# E3 - Casual Remarks
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***SIGN*** Kikunyuusha Milk
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...
***SIGN*** The Two-sen Copper Coin
**[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