# E8 - Loneliness
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***SIGN*** Keita-kun
**[01:34] Erika**
Hello. Can you hear me?
**[01:37] Mikado**
*Yes, I can hear you.*
**[01:42] Mukae**
I'll protect you from here.
**[01:44] Mukae**
Come back safe.
**[01:46] Erika**
Okay, I'll call you over here now.
**[01:49] Mikado**
Understood.
**[01:55] Mikado**
Whoa! Teleportation!
**[01:57] Erika**
There they are.
**[01:59] Erika**
We can see you!
**[02:00] Erika**
Using Mukae-kun's barrier and mine,
**[02:02] Erika**
we can use our phones so that everyone can
hear both spirit voices and real voices.
**[02:07] Mukae**
Wow, yeah, I can hear you!
**[02:09] Hiyakawa**
What a flexible way of thinking.
**[02:11] Erika**
I get that a lot.
**[02:13] Sakaki**
I'm the only one who can't see anything.
Can't hear anything, either.
**[02:17] Erika**
That's always the case, though.
**[02:18] Erika**
Sakaki-san, you keep an eye on
Sensei's house in a physical sense.
**[02:21] Erika**
That's why we rented this room.
**[02:24] Erika**
No matter how vigilant Sensei might be,
**[02:27] Erika**
he must be hiding something in his house.
**[02:29] Erika**
If we're gonna search, then now's our
only chance, while he's away on business.
**[02:33] Erika**
That's the info this gorilla gave us.
**[02:35] Sakaki**
And I'm the only one left completely
outside the mosquito net.
**[02:38] Hiyakawa**
Well, shall we go inside?
**[02:40] Mukae**
If anything happens,
I'll call you right back.
**[02:43] Mikado**
Thanks.
**[02:58] Mikado**
It's really stark, but
it's just a regular house.
**[03:04] Sakaki**
Wai— Miss, please stop!
**[03:06] Erika**
Stop struggling!
**[03:12] Erika**
* I connected Sakaki-san*
* to the barrier network,*
**[03:15] Erika**
*since it's a pain having him outside.*
**[03:16] Mikado**
Huh?
**[03:17] Erika**
* Spiritually speaking,*
* he's a bit on the dense side,*
**[03:20] Erika**
* so I sort of had to shove*
* a giant antenna in him.*
**[03:22] Mukae**
That's insanely violent...
**[03:23] Sakaki**
*You can't be serious... You can't be serious!*
**[03:26] Mikado**
Um, then... can you hear me?
**[03:29] Sakaki**
* Thanks to a certain someone.*
* Damn it, what is this? It's creepy.*
**[03:33] Mikado**
We just need to find a
weakness of Sensei's, right?
**[03:37] Sakaki**
Yeah.
**[03:38] Sakaki**
Info that would shake up the
research society will work, too.
**[03:41] Erika**
The most important thing
is to find Sensei's name.
**[03:44] Mikado**
Yeah. We'll just try looking around for now.
**[03:47] Mikado**
Right. Hiyakawa-san, will you...
**[03:49] Hiyakawa**
Mikado-kun!
**[03:51] Mukae**
Wh-What is it?
**[03:52] Mukae**
*What's wrong?!*
**[03:54] Hiyakawa**
It's...
**[03:55] Hiyakawa**
It's a pile of money!
**[03:57] Hiyakawa**
There's a huge pile of money!
**[03:59] Sakaki**
*Oh, it's probably remuneration for his work.*
**[04:02] Sakaki**
*He worships money.*
**[04:03] Mukae**
Hey, Hiyakawa! Your body's
twitching and writhing!
**[04:05] Hiyakawa**
*If... If my physical body were here
right now, I could carry this away!*
**[04:15] Mikado**
The bedroom? Did something
grab your attention?
**[04:18] Hiyakawa**
No. It isn't what's right
here that bothers me.
**[04:22] Mikado**
Huh? Then what is it?
**[04:25] Hiyakawa**
I don't know.
**[04:27] Hiyakawa**
It just... feels strangely nostalgic somehow.
**[04:31] Mikado**
Nostalgic?
**[04:33] Mukae**
*Whoa!*
**[04:34] Mukae**
That's a shock. That house is built
over the place where you used to be...
**[04:39] Mukae**
*The Palm of the Hand Research Society.*
**[04:45] Mikado**
This place?
**[04:46] Sakaki**
That means either Sensei or our syndicate
**[04:49] Sakaki**
must've bought the land and built the house.
**[04:52] Erika**
It's a place where lots of people died, right?
**[04:55] Erika**
Sensei might be making use of
something that's still there.
**[05:00] Mikado**
Hey, don't you think it'd be better
if we called this off for today?
**[05:04] Mikado**
Or at least send Hiyakawa-san
back or something.
**[05:06] Hiyakawa**
Why?
**[05:08] Mikado**
Why?
**[05:10] Mikado**
You might remember
something you don't want to.
**[05:12] Hiyakawa**
I won't "remember." I never forgot.
**[05:16] Mikado**
Huh?
**[05:16] Hiyakawa**
I'm all right.
**[05:29] Hiyakawa**
Before, there was a staircase
as soon as you entered.
**[05:33] Mikado**
Huh?
**[05:35] Hiyakawa**
Upstairs was a dining hall.
Downstairs was a room with no windows.
**[05:39] Hiyakawa**
I was downstairs.
**[05:41] Hiyakawa**
There was a hallway down there.
**[05:43] Hiyakawa**
I can count the number of times
I passed through it, they were so few.
**[05:47] Hiyakawa**
I wonder where my room was.
**[05:51] Hiyakawa**
Do you think there's somewhere in this
house that connects to the basement?
**[05:55] Mikado**
Huh?
**[05:56] Mikado**
P-Probably not. From what we've seen,
it looks like a normal house.
**[06:00] Mikado**
I really think that today—
**[06:02] Hiyakawa**
I left something in my room.
**[06:04] Mikado**
Huh?
**[06:05] Hiyakawa**
It belonged to my mother...
**[06:08] Hiyakawa**
To the person who used to be my mother.
**[06:11] Hiyakawa**
I wanted to lock it up
there so it would be safe.
**[06:16] Hiyakawa**
But then I left and never came back.
**[06:20] Hiyakawa**
This nostalgic feeling... Maybe it's
because it's still here somewhere.
**[06:27] Mikado**
All right.
**[06:29] Mikado**
We'll include it in our search,
**[06:31] Mikado**
but I decide when we pull out, all right?
**[06:33] Hiyakawa**
All right.
**[06:34] Mukae**
Sentimental stuff is his weakness.
**[06:36] Sakaki**
Serious weakness.
**[06:37] Erika**
Definitely.
**[06:37] Mikado**
Shut up! I get it!
**[06:41] Mikado**
Still... We're supposed to be searching,
**[06:44] Mikado**
but this place is beyond "not very
lived in." It just looks vacant.
**[06:47] Mukae**
*Vacant?*
**[06:48] Mikado**
Like, there's dust all over
the curtains and stuff.
**[06:51] Mikado**
It's like the room of someone
who's lost all their willpower.
**[06:54] Erika**
Willpower...
**[06:55] Sakaki**
Well, he does seem desperate about something.
**[06:57] Sakaki**
Hey, try checking the kitchen.
**[06:59] Mikado**
The kitchen?
**[07:01] Sakaki**
* A lot of people hide bankbooks*
* and stuff in the refrigerator.*
**[07:04] Sakaki**
* Sneak thieves and debt collectors*
* always look there first.*
**[07:06] Hiyakawa**
The refrigerator?
**[07:08] Sakaki**
And it so happens we can see it from here.
**[07:10] Mikado**
*R-Really?*
**[07:12] Sakaki**
Yeah. North side.
**[07:15] Hiyakawa**
The refrigerator...
**[07:17] Sakaki**
Well?
**[07:20] Mikado**
It's got nothing but bread and beer in it.
**[07:22] Mikado**
There's really nothing here.
**[07:27] Hiyakawa**
Impurity.
**[07:32] Mikado**
What is that? It's got the same
presence as those savings boxes!
**[07:36] Hiyakawa**
Impurity... No.
**[07:38] Erika**
Something Sensei's been saving up?
**[07:40] Hiyakawa**
Let's break it.
**[07:42] Mikado**
Wait!
**[07:43] Mikado**
He might be able to figure
something out from the traces.
**[07:46] Hiyakawa**
But we can't just leave it.
**[07:49] Mikado**
We might be able to do it cleanly.
**[07:51] Hiyakawa**
Huh?
**[07:53] Mikado**
I don't really understand,
but I feel like I can do it.
**[07:58] Hiyakawa**
You?
**[08:11] Mikado**
A storage area under the floor?
**[08:14] Hiyakawa**
A basement.
**[08:23] Hiyakawa**
It seems like there'd be something here.
**[08:26] Hiyakawa**
Inside...
**[08:35] Mikado**
What is that?
**[08:35] Mukae**
Hey!
**[08:36] Mukae**
What's wrong? Are you okay?
**[08:38] Erika**
What is it? We can't see anything from here!
**[08:41] Erika**
Kousuke-kun!
**[08:43] Erika**
Rihito-kun!
**[08:49] ---**
Wh...
**[08:51] sensei**
Who's there?!
**[08:53] sensei**
Who's there?
**[08:55] sensei**
Who are you?
**[08:57] sensei**
Who?!
**[09:00] sensei**
Who... are you?
**[09:08] sensei**
Who...
**[09:12] sensei**
Who...
**[09:20] sensei**
Who...
**[09:21] Mikado**
*Bring us back! Now!*
**[09:26] Mukae**
Hey, are you okay?
**[09:28] Erika**
*What happened?*
**[09:30] Hiyakawa**
Mikado-kun.
**[09:32] Hiyakawa**
You tried to purify it just now, didn't you?
**[09:35] Mikado**
Huh? Well, it never would've worked though...
**[09:38] Hiyakawa**
That's a problem.
**[09:41] Hiyakawa**
If you erase mine, that's a problem.
**[09:43] Hiyakawa**
If you do that, I probably won't
be able to break things anymore.
**[09:48] Mikado**
Huh?
**[09:58] Hanzawa**
So you guys haven't done
any housebreaking, right?
**[10:01] Mikado**
Uh... We haven't, in a physical sense.
**[10:04] Mukae**
You're seriously a really
good guy, Detective.
**[10:06] Hanzawa**
Huh?
**[10:08] Mikado**
Yeah, he is.
**[10:09] Mukae**
I mean, you're worried about us!
**[10:11] Hanzawa**
You're looking down on me, aren't you?
**[10:13] Mukae**
I am not!
**[10:15] Hanzawa**
Guys, I know how you feel,
but don't get impatient.
**[10:19] Hanzawa**
We don't have any info that'll let us
go sound out the research society,
**[10:22] Hanzawa**
but we are searching.
**[10:23] Mikado**
Yes, sir.
**[10:25] Mikado**
Um, Hiyakawa-san was—
**[10:27] Hanzawa**
Don't let Hiyakawa swallow you up.
**[10:28] Mikado**
Huh?
**[10:29] Hanzawa**
The life he's had to lead has been fierce.
**[10:33] Hanzawa**
Don't let it suck you in.
**[10:35] Hanzawa**
He probably can't ever be
a place for you to return to,
**[10:40] Hanzawa**
because he doesn't have
anywhere to return to himself.
**[10:49] Hanzawa**
Don't get swallowed up by that loneliness.
**[10:55] Mukae**
You know, a place to return to...
**[10:57] Mikado**
Huh?
**[10:58] Mukae**
A place to return to...
I think about it a lot, too.
**[11:02] Mikado**
Oh... Yeah?
**[11:04] Mukae**
I don't see them very often,
**[11:07] Mukae**
but I've got friends, or at least acquaintances.
**[11:10] Mukae**
They're the types that
neither harm nor heal,
**[11:13] Mukae**
but hanging out with them...
that's the place I return to.
**[11:18] Mukae**
The fact that they neither
harm nor heal is important.
**[11:20] Mukae**
They make me feel like
maybe I'm not that weird.
**[11:24] Mukae**
If you're not "special,"
that means they've let you in.
**[11:29] Mikado**
Let you in?
**[11:31] Mukae**
Hiura-san... and probably Sakaki-san, too...
**[11:35] Mukae**
They'll be able to start looking
after they've run away.
**[11:37] Mikado**
Huh?
**[11:38] Mukae**
For that kind of "place to return to."
**[11:41] Mukae**
You've got one too, right?
A place you can return to.
**[11:49] (Flashback) Mikado's mom**
Kousuke.
**[11:55] Mikado**
Yeah. But I'm not sure if
I should be there or not.
**[11:59] Mukae**
It's fine, you moron!
After all, you're a good kid!
**[12:02] Mikado**
What do you mean, "a good kid"?
**[12:09] Mikado**
*A place to return to...*
**[12:12] Mikado**
* The fact that I've had one*
* from the very beginning*
**[12:15] Mikado**
*probably meant that I was very fortunate.*
**[12:18] Mikado**
*I think it would be ideal*
**[12:21] Mikado**
* if everyone unconditionally*
* received that same fortune.*
**[12:25] Hiyakawa**
Mikado-kun.
**[12:27] Hiyakawa**
Why do you...
**[12:30] Hiyakawa**
Why do you worry about me?
**[12:33] Mikado**
Why?
**[12:40] (Flashback) Hanzawa**
That's because he doesn't
have anywhere to return to.
**[12:47] Mikado**
Do you...
**[12:49] Hiyakawa**
Huh? What?
**[12:50] Mikado**
Do you have things that are precious
to you, or someone you want to be with,
**[12:55] Mikado**
or things you don't want
to forget... anything like that?
**[12:59] Hiyakawa**
Yes. You.
**[13:03] Mikado**
What? I don't understand what you're saying!
**[13:08] Hiyakawa**
You don't understand?
**[13:09] Mikado**
No, you don't have to explain!
**[13:11] Mikado**
I-It's sort of still too soon...
**[13:13] Hiyakawa**
Too soon?
**[13:14] Mikado**
Just... I know you probably mean it in
a paranormal, or like, a work-type way!
**[13:18] Mikado**
Even so...
**[13:20] Mikado**
I'm still... How do I put this?
**[13:23] Mikado**
I still... can't quite accept it.
**[13:28] Mikado**
It's... I, um...
**[13:30] Hiyakawa**
You are such a mystery.
**[13:33] Hiyakawa**
Extremely so.
**[13:35] Mikado**
I'm just normal.
**[13:36] Hiyakawa**
You are a mystery.
**[13:38] Mikado**
Is that so?
**[13:39] Hiyakawa**
Yes.
**[13:42] Hiyakawa**
Quite a mystery.
**[13:45] Hiyakawa**
My destiny.
**[13:51] assembly member**
We are in a state wherein people
blatantly overlook corruption.
***SIGN*** For a Hopeful Future
***SIGN*** Community Development
**[13:56] assembly member**
Should we be entrusting such
a government with our daily lives?
**[14:02] assembly member**
I will thoroughly pursue the hub
of the injustice in our government,
***SIGN*** For a Hopeful Future
***SIGN*** Community Development
**[14:06] sensei**
To have others wishing you dead...
**[14:08] assembly member**
and for the sake of change,
**[14:09] sensei**
How does that feel, I wonder?
**[14:09] assembly member**
I will exert every effort...
**[14:15] assembly member**
And that is why I—
***SIGN*** For a Hopeful Future
***SIGN*** Community Development
**[14:20] crowd**
Someone call for an ambulance!
***SIGN*** For a Hopeful Future
***SIGN*** Community Development
**[14:22] crowd**
What's going on?
**[14:23] crowd**
Someone's collapsed!
**[14:24] crowd**
That's not a person, is it?
**[14:30] secretary**
Sensei?
**[14:31] secretary**
Sensei.
**[14:35] secretary**
After you use your power, you always
become as defenseless as a child.
**[14:45] secretary**
Sensei, earlier you were speaking
about "her." May I hear more?
**[14:52] Sensei**
Her?
**[14:56] sensei**
Her... I wonder where she went.
**[15:06] sensei**
She would often wear a light blue cardigan.
**[15:12] sensei**
She was so kind.
**[15:15] sensei**
Her eyes were kind. They were a
little pale in color, and so kind.
**[15:22] sensei**
That's right. She's a civil servant.
**[15:25] sensei**
Her name... What was it?
**[15:28] sensei**
She had a beauty mark on her back.
**[15:31] sensei**
Her name was... Her name...
**[15:33] secretary**
Yes.
**[15:36] sensei**
You're quite skillful at trying
to get that information out of me.
**[15:39] sensei**
But no matter what you ask, and no
matter what you might be planning...
**[15:43] sensei**
No matter how corroded I may become...
**[15:46] sensei**
You're just going to forget anyway.
**[15:50] sensei**
I will not allow anyone to curse me.
**[15:54] sensei**
No one.
**[16:00] Erika's dad**
Sensei! What a pleasure it is to see you!
**[16:04] Erika's dad**
I've just met with the client's secretary
and received remuneration.
**[16:07] Erika's dad**
You truly live up to your reputation.
**[16:10] secretary**
Hiura-san, Sensei is tired.
**[16:13] Erika's dad**
Oh, of course. I'm sorry.
**[16:16] sensei**
Where is she?
**[16:17] Erika's dad**
Huh? "She"?
**[16:19] secretary**
Oh, yes. I heard quite a bit just now.
**[16:23] secretary**
She is... Well... She's, um...
**[16:28] secretary**
Huh?
**[16:29] Erika's dad**
Oh, Sensei.
**[16:31] Erika's dad**
I actually wanted to speak with you
about something regarding my daughter.
**[16:35] sensei**
Daughter?
**[16:36] Erika's dad**
Yes. Erika also has powers,
though they pale in comparison,
**[16:40] Erika's dad**
but she's just so rebellious...
**[16:45] secretary**
Hiura-san, Sensei is tired!
**[16:48] Erika's dad**
She should think things through
more thoroughly, like you do,
**[16:52] Erika's dad**
but it seems she just
isn't self-aware enough.
**[16:54] Erika's dad**
As I've also received help from you,
I was wondering how I should school Erika.
**[16:59] sensei**
You are an empty space.
**[17:02] Erika's dad**
Huh?
**[17:04] sensei**
You are vacant and foolish.
**[17:06] sensei**
Even more than I am.
**[17:09] Erika's dad**
Pardon?
**[17:10] sensei**
Why did you start a family
when you can't love them?
**[17:13] sensei**
I think that, too.
**[17:15] sensei**
I hate her.
**[17:16] Erika's dad**
I see...
**[17:17] sensei**
No, that's a lie. I love her.
**[17:19] sensei**
Even though she didn't
keep her love just for me?
**[17:22] sensei**
She's the bad one.
**[17:24] sensei**
No, I just wanted her safe.
**[17:27] sensei**
That's why I forgot.
**[17:29] sensei**
Because I hate her more than anything.
**[17:32] sensei**
No, that's wrong. It's the child.
**[17:39] sensei**
It's the child!
**[17:47] sensei**
Haven't you ever thought,
**[17:50] sensei**
"I should have just killed the child"?
**[18:05] ---**
Huh?
**[18:06] sensei**
Hey, Hiura-kun?
**[18:09] sensei**
Matsui-kun?
**[18:11] sensei**
Did you leave?
**[18:13] sensei**
Jeez, leaving without saying a word...
**[18:18] sensei**
Man... I'm hungry.
**[18:26] sensei**
That's strange.
**[18:27] sensei**
Is it her? I-It smells like her!
**[18:31] sensei**
Th-That's not possible!
**[18:33] sensei**
I barred her!
**[18:35] sensei**
So that I wouldn't ever remember her...
**[18:38] sensei**
That's right. I banned her!
**[18:40] sensei**
More than remembering and being
sad... More than forgiving her...
**[18:47] sensei**
Why?
**[18:48] sensei**
Why? Why did you abandon me?
**[18:51] sensei**
You should have loved me
more than anyone, but you...
**[18:55] sensei**
You didn't!
**[18:56] sensei**
You abandoned me! You didn't choose me!
**[19:00] sensei**
You... Damn it, what was her name?
**[19:04] sensei**
If I ever remember it, I will curse her!
**[19:07] sensei**
I will!
**[19:14] Mikado's mom**
What's wrong?
**[19:27] sensei**
I'm hungry.
**[19:30] sensei**
Did Matsui-kun and Hiura-kun leave already?
**[19:34] sensei**
Without saying a word to me...
**[19:43] sensei**
Did someone get inside this house?
**[19:53] Erika's mom**
Erika!
**[19:56] Erika's mom**
Um... Do you know where your father is?
**[19:58] Erika**
Huh? Of course I don't know. How could I?
**[20:01] Erika's mom**
He hasn't been home for three days!
**[20:03] Erika's mom**
I wondered if something happened...
**[20:05] Erika**
What about it?
**[20:07] Sakaki**
We haven't seen him. Could he
be in his office at headquarters?
**[20:13] Erika's mom**
Oh... Oh, right!
**[20:15] Erika's mom**
Thank you.
**[20:16] Erika**
Let's go already.
**[20:17] Erika's mom**
Erika...
**[20:29] Sakaki**
You could just listen to what she has to say.
**[20:34] Erika**
No one asked you.
**[20:35] Sakaki**
You're really planning on going?
**[20:37] Erika**
Of course! If my father isn't here,
then this is our chance!
**[20:41] Sakaki**
That detective made it seem so easy to
ask us for something so troublesome.
**[20:45] Erika**
It wasn't easy.
**[20:47] Erika**
Hanzawa-san said he understood
that it was dangerous.
**[20:50] Sakaki**
Still, telling us to go steal the research
society's accounting books... Damn.
**[20:54] Erika**
Whatever. Let's just go.
**[20:57] Erika**
This is so we can run away.
***SIGN*** Teachings of the Hand Research Society
***SIGN*** Have you truly looked at yourself?
**[21:15] Erika**
There's nothing that seems like it might be it.
**[21:17] Sakaki**
There isn't. Which means... maybe the safe?
**[21:21] Erika**
You can't open it with superhuman strength?
**[21:22] Sakaki**
Not possible. You can't use
spirit sense to open it?
**[21:25] Erika**
Not possible.
**[21:27] Erika**
What number is that?
**[21:29] Sakaki**
Your birthday, Miss.
**[21:31] Erika**
What?
**[21:34] Erika's mom**
Erika.
**[21:35] Erika**
Huh?
**[21:36] Erika**
What? Why are you here?
**[21:38] Erika's mom**
It's not what you think. You two are—
**[21:41] Sakaki**
Quiet, please.
**[21:42] Sakaki**
Are you alone?
**[21:44] Erika's mom**
What? Y-Yes...
**[21:46] Sakaki**
I am the young miss's bodyguard,
**[21:48] Sakaki**
so I will force a way through if I have to.
**[21:51] Sakaki**
But, Madam, you...
**[21:55] sensei**
What's this?
**[21:57] sensei**
What's the whole family doing here?
**[22:00] sensei**
No, you aren't all here.
**[22:04] sensei**
And it's because you aren't
all here... that you've come.