# E4 - The Case of the Benizome Hot Spring Murder (Part 2)
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**[00:08] Spitz**
Only one individual returned to their room
**[00:12] Spitz**
before the late missus left for hers.
**[00:15] Spitz**
Isn't that right...
**[00:17] Spitz**
Detective Amamiya?
**[00:19] Toto**
Senpai? There's no way it was her.
**[00:22] Ron**
It wasn't.
**[00:25] Ron**
Amamiya-kun isn't the culprit.
**[00:28] Ron**
It was someone else who's
here with us right now.
**[00:32] husband**
What are you saying?
**[00:33] husband**
She left first. That's a fact.
**[00:36] Michiyo**
I saw it, too.
**[00:38] Ron**
It's true that she's the only one
with an uncertain alibi.
**[00:42] Ron**
But the simple act of creating
this situation was impossible for her.
**[00:50] Ron**
And I can prove it to you right now.
**[00:58] Spitz**
*To think my chance would come so quickly...*
**[01:02] Spitz**
*Kamonohashi Ron, you don't know it,*
**[01:06] Spitz**
* but I'm an instructor at the*
* BLUE detective training academy.*
**[01:12] Spitz**
* The moment I catch you sleuthing,*
* that'll be the end of you!*
**[01:17] Ron**
At least,
**[01:19] Ron**
that's what Detective Isshiki says.
**[01:21] Toto**
Huh?
**[01:28] Toto**
*Asking a bit much, aren't we?!*
***SIGN*** Ron Kamonohashi's
***SIGN*** Forbidden
Deductions
***SIGN*** #04 The Case of the Benizome Hot Spring Murder (Part 2)
**[03:09] Toto**
Wait, hang on... Don't get carried away.
**[03:12] Ron**
Really, Detective Isshiki?
We already have all the clues we need?
**[03:17] Ron**
Is that what you're saying?
**[03:18] Toto**
I—Wa—
**[03:20] Ron**
I see. "I" and "wa," you say?
**[03:24] Ron**
"I" for the illustration
of the secret story of Benizome,
**[03:26] Ron**
and "wa" for the water
turned red with leaves.
**[03:28] Ron**
Those are the keys to solving this mystery?
**[03:30] husband**
By "secret story," you mean the one about
the woman who was sacrificed, don't you?
**[03:35] Michiyo**
And that serves as proof
that the lady detective is innocent?
**[03:39] Ron**
Apparently so.
**[03:41] Ron**
Oh, Amamiya-kun, you look bewildered.
**[03:45] Amamiya**
What's this story you keep talking about?
**[03:49] Ron**
It was in the pamphlet
you got in the taxi, wasn't it?
**[03:52] Amamiya**
I didn't come by taxi.
**[03:54] Amamiya**
And I didn't see any
at the station when I arrived.
**[03:58] Toto**
Come to think of it,
I feel like you mentioned that before...
**[04:01] Ron**
That is, you came here on your own.
**[04:04] Ron**
I know exactly what
Detective Isshiki is talking about.
**[04:09] (Flashback) Amamiya**
Work just wouldn't end,
and I had to walk from the station.
**[04:13] (Flashback) taxi driver**
We made the pamphlet
for the annex ourselves.
**[04:17] (Flashback) taxi driver**
I really am sorry.
**[04:20] Ron**
She had no opportunity to see the pamphlet.
She didn't know the story.
**[04:24] Ron**
Therefore she couldn't commit
a murder made to replicate it.
**[04:28] Ron**
In other words,
Amamiya-kun isn't the culprit.
**[04:30] Ron**
Detective Isshiki, you really are amazing.
**[04:33] Toto**
*I see now! Nice deduction!*
**[04:35] Michiyo**
That's true. The secret story wasn't written
anywhere but that pamphlet from the taxi.
**[04:41] hostess**
It isn't a very pleasant story,
so we don't tell it here at the inn.
**[04:49] husband**
Then I guess it's as the detective says.
**[04:54] Spitz**
*So it wasn't Kamonohashi Ron?*
**[04:56] Spitz**
*It was Isshiki Totomaru who solved this?*
**[04:59] Ron**
Now, who's the real culprit?
**[05:01] Toto**
What?
**[05:02] Toto**
I don't know! You're the one
who said it was someone here!
**[05:05] Ron**
What? So you haven't decided yet?
**[05:08] Ron**
Then I vote that it was a curse.
**[05:10] Toto**
You've gotta be kidding me.
**[05:12] Michiyo**
I saw something last night.
**[05:14] Michiyo**
I don't know about a curse,
but it certainly looked paranormal.
**[05:18] Toto**
What?
**[05:20] Michiyo**
After dinner, when I was going back
to my room, I looked out at the river.
**[05:25] Michiyo**
There was a strange
white mist rising from it.
**[05:28] Michiyo**
It was like some kind of spirit.
**[05:32] Toto**
A white mist?
**[05:33] Ron**
I found it, Toto!
**[05:35] Ron**
Look at the river!
**[05:36] Toto**
When'd you get over there?!
**[05:38] Toto**
You can see the mist?
**[05:39] Ron**
Of course not.
**[05:41] Ron**
Look!
**[05:42] Ron**
It's the ping-pong ball we lost last night.
**[05:44] Toto**
That was *your* fault!
**[05:45] Ron**
The heavy rain washed wood, leaves,
**[05:47] Ron**
and a gutter down the river.
**[05:49] Ron**
Add the ping-pong ball, and we've got a dam!
**[05:51] Toto**
Even if a beaver shows up now,
I want you to focus on the investigation!
**[05:56] Ron**
Is there anything we can use to get the ball?
**[05:58] Toto**
We can do that later!
**[06:01] Ron**
What's that?
**[06:02] Toto**
What?
**[06:03] Toto**
A bathmat?
**[06:04] Toto**
What's that doing out here?
**[06:06] Ron**
Think it could reach the ball?
**[06:08] Toto**
Enough about the ping-pong ball!
**[06:11] Amamiya**
Isshiki.
**[06:14] Toto**
*This is bad! She's pissed!*
**[06:17] Amamiya**
You really helped me out earlier.
**[06:20] Amamiya**
Thank y—
**[06:24] Toto**
*Her body physically refuses to thank me!*
**[06:28] Amamiya**
However, as long as any
lingering doubt remains,
**[06:31] Amamiya**
I cannot lead the investigation.
**[06:35] Amamiya**
I am entrusting this case to you.
**[06:41] Toto**
Y-You are?
**[06:44] Toto**
You can count on me!
**[06:45] Toto**
Amamiya-senpai, I won't let you do—
**[06:47] Amamiya**
Shut up!
**[06:47] Toto**
Huh?!
**[06:48] Amamiya**
I don't expect anything from you!
**[06:49] Amamiya**
You're just the only one here!
**[06:51] Toto**
Sorry I misunderstood!
**[06:53] Amamiya**
This all just so unbelievable.
**[06:55] Amamiya**
Starting yesterday, when I walked
into the wrong bath by accident...
**[06:59] Toto**
Yeah, that wasn't like you, Senpai.
**[07:04] Ron**
Amamiya-kun.
**[07:06] Amamiya**
Y-Yes?
**[07:08] Ron**
Excellent work.
**[07:09] Ron**
You weren't mistaken last night.
**[07:14] Amamiya**
S-Steaming hot...
**[07:17] Toto**
S-Steaming what?
**[07:18] Amamiya**
A superlatively steaming-hot hottie!
**[07:22] Toto**
You'd let *those* be your last words?!
**[07:28] hostess 2**
The police are here.
**[07:31] Ron**
Now then...
**[08:48] Ron**
Good job out there.
**[08:49] Toto**
Thanks.
**[08:50] Ron**
So, any new information?
**[08:53] Toto**
According to the medical exam,
the cause of death was heart failure.
**[08:56] Toto**
According to her husband,
she had a long-standing heart condition.
**[09:02] Toto**
She'd have fits where she needed
to be taken to the hospital.
**[09:08] Ron**
Did the coroner say anything else?
**[09:12] Spitz**
* Go on, Kamonohashi Ron! Say something*
* that proves you've been sleuthing!*
**[09:17] Toto**
There was also, let me think...
**[09:19] Ron**
Hey, there's a centipede on the wall.
**[09:24] Spitz**
M-My ears!
**[09:28] Toto**
There's no centipede there.
**[09:30] Ron**
Of course not. I wouldn't kill a bug.
**[09:33] Toto**
Huh? What are you talking about?
**[09:35] Toto**
You nearly gave me a heart attack.
**[09:37] Toto**
Oh, right.
**[09:38] Toto**
They said the temperature difference between
inside and outside caused the heart failure.
**[09:42] Toto**
It was thermal shock.
**[09:44] Ron**
I thought so.
**[09:45] Toto**
You did? You don't mean...
**[09:47] Ron**
Yes. All the pieces are in place.
**[09:50] Ron**
Detective Isshiki, you're up.
**[10:14] husband**
What's going on?
**[10:16] hostess**
Has something else happened?
**[10:18] hostess 2**
Or is this about the incident before?
**[10:21] Toto**
Yes. It's about the late missus.
**[10:25] Toto**
With the blessing of the local police,
**[10:27] Toto**
I will now solve this case.
**[10:30] Michiyo**
You will? So you're saying...
**[10:32] Toto**
This was a murder.
**[10:35] Toto**
And...
**[10:37] Toto**
the murderer is here with us now.
**[10:42] Toto**
The murderer had to have known
that the victim had a weak heart.
**[10:47] Toto**
It's you, isn't it?
**[10:49] Toto**
Her husband.
**[10:53] husband**
Wh-Why would I do that to my beloved wife?
**[10:56] husband**
It's true that I knew about her condition.
**[10:59] husband**
But of course I did. We're married.
There's nothing suspect about that, right?
**[11:03] husband**
Besides, at the time of her death,
I was with everyone else in the lounge.
**[11:09] Toto**
Indeed, you were with the rest
of us in the lounge.
**[11:14] Toto**
Specifically so you'd have an alibi.
**[11:18] Toto**
Behind the scenes, you'd set a bold trap
**[11:22] Toto**
to lure your wife to her death.
**[11:24] Amamiya**
A trap?
**[11:25] Toto**
Yes.
**[11:34] Toto**
He left a bathmat like this,
covering the entrance to the bath,
**[11:38] Toto**
to create a pitfall.
**[11:40] Amamiya**
Do you think we're stupid?
No one would fall for—
**[11:42] Toto**
You're right.
**[11:44] Toto**
Under normal conditions, anyone could
see through this trap quite easily.
**[11:48] Toto**
But without her glasses,
the missus had very poor vision.
**[11:52] Toto**
Isn't that right, sir?
**[11:59] Toto**
Given her eyesight, this was more
than enough to fool her.
**[12:05] Toto**
This trap made her fall into the bath,
**[12:10] Toto**
from whence she would never return.
**[12:15] Michiyo**
But she died of thermal shock, right?
**[12:17] Michiyo**
Is falling into bathwater
really enough to stop a heart?
**[12:20] Toto**
Well, it's hard to imagine
under normal circumstances.
**[12:23] Toto**
But what if the bath wasn't
filled with warm water?
**[12:27] Toto**
What if it was freezing cold?
**[12:30] Michiyo**
What?
**[12:30] Spitz**
Freezing water?
**[12:32] Amamiya**
This is a free-flowing hot spring!
**[12:33] Toto**
Ron.
**[12:34] Ron**
Okay.
**[12:46] Toto**
We found this discarded in the river.
This is how it was done.
**[12:51] Amamiya**
A rain gutter?
**[12:53] Toto**
Her husband knew there was an elevation
difference between the river and the bath.
**[12:57] Toto**
He made clever use of that.
**[12:59] Toto**
He used two rain gutters. One drew
water from upstream into the bath.
**[13:04] Toto**
Then, by drawing the hot water
from the bath into the river,
**[13:06] Toto**
he was able to create a freezing-cold spring.
**[13:09] Michiyo**
Then the white mist I saw last night was...
**[13:12] Toto**
That's right.
**[13:13] Toto**
It wasn't a paranormal phenomenon.
**[13:16] Toto**
It was steam from the hot bathwater
hitting the cold river.
**[13:22] Toto**
There was just one hitch.
**[13:25] Toto**
All those fallen leaves in the river
from the heavy rains two days ago
**[13:30] Toto**
ended up in the hot spring.
**[13:33] Toto**
He couldn't pick out each and every one.
**[13:36] Toto**
So he decided to make use
of the hidden legend.
**[13:40] Toto**
He gathered up even more fallen leaves
**[13:42] Toto**
and tried to make it look like
the curse of the sacrificed woman,
**[13:46] Toto**
all to cover his tracks.
**[13:50] husband**
That's enough! This is the women's bath!
**[13:53] husband**
A man couldn't sneak in here
long enough to set all that up!
**[13:56] Toto**
If you knew no one would be coming,
that wouldn't be a problem.
**[14:00] Toto**
At dinner, you overheard
that we'd be playing ping-pong,
**[14:04] Toto**
so you knew no one would be
in the men's bath for a while.
***SIGN*** Men
**[14:08] Toto**
Then, by swapping the curtains
marking the men's and women's baths,
***SIGN*** Women
**[14:13] Toto**
you sent the ladies to the men's bath,
**[14:15] Toto**
ensuring you'd have
the women's bath to yourself.
**[14:17] Amamiya**
Then the reason I went into the wrong one
**[14:20] Amamiya**
is because the signs had been swapped?
**[14:23] Toto**
That's right.
**[14:25] Toto**
Our ping-pong game ended
much more quickly than he expected.
**[14:31] Toto**
So we went for a bath before
he could swap the curtains back,
**[14:34] Toto**
and you walked in on us, Senpai.
**[14:37] husband**
D-Do you have evidence of—
**[14:39] Toto**
If we test the curtain rods,
we should still find
**[14:42] Toto**
your fingerprints, which
have no reason to be there.
**[14:46] Toto**
You should have only
been using the men's bath.
**[14:49] Toto**
So why would your prints be
on the women's curtain rod?
**[14:52] Toto**
Can you explain that?
**[14:56] husband**
That's...
**[15:00] husband**
Checkmate.
**[15:03] Toto**
I got it all out.
**[15:07] husband**
Michiyo, I failed.
**[15:11] Michiyo**
You can't be serious! You really killed her?
**[15:15] husband**
But it was for you, Michiyo!
**[15:17] Michiyo**
What?! It's got nothing to do with me!
**[15:19] husband**
Don't say that!
**[15:20] husband**
You always said that she was in our way!
**[15:23] Michiyo**
I may have said,
"If only your wife wasn't around!"
**[15:25] Michiyo**
But no one told you to go this far!
**[15:27] Amamiya**
You lowlife.
To kill your wife over an affair...
**[15:32] husband**
Michiyo!
**[15:34] Michiyo**
Let go of me!
**[15:34] husband**
Don't abandon me, Michiyo!
**[15:35] Toto**
What were you thinking?
**[15:36] Toto**
You took your wife's life!
**[16:05] Toto**
Where's Ron?
**[16:09] Toto**
Huh? What's going on?!
**[16:14] Toto**
Ron? Ron!
**[16:17] Spitz**
Over here, Isshiki Totomaru.
**[16:19] Toto**
Huh?
**[16:21] Spitz**
This conversation will go faster
with you here.
**[16:24] Toto**
You're from the inn.
**[16:26] Spitz**
And it looks like he's just woken up.
**[16:32] Ron**
What did I do?
**[16:34] Ron**
I remember finding
a black sugar syrup spring...
**[16:36] Toto**
That was a dream!
**[16:40] Spitz**
Allow me to introduce myself.
**[16:42] Spitz**
I am BLUE's tracking instructor, Spitz Fire.
**[16:47] Toto**
BLUE, as in the detective training school?
**[16:49] Spitz**
I came to investigate whether
Kamonohashi Ron was acting as a detective.
**[16:53] Ron**
To think they've got *you*
for a tracking instructor...
**[16:56] Ron**
I spotted you all the way back at the
shopping arcade where we did the raffle.
**[17:00] Toto**
What?
**[17:01] Ron**
You saw, didn't you? I didn't do a thing.
**[17:04] Ron**
Detective Isshiki cracked this case.
**[17:07] Spitz**
Liar!
**[17:09] Spitz**
A fool like Isshiki,
who didn't even notice me,
**[17:12] Spitz**
couldn't possibly make
such brilliant deductions!
**[17:16] Toto**
*That was insightful, but it sure hurts.*
**[17:18] Ron**
What proof do you have?
**[17:19] Spitz**
I don't care about proof!
**[17:22] Spitz**
I know that those were your
deductions, Kamonohashi Ron!
**[17:25] Ron**
So you aren't just bad at your specialty,
shadowing and tailing,
**[17:29] Ron**
but you're also illogical.
I'm surprised you're an instructor at all.
**[17:33] Ron**
All that and this sham kidnapping...
**[17:35] Ron**
Are instructors just worse these days?
**[17:38] Toto**
Don't make him angry!
**[17:39] Spitz**
He's right. It'd be best not to anger me.
**[17:42] Spitz**
If you admit that you've been sleuthing,
**[17:45] Spitz**
I can ask for a lighter sentence.
**[17:48] Ron**
Do you have the authority do to that?
**[17:51] Ron**
If you were only here
to see if I'm sleuthing,
**[17:54] Ron**
you wouldn't need to disguise yourself
as a worker at the inn.
**[17:58] Ron**
But you went to the trouble of going
undercover and interacting with us.
**[18:03] Ron**
If you were just here to observe,
that would be truly irrational.
**[18:08] Ron**
Not only are you
exposing yourself to your target,
**[18:11] Ron**
there's always the possibility
that they might stymie you by fleeing.
**[18:15] Ron**
Given your earlier threat and your phrasing,
**[18:17] Ron**
plus your impatience,
I sense something else at play.
**[18:20] Ron**
And it's a personal matter.
**[18:23] Ron**
You either made a bet
with someone about me sleuthing,
**[18:26] Ron**
or you were threatened.
**[18:29] Ron**
Or, perhaps...
**[18:33] Ron**
you are in need of my abilities.
**[18:41] Spitz**
I am utterly defeated. I'm no match for you.
**[18:44] Spitz**
I guess I should have expected as much
from BLUE's most brilliant student.
**[18:48] Spitz**
I figured if I didn't do this,
you'd never accept a job from me.
**[18:51] Toto**
A job?
**[18:53] Ron**
I knew it.
**[18:54] Spitz**
Ron-kun! Please lend me your skills!
**[18:57] Toto**
What?
**[18:58] Spitz**
I don't have outstanding deductive reasoning,
**[19:01] Spitz**
so you might wonder why I honed my tracking
skills to become an instructor at BLUE.
**[19:05] Spitz**
It was all to find the best detective
to solve the mystery of my missing family.
**[19:10] Toto**
Your family is missing?
**[19:12] Spitz**
But even at BLUE,
I couldn't find the right detective.
**[19:16] Spitz**
When I asked, everyone said the same thing.
"Maybe Kamonohashi Ron could..."
**[19:20] Spitz**
Then came an order that afforded me
this chance to meet you.
**[19:25] Spitz**
And now I've confirmed that you're
the detective I've been seeking, Ron-kun!
**[19:30] Ron**
I refuse.
**[19:31] Spitz**
Why?!
**[19:32] Ron**
You're an instructor at BLUE, right?
Who'd believe you?
**[19:36] Ron**
I don't even know you.
**[19:38] Spitz**
A-Ah, yes. That's true.
**[19:40] Spitz**
I suppose I just feel close to you
after investigating you so thoroughly.
**[19:45] Spitz**
I'm a pretty good guy, though, you know?
**[19:47] Toto**
*Yeah. I'm sure he's a good, honest person.*
**[19:50] Spitz**
Okay!
**[19:51] Spitz**
I'm going to earn your trust!
**[19:53] Spitz**
I'll go tell my superiors
that you aren't doing detective work.
**[19:57] Ron**
You had better. Is that all?
**[19:59] Spitz**
Huh? Oh, and I'll help you with
your detective work, of course.
**[20:02] Ron**
I told you it's Detective Isshiki's work.
**[20:04] Spitz**
R-Right. I'll help Detective Isshiki.
**[20:08] Ron**
Is that all?
**[20:09] Toto**
Huh?
**[20:10] Spitz**
What? Um...
**[20:13] Spitz**
I wanted to wear it around the house, but...
**[20:16] Spitz**
Please take this happi coat!
**[20:17] Toto**
I didn't peg you for liking folksy stuff!
**[20:19] Ron**
It's too small for me.
**[20:20] Toto**
Come on now, Ron.
He doesn't seem like a bad guy.
**[20:24] Toto**
Why don't you just hear him out?
**[20:27] Spitz**
Tototo! I just knew you were the best!
**[20:30] Spitz**
You're not smart,
but you've got heart, Tototo!
**[20:32] Toto**
One too many "to"s.
**[20:34] Spitz**
That last bit when you exposed
the husband as the killer was good stuff.
**[20:41] Spitz**
I'll leave for today, but if you ever
need a tracker, just call me!
**[20:45] Spitz**
I'll show you that I can win your trust!
**[20:50] Toto**
Okay, his exit was
the biggest surprise of all!
**[20:53] Ron**
I hope he realizes no one actually agreed.
**[20:55] Toto**
So you're gonna turn him down?
**[20:57] Ron**
His skills would be helpful
in solving future mysteries,
**[21:01] Ron**
and I find his request intriguing.
**[21:04] Ron**
Still, as I can't completely trust him,
I had planned to refuse him.
**[21:08] Toto**
Past tense?
**[21:10] Ron**
If he betrays me, I'm done for.
**[21:13] Ron**
But since you say he's a good guy,
I'll wait and see.
**[21:16] Toto**
That's putting way too much on me!
**[21:17] Ron**
We just have to see
if he's trustworthy or not.
**[21:21] Toto**
Do you have a plan?
**[21:23] Ron**
Of course.
**[21:24] Ron**
I'll use him till he drops.
**[21:26] Toto**
There's that demonic side!
**[21:28] Toto**
*Although whatever he might say,*
**[21:30] Toto**
* I've never seen Ron abandon*
* someone who's in trouble.*
**[21:35] Toto**
Thanks for helping Amamiya-senpai
in this murder case.
**[21:44] Ron**
I merely fulfilled my duty.