# 9 - Closure
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***SIGN*** *5th Grade, Class 4
Kayo Hinazuki*
**[00:11] ---**
Mom...
**[00:15] ---**
Kayo!
**[00:16] ---**
Where have you been
for the last few days?!
**[00:19] ---**
You...
**[00:21] ---**
You!
**[00:24] ---**
So you were the ones behind this!
**[00:26] ---**
What do you think you're doing,
hiding someone else's daughter?!
**[00:28] ---**
You made me worried about her!
**[00:31] ---**
Be prepared because I'm going to sue!
**[00:34] ---**
Have you looked for Kayo at all
during the past three days?
**[00:39] ---**
What?
**[00:40] ---**
Are you... trying to paint me
as the bad guy?!
**[00:44] ---**
Go to hell!
**[00:57] ---**
Kayo! Let go of me, idiot!
**[00:59] ---**
Made you worried about her?
**[01:01] ---**
You were only worried about yourself.
**[01:04] ---**
What?!
***SIGN*** ERASED
**[02:43] ---**
Dammit!
**[02:44] ---**
What?! What are you doing, Kayo?!
**[02:46] ---**
Let go! You're not gonna listen to me?!
**[02:49] ---**
That's enough, Ms. Hinazuki.
**[02:52] ---**
Kayo doesn't want to see you like this.
**[02:55] ---**
How about you?! Treating me
like a bad guy in front of Kayo!
**[02:58] ---**
Who the hell do you think you are,
kidnapping someone else's daughter?!
**[03:02] ---**
Shut up!
**[03:03] ---**
What kind of parent throws
her daughter in a shed
**[03:05] ---**
and doesn't do anything
after she's gone for three days?!
**[03:08] ---**
You have no idea about the pains
and responsibilities of being a parent, brat,
**[03:11] ---**
so you shut your smart mouth!
**[03:16] ---**
You—
**[03:17] ---**
You are Ms. Akemi Hinazuki?
**[03:20] ---**
We're with the Ishikari Development
Bureau's Child Consultation Center.
**[03:24] ---**
We've come to discuss
your daughter Kayo with you.
**[03:32] ---**
You tricked me...
**[03:33] ---**
Goddamn both of you!
**[03:36] ---**
It seemed you wouldn't agree
to meet with us,
**[03:40] ---**
so we enlisted
Ms. Fujinuma's cooperation.
**[03:43] ---**
Who ever said I wouldn't meet you?!
**[03:46] ---**
Please forgive my presumptuousness.
**[03:50] ---**
Sorry I asked you to do this.
**[03:53] ---**
Not at all, Mr. Yashiro.
**[03:55] ---**
I had a few words for her too,
**[03:58] ---**
so I'm actually grateful
that I could help.
**[04:01] ---**
They're the criminals
for abducting my daughter!
**[04:04] ---**
Call the cops!
**[04:05] ---**
No, first we need to discuss your
usual relationship with your child.
**[04:11] ---**
What are you talking about?!
**[04:12] ---**
What about my relationship with Kayo?!
**[04:15] ---**
We've decided that your daughter, Kayo,
needs to be taken into custody.
**[04:19] ---**
Into custody?! I'm her guardian!
**[04:21] ---**
You revoked your guardianship
**[04:23] ---**
by failing to look for your daughter
when she went missing for three days!
**[04:26] ---**
It's because of that brat over there!
**[04:29] ---**
Why are you treating me
like a criminal?!
**[04:31] ---**
All right, all right, Ms. Hinazuki.
**[04:33] ---**
Please calm down.
**[04:34] ---**
Fine!
**[04:36] ---**
I'll go to the police myself!
**[04:38] ---**
They can settle this!
**[04:40] ---**
Come on, Kayo!
**[04:42] ---**
- W-Wait, Ms. Hinazuki!
- We need to talk!
**[04:45] ---**
Please calm down!
**[04:46] ---**
S-Sensei...
**[04:48] ---**
Come on! Come on, I said!
**[04:51] ---**
Kayo!
**[04:52] ---**
You come with me!
**[04:53] ---**
Akemi!
**[04:59] ---**
Akemi...
**[05:02] ---**
Mom?
**[05:08] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[05:11] ---**
We've been estranged ever since
I made you break up with that man,
**[05:16] ---**
but I've been worried about you
and Kayo all this time.
**[05:22] ---**
I know very well how hard it is
for a woman to raise a child on her own.
**[05:30] ---**
You must have been so lonely.
**[05:32] ---**
It must have been hard.
**[05:34] ---**
I should have helped you.
**[05:46] ---**
But I made you...
***SIGN*** DIVORCE REGISTRATION
**[05:49] ---**
take all of it on by yourself.
**[06:10] ---**
Everyone... This is my fault.
**[06:13] ---**
Please don't think badly of Akemi.
**[06:23] ---**
Mom...
**[06:26] ---**
Mom! Mom!
**[06:34] ---**
*I bet those tears were out of self-pity.*
**[06:41] ---**
*Kayo wasn't moved either.*
**[06:44] ---**
*She wouldn't look
at her weeping mother.*
**[06:47] ---**
Akemi, don't worry about Kayo.
**[06:52] ---**
I'll take good care of her.
**[06:55] ---**
My child is the most precious thing
I have in this world.
**[07:04] ---**
You must have thought
the same way at some point.
**[07:09] ---**
Thank you, Sensei.
**[07:12] ---**
No, you're the one
who got me in gear, Satoru.
**[07:16] ---**
Your heroic efforts just
couldn't end in tragedy.
**[07:21] ---**
Kayo's going to be okay now.
**[07:26] ---**
*I hardly have any memory of my father,*
**[07:30] ---**
*but I wonder if he talked like that.*
**[07:36] ---**
Satoru, thank you.
**[07:39] ---**
Thank you for getting me out of here.
**[07:47] ---**
Well, shall we go?
**[07:53] ---**
*"The Town Without Me,"
by Kayo Hinazuki.*
**[07:57] ---**
*When I get bigger, big enough
to go somewhere by myself,*
**[08:02] ---**
*I want to go to a land that's far away.*
**[08:05] ---**
*I want to go to a faraway island.*
**[08:07] ---**
*I want to go to an island
that has no people.*
**[08:10] ---**
*I want to go to an island
that has no pain or sadness.*
***SIGN*** *Thank you for dinner!
Next time, I want to cook with you.
-Kayo*
**[08:20] ---**
*On that island, I can climb
a tree when I want to climb,*
**[08:25] ---**
*swim in the sea when I want to swim,*
**[08:27] ---**
*and sleep when I want to sleep.*
**[08:36] ---**
*When I think about the town
without me, I feel a sense of relief.*
**[08:42] ---**
*I want to go far, far away.*
**[09:01] ---**
*I saved Kayo at last.*
**[09:04] ---**
*I fastened her life to the future.*
**[09:08] ---**
*From now on,
Kayo will make her own mark.*
**[09:13] ---**
*I have faith that the future
Kayo faces is a bright place.*
**[09:19] ---**
Episode 9
Closure
**[09:24] ---**
Satoru's been like this all day.
Do you think he's okay?
**[09:28] ---**
He's a hero for helping Hinazuki, but...
**[09:32] ---**
Hey, Satoru, are you all right?
**[09:35] ---**
Yeah. I'm fine.
**[09:37] ---**
You don't look fine at all.
**[09:39] ---**
Well, I can't blame him.
I mean, with Hinazuki gone...
**[09:43] ---**
Yeah. Although that does bring closure...
**[09:47] ---**
Satoru...
**[09:48] ---**
Come here a minute.
***SIGN*** STAFF ROOM
**[09:51] ---**
About Kayo's mother...
**[09:52] ---**
I don't think she'll be able to see
Kayo for a number of years.
**[09:56] ---**
Kayo's going to begin a new life
with her grandmother.
**[10:00] ---**
Sensei, thank you.
**[10:03] ---**
Oh, no need to...
**[10:04] ---**
No, not about that.
**[10:07] ---**
What you said, "Your heroic efforts
just couldn't end in tragedy"...
**[10:12] ---**
That made me really happy.
**[10:16] ---**
Yes, well, it may have
sounded a little vulgar
**[10:20] ---**
if I'd said "the reward
for your heroic efforts,"
**[10:22] ---**
but what you did was deserving
of a reward, Satoru.
**[10:28] ---**
What did you want?
To see Kayo smile?
**[10:36] ---**
I wanted that, too.
**[10:38] ---**
By the way, Satoru,
was Kayo in your house all that time?
**[10:42] ---**
No. We had a hideout.
**[10:44] ---**
- A hideout?
- Yes.
**[10:46] ---**
We hid Kayo in the bus Izumi Elementary's
hockey club used to use.
**[10:52] ---**
A place that only kidnappers
like you guys would think to go, huh?
**[10:55] ---**
R-Right.
**[10:57] ---**
*I can't really laugh...*
***SIGN*** KAYO HINAZUKI (11 YEARS OLD)
**[11:00] ---**
*Kayo's gone now,*
***SIGN*** AYA NAKANISHI (11 YEARS OLD)
**[11:02] ---**
*but the killer is still targeting
Hiromi and Aya Nakanishi.*
***SIGN*** HIROMI SUGITA (11 YEARS OLD)
**[11:05] ---**
HIROMI SUGITA
(11 YEARS OLD)
***SIGN*** AYA NAKANISHI (11 YEARS OLD)
**[11:05] ---**
KAYO HINAZUKI
(11 YEARS OLD)
**[11:06] ---**
*I have to make sure neither one
of them are left alone.*
**[11:13] ---**
*It's like with Kayo.*
***SIGN*** FIGHT, WONDER GUY! TV THEME SONG
**[11:17] ---**
*Hiromi is my classmate,*
**[11:19] ---**
*but Aya Nakanishi goes
to Izumi Elementary next door,*
**[11:22] ---**
*so it'll be hard to approach her.*
**[11:25] ---**
*I hear she's often with Yuuki, but
how can I start a conversation with her?*
**[11:29] ---**
*She doesn't know anything about me.*
**[11:32] ---**
*This is a pretty high hurdle.*
**[11:37] ---**
A way to become friends
with someone you don't know?
**[11:40] ---**
Just be straightforward,
like, "Let's be friends!"
**[11:44] ---**
*Like that would—*
**[11:45] ---**
You're thinking,
"Like that would work," aren't you?
**[11:48] ---**
*Did she read my mind?!*
**[11:49] ---**
You've already got Kayo, and now...
**[11:53] ---**
Why would you think I...
**[11:54] ---**
I just wanted to trick you
into fessing up.
**[11:57] ---**
Well, she is a girl...
**[12:00] ---**
but she's always alone.
**[12:02] ---**
You can't be so pessimistic.
**[12:05] ---**
You should focus on a positive result.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
***SIGN*** Ice Hockey Club 1988 National Champions
**[12:13] ---**
I have stop somewhere.
**[12:15] ---**
Kenya and Hiromi,
you're going to the center, right?
**[12:18] ---**
Yeah.
**[12:19] ---**
Okay, I'll meet you there later. See you!
**[12:21] ---**
See you!
***SIGN*** WITH YUUKI BY THE RIVER
***SIGN*** HAMANASU PRIVATE CRAM SCHOOL
***SIGN*** HAMANASU PRIVATE CRAM SCHOOL GRADE COURSES
**[12:35] ---**
*So she gets out of cram school at 6:30.*
**[12:38] ---**
*I should be able to walk Hiromi home
and get back here in time.*
**[12:42] ---**
*First I have to investigate
her basic activity pattern.*
***SIGN*** WITH HIROMI AND KENYA AT THE CHILDREN'S RECREATION CENTER
**[12:51] ---**
LEAVING HIROMI AND KENYA
***SIGN*** CRAM SCHOOL LETS OUT BEGIN TAILING AYA NAKANISHI AGAIN
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*Aya Nakanishi's daily activity
schedule was simple.*
**[13:00] ---**
*If she were going to be abducted,*
**[13:02] ---**
*it would most likely happen
in this time slot, after cram school.*
**[13:06] ---**
Satoru!
**[13:08] ---**
Perfect timing! Help me!
**[13:11] ---**
*I wanted to make sure she got home,
so don't suddenly appear like this!*
**[13:15] ---**
Why did you buy all this in one trip?
**[13:17] ---**
It was cheap, so I couldn't help myself.
**[13:19] ---**
It's heavy.
**[13:21] ---**
Don't complain!
That only makes it heavier!
**[13:23] ---**
It's heavy even if I don't say anything.
**[13:29] ---**
You're a lifesaver, Sensei!
**[13:31] ---**
Mom binged on groceries.
**[13:33] ---**
Don't say I binged!
**[13:41] ---**
Say, Sensei...
**[13:43] ---**
Why aren't you married?
**[13:45] ---**
That came out of nowhere.
**[13:49] ---**
Listen, Satoru...
**[13:50] ---**
You need to have
a partner to get married.
**[13:53] ---**
And then it depends on your
partner's feelings, mutual timing...
**[13:56] ---**
Well, various things... Wait...
**[13:59] ---**
I've been through a painful
experience once,
**[14:01] ---**
so maybe I'm proceeding
with excessive caution.
**[14:05] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[14:07] ---**
Don't worry about it.
It's not a bad question.
**[14:13] ---**
Actually, I was going to ask you
something else.
**[14:18] ---**
How to approach a girl you don't know?
**[14:20] ---**
Yeah. I know about her,
but she doesn't know me.
**[14:24] ---**
Let's see...
**[14:25] ---**
I'm the cautious type, so even if it'd be
beating around the bush,
**[14:28] ---**
I'd start by getting her
to relax her guard.
**[14:31] ---**
Relax her guard?
**[14:32] ---**
Yeah. Put another way, charm her.
**[14:36] ---**
If you're good at sports or cooking,
whatever, use it as a weapon.
**[14:41] ---**
When she becomes
interested in whatever it is,
**[14:43] ---**
she lets her guard down.
**[14:46] ---**
Don't be so impressed.
**[14:48] ---**
I'm not good at expressing my
feelings directly, so I just rely on logic.
**[14:56] ---**
Something's sticking out.
**[14:58] ---**
Satoru, don't touch it!
**[15:01] ---**
I-I'm sorr—
**[15:03] ---**
It's...
**[15:05] ---**
Satoru...
**[15:06] ---**
You've seen it.
**[15:11] ---**
*Candy?*
**[15:13] ---**
Now that you've seen,
there's no sense in hiding it anymore!
**[15:16] ---**
You have some too,
so you become equally guilty!
**[15:20] ---**
Since I quit smoking three years ago,
**[15:22] ---**
candy has been my go-to substitute.
**[15:26] ---**
In private, I can't relax without it.
**[15:30] ---**
*H-He's weird...*
**[15:32] ---**
Thank you.
**[15:40] ---**
Give me one, too.
**[15:42] ---**
Here.
**[15:48] ---**
Well, I'm going to the center
to do my homework.
**[15:51] ---**
Okay!
**[15:52] ---**
Wait, Hiromi! I'll go with you!
**[15:55] ---**
First Hinazuki, and now it's like
you're Hiromi's guardian.
**[15:57] ---**
R-Really?
**[16:00] ---**
Satoru, can I speak to you in private?
**[16:03] ---**
Sure.
**[16:05] ---**
Sorry, Hiromi. I'll catch up.
**[16:08] ---**
Okay.
**[16:10] ---**
Satoru, honestly,
what are you thinking?
**[16:14] ---**
I saw your determination
to save Hinazuki, and that went well,
**[16:18] ---**
but looking at you, I still get the sense
that something's wrong.
**[16:23] ---**
Satoru, if something's up,
will you tell me about it?
**[16:27] ---**
I can't really explain it.
It's too much of a leap.
**[16:33] ---**
I want to make that leap, like you.
**[16:38] ---**
I want to be a superhero.
**[16:41] ---**
If there's a "part two,"
take me with you.
**[16:51] ---**
Kenya, what do you think
of these footprints?
**[16:54] ---**
An adult's, coming and going.
**[16:57] ---**
And if you look carefully...
**[16:59] ---**
The shoes were wrapped in cloth?
**[17:01] ---**
Not to keep from slipping, right?
**[17:03] ---**
Maybe to keep from leaving
shoe sole imprints.
**[17:15] ---**
The backpack is gone.
**[17:16] ---**
And the box with the briquette
isn't here anymore either.
**[17:19] ---**
I think there are fewer
boxes here overall.
**[17:22] ---**
And a lot of them are torn up.
**[17:24] ---**
Somebody must have made off
with their contents only.
**[17:28] ---**
Satoru, what are you trying to say?
**[17:32] ---**
When Kayo was staying here alone,
**[17:34] ---**
do you remember about the man
who came here in the middle of the night?
**[17:37] ---**
Yeah.
**[17:38] ---**
The guy who gave off a dangerous vibe
based on the stuff he left here.
**[17:42] ---**
I think he's a killer
who targets children.
**[17:46] ---**
Satoru? I don't know
where you're getting this from...
**[17:49] ---**
I know. It's unbelievable, right?
**[17:53] ---**
Why do you think that, Satoru?
**[17:57] ---**
I can't explain it right now.
**[18:00] ---**
But when I saw the contents
of the backpack and the briquette,
**[18:02] ---**
it made me think this was where a serial
killer kept his murderous tools.
**[18:08] ---**
I know it all sounds insane.
**[18:12] ---**
But I believe it.
**[18:15] ---**
I can tell you now, with Kayo too,
**[18:17] ---**
I didn't want to leave her alone
just to keep her mother from abusing her,
**[18:22] ---**
but also to protect her from this killer.
**[18:28] ---**
Satoru, do you mean to become
a novelist or detective in the future?
**[18:33] ---**
I don't think the issue is whether
what you're saying is far-fetched or not.
**[18:38] ---**
It's whether I believe or not.
***SIGN*** STOP
**[18:43] ---**
I'll be fine without you walking me
all this way. I am a man.
**[18:48] ---**
That's all right. I have business
in the neighborhood anyway.
**[18:56] ---**
Satoru...
**[18:59] ---**
What?
**[19:01] ---**
I want to believe you, too.
**[19:03] ---**
I'll do whatever I can to help,
so don't hold back, okay?
**[19:08] ---**
Of course!
**[19:10] ---**
- See you!
- See you!
**[19:11] ---**
Bye!
**[19:13] ---**
Later!
**[19:18] ---**
Satoru, to be honest, I'm about 99% sure
your hypothesis is nonsense.
**[19:25] ---**
But 1% of me says
it's not totally impossible.
**[19:29] ---**
Yeah. Looking at it from the outside,
**[19:31] ---**
it seems like I'm just wrapped up
in a game of make-believe crimes.
**[19:35] ---**
I don't mind if it is make-believe.
**[19:38] ---**
Part of it may be down
to these circumstances,
**[19:41] ---**
but I have a strong sense your thinking
is going to lead to something.
**[19:47] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:48] ---**
You trusted me enough
to tell me about it.
**[19:52] ---**
So I want to believe in you, too.
**[19:55] ---**
*I want to believe you for my own sake.*
**[19:59] ---**
*It's the flip side to someone
saying "please believe me."*
**[20:04] ---**
Thank you, Kenya.
**[20:06] ---**
Thank you, Hiromi.
**[20:10] ---**
*I could've saved her.*
**[20:13] ---**
*That's what I said when I was crying
in front of Mom 18 years ago?*
**[20:19] ---**
*I don't want to feel that way again.*
**[20:23] ---**
*I won't let anyone be alone!*
**[20:25] ---**
*I can save them!*
**[20:33] ---**
Remember to get a parent's signature!
**[20:36] ---**
Okay!
**[20:39] ---**
I want you to come
with me somewhere.
**[20:43] ---**
- Okay.
- Okay.
**[20:45] ---**
Satoru, wanna go to the hideout?
**[20:48] ---**
Sorry. There's something we have to do.
**[20:51] ---**
Then see you later.
**[20:52] ---**
See you!
**[20:53] ---**
- Yeah!
- See you.
**[20:57] ---**
What are they sneakin' around about?
**[20:59] ---**
I don't like it.
**[21:00] ---**
- Wanna follow 'em?
- Yeah!
**[21:02] ---**
- Let's go!
- All right!