22 - Poe and Rampo

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SIGN    To think the Guild would send me a challenge request.
[00:01] Rampo
    To think the Guild would send
    me a challenge request.
[00:04] Rampo
    This'll stave off my boredom a little.
[00:07] [SONG] Text
    To Edogawa Rampo
SIGN    Invitation for a Detective Game
[00:07] Yosano
    Though I suspect it's a trap.
SIGN    Welcome, Rampo-kun
SIGN    A is B
SIGN    A is not B
SIGN    Fill in A and B so that both hold true, and enter the room.
[00:11] Yosano
    I guess he wants you to fill in the blanks.
[00:14] Yosano
    Not that I have any idea.
[00:19] Rampo
    Yosano-san, do you have a pen?
[00:28] Rampo
    Are you the mastermind who
    thought to challenge me?
SIGN    Chief Architect of the Guild E. A. Poe
SIGN    Ability: Black Cat in the Rue Morgue
[00:33] Poe
    It's been a long time, Rampo-kun.
[00:35] Poe
    Were you been able to solve
    the riddle at the entrance?
SIGN    This sentence is five words. This sentence is not five words.
[00:39] Poe
    I'd expect no less from my
    worthy opponent, Rampo-kun.
[00:44] Rampo
    Now, it's my turn to ask a question.
[00:50] Rampo
    Who are you?
[00:51] Poe
    You don't remember me?
[00:54] Poe
    I joined the Guild just so
    that I could challenge you.
[01:00] Poe
    I am Poe!
[01:01] Poe
    Detective and master of intellect.
[01:04] Poe
    You defeated me six years ago.
[01:07] Rampo
    Your rant's making me sleepy.
[01:09] Rampo
    I'm leaving.
[01:10] Poe
    This is a detective game!
[01:12] Poe
    Read this detective novel I've prepared for you,
    and determine the identity of the serial killer.
[01:19] Rampo
    One point docked.
[01:22] Rampo
    You wouldn't have become a detective
    if you were content with novels.
[01:25] Poe
    I expected that reply.
[01:28] Poe
    How about, if you win,
    I tell you the Guild's weakness?
[01:36] Poe
    How to capture the Guild base,
    Moby Dick, the floating fortress.
[01:41] Rampo
    One point granted.
[01:42] Rampo
    But why such a silly challenge?
[01:46] Poe
    The Guild's operations are barbaric
    and unbearably boring.
[01:50] Poe
    The only thing humanity
    ought to have interest in
[01:54] Poe
    is your gift, Ultra Deduction.
[01:59] Poe
    Am I wrong?
[02:00] Rampo
    Five points granted.
[02:03] Rampo
    I'm game.
[02:06] Poe
    The story begins like this:
[02:09] Rampo
    One night, once upon a time,
[02:11] Rampo
    a band of visitors were trapped
    in a mansion due to a snowstorm.
[02:16] Rampo
    On the night of their stay,
     the protagonist, a private detective,
[02:20] Rampo
    is awakened by a strange noise
    coming from one of the rooms.
[02:30] Rampo
    This is my ability.
[02:33] Rampo
    The ability to suck a reader into a novel.
[02:37] Rampo
    Welcome to the house of tragedies.
[02:47] Rampo
    The protagonist opens the door
    with a key only he possesses.
[02:56] Rampo
    What he saw there...
[02:59] Poe
    A victim.
[03:01] Poe
    The two windows were sealed, and no one
    could have entered or left the room.
[03:05] Poe
    Two doors, and a matching key.
[03:17] Poe
    I don't have my glasses.
[03:19] A
    Is he dead?
[03:20] Yosano
    Stand back.
[03:21] Yosano
    I'm a doctor.
[03:23] Yosano
    Hang in there.
[03:25] He's not dead?!
    Th-The door...
[03:34] Rampo
    He said it was a serial killer.
[03:38] Rampo
    Which means we need to find the
    murderer, or we'll be killed, too.
[03:48] Yosano
    What a pain in the ass, that ability.
[03:51] Yosano
    The corpse and the blood are
    disgustingly convincing.
[03:54] Yosano
    Not to mention my ability,
    Thou Shalt Not Die, doesn't work here.
[04:00] Yosano
    The victim is the caretaker of this mansion.
[04:03] Yosano
    Cause of death is hemorrhagic shock.
[04:05] Yosano
    No weapon, no fingerprints.
[04:07] Yosano
    Which means...
[04:08] Rampo
    It's a textbook impossible murder.
[04:11] Rampo
    A locked room with no way out.
[04:12] Rampo
    Clearly the victim of a murder.
[04:15] Rampo
    How did the killer leave the room?
[04:19] Yosano
    You're having a surprisingly
    hard time with this.
[04:21] Yosano
    Aren't you going to do your usual thing?
[04:24] Rampo
    I don't have my glasses.
[04:26] Rampo
    They were special glasses
    that the boss gave me.
[04:29] Rampo
    I need them to start my special ability.
[04:32] Rampo
    Also, your healing ability
    wouldn't work on that dying man.
[04:38] Rampo
    In other words, in this world,
    my Ultra Deduction won't work either.
[04:42] Yosano
    So that's how it's going to be.
[04:46] Yosano
    Rampo-san doesn't realize that he's an
    ordinary person without any special abilities.
[04:54] Yosano
    Then how about we investigate
    carefully and reason our way out?
[04:58] Rampo
    Too much work.
[04:59] Rampo
    Lame.
[04:59] Rampo
    Boring.
[05:00] Rampo
    Investigating and making inquiries is the
    work of detectives, not master detectives.
SIGN    Kurosaki
SIGN    Convicted of Blackmail
[05:13] A
    I didn't kill him.
SIGN    Ukai
SIGN    Trashy Magazine Reporter
[05:15] B
    It wasn't me.
[05:16] B
    I swear.
SIGN    Reida
SIGN    Student
[05:18] C
    I didn't kill him.
SIGN    Proprietor
SIGN    Well-Bred Young Lady, Traveling Alone
[05:20] D
    Why am I under suspicion?
[05:24] Yosano
    Do you have an alibi for the
    time of the murder?
[05:26] A
    I was sleeping in my room.
[05:28] B
    I was chopping firewood in the kitchen.
[05:32] C
    I was looking up the curse of the mansion,
    Pluto, the one-eyed cat, in the study.
[05:37] D
    Why do I have to explain myself?
[05:39] D
    You're just a doctor.
[05:41] D
    Who do you think you are?
[05:47] D
    I remember now.
[05:48] D
    I went to the caretaker's room to see if
     I could find some clothes that fit me better.
[05:54] B
    Perhaps it was the curse of the one-eyed
    cat depicted in the painting in the room?
[05:58] C
    This is a trick involving strings.
[06:00] C
    The key to the locked room was
    inside the victim's clothes.
[06:04] C
    The single matching key was
    never used until right before.
[06:08] C
    The suspect killed the caretaker, took the key,
     and locked the room from outside.
[06:16] C
    Later, the suspect used a string to return
    the key to the pocket under the door.
[06:22] C
    He cut the string, collected it,
    and disposed of it.
[06:25] C
    How's that, detective?
[06:27] Rampo
    What are you, stupid?
[06:29] Rampo
    No, rhetorical questions are rude.
[06:32] Rampo
    You're stupid.
[06:34] Rampo
    The key is too thick to fit under the door.
[06:37] Rampo
    The corpse was on its back,
     and the key was in his hip pocket.
[06:41] Rampo
    You could have figured that out right away.
[06:43] C
    Th-Then the murderer removed
    the iron bars on the window, left the room,
[06:48] C
    used tools to return the
     iron bars, and escaped.
[06:51] Rampo
    Even though it's snowing so hard
    outside that you can't even see?
[06:56] Rampo
    It wasn't wet near the window.
[07:01] Yosano
    You're killing it, Rampo-san.
[07:04] Rampo
    No!
[07:09] Rampo
    I just...
[07:13] Yosano
    You must have had suspicions.
[07:16] Yosano
    Your abilities as a detective...
[07:18] Rampo
    I'm gifted.
[07:20] Rampo
    But my gift has no value in this world.
[07:23] Rampo
    It was the boss who gave me those glasses!
[07:26] Rampo
    Do you mean to tell me that
    the boss is lying to me?
[07:33] Yosano
    No.
[07:34] Yosano
    You're right, of course.
[07:43] Poe
    Not even you will ever solve
    this mystery, Rampo-kun.
[07:46] Poe
    It's a supremely unusual meta-mystery
    written specifically for you.
[07:52] Poe
    Once you're in the book, it's over.
[07:54] Poe
    You'll never figure out the
    killer or how they did it.
[07:59] Poe
    This isn't a challenge.
[08:01] Poe
    This is revenge.
[08:04] Poe
    You may have forgotten, but I never will.
[08:07] Poe
    That day, when you defeated me in a battle of wits,
     I lost all reason to show my face to anyone.
[08:14] Poe
    My mind wandered in an endless, dark room.
[08:18] Poe
    But I realized I can live on.
[08:23] Poe
    If I only had the plentiful glory and
     praise you do, I could...
[08:32] Poe
    So I will take them from you.
[08:34] Yosano
    Even if that means I have to burn you alive.
[08:41] Yosano
    This is a serial murder.
[08:44] Yosano
    If I deliberately stay in a locked room by myself,
    the killer will come to kill me.
[08:49] Yosano
    Now, come get me.
[09:04] Rampo
    Yosano-san...
[09:06] Yosano
    Sorry.
[09:08] Yosano
    I messed up.
[09:10] Yosano
    I couldn't see the murderer.
[09:13] Rampo
    No.
[09:13] Rampo
    Don't talk.
[09:14] Yosano
    I can't figure it out.
[09:17] Yosano
    But it's a piece of cake for the
    world's best detective.
[09:23] Yosano
    The Armed Detective Agency was established
    solely to make use of your gift, after all.
[09:37] Yosano
    I'm still grateful that I was
    invited to the Agency.
[10:00] Poe
    One down!
[10:01] Poe
    So long as you don't solve the mystery,
    you'll never return into the real world.
[10:05] Poe
    Spend all eternity wandering
    through my novel world!
[10:16] Rampo
    We're back.
[10:17] Poe
    I-Impossible.
[10:19] Poe
    You couldn't have solved that mystery!
[10:21] Rampo
    Well, it was quite stimulating.
[10:23] Rampo
    You made only one mistake...
[10:26] Rampo
    Challenging me.
[10:28] Poe
    Y-You figured out who the killer was?
[10:31] Rampo
    Of course.
[10:33] Rampo
    The murderer...
[10:37] Rampo
    was me.
[10:39] Rampo
    The locked room trick had
    nothing to do with it.
[10:41] Rampo
    The protagonist killed the victim, and the author
    deliberately omitted that part of the narration.
[10:47] Rampo
    But the innovation in this gimmick
    was the mechanism by which
[10:52] Rampo
    the murderer vanishes the
    moment I enter the novel.
[10:55] Rampo
    No matter how desperately I search,
    the murderer no longer exists.
[11:00] Poe
    How did you find the truth?
[11:02] Rampo
    You went too far with
    the locked-room murder.
[11:06] Rampo
    It's one thing if you were going
    to lay the blame on someone else,
[11:08] Rampo
    but the murderer had no reason to
    make such an inescapable room.
[11:12] Rampo
    So, I figured, the murderer and
    the author must be in cahoots.
[11:18] Rampo
    The proof was in the glove left under
    the brick wall, used for the murder.
[11:25] Rampo
    The one the victim pointed
    at right before he died.
[11:28] Poe
    B-But the second murder...
[11:31] Poe
    The murderer had already
    vanished by then, had he not?
[11:34] Rampo
    That one's even simpler.
[11:36] Rampo
    You just used an automatic machine.
[11:39] Rampo
    You manipulated the magnetism in the room
    and threw a metal object at the victim.
[11:44] Poe
    Do you think that's even possible?
[11:47] Rampo
    Anything goes.
[11:48] Rampo
    That's the second misdirection, after all.
[11:51] Rampo
    There were hints everywhere.
[11:54] Rampo
    The suspiciously state-of-the-art
    medical tools.
[11:57] Rampo
    The characters, wearing clothes provided by
    the mansion rather than clothes of their own.
[12:02] Rampo
    The story is set in 2050.
[12:07] Rampo
    The mansion is actually a rest house
    attached to a massive, tall space elevator.
[12:14] Rampo
    As complicated as a detective novel may get,
[12:17] Rampo
    once you figure out the author's ulterior
    motives, you've figured out half of it.
[12:21] Poe
    Impossible...
[12:22] Poe
    Six years of my life...
[12:25] Rampo
    The intellectual devices were
    much more beautiful than before.
[12:28] Rampo
    But I think you've met your match.
[12:30] Poe
    What?
[12:31] Poe
    You remember your battle against me?
[12:34] Rampo
    Why would I forget about
    a mystery that I solved?
[12:39] Rampo
    This takes me back.
[12:42] Rampo
    We were here, pitting our
    minds against each other's.
[12:46] Rampo
    It was the only time another
    detective gave me chills.
[12:50] Rampo
    The first and the last.
[12:54] Rampo
    I'm looking forward to
    your next challenge, too.
[12:58] Rampo
    I hope you work really hard to
    come up with something good for me.
[13:05] Poe
    I think I'll work really hard.
[13:10] Yosano
    We'll need to hold a celebration
    for you when we get home.
[13:13] Rampo
    For what?
[13:14] Yosano
    For the day the great detective
    learned the truth.
[13:18] Yosano
    The day you discover that you aren't gifted,
[13:20] Yosano
    but that you use your powers of
    observation and deduction to—
[13:22] Rampo
    I'm gifted.
[13:24] Yosano
    You were laying out all
    your reasoning just now.
[13:28] Rampo
    I'm gifted.
[13:30] Rampo
    I'm not doing any actual detective work.
[13:32] Rampo
    I just got lucky this time.
[13:34] Rampo
    I mean...
[13:37] Yosano
    You mean, what?
[13:40] Rampo
    I'd look stupid if I turned
    out to be normal now.
[13:48] Rampo
    No laughing.
[13:49] Yosano
    Fine, fine.
SIGN    Episode 22: Part 1: Poe and Rampo
[13:52] Rampo
    No "fine, fine" either!
SIGN    Episode 22: Part 2: The Whereabouts of the Skyfaring Moby Dick
[13:56] Atsushi
    Is it true that we have information
    we can use to defeat the Guild?
[14:00] Tanizaki
    They're devising a plan inside right now.
[14:06] Dazai
    This is some amazing intel, though.
[14:09] Dazai
    It's worth its weight in gold.
[14:11] Dazai
    How would we make use of this to
    take down the Guild at its core?
[14:16] Dazai
    Infiltrate with a bomb?
[14:18] Rampo
    No good.
[14:19] Rampo
    Our communications will give us away,
    and we'll get shot down.
[14:24] Dazai
    Oh, you're right.
[14:26] Dazai
    How about Kenji-kun from the
    Gifted Special Operations Division?
[14:28] Rampo
    Nope.
[14:29] Rampo
    Leads to a stalemate in a ground battle,
    and we'll be fighting overtime.
[14:33] Dazai
    That's true.
[14:35] Dazai
    Atsushi-kun, then?
[14:37] Rampo
    It could work, with Light Snow.
[14:40] Dazai
    True.
[14:42] Dazai
    I'll get right on it.
[14:44] Dazai
    Do we end in the mountains?
[14:45] Rampo
    At sea.
[14:46] Dazai
    Roger.
[14:58] Lucy
    Let me go.
[15:00] John
    You've got gall, betraying the Guild.
[15:03] John
    I wish I had your courage.
[15:06] John
    But did you really think the Guild wouldn't
    have countermeasures for your powerful ability?
[15:11] Lucy
    I knew that much.
[15:14] Lucy
    But I had to say I was going to be okay.
[15:17] Lucy
    Otherwise he would never have escaped.
[15:20] John
    Oh, man.
[15:21] John
    It's not easy being the bad guys.
[15:24] John
    So, Chief Strategist, what's the plan?
[15:29] Dazai
    Hi Ango, how're you?
[15:31] Dazai
    I have some good news today.
[15:34] Dazai
    We'll treat your injuries at the Agency.
[15:37] Dazai
    You'll be as good as new with
    Yosano-san's healing ability.
[15:42] Ango
    And what do you want in return?
[15:44] Dazai
    Well, one of the detectives in the Agency
    was captured by the military police.
[15:48] Dazai
    We want to save her before our
    grand battle with the Guild.
[15:52] Ango
    Ah, the killer of 35.
[15:56] Ango
    I'm told she's being kept on an unmanned
    plane used to quarantine dangerous gifteds.
[16:02] Ango
    The Gifted Special Operations Division could indeed
    make an extrajudicial plea to grant her immunity.
[16:08] Ango
    But only if the girl is truly
    a member of the Agency.
[16:16] Atsushi
    Kyouka-chan isn't a member of the Agency?
[16:20] Tanizaki
    She's not yet, to be exact.
[16:24] Tanizaki
    There's an entrance examination you need
    to take in order to become a detective.
[16:28] Tanizaki
    Unless you pass the test, you aren't
    officially accepted as an employee.
[16:33] Tanizaki
    Remember there was one for you, too?
[16:39] Ango
    Dazai-kun, I accept your offer of treatment
    in exchange for my cooperation.
[16:46] Ango
    So tell me something.
[16:50] Ango
    When the unidentified car rammed into us,
[16:53] Ango
    for some reason my airbag was
    the only one that didn't deploy.
[16:57] Ango
    Might you know the reason?
[17:03] Tanizaki
    The entrance exam involves observing
    the applicant's behaviors
[17:06] Tanizaki
    to determine whether they're
    suitable for the Agency.
[17:08] Tanizaki
    It's a secret test.
[17:10] Atsushi
    Whenever Kyouka-chan is in danger, she seeks
    escape by hurting or doing away with someone.
[17:17] Atsushi
    That may be her nature.
[17:20] Atsushi
    If that's the case, she may
    not pass the entrance exam.
[17:25] Tanizaki
    Okay, we're here.
[17:28] Atsushi
    The library?
[17:33] Tanizaki
    I'm Tanizaki of the Armed Detective Agency.
[17:37] A
    We've been waiting for you.
[17:47] A
    Please.
[17:55] Tanizaki
    The Agency's micro-assault
    fighter, the Night Bird.
[17:59] Tanizaki
    I'll pilot this and deliver
    you to the Moby Dick.
[18:04] Atsushi
    A solo infiltration?
[18:07] (Flashback) Dazai
    The Guild is planning an
    all-out ground attack.
[18:11] (Flashback) Dazai
    We'll sneak onto the Moby Dick while it's
    sparsely staffed, and take control.
[18:16] (Flashback) Atsushi
    I'm going to do all that by myself?
[18:19] (Flashback) Dazai
    On a solo infiltration,
[18:20] (Flashback) Dazai
    a gifted with combat abilities is preferable,
     due to their ability to work under pressure.
[18:27] (Flashback) Dazai
    You've also been held captive aboard the Moby Dick,
    so you have an idea of its structure.
[18:31] (Flashback) Dazai
    Furthermore, even if you do fail,
    there's a good chance that you'll be captured alive.
[18:37] (Flashback) Dazai
    No one is more suited for the job than you.
[18:40] (Flashback) Dazai
    Will you do it?
[18:44] (Flashback) A
    Turn it down.
[18:45] (Flashback) A
    You can't do it.
[18:47] (Flashback) A
    You're the runt of the orphanage
    until the day you die.
[18:51] (Flashback) Atsushi
    I've only ever regretted
    the things I didn't do.
[19:00] (Flashback) Dazai
    I'll do it.
[19:03] A
    Entering Moby Dick visual range.
[19:06] Tanizaki
    Understood.
[19:07] Tanizaki
    Here we go, Atsushi-kun.
[19:09] Dazai
    Yes.
[19:12] Tanizaki
    Ability: Light Snow!
SIGN    Ability: Light Snow
[19:20] Tanizaki
    The Moby Dick's sensors are disabled for just
    130 seconds, while the transport helicopter docks.
[19:27] Tanizaki
    We're going to hide ourselves
    and close in during that time.
[19:35] A
    What? The pilot isn't responding?
[19:38] B
    Perhaps some trouble with the communicator.
[19:45] B
    What the?
[20:07] Atsushi
    Dazai-san, I'm in.
[20:11] Dazai
    How does it look inside?
[20:13] Atsushi
    There's no one here.
[20:14] Atsushi
    Something's wrong.
[20:21] Atsushi
    Where is everyone?
[20:24] Herman
    Almost everyone evacuated.
[20:27] Herman
    Why do you think that might be, kid?
[20:30] Herman
    Because it's the end.
[20:32] Herman
    Of this war.
[20:34] Atsushi
    Wasn't he the one who
    called down the Moby Dick?
[20:39] Herman
    With the next attack, all of the
    Guild's enemies will be turned to ash.
[20:44] Herman
    Along with Moby Dick.
[20:48] Atsushi
    Explain!
[20:49] Herman
    I presume you thought you'd attack
    while there aren't many people here.
[20:53] Herman
    But did you not suspect
    that something was off
[20:56] Herman
    when the Guild's main forces abandoned
    the Moby Dick now, of all times?
[21:02] John
    It would be terrible if
    we became collateral.
[21:05] John
    Stage two of the Yokohama Incineration
    Operation: Moby Dick Bomb.
[21:09] John
    Once it happens, the city will be annihilated
    thanks to the damage from the curse.
[21:16] John
    And ground zero...
[21:20] Atsushi
    Is where the Agency and the
    Mafia headquarters are.
[21:23] Herman
    We'll crash into the ground
    in less than an hour.
[21:27] Atsushi
    If Moby Dick is your special ability,
    you should be able to stop its descent.
[21:32] Herman
    You are correct that the Moby Dick
     is my special ability.
[21:36] Herman
    But 70% of its capacity has
    been replaced with ordinances.
[21:40] Herman
    I no longer have the ability to control it.
[21:44] Atsushi
    Did you hear that, Dazai-san?
[21:46] Atsushi
    We need to abort the operation
    and retreat immediately.
[21:49] Dazai
    The operation continues as planned.
[21:51] Atsushi
    What?
[21:52] Dazai
    Take control of the Moby Dick with
    your own hands and stop its descent.
[21:57] Dazai
    You're the only one on the Moby Dick.
[22:00] Dazai
    You're the only one who can do it.
[22:02] Atsushi
    You predicted this situation, didn't you?
[22:04] Dazai
    As a possibility, yeah.
[22:07] Dazai
    That was part of our
    reason for choosing you.
[22:10] Dazai
    Can you do it?
[22:14] Atsushi
    What do I need to do
    to stop the descent?
[22:17] Herman
    You'll have to use the control terminal.
[22:20] Herman
    It's in the office on the highest floor.
[22:23] Herman
    Though it's well guarded, of course.
[22:28] Atsushi
    Thank you.
[22:32] Atsushi
    If everyone's evacuated,
    why are you still here?
[22:36] Herman
    If the Moby Dick is to fall on foreign land and
    cause annihilation, I reckon I ought to fall with it.
[22:48] Herman
    Moby Dick was a beautiful creature
    before its flesh became mechanical.
[22:53] Herman
    Just as the Guild was in its past.
[23:02] Dazai
    Yes?
[23:03] Mori
    How are you, Dazai-kun?
[23:08] Dazai
    What do you want, Mori-san?
[23:10] Dazai
    Didn't we establish an agreement with the
    Mafia so they wouldn't obstruct our operations?
[23:16] Mori
    About that agreement... I just had a
    call from one of the subordinates.
[23:21] Mori
    It doesn't look like it'll hold.
[23:28] Atsushi
    You...
[23:30] Akutagawa
    I've found you, weretiger.
[23:33] Atsushi
    Akutagawa!
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