Season 1
- E1 - A Pleasant Occupation
- E2 - A Red-light District Woman
- E3 - Casual Remarks
- E4 - Strange Stories of the High Tower
- E5 - Accursed Beast
- E6 - Honeysuckle
- E7 - Gentleman Thief
- E8 - Young Man
- E9 - Events Fulfilled
- E10 - Over Many Mountains and Rivers
- E11 - The Hour of Demons
- E12 - Pale Blue Skies
E1 - A Pleasant Occupation
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[00:09] Older Kyousuke
It's been ten years since
my best friend died.
[00:13] Older Kyousuke
My dashing friend.
[00:15] Older Kyousuke
My lying, mischievous friend.
[00:18] Older Kyousuke
My quick-to-cry, steadfast in
fellowship, self-satisfied friend.
[00:31] Older Kyousuke
A chatterbox and a show-off...
[00:33] Older Kyousuke
he drank and loved women...
[00:35] Older Kyousuke
A romantic sadist...
[00:37] Older Kyousuke
A poet who could see farther than anyone... and...
[00:42] Older Kyousuke
a genius of tanka poetry. My friend.
[00:45] Older Kyousuke
Even now, shades of him
as he was linger in my heart.
[00:51] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san?
[00:53] Kyousuke
Yes?
[00:55] Takuboku
It's me.
[00:59] Kyousuke
What's wrong?
[01:00] Takuboku
It's just... I ran out of cigarettes.
[01:03] Kyousuke
Oh. I've got some extra.
[01:05] Takuboku
That's a relief.
[01:07] Takuboku
Sorry I keep bothering you like this...
SIGN Ten Odd Years Ago
[01:10] Kyousuke
Right. Here you go.
[01:11] Takuboku
Wait, I can just take two or three...
[01:14] Kyousuke
Don't worry about it.
[01:15] Kyousuke
I was thinking of quitting, anyway.
[01:18] Kyousuke
Here. You can take these, too.
[01:22] Kyousuke
Have you gotten used to things here?
[01:24] Kyousuke
It's a lot different than Kushiro, isn't it?
[01:27] Takuboku
This is the third time I've come
to Tokyo and I'm still a mess.
[01:30] Takuboku
I'm truly ashamed.
[01:32] Kyousuke
Please, stop treating me
like I'm a stranger.
[01:34] Kyousuke
We're friends from the same
hometown, aren't we?
[01:43] Takuboku
Isn't this Heine's Buch Der Lieder?
[01:47] Takuboku
It must have been really expensive.
[01:50] Kyousuke
I know I should give it up, but...
[01:52] Kyousuke
I still don't want to leave
the world of literature.
[01:56] Kyousuke
Still... It isn't as though
I have any talent of my own.
[01:59] Kyousuke
I'll probably continue on as a teacher
and earn a living that way.
[02:04] Kyousuke
In exchange, Ishikawa-kun,
you have true, undeniable talent,
[02:09] Kyousuke
and, if you don't mind, I hope
you'll allow me to cheer you on.
[02:21] Takuboku
"If there were a pleasant occupation
[02:22] Takuboku
I could work at wholeheartedly, then
[02:26] Takuboku
when it was finished, I could happily die."
[02:31] Takuboku
Thank you, Kyousuke-san.
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN Poem 1
A Pleasant Occupation
[04:08] Takuboku
I really let you treat me to a feast.
[04:11] Kyousuke
Yes. Tonight has been really fun, hasn't it?
[04:14] Takuboku
Should we walk off some of this alcohol
by going up to the 12th floor?
[04:17] Kyousuke
What? But, Ishikawa-kun, that way's the...
[04:19] Takuboku
It'll be fine.
SIGN Jusshun
SIGN Nakamura
SIGN Gantsuki
SIGN Kohachi
SIGN Ogawa
[04:32] woman
Oh, you silly, stop it...
[04:33] man
Come on, Sayaka, just a little...
[04:34] Takuboku
"Let me touch your hair, just a little...
an encounter at a teahouse." Right?
[04:39] Takuboku
I'm sure that even now,
[04:40] Takuboku
men and women in secretive relationships
[04:42] Takuboku
are inside getting along very nicely.
[04:44] Kyousuke
Right...
[04:45] Takuboku
Look.
[04:46] Takuboku
This one seems like a good one, doesn't it?
[04:49] Takuboku
What do you think?
[04:50] Kyousuke
Wha—Stop that!
[04:51] Takuboku
Whoops!
[04:54] Takuboku
Honestly.
[04:56] Takuboku
It's been 40 years since Westernization.
[04:58] Takuboku
We're supposed to be a first-class
power, and he's... Huh?
[05:04] Kyousuke
Is something wrong?
[05:05] Kyousuke
H-Hey!
[05:06] Kyousuke
I-I'm not going in there, understand?
[05:11] woman
Excuse me...
[05:12] Takuboku
I just left something behind.
[05:14] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[05:17] Kyousuke
Um... Ishikawa-kun?
[05:21] Kyousuke
What are you... Oh...
[05:29] man
You got a problem or somethin'?
[05:32] Kyousuke
Will you stop this already?
[05:37] Kyousuke
Huh?
[05:51] woman
Yes. He just burst in...
[05:54] Ooyama
Are you acquainted with the murdered man?
[05:56] Kyousuke
Not at all! We just
happened to be passing...
[05:59] Ooyama
Don't lie.
[06:00] Ooyama
We have many witnesses stating they saw
you going around peeking into all the rooms.
[06:06] Ooyama
You had a reason you were looking
for this man. Isn't that so?
[06:09] Ooyama
Perhaps you were blinded
by jealousy, for example?
[06:11] Kyousuke
W-Wait, just a moment, please.
[06:13] Kyousuke
You're talking like we're suspects...
[06:15] Takuboku
Now, now, Kyousuke-san.
[06:17] Takuboku
It's standard practice in an investigation
to doubt the people they encounter.
[06:21] Takuboku
I'm a poet, Ishikawa Takuboku.
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
[06:27] Takuboku
As you can see, on the tatami near the body,
[06:29] Takuboku
there are traces of blood being
dragged across the surface.
[06:32] Takuboku
They were probably left when the murderer
tried to wipe blood off their hands.
[06:36] Takuboku
Meaning that the murderer's hands
were covered in a lot of blood.
[06:40] Takuboku
Now, look at this.
[06:41] Takuboku
Even if I'd wiped the blood
off the palms of my hands,
[06:44] Takuboku
blood under my fingernails wouldn't
have been wiped away so easily.
[06:48] Takuboku
And, if I could just say...
[06:49] Takuboku
The letter that was on the desk was
probably taken after the man was stabbed.
[06:55] Kyousuke
Letter?
[06:56] Takuboku
See? Just this one spot.
[06:57] Takuboku
There's no blood spray here. Right?
[06:59] Kyousuke
That's incredible, Ishikawa-kun!
[07:02] Ooyama
That's enough. You're interfering
with my investigation.
[07:04] Ooyama
Get out.
[07:06] Kyousuke
Wow...
[07:08] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun, the way you played
the genius detective back there was amazing.
[07:11] Takuboku
It was nothing.
[07:13] Takuboku
And unless I become a police detective or
something, it won't make me any money.
[07:16] Kyousuke
No, really.
[07:17] Kyousuke
Recently, a man named Iwai
Saburou opened a detective agency.
[07:21] Kyousuke
It seems he's doing very well for himself.
[07:24] Takuboku
Really? Is that so...
[07:26] Takuboku
A detective, huh?
[07:34] Takuboku
Now that I think about it...
[07:36] Takuboku
detectives and poets
might have a lot in common.
[07:42] Kayo
Ishikawa-san! I'm coming in!
[07:45] Kayo
Come on, now. Hurry up
and put your bedding away.
[07:49] Takuboku
What are you in such a hurry for?
[07:51] Kayo
How many times do I have to tell you?
[07:53] Kayo
I always go help with the emergency soup
kitchen at the church on the weekends!
[07:57] Kayo
Take the tray back yourself, all right?
[07:59] Kyousuke
Whoops!
[08:01] Kyousuke
She seemed to be in quite a rush.
[08:03] Takuboku
Something about distributing
emergency soup...
[08:06] Kyousuke
Ah.
[08:07] Kyousuke
There's a church in Koishikawa where
they're distributing food to the poor.
[08:12] Kyousuke
It seems Kayo-chan is helping them there.
[08:15] Takuboku
Really...
[08:17] Takuboku
Well, what an admirable endeavor
from someone so small.
[08:21] Kyousuke
Oh! Here it is!
[08:23] Kyousuke
Take a look at this!
SIGN Suspect: Oguri
[08:25] Takuboku
Hey, that's the guy I ran into.
[08:28] Kyousuke
It seems he's the head clerk
of the Arakawa Mines,
[08:31] Kyousuke
a man named Oguri Takatoshi.
[08:33] Takuboku
Arakawa? You mean that huge conglomerate?
[08:36] Kyousuke
Yes.
[08:37] Kyousuke
The man killed worked at Oguri's
house, Hoshino Tatsukichi.
[08:41] Kyousuke
For the last six months or so, Oguri had
been putting pressure on Tatsukichi, but
[08:45] Kyousuke
unable to endure any more,
Tatsukichi refused him.
[08:47] Kyousuke
This caused Oguri to fly
into a rage and kill him.
[08:49] Kyousuke
That's what they say happened.
[08:51] Takuboku
Really...
[08:52] Takuboku
Speaking of which,
did they find that letter?
[08:55] Kyousuke
About that! You're really
amazing, Ishikawa-kun!
[08:58] Kyousuke
They said they found it in Oguri's garden
[09:00] Kyousuke
along with the kitchen
knife used as the weapon!
[09:02] Kyousuke
Though, apparently, Oguri keeps insisting
he knows nothing about any of it.
SIGN Kikunyuusha Milk
Newspapers
SIGN Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
[09:08] Takuboku
It seems that those who set
their sights on literary goals
[09:10] Takuboku
shouldn't simply sit on their
laurels and put on airs.
[09:13] Takuboku
They need to have a noble spirit,
and at the same time
[09:15] Takuboku
they need to understand
the desires of the flesh
[09:17] Takuboku
or they won't be able to
create real literature.
[09:20] Yoshii
Hmm... You think so?
[09:22] Takuboku
Just leave it to me.
[09:24] Takuboku
If it's for my friend Yoshii Isamu,
[09:26] Takuboku
I wouldn't mind putting myself
through a bit or two of trouble.
[09:29] Nomura
Speaking of which...
[09:31] Nomura
I heard you happened to be at the scene
of that murder in the teahouse.
[09:34] Takuboku
That's right.
[09:35] Nomura
In the accusatory letter
the victim, Tatsukichi, left,
[09:38] Nomura
they say he wrote that the Arakawa
mines are leaking poisons.
[09:43] Takuboku
Accusatory letter?
[09:44] Takuboku
You mean the letter they found
with the murder weapon?
[09:47] Nomura
Yes.
[09:49] Nomura
From what I understand, it could have been
[09:51] Nomura
that a relative of Tatsukichi's
was a victim of the poison.
[09:53] Yoshii
Still, with it being this big a story,
[09:56] Yoshii
even those high-ranking officials
who have been bribed
[09:59] Yoshii
won't be able to turn a blind eye to it.
[10:03] Takuboku
So, Tatsukichi wasn't murdered because he
wanted to sever his relationship with Oguri...
[10:08] Takuboku
it was to stop him from talking?
[10:11] Nomura
Well, I don't know about that,
[10:13] Nomura
but on the letter, almost
like he wanted to curse Oguri,
[10:17] Nomura
there was a skull-like shape
in thick, dark blood—
[10:20] Takuboku
Did you say a skull?
[10:21] Nomura and Yoshii
Huh?
SIGN Just Like a Skull
Blood-stained Accusation Letter
SIGN Letter of Accusation
[10:28] Nomura
Huh?
[10:35] Takuboku
Excuse me.
[10:37] Takuboku
Could I ask for a moment of your time?
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[10:50] Ooyama
Was it you? You called me out here?
[10:52] Kyousuke
What? No, I just...
[10:54] Ooyama
I know you, don't I?
[10:56] Kyousuke
N-No...
[10:59] Ooyama
Hey! Tell me where we've met!
[11:00] Takuboku
The other day. At the teahouse.
[11:02] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[11:04] Ooyama
And who are you?
[11:06] Takuboku
I apologize for requesting your presence
here when you must be very busy.
[11:10] Takuboku
Remember? We met
at the scene of that murder.
[11:13] Ooyama
Huh? And what do you want?
[11:14] Ooyama
Using the military... I don't
need this kind of interference!
[11:18] Takuboku
To be frank,
[11:19] Takuboku
it seems that the suspect,
Oguri Takatoshi, has been framed.
[11:23] Ooyama
Huh?
[11:25] Ooyama
Don't be stupid! Oguri is the culprit!
[11:28] Kyousuke
I-Ishikawa-kun?
[11:31] Takuboku
Making an innocent man a criminal...
[11:33] Takuboku
Letting someone who's
committed a crime run free...
[11:36] Takuboku
All those signs point to
a miscarriage of justice!
[11:39] Ooyama
You...
[11:41] Ooyama
Are you calling me incompetent—
[11:42] Ogai
Ishikawa-kun.
SIGN Oguri
[11:44] Ogai
I am also quite a busy man, you see.
[11:47] Ogai
If you have time for all that posturing,
then perhaps you could move things along?
[11:51] Takuboku
My deepest apologies.
[11:53] Ooyama
And who are you?
[11:55] Takuboku
Excuse me for not introducing you sooner.
[11:58] Takuboku
The army's surgeon general,
Dr. Mori Rintarou.
[12:03] Ooyama
I-I apologize for my rudeness.
[12:06] Ooyama
I am Ooyama from the Asakusa police station.
[12:10] Kyousuke
Wh-Why is someone like him with you?
[12:12] Takuboku
He's a colleague from tanka poetry circles.
[12:14] Ogai
Well, I'm just being used,
willingly, as a herald of sorts.
[12:18] Ogai
So, what are you planning to start here?
[12:22] Takuboku
I promise I'll show you
something interesting,
[12:24] Takuboku
so I do hope you'll stay to watch.
[12:26] Takuboku
I won't take much of your time.
[12:29] Takuboku
To that end, it's just
as I outlined over the phone.
[12:33] Kyousuke
Huh?
[12:33] Kyousuke
Oh, you can't mean... I said I understood,
but I didn't really understand...
[12:36] Takuboku
Now then, Inspector.
[12:41] Takuboku
I wonder if I could use the restroom.
[12:48] Kyousuke
T-To think that this mansion belongs
[12:50] Kyousuke
to the head clerk of the
Arakawa conglomerate...
[12:52] Kyousuke
It's really quite impressive...
[12:54] Ooyama
Hey.
[12:55] Ooyama
What on earth are we here for?
[12:57] Kyousuke
Well, you see...
[12:59] Kyousuke
"The letter found in the garden with
the kitchen knife used as the weapon
[13:03] Kyousuke
was stained with blood in a skull-like
shape," is what's written here.
[13:07] Ooyama
You there.
[13:09] Ooyama
Calling it a skull or whatever is just an
inflammatory phrase used by the local papers.
[13:13] Kyousuke
Well...
[13:14] Kyousuke
A-According to Ishikawa-kun...
[13:16] Kyousuke
Given the way the blood sprayed the area...
[13:18] Kyousuke
it shouldn't have pooled
on the accusatory letter.
SIGN Letter of Accusation
SIGN Letter of Accusation
[13:23] Kyousuke
Which means that the letter
found in the garden
[13:27] Kyousuke
might not have been the letter
taken from the scene.
SIGN Letter of Accusation
[13:30] Ooyama
Don't be stupid!
[13:32] Ooyama
Keep your wild delusions in check!
[13:36] Ooyama
In addition to the fact that other servants
here heard the two of them arguing,
SIGN Letter of Accusation
[13:40] Ooyama
the letter we found was definitely
in Tatsukichi's handwriting.
[13:44] Ooyama
And, most importantly,
[13:45] Ooyama
the knife found alongside it matched
the shape of Tatsukichi's wounds.
[13:50] Ooyama
How do you explain that?
[13:52] Takuboku
It's quite simple.
[13:54] Takuboku
Tatsukichi's real murderer took the knife
that was the murder weapon
[13:59] Takuboku
and a letter Tatsukichi had been
forced to write in advance,
[14:02] Takuboku
stained them both with blood,
and tossed them in the garden here.
[14:05] Ooyama
Who would do that? And to what purpose?
[14:08] Takuboku
In order to make it seem like
Oguri had murdered Tatsukichi.
[14:12] Ogai
Wait.
[14:14] Ogai
In that case, what happened
to the real letter of accusation?
[14:17] Ogai
Who did got rid of it, and where?
[14:19] Takuboku
Most likely, Oguri took it
and disposed of it.
[14:23] Ooyama
This is ridiculous.
It's all just your wild imaginings!
[14:26] Takuboku
You there. Where is Oguri's study?
[14:37] Takuboku
Try to imagine it.
[14:39] Takuboku
Beside the body of a man
you had motive to kill
[14:42] Takuboku
lies an accusatory letter.
[14:44] Takuboku
What would you do, Kyousuke-san?
[14:46] Kyousuke
Well... If it were me...
[14:49] Takuboku
If it were you, Kyousuke-san?
[14:51] Kyousuke
If something like that existed,
I would fall under suspicion, so...
[14:55] Kyousuke
I'd hide it and take it with me...
[14:58] Kyousuke
and then I might burn it
so no one would find out.
[15:06] Takuboku
Crackle, crackle, crackle...
[15:08] Takuboku
Ouch, that's hot...
[15:22] Takuboku
Now then, all those gathered here,
[15:24] Takuboku
the real letter of accusation is...
[15:34] Takuboku
You see? It's right here.
[15:41] Takuboku
Which means that the existence
of a person who would go to the trouble
[15:44] Takuboku
of making a fake letter
to frame Oguri for murder
[15:47] Takuboku
has been proven.
[15:57] Kyousuke
Still...
[15:58] Kyousuke
it's amazing that you knew
the burnt letter would be there.
[16:02] Takuboku
It wasn't.
[16:04] Kyousuke
What?
[16:05] Takuboku
A man working as the head clerk
for a big company like that
[16:08] Takuboku
would never be so inept.
[16:10] Takuboku
He'd go somewhere it would never be found
[16:14] Takuboku
and dispose of it there, of course.
[16:16] Kyousuke
What? But...
[16:22] Takuboku
I pretended to use the restroom, burned
some random paper, and left it there.
[16:29] Takuboku
Luckily, the Yorozu Chouhou paper had
details about the way the letter looked.
[16:35] Takuboku
These ended up being pretty useful, thanks.
[16:41] Takuboku
The fact that Oguri is innocent
[16:43] Takuboku
should be clear from the fact that
the letter found in the garden was a fake.
[16:49] Takuboku
It's just that
[16:49] Takuboku
I thought that stubborn inspector wouldn't
be convinced without some evidence.
[16:54] Kyousuke
Honestly. You're just so...
[16:58] Kyousuke
But in that case,
[17:00] Kyousuke
who is the real killer,
and why did they kill Tatsukichi?
[17:05] Takuboku
The real killer...
[17:08] Takuboku
might be someone like me.
[17:10] Kyousuke
What?
[17:14] Takuboku
Aren't you getting hungry?
[17:16] Kyousuke
What?
[17:17] Kyousuke
Uh, no, I don't think
I'm particularly hungry...
[17:21] Takuboku
I see.
[17:31] Takuboku
My hometown...
[17:35] Takuboku
"My hometown...
[17:37] Takuboku
I long for its voices,
and at the train station
[17:39] Takuboku
amidst the crowds of people
[17:41] Takuboku
I go to listen."
[17:47] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun...
[17:49] Kyousuke
People like you... are usually
known as geniuses, right?
[17:53] Takuboku
Not at all. I didn't compose that poem.
[17:56] Kyousuke
What?
[17:57] Takuboku
My friendship with you
allowed me to read it.
[18:04] Takuboku
Huh? Is something wrong?
[18:08] Kyousuke
Let's go.
[18:09] Takuboku
Huh?
[18:10] Kyousuke
Let's go eat something to give us
some stamina before we go home!
[18:13] Takuboku
I see. Well, if you say so, Kyousuke-san...
[18:17] Takuboku
They say there's a new place
with delicious beef nabe in Kodenmacho.
[18:20] Takuboku
Let's try going there!
[18:26] Kyousuke
Good morning, Ishikawa-kun!
[18:28] Takuboku
Come in!
[18:31] Kyousuke
The weather seems nice.
Shall we go for a walk or...
[18:34] Kyousuke
This is...
[18:36] Kyousuke
What are you doing?
[18:38] Takuboku
Well, I let my rent get overdue, you see...
[18:42] Kyousuke
What?
[18:43] Kyousuke
But what about the money
I gave you the other day?
[18:46] Takuboku
I'm embarrassed to say I used it
to repay a friend, so...
[18:50] Takuboku
This is entirely due to
my own lack of moral fiber.
[18:53] Kyousuke
N-No, but still, there's
no reason for you to leave!
[18:56] Kayo
I do feel sorry for him,
but I was told quite firmly, so...
[19:03] Takuboku
I can't allow myself to cause any
more trouble for you, Kyousuke-san.
[19:08] Takuboku
I wasn't here for very long,
but thank you for everything you did.
[19:19] Kyousuke
Just... please, wait here a moment!
[19:25] Kayo
Honestly.
[19:26] Kayo
How can you eat at a time like this?
[19:29] Takuboku
A man who loses his composure over a trifle
like this should be ashamed of himself.
[19:32] Takuboku
The lightly pickled cucumbers
and potato miso soup you made
[19:36] Takuboku
really are superb.
[19:38] Kayo
That may be so, but I'm still
charging you for them.
[19:41] Kyousuke
Oh, thank goodness.
[19:43] Kyousuke
You're still here.
[19:47] Kyousuke
Huh?
[19:48] Takuboku
It's a "not a last supper,
but a last breakfast" sort of thing.
[19:56] Kyousuke
Please, use this.
[19:58] Kyousuke
There's about 40 yen.
[20:00] Kayo
My, my.
[20:01] Kyousuke
No, it's just, I remembered
I had some money stashed away.
[20:28] Kyousuke
Well...
[20:30] Kyousuke
This seemed like the perfect
chance to let go of my regrets
[20:33] Kyousuke
and dive into scholarship.
[20:36] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san...
[20:41] Takuboku
Even if I die...
[20:46] Takuboku
I will never let anything bad happen to you.
[20:54] Takuboku
Now that I think about it, detectives
and poets might have a lot in common.
[21:05] Takuboku
"Thick clouds rise
[21:06] Takuboku
Clouds rise forming fences
within fences, encircling my wife
[21:09] Takuboku
Forming fences within fences
[21:11] Takuboku
Ah, those innumerable fences..."
[21:13] Takuboku
Thus, since ancient times when the god
Susano'o no Mikoto composed a poem,
[21:17] Takuboku
poets have worked every day
to sharpen their sensibilities,
[21:20] Takuboku
trying to catch the slightest of changes,
[21:23] Takuboku
and turn them into poems.
[21:26] Takuboku
It begins with the beauties of nature,
[21:28] Takuboku
and carries through to changes in
people's clothes and mannerisms...
[21:31] Takuboku
even changes in their expressions...
[21:33] Takuboku
Amidst the trivial things
people pay no attention to
[21:36] Takuboku
poets have discovered stories
and brought them to light.
[21:41] Kayo
Hey! What are you doing?
[21:44] Takuboku
I can't keep depending
on Kyousuke-san's money forever.
[21:49] Kayo
Honestly.
[21:56] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun, is that...
[21:58] Takuboku
If someone who composes
and reads poems is a poet,
[22:01] Takuboku
then what a detective reads
is a crime scene.
[22:03] Takuboku
Shall we just say that, Kyousuke-san?
[22:10] Older Kyousuke
"Quite the stylish name, isn't it?
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
[22:13] Older Kyousuke
'Woodpecker Detective's Office'."
[23:37] Takuboku
Nothing beats a glass of milk
after a job well done, am I right?
[23:40] Takuboku
By the way, Kyousuke-san...
[23:42] Takuboku
There's a wonderful girl at Hananoya in Asakusa.
Won't you come with me next time?
SIGN Next Time: "A Red-light District Woman"
[23:44] Kyousuke
I-I'm fine, thank you!
E2 - A Red-light District Woman
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[00:28] Sahara
Police!
[00:30] Sahara
Behind Asakusa's Ryouunkaku
at the Hananoya,
[00:33] Sahara
there's a woman who goes by the name Otaki.
[00:35] Sahara
You know her, don't you?
[00:37] Kyousuke
O-Otaki-san...
[00:38] Sahara
Do you know her, or not?!
[00:40] Kyousuke
Oh!
[00:41] Kyousuke
Yes. I know her.
[00:43] Sahara
That Otaki was stabbed in the throat
with a short sword and died.
[00:46] Kyousuke
What?!
[00:47] Yamafuji
No, no. We don't consider you
a suspect as yet, Professor.
[00:52] Yamafuji
But, there was a certain person
with you at the time.
[00:55] Kyousuke
Wh-What about him?
[00:58] Yamafuji
Around eight—the time of the murder—
he saw you in Otaki's room.
[01:03] Yamafuji
That's what he said, at least.
[01:07] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun said that?
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN 9 hours earlier...
SIGN Poem 2
A Red-light District Woman
[02:47] (Flashback) Takuboku
Well, this is a problem.
[02:48] (Flashback) Takuboku
Starting this month,
if I'm late with the rent,
[02:50] (Flashback) Takuboku
I'll be thrown out immediately.
[02:52] (Flashback) Kyousuke
You're saying that now, but Ishikawa-kun,
[02:55] (Flashback) Kyousuke
last night you went out drinking and
didn't come back until after midnight.
[02:58] (Flashback) Takuboku
"The thoughts I have
[02:59] (Flashback) Takuboku
all revolve around my lack of money
[03:02] (Flashback) Takuboku
that seems to be the root
[03:04] (Flashback) Takuboku
and an autumn wind blows."
[03:06] (Flashback) Takuboku
Poems just don't make money, do they?
[03:08] (Flashback) Kyousuke
If you abstained from frequenting brothels,
[03:10] (Flashback) Kyousuke
your troubles would
all be over, wouldn't they?
[03:14] (Flashback) Takuboku
If you'll permit me to say, I'd rather
not hear something like that
[03:17] (Flashback) Takuboku
from someone who knows
nothing of women, Kyousuke-san.
[03:24] (Flashback) Takuboku
I have a feeling that you'll take
your leave from this world
[03:28] (Flashback) Takuboku
without ever knowing the joys of life...
[03:33] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun! What are you doing?
[03:35] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Hurry up!
[03:37] (Flashback) Kyousuke
It isn't as though you're
going to be gobbled up.
[03:39] (Flashback) Kyousuke
There is absolutely no reason
to feel hesitant!
[03:42] (Flashback) Takuboku
Isn't that what I've been
saying for a while now?
[03:48] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Let's not do this after all, Ishikawa-kun...
[03:52] (Flashback) Takuboku
Just as I thought.
[03:53] (Flashback) Kyousuke
There's no need to take that attitude.
[03:55] (Flashback) Kyousuke
In any case, I'm a teacher. I shouldn't—
[03:57] (Flashback) Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[03:58] (Flashback) Takuboku
Using the "teacher" excuse every time
things get inconvenient is cowardly.
[04:04] (Flashback) Kyousuke
W-Wait, Ishikawa-kun...
[04:06] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Wait!
[04:08] (Flashback) Takuboku
Look. It's starting to rain.
[04:10] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Huh?
[04:19] (Flashback) waitress
Welcome.
[04:20] (Flashback) Takuboku
Perfect. Let's have a meal here.
[04:23] (Flashback) Takuboku
After all, when you're hungry...
[04:26] (Flashback) waitress
Party of two!
[04:31] (Flashback) customer A
But that Arakawa mines thing
was incredible, wasn't it?
[04:34] (Flashback) customer B
If it weren't for something like this,
[04:36] (Flashback) customer B
those guys at the top
who'd taken a lot of bribes
[04:38] (Flashback) customer B
probably would've just killed the story.
[04:40] (Flashback) customer C
The police are saying Oguri isn't
the killer, but you never know.
[04:44] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Lately, it seems like that's all
anyone's talking about.
[04:47] (Flashback) Takuboku
Somehow, people have started
treating the victim, Tatsukichi,
[04:49] (Flashback) Takuboku
like some kind of hero
who exposed evil doings.
[04:54] (Flashback) waitress
Here you go.
[04:56] (Flashback) Takuboku
Thanks.
[05:02] (Flashback) Takuboku
Something wrong?
[05:03] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Ah, no.
[05:42] (Flashback) Takuboku
Hello, Madam.
[05:43] (Flashback) Madam
If it isn't Ishikawa-san.
[05:46] (Flashback) Madam
Huh?
[05:47] (Flashback) Madam
You...
[05:51] (Flashback) Madam
Oh, please, come inside.
[05:55] (Flashback) O-En
Oh! Is that Hajime-san?
[05:58] (Flashback) Takuboku
It's been a while, hasn't it, Oen?
[06:01] (Flashback) O-En
Oh. I see you've brought someone with you.
[06:05] (Flashback) O-En
Could it be...
[06:08] (Flashback) O-En
Otaki-chan! Come down here! Hurry up!
[06:19] (Flashback) O-En
Otaki-chan, that gentleman
over there. All right?
[06:23] (Flashback) Takuboku
Well, enjoy yourself, Kyousuke-san.
[06:26] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Wha—Wait! Ishikawa-kun!
[06:30] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
[06:35] (Flashback) O-Taki
My, what a strange thing to say.
[06:40] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I'll have one of those, if you don't mind.
[06:52] (Flashback) O-Taki
Here you go.
[06:54] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Sorry.
[06:58] (Flashback) O-Taki
Oh...
[07:02] (Flashback) O-Taki
Please go up to the room.
I'll be back in a moment.
SIGN Hananoya
[07:19] (Flashback) O-Taki
I'm sorry.
[07:21] (Flashback) O-Taki
I've kept you waiting.
[07:24] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Not at all!
[07:30] (Flashback) Takuboku
Now, the players are all assembled.
[07:34] (Flashback) O-En
Are you planning to
listen in like that all night?
[07:38] (Flashback) Takuboku
Just wait a little.
[07:40] (Flashback) Takuboku
Today is Kyousuke-san's day in the sun.
[07:43] (Flashback) Takuboku
Oh! It's starting...
[07:46] (Flashback) O-En
How is it going?
[07:47] (Flashback) Takuboku
Very nicely.
[07:49] (Flashback) O-En
Ow!
[07:55] (Flashback) Kyousuke
W-Wait!
[07:57] (Flashback) O-Taki
Don't worry.
[08:00] (Flashback) Kyousuke
How is it?
[08:01] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Pretty hard, right?
[08:06] (Flashback) Takuboku
Kyousuke-san's pretty good at this.
[08:09] (Flashback) O-Taki
Then... how about... here?
[08:15] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Wait...
[08:16] (Flashback) Takuboku
Or maybe Otaki is the one
I should be praising here...
[08:20] (Flashback) Kyousuke
No! Stop!
[08:23] (Flashback) Takuboku
Oh, dear... Honestly.
[08:28] (Flashback) O-En
Hajime-san.
[08:32] (Flashback) Takuboku
Sorry.
[08:33] (Flashback) Takuboku
I'm just not in that sort of mood today.
[08:36] (Flashback) Takuboku
Honestly...
[08:38] (Flashback) Takuboku
If only he wouldn't hold
himself back out of pride.
[08:45] (Flashback) Takuboku
Huh?
[08:46] (Flashback) O-En
Well, I can't hold myself back any more!
[08:48] (Flashback) Takuboku
H-Hey!
[08:49] (Flashback) Takuboku
Stop that! Wait!
[08:52] (Flashback) Takuboku
I just told you—
[08:54] (Flashback) O-Taki
That's enough!
[09:02] (Flashback) Kyousuke
J-Just calm down...
[09:05] (Flashback) O-Taki
It's horrible of you...
treating me this way...
[09:08] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I-It isn't...
[09:10] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I didn't mean anything by it.
[09:12] (Flashback) O-Taki
And it's because you're like that...
[09:15] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Otaki-san. That's going
too far, don't you think?
[09:19] (Flashback) Takuboku
Huh?
[09:23] (Flashback) Takuboku
I wonder what happened.
[09:25] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I've heard enough!
[09:42] (Flashback) O-En
I'm going to get some cigarettes.
I'll be right back.
[10:16] (Flashback) O-En
Is something wrong?
[10:19] (Flashback) Takuboku
No, I just...
[10:20] (Flashback) Takuboku
I went to take a peek just now, and
[10:23] (Flashback) Takuboku
Kyousuke-san was sitting there all depressed.
[10:27] (Flashback) Takuboku
I didn't see Otaki,
[10:30] (Flashback) Takuboku
but maybe... she was sulking in her bed.
[10:33] (Flashback) O-En
Well.
[10:34] (Flashback) O-En
Come join me, won't you?
[10:51] (Flashback) Madam
Police!
[10:52] (Flashback) Madam
Someone call the police!
[10:53] (Flashback) O-En
What's going on?
[11:01] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun...
[11:03] Kyousuke
What did he say?
[11:05] Yamafuji
Around eight—the time of the murder—
he saw you in Otaki's room.
[11:10] Yamafuji
That's what he said, at least.
[11:12] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun said that?
[11:14] Kyousuke
I don't know anything. I—
[11:16] Sahara
Don't play dumb with us!
[11:17] Yamafuji
Now, now, Constable Sahara.
[11:20] Yamafuji
Apologies for the late introduction.
[11:21] Yamafuji
I'm Yamafuji from the Asakusa station.
[11:24] Yamafuji
I'm sorry to say that the circumstances
put you in a very unfavorable position.
[11:29] Yamafuji
The madam says that you
were the only guest there.
[11:33] Yamafuji
Your jacket was found left at the scene.
[11:36] Yamafuji
And, you were seen there around
the time of the incident...
[11:42] Yamafuji
as testified by Ishikawa-san.
[11:44] Kyousuke
It's a lie!
[11:45] Kyousuke
He would never say something like that!
[11:48] Yamafuji
One more thing. This was left
at the scene, as well...
[11:52] Yamafuji
The contents are all written horizontally,
so I can't read any of it.
[11:57] Yamafuji
Oh, that's right.
[11:59] Yamafuji
There were two copper coins tucked inside.
[12:01] Yamafuji
This notebook...
[12:02] Yamafuji
it wouldn't be yours, would it, Professor?
[12:06] Kyousuke
A-Absolutely not.
[12:08] Kyousuke
It isn't mine.
[12:14] Yamafuji
I see.
[12:20] Takuboku
I'll go get some more alcohol,
[12:21] Takuboku
so you can go ahead and go up to my room.
[12:25] Yoshii
All right!
[12:26] Nomura
Bring as much as you can find!
[12:29] Takuboku
Well, well. If it isn't Kyousuke-san!
[12:32] Takuboku
Were you lonely without me?
[12:35] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun, I need to talk with you.
[12:38] Takuboku
Are you going to give me
some alcohol for my hangover?
[12:41] Takuboku
A good friend is indispensable—
[12:42] Kyousuke
Just come in and sit down.
[12:46] Takuboku
I'd be happy if you just
lent me a bottle of sake.
[12:53] Kyousuke
Late last night, the police came here.
[12:56] Kyousuke
And you know why, don't you?
[12:59] Kyousuke
How could you say
something so irresponsible?
[13:03] Kyousuke
Pull yourself together!
[13:04] Kyousuke
You cause me so much trouble
and now you take that attitude?!
[13:09] Takuboku
When you're telling the truth,
attitude has nothing to do with it.
[13:13] Kyousuke
The truth?
[13:14] Kyousuke
What truth are you talking about?
[13:16] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[13:17] Takuboku
Around eight, when Otaki
was killed, I saw everything.
[13:24] Takuboku
There, in that room,
[13:26] Takuboku
I saw you.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[13:32] Kyousuke
D-Don't be stupid!
[13:35] Kyousuke
I went into the room, and less
than 30 minutes later, I left.
[13:39] Takuboku
I heard the chimes of the wall
clock as I went to the room.
[13:44] Takuboku
You're so awkward with women.
[13:46] Takuboku
How would you do with someone like Otaki?
[13:49] Takuboku
I just couldn't help wondering.
[13:50] Kyousuke
That wasn't me!
[13:52] Kyousuke
There's some kind of mistake here!
[13:56] Takuboku
Could the truth have gone
something like... this?
[14:00] (Flashback) Kyousuke
W-Wait!
[14:01] (Flashback) O-Taki
Don't worry.
[14:06] (Flashback) Kyousuke
How is it?
[14:08] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Pretty hard, right?
[14:09] (Flashback) O-Taki
Then... how about... here?
[14:13] (Flashback) Kyousuke
W-Wait... No! Stop!
[14:15] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Wait!
[14:20] (Flashback) O-Taki
That's enough!
[14:23] (Flashback) Kyousuke
J-Just calm down...
[14:24] (Flashback) O-Taki
It's horrible of you...
treating me this way...
[14:28] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I-It isn't...
[14:30] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I didn't mean anything by it.
[14:32] (Flashback) O-Taki
And it's because you're like that...
[14:35] (Flashback) O-Taki
because you're like that...
[14:38] (Flashback) O-Taki
that you still know nothing of women.
[14:40] (Flashback) O-Taki
Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe it.
[14:44] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Otaki-san, that's going
too far, don't you think?
[14:49] (Flashback) O-Taki
A useless lump who can't even
make love to a single woman
[14:51] (Flashback) O-Taki
shouldn't try to put on airs.
[14:53] (Flashback) O-Taki
So what if you're a professor
at an imperial university.
[14:56] (Flashback) O-Taki
Everything's all laid out for you like this,
[14:59] (Flashback) O-Taki
and you're running away,
tail between your legs.
[15:03] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I've heard... enough.
[15:26] Kyousuke
That's insane!
[15:27] Kyousuke
You know that I'm not the type
who would do something like—
[15:30] Takuboku
Really?
[15:31] Takuboku
You can't judge people on appearances.
[15:33] Kyousuke
But...
[15:34] Kyousuke
I... Otaki-san and I, we...
[15:37] Kyousuke
we kissed... but that's all.
[15:40] Kyousuke
I left right away.
[15:41] Takuboku
You might be trying to defend yourself
by saying all you did was kiss,
[15:46] Takuboku
but for Otaki your behavior
was probably humiliating!
[15:51] Takuboku
Besides which, the madam said she
had to leave the reception area
[15:54] Takuboku
because of a personal matter.
[15:55] Kyousuke
I just remembered, Ishikawa-kun!
[15:57] Kyousuke
It was in the hallway on the second floor!
[16:00] Kyousuke
A man in the same kind
of clothes I was wearing...
[16:03] Kyousuke
It was almost like he was trying to hide...
[16:05] Kyousuke
That's it. That man.
[16:07] Kyousuke
That's who you saw in Otaki-san's room!
[16:10] Kyousuke
He must have gauged when
I might leave and then killed her!
[16:13] Kyousuke
What do you think?
Everything makes sense, right?
[16:17] Takuboku
My goodness.
What a truly ridiculous fiction.
[16:21] Kyousuke
What?
[16:22] Takuboku
You see, Kyousuke-san...
[16:24] Takuboku
the madam has testified that you
and I were the only guests last night.
[16:33] Takuboku
Confessing your crimes honestly is
for the best in the long run.
[16:37] Kyousuke
I must have known... but I wanted
to believe it wasn't true...
[16:44] Kyousuke
so I shoved it into the corner of my mind...
[16:48] Kyousuke
because, for me, friendship was
more important than anything...
[16:54] Kyousuke
The one who killed Otaki-san...
[16:58] Kyousuke
was you, wasn't it?
[16:59] Takuboku
Me?
[17:01] Takuboku
What motive could I possibly
have for killing Otaki?
[17:04] Takuboku
That is the most absurd thing I've heard.
[17:07] Kyousuke
The notebook the inspector brought...
[17:10] Kyousuke
it was your romaji diary.
[17:13] Kyousuke
The events of the incident must
have been something like this...
[17:23] (Flashback) O-Taki
Um... Will you come to bed?
[17:27] (Flashback) Kyousuke
No.
[17:30] (Flashback) O-Taki
Am I not good enough?
[17:32] (Flashback) Kyousuke
No! It isn't that!
[17:34] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Huh?
[17:37] (Flashback) O-Taki
I was born in Hokkaido.
[17:40] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Really? I went there last year.
[17:43] (Flashback) O-Taki
Yes. I've heard.
[17:45] (Flashback) O-Taki
I heard that.
[17:48] (Flashback) O-Taki
I've always...
[17:55] (Flashback) Kyousuke
W-Wait!
[17:57] (Flashback) O-Taki
Don't worry.
[18:01] (Flashback) Kyousuke
How is it?
[18:02] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Pretty hard, right?
[18:03] (Flashback) O-Taki
Then... how about here?
[18:09] (Flashback) Kyousuke
W-Wait...
[18:10] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Ow...
[18:12] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I can really feel that!
[18:23] (Flashback) Kyousuke
No! Stop!
[18:28] (Flashback) O-Taki
I can hear it... the beat of your
heart in your chest, Kindaichi-sama.
[18:36] (Flashback) O-Taki
Kindaichi-sama...
[18:47] (Flashback) O-En
Well, I can't hold myself back any more!
[18:51] (Flashback) O-Taki
That's enough!
[18:54] (Flashback) Kyousuke
J-Just calm down...
[19:13] (Flashback) O-Taki
It's horrible of you...
treating me this way...
[19:18] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I-It isn't...
[19:19] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I didn't mean anything by it.
[19:22] (Flashback) O-Taki
And it's because you're like that...
[19:25] (Flashback) O-Taki
You don't know anything about Ishikawa-san.
[19:30] (Flashback) Kyousuke
No. I do know him.
[19:32] (Flashback) O-Taki
No, you don't know anything.
[19:35] (Flashback) O-Taki
You don't know what kind
of person Ishikawa-san is—
[19:37] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Otaki-san, that's going
too far, don't you think?
[19:42] (Flashback) Kyousuke
He's a little bit different... a show-off,
[19:45] (Flashback) Kyousuke
and all he does is go
around borrowing money,
[19:48] (Flashback) Kyousuke
but he is a genius poet!
[19:50] (Flashback) O-Taki
You see?
[19:51] (Flashback) O-Taki
You really don't know anything, do you?
[19:54] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I've heard enough!
[20:18] (Flashback) O-Taki
Peeping is wrong.
[20:22] (Flashback) Takuboku
How was Kyousuke-san?
[20:25] (Flashback) Takuboku
Did he go home without
doing anything? Pathetic.
[20:30] (Flashback) O-Taki
He is a very kind man.
[20:33] (Flashback) Takuboku
Yes, he is kind. Stupidly so.
[20:39] (Flashback) O-Taki
That is no way to speak of a friend,
is it, Mr. Genius Poet?
[20:44] (Flashback) Takuboku
What's that?
[20:46] (Flashback) O-Taki
Your name might be slightly
known in the world of poetry,
[20:50] (Flashback) O-Taki
but the truth is, you're simply
presuming on your friend's affections,
[20:54] (Flashback) O-Taki
nothing but a half-baked amateur.
[20:58] (Flashback) O-Taki
Stay back.
[21:15] Kyousuke
And that's how... you made
your crime seem to be mine.
[21:24] Takuboku
I don't know about that notebook.
[21:26] Takuboku
By the time I'd gone up to
Oen's room, I'd already lost it.
[21:31] Takuboku
The truth is the truth. It cannot be ignored.
[21:34] Takuboku
In the same way, the sight
of you in your jacket—
[21:38] Yamafuji
Kindaichi-san, we have
a warrant for your arrest.
[21:41] Yamafuji
If you'll come with us to the station.
[21:45] Sahara
Hurry up!
[21:46] Kyousuke
But I'm—
[21:48] Sahara
Come on! Walk!
[22:03] Nomura
Stop right there!
[22:06] Sakutarou
We heard everything.
[22:10] Yoshii
The real culprit in this crime...
[22:15] Nomura
We'll find him for you!
[23:37] Sakutarou
Things have turned out very badly
for Kindaichi-kun, haven't they?
[23:39] Nomura
We'll just have to find the real
murderer and save him!
[23:42] Yoshii
Indeed.
SIGN Next Time: "Casual Remarks"
[23:43] Yoshii
If Ishikawa-kun can be a detective,
then there is no reason I can't be one.
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E3 - Casual Remarks
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Newspapers
SIGN Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
[00:01] Nomura
Now, then...
[00:05] Yoshii
Kindaichi-kun ended up
getting arrested, didn't he?
[00:10] Takuboku
At this point, putting our heads together
isn't going to accomplish anything.
[00:15] Takuboku
I suppose today,
I'll just go home and sleep.
[00:17] Nomura
We can't have that.
[00:18] Nomura
Kindaichi is our friend.
[00:21] Nomura
"Just leaving him there" is not an option.
[00:24] Yoshii
Even so, we still don't know who
really killed that woman, Otaki...
[00:29] Sakutarou
Um... Would it be all right if I...
[00:31] Nomura
Oh... You offering an opinion
yourself is pretty rare, Hagiwara.
[00:35] Sakutarou
From what I understand,
[00:37] Sakutarou
the culprit isn't Ishikawa-san
and it isn't Kindaichi-san, either.
[00:41] Sakutarou
It's...
[00:44] Sakutarou
the proprietress of Hananoya's
[00:48] Sakutarou
cat, Kuro!
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN Poem 3
Casual Remarks
[02:20] Nomura
What do you mean, the cat's the culprit?
[02:23] Sakutarou
First, if you'll allow me to review.
[02:27] Sakutarou
According to Ishikawa-san's logic,
[02:29] Sakutarou
Otaki's offensive remarks caused
Kindaichi-san to fly into a rage,
[02:32] Sakutarou
and kill her.
[02:35] Sakutarou
On the other hand, the late—
[02:37] Sakutarou
my apologies, the recently imprisoned
Kindaichi-san's logic says that
[02:41] Sakutarou
when Ishikawa-san was caught peeping
and she sneered at him,
[02:45] Sakutarou
he killed her.
[02:47] Ishikawa
Which means,
[02:49] Ishikawa
we need to figure out how
to expose Kyousuke-san's lie.
[02:52] Sakutarou
It's true... Kindaichi-san's logic
does seem somewhat forced.
[02:57] Sakutarou
However... it's also true that he isn't the type
of person who would lie if he had a choice.
[03:01] Nomura
Can't argue that.
[03:02] Yoshii
At the very least, he's more honest
than Ishikawa-kun is—
[03:07] Sakutarou
If Kindaichi-san is lying, then...
[03:11] Sakutarou
could it be because telling the truth
would be too embarrassing?
SIGN Hananoya
[03:16] (Flashback) Kyousuke
It's all right.
[03:17] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I'll find a way to get you out of here.
[03:20] (Flashback) Otaki
It's because you're like that...
[03:22] (Flashback) Otaki
Thinking you can do the impossible...
[03:24] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Otaki-san...
[03:26] (Flashback) Kyousuke
That's going too far, don't you think?
[03:29] (Flashback) Otaki
It's just...
[03:30] (Flashback) Otaki
All that's left for me is to stay here,
as I am, sleeping with men I don't love...
[03:34] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I've heard enough!
[03:39] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I will find a way for us to be together!
[03:45] Sakutarou
But the tremendous sum necessary to pay
for the release of a prostitute...
[03:48] Sakutarou
It would be impossible for a mere teacher
like Kyousuke-san to prepare that.
[03:52] Sakutarou
Having fallen in love with Kindaichi-san,
[03:54] Sakutarou
she couldn't stand the thought
of other men making love to her.
[03:58] Sakutarou
She decided she would join
the Buddhist ministry.
[04:09] Sakutarou
Which means that Otaki-san's death
[04:12] Sakutarou
is a tragedy born of the fact
that the two of them made love.
[04:17] Takuboku
Just the kind of logic I'd expect from
someone as naive as you, Hagiwara-san.
[04:22] Sakutarou
What do you mean?
[04:24] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san could never even conceive
of the idea of buying her freedom.
[04:28] Takuboku
Why? Because...
[04:32] Takuboku
He's a die-hard virgin. That's why.
[04:39] Sakutarou
Well... I don't think his status as a virgin
means he wouldn't think of—
[04:42] Yoshii
No.
[04:43] Yoshii
Regardless of how I feel
for him as a friend,
[04:44] Yoshii
it's difficult for me to imagine Kindaichi-kun
being adept when it comes to women.
[04:49] Sakutarou
If you say so, Yoshii-kun,
then... it might be true, but...
[04:58] Nomura
On top of all this, I don't get
why Kindaichi and Ishikawa
[05:00] Nomura
are pushing the blame on each other.
[05:03] Yoshii
True. The two of them get along
almost too well, after all...
[05:10] Nomura
But if you think about it
this way, it makes sense.
[05:14] Nomura
The two of you are both the murderers
and not the murderers.
[05:18] Nomura
In other words, accomplices, right?
[05:21] Takuboku
What's that supposed to mean?
[05:23] Nomura
Wasn't the truth something like this?
[05:27] (Flashback) Otaki
That's enough!
[05:28] (Flashback) Kyousuke
J-Just calm down...
[05:31] (Flashback) Otaki
It's horrible of you...
treating me this way...
[05:34] (Flashback) Otaki
It's unforgivable!
[05:35] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I-It isn't...
[05:36] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I didn't mean anything by it.
[05:38] (Flashback) Otaki
And it's because you're like that...
[05:40] (Flashback) Otaki
You're planning to ravish me, aren't you?
[05:42] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Otaki-san. That's going
too far, don't you think?
[05:46] (Flashback) Kyousuke
This place is a brothel, after all.
[05:48] (Flashback) Otaki
Just because it's a brothel doesn't
mean you can force yourself on me!
[05:52] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I've heard enough!
[05:56] (Flashback) Otaki
How does 40 yen sound for now?
[05:59] (Flashback) Kyousuke
What?
[06:00] (Flashback) Otaki
With all due respect, if I lodged
a complaint with the police,
[06:03] (Flashback) Otaki
that would put you in
a tough spot, wouldn't it?
[06:06] (Flashback) Otaki
You have your position
as a teacher to consider, after all.
[06:09] (Flashback) Kyousuke
You wouldn't...
[06:11] (Flashback) Takuboku
I've heard everything!
[06:13] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[06:14] (Flashback) Takuboku
Taking advantage of the fact that Kyousuke-san
is an inexperienced virgin to blackmail him...
[06:19] (Flashback) Takuboku
I'll take this to the madam—
[06:21] (Flashback) Takuboku
no, I'll tell the police!
[06:24] (Flashback) Otaki
Please, forgive me.
[06:25] (Flashback) Otaki
I don't want to die yet.
[06:27] (Flashback) Kyousuke
What?
[06:30] (Flashback) Otaki
I have consumption.
[06:32] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Now that I think about it...
You have been coughing...
[06:35] (Flashback) Otaki
I desperately needed money for medicine.
[06:40] (Flashback) Otaki
Please...
[06:44] (Flashback) Takuboku
No.
[06:45] (Flashback) Takuboku
We cannot allow ourselves
to be swayed by these lies.
[06:48] (Flashback) Takuboku
Now, come along quickly.
[07:07] Nomura
In short,
[07:08] Nomura
to conceal the fact that
you're working together,
[07:12] Nomura
you're only pretending to fight, as a ruse!
[07:14] Yoshii
You're right...
[07:15] Yoshii
I did think it was strange for
Ishikawa-kun to give testimony
[07:18] Yoshii
that put Kindaichi-kun in a bad light.
[07:19] Yoshii
There's no reason to entrap him.
[07:21] Sakutarou
And...
[07:22] Sakutarou
for Kindaichi-san, who would gladly give
his life 3 or 4 times for Ishikawa-san,
[07:28] Sakutarou
to do something that would hurt
Ishikawa-san is also strange.
[07:31] Takuboku
This is ridiculous.
[07:33] Takuboku
When I wrote in one of my novels
[07:34] Takuboku
that Kyousuke-san put hair
restorer on his upper lip, he...
[07:39] (Flashback) Kyousuke
How could you?!
[07:41] (Flashback) Kyousuke
You promised me you'd never
say anything about that!
[07:43] (Flashback) Takuboku
C-Can't breathe...
[07:47] Souseki
Can I have a moment?
[07:49] Nomura
Professor Natsume!
[07:51] Souseki
We were sitting in the back, you see,
and couldn't help overhearing.
[07:57] Souseki
And... it seems he has something he'd like to say.
[08:00] Souseki
Come on.
[08:06] Akutagawa
Pleased to meet you.
[08:08] Akutagawa
My name is Akutagawa Ryuunosuke.
[08:10] Nomura
Oh! You're the one who wrote
And I Am a Dog, right?
[08:15] Nomura
So, what are your thoughts on this?
[08:19] Akutagawa
Let's say that Professor Kindaichi
left the room long before the murder.
[08:23] Akutagawa
And let's say that Ishikawa-sensei saw
Professor Kindaichi at the time of the murder,
[08:28] Akutagawa
and that the proprietress rightly
said there were no other guests...
[08:32] Akutagawa
I believe that everything the three
of them said could be entirely truthful.
[08:37] Sakutarou
What... would that mean?
[08:40] Akutagawa
In other words, that
there is no singular truth,
[08:43] Akutagawa
that truth is, after all, unknowable.
[08:47] Nomura
So... What are you trying to say?
[08:52] Akutagawa
That everything is "in a grove."
[08:58] Yoshii
So, in the end, you're saying that
you don't know what happened?
[09:02] Akutagawa
No.
[09:03] Akutagawa
The truth of a life can
only be found in a grove.
[09:06] Akutagawa
That is what I have realized.
[09:09] Nomura
We're getting nowhere!
[09:11] Hirai
If I might interrupt, as well...
[09:14] Takuboku
And who are you?
[09:17] Hirai
I'm honored to make your acquaintance.
[09:20] Hirai
My name is Hirai Tarou.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[09:29] Hirai
I heard everything you've said...
[09:31] Hirai
Oh! But, I wasn't eavesdropping.
[09:34] Hirai
It was more, I happened to overhear.
[09:37] Nomura
What is this? One after another...
[09:40] Hirai
The thing is, an acquaintance
of mine is lodging
[09:43] Hirai
in the room next to Professor Kindaichi's.
[09:45] Hirai
I'm imposing, at the moment,
by staying there without paying.
[09:48] Yoshii
You seem young. What about school?
[09:51] Hirai
I thought I'd try writing a novel,
so I'm taking a little break.
[09:55] Takuboku
So? What is it you want to say?
[09:58] Hirai
To tell the truth, I've been following
both of you since yesterday evening.
[10:08] Hirai
Everything started during
the events of two nights ago.
[10:15] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Oh, that's right. Did you finish your novel?
[10:18] (Flashback) Takuboku
Yes, thanks to you.
[10:20] (Flashback) Takuboku
I should be receiving payment
for the manuscript soon,
[10:22] (Flashback) Takuboku
so I think I'll be able to repay
all the money you lent me.
[10:26] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Oh, you don't need to worry about that.
[10:28] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I'm just happy I can be of some help to you.
[10:32] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Were you able to write
that ending you were stuck on?
[10:36] (Flashback) Takuboku
Well, whether it was a fitting...
[10:42] (Flashback) Takuboku
I really do have a good friend in you.
[10:44] (Flashback) Kyousuke
What are you talking about?
After all this time...
[10:46] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Once it's published, I hope you'll
let me be the first to read it.
[10:49] (Flashback) Takuboku
Of course.
[10:50] (Flashback) Takuboku
I want you to read it before anyone...
[10:59] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I see.
[11:00] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Well, I can't wait.
[11:05] (Flashback) Takuboku
Oh, that's right. I used that story.
[11:10] (Flashback) Takuboku
You know. The one about you using
hair restorer on your upper lip.
[11:15] (Flashback) Kyousuke
What?
[11:16] (Flashback) Takuboku
Really, thanks to that,
the character gained a lot of depth.
[11:19] (Flashback) Kyousuke
How could you?!
[11:21] (Flashback) Kyousuke
You promised me you'd never
say anything about that!
[11:25] (Flashback) Kyousuke
You stop it right now! I told you never
to breathe a word to anyone!
[11:29] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Honestly!
[11:32] (Flashback) Kyousuke
That's why I didn't want you knowing!
[11:49] Yoshii
So you followed them to tell them this?
[11:53] Hirai
No.
[11:54] Hirai
It isn't as if the woman
did anything, after all.
[11:58] Hirai
It's just...
[11:59] Takuboku
What?
[12:01] Hirai
Certain actions by Ishikawa-sensei
caused me to take a sudden interest.
[12:06] (Flashback) Takuboku
I have a feeling that
[12:07] (Flashback) Takuboku
you'll take your leave from this world
without ever knowing the joys of life...
[12:11] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Let's go!
[12:11] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Let us go, Ishikawa-kun!
[12:17] (Flashback) Takuboku
Oh, Kayo-chan. Do you have a minute?
[12:19] (Flashback) Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, would you mind
going ahead? It's about my rent...
[12:24] (Flashback) Kayo
Again?
[12:25] (Flashback) Kayo
You really need to stop this.
[12:30] (Flashback) Kayo
What is this money for?
[12:32] (Flashback) Takuboku
Can you hurry over to Hananoya
[12:34] (Flashback) Takuboku
and ask them to keep a woman
called Otaki free for me?
[12:37] (Flashback) Takuboku
Tell them that Ishikawa
will be bringing a guest.
[12:40] (Flashback) Kayo
That's a place they have
prostitutes, isn't it?
[12:43] (Flashback) Kayo
I don't want to.
[12:44] (Flashback) Takuboku
It's for her sake, too!
[12:46] (Flashback) Takuboku
Please!
[12:51] (Flashback) Kayo
I'll have another five sen.
[12:56] (Flashback) Hirai
Otaki... san?
SIGN Tavern
[13:19] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Wha—Wait! Ishikawa-kun!
[13:22] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
[13:24] (Flashback) Otaki
My, what a strange thing to say.
[13:28] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I'll have one of those, if you don't mind.
[13:38] (Flashback) Otaki
Here you go.
[13:40] (Flashback) Otaki
Oh...
[13:43] (Flashback) Otaki
Please go up to the room.
[13:45] (Flashback) Kyousuke
What?
[13:46] (Flashback) Otaki
I'll be back in a moment.
[13:53] (Flashback) Otaki
You there! Could it be that you're...
[13:56] (Flashback) Otaki
Did you tell them what happened yesterday?
[14:04] (Flashback) Hirai
Here...
[14:05] (Flashback) Hirai
He forgot this. I found it
at the restaurant...
[14:09] (Flashback) Otaki
I see.
[14:13] (Flashback) Otaki
I'll give it back to him.
[14:15] (Flashback) Otaki
Are you a student?
[14:19] (Flashback) Hirai
Uh... Yes...
[14:25] (Flashback) Otaki
Once you've grown a little
more, come and see me.
[14:33] Takuboku
So, you're the one who
gave the diary to Otaki.
[14:36] Hirai
Yes.
[14:38] Hirai
If I'd given that diary to you in person,
[14:41] Hirai
things would have been more straightforward.
[14:45] Hirai
The culprit in this case is neither
Professor Kindaichi nor Ishikawa-sensei.
[14:50] Nomura
You must have some basis for that statement.
[14:52] Hirai
Yes.
[14:53] Hirai
The reason neither of them can be the killer
is the way they light their cigarettes.
[14:59] Hirai
Each of them lit their cigarettes
with their right hands.
[15:04] Hirai
If either of them had been the culprit,
[15:06] Hirai
the wound in Otaki's throat would
have to have been on the left.
[15:11] Hirai
If a right-handed person had used that
short sword, with Otaki facing her attacker,
[15:16] Hirai
her wound would be on
the left side of her throat.
[15:18] Hirai
But her injury was on the other side.
[15:22] Yoshii
I see!
[15:23] Yoshii
So the man Kindaichi talked about
must have been left-handed.
[15:25] Yoshii
He's the culprit!
[15:26] Hirai
No. That man is not the killer.
[15:30] Hirai
But I do believe it's true that
Professor Kindaichi saw him.
[15:34] Hirai
A man Professor Kindaichi witnessed,
who later disappeared,
[15:38] Hirai
and the madam who left
the reception area empty.
[15:42] Hirai
This means that two people disappeared.
[15:47] Hirai
A man and... a woman.
[15:51] Nomura
So that's what it was!
[15:52] Nomura
The man Kindaichi saw is
the madam's young lover!
[15:55] Hirai
Most likely.
[15:57] Hirai
That's why she wanted to
conceal his identity.
[16:01] Sakutarou
If that's the case...
[16:04] Yoshii
Then the person who killed Otaki
[16:06] Yoshii
has to be either Ishikawa-kun
or Kindaichi-kun, doesn't it?
[16:09] Hirai
No. There's one more person.
[16:14] Hirai
The person who killed Otaki-san...
[16:17] Takuboku
...was Otaki herself.
[16:21] Hirai
Exactly.
[16:23] Hirai
She struck the match with her left hand.
[16:28] Hirai
If a left-handed person were
to stab themselves in the throat,
[16:32] Hirai
they would hold the short sword
on the right to gain some distance,
[16:36] Hirai
and stab in one motion.
[16:49] Yoshii
But what was her motive?
[16:52] Hirai
Her motive was...
[16:56] Hirai
The question as to why Otaki-san came
to Gaiheikan two nights ago...
[17:00] Hirai
I found the answer
in Ishikawa-sensei's diary.
[17:03] Hirai
About a month ago,
Ishikawa-sensei received a letter
[17:06] Hirai
from the proprietress of an inn in Kushiro.
[17:12] Hirai
The proprietress and he had,
well, their relationship was...
[17:15] Nomura
They'd been together, huh?
[17:17] Hirai
And... she'd written that
a woman who worked at the inn
[17:20] Hirai
had fallen in love with Professor Kindaichi
[17:23] Hirai
when he'd gone to Hokkaido
to research the Ainu.
[17:26] Hirai
She'd shaken off attempts
to stop her and gone to Tokyo,
[17:28] Hirai
so could he possibly
help the two of them meet.
[17:32] Sakutarou
And that girl was Hananoya's... Otaki...
[17:37] Hirai
Otaki-san must have waited, wondering
when Professor Kindaichi might come.
[17:40] Hirai
Each day must have felt
like a thousand years.
[17:44] Hirai
But no matter how long
she waited, he never came.
[17:47] Nomura
So, she finally decided
to see him herself, huh?
[17:51] Hirai
When she heard Professor Kindaichi's habit
[17:54] Hirai
of speaking more femininely when agitated,
[17:55] Hirai
Otaki-san must have started to
wonder about their relationship...
[17:59] Hirai
But the next day, when Otaki-san
had sunk into despair,
[18:04] Hirai
the professor appeared before her.
[18:06] Hirai
Otaki-san must have decided she'd been
jumping to conclusions the night before.
[18:10] Hirai
I'm certain that's what she thought.
[18:13] Hirai
But, in the end, frustration, joy, despair,
[18:17] Hirai
these emotions had their
way with Otaki-san...
[18:21] Hirai
Ishikawa-sensei...
[18:22] Hirai
the truth is you knew Professor Kindaichi
wasn't the killer, didn't you?
[18:26] Hirai
The reason you treated Professor
Kindaichi as the criminal
[18:29] Hirai
lies within the yearning, pure love
of a prostitute from the countryside,
[18:32] Hirai
and the vexation of seeing Professor
Kindaichi be unable to respond to it.
[18:36] Hirai
That's what I think.
[18:40] Akutagawa
It's all in a grove.
[18:41] Nomura
But if Otaki was deeply
in love with Kindaichi,
[18:45] Nomura
why would she enter a brothel?
[18:47] Hirai
I don't know, either.
[18:50] Hirai
But even so...
[18:52] Hirai
Otaki-san was always coughing badly...
[18:55] Hirai
Maybe... she didn't have long left...
[19:07] Takuboku
I dragged you all into this
ridiculous farce with me!
[19:10] Takuboku
I'm sorry.
[19:12] Takuboku
"Just once before I die, I want
to be with the man I love."
[19:16] Takuboku
Otaki sold her body to make
money and came here.
[19:21] Takuboku
And that obstinate,
unsociable blockhead just...
[19:24] Takuboku
No matter how many times I invited him,
he never went to Hananoya.
[19:27] Takuboku
And just when I thought he'd go see her,
[19:29] Takuboku
this time, he wouldn't
even try to touch her.
[19:32] Takuboku
I know! Of course I know!
[19:36] Takuboku
I know that's the kind
of person Kyousuke-san is...
[19:39] Takuboku
I know, but...
[19:42] Takuboku
What I saw in that room...
was Otaki preparing for death.
[19:46] Takuboku
Her last moments in this life,
you could say,
[19:48] Takuboku
with Kyousuke-san's jacket draped about her.
[19:53] Takuboku
When I saw that, an overwhelming hate
for Kyousuke-san rose up in me...
[19:57] Takuboku
I hated him, hated him, hated him,
hated him, hated him!
[20:01] Takuboku
That's why! That's why I served
him up to the police!
[20:09] Takuboku
Oh, it's so ridiculous.
[20:19] Takuboku
A memento.
[20:21] Takuboku
Well...
[20:22] Takuboku
Now that the truth behind
the farce has been revealed,
[20:25] Takuboku
let's put an end to it, shall we?
[20:29] Nomura
Where are you going?
[20:30] Takuboku
That's obvious, isn't it?
[20:34] Yoshii
What is it?
[20:35] Sakutarou
Ishikawa-san... didn't leave
his part of the bill, did he?
SIGN Asakusa Police Station
[20:59] Kyousuke
Oh, right.
[21:01] Kyousuke
Here.
SIGN My dream came true. Thank you.
[21:14] Kyousuke
The fact that I was released...
means the killer was found, right?
[21:19] Takuboku
That jacket. Did you really forget it?
[21:22] Kyousuke
What?
[21:23] Kyousuke
Yeah... Well...
[21:45] Kyousuke
Ow!
[21:46] Kyousuke
Wh-What was that for?!
[21:48] Kyousuke
Hey! Ishikawa-kun!
[21:55] Takuboku
"Casual
[21:58] Takuboku
remarks spoken
[22:00] Takuboku
casually...
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[22:09] Takuboku
you must have heard them too
[22:12] Takuboku
that's all it was."
[23:37] Sakutarou
Hirai-kun, your deductions
were really impressive.
[23:39] Hirai
I just can't help poking my nose
into strange incidents!
[23:42] Hirai
Right now, I'm interested
in those popular rumors!
SIGN Next Time: "Strange Stories of the High Tower"
[23:44] Sakutarou
That apparition again, is it?
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E4 - Strange Stories of the High Tower
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[00:06] woman
...throat...
[00:09] woman
...moon...
[00:26] Takuboku
This is such a great help! But...
[00:29] Takuboku
You were saving this to buy an unabridged
dictionary of Japanese history, right?
[00:33] Kyousuke
No, it's all right.
[00:34] Kyousuke
If you can use it, that's enough.
[00:37] Takuboku
Then I'll be sure to use it well.
[00:42] Kyousuke
You were playing Humoresques, weren't you?
[00:44] Takuboku
Yes.
[00:45] Takuboku
The truth is, I want to play Wagner,
but I just can't play well enough,
[00:49] Takuboku
and Nomura-san recommended it so
ardently, I decided to try it...
[00:49] (Flashback) Nomura; bakground
Have you gotten used to it yet?
[00:52] (Flashback) Nomura; bakground
That part where it changes keys
is particularly tricky, right?
[00:58] Takuboku
The rain's stopped.
[01:01] Takuboku
Come with me to the Twelve-stories.
[01:03] Kyousuke
What? Now?
[01:06] Takuboku
The thing is... I received
a detective request, you see.
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Demon's Hour at the Skyscraper
[01:12] Kyousuke
In these modern times,
[01:14] Kyousuke
something like that couldn't possibly exist.
[01:17] Takuboku
Oh! Looks like a crowd is gathering!
[01:20] Takuboku
7:30, huh? It's just about
the right time for...
[01:36] Kyousuke
That's...
[01:39] Takuboku
The phantom of the demon tower...
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Strange Stories of the High Tower
[03:13] Man 1
Summer's long over already...
[03:15] Man 2
It must be holding a grudge.
[03:16] Man 3
Namandabu, namandabu, namandabu...
[03:17] Kyousuke
I-It really appeared... A ghost!
[03:20] Takuboku
Yes...
[03:22] Takuboku
It did appear, but...
[03:23] Yamaoka
Ishikawa-san!
[03:26] Yamaoka
It's me. Yamaoka.
[03:29] Takuboku
It's been a long time!
Have you been well?
[03:32] Yamaoka
Yes.
[03:34] Takuboku
Oh, this is Kindaichi Kyousuke-san.
My talented investigative assistant.
[03:40] Takuboku
Kyousuke-sa—
[03:41] Takuboku
Kindaichi-kun.
[03:42] Kyousuke
Huh?
[03:43] Takuboku
This is a reporter for the Maichou
Shimbun, Yamaoka-kun.
[03:47] Takuboku
Oh. I've just started
proofreading for the Asahi.
[03:51] Yamaoka
Really?
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[03:55] Takuboku
Well, let's not stand around talking.
[03:57] Takuboku
How about a little refreshment?
[04:07] Takuboku
Three orders of your finest kabayaki eel,
and three bottles of sake, too.
[04:11] Kyousuke
I'm not very hungry, so... just two of each.
[04:16] Kyousuke
I'm not feeling very well either, you see.
[04:18] Takuboku
Really?
[04:19] Kyousuke
Really.
[04:20] Takuboku
That's all.
[04:21] Takuboku
Oh! Maybe we should have
had monkfish instead.
[04:26] Takuboku
Oh. Your nails.
[04:29] Takuboku
Did you do that with
the person you mentioned?
[04:31] Yamaoka
No, these aren't really...
[04:43] Yamaoka
I was wondering. You said
something about investigating?
[04:47] Takuboku
That's right.
[04:48] Takuboku
I recently started working as a detective.
[04:52] Takuboku
My talent flowers best, you see,
when confronted by reality.
[04:57] Takuboku
Poems, tanka, and novels
are all just fictions in the end.
[05:00] Kyousuke
Still, saying that poets and
detectives are alike is...
[05:04] Yamaoka
So... what are you looking into?
[05:08] Takuboku
The ghost at Ryouunkaku.
[05:12] Takuboku
Are you here gathering material, too?
[05:15] Yamaoka
No...
[05:17] Takuboku
The manager of the Twelve-stories
asked me to reveal the truth behind it.
[05:23] Takuboku
He said it was just too eerie.
[05:25] Yamaoka
To tell the truth... it's causing
me problems, too.
[05:30] Yamaoka
I work at the sumo hall next
to the Twelve-stories.
[05:33] Takuboku
What?
[05:34] Takuboku
Did you end up quitting the newspaper?
[05:36] Yamaoka
Yes. At the end of September.
[05:39] Takuboku
The end of September...
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[05:43] Takuboku
Keep the change!
[05:44] Kyousuke
What?
[05:47] Yamaoka
Thank you for treating me.
[05:49] Takuboku
It doesn't even come close
to repaying your kindness.
[05:52] Yamaoka
As conscientious as ever, I see.
[05:56] Takuboku
And you... you've changed a little, I think.
[06:04] Yamaoka
I haven't changed at all.
[06:08] Takuboku
Three years ago, when
I was moving back to Kozukata,
[06:11] Takuboku
he really helped me out.
[06:13] Takuboku
Speaking of which...
[06:14] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, you haven't
been home in a while.
[06:17] Takuboku
Aren't you starting to miss your hometown?
[06:20] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun.
[06:22] Takuboku
Is something wrong? That's quite
a frightening expression.
[06:25] Kyousuke
I'm not... lending you any more money!
[06:29] Kyousuke
I feel you need to grow up a little.
[06:37] girl
Oh! The moon is so pretty!
[06:40] mom
You're right. It's beautiful.
[06:42] girl
Isn't it?
[06:45] Yamaoka
Throat...
[06:47] Yamaoka
...moon...
[06:57] Takuboku
So, you're saying all the ghost
commotion at Ryouunkaku
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
[07:00] Takuboku
is because of a trick being played
by an entertainer in the area?
[07:03] Rokurou
People are turning away from the
Twelve-stories and the moving pictures.
[07:09] Rokurou
The traditional entertainers
are all excited.
[07:13] Takuboku
I see.
[07:15] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun?
[07:17] Takuboku
Kindaichi-kun!
[07:18] Takuboku
This is Asakusa's Rokurou-san.
[07:20] Takuboku
He's notorious in Asakusa,
[07:22] Takuboku
If he sets his sights on you,
you're as good as dead in Asakusa.
[07:25] Takuboku
A very scary person.
[07:26] Rokurou
No, no. Nothing like that.
[07:28] Kyousuke
My name is Kindaichi Kyousuke.
[07:30] Takuboku
Sorry, but could you make some tea for us?
[07:32] Kyousuke
What?
[07:34] Takuboku
And if you could put these golden
lace flowers I bought in a vase?
[07:38] Takuboku
I remembered the way they bloom at the foot
of Mount Iwate, and I couldn't help myself.
[07:43] Takuboku
Now then.
[07:44] Takuboku
If we assume that the ghost is a trick
being played by the entertainers,
[07:47] Takuboku
then exposing the truth behind it
might be simpler than I thought.
[07:51] Takuboku
For example... a magic lantern?
[07:55] Rokurou
That sounds like a good line of inquiry.
[07:58] Rokurou
If I make a move, people get upset,
so I'll just ask around a bit.
[08:03] Kyousuke
Here you go.
[08:05] Rokurou
Sorry for the trouble.
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Newspapers
SIGN Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
[08:14] Takuboku
Thanks for waiting.
[08:15] Yamaoka
Um... Is it true?
[08:18] Yamaoka
You've discovered the truth
behind the ghost?
[08:21] Takuboku
The articles on the ghost
in the Maichou Shimbun...
[08:24] Takuboku
You wrote them, didn't you?
[08:26] Yamaoka
What?
[08:27] Takuboku
You quit at the very end of September.
[08:29] Takuboku
And the daily ghost articles also
stopped abruptly on September 30th.
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Demon's Hour at the Skyscraper
[08:34] Kyousuke
W-Wait, hold on a minute.
[08:35] Kyousuke
There were articles about it after
that, too, weren't there?
[08:38] Takuboku
Yes.
[08:39] Takuboku
Even major papers who hadn't
reported on it at all before
[08:42] Takuboku
started reporting on it simultaneously
starting on October 10th.
[08:47] Takuboku
What do you think about that?
[08:49] Kyousuke
What do we think?
[08:50] Kyousuke
You can't mean... There's no reason for
the Maichou Shimbun to print a false story.
[08:54] Takuboku
That's exactly what I mean.
[08:56] Takuboku
Just what I'd expect from you, Kyousuke-san.
[08:59] Takuboku
In short, up until that point,
no ghosts had appeared.
[09:03] Takuboku
That's why the big papers had
no reason to write about it.
[09:06] Takuboku
To put it a different way, the ghost
began to appear on October 10th.
[09:11] Takuboku
And the one who made it appear...
[09:13] Takuboku
was you, wasn't it, Yamaoka-kun?
[09:17] Takuboku
Come to think of it, Rokurou-san
got in touch with me recently.
[09:21] Takuboku
He told me a gentleman
named Koiso Matsukichi
[09:23] Takuboku
used to be a magic lantern operator.
[09:28] Takuboku
Yamaoka-kun, you wouldn't
know him, would you?
[09:31] Yamaoka
I have no idea what you're talking about.
[09:34] Yamaoka
I have work, so...
[09:37] Takuboku
Your nails!
[09:38] Takuboku
Crimson nails, right?
[09:41] Takuboku
"In the pale crimson
[09:42] Takuboku
lingering emotions of balsam flowers
[09:45] Takuboku
a breath blown across
[09:47] Takuboku
nails waiting for snow."
[09:50] Takuboku
There's a poem about it.
[09:52] Takuboku
The ghost wouldn't have anything to do
with those crimson nails of yours, would it?
[10:00] Takuboku
You can't tell me about it?
[10:03] Yamaoka
Throat. Moon.
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Detective's
Office
SIGN Three Years Earlier
[10:20] (Flashback) Yamaoka
What time is your train?
[10:22] (Flashback) Takuboku
Three o'clock.
[10:24] (Flashback) Takuboku
I'll leave once I've finished this.
[10:26] (Flashback) Yamaoka
It's a shame.
[10:28] (Flashback) Yamaoka
A talent like yours...
[10:31] (Flashback) Yamaoka
Actually, I'm going to start working
at the Maichou Shimbun.
[10:35] (Flashback) Takuboku
Oh, that's great news.
[10:37] (Flashback) Takuboku
So you can write your novel
while you're working.
[10:39] (Flashback) Yamaoka
No. I won't be writing a novel...
[10:43] (Flashback) Yamaoka
There's someone
I've grown very fond of,
[10:46] (Flashback) Yamaoka
but right now, there
isn't any way for me to...
[10:51] (Flashback) Takuboku
To live for love... that's life, too.
[10:57] (Flashback) Takuboku
Well then, let's meet again one day.
[11:01] (Flashback) Yamaoka
I like your poetry.
[11:05] (Flashback) Takuboku
In that case, I'll accept.
[11:11] Takuboku
I'll leave the money here.
[11:13] waitress
Thank you!
[11:14] Takuboku
The dango here really are exceptional.
[11:18] Takuboku
After seven, is it?
[11:20] Takuboku
We should arrive at the prearranged
spot right on time.
[11:25] Kyousuke
This is crazy, isn't it?
[11:28] Takuboku
What is?
[11:29] Kyousuke
You never have money, and you just went
and paid without any prompting!
[11:33] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[11:35] Takuboku
I simply want to be honest
with myself, that's all.
[11:39] Kyousuke
Honest?
[11:42] Kyousuke
Why are we meeting in a place like this?
[11:48] Kyousuke
What's wrong?
[11:50] Takuboku
It seems we're being followed.
[11:52] Kyousuke
What?
[11:53] Takuboku
Don't look back.
[11:55] Takuboku
See?
[11:59] Kyousuke
You're right!
[12:01] Kyousuke
Now that I think about it, they say
a woman was killed here not long ago.
[12:07] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san!
[12:13] Kyousuke
I wonder who was following us.
[12:16] Takuboku
The only ones who knew we'd be
in Asakusa at this time were...
[12:22] Kyousuke
Rokurou-san,
[12:23] Kyousuke
and the man he introduced us to,
Matsukichi, makes two.
[12:26] Kyousuke
Oh, but Rokurou-san is helping you, so...
[12:30] Takuboku
Yamaoka-kun?!
[12:32] man
Someone's dead over here!
[12:34] crowd
That's Mattsan!
[12:36] crowd
It's old man Koiso!
[12:36] Kyousuke
This man is Matsukichi-san?
[12:39] Kyousuke
An artificial leg!
[12:43] Kyousuke
Wait!
[12:44] Kyousuke
You shouldn't just go touching things...
[12:50] Kyousuke
This is from over two months ago.
[12:52] Takuboku
"In a copse behind Sensou-ji,
[12:55] Takuboku
an unidentified young woman,
collapsed and bleeding from the head,
[13:00] Takuboku
was discovered by a man
named Koiso Matsukichi.
[13:03] Takuboku
With her last breath,
[13:06] Takuboku
the woman was heard to say these
mysterious words: 'throat moon.'"
[13:11] Takuboku
Throat moon...
[13:13] Takuboku
Throat... moon...
[13:24] Takuboku
Throat moon, huh?
[13:27] Takuboku
That's what it was, Kyousuke-san!
[13:29] Takuboku
The ghost of Ryouunkaku. This newspaper
article is what caused it to rise.
[13:38] Takuboku
A throat moon...
[13:44] Nomura
Did you hear? About the man who worked
the magic lanterns getting killed.
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Newspapers
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[13:48] Yoshii
The man on the run is named Yamaoka.
A friend of Ishikawa-kun's I believe.
[13:53] Sakutarou
About two months ago,
[13:56] Sakutarou
the woman he loved was
killed behind Sensou-ji.
[13:59] Sakutarou
He thought the magic lantern
operator who found her had done it,
[14:01] Sakutarou
and this crime was the result.
[14:05] Yoshii
Oh, right. Are you feeling better?
[14:08] Kyousuke
Huh?
[14:09] Kyousuke
There's nothing particularly
wrong with me...
[14:10] Yoshii
Well, Ishikawa-kun came to me recently
saying you weren't feeling well,
[14:14] Yoshii
and to build your stamina,
he wanted to feed you monkfish,
[14:17] Yoshii
so could I please help.
He was quite persistent.
[14:19] Sakutarou
Really?
[14:20] Sakutarou
With me he said that Kyousuke-san
was always helping him,
[14:23] Sakutarou
and wanted to give him
a history dictionary,
[14:24] Sakutarou
but he didn't have the means, so...
[14:26] Nomura
Hold on!
[14:27] Nomura
With me he said he wanted to
help him go back home for a visit
[14:30] Nomura
and could I help with travel expenses...
[14:31] Takuboku
This is where you were!
[14:33] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[14:34] Kyousuke
Feeding me monkfish! Buying me
a dictionary! Sending me home!
[14:37] Kyousuke
What were you think—
[14:37] Takuboku
This is no time for that!
[14:39] Takuboku
Come on! Hurry up!
[14:40] Kyousuke
Wh-What? Wait!
[14:42] Nomura
My, my...
[14:51] Takuboku
It just won't focus correctly,
but that's part of the fun.
[14:55] Kyousuke
Where did you get something like this?
[14:58] Takuboku
To expose the truth of the ghost,
[15:00] Takuboku
I asked the client to borrow it for me.
[15:02] Kyousuke
But, there wasn't really a need
to try it yourself, was there?
[15:05] Takuboku
In addition to the client's request,
[15:07] Takuboku
I thought I'd try reeling in
the Matsukichi-killer.
[15:10] Kyousuke
You're saying Yamaoka-san will come here?
[15:14] Kyousuke
Oh. That's right!
[15:16] Kyousuke
You went and made out I was sick so
you could borrow money, didn't you?
[15:19] Kyousuke
And you said you wanted to buy me
a dictionary and send me home...
[15:23] Takuboku
But... Kyousuke-san, you did seem unwell,
and you wanted that dictionary,
[15:28] Takuboku
and said you wanted to go home
for a visit, didn't you?
[15:30] Kyousuke
But you ended up using the money
you borrowed on yourself, didn't you?
[15:33] Takuboku
It just happened to turn out that way.
[15:35] Kyousuke
Happened to?
[15:37] Takuboku
Yes.
[15:38] Takuboku
I wasn't lying when I said
I wanted to feed you monkfish,
[15:42] Takuboku
but it so happened that on the way back
I caught sight of the golden lace flowers.
[15:46] Kyousuke
But, that's...
[15:47] Takuboku
That's right.
[15:49] Takuboku
Now that I think about it,
[15:51] Takuboku
Wagner, and Wordsworth, too...
[15:53] Takuboku
all the geniuses were
burdened by tremendous debt!
[15:58] Kyousuke
You're just so...
[16:02] Takuboku
Someone's here.
[16:13] Takuboku
It was you, wasn't it?
[16:18] Takuboku
Asakusa's Rokurou-san.
[16:20] Rokurou
Wh-Why are you here?
[16:22] Takuboku
And you, Constable Sahara. We've met before.
[16:26] Sahara
You're... from that other case...
[16:28] Sahara
Wasn't Yamaoka supposed to be here?
[16:30] Rokurou
Well...
[16:31] Takuboku
The person who killed
Matsukichi-san wasn't Yamaoka-kun.
[16:35] Takuboku
Rokurou-san. You killed him and tried to
frame Yamaoka-kun for it, didn't you?
[16:41] Rokurou
D-Don't be stupid.
[16:43] Rokurou
Why would I do something like that?
[16:45] Takuboku
The thing that made me suspicious
[16:48] Takuboku
was that despite you profiting
from the uproar about the ghost,
[16:51] Takuboku
you offered to help me in trying
to expose the truth behind it.
[16:56] Takuboku
And when you even offered to
introduce me to Matsukichi-san,
[16:58] Takuboku
I was certain my suspicions were right.
[17:02] Rokurou
And why would I need to kill Matsukichi?
[17:05] Takuboku
Because... there was a certain fact
regarding the origins of this ghostly uproar
[17:10] Takuboku
that Matsukichi-san had figured out.
[17:19] (Flashback) Rokurou
Kicking up a fuss...
[17:21] (Flashback) Matsukichi
Is someone there?
[17:29] (Flashback) woman
...throat... moon...
[17:33] Takuboku
It's very likely that Matsukichi-san
realized that you were the killer,
[17:38] Takuboku
but as an entertainer in Asakusa,
[17:40] Takuboku
crossing Asakusa's Rokurou-san
was strictly forbidden.
[17:44] Takuboku
On the other hand... he felt sorry for
Yamaoka-kun, who had lost his beloved,
[17:49] Takuboku
and to expose the killer, he agreed
to help create the ghost.
[17:54] Rokurou
If that's the case, then it
would be even stranger
[17:57] Rokurou
for me to help you meet
Matsukichi, wouldn't it?
[17:59] Takuboku
You made sure Matsukichi-san knew of us,
while keeping your name out of it,
[18:05] Takuboku
in order to test his loyalty.
[18:09] Takuboku
Matsukichi-san brought the newspaper
article about the murder,
[18:13] Takuboku
intending to meet with us, so...
[18:15] Takuboku
You decided he meant to betray you, and...
[18:20] Takuboku
you killed him.
[18:22] Kyousuke
But, then... What about
when you saw Yamaoka-san?
[18:26] Takuboku
Rokurou-san used Matsukichi-san's
name to call him out,
[18:30] Takuboku
intending to frame him for the murder.
[18:33] Sahara
What are you talking about?
[18:35] Kyousuke
Well...
[18:36] Kyousuke
When we were on our way
to the meeting place,
[18:39] Kyousuke
we were followed by Matsukichi-san...
[18:41] Sahara
By Matsukichi?
[18:43] Takuboku
I'm sure he must have agonized
to the very last moment.
[18:49] Rokurou
This is hilarious.
[18:51] Rokurou
So, you're saying that just before
Matsukichi's body was found,
[18:55] Rokurou
the man was following you, right?
[18:58] Kyousuke
Well, I suppose so.
[19:01] Rokurou
But, you see...
[19:03] Rokurou
I was drinking in a place on Nakamise
when I got word that he'd died.
[19:08] Rokurou
If Matsukichi was out by the haunted
jizo statue playing tag with you,
[19:13] Rokurou
then I couldn't have killed him.
[19:15] Takuboku
How did you know we were
near the haunted jizo?
[19:19] Takuboku
I'm asking you how you knew where we were
when Matsukichi-san was following us.
[19:27] Takuboku
It's because the one following us...
[19:36] Takuboku
was you.
[19:39] Rokurou
I don't know what you're talking about.
[19:42] Takuboku
Rokurou-san.
[19:43] Takuboku
Would you mind taking off your scarf?
[19:47] Takuboku
"Throat moon."
[19:49] Takuboku
The strange words in the article
Matsukichi-san was holding,
[19:54] Takuboku
are referring to your neck, right?
[19:56] Takuboku
Not "throat moon," "throat wound."
[19:59] Rokurou
This is stupid. I'm leaving.
[20:06] Rokurou
You're...
[20:10] Yamaoka
Show us.
[20:11] Yamaoka
Your neck! Show us!
[20:24] Yamaoka
Throat wound...
[20:27] Takuboku
Yamaoka-kun!
[20:43] Kyousuke
He'd been searching this whole time
[20:45] Kyousuke
for someone with a scar
on their throat, hadn't he?
[20:49] Kyousuke
He started by writing
an article about the ghost,
[20:51] Kyousuke
then he made the ghost appear,
making everyone look up.
[20:57] Kyousuke
Oh! It's the first snow.
[21:02] Takuboku
"In Asakusa
[21:04] Takuboku
atop the tower that scrapes the clouds
[21:06] Takuboku
arms crossed, I ponder the day
[21:08] Takuboku
a long journal entry, perhaps?"
[21:11] Takuboku
It's a little... too late, isn't it?
[21:14] Kyousuke
Too late?
[21:16] Takuboku
Crimson nails... it's another name
for balsam flowers.
[21:20] Takuboku
You crush the petals
and paint your fingernails,
[21:23] Takuboku
and if the color lasts
until the first snow falls,
[21:26] Takuboku
then your love will endure.
That's what they say.
[21:32] Takuboku
Living for love... and dying
for love the way he did...
[21:37] Takuboku
I believe I'm a little bit jealous.
[21:44] Kyousuke
What do you say to some
monkfish on the way back?
[21:46] Takuboku
What?
[21:47] Kyousuke
I'll pay, of course, so if you'd
just feel greatly indebted to me...
[21:53] Kyousuke
It's true. You are a very honest person.
[21:56] Kyousuke
You eat what you want to eat,
[21:57] Kyousuke
wax nostalgic when you
want to wax nostalgic,
[22:00] Kyousuke
when you feel something,
you compose a poem...
[22:03] Kyousuke
In short, you are a genius...
[22:05] Kyousuke
and a child.
[22:08] Kyousuke
And I... I want to help you,
just the way you are.
[22:14] Takuboku
Somehow... I don't feel the need
to fight you on that.
[23:38] Takuboku
What's this? Hagiwara-kun, are you lovesick?
[23:40] Sakutarou
What? It's... um...
[23:42] Takuboku
Yoshii-kun and Nomura-san
were looking dazed, too.
SIGN Next Time: "Accursed Beast"
[23:44] Takuboku
Ah, the season of love!
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E5 - Accursed Beast
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[00:00] Kyousuke
She loved you!
[00:03] Kyousuke
And I loved you...
[00:06] Kyousuke
your talent, your poetry, and you.
[00:10] Kyousuke
But that ends today.
[00:13] Kyousuke
I am going to cut ties with you.
[00:22] Takuboku
"That accursed beast,
the dyer's daughter, Oroku
[00:27] Takuboku
carrying a cat along
the beach in the setting sun...
[00:31] Takuboku
with an innocent expression,
lissome and lithe..."
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
[02:06] Takuboku
"I ponder...
[02:08] Takuboku
the dangerous religion
of this dissolute age
[02:10] Takuboku
the witchcraft of the Christian Deus...
[02:16] Takuboku
the captains of the Black Ships...
[02:19] Takuboku
the mysterious land of the Red-haired...
[02:22] Takuboku
the crimson colored glass...
[02:25] Takuboku
and sharply scented carnations
[02:27] Takuboku
the striped cottons of the
barbarians from the West
[02:30] Takuboku
and arrak, that strange and rare liquor.
[02:36] Takuboku
The pale people of Dominica
SIGN Poem 5
Accursed Beast
[02:39] Takuboku
speak in multisyllabic litanies,
even in my dreams,
[02:43] Takuboku
of the forbidden god of their sect
[02:45] Takuboku
or of the blood-stained holy crucifixion..."
[02:49] Kayo
I'm coming in!
[02:51] Takuboku
"The deceptive instrument which
shows poppy seeds large as apples...
[02:56] Takuboku
The strange spectacles which bring the
heavens closer as you peer into the sky..."
[02:56] Kayo
What is that? It's too early in the
morning for something so creepy.
[02:59] Kayo
Come on. Hurry up and eat.
[03:01] Takuboku
Is it creepy?
[03:04] Takuboku
This is called "Gateway to Heresy."
[03:07] Takuboku
A friend of mine, Kitahara Hakushuu,
a man overflowing with wisdom wrote...
[03:12] Takuboku
The son of the Uchimoto steamship
company seems to have killed someone.
[03:16] Kayo
Honestly...
[03:17] Kayo
There isn't a single decent person
among the so-called upper class.
[03:19] Takuboku
You have a grudge against
the Uchimoto ships or something?
[03:22] Kayo
It's nothing like that.
[03:24] Kayo
I just feel sorry for the young lady
who was killed. That's all.
[03:31] Kayo
Oh! Ishikawa-san!
[03:33] Kayo
Do you have this month's rent?
[03:34] Takuboku
Yes. I'll have it within
the next day or two.
[03:38] Kayo
Really?
[03:39] Takuboku
A poet never goes back on his word.
[03:42] Kayo
Honestly.
[03:43] Kayo
What does he think he's doing? At his age...
[03:50] Kyousuke
Good morning!
[03:52] Takuboku
Morning.
[03:54] Kyousuke
Were you up all night?
[03:56] Takuboku
Yes.
[03:57] Takuboku
I couldn't sleep, so I opened up
Kitahara-kun's Gateway to Heresy
[04:00] Takuboku
and ended up even more awake than before.
[04:02] Takuboku
People like him are geniuses.
[04:06] Kyousuke
True, Kitahara-san may be a genius,
[04:09] Kyousuke
but your talent is in no way
inferior to his.
[04:14] Takuboku
You really are kind, Kyousuke-san.
[04:17] Kyousuke
In any case... Don't push yourself too hard.
[04:20] Kyousuke
If you let your health fall apart,
nothing else matters.
[04:24] Takuboku
"For me...
[04:26] Takuboku
to soothe my troubled heart
[04:29] Takuboku
someone sang me a song of praise."
[04:33] Takuboku
I composed that yesterday
while thinking of you.
[04:37] Kyousuke
Changing the subject,
aren't you going to work?
[04:40] Takuboku
Yes. Of course I'm going.
[04:43] Takuboku
As an ordinary consumer,
I need to earn my daily living.
[04:47] Takuboku
Though I work and work...
[04:51] Kyousuke
Do you have any plans tonight?
[04:53] Kyousuke
Let's go eat something
to give you some stamina.
[04:55] Kyousuke
I received my wages yesterday.
[04:57] Takuboku
I somehow feel apologetic toward you.
[05:00] Kyousuke
Oh, right. You paid your rent, didn't you?
[05:03] Takuboku
Oh.
[05:05] Takuboku
I'll take care of it in the next day or so.
[05:07] Kyousuke
Let's meet in the usual
place at seven, then.
[05:16] Yoshii
"Every morning...
[05:17] Yoshii
always on the same beach
[05:20] Yoshii
if we meet, I begin to smile—this maiden."
[05:23] Sakutarou
That's good.
[05:25] Yoshii
You think so?
[05:26] Sakutarou
Yes.
[05:27] Sakutarou
That is exactly the frame of mind I'm in.
[05:31] Sakutarou
So, who were you thinking
of when you composed that?
[05:38] Sakutarou
What?
[05:39] Sakutarou
She's the one that I—
[05:40] Yoshii
But you haven't made a single move.
[05:42] Sakutarou
Even so... How could you be so cruel?
[05:44] Yoshii
What do you mean, "cruel"?
[05:46] Yoshii
It's not as though Kiku-san belongs to you.
[05:49] Sakutarou
But...
[05:50] Nomura
Hey! You guys fighting?
[05:53] Sakutarou
Nomura-san!
[05:55] Sakutarou
Yoshii-kun has betrayed me.
[05:57] Yoshii
Hold on! You're making me
out to be a disgrace!
[05:59] Nomura
Now, now. I have no idea
what you're talking about.
[06:02] Sakutarou
Well, I... Ever since
she started working here,
[06:07] Sakutarou
my heart follows her.
[06:09] Sakutarou
I talked with Yoshii-kun about it, but he...
[06:12] Nomura
Would that "she" be...
[06:15] Sakutarou
Yokoyama Kiku-san.
[06:16] Nomura
What?!
[06:18] Sakutarou
Could it be that you also—
[06:19] Nomura
D-Don't be stupid.
[06:22] Nomura
Who'd want a girl like...
[06:40] Takuboku
Excuse me!
[06:42] proprietor
Huh?
[06:43] Takuboku
I'll take this please.
[06:54] Takuboku
"Fresh and new...
[06:55] Takuboku
the smell of the paper of Western books
[06:58] Takuboku
makes me hunger for money all the more."
[07:03] Sakutarou
So Nomura-san, you have
feelings for Kiku-san, too.
[07:08] Nomura
That girl stole something important to me.
[07:12] Sakutarou
Something important?
[07:13] Nomura
My heart.
[07:20] Sakutarou
Beautiful, genuine, and dignified...
[07:24] Sakutarou
It would be hard not to
fall in love with her.
[07:28] Nomura
You're not wrong.
[07:29] Yoshii
I will not let you have her!
[07:31] Yoshii
Whether my opponent be
Nomura-san or Hagiwara-kun,
[07:36] Yoshii
I will not give her up!
[07:37] Sakutarou
And I—
[07:39] Sakutarou
I'd never give her up, even if it kills me.
[07:41] Nomura
Well, there is the question of her feelings...
[07:42] Yoshii
I see.
[07:44] Yoshii
Then why don't we settle this
with our poems?
[07:47] Sakutarou
With poems?
[07:48] Yoshii
We have staked our lives on literature.
[07:51] Yoshii
It's only logical that a battle on love's
pathway be settled through literature.
[07:54] Sakutarou
That's true, but...
[07:56] Nomura
I'll pass.
[07:59] Yoshii
What about you, Hagiwara-kun?
[08:01] Yoshii
Do you think you can surpass
the poem I read earlier?
[08:05] Sakutarou
Of course. I accept your challenge.
[08:12] Satou
It's already after three.
[08:13] Satou
What happened?
[08:15] Takuboku
Yes... I wasn't feeling very well.
[08:19] Satou
I see.
[08:20] Satou
You do seem tired...
[08:23] Takuboku
Not at all. Work is work.
[08:25] Takuboku
I can't let my circumstances
dictate everything.
[08:28] Satou
Good. Then we'll be counting on you today.
[08:32] Takuboku
Yes, sir. Leave it to me.
[08:37] Satou
Is something wrong?
[08:39] Takuboku
Well... I was wondering if
I might have an advance.
[08:42] Satou
What?
[08:43] Satou
But you asked for an advance
last week, too, to pay your rent.
[08:46] Takuboku
Oh. I ended up sending that to my parents...
[08:51] Satou
It's really hard to talk
to accounting about this...
[08:55] Satou
Will this be enough?
[08:56] Takuboku
Thank you.
[08:58] Takuboku
I will forever be indebted to you!
[09:01] Takuboku
That's a nice suit.
[09:02] Satou
Oh, this?
[09:03] Satou
The other day, I splurged and
bought it on monthly installments.
[09:06] Satou
I just happened to see it in the store
and fell in love at first sight.
[09:10] Satou
It's not often...
[09:12] Takuboku
"So large and great...
[09:14] Takuboku
his physical being loathsome
[09:16] Takuboku
standing before him, speaking."
[09:23] Sakutarou
"I simply wish...
[09:25] Sakutarou
for a day beside you
[09:28] Sakutarou
for a dream of a thousand years."
[09:30] Nomura
Impressive... Very passionate.
[09:34] Yoshii
Exactly the kind of poem I'd expect
a closet lecher like you to compose.
[09:38] Sakutarou
There's no need to talk about
a person's poem like that!
[09:40] Nomura
Oh, I forgot.
[09:42] Nomura
Shall we get this warmed up?
[09:44] Yoshii
Drinking will hardly help
with the poetry, will it?
[09:47] Sakutarou
You're wrong. Drinking will help
our tongues move more freely.
[09:51] Yoshii
But it will slow the movement
of our minds, won't it?
[09:54] Sakutarou
Poems are not spoken from the mind.
[09:57] Yoshii
Even so, they aren't spoken
from the tongue, are they?
[10:00] Sakutarou
You speak them with your tongue!
Or do you speak them with your teeth?
[10:03] Sakutarou
If you don't—
[10:03] Bokusui
Poems are read from the heart.
[10:07] Nomura
Wakayama-kun.
[10:10] Bokusui
Kiku-san!
[10:12] Kiku
Yes?
[10:14] Bokusui
Sorry for the trouble.
Can I ask you to heat this up?
[10:17] Kiku
Of course.
[10:19] Kiku
All of you have had the most
troubled expressions.
[10:21] Kiku
Are you discussing literature again?
[10:24] Sakutarou
No...
[10:25] Yoshii
Well, it is literature of a sort...
[10:27] Kiku
Don't give up.
[10:32] Bokusui
Truly, that is what you call lovely.
[10:35] Bokusui
I've been thinking Kiku-san
is pretty lovable, too, you see.
[10:39] Bokusui
Will you let me join in?
[10:41] Yoshii
That's...
[10:42] Sakutarou
Wakayama-san is like us,
aspiring toward literature.
[10:45] Sakutarou
There's no logical reason to refuse.
[10:48] Bokusui
In that case, allow me to read a poem.
[10:51] Bokusui
To be honest, I've already written it.
[10:54] Bokusui
"Look at the mountains
[10:55] Bokusui
The mountains shine in the sunlight
[10:57] Bokusui
Look at the sea
[10:59] Bokusui
The sea shines in the sunlight
[11:01] Bokusui
Now! My lips to yours."
[11:13] Man A
About Oen...
[11:15] Takuboku
Yes. Hananoya's proprietress
told me all about it.
[11:20] Man A
Meaning you understand and accept?
[11:22] Takuboku
Well, now, that's...
[11:24] Takuboku
It isn't something I can do
at my own discretion.
[11:27] Takuboku
Oen's feelings are what's
most important here, you see.
[11:31] Man A
You're quite an impressive man.
[11:33] Takuboku
Am I?
[11:36] Takuboku
If I were just a little more brazen,
[11:38] Takuboku
providing for my lifestyle
would be easier...
[11:42] Takuboku
"Though I work and work,
still, the way I live..."
[11:53] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san!
[11:56] Takuboku
Sorry to keep you waiting!
[11:58] Kyousuke
No, I just got here.
[12:01] Kyousuke
Have you already been drinking?
[12:03] Takuboku
With a certain wealthy man.
[12:05] Takuboku
Now, shall we go to the foot
of the Twelve-stories?
[12:08] Kyousuke
What?
[12:09] Takuboku
That's right. It's simply a lust for flesh.
[12:11] Takuboku
But it's still a lust for flesh, you know.
[12:14] Takuboku
Besides which, Kyousuke-san...
[12:15] Takuboku
Are you sure you're all right like that?
Your whole life... like that?
[12:19] Kyousuke
Well, no, but...
[12:21] Takuboku
Then tonight is the night we settle things!
[12:26] Bokusui
"Once drunk, everyone
[12:27] Bokusui
jokes about their triumphs in love
[12:30] Bokusui
with tears mingled in, ah, these youths."
[12:33] Nomura
Huh. The more he drinks,
the more Wakayama he gets.
[12:37] Sakutarou
The more he drinks, the more
his heart sings, I suppose.
[12:40] Yoshii
Nomura-san!
[12:41] Yoshii
Which poem is it? A poem
worthy of giving to Kiku-san.
[12:45] Yoshii
Tell me!
[12:46] Nomura
About that...
[12:47] Nomura
The thing is, Kiku-san has...
[12:49] Kiku
I'm leaving for the day!
[12:56] Sakutarou
Kiku-san!
[12:59] Sakutarou
Um... There's something
I'd like to give you.
[13:04] Kiku
What is it?
[13:06] Sakutarou
It's just... Um...
[13:08] Sakutarou
This.
[13:12] Kiku
"Every morning...
[13:14] Kiku
always on the same beach
[13:16] Kiku
if we meet, I begin to smile—this maiden."
[13:21] Sakutarou
Yoshii-kun wrote this poem for you.
[13:25] Kiku
My.
[13:26] Yoshii
That's right.
[13:27] Yoshii
I love—
[13:31] Kiku
Senjaku-sama!
[13:33] Senjaku
Hey.
[13:34] Kiku
I was waiting for you.
[13:36] Senjaku
Is it all right for you to leave?
[13:37] Kiku
Yes.
[13:38] Kiku
Yoshii-sama!
[13:40] Kiku
Thank you for the beautiful poem.
[13:44] Yoshii
No problem...
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
SIGN Hananoya
[13:48] madam
I'm very sorry.
[13:50] madam
Another guest came just before you.
[13:58] Takuboku
Oen is such a beauty, you see?
[14:00] Takuboku
There's no end to the offers from people
wanting to take her home.
[14:02] Kyousuke
Really.
[14:04] Oen
Stop talking about that.
[14:06] Takuboku
If you let someone take you in,
[14:08] Takuboku
you'd never worry for money
and you could live how you liked...
[14:12] Kyousuke
Honestly.
[14:13] Kyousuke
What is it you like about Ishikawa-kun?
[14:15] Oen
I'm from Hanamaki.
[14:19] Oen
When I came here, my first
guest was Hajime-san...
[14:23] Oen
I started crying...
[14:26] Oen
When that happened,
instead of making love to me,
[14:29] Oen
he just patted my head all night.
[14:31] Takuboku
Oen...
[14:34] Oen
Wha—Hajime-san!
[14:36] Takuboku
Does it tickle?
[14:38] Kyousuke
I'm going home!
[14:43] Oen
Oh, my.
[14:45] Takuboku
Well. Shall we head up?
[14:47] Takuboku
There's something I wanted
to talk to you about.
[14:52] Yoshii
"Upon visiting...
[14:53] Yoshii
my friend happens to be pleasantly drunk
[14:56] Yoshii
delighted in love,
the moon on a misty night."
[14:59] Sakutarou
One of Wakayama-san's poems, isn't it?
[15:01] Sakutarou
When it comes to poems about alcohol,
no one can match him.
[15:06] Yoshii
Indeed.
[15:07] Yoshii
Hagiwara-kun.
[15:09] Yoshii
Why did you give her my poem?
[15:11] Sakutarou
Because that poem moved me.
[15:16] Yoshii
Love truly is a fragile thing, isn't it?
[15:20] Sakutarou
Yes, it is.
[15:24] Sakutarou
"Two pitch-black cats
[15:27] Sakutarou
on a rooftop in the
seductive, restless night
[15:30] Sakutarou
from the tips of their tall,
pin-straight tails
[15:32] Sakutarou
a crescent moon,
thin as a thread, grows hazy
[15:36] Sakutarou
meow, good evening
[15:38] Sakutarou
meow, good evening
[15:40] Sakutarou
mraow, mraow, mraow
SIGN Hananoya
[15:47] Sakutarou
meow
[15:48] Sakutarou
the master of this house is ill."
[15:53] Takuboku
I really do feel
[15:54] Takuboku
that the hearts of people who come from
the same area are connected at the root.
[15:58] Oen
Yes. I feel that, too.
[16:02] Takuboku
"One's hometown
[16:03] Takuboku
those children who have left
[16:05] Takuboku
are all alike
[16:07] Takuboku
there is no sadness which
can overwhelm happiness."
[16:11] Oen
"One's hometown
[16:13] Oen
those children who have left
[16:14] Oen
are all alike
[16:16] Oen and Takuboku
there is no sadness which
can overwhelm happiness."
[16:22] Takuboku
Are you crying?
[16:24] Oen
I'm sorry.
[16:26] Takuboku
Do you want to go back? To your hometown...
[16:29] Oen
No.
[16:31] Oen
If I did, I wouldn't be able
to see you, Hajime-san.
[16:36] Takuboku
Oen, I have something I want to ask you.
[16:53] Sakutarou
"In the distance, a pistol shot rings out.
[16:56] Sakutarou
And another pistol shot.
[16:58] Sakutarou
Ah!
[16:59] Sakutarou
My detective dons clothes of crystal
[17:02] Sakutarou
and sneaks in through the lover's window.
[17:05] Sakutarou
The floors are of clear jade.
[17:07] Sakutarou
From the spaces between each finger
[17:09] Sakutarou
flows ghastly pale blood.
[17:12] Sakutarou
Atop the tragic woman's corpse
[17:14] Sakutarou
a cold katydid chirps.
[17:18] Sakutarou
One morning, at the beginning
of the Month of Frost,
[17:20] Sakutarou
the detective dons his clothes of crystal
[17:23] Sakutarou
and turns at the intersection in town.
SIGN Kikunyuusha Milk
Newspapers
SIGN Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
[17:29] Sakutarou
At the intersection, a fountain of autumn.
[17:33] Sakutarou
Now, the lone detective feels troubled.
[17:36] Sakutarou
Look.
[17:37] Sakutarou
That distant, desolate marble footpath
[17:41] Sakutarou
where the villain slips away at speed."
[17:47] Takuboku
Oh, my.
[17:48] Takuboku
They've arrested a statesman who'd been
receiving money from Uchimoto steamships.
[17:52] Takuboku
It says it started with a letter the woman
killed by the son of the family left.
[17:57] Takuboku
This looks like it'll be a big deal.
[17:59] Kayo
Serves him right.
[18:01] Kayo
The murdered young lady will be happy, too.
[18:03] Takuboku
This seems very similar to...
[18:05] Kayo
To what?
[18:06] Takuboku
Well, it's just...
[18:08] Takuboku
With the Arakawa mines case, too,
[18:09] Takuboku
it started with a murder
related to a letter,
[18:12] Takuboku
which lead to uncovering
the mine pollution issues...
[18:15] Takuboku
Now that I think about it,
[18:17] Takuboku
the real murderer who tried to frame
the head clerk hasn't been caught yet.
[18:22] Kayo
"And that real murderer might be pulling
the strings behind this case, too."
[18:26] Kayo
You weren't going to say that, were you?
[18:29] Takuboku
Kayo-san, are you sure you don't
have a talent for writing fiction?
[18:33] Takuboku
But in the Arakawa mines case,
more than the murder of Tatsukichi,
[18:37] Takuboku
it seemed like exposing the scandal
about the minerals was the real objective.
[18:41] Kayo
Educated people always make things
too difficult. That's the problem.
[18:45] Kayo
More importantly, your rent.
[18:49] Takuboku
There's two month's worth in there.
[19:02] Kyousuke
Excuse me...
[19:04] Kyousuke
Oen-san?
[19:06] Kyousuke
Is something wrong?
[19:07] Kyousuke
It's cold out here. Please, come inside.
[19:10] Oen
No, thank you. I have to catch a train.
[19:14] Kyousuke
Are you traveling far?
[19:20] Kyousuke
Is someone waiting for you?
[19:23] Oen
The man who will be my husband.
[19:25] Kyousuke
What?
[19:26] Kyousuke
Then, you—
[19:27] Oen
Will you give this to Hajime-san?
[19:42] Takuboku
Well, that was a close one!
[19:45] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[19:46] Kyousuke
Just now, Oen-san was...
[19:48] Takuboku
Yes. I saw.
[19:50] Takuboku
Is that for me?
[19:52] Kyousuke
Oh. Yes...
[19:55] Takuboku
Quite the conscientious woman, isn't she...
[19:58] Takuboku
I could buy another suit like this
and still have change left over.
[20:02] Kyousuke
What on earth is going on?
[20:04] Takuboku
What do you mean?
[20:05] Kyousuke
That suit and that money.
[20:07] Takuboku
Oh.
[20:08] Takuboku
This was from the remuneration
for persuading Oen, and this...
[20:12] Takuboku
I suppose you could call it a farewell gift.
[20:14] Kyousuke
Which means you...
[20:16] Kyousuke
After selling Oen off
and receiving money for it,
[20:19] Kyousuke
you took her money, too?
[20:21] Takuboku
I didn't "sell her off."
[20:23] Takuboku
Oen agreed to it, after all.
[20:25] Takuboku
She should be grateful to me, really.
[20:28] Kyousuke
Grateful?
[20:29] Takuboku
Yes. The man is very wealthy.
[20:33] Takuboku
From now on, she'll never
have to worry about money—
[20:36] Kyousuke
She loved you!
[20:38] Kyousuke
And I loved you...
[20:40] Kyousuke
your talent, your poetry, and you!
[20:44] Kyousuke
But that ends today.
[20:47] Kyousuke
I am going to cut ties with you.
[21:01] Takuboku
"That accursed beast,
the dyer's daughter, Oroku
[21:05] Takuboku
carrying a cat along
the beach in the setting sun...
[21:09] Takuboku
with an innocent expression,
lissome and lithe...
[21:15] Takuboku
The accursed beast ties fabric
in the chikuzen-shibori style
[21:19] Takuboku
her slim, elegant fingertips
stained dark blue
[21:23] Takuboku
and her gold ring flashes..."
[21:27] Oen
I'm from Hanamaki. When I came
here, my first guest was...
[21:29] Kyousuke
What is it you like about Ishikawa-kun?
[21:32] Man A
You're quite an impressive man.
[21:33] Kyousuke
I am going to cut ties with you.
[21:47] Takuboku
Cut ties?
[21:49] Takuboku
Well, that's just fine.
[21:52] Takuboku
You know, I'm... trying so desperately...
[21:56] Takuboku
"Though I work and work
[21:59] Takuboku
still, it never gets any easier to live
[22:02] Takuboku
I stare at my hands."
[23:38] Bokusui
Kindaichi-kun, they say you
cut ties with Ishikawa-kun?
[23:40] Kyousuke
I can never forgive him!
[23:42] Bokusui
If you're too stubborn, someone might
steal your spot as his partner, you know.
SIGN Next Time: "Honeysuckle"
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E6 - Honeysuckle
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[00:21] Yoshii
Seven days ago, on December 10th,
[00:24] Yoshii
the body of a popular actor of the
Senba-za troupe, Tachibanaya Otojirou,
[00:27] Yoshii
was discovered at his home.
[00:30] Yoshii
Beside him, lay a "living doll,"
its mouth stained with blood.
[00:34] Yoshii
A doll known as "Kinginka."
[00:38] Yoshii
Recently, Otojirou has visited the doll
museum "Kugutsukan" nearly every day
[00:43] Yoshii
to view the doll Kinginka on display.
SIGN Kikunyuusha Milk
Newspapers
SIGN Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
[00:46] Yoshii
There are many witnesses to his visits.
[00:53] Yoshii
According to rumors, this Kinginka,
[00:56] Yoshii
bound by Otojirou's love for her,
gained a living spirit,
[01:02] Yoshii
and, in the dead of night,
when the lights of Asakusa sleep,
[01:05] Yoshii
she roams the city.
[01:10] Yoshii
The world today overflows
with the irrational and the absurd.
[01:13] Yoshii
Here, a deep attachment was formed
between a human and a doll,
[01:17] Yoshii
and this eerie lover's suicide
has captured the public eye.
[01:26] Yoshii
Kiku-san!
[01:28] Yoshii
What's wrong?
[01:29] Kiku
Please...
[01:31] Kiku
Please, help me... Yoshii-sama!
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN Poem 6
Honeysuckle
[03:12] Kiku
I'm so sorry.
[03:15] Kiku
Causing you so much trouble like this...
[03:17] Yoshii
No. There's no need to worry about that.
[03:20] Yoshii
Has something happened?
[03:22] Yoshii
It seems lately you haven't
been coming here to work.
[03:25] Kiku
Actually, it's about that incident...
SIGN Asakusa Daily News
[03:31] Yoshii
"The Man-eating Doll, Kinginka"?
[03:39] Yoshii
Honestly.
[03:41] Yoshii
The rumors of the masses are
ridiculous, don't you think?
[03:44] Yoshii
Saying a doll killed a real, live human...
[03:47] Yoshii
Besides, the culprit already
turned himself in, hasn't he?
[03:50] Yoshii
If I recall, he was a younger
member of the same troupe
[03:52] Yoshii
as the murdered actor, Otojiro—
[03:54] Kiku
No!
[03:55] Yoshii
Senjaku-sama would never kill anyone!
[03:59] Yoshii
K-Kiku-san?
[04:02] Kiku
The one who killed Otojirou-san was Kinginka.
[04:06] Kiku
Senjaku-sama would never...
[04:10] Yoshii
Could it be... the actor they arrested...
[04:14] Kiku
My... My beloved...
[04:17] Kiku
Yuuki Senjaku-sama.
[04:20] Kiku
Please!
[04:21] Kiku
Please prove that Senjaku-sama is innocent!
[04:24] Yoshii
What? But...
[04:25] Kiku
It was Kinginka who killed Otojirou-san.
[04:28] Kiku
After all, the doll is still
missing from Kugutsukan,
[04:32] Kiku
walking the streets.
[04:34] Kiku
So, if we can catch Kinginka, then...
[04:37] Kiku
It's the only way to save Senjaku-sama...
[04:45] Yoshii
I see.
[04:46] Yoshii
Then, I shall—
[04:47] Takuboku
I guess I'll help you!
[04:49] Yoshii
Ishikawa-kun!
[04:51] Yoshii
What are you...
[04:52] Takuboku
Well, the thing is,
I'm a little short on cash...
[04:55] Takuboku
I thought I could earn myself
a little spending money.
[04:58] Takuboku
I'm a poet, Ishikawa Takuboku.
[05:01] Takuboku
You've waited on us here quite a few times.
[05:04] Kiku
Yes.
[05:05] Takuboku
To be frank with you,
I'm running a detective's agency,
[05:09] Takuboku
and I've managed to solve
quite a few difficult cases.
[05:13] Kiku
My!
[05:13] Takuboku
So, I'm more than willing
to lend my talents here,
[05:17] Takuboku
but not for free.
[05:19] Kiku
Then, how much would I need
to pay for you to...
[05:21] Yoshii
Stop right there, Ishikawa-kun.
[05:23] Yoshii
You cut in on this business,
[05:25] Yoshii
and you intend to take payment, too?
[05:31] Takuboku
I do apologize. To think
you'd help pay, too, Yoshii-kun.
[05:35] Takuboku
Since Kyousuke-san cut ties with me,
he won't lend me even a tiny bit.
[05:39] Takuboku
It's quite a problem.
[05:40] Takuboku
Still, you're quite the schemer, aren't you?
[05:44] Yoshii
What do you mean?
[05:45] Takuboku
It's obvious that Kinginka's "walking"
must be someone playing tricks.
[05:49] Takuboku
A doll couldn't possibly
have killed Otojirou.
[05:53] Takuboku
If the person behind Kinginka's
"walking" is exposed
[05:56] Takuboku
and it's shown to be simply a trick,
[05:58] Takuboku
then she won't be able to deny the fact
that her beloved is the killer anymore.
[06:02] Takuboku
And if you gently approach
Kiku-san in her sorrow...
[06:07] Yoshii
I'll pay double.
[06:08] Takuboku
What?
[06:08] Yoshii
If everything works out, I'll pay double!
[06:23] Takuboku
Fortunately, there don't seem
to be any police or curious onlookers.
[06:27] Yoshii
W-Wait just a moment.
[06:29] Yoshii
Are we really going in there?
[06:30] Takuboku
Well, you want to reveal who's
behind Kinginka, don't you?
[06:42] Takuboku
So, this is where Otojirou and
Kinginka were found collapsed...
[06:46] Yoshii
Honestly. This place is creepy.
[06:50] Takuboku
Now that I think about it, they haven't
found the murder weapon, have they?
[06:53] Yoshii
That's right.
[06:54] Yoshii
They say Senjaku testified that
he threw it in the Sumida River.
[07:02] Takuboku
Well, well...
[07:04] Takuboku
It seems Otojirou had quite
the obsession with dolls.
[07:08] Takuboku
"He fell in love with Kinginka."
[07:10] Takbuoku
This makes that seem possible.
[07:12] Yoshii
We're done here!
[07:13] Yoshii
Now, let's move on.
SIGN Man-eating Doll Kinginka
SIGN Living Dolls On Display
SIGN Kugutsukan
SIGN Man-eating Doll Kinginka
SIGN Living Doll Kinginka
SIGN Man-eating Doll Kinginka On Display
[07:26] Takuboku
Oh, are you scared?
[07:29] Yoshii
They're just dolls.
[07:34] Takuboku
This is quite the elaborate design.
[07:37] Yoshii
I suppose it would be all right
to be a little frightened of this.
[07:43] Tokuboku
Once they've gone this far with it,
you just have to laugh, don't you?
[07:46] Yoshii
Come on. Let's go.
[07:50] Man 1
She tore out a man's throat,
[07:52] Man 1
and they put her back
on display just as she was...
[07:54] Man 2
That's horrific!
[07:56] Takuboku
It seems our main objective is next.
[08:09] Takuboku
Oh? Are you all right?
[08:11] Yoshii
Of course. I'm fine.
[08:14] Takuboku
So, what I saw really was...
[08:18] Man A
This person's fainted.
[08:19] Man B
Carry them out!
[08:21] Takuboku
Dear, dear. It seems we had
someone quite sensitive here.
[08:25] manager
Now, children, ladies, those
weak of heart, please stand back!
[08:31] manager
Every evening, every night, she walks,
[08:33] manager
haunting men and tearing at their throats!
[08:35] manager
Behold, the terrifying Kinginka!
[08:42] Takuboku
He seems to be the manager here...
[08:47] Takuboku
That was worth seeing, don't you think?
[08:50] Yoshii
In the end, it was all
just tricks for children.
[08:53] Yoshii
Now, let's get to work.
[08:59] Yoshii
You seem to be doing very well.
[09:02] Yoshii
Other doll exhibits are going dark,
[09:05] Yoshii
but business is thriving here.
[09:06] doorman
You could say that. It's all
thanks to that man-eating doll.
[09:11] Yoshii
With business so profitable, the manager
must have increased salaries, right?
[09:17] doorman
The opposite.
[09:19] doorman
He's only working on his own appeal.
[09:21] Yoshii
By which you mean?
[09:22] doorman
I'd noticed he got rid of his beard,
[09:24] doorman
and every night he chases us all out.
[09:27] doorman
He lives here, you see.
[09:29] doorman
Lately, at night, he makes sure
that everyone who works here leaves.
[09:34] doorman
He's gotta be bringing a woman in.
[09:38] Yoshii
I see.
[09:43] Yoshii
Too bad. Seems there was no need
for you in this, Ishikawa-kun.
[09:47] Takuboku
By which you mean?
[09:48] Yoshii
The one behind the "walking Kinginka" is...
[09:50] Yoshii
the manager of the Kugutsukan!
[09:52] Takuboku
Really? Why do you say that?
[09:54] Yoshii
You still haven't figured it out?
[09:56] Yoshii
Who was it that turned
this uproar into a profit?
[09:59] Takuboku
That would be...
[10:01] Takuboku
the manager of the Kugutsukan!
[10:02] Yoshii
Exactly.
[10:03] Yoshii
The Kugutsukan is failing,
so to bring more customers in,
[10:08] Yoshii
that man becomes Kinginka
and wanders the streets.
[10:14] Takuboku
It's true, he has a motive,
[10:16] Takuboku
but deciding he's the one behind
everything just because of that seems...
[10:18] Yoshii
Did you notice the manager
has a scar on his chin?
[10:22] Takuboku
Now that you mention it, he might have...
[10:25] Yoshii
It's likely that he was in a hurry
to shave off his beard
[10:28] Yoshii
so he could pretend to be Kinginka.
[10:31] Takuboku
I see...
[10:32] Yoshii
If we can catch him coming out
of the Kugutsukan
[10:35] Yoshii
dressed as Kinginka tonight, then...
[10:39] Takuboku
Well, seems I underestimated you!
[10:41] Yoshii
I'm sure it will be simple,
but if you help me catch him,
[10:45] Yoshii
I might be inclined to give you
a little something.
[10:50] Nomura
What's going on?
[10:51] Nomura
You seem to be in a very good mood.
[10:53] Takuboku
The thing is, Yoshii-kun might be able to
win the heart of the girl he likes!
[10:57] Nomura
The girl he likes? You don't mean...
[11:00] Sakutarou
You don't mean... Kiku-san?
[11:02] Takuboku
That's exactly what I mean.
[11:04] Yoshii
Kiku-san... wait for me.
Just a little longer!
[11:08] Hirai
A lover's suicide between
a human and a doll...
[11:10] Hirai
It's quite a fascinating subject, isn't it?
[11:13] Hirai
Inhuman love. It is a type of love
that exists in this world.
[11:18] Takuboku
Do you have a moment?
[11:19] Takuboku
I feel bad because it's cold outside,
[11:21] Takuboku
but I was wondering
if you'd run an errand for me.
[11:25] Hirai
An errand?
[11:26] Takuboku
It might even help with your story.
[11:43] Hirai
Excuse me! Is Yokoyama Kiku-san here?
[11:58] middle-aged woman
Kiku-san.
[11:59] Kiku
Yes?
[12:00] middle-aged woman
A Hirai Tarou-san gave this
to me just now...
SIGN Kiku-dono
[12:05] middle-aged woman
He said he was on an errand for
someone named Ishikawa-sensei?
[12:08] middle-aged woman
What's going on? And at this
hour of the night...
[12:11] middle-aged woman
I'd rather not have any trouble.
[12:19] Kiku
"Three A.M.
[12:21] Kiku
Come to the Kugutsukan.
[12:23] Kiku
I will tell you who killed Otojirou.
[12:27] Kiku
Ishikawa Takuboku."
[13:02] Yoshii
It looks like the manager has already left.
[13:05] Takuboku
What should we do?
[13:06] Yoshii
It's not a problem.
[13:08] Yoshii
When he comes back dressed as
Kinginka, we can catch him then.
[13:12] Takuboku
I see.
[13:14] Takuboku
But, can't we wait inside?
[13:16] Takuboku
It feels like it might snow.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[13:33] Yoshii
Just as I thought.
[13:35] Yoshii
Ishikawa-kun.
[13:36] Yoshii
I found makeup and fake blood.
[13:38] Yoshii
The manager really is
dressing as Kinginka and—
[13:41] Yoshii
What are you doing?
[13:44] Takuboku
It's just this puppet is so handsome.
[13:47] Takuboku
See?
[13:48] Takuboku
He looks a little like me, doesn't he?
[13:50] Yoshii
Honestly, you...
[13:52] Yoshii
If you're only going to fool around,
I don't need your help.
[13:57] Yoshii
He's back.
[13:58] Takuboku
What is it?
[14:00] Yoshii
There was a person's shadow at the window.
[14:11] Yoshii
That's strange.
[14:12] Takuboku
Maybe, after Otojirou,
Kinginka is after our blood...
[14:19] Yoshii
Stop being creepy!
[14:21] Yoshii
Besides, it was Senjaku
who killed Otojirou. Not Kinginka.
[14:26] Takuboku
You still think that?
[14:29] Yoshii
What?
[14:30] Yoshii
What do you mean?
[14:31] Takuboku
The root cause of all of this was the
murdered Otojirou's sexual disposition.
[14:36] Takuboku
A deviant lover of dolls.
[14:39] Takuboku
A fetish for artificially
created human bodies.
[14:43] Takuboku
He had a particular fondness for Kinginka.
[14:46] Takuboku
Even going to the Kugutsukan
daily couldn't satisfy him.
[14:49] Takuboku
He began arranging trysts
with her at his home.
[14:53] Takuboku
Otojirou probably ordered Senjaku to bring
Kinginka to his house every night,
[15:00] Takuboku
and paid the manager some sum of money.
[15:04] Takuboku
The truth is, I once saw Kinginka like that.
[15:09] Yoshii
Then, that means that Senjaku was
at the scene of the murder, doesn't it?
[15:13] Takuboku
And his motive?
[15:14] Takuboku
What motive did Senjaku
have to kill Otojirou?
[15:17] Yoshii
Who cares?
[15:19] Yoshii
I mean, Senjaku's confessed!
[15:22] Takuboku
Exactly.
[15:23] Takuboku
Senjaku has confessed
to a murder he did not commit.
[15:27] Takuboku
Why would he do that?
[15:28] Takuboku
It's only natural to think he's
covering for the real killer.
[15:31] Takuboku
There's only one person Senjaku
would go so far to protect.
[15:36] Yoshii
You can't mean...
[15:38] Takuboku
Exactly.
[15:39] Takuboku
The one who killed Otojirou was...
[15:42] Takuboku
Yokoyama Kiku-san.
[15:44] Yoshii
Wait... What are you saying?
[15:48] Yoshii
You were talking about motives.
[15:50] Yoshii
Kiku-san doesn't have one either, does she?
[15:52] Takuboku
Kiku-san's...
[15:53] Takbuoku
Her left eye...
[15:57] Takuboku
it's a false eye, isn't it?
[15:58] Yoshii
And... what of it?
[16:01] Takuboku
For Otojirou, who had an abnormal
fixation on man-made bodies,
[16:05] Takbuoku
don't you think Kiku-san, with her
glass eye, would be the perfect woman?
[16:11] Takuboku
That night, amid the heavy snow...
[16:13] Takuboku
Otojirou asked Senjaku to bring
Kinginka as he always did,
[16:17] Takuboku
and, off-setting the timing,
called Kiku-san to him...
[16:41] Takuboku
And that is how the events
of this case unfolded.
[16:45] Yoshii
That can't be...
[16:47] Yoshii
Kiku-san would never...
[16:50] Yoshii
It's all just guesswork on your part!
[16:51] Takuboku
What Kiku-san wants is to be
in this world with Senjaku.
[16:56] Takuboku
In order to prove Senjaku's innocence
[16:58] Takuboku
without the true killer—
herself—being caught,
[17:00] Takuboku
no matter the cost, it was
absolutely necessary!
[17:10] Takuboku
Someone had to be sacrificed.
[17:13] Yoshii
K-Kiku-san...
[17:18] Takuboku
I believe that's... the weapon
that killed Otojirou. Correct?
[17:26] Takuboku
If she killed us here,
she could frame the manager,
[17:29] Takuboku
who had dressed as Kinginka
to wander the streets, for everything.
[17:35] Takuboku
I'm sure that's what you
must have thought, but
[17:37] Takuboku
instead, you only ended up
proving your own guilt.
[17:43] Yoshii
Kiku-san...
[17:45] Takuboku
Just as Yoshii-kun said,
[17:47] Takuboku
this is all just the results
of my guesswork.
[17:50] Takuboku
There is no evidence of your crime.
[18:01] Yoshii
It's all right.
[18:03] Yoshii
Once you've atoned for your crime,
[18:06] Yoshii
you'll be able to start over.
[18:08] Yoshii
I will wait for you, no matter how long—
[18:10] Takuboku
Look out!
[18:16] Kiku
That's right.
[18:18] Kiku
As long as I keep you two from talking...
[18:22] Kiku
I... just want to be with
Senjaku-sama... the two of us...
[18:27] Kiku
We can have a life together...
[18:29] Takuboku
Do something!
[18:30] Yoshii
What?!
[18:31] Takuboku
She's your client, right? Do something!
[18:34] Yoshii
I'm the client here!
[18:35] Takuboku
No! I don't want to die!
[18:36] Yoshii
Neither do I!
[18:38] Yoshii
Besides, you're always—
[18:41] Kyousuke
This is the police!
[18:42] Kyousuke
Who's there?
[19:07] Takuboku
And you even had it right
all the way to the part
[19:10] Takuboku
about the manager
dressing as Kinginka...
[19:15] Takuboku
It's too bad, Yoshii-kun.
Things didn't go the way you'd hoped.
[19:21] Yoshii
Kiku-san isn't the only woman out there.
[19:23] Takuboku
Oh! That's the spirit!
[19:25] Takuboku
In that case, should I take you to the foot
of the Twelve-stories with me sometime?
[19:28] Yoshii
Yes, I'd like that.
[19:31] Yoshii
Now that I think about it,
[19:32] Yoshii
who do you think called out,
"This is the police"?
[19:36] Takuboku
You wouldn't have asked
someone for that, would you?
[19:39] Takuboku
Indeed.
[19:40] Takuboku
Honestly. What took him so long?
[19:46] Hirai
Why are you hiding here?
[19:52] Hirai
Are you all right?
[19:54] Kyousuke
W-Well, there's a lot that goes on,
you see, between adults...
[19:59] Kyousuke
What about you? Why are you here?
[20:02] Hirai
I took a look at the letter
Ishikawa-sensei entrusted me with.
[20:06] Hirai
Then I couldn't contain my curiosity,
and ended up coming to see.
[20:10] Hirai
Oh, that was fun!
[20:12] Hirai
It was worth enduring my
sleepiness and the cold!
[20:20] Bokusui
"The mountains have died...
[20:23] Bokusui
The sea, too, dies, and there is no sound.
[20:26] Bokusui
When I was young,
[20:28] Bokusui
all the world was love."
SIGN The mountains have died. The sea, too, dies, and there is no sound. When I was young, all the world was love.
[20:33] Sakutarou
What did he write?
[20:36] Nomura
That it's hard to cut off
his feelings for Kiku-san.
[20:39] Sakutaoru
If he knew what happened,
[20:41] Sakutaoru
it would make him even more
depressed, wouldn't it?
[20:45] Nomura
Well, we are talking about him.
[20:47] Nomura
Somewhere on his journey, under
a distant sky, he'll find a new love.
[20:52] Yoshii
To Ishikawa-kun,
[20:55] Yoshii
I hear that even after Senjaku was released,
[20:57] Yoshii
he insisted that he was
the one who killed Otojirou.
[21:04] Yoshii
The bond between him
and Kiku-san must be far stronger
[21:09] Yoshii
than I could ever imagine.
[21:12] Yoshii
Which means that there never was any room
for me to try to get between them.
[21:24] Yoshii
"In misery...
[21:26] Yoshii
even the phrase 'it's you'
[21:28] Yoshii
unable to be whispered
[21:30] Yoshii
the world grieves
[21:32] Yoshii
at the end of love."
[21:53] Takuboku
"P.S.
[21:56] Takuboku
In the language of flowers, the
honeysuckle, also known as kinginka,
[22:00] Takuboku
is 'bonds of love.' A devoted love."
[22:09] Takuboku
"Somehow feeling
[22:10] Takuboku
the desire to try to write something
[22:12] Takuboku
I reach for a pen
[22:16] Takuboku
Flowers in a vase
[22:18] Takuboku
A fresh, new morning."
[23:38] Sakutarou
I think I'll follow in Wakayama-kun's
footsteps and go on a trip.
[23:40] Nomura
Oh, Shikoku might be nice.
[23:42] Sakutarou
But someone's gone ahead of me.
SIGN Next Time: "Gentleman Thief"
[23:43] Nomura
Now, that reward of 500 yen.
Should we go get it?
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E7 - Gentleman Thief
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SIGN Tokyo Asahi Shimbun Local News Section
Adachi Ryuuzou
[00:01] reporter
I'm from the Asahi Shimbun's
local news section.
[00:04] reporter
My name is Adachi.
[00:06] Kanemura
Good to meet you.
[00:08] Kanemura
I'm Kanemura, the president of the company.
[00:11] Kanemura
Please, have a seat.
[00:12] Kanemura
The employees have all gone out
for lunch, so I'm afraid
[00:15] Kanemura
I can't offer much in the way of hospitality...
[00:17] reporter
Please, don't trouble yourself.
[00:21] reporter
Would it be all right if I...
[00:23] Kanemura
Of course.
[00:28] reporter
Well, to get straight to the point,
[00:30] reporter
if I could ask your opinion on the issue
of the treatment of workers.
[00:35] reporter
Recently, incidents involving certain
higher-ups at large companies
[00:40] reporter
have been triggers to expose supposed
wrongdoing at those companies,
[00:43] reporter
and these incidents continue to occur...
[00:45] Kanemura
I can only call it outrageous.
[00:48] Kanemura
Companies only exist to make
the world a better place.
[00:53] Kanemura
To say they're committing crimes is...
[00:55] Kanemura
Mistaking the result for
the cause is just as terrible.
[00:58] reporter
Quite the inspiring answer!
[01:00] reporter
If all companies were run by
people who thought this way
[01:03] reporter
crimes like this would never happen.
[01:09] reporter
Excuse me.
[01:10] reporter
Might I borrow your restroom?
[01:16] employee A
Hello. Editorial department.
[01:18] employee A
Yes. I see...
[01:21] employee A
Then send it our way.
[01:24] employee B
This printing technique is amazing.
[01:26] Satou
Yes. It's almost frightening.
[01:31] Takuboku
What is that?
[01:33] Satou
A print from the Uchida print shop.
[01:35] Satou
Well-made, isn't it?
[01:38] Takuboku
That's very impressive.
[01:40] employee A
Adachi?
[01:42] employee A
From our local news department?
[01:45] Kanemura
That's right.
[01:46] Kanemura
He's a completely disrespectful man.
[01:48] Kanemura
He got up to use the restroom
and left, just like that.
[01:51] employee A
But...
[01:52] employee A
our local news department doesn't
have anyone named Adachi...
[01:55] Man B
President! President!
[01:56] Man B
It's gone!
[01:58] Man B
The bag with the wages in it...
[02:02] Kanemaru
What did you say?
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN Maichou Shimbun
The Gentleman Thief
[03:36] Yoshii
It was over much too quickly.
SIGN Poem 7
Gentleman Thief
[03:38] Nomura
Just goes to show, the sun sees everything.
[03:42] Akutagawa
Ill-gotten gains never remain long.
[03:44] Nomura
He was here?
[03:45] Sakutarou
But where do you think
it went? The 5,000 yen...
[03:49] Yoshii
With 5,000 yen, you could live
comfortably your whole life.
[03:53] Kyousuke
There are those...
[03:54] Kyousuke
who manage to play around their
whole lives even without money.
[03:59] Nomura
You two still haven't made up?
[04:02] Kyousuke
I see no reason to do so.
[04:07] Takuboku
Hello, everyone!
[04:08] Akutagawa
Speak rumors of someone,
and from the shadows...
[04:11] Takuboku
Oh! Kyousuke-san's here, too.
[04:15] Yoshii
They managed to catch him.
The gentleman thief.
[04:18] Takuboku
What? They caught him?
[04:20] Nomura
Oh, come on. He said he was from
your paper's local news section.
[04:26] Takuboku
True, but...
[04:27] Takuboku
my health has been poor, so...
[04:29] Takuboku
I didn't go to work yesterday or today.
[04:32] Yoshii
Are you sure you should be here, then?
[04:37] Takuboku
Yes.
[04:38] Takuboku
After all, milk is very nutritious.
[04:41] Takuboku
Yae-chan, one more milk.
[04:45] Takuboku
It's impressive the police
managed to catch him.
[04:49] Sakutarou
Yes.
[04:50] Sakutarou
They found something at the scene
where the money was stolen.
[04:53] Sakutarou
A very unusual brand of
cigarette called "Figaro."
[04:57] (Flashback) detective
Figaro, Figaro...
[04:59] Nomura
Seems a very persistent
detective went all over Tokyo
[05:03] Nomura
looking for a shop that
sold those cigarettes.
[05:05] (Flashback) detective
Figaro, Figaro, Figaro...
[05:08] (Flashback) detective
Do you have a moment?
[05:10] (Flashback) detective
I'm looking for a tobacconists
called "Marumi-ya."
[05:14] (Flashback) Older woman
Oh. Look.
[05:16] (Flashback) Older woman
You can see it right there.
[05:18] (Flashback) detective
Ah.
[05:20] (Flashback) detective
Thank you.
[05:34] Nomura
In the base of the brazier they found
in the room where the man was staying,
[05:37] Nomura
they discovered clothes, a false mustache,
and other things he'd used for the crime.
[05:42] Takuboku
And so, he was arrested.
[05:44] Nomura
Tracing cigarettes from Egypt
to discover the criminal...
[05:49] Nomura
Pretty classy move.
[05:50] Takuboku
It was.
[05:52] Yoshii
Even so, the culprit is still
stubbornly refusing to say anything
[05:56] Yoshii
about the stolen 5,000 yen.
[05:59] Nomura
The police are saying there's
nothing they can do,
[06:02] Nomura
so the president of the company
[06:04] Nomura
is offering a reward of 500 yen.
[06:06] Takuboku
500 yen?!
[06:08] Takuboku
That's a lot of money!
[06:10] Yoshii
Well, if it gets the 5,000 yen returned,
it's a small price to pay.
[06:14] Takuboku
Forget 5,000 yen, if I only had 500 yen...
[06:18] Takuboku
I could just about pay back
the money I owe all of you.
[06:24] Takuboku
Still, I'd like to try one of those
"Figaro" things just once.
[06:28] Takuboku
I wonder where the gentleman
thief bought them.
[06:32] Sakutarou
If I'm not mistaken... they said it was
at a shop called Marumi-ya
[06:35] Sakutarou
in the Hongo Kikuzaka-cho area.
[06:37] Takuboku
Really? That shop's close to where we live.
[06:40] Takuboku
Let's stop by on the way home.
What do you think, Kyousuke-san?
[06:43] Kyousuke
You're trying to make me buy you
things again, aren't you?
[06:47] Takuboku
There's no need to put it that way.
[06:49] Takuboku
Though, the truth is, I don't have any money.
[07:00] Takuboku
I'm in your debt!
[07:01] Takuboku
Once I get paid—
[07:02] Kyousuke
I'm giving that to you.
[07:04] Kyousuke
There's no need to repay it.
[07:10] Nomura
Why don't you two just make up already?
[07:14] Takuboku
Yeah. I'm not bothered by it anymore, but...
[07:19] Sakutarou
Kindaichi-san is still troubled
by what happened with Oen-san?
[07:22] Takuboku
That was an issue between me and Oen.
[07:27] Takuboku
No.
[07:28] Takuboku
Once everyone agreed,
it wasn't even an "issue" anymore.
[07:32] Takuboku
So why is Kyousuke-san so angry?
[07:36] Takuboku
It doesn't make any sense.
[07:39] Akutagawa
Stricken by the same illness...
[07:41] Akutagawa
they pity each other.
[07:42] Nomura
He was here?
[07:44] Yoshii
What are you talking about
illnesses and pity for?
[07:48] Akutagawa
I believe that Kindaichi-san is unwittingly
projecting his own feelings.
SIGN Gaiheikan
SIGN Gaiheikan
[08:15] Takuboku
Oh! Is something wrong?
[08:18] Kyousuke
I just... wanted to ask you something.
[08:22] Takuboku
What could it be?
[08:23] Takuboku
If it's something I can answer,
you can ask me anything.
[08:28] Kyousuke
Are you all right?
[08:30] Takuboku
Yes. It's just a cold.
[08:32] Takuboku
So...
[08:35] Kyousuke
Where did you get that two-sen copper coin?
[08:38] Takuboku
Two-sen copper coin?
[08:40] Kyousuke
You left it on my writing desk, didn't you?
[08:42] Takuboku
Oh!
[08:45] Takuboku
It was change from buying these.
[08:47] Kyousuke
Y-You bought that from Marumi-ya, right?
[08:51] Takuboku
Yes, I did...
[08:52] Takuboku
Why do you ask?
[08:53] Kyousuke
Well...
[08:54] Kyousuke
No real reason...
[08:56] Kyousuke
When you bought the cigarettes,
were there any other customers?
[09:01] Takuboku
I don't think there were, but...
[09:03] Takuboku
Oh, right! There wouldn't have been.
[09:06] Takuboku
The old woman was napping.
[09:09] Kyousuke
At that tobacconists,
aside from the old woman,
[09:12] Kyousuke
I wonder what kind of people work there.
[09:14] Takuboku
What exactly are we talking about here?
[09:17] Kyousuke
I have a bit of a situation...
[09:19] Kyousuke
Oh, right! Isn't there a young lady
at the counter sometimes?
[09:24] Takuboku
Oh! That's their only daughter.
[09:27] Takuboku
She's not bad-looking,
[09:29] Takuboku
but about six months ago,
she married into the family
[09:31] Takuboku
that runs the procurement shop.
[09:32] Kyousuke
The procurement shop?
[09:34] Takuboku
It's basically a dry goods store,
[09:37] Takbuoku
but they procure items for those
arrested and waiting for trial
[09:40] Takbuoku
and those convicted and imprisoned.
[09:42] Takuboku
Apparently, they make quite a lot of money,
[09:45] Takuboku
so with the bride's allowance, that
tobacconist is probably doing pretty well.
[09:50] Kyousuke
Prison... Procurement shop...
[09:53] Kyousuke
Allowance...
[09:57] Kyousuke
Thank you!
[10:03] Kyousuke
Hirai-kun! Are you there?
[10:05] Hirai
Yes.
[10:08] Hirai
What's going on? It's late.
[10:10] Kyousuke
I was hoping to borrow your intelligence.
[10:14] Kyousuke
Would you mind closing the door?
[10:18] Hirai
Of course.
[10:44] Takuboku
Who's there?!
[10:46] Kyousuke
It's me.
[10:49] Kyousuke
Kindaichi.
[10:51] Takuboku
Wh-What are you doing?
[10:57] Takuboku
I-Is that...
[10:59] Kyousuke
There's exactly 5,000 yen.
[11:01] Takbuoku
Five thousand?!
[11:04] Takuboku
Could it be...
[11:05] Takuboku
the gentleman thief's?
[11:07] Kyousuke
I think I understand how
you feel a little better.
[11:11] Kyousuke
The glow of victory...
[11:14] Kyousuke
I just can't get enough.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[11:52] (Flashback) Takuboku
Oh! Is something wrong?
[11:55] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I just... wanted to ask you something.
[11:58] (Flashback) Takuboku
What could it be?
[12:00] (Flashback) Takuboku
If it's something I can answer,
you can ask me anything.
[12:04] Kyousuke
But really, at the beginning,
[12:06] Kyousuke
I just thought that maybe
a coin meant for magic tricks
[12:09] Kyousuke
must have gotten mixed in somehow.
[12:11] Kyousuke
But once you told me
[12:12] Kyousuke
that the daughter had married
into the procurement shop,
[12:16] Kyousuke
suddenly the whole thing
seemed very intriguing.
[12:18] Takuboku
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand
what you're talking about.
[12:22] Takuboku
Could you tell me what happened, in order?
[12:25] Kyousuke
Oh, how rude of me.
[12:27] Kyousuke
I wondered if the gentleman thief
might be using this two-sen copper coin
[12:32] Kyousuke
to communicate with someone
from inside his prison cell.
[12:37] Kyousuke
Just for argument's sake...
[12:39] Kyousuke
If, because of his sudden arrest,
[12:41] Kyousuke
he had been unable to tell his partner
where the 5,000 yen was hidden...
[12:45] Kyousuke
What would he do?
[12:53] Kyousuke
With the gentleman thief in a cell,
[12:55] Kyousuke
if he wanted to communicate
with the outside,
[12:57] Kyousuke
the procurement shop
would be the perfect way.
[13:01] Kyousuke
If that were the case,
[13:02] Kyousuke
and some error had occurred in
their method of correspondence,
[13:05] Kyousuke
then this two-sen copper coin could have,
through the bride's allowance,
[13:10] Kyousuke
been sent to the tobacconist's shop,
just by chance. It isn't impossible.
[13:15] Takuboku
Quite the convenient deductions.
[13:18] Takuboku
No. Not even deductions.
More like imaginings.
[13:21] Kyousuke
You're free to say what you like,
but the reality you can see here.
[13:26] Kyousuke
Now, then...
[13:27] Kyousuke
Still, I knew I wouldn't be able
to solve the code, so...
[13:32] Takuboku
You turned to Hirai for help.
[13:35] Kyousuke
Yes.
[13:37] (Flashback) Hirai
I see.
[13:39] (Flashback) Hirai
Kindaichi-sensei, you think
that this is a code
[13:43] (Flashback) Hirai
that leads to the 5,000 yen, correct?
[13:46] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Yes.
[13:47] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I know it seems absurd, but...
[13:49] (Flashback) Hirai
Not at all! I would never think that.
[13:52] (Flashback) Hirai
First, about this...
[13:54] (Flashback) Hirai
I have heard of prisoners
using small saws to break out.
[13:59] (Flashback) Hirai
If something like a saw were used to
carve out two copper coins to make a vessel,
[14:06] (Flashback) Hirai
it and its contents could
easily pass though the bars
[14:08] (Flashback) Hirai
of even the strongest of prisons.
[14:10] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I-I see!
[14:13] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Then...
[14:14] (Flashback) Kyousuke
this coded message I found
inside the two-sen copper coin...
[14:16] (Flashback) Hirai
It's a very simple code, don't you think?
[14:19] (Flashback) Hirai
If it were me, I'd have used
a more complicated code.
[14:22] (Flashback) Kyousuke
What? You don't mean...
[14:24] (Flashback) Kyousuke
You've already solved it?
[14:25] (Flashback) Hirai
Yes.
[14:28] (Flashback) Hirai
This paper was found in
a hollow two-sen copper coin.
[14:33] (Flashback) Hirai
So...
[14:34] (Flashback) Hirai
if you read it by skipping two characters...
[14:38] (Flashback) Hirai
Shinyuu-do.
[14:41] (Flashback) Hirai
Prop paper money.
[14:44] (Flashback) Hirai
Go retrieve.
[14:47] (Flashback) Hirai
Name of recipient...
[14:49] (Flashback) Hirai
Tagane Hajime.
[14:52] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Prop paper money?
[14:55] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Does this seem like a prank?
[14:57] (Flashback) Hirai
No!
[14:58] (Flashback) Hirai
The gentleman thief must have
considered worst case scenarios
[15:02] (Flashback) Hirai
and prepared the safest
place he could think of!
[15:07] (Flashback) Hirai
This Shinyuu-do...
[15:09] (Flashback) Hirai
It must be a shop that theaters use
to make their props.
[15:13] (Flashback) Hirai
The gentleman thief must have
used the name "Tagane Hajime"
[15:17] (Flashback) Hirai
to place an order for play money
there in advance.
[15:21] (Flashback) Kyousuke
But why would he do that?
[15:23] Hirai
It must be that he secretly carried
the real money he stole there
[15:29] Hirai
and switched it out with
the play money he'd ordered.
[15:33] Hirai
That way,
[15:34] Hirai
until the person who ordered it arrived,
SIGN Tagane Hajime
[15:36] Hirai
the 5,000 yen, the money of the land,
[15:38] Hirai
would be treated as simply a prop
and left there in storage.
[15:42] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Which is why
[15:43] (Flashback) Kyousuke
I'm dressed as the one who made the order
and am going to retrieve it.
[15:49] Kyousuke
And so...
[15:51] Kyousuke
I went out early this morning
[15:52] Kyousuke
and managed to lay hold
of the 5,000 yen, just like that.
[15:56] Kyousuke
Hirai-kun said it was great
material for his story,
[15:59] Kyousuke
and holed himself up in his room, writing.
[16:06] Takuboku
Well done! Wonderful!
[16:09] Kyousuke
Not really.
[16:10] Kyousuke
After all, it was Hirai-kun
who broke the code.
[16:13] Takuboku
Even so,
[16:15] Takuboku
your powers of observation, noticing
something odd about the two-sen copper coin,
[16:19] Takuboku
and your imagination, using that to
discover the hiding place of the 5,000 yen.
[16:24] Takuboku
If not for those... this mystery
would never have been solved!
[16:28] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[16:31] Takuboku
Won't you forgive me?
[16:37] Takuboku
A lot has happened, but...
[16:40] Takuboku
Losing a good friend,
one as gifted as you...
[16:44] Takuboku
I just can't bear it.
[16:46] Kyousuke
D-Don't say that!
[16:48] Kyousuke
I've been being stubborn, too...
[16:53] Kyouosuke
I feel the same.
[16:59] Takuboku
So, what do you plan to do
with this 5,000 yen?
[17:02] Kyousuke
I'll take it to the police
and claim the 500 yen reward.
[17:08] Takuboku
You can't do that.
[17:10] Kyousuke
What?
[17:10] Takuboku
The gentleman thief laid his life
on the line to protect this money.
[17:15] Takuboku
If he learned it was taken,
he's sure to come for revenge.
[17:19] Kyousuke
What? He wouldn't...
[17:21] Takuboku
Besides which, with that level of disguise,
[17:24] Takuboku
if the gentleman thief's accomplices
ask around Shinyuu-do,
[17:28] Takuboku
it's possible they'll realize the one who
snatched the money was you, Kyousuke-san...
[17:32] Kyousuke
I didn't "snatch" anything...
[17:33] Takuboku
You don't need to convince me.
[17:35] Takuboku
I'm saying that's what
the gentleman thief will be thinking.
[17:39] Kyousuke
What do I do?
[17:41] Takuboku
Still, it is 5,000 yen here...
[17:44] Takuboku
Killing one or two people over it...
[17:47] Kyousuke
I-Ishikawa-kun!
[17:49] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, you may have
meant it a just a little trick, but...
[17:53] Takuboku
money makes people do crazy things.
[17:59] Kyousuke
Huh?
[18:00] Kyousuke
Th-That's me!
[18:02] Kyousuke
Why?
[18:05] Kyousuke
Huh?
[18:13] Takuboku
So sorry!
[18:14] Takuboku
They're pretty well-made, aren't they?
[18:20] Kyousuke
These are... What's going on?
[18:22] Takuboku
The name of the recipient
was "Tagane Hajime," right?
[18:27] Takuboku
If you write that in kanji...
[18:30] Takuboku
and switch the first
two characters around...
[18:34] Kyousuke
Kindaichi...
[18:36] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, you were being so stubborn...
[18:38] Takuboku
I just wanted to play a little trick on you.
[18:41] Takuboku
I'm so glad you had fun!
[18:44] Kyousuke
Then... what happened to
the gentleman thief's 5,000 yen?
[18:47] Takuboku
How would I know that?
[18:54] Takuboku
"Without realizing...
[18:55] Takuboku
I was lying about my feelings
[18:58] Takuboku
back then, I couldn't even grow a beard."
[19:03] Takuboku
Well, then.
[19:04] Takuboku
Now we've managed to make up,
want to head to the milk hall?
[19:16] Takuboku
What's this?
[19:17] Takuboku
Looks like the bat-man has been killed.
[19:20] Kyousuke
Bat-man? You mean that illusionist,
Kagami or something?
[19:24] Takuboku
He seems to have fallen while flying, but...
[19:28] Takuboku
It says they found a letter of complaint
[19:31] Takuboku
against his employer,
Sonobe, in Kagami's room...
[19:34] Kyousuke
Sonobe, isn't that...
[19:36] Kyousuke
the man with that huge
entertainment business
[19:38] Kyousuke
that's been doing so well lately?
[19:40] Kyousuke
There were a lot of bad rumors
going around about him...
[19:44] Takuboku
Now, Sonobe's evil deeds will be
revealed one after another,
[19:48] Takuboku
and everyone will go crazy about it...
[19:51] Kyousuke
What do you mean?
[19:54] Takuboku
The homicide which revealed
the Arakawa mine pollution issue...
[19:59] Takuboku
The murder of a young woman
[20:00] Takuboku
which revealed the bribery scandal
with Uchimoto steamships...
[20:03] Takuboku
And this time, too...
[20:05] Takuboku
Something keeps nagging at me.
[20:07] Kyousuke
What keeps nagging at you?
[20:10] Takuboku
In each of these cases,
there was an accusatory letter.
[20:14] Takuboku
It's almost as if exposing these problems
is the purpose of these incidents.
[20:19] Kyousuke
But the murderer in the Arakawa mines
case hasn't been caught yet, right?
[20:24] Kyousuke
You can't lump it in with the other cases...
[20:27] Kyousuke
You can't mean...
[20:28] Kyousuke
the culprit in that case
is causing other cases?
[20:32] Takuboku
Yes.
[20:33] Takuboku
For now, we'll call him...
[20:35] Takuboku
Accuser X.
[20:42] Nomura
Hey there, you two!
[20:48] Nomura
Once you take a prank to this level,
you can only call it brilliant. Right?
[20:53] Takuboku
With the hopes that Kyousuke-san
will one day be able to grow a beard!
[20:57] Kyousuke
Stop that!
[20:59] Sakutarou
How much did it cost to make these?
[21:02] Takuboku
Just about 500 yen.
[21:03] Sakutarou
Five hundred yen?!
[21:05] Nomura
Hold on...
[21:06] Nomura
Wasn't the reward
for finding the 5,000 yen...
[21:10] Sakutarou
Five hundred yen...
[21:13] Takuboku
Yae-chan! Another milk!
[21:16] Akutagawa
With this, we are truly...
[21:17] Nomura
He was here?
[21:19] Akutagawa
...in a grove.
[21:22] plant shop clerk
Thanks for your business!
[21:26] Kyousuke
What did you buy?
[21:28] Takuboku
It's a wild pansy.
[21:30] Takuboku
Beautiful, isn't it?
[21:31] Takuboku
Oh, right. Would you mind?
[21:35] Takuboku
A letter arrived from Oen.
[21:38] Takuboku
It seems Oen's husband
is an exceedingly good man.
[21:41] Takuboku
He's taken over Oen's
parents' debts for them.
[21:46] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun...
[21:48] Kyousuke
Could it be that you...
[21:51] Takuboku
If things were going to turn out this way
[21:52] Takuboku
maybe I should have asked
for a slightly higher price.
[21:59] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun.
[22:01] Kyousuke
I won't fall for that again.
[23:38] Sakutarou
Ishikawa-kun seems quite ill, doesn't he?
[23:40] Sakutarou
Do you think he's all right?
[23:41] Yoshii
Shall we visit him together?
SIGN Next Time: "Young Man"
[23:43] Yoshii
Let's go see this unusually
weakened state of his.
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E8 - Young Man
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[00:22] Kyousuke
The doctor is here.
[00:28] Kyousuke
You seem quite engrossed in reading that.
[00:31] Takuboku
Dostoevsky's return from his death
sentence is depicted here...
[00:37] Takuboku
I wanted to reread that part.
[00:39] Kyousuke
Would it be all right
if I invited the doctor in?
[00:42] Takuboku
Yes.
[00:43] Kyousuke
Please, come in.
[00:46] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, could you step outside?
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Agency
SIGN Poem 8
Young Man
[02:32] doctor
Well then, take care.
[02:35] doctor
I told him this, as well,
[02:37] doctor
but please make sure he
rests as much as possible.
[02:39] Kyousuke
I will.
[02:40] Kyousuke
I'll bring your payment soon.
[02:43] Kyousuke
And...
[02:46] Kyousuke
Thank you.
[02:58] Kyousuke
The rain doesn't seem to be stopping.
[03:02] Kyousuke
What did the doctor say?
[03:04] Takuboku
That I seem to be doing much better.
[03:06] Kyousuke
I see.
[03:08] Kyousuke
You're not cold?
[03:09] Takuboku
No.
[03:13] Kyousuke
Maybe I'll try reading that, too.
[03:16] Takuboku
I heard Natsume-sensei
collapsed at an inn in Shuzenji
[03:18] Takuboku
where he'd gone to recuperate.
[03:20] Takuboku
And here I am in this
run-down place...
[03:23] Kayo
Sorry it's so run-down.
[03:26] Kyousuke
Oh. Today was Sunday, wasn't it?
[03:28] Kyousuke
You're already back from helping
with the church's soup kitchen?
[03:31] Kayo
Yes.
SIGN Quick-acting Restorative
[03:34] Kayo
The doctor's fees must be ridiculous.
[03:38] Kayo
I can't say it's because
of that, exactly, but
[03:40] Kayo
I've brought you some investigative work.
[03:42] Kayo
Come in!
[03:44] Tamaki
Pardon the intrusion.
[03:49] Kayo
This is my friend.
[03:51] Kyousuke
Friend?
[03:53] Kayo
A threatening letter arrived
at my friend's house.
[03:55] Kyousuke
A threatening letter?
[03:56] Takuboku
We're not interested. Please look elsewhere.
[04:00] Kyousuke
I'm sorry.
[04:02] Kyousuke
He's not feeling well right now...
[04:04] Kayo
It's not like he has to go jumping around.
[04:07] Kayo
If he'd just listen to—
[04:08] Takuboku
I said we're not interested.
If you'd please leave.
[04:12] Kayo
You really are pathetic,
[04:15] Kayo
looking like you're carrying all
the sorrows of the world alone.
[04:17] Takuboku
Kayo-san.
[04:18] Takuboku
It's important to consider your words
based on timing and circumstances.
[04:21] Kayo
Huh?
[04:25] Kayo
Failing to consider timing and circumstances
[04:27] Kayo
is your specialty, isn't it, Ishikawa-san?
[04:30] Kyousuke
Kayo-chan, that's just cruel...
[04:33] Kayo
But... considering he's the one saying it...
[04:38] Kyousuke
Where are you going?
[04:39] Takuboku
Bathroom.
[04:42] Kyousuke
Aren't you being too mean?
[04:44] Kyousuke
The day before yesterday,
[04:46] Kyousuke
he coughed up blood
and collapsed right in front of me!
[04:54] Kyousuke
Is that... for Ishikawa-kun?
[04:57] Kayo
Is something wrong with that?
[04:59] Kyousuke
No. I didn't mean it that way...
[05:01] Kayo
I... When I was young I was sick, too.
[05:06] Kayo
That's why...
[05:16] Tamaki
Ishikawa-sensei left.
[05:18] Kyousuke
Huh? Yes...
[05:20] Kyousuke
He said he was going to the bathroom.
[05:22] Tamaki
No. Just now, he went outside.
[05:24] Kyousuke
What?
[05:28] Kyousuke
You're sure it was Ishikawa-kun?
[05:30] Tamaki
Yes.
[05:31] Tamaki
And he wasn't carrying an umbrella.
[05:37] Kayo
I'm sorry I couldn't be of any help.
[05:40] Tamaki
Not at all.
SIGN Kikunyuusha Milk
Newspapers
[05:58] Yoshii
Looks like that entertainment
producer the police arrested,
[06:01] Yoshii
Sonobe, has been released.
[06:03] Sakutarou
Sonobe?
[06:04] Yoshii
Remember? There was that
"bat-man" everyone loved,
[06:07] Yoshii
an acrobat named Kagami,
who fell to his death.
[06:10] Sakutarou
Right...
[06:11] Sakutarou
I can't believe that bat-man would...
[06:14] Nomura
Did you see him in person?
[06:16] Sakutarou
Yes. Just once at the Twelve-stories.
SIGN Wondrous Powers of Flight
[06:19] Sakutarou
It was quite impressive.
[06:22] Sakutarou
To think he fell because his rope broke.
[06:24] Sakutarou
I did think it was strange, but...
SIGN Asakusa Daily News
[06:27] Akutagawa
Even monkeys fall from trees.
[06:29] Sakutarou
Isn't that idiom a little inconsiderate?
[06:34] Akutagawa
Masters of mountains die in the mountains.
[06:39] Nomura
But they say they found a note
accusing Sonobe of things
[06:42] Nomura
in Kagami's room, right?
[06:45] Nomura
Why was he acquitted?
[06:49] Yoshii
It says there wasn't enough evidence.
[06:51] Yoshii
This Sonobe seems to have a lot
of influence in political circles.
[06:56] Kyousuke
Have any of you seen Ishikawa-kun?
[06:58] Nomura
What's wrong?
[06:59] Kyousuke
He went out.
[07:00] Kyousuke
And he didn't have an umbrella... and...
[07:03] Nomura
Just calm down a little.
[07:05] Kyousuke
The doctor said to make sure he
rested as much as possible, but...
[07:09] Kyousuke
he's gone...
[07:12] Yoshii
Probably just doing it for attention again
and intends to act innocent later.
[07:15] Kyousuke
No. He didn't seem like that at all...
[07:18] Nomura
You're always letting him
trick you like that.
[07:23] Kyousuke
He told me not to say
anything about this, but...
[07:27] Kyousuke
The truth is, Ishikawa-kun...
[07:30] Kyousuke
coughed up blood and collapsed.
[07:36] Tamaki
Are you jumping in?
[07:42] Tamaki
I hear death by drowning
is quite excruciating,
[07:45] Tamaki
but from here, I'm sure your
death would be certain.
[07:48] Takuboku
I'm not going back.
[07:53] Takuboku
What's so funny?
[07:54] Tamaki
You're just as Kayo-san said you were.
[07:57] Tamaki
You're quite spoiled, aren't you?
[07:59] Takuboku
What did you say?
[08:01] Tamaki
After all, I was simply
passing on my way home,
[08:05] Tamaki
but you thought I was here
to fetch you, didn't you?
[08:09] Tamaki
Still, this must be some kind of fate.
[08:13] Tamaki
I hear you've solved quite
a few difficult cases.
[08:17] Tamaki
Won't you accept my request?
I'll pay however much you want.
[08:24] Takuboku
Even the act of living seems pointless.
[08:27] Takuboku
Why would I care about
other people's problems?
[08:36] Tamaki
Everything that is born dies...
[08:38] Tamaki
whether humans, or puppies,
or flowers by the roadside...
[08:43] Tamaki
No matter what you do,
no matter what you leave behind,
[08:46] Tamaki
it all returns to nothingness.
[08:48] Tamaki
There is no meaning to the act of living.
[08:53] Tamaki
But if this body,
[08:54] Tamaki
which has no meaning in simply living,
can be of use to someone,
[08:59] Tamaki
doesn't that create a reason
for having been born?
[09:06] Tamaki
Please, come to my house.
[09:07] Tamaki
I'll make you some nice warm cocoa.
[09:12] Kyousuke
He says it's just light inflammation
of the abdominal membranes, but...
[09:15] Kyousuke
I don't know if that's true or not.
[09:20] Nomura
Stop worrying!
[09:22] Nomura
He wouldn't die even if you killed him!
[09:23] Yoshii
He's just pretending to be weak
as an excuse to borrow more money.
[09:27] Kyousuke
That's what I thought at first, too, but...
[09:30] Kyousuke
last night, I found this poem.
[09:32] Kyousuke
"If a young man who laughs
often were to die,
[09:36] Kyousuke
would the world feel
even a little saddened..."
[09:39] Sakutarou
Even the poems he writes to pay
his debts are such wonderful poems.
[09:43] Sakutarou
It's one of the amazing things
about Ishikawa-san, isn't it?
[09:46] Akutagawa
Wonderful poems born of lies.
[09:47] Kyousuke
It's not like that!
[09:49] Kyousuke
He's... At his heart, he's...
very straightforward, and...
[09:53] Kyousuke
if it seems like he lies sometimes,
[09:56] Kyousuke
it's because his brain works too quickly!
[09:58] Yoshii
True. He might be serious this time.
[10:02] Kyousuke
What?
[10:03] Sakutarou
I'm sure... it's already too late...
[10:05] Kyousuke
It can't be...
[10:06] Nomura
Namandabu, namandabu...
[10:08] Akutagawa
Nothing more can be done.
[10:11] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[10:25] Takuboku
You live in quite the impressive house.
[10:28] Tamaki
It's a house built through many evil deeds.
[10:33] Takuboku
Is your dad a bandit or something?
[10:35] Tamaki
My dad?
[10:38] Tamaki
If you'll wait a moment,
I'll bring you a change of clothes.
[10:57] Takuboku
"To Sonobe, who killed my older brother,
[10:59] Takuboku
and to you, who cared for him
and just watched him die,
[11:03] Takuboku
I swear my revenge."
[11:07] Tamaki
That is the matter I wanted to bring to you.
[11:11] Tamaki
Here. I believe they'll be the right size.
[11:16] Tamaki
I'll go change and return.
[11:19] Takuboku
In other places it's called
"adolescence," the awkward age.
[11:25] Tamaki
In that case, I'll change here, as well.
[11:43] Tamaki
Apologies for the late introduction.
[11:45] Tamaki
I'm Sonobe's wife, Tamaki.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[11:55] (Flashback) ringleader
Now, gather 'round!
[11:57] (Flashback) ringleader
The power of flight, so rare in this world.
[12:00] (Flashback) ringleader
People call him the bat-man, Kagami!
[12:12] (Flashback) spectator
He really is a bat-man!
[12:20] (Flashback) Sonobe
Here's your share.
[12:24] (Flashback) Sonobe
What is it?
[12:26] (Flashback) Kagami
I want you to leave Tamaki-san.
[12:28] (Flashback) Sonobe
What did you say?
[12:31] (Flashback) Kagami
I know everything.
[12:32] (Flashback) Kagami
You're using the church
as a front to sell children.
[12:42] (Flashback) Kagami
I'm planning to lodge
a complaint against him.
SIGN Letter of Accusation
[12:47] (Flashback) crowd
I've heard he really flies!
[12:48] (Flashback) crowd
Won't they hurry up?
[12:51] (Flashback) crowd
I've only heard of him.
[12:54] (Flashback) crowd
Oh! It's the bat-man!
[12:56] (Flashback) crowd
Oh! Over there!
[12:57] (Flashback) crowd
Where? Where?
[13:18] (Flashback) Tamaki
Kagami-san...
[13:23] (Flashback) Ooyama
Why don't you just confess?!
[13:25] (Flashback) Ooyama
You learned Kagami was
going to publicly accuse you,
SIGN Letter of Accusation
[13:29] (Flashback) Ooyama
and tampered with his lifeline.
[13:31] (Flashback) Ooyama
Isn't that right?!
[13:33] (Flashback) Sahara
Ooyama-san, a moment.
[13:36] (Flashback) Ooyama
What is it?
[13:37] (Flashback) Sahara
The superintendent's asking for you.
[13:39] (Flashback) Ooyama
The superintendent?
SIGN Letter of Accusation
[13:48] (Flashback) Sonobe
What is the meaning of this?
[13:50] (Flashback) Tamaki
Has something happened?
[13:54] (Flashback) Sonobe
To think Kagami had a younger brother...
[13:57] (Flashback) Sonobe
As I suspected, you and Kagami were...
[14:08] Tamaki
That silly man.
[14:10] Tamaki
He's afraid for the world to learn
I was unfaithful to him.
[14:16] Tamaki
That's why he can't take
that letter to the police.
[14:20] Tamaki
He says it has to do with
a man's pride or something.
[14:25] Takuboku
And... what do you think?
[14:28] Tamaki
About what?
[14:30] Takuboku
About this threatening letter.
[14:32] Tamaki
Kagami-san lost his parents at a young age.
[14:36] Tamaki
He and his brother were very close.
[14:40] Tamaki
So, I believe he is serious.
[14:45] Takuboku
But, why bring it to me?
[14:48] Tamaki
On the weekends, I go to help
at the church soup kitchen.
[14:53] Tamaki
While there, I asked
Kayo-san for advice, and...
[14:56] (Flashback) Kayo
We've got the perfect person
at our boarding house.
[15:00] Takuboku
Honestly.
[15:01] Takuboku
So, what is it you want me to do?
[15:04] Tamaki
I'd like you to find Kagami-san's brother.
[15:07] Tamaki
Kagami-san was a noble, honorable man.
[15:11] Tamaki
I can't allow his little brother
to commit a crime.
[15:16] Tamaki
It's the only thing I can do now...
[15:25] Tamaki
It's my husband.
[15:33] Yoshii
Where could he have gone?
[15:36] Sakutarou
What should we do?
[15:38] Yoshii
Even if you ask that, it doesn't...
[15:43] Yoshii
How did it go?
[15:44] Nomura
Someone saw someone like him
at the Ookawa Bridge.
[15:47] Kyousuke
What?
[15:48] Sakutarou
Anything else?
[15:49] Nomura
He seemed to be staring at the water
with a troubled expression.
[15:53] Yoshii
That's certainly unpleasant news.
[15:57] Akutagawa
Even kappa are swept away by rivers.
[15:59] Sakutarou
Akutagawa-kun, this is no time for jokes.
[16:02] Kyousuke
Now it's come to this,
we should go to the police...
[16:04] Takuboku
Two cocoas, please!
[16:09] Takuboku
We didn't get to have
any earlier, after all.
[16:12] Takuboku
What's this?
[16:15] Takuboku
You all look like drowned rats.
What have you been doing?
[16:19] Kyousuke
A-And you! After leaving like that.
[16:21] Kyousuke
What is going on?
[16:23] Takuboku
Going on?
[16:25] Takuboku
Just because I was a little ill,
you want me to lie around forever?
[16:28] Kyousuke
Wait...
[16:30] Kyousuke
Aren't you Kayo-chan's...
[16:32] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun. Please, explain!
[16:34] Kyousuke
What on earth...
[16:35] Takuboku
It hardly requires explanation...
[16:38] Takuboku
In short, it's a case, Kindaichi-kun!
[16:44] Takuboku
So the house where Kagami lived
with his brother is this way?
[16:48] Tamaki
Yes, but...
[16:49] Tamaki
it seems no one's lived there
since the accident.
[16:51] Takuboku
After the incident, you went
there alone, Tamaki-san?
[16:55] Tamaki
Yes.
[16:56] Tamaki
I thought that if we had a chance
to talk, he'd understand.
[17:03] Tamaki
Excuse me...
[17:04] older woman
Yes?
[17:05] Tamaki
I wanted to ask about the
people who used to live here.
[17:09] older woman
And who are you?
[17:11] Takuboku
I'm with the Asahi Shimbun.
SIGN Tokyo Asahi Shimbun Local News
Ishikawa Takuboku
[17:14] older woman
A reporter?
[17:17] Takuboku
Yes.
[17:18] Takuboku
Did Kagami-san live here
with his younger brother?
[17:21] older woman
Yes. They came here from the countryside
about a month before he died.
[17:27] Takuboku
After Kagami-san's death, have you
seen his younger brother around?
[17:31] older woman
The police asked me that, too.
[17:35] older woman
The night of the incident...
[17:42] older woman
he was screaming something
about "I'll kill you," but...
[17:46] older woman
I haven't seen him since.
[17:48] Takuboku
What kind of person is the younger brother?
[17:50] older woman
I don't really know.
[17:52] older woman
The elder brother was a sociable sort,
[17:55] older woman
but the younger brother wouldn't
even answer when you greeted him.
[18:08] Takuboku
Tamaki-san!
[18:09] Takuboku
What about this?
[18:11] Tamaki
It must belong to his brother.
[18:13] Takuboku
Are you sure?
[18:14] Tamaki
Yes.
[18:16] Tamaki
I know all of Kagami-san's clothes.
[18:29] Takuboku
Wait!
[18:44] Takuboku
He got away.
[18:47] Takuboku
Was that Kagami's brother?
[18:49] Tamaki
Yes...
[18:50] Tamaki
Though I didn't see him clearly.
[18:52] Takuboku
Don't worry. I will catch him.
[18:58] Takuboku
"The grief...
[18:59] Takuboku
and envy in a young man's eyes
[19:02] Takuboku
as he watches little birds in flight
[19:04] Takuboku
watches as they fly and sing."
[19:07] Tamaki
Is that how you attract interest from women?
[19:10] Takuboku
Huh?
[19:11] Tamaki
Ishikawa-san, I am aware that
you possess great literary talent.
[19:16] Tamaki
However, in the end,
poetry is simply emotional.
[19:21] Tamaki
Shouldn't you be using that literary talent
for the good of society instead?
[19:37] Kyousuke
So, how are things going?
[19:40] Takuboku
Not good. I've got nothing.
[19:43] Takuboku
I don't even know what to try next.
[19:45] Kyousuke
Do you think the threatening letter is real?
[19:49] Kyousuke
Maybe he just can't accept
his bother's death,
[19:51] Kyousuke
so he's started looking
for someone to blame?
[19:55] Takuboku
Huh?
[19:56] Takuboku
Oh. I've got nothing there, either.
[19:58] Kyousuke
"There, either"?
[20:00] Takuboku
Possessing the strength to carve
a path to a new era...
[20:04] Takbuoku
and still so lovely...
[20:07] Takuboku
I've never met a woman like her before.
[20:11] Kayo
Ishikawa-san!
[20:13] Takuboku
Yes?
[20:16] Kayo
A telegram.
[20:17] Takuboku
Thank you.
[20:19] Kyousuke
Who is it from?
[20:20] Takuboku
From Tamaki-san! I'm going out for a bit!
[20:25] Takuboku
Kayo-san.
[20:26] Takuboku
The soy sauce mochi you left
when I was sick was tasty.
[20:28] Takuboku
Thank you!
[20:30] Kayo
He really just does whatever
he wants, doesn't he?
[20:33] Kyousuke
Yes.
[20:37] Takuboku
What's wrong?
[20:39] Takuboku
What happened?
[20:41] Tamaki
This morning, this arrived...
[20:45] Takuboku
"First, I will take the life of your husband,
Sonobe, right in front of you.
[20:50] Takuboku
Even now, I am watching you
with narrowed eyes..."
[20:55] Takuboku
Ridiculous. This isn't a detective novel.
[20:59] Takuboku
I can't believe you of all people
would take this seriously—
[21:04] Takuboku
Huh?
[21:07] Takuboku
"5:13, Sonobe returns home.
[21:10] Takuboku
6:32, husband and wife have
dinner in the dining room.
[21:15] Takuboku
The brand of cigarette Sonobe
smokes after dinner is 'Kokka.'
[21:19] Takuboku
10:32, husband and wife
retire to the bedroom.
[21:22] Takuboku
Sonobe starts by removing your clothes..."
[21:26] Tamaki
It happened just like that.
[21:29] Tamaki
It happened just as Kagami's
brother wrote in that letter.
[21:32] Takuboku
But there's no way for someone outside
to know what happened in your bedroom—
[21:36] Takuboku
Could it be a maid let it slip?
[21:40] Tamaki
Come this way.
[21:45] Tamaki
This is the second floor.
[21:47] Tamaki
And outside the window is the Ookawa.
[21:50] Tamaki
There is no way for a maid to peer in.
[21:52] Takuboku
But... if that's the case... how?
[21:56] Tamaki
The thing is, sometimes
I can feel someone's presence.
[23:38] Hirai
The death of the bat-man!
A beauty in men's clothes!
[23:40] Hirai
A figure hiding in the rafters!
[23:41] Hirai
It really stirs the imagination!
SIGN Next Time: "Events Fulfilled"
[23:43] Akutagawa
Truly bizarre.
[23:44] Hirai
Actually, there's a very interesting rumor...
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E9 - Events Fulfilled
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[00:16] Tamaki
How is it?
[00:21] Takuboku
The dust on the floor has been disturbed.
[00:24] Takuboku
Someone has definitely been
hiding up there recently.
[00:28] Takuboku
This had fallen there.
[00:31] Takuboku
It must have come off of the
clothes of whoever snuck in.
[00:34] Tamaki
A button.
[00:39] Tamaki
Could this be...
[00:41] Takuboku
Yes.
[00:42] Takuboku
It's very likely the button from the shirt
we found in Kagami's house.
[00:46] Tamaki
And that shirt belonged to
Kagami's brother, didn't it?
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN Poem 9
Events Fulfilled
[02:37] Takuboku
Is that your husband?
[02:39] Tamaki
Yes.
[02:40] Tamaki
My husband, Sonobe.
[02:48] children
Yay!
[02:49] children
I'm over here!
[02:50] Takuboku
There sure are a lot of children here.
[02:52] children
Wait!
[02:53] Tamaki
This church takes in parent-less
children and looks after them.
[02:54] children
Hurry up!
[02:55] children
You're too fast...
[02:55] children
This way!
[02:58] children
Whoops!
[02:59] children
That was close.
[03:00] Child A
Onee-chan! Come play with us!
[03:03] Tamaki
I'm showing a guest around.
Some other time, all right?
[03:07] Child B
Do you know where Sacchan went?
[03:09] Tamaki
What?
[03:10] Child A
Sacchan disappeared...
[03:14] Tamaki
I see...
[03:16] Tamaki
Yes, I'm sure someone nice took her in.
[03:28] Takuboku
What was written in
the letter of accusation,
[03:30] Takuboku
that your husband is using his
philanthropic work as a front
[03:33] Takuboku
to make money selling children.
[03:36] Takuboku
It's true, isn't it?
[03:37] Tamaki
Yes.
[03:55] Tamaki
He went to confession.
[03:57] Takuboku
Confession?
[03:58] Tamaki
That's the confessional.
[04:02] Tamaki
In there, you confess the sins you've
committed and receive absolution.
[04:09] Takuboku
How beautiful.
[04:10] Tamaki
What?
[04:11] Takuboku
No, you know... that stained glass.
[04:15] Tamaki
Oh!
[04:15] Takuboku
It really is a beautiful church!
[04:18] Takuboku
Once I've published a book
and received the money from it,
[04:20] Takuboku
I'd love to make a donation here.
[04:22] Kayo
Before you do that, would you
please pay your rent?
[04:25] Takuboku
K-Kayo-san?
[04:27] Takuboku
Why are you here?
[04:29] Kayo
I should be asking you that.
[04:31] Takuboku
So the church where you help with
the soup kitchen was this one, huh?
[04:37] Tamaki
I come here every week to help, too.
That's how I met Kayo-san.
[04:43] Tamaki
Today, I hope you'll help, too, Ishikawa-san.
[04:48] Takuboku
Hot!
[04:49] Takuboku
Hot, hot, hot!
[04:51] Kayo
Come now. If you don't make them
faster, you'll never catch up.
[04:55] Takuboku
I'm amazed you can make
them when it's this hot.
[04:58] Kayo
It's only hot because you're thinking
about things you don't need to.
[05:02] Tamaki
When I'm making onigiri like this
for people in need, for the children,
[05:08] Tamaki
I find it very heartening.
[05:10] Tamaki
I mean...
[05:12] Tamaki
doesn't it make you feel like
your life is being given meaning?
[05:17] Tamaki
Hot! Hot!
SIGN Gaiheikan
[05:22] Takuboku
Wah! Whoops...
[05:23] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun? What's happened?
[05:28] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun?
[05:29] Takuboku
Oh! Perfect timing!
[05:31] Takuboku
Will you help me?
[05:33] Kyousuke
All right. With what?
[05:36] Takbuoku
I'm gathering these up to pawn them.
[05:38] Takuboku
I don't think they'll
fetch very much, but...
[05:41] Kyousuke
This Buch Der Lieder...
[05:43] Kyousuke
Is this...
[05:44] Takuboku
That's right!
[05:46] Takuboku
I was going to return it, but
[05:48] Takuboku
let me do that some other time.
[05:50] Kyousuke
That's fine, but what do you
need so much money for?
[05:54] Kyousuke
This month's rent isn't due until later...
[05:58] Takuboku
I was thinking of making
a donation to the church.
[06:01] Nomura
A donation?!
[06:03] Nomura
When he can't even take care
of his own living expenses?
[06:06] Kyousuke
He said he wanted to be of
some small use to the world.
[06:09] Kyousuke
I don't think it's a bad thing to
confront society like that, but...
[06:13] Kyousuke
Still...
[06:14] Nomura
Well, compared to when he's depressed,
you could say this is a lot better.
[06:19] Kyousuke
That's true, but...
[06:21] Sakutarou
It's all done for love... isn't it?
[06:25] Yoshii
And what's happened with the threatening
letter sent to this Tamaki-san?
[06:30] Kyousuke
He does seem to be investigating,
[06:32] Kyousuke
but I don't think there's been
significant progress.
[06:34] Nomura
Speaking of which, that "bat-man" incident
[06:38] Nomura
seems to have been wrapped
up as an accidental death.
[06:40] Sakutarou
If—as the rumors suggest—Kagami was
killed by that man, Sonobe...
[06:45] Sakutarou
It's not a pleasant thought.
[06:47] Hirai
Um, might I say something?
[06:49] Nomura
What is it?
[06:50] Hirai
About the unhappy Kagami...
[06:54] Hirai
I heard a very interesting story.
[06:59] Takuboku
"6:30, woke...
[07:01] Takuboku
dressed and groomed. 7:15, breakfast."
[07:06] Tamaki
My actions were exactly as written.
[07:09] Tamaki
It seems my life and Sonobe's
are in the palm of that man's hand.
[07:21] Takuboku
I want to protect you... and keep you safe.
[07:26] Tamaki
Ishikawa-san...
[07:33] Tamaki
My husband is home.
[07:35] Tamaki
Please leave through the back.
SIGN Gaiheikan
[07:43] Kyousuke
Can I come in?
[07:44] Takuboku
Please do.
[07:49] Kyousuke
How is it going with Tamaki-san?
[07:51] Takuboku
It's going all right.
[07:53] Kyousuke
I see.
[07:55] Kyousuke
And what about your health?
[07:57] Takuboku
I can't say it's remarkably
good, but it isn't bad.
[08:03] Kyousuke
Please don't push yourself
too hard, all right?
[08:09] Kyousuke
What are you reading?
SIGN An Appeal to the Young
by Kropotkin
Translated by Oosugi
[08:13] Kyousuke
Kropotkin?
[08:15] Kyousuke
An Appeal to the Young?
[08:17] Kyousuke
Why that all of a sudden?
[08:20] Takuboku
Up until now, I've put
all my energy into poetry.
[08:24] Takuboku
But poetry won't change society.
[08:28] Kyousuke
That may be true, but...
[08:31] Takuboku
I want to be of use to society.
[08:34] Takuboku
That is the reason
for my being born into this world.
[08:38] Takuboku
I was afraid of death.
[08:41] Takuboku
More precisely, of dying
and becoming nothingness.
[08:43] Takuboku
But I finally feel like
I know what I need to do!
[08:48] Takuboku
The life I've lived until now,
not knowing why I was alive,
[08:52] Takuboku
it's as though I were a living corpse!
[08:54] Takuboku
I will live, in the true sense of the word,
together with Tamaki-san!
[08:57] Kyousuke
What is a "living corpse"?
[09:00] Takuboku
The living dead.
Also called "zombies," I hear.
[09:04] Takuboku
I suppose they're like
what we'd call ghosts.
[09:06] Kyousuke
Speaking of which, I heard that ghosts
appear in the house where Kagami lived.
[09:11] Takuboku
Ghosts?
[09:12] Kyousuke
Yes.
[09:13] Kyousuke
According to what Hirai-kun heard,
though no one lives in the house,
[09:18] Kyousuke
you can see a light flickering
through the window.
[09:25] Takuboku
I don't see anything.
[09:27] Kyousuke
Let's just go home.
[09:29] Kyousuke
There can't be a ghost—
[09:30] Takuboku
Let's try going around the back.
[09:32] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[09:33] Kyousuke
I-I'm not going!
[09:35] Takuboku
Then just wait here, please, Kyousuke-san.
[09:37] Kyousuke
What?
[09:38] Takuboku
I'll go take a look around.
[10:07] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san! He's coming!
[10:08] Kyousuke
Huh?
[10:12] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san!
[10:13] Kyousuke
Ow, ow, ow...
[10:15] Kyousuke
That was close. Someone
suddenly came bursting out...
[10:18] Takuboku
I was hoping you would catch him.
[10:21] Kyousuke
Like I could do something like that.
[10:23] beggar
Let go! Hey!
[10:26] beggar
I said let me go!
[10:28] beggar
Stop it, you little punk!
[10:33] Takuboku
So, you used us, didn't you?
[10:36] Hirai
A brilliant deduction.
[10:37] Hirai
I thought he'd get away
if I were by myself, so...
[10:41] Hirai
I'm very sorry.
[10:43] Takuboku
So. You have some idea of who this is, then?
[10:47] Hirai
You're the beggar who lives
under the bridge, aren't you?
[10:51] Hirai
I apologize for treating you so roughly.
[10:54] Hirai
I was hoping to ask you something...
[10:58] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[10:59] Takuboku
Are you carrying any money with you?
[11:01] Kyousuke
Huh?
[11:03] Kyousuke
Yes.
[11:04] Takuboku
Let me borrow a little.
[11:09] Takuboku
Not enough?
[11:12] Takuboku
Then...
[11:16] Kyousuke
So, after Kagami had died and the police
had finished searching the house,
[11:21] Kyousuke
you started living here. Right?
[11:23] beggar
Yes!
[11:24] Kyousuke
Did anyone come here after that?
[11:27] beggar
Just once.
[11:28] beggar
A man and a woman came
looking for something.
[11:30] Takuboku
That would have been Tamaki-san and I.
[11:33] Kyousuke
Did anyone else come?
[11:35] beggar
No. No one's come.
[11:37] Takuboku
Was there a shirt in the house?
[11:39] beggar
A shirt?
[11:41] beggar
Oh!
[11:42] beggar
I was thinking of pawning it,
but it was missing a button, so...
[11:55] Takuboku
Tamaki-san...
[12:02] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun?
[12:17] Tamaki
Darling,
[12:18] Tamaki
just now, there was someone at the window!
[12:21] Sonobe
Don't be ridiculous.
[12:22] Tamaki
But!
[12:23] Sonobe
That's enough.
[12:25] Sonobe
"There's someone hiding in the ceiling."
[12:27] Sonobe
"There's someone peering
in a second story window."
[12:30] Sonobe
It's all absurd.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[12:52] Takuboku
Please, open the door! Tamaki-san!
[12:55] Takuboku
It's me! Ishikawa!
[12:57] Ooyama
Hey!
[12:59] Ooyama
If I'm not mistaken, you're...
[13:06] Ooyama
Why are you here?
[13:08] Takuboku
Where is Tamaki-san?
[13:09] Ooyama
Answer the question!
[13:11] Ooyama
Why are you here?
[13:12] Takuboku
I took on detective work
at Tamaki-san's request...
[13:16] Takuboku
Tamaki-san!
[13:17] Tamaki
Ishikawa-sama!
[13:22] Ooyama
We came because we heard
there'd been a murder.
[13:26] Takuboku
Tamaki-san! Did...
[13:28] Tamaki
He appeared... Kagami's younger brother...
[13:36] Ooyama
So, it was from here that
he was dragged out and down.
[13:40] Ooyama
Your husband couldn't swim?
[13:42] Tamaki
That's right.
[13:46] Tamaki
Thank you.
[13:49] Takuboku
Would you like some, Inspector?
[13:51] Ooyama
What is it?
[13:52] Takuboku
Cocoa.
[13:54] Ooyama
No, thank you.
[13:56] Ooyama
Can I ask you for the details?
[13:59] Tamaki
Of course.
[14:01] Tamaki
It was... a little after nine.
[14:06] (Flashback) Sonobe
That's enough.
[14:09] (Flashback) Sonobe
"There's someone hiding in the ceiling."
[14:11] (Flashback) Sonobe
"There's someone peering
in a second story window."
[14:13] (Flashback) Sonobe
It's all absurd.
[14:15] (Flashback) Sonobe
There is a limit to the amount of nonsense—
[14:19] (Flashback) Sonobe
You're—
[14:21] (Flashback) Tamaki
Darling!
[14:32] Ooyama
So, you saw the face of
the man outside the window?
[14:37] Tamaki
Yes. I saw it clearly.
SIGN To the false married couple
[14:40] Ooyama
Why didn't you bring this to
the police when it first arrived?
[14:44] Tamaki
Because... my husband said not to...
[14:47] Ooyama
Were you involved with Kagami?
[14:50] Ooyama
If so, then that would mean you
yourself had a motive to kill Sonobe.
[14:56] Tamaki
That's not...
[14:58] Takuboku
You're being disrespectful!
[14:59] Takuboku
Stop casting suspicions without bothering
to think things through first!
[15:02] Ooyama
What's that?!
[15:03] Takuboku
It is a fact that I found a button
from Kagami's brother's shirt
[15:07] Takuboku
in the rafters of this house.
[15:09] Takuboku
If you intend to charge Tamaki-san,
[15:12] Takuboku
then I hope you'll take it all the way
to Army Surgeon General Mori Rintarou.
[15:18] Takuboku
Let's go.
[15:20] Tamaki
Yes.
[15:22] Ooyama
For the time being, don't leave this house!
[15:32] Takuboku
I want to keep you safe.
[15:40] Takuboku
Is there a place the two of us can be alone?
[15:50] Takuboku
What is this place?
[15:51] Tamaki
It's my room.
[15:53] Tamaki
The servants don't come in here, either.
[16:05] Tamaki
Kayo-san told me.
[16:07] Tamaki
Humoresques. I like them, too.
[16:15] Takuboku
I'm going to borrow some paper.
[16:31] Takuboku
Kagami never had a younger brother.
[16:39] Tamaki
I would expect no less from
a detective Kayo-san recommended.
[16:43] Tamaki
When did you realize?
[16:45] Takuboku
The man who was there
when we went to the house
[16:49] Takuboku
was just a beggar.
[16:52] Takuboku
He started living in the house
soon after Kagami died,
[16:56] Takuboku
and the shirt with the missing
button was already there.
[17:00] Takuboku
Which means, the button from
that shirt was left in the rafters
[17:04] Takuboku
before Kagami died.
[17:08] Takuboku
That's strange, isn't it?
[17:09] Takuboku
To begin his revenge before
his older brother is killed?
[17:13] Takuboku
That button... You used the threatening
letter about Kagami as the basis
[17:18] Takuboku
to suggest the ceiling to me,
where I found it.
[17:24] Takuboku
But, I...
[17:26] Takuboku
I still don't understand.
[17:28] Takuboku
Why did you kill Sonobe?
[17:32] Takuboku
And how is it connected to Kagami's death?
[17:37] Tamaki
I am not Sonobe's wife.
[17:40] Tamaki
I am a mistress he bought.
[17:43] Tamaki
Soon after I began living with him,
[17:45] Tamaki
I realized Sonobe was selling children
from the church to the rich.
[17:50] Tamaki
I went to the police.
[17:55] Tamaki
But...
[17:57] (Flashback) Sonobe
I have to make sure you never think
to do anything so stupid again, don't I?
[18:12] Tamaki
Sonobe's clients are influential
in political and business circles.
[18:16] Tamaki
As soon as he's accused of
something, it gets crushed.
[18:21] Tamaki
But then, a once in a lifetime
chance came to me.
[18:26] (Flashback) Kagami
My body is being eaten away by illness...
[18:31] (Flashback) Kagami
My life... will soon be no more.
[18:35] (Flashback) Kagami
I'm so scared...
[18:37] (Flashback) Kagami
I can't take it anymore.
[18:39] Tamaki
I told Kagami about Sonobe's true identity.
[18:44] Tamaki
Then...
[18:46] (Flashback) Tamaki
It's all right.
[18:48] (Flashback) Tamaki
Your fear of death is because
you fear it's pointless.
[18:54] (Flashback) Tamaki
But what if it was given meaning?
[18:58] Tamaki
"What if your death could wipe away
many other people's unhappiness?"
[19:04] Tamaki
"Then, you would no longer
fear your death, would you?"
[19:18] Tamaki
But... Even with Kagami's death...
[19:22] Tamaki
Sonobe was not charged for his wrongdoings.
[19:27] Tamaki
So that Kagami's death
would not be in vain...
[19:35] Tamaki
Sonobe had to be killed.
[19:43] Takuboku
Accuser X.
[19:46] Tamaki
What's that?
[19:48] Takuboku
The homicide where the issue of mine pollution
was revealed in the Arakawa mines.
[19:52] Takuboku
The murder of a young woman
[19:54] Takuboku
revealed the bribery scandal
with Uchimoto steamships.
[19:58] Takuboku
And this time, the killing of Sonobe.
[20:00] Takuboku
The other cases also had
letters of accusation...
[20:04] Takuboku
almost as if revealing the societal problems
[20:08] Takuboku
were the true motive for the crimes.
[20:11] Takuboku
Could it be that you are Accuser X?
[20:19] Tamaki
That's a genius poet for you.
[20:22] Tamaki
Impressive powers of imagination.
[20:24] Tamaki
Sonobe was a person who should die.
[20:27] Tamaki
I have not a single regret—
[20:38] Takuboku
I asked Mori Rintarou-sensei
to mobilize the police.
[20:43] Takuboku
Ooyama-san.
[20:45] Takuboku
I apologize for not being able to tell you.
[20:48] Sonobe
Foolish woman.
[20:50] Sonobe
Being exposed by the man you meant to use.
[20:55] Takuboku
I wanted to keep you safe.
[20:58] Takuboku
I didn't want to let you become a murderer.
[21:01] Tamaki
Something like that... that's nothing.
[21:05] Takuboku
How can you say that? How?!
[21:07] Takuboku
Will killing this man give
your life meaning?!
[21:15] Ooyama
You're coming with me.
[21:16] Takuboku
You... You saved me!
[21:19] Takuboku
Was that not enough?!
[21:27] Tamaki
You should, in your own way,
[21:30] Tamaki
find your own reason for having been born.
[21:38] Ooyama
Hey! Stop!
[21:40] Ooyama
Stop, I said!
[21:57] Takuboku
Tamaki-san!
[22:03] Tamaki
"If there were a pleasant occupation
[22:05] Tamaki
I could work at wholeheartedly, then
[22:09] Tamaki
when it was finished..."
[23:38] Hirai
Wakayama-san, you really love
to travel, don't you?
[23:40] Bokusui
Yes. When I travel to far off places,
everything weighing me down flies away
[23:42] Bokusui
and I can be honest with myself.
SIGN Next Time: "Over Many Mountains and Rivers"
[23:43] Bokusui
If there's ever a time things
get complicated for you,
[23:45] Bokusui
you should take a trip.
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E10 - Over Many Mountains and Rivers
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[00:02] Kyousuke
You've been locked in there
for three days now, haven't you?
[00:05] Kyousuke
It's not good for your health.
[00:09] Kyousuke
What happened with Tamaki-san
was terrible, but...
[00:12] Kyousuke
But, it wasn't your fault...
[00:14] Kayo
He's still not coming out?
[00:16] Kyousuke
No.
[00:18] Kayo
I'm coming in!
[00:19] Kyousuke
What? Wait! Kayo-chan!
SIGN Gaiheikan
[00:22] Kayo
Pull yourself together!
[00:24] Kayo
You're a man. Aren't you
embarrassed acting like this?
[00:27] Kayo
Sleeping under a roof like this,
eating cooked meals...
[00:30] Kayo
It all takes money!
[00:32] Kayo
Get to work, and be of use to society!
[00:36] Kayo
It's what Tamaki-san...
told you to do, isn't it?
[00:44] Kyousuke
K-Kayo-chan?
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN Kikunyuusha Milk
Newspapers
SIGN Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
SIGN Poem 10
Over Many Mountains and Rivers
[02:38] Nomura
Why such a long face?
[02:40] Kyousuke
Lately, Ishikawa-kun has
been isolating himself.
[02:44] Sakutarou
I don't blame him.
[02:46] Sakutarou
That man—Sonobe—seems to
have been acquitted
[02:49] Sakutarou
on the grounds of self-defense, after all.
[02:51] Kyousuke
Yes...
[02:54] Yoshii
There's no need to worry so much, is there?
[02:57] Kyousuke
What?
[02:58] Yoshii
I mean...
[02:59] Yoshii
He only met this Tamaki
about two weeks ago, right?
[03:03] Kyousuke
That's true, but...
[03:05] Yoshii
We are speaking of Ishikawa-kun.
He's always quick to change.
[03:08] Yoshii
Give it a week and I'm sure he'll be
chasing some other woman's skirts.
[03:13] Yoshii
Huh? What's wrong?
[03:20] Yoshii
Ishikawa-kun!
[03:21] Yoshii
I-I didn't mean anything by it!
[03:23] Takuboku
It's just as you say.
[03:25] Takuboku
Up until now, I've been...
[03:26] Takuboku
egotistical, selfish, pretentious
about my so-called genius...
[03:29] Takuboku
an utterly unbearable man.
SIGN (Tokyo) Hiraide Kindaichi Kurihara Kumagai Komunai Nomura Hagiwara
[03:37] Takuboku
Nomura-san.
[03:38] Nomura
Huh? Yes?
[03:40] Takuboku
Nomura-san, I've borrowed 26 yen from you.
[03:43] Nomura
I-Is it really that much?
[03:45] Takuboku
It pains me to do things this way,
[03:47] Takuboku
but if I paid back just one tenth
to everyone this time,
[03:51] Takuboku
would that be all right?
[03:52] Nomura
O-Of course. It's fine.
[03:58] Takuboku
It really was a great help.
[04:00] Nomura
Sure. If anything else
comes up, let me know.
[04:04] Takuboku
Hagiwara-san, I've borrowed
13 yen from you, so...
[04:07] Takuboku
If one yen would be all right this time...
[04:09] Sakutarou
Yes. That's more than enough.
[04:14] Yoshii
What on earth is he doing?
[04:16] Kyousuke
I don't know.
[04:19] Akutagawa
Even demons get sunstroke.
[04:30] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun?
[04:32] Takuboku
Come in.
[04:37] Kyousuke
What are you writing?
[04:39] Takuboku
The story of me and Tamaki-san.
[04:43] Takuboku
A little while back, Morita-kun's
Soot and Smoke was popular, remember?
[04:46] Kyousuke
The novel about his failed attempt
[04:48] Kyousuke
to commit a lovers' suicide
with Hiratsuka-san, right?
[04:51] Kyousuke
But, you...
[04:53] Kyousuke
Didn't you say you didn't like
that kind of flaunting of faults?
[04:55] Takuboku
Yes. I despise it.
[04:58] Kyousuke
Then, why...
[05:00] Takuboku
Making a show of one's
faults or whatever else...
[05:02] Takuboku
if it isn't being talked about,
there's no point in writing it.
[05:06] Kyousuke
Talked about?
[05:07] Takuboku
If it doesn't have the power
to change society,
[05:10] Takuboku
writing it is pointless.
[05:12] Takuboku
How people should live
their lives in this world...
[05:15] Takuboku
I want to make people think about that.
[05:19] Kyousuke
But... What about your poetry?
[05:22] Takuboku
Poetry? That's just a simple pastime.
[05:24] Takuboku
It isn't a man's vocation.
[05:28] Takuboku
I must be reborn.
[05:31] Takuboku
That's what Tamaki-san wanted.
[05:50] Sakutarou
I wonder what's happened.
[05:52] Sakutarou
Ishikawa-san returning our money is...
[05:55] Yoshii
It's just a whim of his.
[05:57] Sakutarou
But, somehow, he seemed different.
[06:02] Yoshii
Putting you off guard like
that is his usual play, isn't it?
[06:06] Yoshii
He hasn't changed at all.
[06:11] Nomura
Could be it's us who need to change.
[06:16] Sakutarou
What do you mean?
[06:18] Nomura
He's always done what he likes
and enjoyed life, right?
[06:24] Nomura
If that's what serves
to enrich his poetry, then...
[06:27] Nomura
he might be the one who's living
his life the way it should be lived.
[06:48] Kyousuke
Morning!
[06:50] Takuboku
Good morning.
[06:52] Takuboku
What is that?
[06:53] Kyousuke
It's the wild pansy you bought
while drunk about two months ago.
[06:58] Takuboku
But, didn't it dry up and die?
[07:00] Kyousuke
After taking care of it every day,
[07:02] Kyousuke
it's turned out as you can see.
[07:06] Takuboku
I see.
[07:08] Takuboku
That might work, too.
SIGN Gaiheikan
[07:36] Takuboku
Thank you. It was delicious.
[07:38] Kyousuke
Looks like much of your
appetite has returned.
[07:40] Takuboku
You can't write a novel when you're hungry.
[07:46] Kyousuke
It's a nice time of year, isn't it?
[07:48] Takuboku
Actually... I had a favor to ask...
[07:52] Kyousuke
What is it?
[07:53] Kyosuuke
Ask me anything. If it's
something I can do, I will.
[07:56] Takuboku
Would you lend me five yen?
[08:00] Kyousuke
What do you need it for?
[08:02] Takuboku
I was thinking of setting the novel in
Izumo, Tamaki-san's hometown.
[08:08] Takuboku
I thought I need to go see it once.
[08:13] Kyousuke
This is all I have at the moment, but...
[08:15] Takuboku
I'm in your debt.
[08:17] Kyousuke
I'm glad it's going well.
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Newspapers
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[08:27] Nomura
So, how is Ishikawa doing?
[08:31] Kyousuke
He's working hard, writing a novel.
[08:34] Nomura
Huh?
[08:35] Nomura
Not poetry?
[08:35] Yoshii
Three milks.
[08:36] Kyousuke
No.
[08:37] server
Right away.
[08:39] Sakutarou
When he came here to return our money...
I wonder what that was about.
[08:42] Yoshii
He'll show up to borrow
money again soon enough.
[08:46] Kyousuke
Right now, Ishikawa-kun
is desperately trying to change.
[08:50] Yoshii
I'm not so sure.
[08:54] Yoshii
Even if he is thinking that way,
[08:56] Yoshii
trying to change his personality
or lifestyle
[08:58] Yoshii
at this point, it's pretty much—
[08:59] Kyousuke
He can change!
[09:01] Kyousuke
I know he can change.
[09:05] Yoshii
There's no need to be
so vehement about it...
[09:27] Yoshii
What was all that about, I wonder.
[09:29] Sakutarou
What?
[09:30] Yoshii
When it comes to Ishikawa-kun,
he gets worked up so quickly.
[09:35] Yoshii
And, anyway, it's only because Kindaichi-kun
spoils him that Ishikawa-kun
[09:38] Yoshii
pushes his luck in the first place.
[09:40] Sakutarou
That may be true, but...
[09:42] Sakutarou
he may be struggling, in his own way.
[09:45] Sakutarou
At the very least,
that's what Kindaichi-san...
[09:50] Yoshii
Something wrong?
[09:51] Sakutarou
No. It's nothing.
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[10:33] Takuboku
If you'd please give me
your honest opinion.
[10:38] Natsume
There's a sense of reality that could
not be achieved unless one had lived it.
[10:43] Natsume
I felt this when I read Morita-kun's
Soot and Smoke, too, but...
[10:46] Natsume
At first glance, the young people seem
to be living dirty, unsightly lives...
[10:51] Natsume
but in reality, they are
fighting a resolute battle
[10:53] Natsume
against the antiquated
structures of society.
[10:55] Natsume
It has been depicted very well here.
[10:59] Takuboku
Thank you for your words.
[11:07] Natsume
Has your health improved?
[11:09] Takuboku
Yes.
[11:10] Natsume
You shouldn't push yourself too hard,
[11:12] Natsume
but I hope next time
you'll let me hear a tanka.
[11:17] Takuboku
Then I'll take my leave, for today.
[11:24] Akutagawa
Professor...
[11:26] Natsume
And what should I have said?
[11:29] Natsume
He looks in poor health, after all.
[11:31] Natsume
There will be another opportunity.
[11:41] Yoshii
And today, once again,
we'll drink cheap alcohol
[11:43] Yoshii
and find our way to bed, shall we?
[11:45] Sakutarou
Whether he's thinking of changing or not,
[11:47] Sakutarou
we're just the same as always.
[11:49] Sakutarou
Aren't we?
[11:53] Yoshii
But...
[11:55] Yoshii
having a friend who believes
in him so completely...
[11:59] Yoshii
I have to say I am jealous.
[12:01] Sakutarou
Are you?
[12:06] geisha
Are you all right?
[12:11] geisha
Honestly.
[12:12] Takuboku
One more cup!
[12:13] geisha
Of course. Here we go.
[12:16] geisha
There you are.
[12:18] geisha
Should you be drinking so—
[12:24] Takuboku
Hey, you two!
[12:27] Takuboku
Care to join me?
[12:30] Yoshii
You've been a frequent topic
of conversation recently.
[12:34] Yoshii
We've been wondering if maybe it's your
brazen shamelessness that we're lacking.
[12:39] Takuboku
It does take talent to be this
brazenly shameless, you know.
[12:42] Yoshii
You see?
[12:44] Yoshii
I knew he hadn't changed—
[12:46] Sakutarou
How are you going to pay for this?
[12:49] Takuboku
Luckily, I happen
to have a very kind friend.
[12:53] Sakutarou
Kindaichi-san said that you
were trying to change...
[12:57] Sakutarou
That you were suffering,
that he wanted to help you...
[13:01] geisha A
We'll take our leave here.
[13:06] Sakutarou
Betraying Kindaichi-san's
friendship like this...
[13:08] Sakutarou
aren't you ashamed of yourself?
[13:11] Takuboku
Just the sort of thing someone
with no talent would say.
[13:15] Takuboku
What you speak of is the reasoning
of an ordinary person.
[13:18] Takuboku
A genius capable of anything does
not fret over such trivialities!
[13:22] Takuboku
This life of mine—my time here—
must be used to serve society!
[13:28] Sakutarou
Even if it means trampling over friendships?
[13:31] Takuboku
It's really only ever been
a nuisance, anyway.
[13:34] Takuboku
He's always forcing his
"friendship" on me when—
[13:47] Yoshii
My apologies.
[13:48] Yoshii
When I heard you belittling a friend,
I couldn't help wanting to punch you.
[13:56] Yoshii
Let's go.
[14:11] Takuboku
People without talent can be so uncivilized.
[14:22] Takuboku
This thing...
[14:25] Takuboku
Reality? Not even a little...
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Detective's
Office
SIGN Gaiheikan
[14:35] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san?
[14:36] Kyousuke
Come in!
[14:40] Kyousuke
Have you not slept much?
[14:42] Takuboku
I was busy reading over my materials.
[14:45] Takuboku
Were you able to gather the money?
[14:48] Kyousuke
Here.
[14:51] Takuboku
I don't know where you borrowed it from,
[14:54] Takuboku
but people really do seem
to like you, Kyousuke-san.
[14:59] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun, would you like
to give it some water?
[15:02] Kyousuke
Somehow, it makes you feel happier.
[15:15] Kyousuke
Are you all right?
[15:16] Kayo
Hey! Be more careful!
[15:18] Kyousuke
I-I'm so sorry!
[15:58] Sonobe
You, there.
[16:00] Sonobe
Could I borrow a light?
[16:03] Sonobe
A light...
[16:04] Sonobe
Hey! You, there!
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Newspapers
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[16:16] Sakutarou
Kindaichi-san.
[16:19] Sakutarou
I think the feelings you have towards
Ishikawa-san are beautiful.
[16:24] Kyousuke
I see...
[16:25] Sakutarou
But... they'll never come to anything.
[16:28] Kyousuke
What are we talking about?
[16:30] Sakutarou
The thing is—
[16:31] Yoshii
Stop it. This isn't for us to interfere in.
[16:33] Sakutarou
No. Let me say this.
[16:38] Sakutarou
Tattling isn't something I particularly
want to partake in, but...
[16:42] Kyousuke
Is it about him going to
the pleasure district?
[16:59] Kyousuke
Can I come in for a moment?
[17:02] Takuboku
Can you come back later?
[17:04] Kyousuke
I bought some soy sauce mochi...
[17:10] Kyousuke
How is the novel going?
[17:12] Takuboku
Can we do this later?
[17:15] Kyousuke
I'd like to at least leave you
this soy sauce mochi...
[17:18] Takuboku
Please, just go away!
[17:20] Takuboku
You're always pretending to help me
just to make yourself feel better!
[17:23] Kyousuke
When have I ever done that?
[17:26] Kyousuke
I know you're a genius.
[17:29] Kyousuke
I feel it from the bottom of my heart.
[17:31] Takuboku
It's fine.
[17:33] Takuboku
I'll come get it later.
[17:36] Kyousuke
What?
[17:37] Kyousuke
What are you doing?
[17:40] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[17:44] Takuboku
It's hilarious...
[17:47] Takbuoku
This will never be enough to kill me...
[17:51] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[17:53] Takuboku
Why do you bother being kind
to someone so absurd?
[17:58] Takuboku
Enough is enough!
[18:17] Bokusui
What's this?
[18:19] Bokusui
Why, if it isn't Ishikawa-san!
[18:22] Takuboku
Did you just get back?
[18:24] Bokusui
Yes.
[18:25] Bokusui
I took the Tokaido line down to Omi,
[18:27] Bokusui
and came back up through
the Hokuriku region.
[18:30] Bokusui
And the wounds from my love
have pretty much healed.
[18:34] Takuboku
I'm jealous, Wakayama-san.
[18:38] Bokusui
Has something happened?
[18:41] Takuboku
I think... I'm tired...
[18:44] Bokusui
Well, that's no good.
[18:46] Bokusui
We need you working away at your poetry!
[18:49] Bokusui
I really love your poems.
[18:52] Takuboku
In your travels...
[18:54] Takuboku
what poems did you find?
[18:59] Bokusui
"Over many mountains and rivers
[19:01] Bokusui
I travel far
[19:02] Bokusui
This loneliness
[19:04] Bokusui
a land where it finds its end...
[19:06] Bokusui
Today, too, I travel..."
[19:08] song
If I go, just as my heart wishes,
[19:14] song
crossing over many mountains and rivers,
[19:20] song
will this loneliness
that will not release me
[19:26] song
fade away
[19:31] song
These feelings
that will never be fulfilled...
[19:37] song
made the smiles of my younger days
[19:43] song
a little brighter...
[19:46] song
I only wish I could say it were true.
[20:16] Kyousuke
Quite nostalgic, isn't it?
[20:26] Takuboku
How?
[20:29] Kyousuke
"Over many mountains and rivers
[20:30] Kyousuke
I travel far..."
[20:32] Takuboku
But...
[20:33] Takuboku
I didn't even tell Wakayama-san
where I was going...
[20:36] Kyousuke
When I heard this poem,
[20:39] Kyousuke
I felt an overwhelming desire
to come back home.
[20:42] Kyousuke
I was sure you'd feel
the same, Ishikawa-kun.
[20:46] Takuboku
In the end...
[20:48] Takuboku
this was the only place
I had to come home to.
[20:53] Kyousuke
Isn't it a little too soon to come home
with your dreams in tatters?
[21:01] Takuboku
Why do you look out for me?
[21:06] Takuboku
I mean, it's not going to get you anything.
[21:09] Takuboku
And soon, I'll be...
[21:15] Kyousuke
Maybe because it's just
the way things are...
[21:19] Kyousuke
The time I spent here with you
all those years ago...
[21:22] Kyousuke
Living in the same boarding
house in Tokyo with you...
[21:26] Kyousuke
And standing here beside you now...
[21:30] Kyousuke
At some point, it just became the way
things are supposed to be for me.
[21:34] Kyousuke
When I'm with you, I can go back
to the way we were, anytime.
[21:42] Takuboku
I can't write a decent novel...
[21:46] Takbuoku
I can't avenge the woman I loved...
[21:49] Takuboku
You keep stopping me,
so I can't die, either...
[21:54] Kyousuke
Whether you go to the pleasure district,
[21:56] Kyousuke
or sell my books to
the pawnshop without asking...
[21:58] Kyousuke
I don't care about any of that.
[22:01] Kyousuke
If you need money, I'll lend you
however much you ask for.
[22:06] Kyousuke
But...
[22:09] Kyousuke
the one thing I will
never allow is your death.
[22:21] Kyousuke
I will continue to watch over you, forever.
[23:37] Nomura
Kindaichi, I heard you went back
to Morioka with Ishikawa.
[23:40] Kyousuke
Yes. He seems to be feeling better.
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[23:42] Nomura
Glad to hear it.
[23:43] Nomura
But now he's feeling better,
he'll probably end up
[23:45] Nomura
sticking his nose
into another strange case...
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E11 - The Hour of Demons
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[00:06] Kyousuke
I'm coming in!
[00:07] Takuboku
All right.
[00:17] Kyousuke
Are you writing another novel?
[00:19] Takuboku
No.
[00:20] Takuboku
Just getting ready for my
poetry anthology... that's all.
[00:23] Kyousuke
I see.
[00:25] Kyousuke
Here.
[00:27] Kyousuke
Seems there's been another
unsettling incident.
[00:30] Takuboku
How did I... used to write poetry?
[00:34] Kyousuke
It seemed like they just came to you
as you spoke them, but...
[00:39] Takuboku
Oh, right.
[00:40] Takuboku
I decided to take on a case.
[00:43] Kyousuke
A case? You mean as a detective?
[00:44] Kyousuke
You shouldn't push yourself
too hard yet...
[00:46] Takuboku
I can't just keep relying
on you all the time.
[00:49] Kyousuke
Please, don't speak
as though we're not friends.
[00:51] Kyousuke
So, what kind of case is it?
[00:53] Takuboku
Well, it seems a child has been kidnapped,
[00:56] Takuboku
but more importantly, the reward
is an unprecedented 40 yen and—
[01:01] Kyousuke
Is something wrong?
[01:02] Takuboku
It looks like they've found
another letter of accusation.
[01:06] Kyousuke
Oh, yes. It's quite a tragic case, isn't it?
[01:09] Kyousuke
For an important government official
to kill a servant like that is...
[01:13] Kyousuke
Is something wrong?
[01:15] Takuboku
No...
[01:17] Kyousuke
Are you all right?
[01:20] Takuboku
Yes. It's nothing.
[01:22] Kyousuke
You seem a little feverish.
[01:24] Kyousuke
Is there anything I can help with?
[01:26] Takuboku
I can't let you do that.
[01:28] Takuboku
I'm sure you must be busy with your
school lectures, Kyousuke-san...
[01:32] Kyousuke
I told you, don't treat me
like we're not friends.
[01:35] Takuboku
Really?
[01:36] Kyousuke
Yes.
[01:37] Takuboku
In that case, would you go listen
to the client's story for me?
[01:41] Kyousuke
What? By myself?
[01:43] Takuboku
Yes!
[01:43] Takuboku
We've arranged to meet them
at their place at 6 o'clock.
[01:46] Kyousuke
You mean 6 today?
[01:48] Kyousuke
Well, I don't mind, but...
[01:50] Kyousuke
I mean, it's a lot of responsibility,
[01:52] Kyousuke
and I'm not observant the way you are...
[01:56] Takuboku
It's all right.
[01:58] Takuboku
I'll go myself.
[02:00] Kyousuke
W-Wait!
[02:02] Kyousuke
It's really no trouble!
[02:03] Kyousuke
If it's just listening to what they
have to say, even I can do that.
[02:08] Takuboku
Thank you.
[02:09] Takuboku
The best thing to have
really is a good friend.
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Newspapers
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The Hour of Demons
[03:47] Nomura
What's wrong? Why the long face?
[03:52] Yoshii
I'm sure it's just that
Ishikawa-kun has thrust
[03:54] Yoshii
some unreasonable demand on him again.
[03:56] Sakutarou
Is something troubling you?
[03:58] Kyousuke
Actually... I have a favor to ask...
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[04:06] Ooyama
What is it?
[04:09] Takuboku
I'm sorry to ask for you like this.
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[04:12] Takuboku
Thank you for your help the other day.
[04:14] Ooyama
Hurry up and tell me why you're here.
[04:16] Takuboku
Actually, I wanted to ask about this case...
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[04:23] Kyousuke
This is... quite a large store, isn't it?
[04:27] Sakutarou
I'm not going to speak
a single word, all right?
[04:29] Kyousuke
Huh?
[04:30] Sakutarou
I have no intention of going to
any trouble for Ishikawa-san's sake,
[04:33] Sakutarou
and I'm not particularly good
at this kind of thing...
[04:35] Kyousuke
I understand.
[04:37] Kyousuke
I've served as a detective's
partner this whole time.
[04:41] Kyousuke
I can do this.
[04:43] Kyousuke
Excuse me!
[04:49] Ooyama
You actually discussed this with
Inspector General Mori, right?
[04:53] Takuboku
Yes. Of course.
[04:54] Takuboku
Please, feel free to look
into it, if you'd like.
[05:01] Ooyama
Hurry up and get this done with.
[05:25] Kyousuke
So, you mean...
[05:26] Kyousuke
You'd like us to look for your child,
who was kidnapped a month ago.
[05:30] Kahei's wife
Even if it's just the sound of wind,
I can't help but think my child's returned...
[05:34] Kahei's wife
I can't sleep at night.
[05:38] Kyousuke
Of course you can't.
[05:39] Kyousuke
Truly, I can only imagine...
[05:42] Kahei
So...
[05:44] Kahei
Will it be possible to bring our child back?
[05:46] Kyousuke
I don't know.
[05:47] Kyousuke
I have no idea what to do... None at all.
[05:50] Kahei
Please, don't say that...
[05:51] Sakutarou
May I ask a few questions, actually?
[05:54] Kahei
Of course.
[05:55] Sakutarou
Firstly, why haven't you
taken this to the police?
[05:57] Kyousuke
That's right! Let's do that!
[05:59] Kyousuke
If we go to the police,
everything will work out—
[06:04] Sakutarou
Next, why are you only acting
after a month has passed?
[06:09] Kahei
Actually, since the beginning of the year,
[06:13] Kahei
my son was the fifth to be kidnapped.
[06:15] Kyousuke
The fifth? That's terrible!
[06:17] Kyousuke
We really should go to the police—
[06:18] Sakutarou
Kindaichi-san.
[06:20] Kahei
All of the kidnappings have been from
within the mutual aid association we formed
[06:23] Kahei
between businesses in the neighborhood.
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[06:27] Kahei
The first one was the kidnapping
of the son of the Urata-ya,
[06:32] Kahei
but he came back in just two days.
[06:34] Kahei
Next, the child of Mino-ya was taken,
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[06:37] Kahei
but in that case, the child
returned in four days, too.
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[06:40] Kahei
In the same manner, children from Harada-en
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[06:43] Kahei
and Sudou-Shichibei Dry
Goods were also kidnapped,
[06:47] Kahei
but although the period of absence increased,
the children all came home safely.
[06:51] Kahei's wife
My husband said our child
would soon return, too,
[06:54] Kahei's wife
but it's already been a month...
[06:57] Kahei's wife
I couldn't just sit by and
do nothing anymore.
SIGN Gaiheikan
[07:03] Kyousuke
And that's how it went.
[07:06] Takuboku
I see. I do understand.
[07:10] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, you may be surprisingly
suited to detective work!
[07:13] Takuboku
Succinct and to the point. A perfect report.
[07:17] Kyousuke
Well, maybe...
[07:18] Kyousuke
But, with this, I feel like the weight
has finally been lifted.
[07:21] Takuboku
You've really been a great help.
[07:23] Takuboku
When people speak of a "best friend,"
[07:25] Takuboku
they must mean someone
like you, Kyousuke-san.
[07:27] Kyousuke
Oh, right.
[07:29] Kyousuke
Is the preparation for the
poetry anthology coming along?
[07:32] Takuboku
No.
[07:33] Kyousuke
I see.
[07:35] Kyousuke
Well, this is you we're talking about.
[07:37] Kyousuke
I'm sure they'll come out
even if you don't want them to.
[07:41] Takuboku
No, all that's coming out is my cough,
with this change in seasons.
[07:44] Kyousuke
Why don't you leave the detective work here?
[07:47] Kyousuke
I really want to help you,
but the responsibility is so heavy...
[07:51] Takuboku
Don't trouble yourself.
[07:53] Takuboku
This work is mine, after all.
[07:55] Takuboku
I don't intend to entangle
you in it any further—
[08:00] Kyousuke
That ship has already sailed.
I'll see it through to the end.
[08:04] Takuboku
But that's...
[08:06] Kyousuke
It's all right. Just get some rest.
[08:09] Kyousuke
The truth is, I've started having fun with it.
[08:11] Takuboku
Really?
[08:13] Takuboku
In that case, will you go talk to the others
who experienced the kidnappings?
[08:20] Yoshii
So, in the end, you ended up
talking with the client.
[08:24] Sakutarou
Yes.
[08:25] Sakutarou
Kindaichi-san kept sympathizing
with the client, so...
[08:29] Nomura
He really is hopeless.
[08:31] Nomura
Though, that's one of
the things I like about him.
[08:36] Yoshii
At this rate, it looks like someone
is going to remain a sacrifice
[08:39] Yoshii
until the case is solved.
[08:43] Akutagawa
Speak rumors of someone,
and from the shadows...
[08:53] Kyousuke
I was wondering...
[08:53] Sakutarou
I really wish I could be of help, but...
[08:57] Yoshii
I decline. I have no intention of
working on Ishikawa-kun's behalf.
[09:03] Kyousuke
Nomura-kun.
[09:04] Kyousuke
I know this is a lot to ask,
[09:06] Kyousuke
but as a friend from the same
boarding school, would you help me?
[09:12] Kayo
I've brought your tray!
[09:20] Kayo
You gave up on your novel?
[09:23] Takuboku
Did you want to read it?
[09:26] Kayo
No.
[09:27] Kayo
It's just that Tamaki-san
was looking forward
[09:30] Kayo
to reading it.
[09:41] Takuboku
"That literary talent should be used
for the benefit of society."
[09:45] Takuboku
That's what Tamaki-san said to me.
[09:48] Takuboku
Unfortunately, I have no talent for novels.
[09:53] Takuboku
Though, I can't seem to write
poetry anymore, either.
[09:57] Kayo
Why do you write it?
[09:59] Takuboku
"Why?"
[10:01] Kayo
Tamaki-san told you to write a novel
for the sake of the world, right?
[10:06] Kayo
So...
[10:08] Kayo
Why do you write poetry?
[10:30] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun, may I come in?
[10:32] Takuboku
Please do.
[10:39] Takuboku
I've put you to all this
trouble... I'm sorry.
[10:44] Takuboku
And all I've got to show is this mess...
[10:45] Kyousuke
Don't say that.
[10:47] Kyousuke
I don't think of it as any trouble at all.
[10:50] Takuboku
I feel much better for hearing that!
[10:52] Takuboku
Looks like I'll be able to
leave it to you to the very end.
[10:55] Takuboku
So, how did the investigation go?
[10:59] Kyousuke
Well, for now, I've collected
everything I heard here.
[11:02] Kyousuke
Before Narita-ya, four homes
had cases of kidnapping.
[11:05] Kyousuke
All of them were between
the ages of two and three,
[11:08] Kyousuke
and only Narita-ya's child was younger.
[11:10] Kyousuke
He's only just turned one.
[11:12] Takuboku
I wonder if there are other children
among the association members.
[11:17] Kyousuke
There are two other families
with young children.
[11:20] Kyousuke
The parents are worried
their children could be next.
[11:24] Kyousuke
It seems all of the children disappeared
during the busy twilight hours.
[11:28] Kyousuke
It really is the "hour of demons."
[11:30] Kyousuke
Were they kidnapped by gods or spirits?
[11:32] Takuboku
Spirits that hid people or lead them astray
[11:35] Takuboku
are just folktales spread
by aspiring onmyouji.
[11:38] Takuboku
Though, moving forward, it's unlikely
any other children will be kidnapped.
[11:42] Kyousuke
Why do you say that?
[11:44] Takuboku
The shops you investigated for me.
[11:46] Takuboku
I tried arranging their names in
the order the incidents occurred.
SIGN Narita-ya Sudou-Shichi Harada-en Mino-ya Urata-ya
[11:49] Kyousuke
Ura. Mi. Hara. Su. Nari...
[11:55] Kyousuke
"I have been avenged!"
[11:56] Takuboku
Which means that, with Narita-ya,
[11:58] Takuboku
the perpetrator's strange
kidnappings have ended.
[12:02] Takuboku
But, you know...
[12:04] Kyousuke
What is it?
[12:05] Takuboku
If that's the case, why
hasn't the perpetrator
[12:07] Takuboku
send Narita-ya a threatening
letter or something?
[12:11] Kayo
Ishikawa-san!
[12:13] Takuboku
Come in.
[12:15] Kayo
Someone with a message
from Narita-ya is downstairs for you.
[12:18] Kayo
They've apparently received
a threatening letter.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[12:27] Kyousuke
"Put 300 yen in this purse,
give it to one of the shop boys,
[12:31] Kyousuke
and come to Nakamise-dori," it says.
[12:38] Nomura
"Make sure the pouch is visible,
and have him hold it in his right hand."
[12:41] Nomura
How very detailed.
[12:45] Nomura
This is... clove?
[13:02] Kyousuke
They're late.
[13:04] Kyousuke
It's long past six.
[13:08] Nomura
We told him not to look this way!
[13:11] Kyousuke
He can't help it.
[13:12] Kyousuke
And he's in much more danger than we—
[13:14] boy
Hey! Wait!
[13:24] Nomura
That's why they put
the scent of cloves on it!
[13:37] Kyousuke
S-Someone...
[13:39] Nomura
Hey! Stop that man!
[13:54] Nomura
Calm down and come quietly!
[13:57] Kyousuke
Very... well done...
[14:01] Kyousuke
Nomura-san...
[14:05] Kyousuke
You're...
[14:07] Kyousuke
from Mino-ya!
SIGN Mino-ya
[14:12] Nomura
So, you're saying you were taking
advantage of the kidnapping
[14:15] Nomura
to extract a ransom, is that it?
[14:17] Mino-ya
It was just a sudden impulse.
[14:19] Mino-ya
Please, don't call the police.
I'm begging you.
[14:22] Kyousuke
But, you know... A crime is a crime.
[14:25] Kyousuke
You returning this money to Narita-ya
would be the proper thing to do here.
[14:30] Kyousuke
I'll talk to them to try
to settle things peacefully.
[14:33] Mino-ya
Thank you.
[14:35] Nomura
Well... That was a huge waste of effort.
[14:38] Kyousuke
Oh. By the way...
SIGN Narita-ya Sudou-Shichi Harada-en Mino-ya Urata-ya
[14:41] Kyousuke
We lined up the first characters
[14:43] Kyousuke
in the names of the shops
that had kidnappings...
[14:45] Kyousuke
Do you have any idea what it might be about?
[14:48] Nomura
You're thinking someone had
a grudge against Narita-ya?
[14:51] Kyousuke
I'm not sure. We don't know anything yet.
[14:54] Mino-ya
The proprietor of Narita-ya
[14:55] Mino-ya
was keeping a mistress named
Ochou—the butterfly—but...
[14:59] Mino-ya
as soon as his wife became pregnant,
he cut ties with her, is what I heard.
[15:03] Mino-ya
Around spring of last year,
[15:05] Mino-ya
I saw Ochou-san in front of Ryouunkaku.
[15:10] Mino-ya
Her belly had grown big, and I believe
she was selling candy sculptures.
[15:15] Kyousuke
You mean she was carrying
the proprietor of Narita-ya's child?
[15:18] Nomura
Not necessarily.
[15:20] Nomura
Ochou might have found another man,
[15:22] Nomura
and the man from Narita-ya
got angry and cut ties with her.
[15:26] Mino-ya
I'm fairly certain that after that,
[15:28] Mino-ya
Ochou-san was living with a man—
Hashimoto—who runs a candy shop.
[15:31] Kyousuke
And that's why she was
selling candy sculptures.
[15:34] Nomura
So, what is this Hashimoto doing now?
[15:37] Mino-ya
Well...
[15:39] Mino-ya
just the other day, he was killed.
SIGN Narita-ya
[15:45] Kyousuke
What do you think it means?
[15:47] Nomura
Who knows?
[15:49] Nomura
This sure has gotten complicated.
[15:56] Kahei
My son has come home!
[15:58] Kyousuke
Your son?
[16:00] Kahei
Look. You see?
SIGN Gaiheikan
[16:06] Kyousuke
And so... here.
[16:10] Kyousuke
The reward of 40 yen,
[16:12] Kyousuke
and another 5 yen as thanks
for his son returning safely.
[16:16] Takuboku
This just doesn't feel satisfactory...
[16:19] Kyousuke
No. It doesn't make sense.
[16:22] Takuboku
The murder of that Hashimoto
might be connected to this case.
[16:27] Kyousuke
That seems unlikely.
[16:29] Takuboku
Why?
[16:30] Kyousuke
Apparently, Hashimoto was killed
in a fight over a game of hanafuda.
[16:34] Takuboku
How do they know that when they
haven't caught the perpetrator yet?
[16:38] Kyousuke
There were hanafuda scattered
around the murdered Hashimoto,
[16:42] Kyousuke
and they say he was holding
the peony card in his hand.
[16:45] Takuboku
The peony...
[16:52] Takuboku
Can I ask you to accompany me?
[16:55] Kyousuke
Of course...
[17:04] Kahei
Why have you brought her here?
[17:07] Kahei
The case has already been solved.
[17:09] Takuboku
I know this must be quite
an imposition on you.
[17:12] Takuboku
But, Narita-ya,
[17:14] Takuboku
if we left things this way,
that would be even more trouble...
[17:18] Takuboku
for the children.
[17:20] Kahei
What are you talking about?
SIGN Narita-ya Sudou-Shichi Harada-en Mino-ya Urata-ya
[17:26] Takuboku
"I have been avenged."
[17:28] Takuboku
You realized this before
you came to me, didn't you?
SIGN Narita-ya Sudou-Shichi Harada-en Mino-ya Urata-ya
[17:31] Takuboku
That the perpetrator's
primary target was Narita-ya,
[17:35] Takuboku
and the other incidents
were just preparation
[17:37] Takuboku
for the prolonged kidnap of the main target.
[17:39] Kyousuke
Preparation? What do you mean?
[17:42] Takuboku
The kidnappings lengthened from
two days to four days, then a week.
[17:47] Takuboku
That way, even if there was
another kidnapping,
[17:50] Takuboku
you'd end up thinking your child would
come home eventually, wouldn't you?
[17:54] Takuboku
The perpetrator wanted to
take the Narita-ya child
[17:57] Takuboku
in a way that wouldn't involve police
[17:59] Takuboku
and keep him close for as long as possible.
[18:03] Kyousuke
Why would they do that?
[18:05] Takuboku
The wife's child has just turned one,
[18:07] Takuboku
and Ochou-san's child is 11 months old.
[18:10] Takuboku
When you think of a one-year-old baby,
what's the first thing that comes to mind?
[18:14] Kyousuke
Huh? Well...
[18:16] Kahei's wife
Do you mean toddling?
[18:17] Takuboku
Exactly.
[18:18] Takuboku
Ochou-san was waiting
for her own child to start walking.
[18:23] Takuboku
Why?
[18:24] Takuboku
So that the Narita-ya child, who has already
started walking, and her own child
[18:28] Takuboku
could be switched in a way that
seemed as natural as possible.
[18:32] Kahei's wife
Th-That can't be true!
[18:34] Kahei's wife
I mean, look! On his earlobe...
[18:37] Takuboku
Come in!
[18:39] Nomura
Excuse the intrusion.
[18:48] Takuboku
Moles can be faked with tattoos.
[18:51] Takuboku
And, in a baby of this age,
[18:53] Takuboku
a little change in facial
features wouldn't be strange.
[18:56] Takuboku
Not to mention, they have the same father,
the proprietor of Narita-ya.
[19:26] Kyousuke
To think Ochou-san was also
the one who killed Hashimoto...
[19:30] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun, how did you know?
[19:34] Takuboku
The card that the murdered Hashimoto
was holding, the peony...
[19:38] Takuboku
It was the last cry of a man facing death.
[19:42] Takuboku
After all, where there are peonies...
there are always butterflies.
[19:46] Kyousuke
Oh!
[19:47] Takuboku
I'm sure that all Ochou could
think about was her son's future.
[19:52] Takuboku
However, I think Hashimoto had started
planning a blackmail plot for the future.
[19:57] Takuboku
Ochou learned of it and killed Hashimoto...
[20:00] Kyousuke
She loved her child, and she planned
to entrust him to someone else,
[20:04] Kyousuke
and on top of that,
she took someone's life...
[20:07] Kyousuke
Nothing went the way she wanted...
[20:09] Takuboku
Speaking of which,
[20:11] Takuboku
actually, while you were working
on the kidnapping case like I asked you to,
[20:14] Takuboku
I was pursuing a different case.
[20:16] Kyousuke
Did you get another client request?
[20:18] Takuboku
No.
[20:19] Takuboku
This is a case that I, myself,
feel I need to close.
[20:23] Takuboku
What I was looking into was...
[20:25] Takuboku
Accuser X.
[20:31] Kyousuke
Don't you think you've done
enough with that already?
[20:34] Kyousuke
Take some time to rest.
[20:36] Kyousuke
For me, you're...
[20:39] Kyousuke
You're important, someone irreplaceable!
[20:58] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[21:01] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san?
[21:03] Kyousuke
Come in.
[21:06] Takuboku
Morning.
[21:08] Takuboku
How are you feeling?
[21:09] Kyousuke
Well... Last night I drank far too much.
[21:13] Kyousuke
I'm pretty embarrassed.
[21:18] Kyousuke
You were able to write one!
[21:22] Kyousuke
"Arrived in the world of pleasure
[21:24] Kyousuke
my friend droops, teardrop-shaped
[21:25] Kyousuke
waving his hand
[21:27] Kyousuke
like a drunkard
[21:29] Kyousuke
he speaks earnestly."
[21:32] Kyousuke
This drunkard...
[21:33] Takuboku
It is, of course, you from last night.
[21:36] Kyousuke
That's horrible of you.
[21:37] Takuboku
Forgive me.
[21:39] Takuboku
I had an overwhelming urge
to write about you.
[21:42] Takuboku
Because that troubled look of yours,
with you nearly in tears...
[21:46] Takuboku
I wanted to see that scowl of yours.
[21:49] Takuboku
The reason I write poetry
[21:52] Takuboku
is to give those tiny,
faint sparkles around me form,
[21:55] Takuboku
because I want to capture them somehow.
[21:57] Takuboku
And in the center of those sparkles,
was you, Kyousuke-san.
[23:37] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[23:38] Takuboku
Do you remember the day we first met?
[23:40] Kyousuke
Why ask that all of a sudden?
[23:42] Takuboku
People's memories are fleeting.
SIGN Next Time: "Pale Blue Skies"
[23:44] Takuboku
Please, remember me forever.
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
E12 - Pale Blue Skies
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[00:01] (Flashback) Tatsukichi
I can't endure any more.
[00:03] (Flashback) Tatsukichi
Every day. Every day, I'm forced to...
[00:07] (Flashback) Tatsukichi
But if I die, it will all be over.
[00:12] (Flashback) female servant A
What am I supposed to do?
[00:14] (Flashback) female servant A
It's so difficult, so painful...
[00:17] (Flashback) female servant A
I can't take any more...
[00:19] (Flashback) female servant A
The thought of living is just...
[00:24] (Flashback) man A
It's Hell.
[00:25] (Flashback) man A
This world is Hell itself.
[00:27] (Flashback) man A
With someone like him
doing whatever he likes...
[00:30] (Flashback) man A
For someone like him, I...
[00:35] (Flashback) Naruse
Please, trust me. I will see it through.
[00:40] (Flashback) Naruse
I will find the reason I was born.
SIGN This story is a work of fiction.
It has no connection to any actual persons or organizations.
[00:48] Takuboku
Even so... a new tomorrow will always come.
[00:53] Takuboku
That's what I believe.
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
SIGN Poem 12
Pale Blue Skies
[02:32] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun?
[02:33] Takuboku
Come in.
[02:40] Kyousuke
Is all this...
[02:42] Takuboku
The people who were killed
leaving an accusatory letter.
SIGN Maichou Shimbun
[02:45] Takuboku
Thirteen people in the last two years.
[02:47] Kyousuke
That many?
[02:51] Kyousuke
Oh. That's Kayo-chan.
[02:53] Takuboku
Is she going out?
[02:55] Kyousuke
Yes. Probably to the soup kitchen.
[02:59] Takuboku
Do you remember the case where
Hoshino Tatsukichi was murdered?
[03:02] Kyousuke
Of course.
[03:03] Kyousuke
That was the case that started
your work as a detective, wasn't it?
[03:06] Takuboku
He was killed, not by Oguri, but
by someone else. The real murderer.
[03:13] Kyousuke
You don't mean...
[03:14] Kyousuke
All thirteen of these victims
were killed by the same person?!
[03:17] Takuboku
The true culprit,
whom I have named Accuser X,
[03:21] Takuboku
has them write accusatory
letters, then kills them.
[03:24] Takuboku
If you think of it as a way to frame
those named in the letters,
[03:28] Takuboku
then it all makes logical sense.
[03:29] Kyousuke
If that's true, then...
that is a truly horrifying killer.
[03:34] Takuboku
And the killer...
[03:38] Takuboku
may be closer than we think.
SIGN No Entry
[03:51] Kyousuke
It looks like we can't go in.
[03:54] Kyousuke
Are you all right?
[03:56] Takuboku
Yes. No need to worry—
[04:04] Kyousuke
What's the matter?
[04:07] child B
A priest yelled at him.
[04:09] child B
Because of that.
[04:11] Kyousuke
Oh, dear.
[04:12] Takuboku
Broken quite spectacularly, isn't it?
[04:16] child B
How long are you going to keep crying?
[04:18] child A
The father was scary!
[04:21] child A
I've never been yelled at
like that before...
[04:27] Takuboku
With an expression that scary,
people will be suspicious.
[04:30] Kyousuke
You're the one looking unnaturally pale...
[04:38] Kyousuke
Are you sure it's him?
[04:40] Takuboku
Yes.
[04:41] Takuboku
Be careful he doesn't notice—
[04:43] Kyousuke
Careful, don't strain yourself.
[04:46] Takuboku
It's nothing.
[04:48] Takuboku
But... Could I leave the rest to you?
[04:50] Kyousuke
That would be fine, but...
[04:56] Kyousuke
Go straight home.
SIGN Gaiheikan
[05:07] Takuboku
Hello!
[05:10] Takuboku
Is that...
[05:12] Kayo
It's the thing you threw out the window.
[05:14] Takuboku
Oh. I'm very sorry about that incident.
[05:17] female student A
It's much too strict, isn't it?
[05:19] female student B
We only just started at university.
There was no reason to say it like that.
[05:22] female student A
Tomorrow, let's give them
a piece of our minds.
[05:25] Takuboku
Speaking of which,
Kayo-san, how old are you?
[05:28] Kayo
I'll be fifteen next month.
[05:30] Takuboku
Well, that is a coincidence!
[05:32] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san's birthday is in May, too.
[05:34] Takuboku
Since that's the case, we should
just hold them together.
[05:37] Kayo
Hold what?
[05:38] Takuboku
Birthday parties.
[05:40] Takuboku
There happens to be a piece
I'm practicing at the moment.
[05:43] Takuboku
I'd love for you to hear it, too...
[05:47] Kayo
Ishikawa-san!
[05:54] Kayo
I'll go bring your medicine right away.
[05:58] Takuboku
Sorry for the trouble...
[06:11] store clerk
Thank you for your patronage!
[06:30] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun?
[06:32] Takuboku
Come in.
[06:36] Kyousuke
How are you feeling?
[06:42] Takuboku
You've figured it out, haven't you?
[06:44] Kyousuke
Huh? Yes...
[06:46] Kyousuke
Well...
[06:47] Takuboku
So, who is that man?
[06:49] Kyousuke
A rickshaw driver named Naruse.
[06:51] Kyousuke
He's targeting a wealthy man named Murakawa
[06:54] Kyousuke
who offers back-street, high-interest loans.
[06:55] Kyousuke
That's the assistant of the Woodpecker
Detective's Office for you.
[06:59] Takuboku
Today is Saturday, so...
the circumstances are perfect.
[07:03] Kyousuke
There's no need for you to go.
[07:05] Kyousuke
If we take this to the police—
[07:06] Takuboku
How much do you have on you right now?
[07:07] Kyousuke
What?
[07:11] Kyousuke
Five yen and... a little more...
[07:14] Takuboku
That won't be nearly enough...
[07:17] Kyousuke
What are you using it for?
[07:22] Bokusui
Felicitations, Kindaichi-kun!
[07:24] Bokusui
Now... Tonight, we will drink
to our heart's content!
[07:29] Kyousuke
Thank you, but, my birthday
isn't until next month...
[07:34] Bokusui
Then, this is extremely early, isn't it?
[07:37] Takuboku
I used Kyousuke-san's birthday party
as an excuse to gather you all here,
[07:41] Takuboku
but the truth is, a person's life
is on the line here.
[07:44] Yoshii
What an exaggeration.
[07:46] Yoshii
It isn't as though this is his last supper.
[07:48] Nomura
A person's life is on the line? Whose?
[07:52] Sakutarou
Ishikawa-san.
[07:53] Sakutarou
Could it be that you—
[07:54] Kyousuke
Don't worry.
[07:56] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun is recovering from an illness.
[07:58] Kyousuke
His complexion's still a little poor, is all.
[08:01] Naruse
Excuse me. Is Ishikawa-sensei there?
[08:04] Takuboku
We've been waiting for you!
[08:06] Takuboku
Come in!
[08:09] Kyousuke
Huh?
[08:10] Kyousuke
Oh! You're...
[08:13] Takuboku
Now... let's have our party!
[08:43] Kyousuke
You're already awake?
[08:45] Takuboku
Yes.
[08:46] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san, you should
sleep a little more.
[09:01] Takuboku
It smells delicious.
[09:06] woman A
Everyone seems to be sleeping very well.
[09:08] woman A
Though, we're not an inn here.
[09:11] Takuboku
Yes... I do apologize.
[09:15] Takuboku
May I have a little of this?
[09:17] woman A
Go ahead.
[09:23] woman A
If you'd like.
[09:25] Takuboku
Thank you. You're very kind.
[09:34] Takuboku
A certain person told me...
[09:37] Takuboku
that making onigiri for others
[09:40] Takuboku
made her feel like she'd found
the reason she'd been born.
[09:51] Kayo
Have you written the accusatory letter?
[09:54] Kayo
You mustn't be afraid.
[09:56] Kayo
You are going to find
the reason you were born.
[10:03] Kayo
What's wrong, Naruse-san?
[10:04] Takuboku
Thank you for nursing me the other day.
[10:11] Takuboku
It was you, wasn't it?
[10:14] Takuboku
Kayo-san.
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
[10:19] (Flashback) Tatsukichi
I can't endure any more.
[10:21] (Flashback) Tatsukichi
Every day. Every day, I'm forced to...
[10:25] (Flashback) Tatsukichi
But if I die, it will all be over.
[10:28] (Flashback) Kayo
Do it.
[10:31] (Flashback) Kayo
However, whether your life is spent in vain—
[10:35] (Flashback) Kayo
or whether it has purpose—
is something you can choose.
SIGN Letter of Accusation
SIGN Letter of Accusation
[11:04] (Flashback) Takuboku
Look. This one seems like
a good one, doesn't it?
[11:09] (Flashback) Takuboku
What do you think?
[11:10] (Flashback) Kyousuke
Wha—Stop that!
[11:14] Takuboku
Tatsukichi, who tried to speak
against Arakawa Copper Mines...
[11:18] Takuboku
the young woman and Uchimoto
Steamships, and now, Naruse.
[11:22] Takuboku
Here, in this room, you found people
driven to despair by their grievances.
[11:27] Kayo
You used their lives to accuse
those who had done wrong.
[11:32] Takuboku
That day... Naruse-san
came out of the chapel
[11:35] Takuboku
that no one was supposed to enter or exit.
[11:37] Takuboku
And afterwards,
when I met you, on your geta...
[11:46] Takuboku
there was stained glass.
[11:50] Takuboku
The one who pushed Naruse-san
to do it was you, wasn't it?
[12:00] Takuboku
Did you meet Tamaki-san here, too?
[12:04] Kayo
She said she wanted to measure
the extent of Sonobe's wrongs.
[12:07] Kayo
So, I told her how to do it.
[12:10] Takuboku
Why have you done all of this?
[12:13] Kayo
I simply wanted to punish
the villains who prey on the weak.
[12:18] Kayo
It's because people like them
do whatever they like...
[12:20] Kayo
this room is always filled with sorrow.
[12:25] Takuboku
That's why you used
human lives as sacrifices?
[12:29] Kayo
They were not sacrifices!
[12:31] Kayo
I gave their lives meaning!
[12:52] Takuboku
Naruse-san has gone back home to Mikawa.
[13:00] (Flashback) Takuboku
Now, eat as much as you like!
[13:03] (Flashback) Naruse
Um...
[13:04] (Flashback) Takuboku
Come now, no need to refrain.
[13:06] (Flashback) Naruse
But... why are you doing this for me?
[13:09] (Flashback) Takuboku
Well, I mean, if you're stomach's full,
your feelings might change, too.
[13:13] (Flashback) Naruse
What?
[13:25] (Flashback) Takuboku
If you want to give money as thanks,
you should give it to them.
[13:31] (Flashback) Takuboku
Oh. If you could pay
the bill on your way out.
[13:35] (Flashback) Takuboku
I'm completely penniless, you see.
[13:50] Takuboku
I heard that you tried to stop
Naruse-san from killing someone.
[13:55] Takuboku
Why?
[13:56] Kayo
Because he lacked both
the courage to kill someone
[13:59] Kayo
and the courage to kill himself.
[14:01] Takuboku
In that case, couldn't there have been
another way for the others who died?
[14:06] Kayo
You don't know anything!
[14:08] Kayo
What a person is feeling when
they really want to die...
[14:12] Kayo
What they've gone through...
[14:15] Kayo
Why they want to die...
[14:18] Kayo
What I... What I've had to live through!
You don't know any of it!
[14:25] Takuboku
I am self-indulgent and a liar.
I'm a weak person.
[14:29] Takuboku
If Kyousuke-san weren't around,
I wouldn't be able to pay my rent.
[14:33] Takuboku
If you didn't come wake me up,
[14:35] Takuboku
the sun would go down with me still in bed.
[14:39] Takuboku
Writing poetry is just about
the only thing I can do...
[14:42] Takuboku
and I do it because I want to remember
the tiny, faint sparkles I find around me.
[14:48] Takuboku
It must be the reason I was born.
[14:52] Takuboku
And... right in the middle of those
sparkles, there was Kyousuke-san.
[15:01] Takuboku
You're Kayo-san, aren't you?
[15:06] Takuboku
All of the victims,
they actually took their own lives.
[15:10] Takuboku
They weren't killed by someone else.
[15:14] Takuboku
You haven't killed anyone
with those hands, have you?
[15:20] Takuboku
You really are the Kayo-san I know.
[15:29] Takuboku
No one knows the future. The next moment
may bring darkness, or it may bring light.
[15:34] Takuboku
Even so, a new tomorrow will always come.
[15:39] Takuboku
That's what I believe.
[15:47] Takuboku
Oh, right.
[15:50] Takuboku
Here.
[16:10] Kyousuke
Kayo-chan doesn't seem to have
come back since yesterday.
[16:14] Takuboku
Really?
[16:16] Takuboku
I'm sure it's fine, right?
[16:18] Takuboku
She is fifteen already, after all.
[16:36] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
Kayo, your hair is so beautiful.
[16:47] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
Mother has something important
to discuss with the father.
[16:51] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
Go play outside, please.
[16:53] (Flashback) Kayo
All right.
[17:06] (Flashback) child A
Are you ready?
[17:09] (Flashback) children
Ready!
[17:18] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
Father...
[17:20] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
I'm tired of this.
[17:22] (Flashback) Kayo
Mother?
[17:24] (Flashback) father
This again? I won't abandon you—
[17:27] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
You're lying! You're a liar.
[17:29] (Flashback) father
H-Hey! Keep your voice down.
[17:31] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
This is the end.
[17:33] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
I'll put an end to everything.
[17:36] (Flashback) father
Calm down.
[17:37] (Flashback) father
Until Kayo grows up,
we'll stay at this church and—
[17:39] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
That girl... I should never have
given birth to a child like her.
[17:44] (Flashback) Kayo's mother
Father... I'll be waiting in Hell for you.
[18:05] (Flashback) Kayo
Mother?
SIGN To Kayo-san
SIGN In Kozukata, lying on the grass
[19:01] Kayo
"In Kozukata...
SIGN In Kozukata, lying on the grass of the old castle drawn up into the sky the heart of a fifteen year old
[19:03] Kayo
lying on the grass of the old castle
[19:08] Kayo
drawn up into the sky
[19:10] Kayo
the heart of a fifteen year old."
SIGN Gaiheikan
[19:13] Kyousuke
I heard Kayo-chan went back
to the countryside.
[19:16] Takuboku
Nothing wrong with that, is there?
[19:19] Takuboku
There aren't really lodgers here, anyway.
[19:21] Takbuoku
What do you say to a meal?
[19:23] Kyousuke
I gave you all the money I had for
the birthday party the other day.
[19:28] Takuboku
That's right.
[19:30] Kyousuke
Oh! I have a comprehensive
encyclopedia of Japan.
[19:32] Kyousuke
Shall we go pawn it?
[19:34] Takuboku
Don't you need that for work, though?
[19:36] Kyousuke
If I borrow it from the library,
it should work out for the time being.
[19:41] Kyousuke
You should...
[19:42] Kyousuke
I think you should eat something
to give you strength.
[19:48] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[19:51] Takuboku
I...
[19:53] Takuboku
Even if I die, I will keep you safe.
[20:03] Nomura
Come on. Drink up.
[20:05] Takuboku
I am drinking.
[20:09] Nomura
I wonder where Wakayama-kun
is watching this sunset from.
[20:18] Sakutarou
How is your novel going?
[20:20] Hirai
It's going well!
[20:21] Hirai
I am thinking of setting it
in a used book shop on Dangozaka.
[20:32] Sakutarou
Yoshii-kun...
[20:33] Sakutarou
Could it be that you think Yae-san is...
[20:36] Yoshii
Lovely...
[20:37] Sakutarou
Wait, what?!
[20:38] Sakutarou
You're trying to take the girl I love again!
[20:41] Yoshii
You make me sound terrible!
Yae-san doesn't belong to anyone, you know!
[20:45] Sakutarou
B-But... you said you'd support my love.
[20:49] Yoshii
Wise men change their minds, you know.
[20:51] Sakutarou
But...
[20:52] Takuboku
Those two never learn, do they?
[20:55] Nomura
And Yae-san was saying she'd held
her wedding ceremony recently...
[20:59] Akutagawa
Ignorance... is bliss.
[21:01] Nomura
He was here?
[21:04] Yoshii
"Life is short,
[21:06] Yoshii
so fall in love, young ladies.
[21:09] Yoshii
Before the crimson fades from your lips...
[21:13] Yoshii
Before the passion in your blood cools...
[21:16] Yoshii
For there is no such thing as tomorrow."
[21:21] Sakutarou
I like that.
[21:25] Takuboku
"Life is short...
[21:27] Takuboku
so fall in love, young ladies."
[21:45] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san.
[21:47] Kyousuke
Huh?
[21:48] Takuboku
Why don't we go on a trip?
[21:51] Takuboku
One day, I'd like to ride an airplane.
[21:56] Takuboku
"Look, again today...
[21:58] Takuboku
an airplane flies high in pale blue skies
[22:02] Takuboku
A young man who works waiting tables
[22:04] Takuboku
happens to have the day off, a Sunday.
[22:07] Takuboku
Together at home with his mother
who suffers from consumption,
[22:11] Takuboku
he works away at his reader,
[22:14] Takuboku
educating himself, tiring his eyes..."
SIGN Over Ten Years Later
[22:18] Takuboku
"Look, again today...
[22:19] Takuboku
an airplane flies high in pale blue skies..."
SIGN Gaiheikan
[22:48] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san?
[22:51] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun...
SIGN Sad Toys
by Ishikawa Takuboku
[23:13] Kyousuke
Well then, I'll see you later.
SIGN Sad Toys by Ishikawa Takuboku
SIGN Sad Toys
by Ishikawa Takuboku
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru