6 - The Azure Messenger Source: Crunchyroll Translator: Editor: Timer: QC: (Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.) SIGN    What is the Ideal? [00:01] Kuni     What is the Ideal? [00:04] Kuni     There are any number of     answers to that question. [00:07] Kuni     It is words, [00:09] Kuni     it is thought. [00:10] Kuni     It is the font of all meaning. [00:13] Kuni     But if you were to ask me, [00:15] Kuni     the answer to the question is clear. SIGN    Ideal [00:17] Kuni     It is the word written     on my notebook's cover. [00:24] Kuni     The Ideal... [00:26] Kuni     Everything about me is     written in this notebook. SIGN    Ideal [00:30] Kuni     My schedule, my plans, my goals... [00:34] Kuni     This notebook contains the     entirety of my future. [00:37] Kuni      [02:16] Kuni     I arrived a whole ten seconds early. [02:19] Kuni     My name is Kunikida Doppo. [02:21] Kuni     I am an idealist walking the earth, [02:23] Kuni     and a pragmatist in pursuit of ideals. [02:26] Kuni     It's time. [02:27] Kuni     Good morning. [02:28] Naka     Kunikida-san, please help us! [02:32] Kuni     What's going on so early in the day? [02:34] Naka     J-J-Just look at Dazai-san! [02:37] Dazai     Oh! [02:38] Dazai     Kunikida-kun, it's an emergency! [02:40] Dazai     Just look! [02:41] Kuni     Look at what? [02:42] Dazai     At that! [02:44] Kuni     I only see your idiot face! [02:46] D     I've finally arrived... [02:48] D     in the afterlife! [02:50] D     At Yomotsuhirasaka! [02:51] Kuni     What's going on? [02:51] Dazai     It's exactly as I'd imagined! [02:52] Dazai     Blue smoke trailing along the ground, [02:53] Naka     Kunikida-san. [02:53] Dazai     moonlight dashing against the windows, [02:54] Naka     I think this may explain it. [02:55] Dazai     and pink elephants dancing     in the western sky! SIGN    Complete Guide to Suicide [02:57] Dazai     I knew the Complete Guide to Suicide      was a masterpiece! [03:01] Dazai     Who knew I just needed to eat mushrooms     growing in the nearby hills [03:03] Dazai     to have such an entertaining way out?! [03:07] Kuni     So he ate poisonous mushrooms? [03:09] Naka     Well, he thought he was eating     lethal mushrooms, but... [03:12] Dazai     Ah, I've finally caught you, [03:14] Dazai     rainbow pillbug! [03:16] Dazai     All right, let's eat you back home! [03:16] Naka     Kunikida-san! [03:18] Kuni     I'm doing my customary paperwork     after arriving at work. [03:20] Kuni     Wait till I'm done. [03:21] Naka     What?! [03:29] Dazai     Kunikida-kun. [03:32] Dazai     You should come to the afterlife, too. [03:34] Dazai     It's amazing. [03:36] Dazai     There are rainbow pillbugs, too. [03:38] Dazai     You can drink all you want! [03:41] Dazai     You can eat all you want! [03:44] Dazai     You can look at all the sleeping     beauties you could possibly— [03:48] Kuni     Shut up! [03:50] Naka     Why are two such incompatible     people a team? [03:56] Haruno     Kunikida-san, the president     has your case for the day. [04:01] Kuni     Dazai. [04:02] Kuni     Quit dawdling. [04:04] Kuni     Walk faster. [04:05] Dazai     'Kay. [04:06] Kuni     We only have two minutes and fifteen     seconds until the appointed time! [04:10] Dazai     That's a concern. [04:12] Naka     Is it okay for me to come along? [04:14] Kuni     This is part of your rookie training. [04:16] Kuni     This case involves solving a series     of disappearances in Yokohama. [04:21] Naka     If I recall, it's the one     where visitors to Yokohama [04:24] Naka     keep disappearing one after another, right? [04:27] Kuni     We have an anonymous tip. [04:30] Kuni     The victims have been abducted and     imprisoned in a certain location. [04:34] Dazai     An anonymous tip... [04:36] Dazai     How suspicious and wonderful. [04:39] Kuni     But we can't ignore it. [04:41] Naka     So we're going to check the place out? [04:44] Kuni     No. [04:48] Kuni     We're going to investigate the     anonymous tip's source first. [04:57] Kuni     How goes it, informant? [04:59] Roku     Hey, four-eyes. Are you a slave     to your notebook yet again? [05:03] Kuni     You think you can talk like     that to a detective agency [05:06] Kuni     when you're a cyber criminal? [05:08] Kuni     If you're arrested, [05:10] Kuni     your deceased father will be most aggrieved. [05:12] Roku     Don't bring my father into this. [05:15] Roku     More importantly, you're late. [05:17] Roku     Isn't that unusual for you? [05:18] Roku     Why? [05:19] Roku     Were you on a date with a pretty lady? [05:21] Kuni     No! [05:22] Kuni     Dates should be with a chosen woman, [05:25] Kuni     followed by marriage six years later. [05:26] Kuni     That is what's written in this notebook. [05:28] Naka     Huh?! [05:29] Naka     You have someone you've decided to marry? [05:32] Kuni     I will in another four years. [05:36] Roku     Is he new? [05:38] Naka     I'm Nakajima Atsushi. SIGN    Cyber Network Warrior      Taguchi Rokuzou [05:39] Roku     I'm called Taguchi Rokuzou. [05:42] Roku     I'm an informant. [05:43] Roku     For the right price, I can     dig up dirt on anything. [05:46] Kuni     And? [05:47] Kuni     Did you figure out who's     behind the anonymous tip? [05:50] Roku     The Azure Messenger... [05:51] Kuni     What? [05:52] Roku     There was data left on the server. [05:55] Roku     And pics of the abduction victims, I guess. [05:58] Roku     The mole's not a bad guy, though, is he? [06:01] Roku     He told you where they're holed up and all. [06:04] Dazai     I wonder... [06:05] Dazai     I hope we don't go there, only to     find he's one of the kidnappers. [06:11] Kuni     The Azure Messenger... [06:13] Kuni     I want you to keep looking into it. [06:15] Roku     Sure, when I feel like it. SIGN    Episode 6: The Azure Messenger [06:18] Roku     I'm busy looking after my tropical fish. [06:23] Kuni     Yeah. [06:23] Kuni     Thanks. [06:25] Kuni     I called a cab. [06:27] Kuni     We'll go to the abandoned hospital     mentioned by the tipster now. [06:30] Dazai     Kunikida-kun, why are you     looking after the Rokuzou boy? [06:34] Kuni     What do you mean? [06:36] Dazai     It's not like you to give a hacker jobs. [06:40] Dazai     You could've just talked     to him over the phone, [06:42] Dazai     but you took the time to     meet him face to face. [06:44] Dazai     His father's deceased, isn't he? [06:47] Dazai     Are you trying to be his dad? [06:49] Kuni     We came here so that Atsushi     could meet our informant. [06:53] Kuni     That's all there is to it. [06:55] Dazai     Sure, let's leave it at that. [07:03] Kuni     This driver's another one of our informants. [07:06] Kuni     He was a stage actor in his former life. [07:07] Driver     I couldn't make any money, [07:09] Driver     so I switched careers. [07:11] Kuni     That was the right decision. [07:13] Kuni     He knows more about Yokohama     than anyone I know. [07:18] Kuni     He also saw two of the eleven victims     right before they were abducted. [07:25] Driver     I just happened to drive them     from the port to a hotel. [07:29] Naka     Is this case really about     abductions, though? [07:32] Naka     There've been no requests for ransom. [07:34] Kuni     Are you sure these two     were the ones you saw? [07:36] Driver     Yes, I'm sure of it. [07:39] Driver     They're even wearing the same clothes, too. [07:41] Dazai     I see. [07:42] Dazai     I have a hunch! [07:44] Dazai     Look at these photos.     They're both wearing glasses! [07:47] Dazai     That means this is a serial     glasses abduction case! [07:49] Dazai     It's your time to shine, Kunikida-kun! [07:52] Kuni     Some of the victims don't wear glasses. [07:55] Kuni     You can't say it's a pattern. [07:57] Dazai     Oh. [07:58] Dazai     Too bad. And here I thought it'd     finally be your time to shine. [08:01] Kuni     I can't let that remark pass. [08:04] Kuni     Are you trying to say my glasses are the     only reason I'd ever be in the spotlight?! [08:09] Kuni     Wh-What?! [08:11] Driver     We're here. [08:13] Driver     It's the abandoned hospital, as you requested. [08:15] Dazai     What a nice atmosphere. [08:17] Kuni      [08:18] Dazai     I think it might be haunted. [08:19] Kuni     By what? [08:23] Naka     It is creepy, to be sure. [08:25] Dazai     It's kind of nice. [08:27] Dazai     It revs you up. [08:29] Kuni     You'd better not have eaten     another weird mushroom. [08:31] Dazai     Oh, are you scared, Kunikida-kun? [08:34] Naka     Are you afraid of ghosts or something? [08:36] Kuni     I'm not afraid of ghosts! [08:38] Dazai     Then keep up. [08:39] Kuni     Fool! [08:40] Kuni     In this sort of movie, those who are     careless and get ahead of themselves [08:43] Kuni     are the ones who die first. [08:44] Naka     Look at these footprints. [08:46] Naka     They're still fresh. [08:48] Nobuko     Help! [08:49] Naka     That voice... [08:50] Kuni     Did it come from the basement? [08:55] Kuni     What's this?! [09:12] Nobuko     Thank you. [09:14] Nobuko     You saved me. SIGN    University Lecturer     Sasaki Nobuko [09:16] Nobuko     I am Sasaki Nobuko. [09:19] Nobuko     I'm a lecturer at a university in Tokyo. [09:22] Naka     So you're victim number twelve? [09:25] Dazai     Did you see who abducted you? [09:29] Nobuko     I'm sorry. [09:30] Nobuko     I blacked out at a station. [09:32] Nobuko     When I regained consciousness, [09:34] Nobuko     I was drowning in the tank, as you just saw. [09:37] Kuni     Dazai, what's your take on the situation? [09:40] Dazai     Sasaki-san's looking super sexy. [09:42] Kuni     Be serious! [09:43] Nobuko     Oh, right... [09:44] Nobuko     There should be others     who were abducted here. [09:49] Nobuko     I know I heard voices just as     I began drowning in the tank. [09:53] Kuni     What? [09:56] Naka     Kunikida-san! [09:57] Naka     I found them! [09:58] Naka     They're here! [10:00] Mob     Help us! [10:03] Mob     Please! [10:05] Kuni     You all right? [10:06] Mob     Get us out of here! [10:08] Dazai     Get back, Atsushi-kun! [10:09] Dazai     It's gas! [10:10] Dazai     You, too, Kunikida-kun. [10:11] Kuni     Hey, hang in there! [10:13] Kuni     Hey! [10:14] Dazai     Kunikida-kun! [10:15] Kuni     Let me go, Dazai! [10:16] Kuni     People shouldn't die like this! [10:20] Kuni     Let me go! [10:21] Kuni     Let me go! [10:29] Naka     "Victims of Yokohama's serial abduction case were found, SIGN    Series of Disappearances in     Yokohama Ends in Tragic Deaths [10:32] Naka     but perished when a civilian detective agency     conducted an independent raid." [10:35] Naka     Perished... [10:38] Kuni     So this was the enemy's objective. [10:40] Naka     You're saying they were     trying to frame the Agency? [10:46] Kuni     Maybe it wasn't my time to shine,     despite what Dazai said. [10:51] Naka     Kunikida-san... [10:55] Kuni     Where's Ms. Sasaki? SIGN    Infirmary [10:56] Naka     She should be in the infirmary. [11:01] Dazai     Oh, that's great. [11:06] Nobuko     Thank you so much for     saving me the other day. [11:09] Nobuko     If you hadn't come when you did, [11:11] Nobuko     I wouldn't be alive right now. [11:13] Kuni     Not at all. [11:14] Nobuko     Not to mention, you even let me     stay at your residence last night. [11:18] Kuni     Huh? [11:19] Naka     Where did you stay? [11:22] Dazai     My place! [11:22] NK     What?! [11:24] Nobuko     I'm... deeply indebted to Dazai-sama. [11:28] Dazai     See? [11:30] Naka     I-Is that something detectives     are allowed to do? [11:34] Dazai     It seems Sasaki-san didn't see who it was. [11:38] Dazai     She apparently faints a     lot due to anemia. [11:41] Dazai     That's why she fainted on     the day she was abducted, too. [11:45] Dazai     I don't know how she was abducted afterward. [11:48] Kuni     So she's your type? [11:50] Dazai     I like all women. [11:52] Dazai     But Sasaki-san seems like the type     who'd commit suicide with me if I ask, [11:56] Dazai     which is nice. [11:58] Dazai     But what about you, Kunikida-kun? [12:00] Dazai     Is she your type? [12:01] Kuni     She is a victim in the case     and a witness. That's it. [12:05] Dazai     Well, that's how you would roll. [12:08] Dazai     Oh, Atsushi-kun, want to read it? SIGN    Ideal [12:10] Dazai     His ideal woman. [12:13] Kuni     You bastard! [12:13] Kuni     When'd you swipe that? SIGN    Ideal [12:15] Naka     Read? You mean it's     written down in here? [12:17] Dazai     Kunikida-kun's notebook [12:18] Dazai     has a wide range of schedules,     plans, and ideals recorded in it. [12:23] Dazai     See, like here. [12:24] Naka     Whoa! SIGN    Ideal [12:25] Naka     Th-This is too much... [12:30] Kuni     You have a problem with it? [12:32] Naka     No, I can sympathize with your     vision of an ideal woman, but... [12:37] Dazai     You should probably not share     that vision with women. [12:41] Kuni     Forget about me! [12:42] Kuni     We're talking about the     abductions right now! [12:44] Kuni     Have we picked up on anything? [12:46] Dazai     Yeah. [12:47] Dazai     In this newspaper photo, [12:49] Dazai     you look pretty manly. [12:51] Kuni     Is that your way of indicating     that you want me to punch you? [12:54] Dazai     What's regrettable is this... [12:56] Dazai     You should've picked     sexier eyeglass frames [12:58] Dazai     if you were going to end up in the news. [13:01] Dazai     They're so plain. [13:02] Kuni     Hey... [13:03] Dazai     Only a naturally flamboyant person     like me could pull off wearing them. [13:07] Dazai     What do you think, Atsushi-kun? [13:08] Naka     Not bad, really. [13:10] Kuni     They only scream "con man" to me. [13:14] Kuni     Wait... [13:16] Dazai     What's the matter? [13:19] Kuni     Let's go, both of you. [13:22] Kuni     I know who's behind this. [13:26] Kuni     Sorry for the short notice. [13:28] Driver     You said on the phone that you'd figured     out who's behind the serial murder case. [13:32] Driver     You're on your way to arrest the killer? [13:35] Kuni     That's right. [13:36] Driver     Then let's hurry. [13:37] Driver     Where to? [13:39] Kuni     Here. [13:40] Driver     Huh? [13:41] Kuni     This is where the abductions took place, [13:42] Kuni     and you are the kidnapper. [13:44] Kuni     You dosed passengers with sleeping gas, [13:47] Kuni     and abduct them after they fell unconscious. [13:50] Kuni     You wore a gas mask. [13:52] Naka     What were his reasons? [13:54] Dazai     I can think of one. [13:57] Dazai     Cargo. [13:58] Naka     Cargo? [13:59] Dazai     He'd sell them off. [14:02] Dazai     There's a black market for     organs in the underground. [14:06] Dazai     The margin isn't great because of the exchange rate, [14:10] Dazai     but if you're pulling it off alone,      it's a decent payout. [14:13] Naka     That's horrible. [14:14] Driver     Wait a minute. [14:15] Driver     Hang on. [14:17] Driver     If I'd used this taxi to abduct people, [14:19] Driver     the city police would've found me already     when tracing the victims' last known locations. [14:22] Kuni     No, no one looked twice at this taxi. [14:26] Kuni     Because all the victims would vanish and     become untraceable the following day. [14:32] Kuni     When your targets boarded the taxi     and you made them unconscious, [14:35] Kuni     you'd imprison them and take     their clothes and luggage. [14:39] Kuni     That's why all the victims at the     hospital were in their underwear. [14:43] Kuni     You would then wear their clothes [14:45] Kuni     to disguise yourself as them, [14:47] Kuni     then check into the hotels where     they'd made reservations. [14:49] Kuni     You made sure you would show up on     security cameras for that reason. [14:52] Kuni     The victims were all of approximately     the same height and build [14:55] Kuni     because you were choosing passengers     you could impersonate. [14:59] Kuni     Many wore hats and glasses [15:02] Kuni     because that made passing     yourself off as them easier. [15:05] Kuni     If the security feeds show someone     looking reasonably like the victim, [15:09] Kuni     you can dupe the police easily. [15:11] Kuni     By the time the last known sighting     of the "victim" was recorded, [15:15] Kuni     the real victim had already been abducted. [15:18] Dazai     Ms. Sasaki's abduction was     even easier, wasn't it? [15:22] Dazai     After she collapsed at the train station, [15:24] Dazai     a good Samaritan paid for her cab ride. [15:28] Dazai     It's faster to hail a cab than call     an ambulance at a train station. [15:31] Driver     That's all circumstantial evidence. [15:34] Dazai     I suppose. [15:36] Dazai     You're right. [15:39] Dazai     What now, Kunikida-kun? [15:41] Kuni     Are you being serious? [15:43] Driver     Let's make a deal. [15:45] Kuni     A deal? [15:46] Driver     If you agree to my conditions,     I'll turn myself in. [15:49] Driver     Please protect me at the     Armed Detective Agency! [15:52] Driver     I need to be protected for 72 hours while     the prosecution concludes their questioning [15:56] Driver     and arranges witness protection. [15:58] Kuni     What's this about? [15:59] Driver     I was put up to this. [16:02] Driver     I was assured by a new-fangled     organ smuggling organization [16:04] Driver     that this was a great deal I'd     never get caught for, and yet... [16:09] Kuni     So there's a group behind all this? [16:10] Kuni     Where are they?! [16:12] Driver     I don't know. [16:13] Driver     I always meet them in the      Harbor Central Building. [16:17] Kuni     So that's the place. [16:18] Dazai     And? [16:19] Dazai     Why do you need our protection? [16:21] Driver     Well... [16:22] Driver     It appears one of the people I abducted [16:24] Driver     was with the Port Mafia. [16:27] Dazai     Well, that's not good— [16:33] Kuni     The Port Mafia?! [16:34] Driver     Help me! [16:35] Kuni     Hey! [16:35] Driver     I don't want to die! [16:37] Kuni     Wait! [16:40] Naka     Kunikida-san. [16:41] Naka     I can't get a signal. [16:42] Dazai     They must be jamming. [16:44] Kuni     If we lose the driver, [16:45] Kuni     the truth may never come to light. [16:47] Kuni     Dazai, pursue the driver. [16:48] Kuni     Brat, get a hold of the     police and request backup. [16:51] Kuni     I'll distract them as a decoy. [16:52] DN     Roger! [16:53] Kuni     Let's go! [16:54] Kuni     Ability: Doppo Poet! [16:56] Sign 1657     Doppo Poet [17:00] Kuni     Flash Bang! SIGN    Flash Bang [17:07] Kuni     Now! [17:18] Aku     Metal is fragile, [17:20] Aku     and so is the human psyche. [17:22] Aku     What about you all, Armed Detective Agency? [17:26] Kuni     You... [17:27] Kuni     Akutagawa of the Port Mafia! [17:29] Aku     Indeed. [17:42] Aku     If you can't shoot straight, [17:43] Aku     there's no need for me to devour      the space around your bullets. [17:45] Kuni     My hobbies don't include murder. [17:48] Aku     Trifling words of a weakling. [17:55] Kuni     Doppo Poet! [18:00] Kuni     Stun gun! [18:03] Kuni     Come to heel, you aberrant dog. [18:15] Aku     It appears the Armed Detective Agency     is not merely a group of entertainers. [18:19] Aku     You're worthy of being Dazai-san's cover. [18:25] Aku     Interference. [18:27] Aku     Very well. [18:28] Aku     Our paths will cross again in the future. [18:32] Aku     We'll continue this another time. [18:36] Kuni     Don't ever come again. [18:40] Dazai     I turned the driver over     to the military police. [18:43] Naka     So this is the building the organ     traffickers used for their deals? [18:53] Kuni     They've already flown the coop. [18:54] Naka     The wall's scorched black. [18:56] Dazai     This is where the Azure     King blew himself up. [19:00] Kuni     That's right. [19:01] Naka     What? [19:01] Naka     You mean, the one in the infamous     Azure Flag terrorist incident? [19:04] Naka     That Azure King? [19:07] Dazai     That's right. [19:11] Dazai     A terrorist who destroyed many     national and corporate facilities. SIGN    Azure Flag Terrorist Incident [19:15] Dazai     From the time I heard the     term "Azure Messenger," [19:18] Dazai     I've been wondering if there     were ties to the Azure King. [19:22] Naka     I'd heard that the Azure King     blew himself up in the end. [19:25] Naka     So this was the place. [19:27] Naka     He committed suicide after the     police cornered him, right? [19:31] Kuni     That's right. [19:32] Kuni     I'd determined that this was his hideout [19:35] Kuni     and reported it to the police. [19:37] Naka     You were the one who found     the Azure King's hideout? [19:41] Kuni     But on that day, [19:43] Kuni     the military, the public safety bureau, and     the police were all working in tandem, [19:46] Kuni     so the chain of command was in utter chaos. [19:49] Kuni     Only five detectives arrived at the hideout     in a timely manner upon receiving the report. [19:55] Kuni     To add further insult to injury, [19:56] Kuni     the Azure King got wind     of the police's actions, [20:01] Kuni     so he holed himself up with a bomb. [20:04] Kuni     After a conflicting set of orders, [20:07] Kuni     a decision was made to raid. [20:09] Kuni     But ordinary policemen without special      training or abilities didn't stand a chance. [20:17] Kuni     Cornered, the Azure King blew     himself up and perished, [20:20] Kuni     along with the five detectives. [20:23] Dazai     I remember now, Kunikida-kun. [20:25] Dazai     One of the detectives was that     Rokuzou boy's father, wasn't he? [20:31] Kuni     He was a good detective with     a strong sense of justice. [20:35] Kuni     I'm the one who reported the     hideout's location to the police. [20:38] Kuni     I may as well have set the bomb off myself. [20:40] Naka     That's not true! [20:42] Naka     It's the terrorist's fault     for blowing himself up! [20:44] Dazai     That's right, Atsushi-kun. [20:46] Dazai     Yet Kunikida-kun can't stop trying     to look out for the Rokuzou boy... [20:52] Dazai     in his deceased father's stead. [20:57] Naka     What is it? [21:02] Kuni     Another job for the Agency. [21:04] Kuni     The client... SIGN    Regards,     The Azure Messenger [21:06] Kuni     is the Azure Messenger. [21:07] Dazai     I see. [21:09] Dazai     I'm starting to see who     this Azure Messenger is. [21:12] Dazai     So? What's the job? [21:14] Kuni     Disarming a bomb. [21:15] Naka     A bomb? [21:16] Kuni     If we don't disarm the     bomb by sunset tomorrow, [21:19] Kuni     several hundred people will die. [21:21] Naka     A bomb capable of that can't be easy... [21:23] Kuni     The equipment here is for building a bomb. [21:27] Kuni     With this setup, [21:28] Kuni     you could build a very advanced bomb. [21:31] Naka     But... [21:33] Kuni     Don't worry. We won't let the bomb go off. [21:36] Kuni     We'll stop it for sure this time! [21:39] Kuni      [23:10] Naka     What should we do? [23:12] Naka     If we don't find and disarm     the bomb by sundown, [23:14] Naka     there will be hundreds of casualties. [23:16] ?     If we cannot find the bomb [23:18] ?     and lives are lost, [23:20] ?     we no longer have the right to call     ourselves a detective agency. [23:22] Naka     Oh, President. [23:24] ?     Think of this mission as a fight for     the Agency's existence and pride. [23:28] ?     Begin the investigation! [23:29] Naka     Man, where'd Dazai-san run     off to now, of all times? [23:33] Naka     Next time on Bungo Stray Dogs, Episode 7: [23:37] Naka     Love for the Disease Called Ideals. SIGN    Episode 7:     Love for the Disease Called Ideals