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