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.
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[23:43] Nomura
    Now, that reward of 500 yen.
    Should we go get it?
SIGN    Illustration: Saki Kaoru