# 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.*
***SIGN*** Next Time: "Gentleman Thief"
**[23:43] Nomura**
* Now, that reward of 500 yen.*
* Should we go get it?*
***SIGN*** Illustration: Saki Kaoru