# 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