E12 - Pale Blue Skies Source: Crunchyroll Translator: Editor: Timer: QC: (Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.) [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