# E12 - The Case of the Yadagami-sama Murders (Part 1)
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**[00:07] Toto**
Hello. Ron?
**[00:09] Toto**
Yeah, I just finished work
and I'm on my way home.
**[00:12] Toto**
What's up?
**[00:13] Ron**
Do you remember Spitz Fire?
**[00:17] Toto**
Well, how could I forget him?
**[00:20] Ron**
About that matter he wanted
me to look into...
**[00:23] Toto**
* He wanted you to look*
* for his missing family, right?*
**[00:27] Ron**
Exactly.
**[00:28] Ron**
Toto, do you think I should?
**[00:30] Toto**
Well, he's been helping
with our investigations,
**[00:34] Toto**
and when I think about his family,
I figure someone's gotta do it.
**[00:37] Ron**
I thought you'd say that, Toto.
**[00:39] Ron**
Please tell him you think we should do it.
**[00:42] Toto**
You want me to tell him?
**[00:44] Ron**
*He's currently tailing you.*
**[00:46] Toto**
What? He's tailing me?
**[00:49] Toto**
That's a crazy place to be watching me from!
**[00:52] Spitz**
Sorry, Tototo. I've got you bugged, too.
**[00:55] Toto**
*Oh?*
**[00:56] Toto**
*He seems frail...*
***SIGN*** Ron Kamonohashi's
***SIGN*** Forbidden
Deductions
***SIGN*** #12 The Case of the Yadagami-sama Murders (Part 1)
**[02:32] Toto**
Thanks for having us.
**[02:36] Toto**
Huh? There's furniture in here!
**[02:39] Ron**
I'm not done with the place yet.
**[02:41] Ron**
But this way, we can invite clients here,
or anyone other than the two of us, right?
**[02:45] Ron**
And our inaugural first client...
**[02:47] Ron**
is Spitz!
***SIGN*** Nandan
Black Sugar Syrup
***SIGN*** Nandan
Black Sugar Syrup
***SIGN*** Nandan
Black Sugar Syrup
**[02:56] Toto**
You seem kinda out of sorts today.
**[02:59] Spitz**
Oh, no, not particularly!
**[03:01] Ron**
He's freaking out because I've proposed
absurd terms of exchange for this case.
**[03:05] Toto**
Terms of exchange?
**[03:07] Ron**
If he can get his hands on the Bloody
Training Incident file from BLUE for me,
**[03:11] Ron**
I'll start looking for his family immediately.
That's my proposal.
**[03:14] Toto**
The case file?
**[03:16] Toto**
But the police should have that, right?
**[03:19] Ron**
I've already obtained Scotland Yard's
files on the case.
**[03:23] Ron**
But a crucial section was removed
**[03:26] Ron**
by an unknown actor.
**[03:27] Toto**
How in the world did you get that?
**[03:29] Ron**
That doesn't matter!
**[03:31] Ron**
The important thing here
is that vital files are missing.
**[03:34] Ron**
The investigation was a joint operation
between BLUE and the police.
**[03:38] Ron**
BLUE should have everything they did.
**[03:41] Ron**
I want Spitz to get the complete,
unadulterated case file
**[03:44] Ron**
by breaking into BLUE,
and then bring it to me.
**[03:47] Toto**
Can you prove your innocence with it?
**[03:50] Ron**
That's also important, but I'm
most interested in something else.
**[03:54] Ron**
Mofu-sensei said my culprit-killing disorder
**[03:58] Ron**
may have been caused by some
kind of medical intervention.
**[04:02] Ron**
And I have an idea about that.
**[04:04] Ron**
There are three hours
I don't remember at all from
**[04:07] Ron**
when I was being treated after the incident.
**[04:09] Ron**
And the records of that time
were removed from the file.
**[04:13] Toto**
So that's when it was done?
**[04:14] Ron**
If we can find out what happened,
**[04:16] Ron**
maybe we can figure out a way to deal with it.
**[04:18] Ron**
And most importantly,
**[04:19] Ron**
we should begin to get a sense of who it was
that stole five years of sleuthing from me.
**[04:26] Ron**
To that end...
**[04:27] Ron**
If you promise to get that file for me,
Spitz, I'll look for your family!
**[04:34] Toto**
Enough, Ron!
**[04:35] Toto**
Whether you get the file or not,
you should look for his family anyway!
**[04:39] Ron**
Don't take this so lightly, Toto!
**[04:42] Ron**
The odds of finding
his family are incredibly low.
**[04:44] Ron**
We aren't doing volunteer work here!
**[04:46] Toto**
Even so, you should still do it!
**[04:48] Toto**
When someone's in need,
you give it all you've got!
**[04:51] Toto**
Spitz has helped us!
He's our friend, isn't he?
**[04:58] Spitz**
That's all I needed! Thank you, Tototo!
**[05:02] Spitz**
I'm ashamed of myself for hesitating!
**[05:04] Toto**
What?
**[05:04] Spitz**
When a friend gives their all for me,
**[05:06] Spitz**
giving all I have in return is my motto!
**[05:09] Toto**
That's not what I was going for...
**[05:12] Spitz**
I accept your conditions, Ron-kun!
**[05:14] Spitz**
If you'll look for my big brother,
I'll go get that file!
**[05:17] Ron**
Well, if you insist, then sure.
**[05:19] Toto**
Don't do this, Spitz!
**[05:21] Toto**
Ron is deftly setting us up
to do what he wants!
**[05:23] Spitz**
It's all right, Tototo.
**[05:25] Spitz**
I think I was waiting for him to do this.
**[05:28] Spitz**
Besides, after hearing Ron-kun's tragic past,
it's the least I can do!
**[05:32] Toto**
You're a real pushover when it matters most!
**[05:34] Ron**
Welp, with that decided, it's time to go!
**[05:36] Toto**
What? You're starting now?
**[05:38] Toto**
Hang on! You can't just up and go
to Europe or wherever.
**[05:41] Ron**
Actually, we're going to Yamanashi.
**[05:44] Toto**
In Japan?
**[05:55] Spitz**
My big brother went all over the world
researching folk beliefs.
**[05:59] Spitz**
He was an ethnologist.
**[06:01] Spitz**
This village we're going to, Yadamura,
**[06:02] Spitz**
is one he visited a number of times.
**[06:05] Spitz**
He disappeared eleven years ago
over the summer.
**[06:08] Spitz**
I happened to be on school vacation,
so I came with him.
**[06:11] Toto**
Oh, so you were in Japan at the time.
**[06:19] Toto**
A-A snake! A white one!
**[06:21] Ron**
Shh!
**[06:22] Ron**
I hear something.
**[06:27] Ron**
This way!
**[06:28] Toto**
Hey, Ron!
**[06:32] Ron**
Oh, a waterfall.
**[06:35] Toto**
It's amazing!
**[06:47] Toto**
What's she doing?
**[06:49] Ron**
That's... a hokora folk shrine.
**[06:52] Toto**
Is it?
**[07:00] Toto**
Wh-Who's out there?!
**[07:02] villager A**
Sorry. My hand slipped.
**[07:05] villager B**
That nearly took your head off.
**[07:11] Toto**
That's dangerous!
**[07:13] villager A**
I'm sorry. I'll be more careful.
**[07:18] villager B**
If you plan on going any further,
do be careful, won't you?
**[07:29] Spitz**
Once we trek down this slope,
we'll be in Yadamura.
**[07:32] Spitz**
This is the village where my brother vanished.
**[07:40] villager C**
I'm against it!
Yadagami-sama won't stand for it!
**[07:43] villager D**
That's right!
There'll be more disappearances!
**[07:46] Toto**
Are they arguing about something?
**[07:49] Ron**
Hey.
**[07:51] Muroi**
And you would be?
**[07:53] Spitz**
Hello, Mayor! It's been a long time.
**[07:55] mayor**
Oh! Now, if I remember correctly...
**[07:58] mayor**
That's right. You're Spitz-kun!
**[08:00] Spitz**
I've brought some friends with me today.
**[08:03] Spitz**
Sorry to impose.
We came to look for my brother more.
**[08:05] Ron**
If I might ask, Mayor,
what's the commotion about?
**[08:08] mayor**
You caught us at an embarrassing moment.
It's about the dam construction.
**[08:12] mayor**
A certain outsider is demanding
that everyone in the village move out.
**[08:18] official**
Calling me that casts me in a negative light.
**[08:20] official**
I'm a government representative.
**[08:22] villager C**
Yadagami-sama won't allow you
to build a damn and drown the town!
**[08:25] villager D**
Yadagami-sama's divine wrath
will strike again!
**[08:27] Toto**
Yadagami-sama?
**[08:30] Muroi**
It's written with the characters
for "night snake god."
**[08:33] Muroi**
It's a deity said to have protected
this village since ancient times.
**[08:38] Toto**
I see.
**[08:39] Muroi**
Ah, I'm an ethnologist. My name is Muroi.
**[08:43] Muroi**
I came here to research Yadagami, but...
**[08:51] Muroi**
given the uproar over the dam,
this isn't the time for it.
**[08:54] mayor**
Firstly, let's all calm down, everyone.
**[08:57] mayor**
They're not going to flood the village
today or tomorrow, you hear?
**[09:01] official**
Exactly. I've only come
for the initial surveying.
**[09:05] villager C**
If we let you do that,
it's like giving you approval!
**[09:08] villager D**
Before we know it, we'll be
at the bottom of the dam!
**[09:12] official**
Dear, dear. You need
to instruct them better, Mr. Mayor.
**[09:16] official**
Instead of just teaching them
to have faith in Yadagami,
**[09:20] official**
you should be teaching them to have manners.
**[09:23] official**
I'll start work tomorrow.
**[09:25] official**
If you interfere, I'll sue you.
Keep that in mind.
**[09:29] villager C**
That jerk!
**[09:30] mayor**
Will you stop?
**[09:31] mayor**
Enough already. Scatter! Disperse!
**[09:39] Spitz**
E-Excuse me, Mayor!
**[09:40] Spitz**
If this place ends up underwater,
I'll be in a real bind too!
**[09:43] mayor**
I feel the same way.
**[09:46] mayor**
But it's what our country is asking of us.
**[09:50] Spitz**
Even so...
**[09:51] mayor**
Now then, all of you will be
staying the night, won't you?
**[09:56] Spitz**
Yes. Would it be all right
if I borrowed the guest hut again?
**[10:00] mayor**
That official you saw just now
is staying there.
**[10:03] mayor**
I'll take you all to my house.
**[10:15] Toto**
Wow, that really came out of nowhere!
**[10:17] Toto**
It was clear just a second ago.
**[10:21] mayor**
We call this sort of rain
Yadagami-sama's rage.
**[10:24] mayor**
There are times when even gods
can't suppress their anger, you see?
**[10:28] mayor**
Now, do come in.
**[10:30] Toto**
Thank you for having us.
**[10:35] Mii**
Why are you here...?
**[10:37] Spitz**
Oh, Mii-chan! It's been a while!
**[10:40] Spitz**
That was you at the waterfall, right?
**[10:42] Toto**
You know her?
**[10:44] Spitz**
Yes.
**[10:45] Spitz**
This is the mayor's granddaughter, Mii-chan.
**[10:49] Mii**
I haven't seen you in a while, Spitz-kun.
**[10:51] Spitz**
He's letting us stay the night here.
**[10:54] Mii**
Really? Please make yourselves at home.
**[11:03] Spitz**
Here's my big brother.
**[11:06] Spitz**
This photo is from the day
before he disappeared.
**[11:09] Spitz**
We were going around asking the
villagers for legends about Yadagami.
**[11:14] Spitz**
After this, we went back to the guest hut
across the river to sleep.
**[11:18] Spitz**
When I opened my eyes the next morning,
**[11:20] Spitz**
I couldn't find my brother anywhere.
**[11:23] Spitz**
I thought he'd just gone out,
so I went looking for him, but...
**[11:28] Ron**
You never found him?
**[11:31] Spitz**
I asked all the villagers,
but everyone said they hadn't seen him.
**[11:35] Spitz**
I went to the police immediately after.
**[11:39] Spitz**
The villagers helped them search
deep into the mountains,
**[11:42] Spitz**
but there was no sign
he'd ever left the village.
**[11:45] Spitz**
It was like he'd really vanished.
**[11:47] Toto**
Like those tales of getting spirited away.
**[11:49] Spitz**
I've been wondering, Ron-kun, is that...
**[11:52] Toto**
What?
**[11:54] Ron**
Tofu, tsukemono, and wild vegetables.
**[11:56] Toto**
And enough black sugar syrup to drown them!
**[11:59] Spitz**
May I try some?
**[12:01] Ron**
Down it in one big bite!
**[12:04] Toto**
*They seem like they're having fun.*
**[12:08] Toto**
*The rain's letting up.*
**[12:09] Toto**
* The mayor went to the trouble of giving us*
* a room with a view of the river,*
**[12:14] Toto**
* but at night, the scenery*
* isn't very impressive.*
**[12:17] Toto**
* So that's the guest hut that*
* the official is staying in, huh?*
**[12:20] Toto**
*Wait.*
**[12:22] Toto**
What?!
**[12:25] Ron**
What's wrong?
**[12:31] Spitz**
What is that?
**[12:32] Spitz**
A giant snake? It's glaring right at us!
**[12:35] Toto**
It's wrapped around someone.
**[12:36] Ron**
Let's go check it out.
**[12:39] Toto**
We're going out for a sec!
**[12:45] Spitz**
This is the only entrance to the guest hut!
**[12:48] Ron**
Wait!
**[12:51] Ron**
The ground is muddy from the rain
and there are no footprints.
**[12:54] Ron**
No one has gone in or out here.
**[13:01] Ron**
It's unlocked.
**[13:03] Ron**
We're coming in!
**[13:07] Toto**
What was that sound?
**[13:10] Toto**
There's no one here.
**[13:12] Spitz**
The bathroom's empty, too!
**[13:20] Ron**
They vanished?
**[13:29] Toto**
*The following morning,*
**[13:31] Toto**
*in the pool of the waterfall near the village,*
**[13:33] Toto**
* they found the official*
* dead of unnatural causes.*
**[13:36] Toto**
* On his neck was bruising*
* that resembled the scales of a snake.*
**[13:50] Toto**
The cause of death appears to be
**[13:52] Toto**
a blow to the head
from falling into the basin.
**[13:55] Toto**
He has rope-like strangulation marks,
**[13:58] Toto**
but no weapon has been found.
**[14:01] Ron**
Don't worry. I'll avenge you.
**[14:03] Ron**
So tell me everything, won't you?
**[14:05] Toto**
The marks on his neck really
do look like snake scales.
**[14:09] Spitz**
Strangled by a snake? That can't be.
**[14:16] mayor**
What you three saw was Yadagami-sama!
**[14:19] mayor**
Yadagami-sama took the official
from the guest hut!
**[14:23] Toto**
But there was no evidence of anyone
entering or exiting the guest hut.
**[14:26] Toto**
Yadagami-sama would've had to whisk him away.
**[14:29] mayor**
And you think that's not within a god's power?
**[14:32] Toto**
That's...
**[14:38] Mii**
Grandpa!
**[14:39] Mii**
Why aren't you doing anything?!
**[14:40] Mii**
Outsiders aren't supposed
to enter the waterfall!
**[14:44] mayor**
Circumstances being what they are,
I gave them permission.
**[14:49] mayor**
Mii, Spitz-kun is a sleuth now, and that man
next to him is a detective from Tokyo.
**[14:55] Mii**
My! A police detective?
**[14:58] Ron**
Meet Detective Isshiki. People
in the know consider him a great detective.
**[15:02] Mii**
I see. Is that so?
**[15:07] Mii**
And who is that?
**[15:09] mayor**
I believe this gentleman is...
**[15:11] Toto**
Oh! He's, um...
**[15:14] Spitz**
Ron-kun is a friend who shares my interests.
We collect rare wrapping papers together!
**[15:19] Toto**
*That's a very niche hobby!*
**[15:22] Ron**
By the way, Mii-kun,
**[15:24] Ron**
what were you doing up there
by the waterfall yesterday?
**[15:29] Mii**
I was...
**[15:34] Mii**
I was leaving an offering for
Yadagami-sama at the shrine.
**[15:39] Mii**
This waterfall is where we show our gratitude
for the village's protection.
**[15:43] Mii**
It's tradition for a villager to visit
every day to make an offering.
**[15:50] Ron**
All of you truly believe
that Yadagami-sama exists?
**[15:53] Mii**
H-How dare you ask such a thing?
Of course he exists!
**[15:57] Mii**
Just as he has until now
and will continue to for ages!
**[16:05] mayor**
That's right! The divine punishment
visited upon the official is proof!
**[16:08] mayor**
Don't you all think so?
**[16:11] villager A**
That's right! He suffered
Yadagami-sama's wrath!
**[16:14] villager B**
This is why we hate outsiders!
**[16:15] Toto**
When did they show up?
**[16:26] Toto**
I thought they were gonna attack us.
**[16:28] Ron**
When beliefs are coupled
with an exclusionary attitude like that,
**[16:31] Ron**
it can sometimes present as a
state resembling mass hypnosis.
**[16:34] Ron**
That's exactly what we saw here.
**[16:37] Ron**
I wonder what's driving them
to such fanaticism.
**[16:43] Muroi**
How were things at the waterfall?
**[16:45] Toto**
Oh, you're that ethnologist.
**[16:49] Muroi**
Muroi.
**[16:50] Muroi**
And I heard that you're a detective.
**[16:52] Muroi**
Outsiders aren't allowed at the waterfall,
you know, so I got curious.
**[16:58] Muroi**
Is the rumor that Yadagami-sama
killed the official true?
**[17:01] Toto**
We don't know if it was
Yadagami-sama or not, but...
**[17:05] Muroi**
So there really was a death...
**[17:09] Muroi**
I've studied legends of gods passed
down all throughout the countryside,
**[17:13] Muroi**
but Yadagami-sama is unique.
**[17:15] Muroi**
His legends are still alive, you see.
**[17:18] Muroi**
There are even reports
of his power of vanishment.
**[17:20] Toto**
Power of vanishment?
**[17:23] Muroi**
There was a plan to build
a dam fifteen years ago, too.
**[17:27] Muroi**
But when it came time for construction,
all the heavy machinery disappeared.
**[17:31] Toto**
What?
**[17:33] Muroi**
And your older brother disappeared
here eleven years ago, right?
**[17:37] Spitz**
Y-Yes.
**[17:38] Muroi**
When you spend time here in this village,
**[17:41] Muroi**
it's impossible not to
feel Yadagami-sama's power.
**[17:44] Muroi**
I once fell down the mountain here
and lost consciousness.
**[17:48] Muroi**
But when I came to,
I was no longer on the mountain.
**[17:50] Muroi**
I found myself lying at its foot instead.
**[17:53] Toto**
Are you serious?
**[17:55] Muroi**
To be honest, lately, I...
**[17:58] Muroi**
I feel so enthralled by Yadagami-sama,
**[18:00] Muroi**
I'm thinking of moving
to live here in the village.
**[18:04] Ron**
Muroi-kun, yesterday when it rained,
what were you doing?
**[18:08] Muroi**
D-Do you suspect me?
**[18:10] Muroi**
I went to the temple where
Yadagami-sama is enshrined!
**[18:13] Spitz**
Oh, I've been there.
**[18:15] Spitz**
It holds the shed skin of a huge snake.
**[18:17] Muroi**
They also have eyes and fangs,
**[18:20] Muroi**
plus hanging scrolls and old manuscripts
depicting Yadagami-sama.
**[18:23] Muroi**
It doubles as an impressive
museum and archive.
**[18:25] Toto**
I see.
***SIGN*** Temporarily Closed
**[18:26] Muroi**
But for some reason,
it was closed yesterday.
**[18:29] Muroi**
I had no choice but to go back
to Suzuki-san's house, where I'm staying.
**[18:38] Toto**
What is it?
**[18:39] Spitz**
It's just that conversation from earlier...
**[18:42] Spitz**
Something about it is nagging at me.
**[18:45] Toto**
Then why don't we try sorting out
the sequence of events?
**[18:49] Toto**
At dinner, when we looked outside
from the mayor's house,
**[18:52] Toto**
we could see a snake wrapped around someone.
**[18:55] Toto**
We hurried to the guest hut,
outside of which was muddy,
**[18:58] Toto**
but there were no footprints.
**[19:01] Toto**
All of the windows there have bars over them.
**[19:05] Ron**
Meaning no one got in or out.
**[19:08] Toto**
When we entered the hut,
we heard a loud bang,
**[19:12] Toto**
but there wasn't anyone inside.
**[19:14] Ron**
What do you think that noise was?
**[19:19] Spitz**
The sound of Yadagami teleporting?!
**[19:22] Toto**
That's on the table?!
**[19:23] Ron**
I love a good occult story myself.
**[19:27] Ron**
But, unfortunately, I've never
encountered the real thing.
**[19:30] Toto**
Then you think there could be
some other culprit here?
**[19:34] Ron**
Of course, I can't say
I'm a hundred percent sure...
**[19:37] Ron**
I'm two hundred percent sure!
**[19:38] Toto; Spitz**
He went over a hundred!
**[19:42] police officer**
Sorry to keep you waiting. Please come in.
**[19:51] Toto**
It's a fact that we saw
Yadagami-sama in this room.
**[19:54] Toto**
How did it manage to disappear?
**[19:56] Toto**
Oh! Could there be a hidden room
or something somewhere?
**[19:59] police officer**
Well, we searched the whole place.
**[20:03] police officer**
The dust beneath the roof was undisturbed.
**[20:05] police officer**
No sign anyone had been up there.
**[20:07] police officer**
The walls and bars are sturdy
and can't be removed.
**[20:09] police officer**
We turned over all of the tatami mats too,
**[20:12] police officer**
but there's nowhere to hide.
**[20:15] Toto**
I see.
**[20:17] police officer**
But we did find one clue.
**[20:20] Toto**
What?
**[20:21] police officer**
This, here.
***SIGN*** Nandan
Black Sugar Syrup
**[20:22] Toto**
Ron's black sugar syrup!
**[20:24] Ron**
So this is where it was!
**[20:26] Ron**
I had it in my mouth when we rushed out
yesterday, but it disappeared at some point.
**[20:30] Toto**
Look at that! You got
the tatami mats all dirty.
**[20:34] Toto**
I'm sorry. That's something he dropped.
**[20:37] police officer**
I see.
**[20:38] police officer**
In that case, we have no other leads.
**[20:42] Spitz**
No... other... leads...
**[20:47] Toto**
Huh?
**[20:48] Spitz**
So Yadagami really does exist...
**[20:51] Spitz**
And my brother...
**[20:53] Spitz**
He would've been powerless against a god.
**[20:58] Spitz**
Big brother...
**[21:01] Brotz**
* You tend to be a bit of a baby, but you have*
* a talent for getting people to like you.*
**[21:05] Brotz**
* Find yourself some good friends*
* and take a path that lets you help others.*
**[21:11] Brotz**
*I expect great things from you.*
**[21:14] Spitz**
*Why...?*
**[21:20] Toto**
What's wrong, Spitz?
**[21:23] Spitz**
A white snake in the river!
**[21:25] Spitz**
It's Yadagami!
**[21:29] Toto**
What? I don't see anything.
**[21:44] Ron**
When you officers got here, where
was the bottle of black sugar syrup?
**[21:47] police officer**
We replaced the tatami mats
after we removed them,
**[21:50] police officer**
so it was right where it is now.
**[21:53] Ron**
Detective Isshiki...
**[21:54] Ron**
your expression says that you've seen
through Yadagami's disappearing act.
**[21:58] Spitz**
What?
**[22:00] Toto; internal**
*You solved it, didn't you, Ron?*
**[22:03] Ron**
Living legends are created by the living.