"The rain continued to fall and roll down the slope." "I wanted to do something." "But I felt like the rain was going to last forever as if in the rainy season and it would swallow and wash away whatever I would do." "I had nothing." "I neither experienced any extreme state in which I could feel my heartbeats... or the kind of loneliness that would turn me into a joker to fool around." "All I had was the white square walls that suppressed me." "If my thoughts expanded beyond the limit of this room and crumbled the walls down... the falling rain that wouldn't stop would dissipate everything, it seemed." "I wanted to do something." "But while I pondered upon doing this and that the rain always faded the thoughts away." "I wondered when the rain would stop?" "Then, something entered me." "People say that's a lie." "But something really did enter me." "With a smell of slow burning, something like a powerful consciousness entered me." "In that moment, a beautiful bubble popped inside me." "It was a very beautiful bubble." "Something buried inside me sprang up as a sensation of excitement within me." "The heat was strong enough to dispel even the coolness and the quietness of the falling rain." "I enjoyed the comfort of relaxing myself into it, knowing I'd never be able to leave it now." "People said he was cold-blooded." "Somehow I understood too well his solitude and loneliness... and the weakness that made him put on a tough facade." "I saw in him what I had inside myself." "We were of the same kind." "He seemed kind but not really." "He used to be." "But I needed him." "My feelings haven't changed even now." "But he's changed." "I suppose people live with many kinds of desires." "We manage to keep these desires under control in our daily lives." "But he seems to be controlled by desires buried deep inside that he's not even aware of." "It's almost as if there's another person inside him who pushes him from behind." "Neither of us could escape from anything." "[Episode #4" " A crushed ant]" "School Festival Club" "Alright, move over now." "There, there, you can't breathe, can you?" "Look, how disgusting, he's wetted himself." "Shimazu has really changed, hasn't he?" "He might have attended a change-your-personality seminar or something." "Hey." "What'd you just say?" "Now, now Shimazu-san, why don't you throw your anger at the Black Gangs?" "In the cool manner that's your specialty?" "That's true." "Now, what style of lynching shall we play today?" "Oh, yeah." "You wanna try the ball face with them?" "Hey, do you know?" "Do you know it?" "It's the one where we stuff your mouths with gun powder and let it explode." "Remember we used to use fire crackers and they exploded, you know, in frogs and things like that?" "Wanna play?" "Wanna play?" "I saw that in the Danger magazine." "Mum's the word." "Let's see." "Now, now, I won't make you pay me for saving you from the hands of the Black Gangs." "'Cause then it'd be like extortion." "Right?" "Right?" "Yes." "There's just one thing I'd like to recommend especially for you." "You see, I've got these extremely special cards that you'd rarely find anywhere and today I'll give you an incredible deal and offer them for 10,000-yen flat." "On top of that, if you win, you can enjoy the secret bonus of playing threesome with these chicks." "Wow." "Great." "You're in luck, aren't' you?" "Y..." "Yes." "Aren't you happy?" "Yes." "If we win, can we really do that?" "Yeah, be my guest, anything you want." "Isn't that great?" "Yes, that's great." "Come on." "Thank you for your purchase." "Here!" "Where's it?" "Over here, Chief Sasayama!" "Hurry, hurry!" "Whoa!" "Hello, thanks for your time." "What the heck are they doin' here?" "They should be taking a break at the headquarters, climbing the promotion ladders." "I wonder if they're keeping an eye on you?" "What, I didn't do anything." "Thanks." "You grown ups are complicated, aren't you?" "Shut up." "So, the body's been cut up in pieces?" "Yes." "Are they all numbered?" "Yes, there's a number on each of the victim's hands and feet and also on the head and the torso, as if they've been tattooed." "Normally, a killer dismembers a body in order to obscure the victim's identity or to make it easier to discard the body, as you know." "So, how come this killer imprinted it with common symbols?" "Ah, I got it." "They played bingo using the numbers." "Saying, Yes, 7, Bingo!" "I win!" "What?" "Great detective work." "The career guys are glaring at you." "Well, the torso and other parts of the body were disconnected in one shot with a sharp-edged tool." "It appears that something like a sword was used instead of a saw." "It went just like this." "It appears that... the killer used either a stainless knife or a fine medical knife" "Just like this." "In addition, each disconnected part had a number tattooed on it." "Like this." "Now, following the puppet show by Manabe-kun, I, Toru Sasayama would like to introduce the file name for this case." "Numbers Murder Case!" "Thank you for your patronage." "I'm doing my best to live my life." "I'm going my own way." "It's alright I don't care, I am who I am, you go your own way, it's alright I don't care, I am who I am." "You fool!" "12." "Let's move on to the next one." "28." "I win, I win!" "Here we go, here we go. 33." "87." "Come on, here we go." "Oh no, the Bald Head." "You seem to be doing great business." "This?" "Not at all." "This is Shimazu's idea." "Well, since I'm here, I'd like to know what the story is." "I have a question." "You just have to answer me." "Don't worry, it won't take a minute." "Would you boys like to see what this is?" "Bastard, did you tell him how I make a living?" "Huh?" "Hey, are you sure you wanna make so many dents in them?" "They're gonna break." "Hello?" "Hisashi-kun?" "Listen, I need to talk to you." "Something important." "Momo, you see, Momo got..." "Don't bother me." "Listen, I'm busy now." "Don't call me, you idiot!" "Hey, come on." "I was gonna have a little more fun before we did it, but I changed my mind about it." "I'm gonna get it over with, you mind?" "You're so impatient." "You wanna do it here?" "Yeah." "Though we don't want anyone to see us." "Sounds good." "Turns me on." "Me, too." "What kind of play?" "This kind of play." "How lucky you are!" "Take a good look." "How to dismember a body." "Hello, Hisashi?" "This is my so-called statement claiming responsibility for the crime." "Why aren't you making it public?" "This is my so-called statement claiming responsibility for the crime." "Why aren't you making it public?" "This is my so-called statement claiming responsibility for the crime." "Why aren't you..." "There's no way I can." "Stupid kid." "Hey, Manabe, what on earth are you doing?" "I see, you're making friends with housewives or something, right?" "Now, let the old man join you." "No, that's not what I'm doing." "Really?" "Then what is it?" "This is a low restriction message board, so there are a lot of posts about things like hacking, tapping and drug dealing." "Oh, once in a while someone would hire a rapist targeting a celebrity." "It's the nest for the would-be law offenders." "They're all mere virtual fictions, right?" "Let me see..." "Please tell me how to undo a security lock?" "It's a special lock to a room where important things are kept." "Whoever can tell me how to unlock it can have my..." "Hey, it's a girl, you see?" "Yes." "What, she says she's 14." "What the heck's this?" "And what kind of room does she want to get into?" "Not sure." "She could be robbing a bank." "A 14-year-old?" "It's the kind of times, you see." "It's the kind of times, I see." "Oh, I'd be able to decode this type of electronic lock." "Why don't you tell her?" "Do you think it's OK for a cop to tell her how?" "A bank robbery by a junior high student sounds like fun, doesn't it?" "It's only a virtual fiction, right?" "Well then..." "Whoa!" "Thanks." "Get out." "How cruel of you to run away." "I was looking forward to playing with you one on one." "We can't escape, you see." "You know that, don't you?" "Please, let me go home." "Go home where?" "There's no place to go, for either of us, you see." "It's his fault." "As long as I carry this, he'll come to us." "We can never be free." "We're slaves to our desires." "This here..." "No!" "I'm sorry." "I've never been hit even by my parents." "That's cruel." "I've always felt like a stranger to myself since I was a little child." "You know the regular student health exams?" "That was the worst experience for me in the elementary school." "I'd be taken to a separate room, together with several other kids." "With the curtains drawn we couldn't see each other." "I was a different type, I was told." "The first time I found this on me in the mirror, I cried through the night." "I was scared." "I washed it many times until my eye turned all red." "But Yuzuru was kind to me." "Her father did things to her." "Her father's an important man of the police department." "He's been having sex with her since she was 11." "Why?" "I ran away with her many times." "But the police can be pretty powerful when they put all forces together." "They'd find us in no time." "We used to say to each other, we're both unable to escape." "But lately she looks at me like I were a bizarre killer or something." "Don't you think that's cruel?" "Please, let me go back to him." "I don't even have a place I wanna go back to." "Alright, I'll let you go home." "But I know you'd try to run away from that place, too, anyway." "So..." "Forgive me." "I don't really want to do this." "Forgive me if I'm being cruel to you." "You looked at me a moment ago you know, with the same kind of look Yuzuru gives me." "Well, well, kids of today don't know how to be patient." "Well, it is my fault, in a way." "Let me go back to him." "I want to go." "You, the woman who betrayed her husband and followed him around?" "I brought you home, in a form in which you can't run away." "Now, what's gonna happen to him?" "To Kazuhiko Amamiya?" "Yamato Fisheries, Ltd." "Oh, Machi, did you buy crabs?" "No." "Are you kidding?" "Machi." "Huh?" "Better be careful." "It can't be." "To Ms. Machi Isono" "Let me open it." "Can you?" "Yosuke..." "Yosuke..." "Amamiya-kun?" "Amamiya-kun, hold on." "I'm alright." "There no longer exists the breakable Yosuke Kobayashi." "It's Kazuhiko Amamiya here." "I'll call the ambulance." "Yo suke." "I'm so sorry." "You still run pretty fast." "You look cool like a cop on TV." "Are you Shinji Nishizono?" "Bingo!" "Stop, Shinji Nishizono!" "Wow, that's a cop drama!" "Nishizono!" "Stop!" "Don't anybody do anything!" "I'm the one to get him!" "It's me, Sasayama." "It's the killer of the dismembered body." "I was giving guidance to the kids in the arcade, and without me even asking he fessed up." "Sasayama-san, hurry!" "Amamiya and I are chasing after him." "Manabe, don't lose him!" "Stop, Shinji Nishizono!" "Nishizono!" "Amamiya, where'd you get the gun from?" "Sorry, Sasayama-san, I borrowed it from your pocket a moment ago." "What?" "Oh!" "When'd that happen?" "Stay back!" "Don't!" "Don't shoot." "Don't let me repeat what I told you 5 years ago." "It's alright, Sasayama-san." "Stop talking!" "'Cause he can't shoot." "Right, Kazuhiko Amamiya?" "Shut up!" "Back then, too, you finished the guy off, knowing I wasn't in him." "Didn't you?" "Hey, didn't you?" "Right?" "You did, didn't you?" "Stop it." "Amamiya, don't shoot." "You did, didn't you?" "Answer me!" "Shut up!" "Amamiya, don't shoot." "Don't shoot, Amamiya-san." "Let me get a good shot." "Stop it, Amamiya-kun!" "You can't kill him." "I think..." "I'm dying." "Then, come inside me." "You must be able to transfer yourself." "I'll reclaim that body of yours some day." "It's just not easy right now." "Oh!" "Until then, Amamiya, take care of my body." "Oh hey, wait, Shinji Nishizono!" "Hey!" "Amamiya?" "Amamiya?" "What fun!" "Kazuhiko Amamiya!" "Hey." "Hey, what are you doing?" "Listen, Shimazu." "It's a problem if you keep breaking the rules." "What?" "I'll be taking care of that Bingo game of yours, so don't worry." "I'll be the leader from now on." "That's it." "That's the right thing to do, Kazuhiko Amamiya." "I made him take some calcium and forced him to get sleep." "I rented the sleeping room for him." "Hey." "What?" "By any chance are you waiting for someone else to claim the baby in Chizuko-san's womb?" "Machi I'm not like you." "How come how come Shinji Nishizono won't return to Kazuhiko Amamiya's body?" "How come?" "He's got a protector on." "A protector?" "In order for Shinji Nishizono to transfer himself the receiving side has to have a special synapse or receptor." "So?" "Amamiya-kun's receptor has an antibody implanted in it as a precaution." "It's an antibody that freezes transference of personalities." "How come?" "Don't know." "Who did?" "Don't know." "When?" "Machi honestly you know everything, don't you?" "Perhaps not as much as you do." "Ah." "Help me." "You will help me, won't you?" "Right," "Yuzuru?" "Call the ambulance for me." "No way." "You didn't let me talk to you." "I will." "Humph." "Nah." "I'll listen to anything you wanna tell me." "Come on, please." "You know my dog, it stopped moving." "That's why I wanted to talk to you." "Your dog?" "You mean Momo." "But it died." "So you're gonna die, too." "What?" "I'll watch you die." "Then I'll die, too." "Let's go some place together." "I don't wanna go anywhere." "I don't wanna die." "No, you're gonna die." "How can I find a place to move into?" "It's gonna be a little difficult." "Today's tape is a high quality one." "It's great." "Woulda' been even better if it were Amamiya's wife, you know." "I'm gonna kill you." "Well, here's my special treat for you." "What's this?" "Something like the moment of the birth of Machi Isono, I guess." "Let's talk about Lucy Monostone." "Translated by Ann Jiitsu" "Subtitled and Mastered by Cannibal King" "If you would like to see more like this subtitled in English, please do not buy from scum like Ichi the Ripper!"