# E9 - PIECE 09
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZEJ1N/piece-09)
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"New drug"
"(Developed by Omori Pharmaceuticals)
(The base drug for Plus)"
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"New drug"
"(Developed by Omori Pharmaceuticals)
(The base drug for Plus)"
Plus-0?
**[00:18] ---**
Its official name is Square.
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In the sample photo,
there were two tablets in one set.
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We can pretty much tell
from the reports Izumi gathered
**[00:29] ---**
that Square is what Plus was modeled after.
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Which means we can pretty
much say that it is the new drug
**[00:38] ---**
that Omori Pharmaceuticals was developing.
**[00:39] ---**
"New drug"
"(Developed by Omori Pharmaceuticals)
(The base drug for Plus)"
that Omori Pharmaceuticals was developing.
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If the data needed to create
Plus came from the Kujo Family...
**[00:46] ---**
Doesn't this mean we've
caught Kujo red-handed?
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I believe in Mr. Kujo.
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My mind won't change on that matter.
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Miss Izumi, knowing that fact,
**[00:58] ---**
would you still be able to take my hand?
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This is exactly why I asked
for your help, Mr. Miyase.
**[01:14] ---**
Very well. I will help you out.
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The brass is plotting something.
**[01:25] ---**
It also concerns me that
all the candidates for STAND
**[01:28] ---**
have some ties to the Anonymous Case.
**[01:32] ---**
I looked into why STAND
was created with Aoyama,
**[01:37] ---**
but we couldn't find anything.
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It feels like they're trying to hide something.
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I even gave you a fair warning,
**[01:50] ---**
but I guess you still want to poke
your nose where it doesn't belong.
**[02:02] ---**
So it was you who sent
me that message, Mr. Hattori.
**[02:06] ---**
"Received Message"
"Don't get involved any further
if you don't want to die"
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I thought I'd stopped you from getting involved,
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but I'd never thought you'd join forces with
one of the employees from the Kujo Family.
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And now, you've even looked into STAND.
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Honestly, you just don't listen.
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You want to know what STAND
is trying to do, right?
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Yes.
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I see.
**[02:37] ---**
In that case, you're going
to have to know more about
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the suspect involved in the Anonymous Case.
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Question time, Little Miss Narc.
**[02:48] ---**
What's the final destination
for justice that's gone too far?
**[02:52] ---**
Huh?
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"Stand My Heroes"
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Do we have an ID on her?
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Kumi Mochizuki, 22 years old.
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She's been staying at this
hotel for the past three days.
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Masayoshi, look...
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Over here.
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The victim had some track marks on her arm.
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--They're probably from drugs--
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--Yeah, probably from this.
--They're probably from drugs--
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Have forensics look at this.
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I'll contact the chief.
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Mr. Ida seems mad.
**[05:08] ---**
Well, this case involves drugs.
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Oh, so that's why.
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I heard he still can't let go of what
happened to the victim in that one incident.
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Once upon a time a certain
detective was in Investigation Section 1.
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His name was Masayoshi Ida.
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He resented cases involving drugs.
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"Seikari Hospital"
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"Sara Tsuzuki"
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Hey.
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Sorry I kept you waiting.
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It's fine.
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The case at the hotel's been closed
because we captured the suspect.
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We don't have any pressing matters.
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Closed, huh?
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You sure don't like letting go, do you?
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If there are people suffering, I want
to protect them if they're within my reach.
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That's my justice.
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We should get going.
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Ensuring there were no more victims from
drug-related crimes was Ida's lifelong ambition.
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Though he was from a different field,
another man shared his vision.
**[06:33] ---**
His name was Yuki Hibiya.
**[06:35] ---**
Hibiya was creating a new drug at the time.
**[06:40] ---**
It was something that'd
allow them to achieve their goal,
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so apparently, Ida was
personally supporting Hibiya.
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To me, those two looked like great friends.
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But then, it happened...
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Hello?
**[07:08] ---**
I killed him.
**[07:09] ---**
Huh? Masayoshi?
**[07:11] ---**
I killed Yu.
**[07:14] ---**
You said...
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You killed Yu?
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Sorry.
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Where are you right now?
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We had the same goal.
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Yeah, this... was a sacrifice for justice.
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Masayoshi!
**[07:42] ---**
Yu! Yu!
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Stay back.
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This corpse is pretty intense.
**[08:25] ---**
Why would anyone kill someone like this?
**[08:29] ---**
The unidentified victim has now
been identified as Yuki Hibiya.
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"Yuki Hibiya" "Masayoshi Ida"
**[08:34] ---**
"Yuki Hibiya" "Masayoshi Ida"
The suspect is Masayoshi Ida of the MPD.
**[08:36] ---**
"Yuki Hibiya" "Masayoshi Ida"
He's taken a hostage and is still on the run.
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This case is being kept
completely quiet to the media.
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Make sure you conduct
this investigation carefully.
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"A Strange Corpse Found
in a Building Being Constructed"
"The Victim Has Yet to be Identified"
**[09:02] ---**
So we've got no leads...
**[09:04] ---**
We need to settle this soon.
**[09:06] ---**
I'm worried about the kid
that got taken hostage.
**[09:08] ---**
Hey, this has to be some kind of mistake, right?
**[09:11] ---**
He'd never do something
like this without reason.
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Just don't.
**[09:17] ---**
"Yuki Hibiya" "Masayoshi Ida"
**[09:17] ---**
"Yuki Hibiya" "Masayoshi Ida"
There's been reports
that a man resembling Ida
**[09:19] ---**
"Yuki Hibiya" "Masayoshi Ida"
was spotted in a neighborhood in Kita Ward.
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"Yuki Hibiya" "Masayoshi Ida"
It appears that he's hiding out
in an empty house in that area.
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We're going to go capture him right now.
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You all have clearance to take your guns.
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Hiding out?
**[09:38] ---**
Hey, are you all right?
**[09:40] ---**
We've secured the hostage.
He appears to be unharmed.
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Where's our target?
**[09:44] ---**
Damn it! Where'd he go?!
**[09:55] ---**
Good work.
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Masayoshi...
**[10:13] ---**
How's the hostage?
**[10:14] ---**
He's just been taken into custody.
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I see. I'm surprised you found me here.
**[10:20] ---**
You may have made some mistakes,
**[10:22] ---**
but you wouldn't let that
information about you be leaked.
**[10:25] ---**
It was a decoy.
**[10:27] ---**
This was the only place
that the other investigators
**[10:30] ---**
probably never would've looked.
**[10:34] ---**
So that's why you tried to find a building
that could see her hospital room.
**[10:38] ---**
Good instincts.
**[10:40] ---**
No, you're the one who
read through my intentions.
**[10:43] ---**
It didn't matter where we met
as long as you could lure me out.
**[10:48] ---**
Oh?
**[10:50] ---**
You had plenty of time to go see her.
**[10:54] ---**
If there was a reason for you to stay here,
**[10:57] ---**
it'd be me.
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You're a junior that I'm proud of.
**[11:02] ---**
I'm sure I'm the last person
you want to hear this from, though.
**[11:06] ---**
Will you hear me out long
enough to finish a cigarette?
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I'll start from the beginning.
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As you know, Yu and I were trying
to rid the world of drug-related crimes.
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And to make that happen,
we were creating that new drug.
**[11:36] ---**
Square. A new drug for justice that
would help junkies out of their addictions.
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That was our dream.
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If it was completed, it would've
been the first step to lessening crimes
**[11:49] ---**
and victims from drug-related incidents.
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Yu was a genius for coming up with that.
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Of course, I supported him.
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Omori Pharmaceuticals
was going to produce the drug,
**[12:07] ---**
and I thought everything was going to go okay...
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But problems arose during the clinical tests
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and production of the drug was canceled.
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"2 Die in a Traffic Collision"
"Two Cars Involved in an Early Morning Crash"
and production of the drug was canceled.
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"No Sign of Braking Before Crash"
"The Driver Was Found Unconscious"
and production of the drug was canceled.
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Though it appears that the truth
behind that has been wiped clean.
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Yu secretly transferred the data
and continued his research
**[12:27] ---**
but then suddenly said he was quitting.
**[12:30] ---**
It was the day of that storm.
**[12:32] ---**
Why did he quit?
**[12:34] ---**
He said some bad people
had their eyes on him.
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He said he needed
to get rid of all of the data
**[12:41] ---**
before it fell into the wrong hands.
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He ran away. That was
the extent of his justice.
**[12:49] ---**
And that's why you killed him?
**[12:52] ---**
I told you. This was a sacrifice for justice.
**[12:57] ---**
Should a former detective
really say something like that?
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I know that the MPD is trying
to keep this under wraps,
**[13:06] ---**
but I at least wanted you to know the truth.
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Well, see ya.
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Hold it!
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Ida!
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Sorry about this.
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We haven't been able to find Ida ever since.
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The police have kept the existences
of Ida and Hibiya quiet to the public,
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and now, it's been 15 years.
**[13:54] ---**
That's the truth behind the case.
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Now that you've heard all of this,
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I'm sure you can figure out
the answer you've been looking for.
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That means...
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It's true that STAND was created
to solve unsolved crimes.
**[14:10] ---**
However, the reason that the top brass of
the MPD is prioritizing the Anonymous Case
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is to quietly take care of the fact
that one of their own was involved
**[14:20] ---**
and make it so it never happened.
**[14:22] ---**
That's their motive?
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It'd be a huge scandal if the public found out
**[14:27] ---**
that a detective was behind a heinous crime.
**[14:31] ---**
It doesn't happen often,
but this is pretty simple.
**[14:35] ---**
And you're leading STAND knowing all of this?
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Does that mean...
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Am I helping them with their coverup?
**[14:48] ---**
You're still naïve.
**[14:50] ---**
Regardless of what the brass wants done,
I have my own motive.
**[14:55] ---**
I'm going to capture Ida
and make him pay for his crimes.
**[14:58] ---**
And for that to happen, I don't mind
following some of the orders from above.
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At least for now.
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Is that your justice?
**[15:11] ---**
Why...
**[15:13] ---**
Why did you explain all of this
to an outsider like me?
**[15:16] ---**
Hm... I wonder why.
**[15:19] ---**
Is there something that I can do?
**[15:24] ---**
I want to get Makoto Tsuzuki to talk.
**[15:28] ---**
The reason we're somewhat forcefully
keeping him in our custody right now
**[15:34] ---**
is because he was deeply involved with Ida.
**[15:37] ---**
His younger sister, Sara Tsuzuki,
**[15:39] ---**
was a victim of an accident
caused by someone on drugs.
**[15:43] ---**
Ida was in charge of that case.
**[15:47] ---**
Even after the investigation was over,
Ida continued seeing the two brothers,
**[15:51] ---**
especially Makoto Tsuzuki, in private.
**[15:57] ---**
He should know things
about Ida we don't know,
**[16:01] ---**
and he might even know
where Ida is right now.
**[16:04] ---**
That's why you've kept him
in custody for so long?
**[16:07] ---**
But there's no guarantee that
Makoto has any information, is there?
**[16:12] ---**
He hasn't said a single thing
since being in custody.
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Not just about Ida, but anything in general.
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Do you really think someone who didn't
**[16:23] ---**
have any information
would keep quiet for that long?
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Makoto Tsuzuki is hiding something.
**[16:33] ---**
But despite trying several methods,
**[16:36] ---**
we haven't been able to
get anything out of him.
**[16:38] ---**
And so...
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Wait, is that what you want me to do?
**[16:43] ---**
I mean, this will help you
guys out, too, Little Miss Narc.
**[16:46] ---**
You're trying to find out
about Plus, aren't you?
**[16:50] ---**
Have you figured out the
base drug for that was Square,
**[16:54] ---**
which Hibiya was producing?
**[16:55] ---**
Um...
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If you knew that, it should
speed things up even more.
**[17:00] ---**
If we can get Makoto Tsuzuki to talk,
**[17:01] ---**
we'll be even closer to
solving the Anonymous Case.
**[17:04] ---**
And if that happens, you might be able
to get more information on Square.
**[17:09] ---**
What do you mean?
**[17:11] ---**
Ida had taken a portion of
the belongings that Hibiya left behind
**[17:15] ---**
and one of the items he took was a
flash drive from Omori Pharmaceuticals.
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It contains the research data on Square.
**[17:24] ---**
It's a special flash drive.
**[17:26] ---**
Anytime it was plugged into a computer,
**[17:28] ---**
the location where it was
plugged in would be revealed.
**[17:31] ---**
And a few years ago, we confirmed
a signal from that flash drive.
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The signal was from
the Kujo Family household.
**[17:40] ---**
What?
**[17:46] ---**
We followed up on that lead,
**[17:48] ---**
and we found out that someone had
seen Ida near the Kujo Family household
**[17:51] ---**
when the Anonymous Case happened.
**[17:54] ---**
So I figured the bad guys that
Hibiya mentioned is the Kujo Family.
**[18:00] ---**
But that's strange. Why would
the Kujo Family have that data?
**[18:04] ---**
Regardless, Plus was created from
the data that was on that flash drive
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and thought to be distributed
through Kujo's personal route.
**[18:14] ---**
What you want to do and
what STAND wants is connected.
**[18:19] ---**
I don't think it'd hurt
for us to work together.
**[18:25] ---**
It's true that this is all very enticing.
**[18:29] ---**
Though I'm not sure that I can be much help.
**[18:33] ---**
Look at you, being so modest.
**[18:35] ---**
Even after you managed
to tame our little Sosei.
**[18:38] ---**
Huh?
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Not to mention, it looks like
you've gained Revel's trust, too.
**[18:42] ---**
Especially Maki's.
**[18:43] ---**
Maki?
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I'm hoping you could do the same thing
and instantly get Makoto Tsuzuki to talk.
**[18:53] ---**
Instantly?
**[18:55] ---**
However...
**[18:57] ---**
Anything beyond this point
is extremely dangerous.
**[19:00] ---**
I can't take responsibility
if you actually end up dying.
**[19:04] ---**
Are you still prepared to do this?
**[19:08] ---**
As long as there are people suffering
from drugs, I want to save them.
**[19:13] ---**
Even if its just as far as my hands will reach.
**[19:16] ---**
I don't know if that's actually justice or not.
**[19:20] ---**
But if there's anything I can do
right now to save someone...
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...I'm definitely ready.
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I see. You're definitely not like them.
**[19:36] ---**
Very good.
**[19:39] ---**
Then I guess I'll make up my mind, too.
**[19:53] ---**
The final destination
for justice that's gone too far...
**[19:56] ---**
I wonder how Mr. Hattori felt dealing
with this case this whole time?
**[20:21] ---**
"Today"
"I figured out who was behind the threatening
message. Someone I know was playing
a terrible prank. Sorry for all the trouble!"
**[20:25] ---**
She's definitely hiding something.
**[20:28] ---**
Maybe.
**[20:30] ---**
"Today"
"I can't go into details, but I think
Mr. Hattori is going to help, too."
**[20:38] ---**
Hey, this is huge!
**[20:40] ---**
What's with all the ruckus?
**[20:41] ---**
I just ran into Mr. Hattori
**[20:43] ---**
and he said he was going to directly
negotiate with the upper brass.
**[20:46] ---**
Negotiate?
**[20:48] ---**
Is he finally going to go talk about
how badly these files are sorted?
**[20:53] ---**
No. He's going to have
Rei talk to Makoto Tsuzuki.
**[21:00] ---**
I see.
**[21:01] ---**
Huh? You're not surprised?
**[21:06] ---**
That just means he's
gotten serious about this.
**[21:12] ---**
What?
**[21:13] ---**
Mr. Hattori was threatening you?
**[21:16] ---**
Izumi, he didn't try anything weird, did he?
**[21:19] ---**
N-No, I'm fine.
I'm about to explain everything.
**[21:22] ---**
Izumi, I need to examine you.
Let's go right now!
**[21:25] ---**
Kotaro...
**[21:26] ---**
Is Rei okay? Looks like she's stuck
her head into something heavy.
**[21:32] ---**
I can't say that I'm not worried but...
**[21:34] ---**
But apparently Mr. Hattori's
going to support Izumi, too.
**[21:41] ---**
"You Hattori" "No Subject"
"I'm going to be involving your
newbie into our business. Thanks."
**[21:44] ---**
But to think the MPD had
something like that going on...
**[21:48] ---**
I think we're starting to see
what's really behind STAND.
**[21:54] ---**
STAND and Square...
**[21:57] ---**
The Anonymous Case.
**[21:58] ---**
All the separate pieces are
now starting to form a single shape.
**[22:04] ---**
There are only a few more
missing pieces in this puzzle.
**[22:09] ---**
That's how I felt.
**[22:12] ---**
But once all the pieces come together
**[22:17] ---**
the truth that will be revealed
might end up hurting him.