a recurring dream in which she is a child and cannot find Ryo. Ryo suggests that she tells Doc about it when she goes for her periodic physical check-up. When she arrives, Doc mistakes her for Kaori because of her similar manner. While waiting for Ryo, Xiang Ying drifts off again and experiences visions from Kaori's past where Kaori goes to Ryo's aid.

Xiang Ying continues seeing visions from Kaori's past and hears Kaori tell the semi-conscious Ryo that she also sees herself as a "stray dog", having been adopted by the Makimura family, and Ryo refrains from killing her. Ryo discharges himself from the clinic and encounters Hideyuki who allows Ryo to pass instead of arresting him.

Chen opens a Chinese restaurant called Genbumon, a reference to his former, Genbu unit of Zeng Dao Hui. Ryo volunteers Xiang Ying and Xin Hong to be his waiters since there aren't any requests on the message board. The two ex-assassins initially have difficulty understanding the process of serving others or the reason for dining out, because previously they always ate alone and quickly to minimize their vulnerability to attack.

Xiang Ying sees a newspaper article about the young violinist, Yume Kayano, and realizes she is the daughter of her last assassination target for Zheng Dao Hui. Xiang Ying meets Yume and finds that she has requested City Hunter to investigate her father's death.

Yume invites Xiang Ying to one of her violin concerts. Chen reveals that Mad Dog killed a family nine years ago, but the 2-year-old daughter was never found and he suspects that the girl is Yume. At the concert they meet Masaomi Kazama, world renowned violinist and Haruka's boyfriend.

Yume points the gun provide by Dog Walker at Xiang Ying, but she cannot not pull the trigger. She leaves the clinic with her teacher, Haruka, and Walker's gun. Separately, Ryo and Xiang Ying deduce that Dog Walker is Haruka's boyfriend, the famous violinist Masaomi Kazama also named "Slow Finger".

Yume cannot bring herself to shoot Ryo or Xiang Ying, and the Genbu unit disposes of Walker. Haruka decides to adopt Yume and they prepare to leave for Vienna to continue her violin lessons. Xiang Ying feels awkward about her relationship with Yume, but they share a happy farewell at the airport after Yume plays her violin. Later Xiang Ying begins to relax and enjoy life, such as travelling with Ryo on the Tamanote train line around Tokyo.

A recap of episodes 1-23.

Yusuke Fukutome wants City Hunter to kill him and his twin brother Yuji. Yusuke tells Ryo and Xiang Ying that they were abandoned, but then adopted by the couple who run the restaurant. Yuji became frustrated with their poor situation and joined the yakuza to make quick money and support his parents. However, they rejected his financial offerings and they eventually died in a traffic accident.

Xiang Ying discovers that, despite Yuji's rebellious ways, he was just trying to help his family and she encourages him to patch things up with Yusuke. However, Yuji's yakuza organisation plan to use Yuji as a scapegoat for a smuggling operation and they send men to kill Yuji. Xiang Ying offers to return Yuji's money and drugs, but she kidnaps him, effectively protecting him from the assassins.

Xin Hong takes Xiang Ying to see a romantic movie hoping for some romance himself, but Xiang Ying complains that it needs more action. Later, they met a street artist, Yoshiki Natsume and Xiang Ying senses something familiar but he does not recognize her. Later she discovers that he went to school with Kaori and was in love with her. Kaori's lingering affections for Yoshiki causes Xiang Ying to think she may be in love with him.

Xin Hong become jealous of Xiang Ying's affections for Yoshiki and Xiang Ying becomes confused about her own affections. Yoshiki tells Xiang Ying about his time with Kaori and how he left for Paris after he sketched a portrait of her which captured her inner soul and then gives her the portrait. Xiang Ying tells Yoshiki that Kaori's spirit lives on inside her through her transplanted heart.

Sayuri Tachiki, editor-in-chief of a famous magazine in New York and Kaori's blood sister, travels to Japan and asks City Hunter to find her sister. However, Ryo sadly tells her that Kaori is dead. Sayuri explains that after her parents divorced her mother denied that that Sayuri had a sister, until just before she died. Sayuri asks Ryo for proof that Kaori was happy with her life, and he and Xiang Ying slowly reveal the type of person Kaori was after meeting some of the people who knew her.

Sayuri is unhappy about Xiang Ying's circumstances living with Ryo and their City Hunter business and threatens to take her to New York. However, Chen convinces her that they have world class medical facilities at their disposal, and that the city itself appears to aid in the compatibility of Kaori's heart and Xiang Ying's body. Xiang Ying explains how after Kaori's father died, Kaori was befriended by Hideyuki Makimura, the son of the family which adopted her.

Sayuri’s dream continues, to the time when Kaori discovers that Hideyuki and Ryo are collectively the City Hunter and Kaori joins them. She sees the time when Ryo awkwardly proposes to Kaori and the fact that he was always there for her. When Sayuri awakes the next morning, Sayuri and Xiang Ying realize that they shared the same dream in which Kaori told them about her life. Satisfied that Kaori was happy with Ryo, and that her memories live on through Xiang Ying Sayuri returns to America.

A young woman named Bai Lan sees Liu Xin Hong in the street and follows him to Cat's Eye cafe. Bai Lan was Xing Hong's former team-mate and friend in his days in the Qing Long unit of Zeng Dao Hui. When Xin Hong left for Shinjoku, he left his Qin Long ring with her, to be returned one day. They spend the day together, but Ryo sees that they are being followed.

Xiang Ying decides to visit Hayakawa, and he tells her that he treats Bai Lan as his own daughter. After finding Bai Lan wounded in the street, he cared for her because of her resemblance to his late daughter which he saw as a blessing from God. Xiang Ying offered to protect Hayakawa as City Hunter, but he refuses. As Xiang Ying leaves the building she meets Bai Lan who reveals that she also tried to kill herself, but after being saved and cared for by Hayakawa, she confesses that she don't want

Bai Lan plans to stay with Hayakawa and protect him, regretting her former life as a god of death. Xin Hong offers to help her but she declines his offer. Hayakawa takes Bai Lan to his villa in Hakone on the day before the planned revenge assignation by the Suzaku unit of Zeng Dao Hui. Soon after they arrive at the villa, all the guards are killed, and Bai Lan goes after the assassin.

Hayakawa threatens to kill Bai Lan, but she convinces him that she did not betray him. He then reveals that he is dying from leukemia. They confess their devotion to each other, and he gives her a ring meant for his daughter. Xin Hong rushes into the burning building, but is stopped by Ryo and Xiang Ying, who say that only Bai Lan can save herself. They find Hayakawa engulfed in flames and Ryo and Xiang Ying help rescue Bai Lan.

Superintendent Saeko Nogami has a hard time dealing with her loneliness, and after a late night out drinking, she is followed into her apartment by a little girl who gives her a flower. The next day she thinks it was a zashiki-warashi, however she has been also receiving other unseen assistance lately. Xiang Ying investigates and finds that she is a real girl who picks up offerings from local businesses, but loses her in the crowd.

Miki appears in front of Umibozu and starts reading for him. Meanwhile, Xiang Ying tracks Miki to her living quarters in an abandoned underground arcade. In a flashback, Miki's mother, Sato, is shown dying in the snow. Ryo and Xiang Ying question the locals about Miki, when suddenly they hear the girl has been hit by a car. While Miki is in the clinic they realize that she has been waiting for her mother to return. Miki returns to her quarters and after Xiang Ying calms her, Miki sees Kaori appe

Kaori explains to Miki that her mother's body no longer exists, but that she still lives on within Miki's heart. The next morning, Xiang Ying returns Miki to the clinic with a high fever. Miki has a vision of seeing her mother who explains that she will always be with her. Miki decides to spend her days with Umibozu, being his eyes, although she returns to her underground arcade at night. However, after Umibozu shows kindness to a woman who tries to cheat him with his change, Miki eventually dec

Xiang Ying doubles as the famous action film actress Joy law, but after she is almost assassinated at a press conference, she demands the truth. Joy reveals that her life is under threat because her lover, the King of Thamannant has disappeared and been replaced by a double. Before he disappeared he asked Joy to find his daughter, the child of a Japanese woman, one of his 30 lovers. Joy searches for the girl, but after meeting Miki, she suspects that she may be the girl.

Saeko Nogami prepares to arrest Joy Law's movie producer Zhang Yi for staging dangerous promotional stunts when they a shot at by a group of assassins. Joy moves into the Cat's Eye café for safety and to be close to Miki. Ryo takes Joy to Miki's living quarters in the abandoned underground arcade, but everything is gone, however Joy believes that Miki's mother truly loved and cared for her.

Joy and Xiang Ying go to a bar, and when Xiang Ying passes out, Kaori takes over and tells Joy that if she really want to live on, she could ask Ryo to protect her and she would not be against the relationship. Meanwhile, Ryo leaks information that the king has been replaces by a double, thus removing the threat to Joy's life. Later, Joy takes Ryo to the run-down, Bar Jonathan, and he discovers that it was where the king met Miki's mother, Sato, six years ago.

Ryo loses the mobile phone which he uses to call women, and it is found by Tomomi Asakura, anchor woman on the evening TV news. She returns the phone, assuming that he is a host because of the number of women's numbers listed. When she takes him to a function, he is the life of the party, but she cannot relax.

Tomomi's boss Sanemichi Bando reveals that Ryo is City Hunter but Tomomi refuses to believe it. She is abducted in the street by Yang Fang Yu, leader of the Black Panther group. It appears that Ryo saved Fang Yu when they were mercenaries 10 years earlier and she fell in love with him and he promised to email her every Christmas, but because of Tomomi, he missed this year.

Yang Fang Yu, Ryo's former mercenary teammate, now runs an orphanage for children whose parents were killed in war zones. She asks Ryo for help to develop a vaccine for a deadly virus which an organization has developed for warfare, of which she has a sample. Meanwhile she has kidnapped twelve researchers and is now seeking funding to develop a vaccine.

Yang Fang Yu abducts mercenary Max Neumann thinking that he kidnapped the researchers, but he denies that it was him. Fang Yu releases Neumann, however she planted a bug in him, and they track him to a ship moored offshore. Fang Yu finds out that her lover, Cheng, used her to smuggle the virus into Japan and that he is behind the attempt to create a vaccine. She swims out to the ship alone seeking revenge.

Fang Yu boards the ship and prepares to kill Cheng, but Xiang Ying stops her and offers a better plan after knocking Cheng unconscious. Cheng wakes up dressed in a wig and woman's clothes and Fang Yu informs him that he will carry out the research to create a vaccine himself, wearing those clothes as punishment for lying to her. She frees the researchers, but after Xiang Ying and Kaori explain the purpose of their abduction, they decide to stay and help.

Xiang Ying encounters a woman in the street that says an accident is about to happen which proves to be true. Later, Xin Hong takes Xiang Ying to visit Pure Reisen, a future-teller. She predicts that in ten years, Xin Hong will not be married, and that Xiang Ying is supposed to be dead. She reveals that she is the same woman Xiang Ying saw days earlier and her name is Reiko Kawamoto.

Xin Hong and Xiang Ying decide to protect the police officer, Shougo Shimazu from his impending death and take Ryo and with them to his village so Reiko can more accurately predict Shougo's end. Reiko sees a vision that Shougo will be killed on the night of the village festival, but is burdened by being able to see tragedies that befall people.

Xin Hong waits at the place where Reiko predicted Shougo would be killed, and Reiko staggers towards him, very drunk. Suddenly the gunman being chased by Xiang Ying arrives and takes Reiko hostage. At that moment, Shougo cycles towards them on his bicycle, and as the gunman fires at him, Xin Hong leaps into the path of the bullet and crashes into Shougo.

At Christmas time, Yang Fang Yu invites Xiang Ying and Ryo to the wedding of Su Qing, one of her orphans who was adopted by a Japanese couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hotta. Surprisingly, Xiang Ying realizes that Kaori knew the family, and even recognizes the ring Kaori bought for Su Qing when she started college. The wedding saddens Ryo in that he never married Kaori, but he gives the ring he bought as a present for Kaori to Xiang Ying who realizes that receiving Kaori's heart has been a blessing.