"Grandma!" "ouch!" "Grandma!" "Grandma!" "You don't need to come!" "I'm going with you!" "You wait at home!" "Nihonbashi a town might have them as well." "Walking around this town it quickly becomes clear... that there is something different about this place. only the sins of the residents would catch his eye." "People lie... and to continue living their lives." "A lie is a shadow of the truth." "I might have foreseen... that you were coming to this town." "398)\b1}DollTown¹ Magazine Editorial Office" "Ningyo means Doll." "83)}Reporter Aoyama Ami" "You are best at gracefully drinking tea." "Is that it?" "maybe that's true." "You should already know... there is a predator among the residents of this town." "Welcome!" "Try Ningyo Town's famous Taiyaki!" "Thank you!" "welcome!" "Try our Ningyo Town's famous Taiyaki!" "Thank you!" "It's good!" "is she?" "this is awful." "395)}The following day" "What a strange coincidence. but her cat dies on the very same day." "We think Tama took her place in death." "Where is the cat?" "Buried in the yard." "what are you doing?" "right?" "This is not bad." "It's not bad"?" "It's cat food." "My name is Kaga Kyoichiro and recently transfered to the Nihonbashi Police department." "157)}Nihonbashi Police Kaga Kyoichiro huh." "Keeping the tradition alive must be difficult in this bad economy." "it is." "Did your mother feed the cat?" "Yes." "Even on the day of accident?" "I think so." "ma'am?" "Never." "Why?" "Just asking." "Let's talk about the accident instead of the cat." "and it appears she was asleep at the wheel." "As if she was under the influence of a sleeping pill." "I heard she had a strange habit when she fed the cat." "Strange habit?" "Yes." "It's open." "more like an obsession." "She would steal a bite of the cat food." "Eh?" "!" "right?" "No." "She told me you would look at it with disgust." "What..." "I had no idea." "He is a bit...eccentric." "You could say that." "Then you also don't know what this is?" "I found it over there." "right?" "like this." "I found a tiny hole under the sticker." "Is this...?" "Could it be..." "It put a human to sleep." "It was strong enough to kill the cat." "The cat's body buried in the yard will prove it." "What's going on?" "!" "I heard from your neighbors... that there are plans to knock down this shop and build an apartment." "saying it will never happen while she's alive." "Takako..." "Don't tell me..." "You were... also saying last night... that you wish she would pass away." "That's totally different!" "It's the same!" "You also said you don't want the kids to have to take over this shop!" "You even said you'd sell this shop even she was against it!" "you are wrong." "I wanted to kill that old cat because it didn't like me!" "I didn't know about her habit." "I really didn't know!" "I had no idea! your mother will be relieved." "She has a keen instinct." "she sensed something." "Suddenly she changed her story saying she didn't feed the cat yesterday." "She is perpetuating the lie." "she wouldn't have needed to lie." "the one who is trying to protect you and this shop." "not her." "Good job on your first case." "When did you figure out?" "When I heard the cat was found dead out in the open." "Cats usually choose a hidden place to die." "Could I stop by somewhere?" "You still have something on your mind?" "Sort of." "What is it?" "There was a long line in front of a taiyaki ¹ restaurant in Ningyo Town." "Taiyaki:" "A fish-shaped cake." "The common filling is red bean paste." "I want to know why it's so popular." "You've never had it before?" "No." "I'm a Shinzanmono." "Shinzanmono:" "A newcomer" "422)\fnArial Narrow}Not for sale or stream." "389)}First Episode 389)}Daughter Of A Rice Cracker Shop" "I'll show Parisienne..." "Japanese spirit!" "I'll do my best!" "Naho." "Thank you." "I gotta hurry up and pack." "okay?" "Souvenir?" "Then give me money first." "Like I will." "Excuse me." "Yes." "please." "Thank you." "2133)}Limited excuse me!" "Excuse me." "Is it all right?" "Yes." "Good." "please." "Thank you." "What are you doing!" "Welcome back." "Amazake-yokocho" "I told you not to work since you just got out of the hospital." "I'm not sick anymore." "But still you collapsed the other day!" "Just listen to me!" "I'm the pretty girl who attracts customers!" "How long have you been a girl?" "45 years." "Just get in the shop!" "go!" "Please take it easy." "Otherwise I can't go to Paris." "huh." "It just looks like a bird's nest." "That bird nest  earned me training in Paris." "I doubt you could make it in Paris." "I sell rice crackers." "What's wrong with that?" "Paris doesn't suit somebody like you who was raised in an old town!" "I didn't choose to be raised here." "Fighting again." "I hate rice crackers!" "Your bad mouth proves you are a country girl!" "you hag!" "How dare you!" "Hello." "What's good?" "Amakara¹." "Amakara=Ama(sweet)+kara(spicy) 139)\frx24\fry354\frz287.791}Sold out" "It's sold out." "Oops!" "Try Kyusuke." "Kyusuke?" "like broken ones." "Damaged ones? the beneficiary cannot be my blood relative?" "Correct." "As long as you have legitimate reason and it meets the conditions." "Now... my death will complete it.{call me}" "300)}Metropolitan Police Department First Investigation Division Matsumiya Syuhei sir." "318)}Metropolitan Police Department Chief of First Investigation Division Kojima Kazumichi" "Who found her?" "The victim's friend." "Uesugi is interviewing her in the squad car." "I..." "let it happen." "I let Mineko die." "348)}Metropolitan Police Department First Investigation Division Uesugi Hirofumi" "What do you mean?" "If only..." "I hadn't betrayed her..." "Betrayed?" "What do you mean?" "Cause of death?" "Strangled from behind with something thin." "No sign of robbery." "Maybe an acquaintance..." "Ningyo-yaki¹..." "Ningyo-yaki:" "Baked confectionery with a thin skin surrounding a rich bean jam." "Who are you?" "Don't eat the evidence!" "I'm Kaga of Nihonbashi Police." "Stop eating!" "They're mine." "How confusing." "you know him?" "Sort of..." "Want some?" "Sweets stimulate the brain." "How can you eat here..." "You'll get used to it." "The victim's Ningyo-yaki is from Shigemori." "How you can tell?" "Each shop uses a different pan. a Sumo wrestler's face. scarier than Shigemori." "Ah..." "You already investigated that much?" "This is my hobby." "What a weird hobby." "Ready?" "224)\fs28\b0}Shinto Life Insurance 369)\frz349.974\fs32\b0}Takura Shinichi" "This man... 419)\cHB5C7CB\fnCalligraph421 BT\fs36\b1}Takura" "Typesetting by Chuks 337)}Editing by hubby_b" "Nihonbashi Branch 45 years old." "living alone." "Moved into the apartment in Kodenma two moths ago." "She's a Shinzanmono like me." "called her at 5:30 pm... but changed it to 7:30 pm." "but I'll check it again." "A man was seen leaving the victim's house." "248)}Mitsui and she positively ID'd him." "It's been confirmed the button found near the body didn't belong to any of the victim's wardrobe." "hasn't been found yet." "That means for now he is our prime suspect." "the investigation would go much more smoothly." "investigate him with Kago." "Eh?" "Let's do this." "It's a pleasure." "I've gotta work with him again?" "343)\b0\fs36}Kaga Kyoichiro" "Hello?" "I'm sorry you have to work with me again." "that stall is out of toilet paper." "I'm just gonna follow your orders." "Matsumiya holds the higher position." "toilet paper please!" "Please!" "Paper!" "I put it there." "Where?" "Where did you put?" "Tell me!" "Hama" "How was the Ningyo-yaki?" "You mean... she was murdered?" "I didn't say that." "Suicide?" "No." "She was murdered." "Your expression is scary." "That's normal. what do you want to ask?" "Keep that..." "Keep that face." "it's you." "Where did you get that?" "Huh?" "Like this... it was under the body." "I went to see her to sell life insurance." "You went to see her?" "To her room?" "Where... was she killed?" "300)\b1}Kiyose Naohiro (Mineko's ex-husband)" "Her house." "In Kamata?" "No." "She moved to an apartment in Kodenmacho of Nihonbashi two months ago." "Kodenmacho?" "Yes." "You didn't know?" "I don't know much about her life after the divorce." "Know of anyone who would want to kill her?" "There isn't." "As...far as I know." "0)}Secretary Miyamoto Yuri" "Where is your son now?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "He left the house more than a year ago." "He changed his cell phone." "It's embarrassing." "Mr. Kiyose." "Where were you between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm last night?" "I was here until 9:00 pm." "Can anybody prove that?" "She can." "Miyamoto." "It's true." "465)}Nihonbashi Police Station was that your first meeting with Mitusi?" "Yes." "Gotenma" "She called me and said she wanted to discuss insurance." "I left her apartment around 5:30 pm." "I went to Amakara in Amazake-yokocho." "Amazake-yokocho" "I collected a hospitalization benefit application and then went back to my office." "Hama" "There I gave the documents to Maebashi and left the office. but I think I left before 6:30 pm." "I went to the Kendo dojo later." "That's it." "Any problem?" "Big one. and left around 6:00 pm." "I had to work overtime." "This is the "I'm-sorry-mail" I sent to my boyfriend." "You say you left before 6:30 pm." "Maebashi says you left at 6:00 pm." "That is a difference of half an hour." "You have no alibi after 6:00 pm." "Estimated time of death is between 6:00 and 6:30 pm." "you could of killed her." "Am I a suspect?" "Were you at the victim's house the entire time?" "She wanted to know the details of the contract." "Such as?" "I can't tell you. it's the company's policy." "You sure are tight-lipped." "are they for that old lady?" "You know Amakara?" "That old lady looks fine to me." "Was she really hospitalized?" "It has nothing to do with Amakara." "Just asking." "What?" "No way." "You must be invisible. it's natural to assume Takura is lying." "A lie is a shadow of the truth." "Eh?" "step on it and never let go." "Step on it and never let go." "Well said." "Let go." "Hey." "Hey." "Uh!" "Are you okay?" "!" "Boss?" "Give it back." "Thank you!" "Never let go." "Is there a shadow here?" "Shadow?" "We're here to buy taiyaki." "I wonder how many are left." "Should I check?" "Go." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Kaga!" "Hey." "I didn't expect to see you here." "It's been a while." "How are you?" "Good." "What's that?" "I am covering this restaurant for this local magazine." "Mm?" "Are you a reporter?" "It's complicated." "would you like some?" "No." "Kaga." "30 left." "Only 30?" "Hello." "I'm Aoyama Ami from DollTown." "Nice to meet you." "I'm Matsumiya Shuhei of the MPD¹ First Investigation Division." "MPD:" "Metropolitan Police Department" "Kaga was an alumni for one of my university clubs." "Tea club." "Tea club?" "!" "He said learning the tea ceremony fosters the ability to read people's minds." "Really." "But I couldn't read anyone's mind." "Would you like some?" "It's good." "I'd love to." "Mm!" "It's good!" "Are sure you don't want any?" "Eh?" "I'll buy them on my own." "Sold out!" "Here." "Eh?" "No thanks." "Why not?" "You can't taste the true value unless you wait in line to buy it." "You said it's good but you haven't tasted real value." "You just lost something big in your life." "That big?" "You never change." "Good." "Come in." "grandma." "You are a detective?" "Takura was here yesterday." "Here is the medical certificate." "Okay." "Your gallbladder was inflamed?" "Good thing you recovered." "I had to postpone my heart procedure." "You'll eventually have the procedure...?" "Yes." "I'll have the surgery... so it's not needed." "Do you remember what time that was?" "I think it was between 5:30 pm and 6:00 pm." "that sounds about right." "Can you be more specific?" "I don't spend my life watching the clock." "sir?" "I was visiting a wholesaler." "I see." "When are you leaving for Paris?" "The day after tomorrow." "How did you know?" "You were talking loud the other day." "you could hear?" "Look at the picture and photos." "It's nothing but a bird's nest." "It's art." "it's art." "We're selling rice crackers." "When are you going to wear that hair?" "An old lady can't understand it." "You know?" "I don't understand it either." "See?" "detective..." "Anyway." "Was there anything unusual?" "Like he was in a hurry or his clothes were messy..." "Nothing unusual." "his coat..." "Takura." "The sleeve button is missing." "Oh?" "When did that..." "What about his coat?" "Was a button missing?" "Eh?" "None were missing." "It's just the color of his coat and necktie were matching." "not wearing his coat." "It's pretty absurd!" "There is no way Takura is involved in a murder." "No way." "Right?" "I won't forgive you if you doubt him." "One more question... was he wearing a coat?" "he was." "What about it?" "Just asking." "what brings you here?" "I wanted to see you before I leave for Paris." "Please take good care of my grandma." "You can count on me." "Takura..." "Don't you have a girlfriend who can fix the button for you?" "I can't find the button let alone a girlfriend." "see you." "Are you leaving?" "what do you want?" "I couldn't verify your alibi because the people from Amakara were vague." "I did get an important lead from Naho's testimony." "Important lead?" "And it was just confirmed." "Limited Ningyo-yaki is out... please." "Thank you." "How long... do you think we can keep lying?" "Yes." "241)}Tax accountant Kishida Yosaku" "Did you need me?" "I hear you have solved many difficult cases." "That was a long time ago." "But you are still a district police lieutenant." "I guess you have your reasons." "What about you?" "You're still working in the field." "I'm sure you have been offered a promotion." "What happened?" "All I want is to work peacefully until I retire." "That's good enough." "How about the victim's family?" "Mitsui Mineko's family is being torn apart." "Her ex-husband doesn't even know where the son is." "even if they are dying." "Talking about Kaga?" "Eh?" "right?" "Yes." "What's your relationship with Kaga?" "He's my cousin." "Don't work too hard." "I know!" "I know!" "What brings you to Amakara today?" "Nothing." "I go to see clients just to check on them." "I'm a salesman." "You're here to ask about me again?" "No." "I'm going to buy rice crackers." "You're good at lying." "You're here about Takura again?" "Which rice cracker is that?" "This is for my snack." "It's not for sale." "You can find Amakara on the rack." "Sold out again." "All right." "Wait there." "Now that's skill." "I'm a rice cracker maker after all." "I'm only good at baking rice cracker." "Summer festival?" "Oedo festival from last August." "Takura helps us sell rice crackers at the festival every year." "though." "Since Naho won't be here." "I wonder if she can make it in Paris." "You don't compliment her even if it's a lie." "I'd rather be honest and get hated than pleasing her with lie." "A lie tastes good but it goes stale quickly." "The truth tastes bad but lasts forever." "I can have it?" "Thank you." "still... but I want her to overcome them and become a decent beautician." "Then I will feel relieved and can die in peace." "Do you suspect Takura?" "I'm a cop." "What a job. and already residents here don't like me." "Takura is almost like family to us." "Sometimes people lie because they are family." "You mean you're suspecting us too?" "I might." "I told you Takura has nothing to do with the murder." "I'm not lying." "I don't have rice crackers for you." "I'm back!" "Ah!" "Hey!" "I told you not to work!" "I know!" "You don't need to yell at me." "Stay in the back." "I'm not a cat." "go." "Are you watching us?" "I'm not." "Then what are you doing?" "Are you stalking me?" "thanks." "Don't hold back." "It's on the police." "It's on the police...that means you were watching us." "what are you watching?" "and I will tell you." "What is it?" "Was your mother also a beautician?" "How can you tell?" "Just a hunch." "You became a beautician too." "right? but grandma didn't approve it." "the 12 is a divisible number." "A strange granny is here." "Focus!" "Since my mom died she was a substitute mom." "An old lady who smells of soy sauce standing among young mother smelling of perfume." "I hated it." "Snacks were always rice crackers." "I liked cakes and cookies better." "Try it." "One day she made a rice cracker with a sugarcoat." "She told me eating this special rice cracker would make me smarter." "Then I got a good score like she said." "Grandma!" "Oh!" "Good job!" "She started making Amaama¹ for every occasion." "Amaama=Ama(sweet)+Ama(sweet) first date..." "Almost like brainwashing me." "she stopped making them." "that old hag." "Amaama..." "Sounds pretty sweet." "what were you watching?" "Coldness." "Coldness?" "That man is wearing a coat." "they are holding coats. some people wear a coat while others don't." "Isn't it interesting?" "Aren't you... slacking off?" "It's good to work for the district police." "I'd be in trouble." "Takura is not the kind of person who commits murder." "I've heard that before." "He has no motive!" "We won't know until he talks." "People make assumptions." "you don't know if they are really telling the truth." "Make sure you finish." "Takura." "please." "thanks." "I insist." "Don't be silly." "again?" "What level are you?" "Six." "The average passing rate of level six is 10%." "You need to train at least five years before taking the test." "but I was the national students competition champion." "But that was long ago." "Why are you here?" "Kokenchiai right?" "Understanding one another through fighting." "It was a good strike." "He left the store and started walking towards the station." "Stay on him." "Roger." "A button?" "Was a button missing" "Eh?" "None were missing." "His button is missing." "Report it to Kojima. and I gave them to Maebashi and left the office before 6:30 pm." "He left around 6:00 pm." "That is a difference of half an hour." "You have no alibi after 6:00 pm." "The estimated time of death is between 6:00 and 6:30 pm." "you could of killed her." "And it was just confirmed." "Was he wearing his coat?" "he was." "A lie is a shadow of the truth." "step on it and don't let it go." "Hello." "Takura... are you hiding something from me?" "Um..." "Well..." "You mean this?" "What's this?" "Going away gift." "Gift?" "Thank you." "I have a favor to ask..." "Will you sew this button on my coat for me?" "Before you leave for Paris." "Takura." "didn't you?" "you lied to us." "isn't it?" "It's not." "Then let me check it." "what?" "!" "tell us." "I'm leaving for Paris soon." "I'm not hiding anything." "Then let me check your coat." "If the button from the scene matches the..." "Hold on a moment." "There's no need." "Kaga..." "Takura." "I know you're lying." "and stopped by Amakara to collect the documents." "Then you went back to the office and left the office at 6:30 for Kendo." "That's right. unfortunately." "It's 5:30 now." "Huh? some people wear coats while others don't." "Why is that?" "Do you remember what I said about a coat?" "That man is wearing a coat." "They are carrying coats." "What are you trying to say?" "there is a business district." "The people in suits walking towards the right are going back to their office after meeting clients." "They aren't wearing coats since they're hot from walking around." "While people walking the opposite way have just left their office." "They're wearing coats since it's chilly this time of year." "Takura." "You're lying." "You were wearing a coat when you came here on the day of murder." "Because you just left the office." "You didn't come here straight from the victim's apartment." "You came here from your office." "You left the victim's apartment around 5:30." "not Amakara. and gave the documents to Maebashi. with your coat on." "You came here after you left the office." "You probably discussed the benefit application like you said. and then headed to the Kendo dojo." "This timeline matches all the testimonies." "then you have an alibi." "Should we cover the rest at the police station? something is missing." "he must of already had the... documents from Naho." "I'll come to the station." "I'll answer any questions there." "Answer them here!" "Takura." "Takura." "Are you hiding something?" "Are you?" "right?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "Covering a lie with another lie is not the solution." "right?" "Seriously?" "What is it?" "A lie tastes good but it goes stale quickly." "The truth tastes bad but lasts forever." "That's right." "The missing piece is that there are two medical certificates." "But they are completely different." "One has the real name of her disease." "But the other has been... falsified." "I already confirmed it with the hospital." "You kept the original?" "Yeah." "What..." "So the one I had was fake?" "I gave Takura the original one on my way to the wholesaler that day." "245)}(Shin-Ohashi Hospital)" "Please take care of this for me." "Okay. you came here to accept the fake medical certificate from Naho." "You mean he knew it was fake?" "Why did you do this?" "What did the original say?" "Wasn't her cholecystitis¹ treated?" "Cholecystitis: inflammation of the gall bladder." "A lie tastes good but it goes stale quickly." "The truth tastes bad but lasts forever. but I want her to overcome them and become a decent beautician." "Then I'll be relieved and can die in peace. right?" "Cancer?" "That's right." "You're suffering from... gallbladder cancer." "Fumitaka." "You asked the doctor and Takura to keep it from me?" "Yeah." "It's my fault." "I gave him the idea to fake..." "What are you saying?" "You knew you'd be suspected by the police if you lied about your alibi." "Takura." "I also apologize to you both for causing you complications." "Hold on!" "Why were you hiding it from me?" "!" "I'm not going to Paris." "Naho." "That's exactly why they were hiding it from you." "I kept it from her so she would go to Paris." "I'm sorr..." "It's not fair to leave me in the dark!" "Why can't you understand their intentions?" "How can I?" "You were against me being a beautician!" "Do you want me to go or not?" "!" "you idiot!" "Who's an idiot?" "!" "Whatever!" "May I?" "What! can I have the Amaama?" "Reminder:" "Amaama=Ama(sweet)+ama(sweet)" "Amaama? right?" "Amaama?" "I will miss you." "But I don't wanna get in your way to becoming a beautician." "' but in my heart I want to brag about you." "You earned the training in Paris on your own. but are you already going to give up?" "The best medicine for me is watching you grow into a decent beautician." "I'll be waiting for your return while baking rice crackers." "It's too damn sweet." "How can you keep feeding me such a..." "Naho." "Do your best." "I know you can make it." "Don't die." "I'll be waiting for you." "I'll be waiting." "yeah?" "What the hell are you talking about?" "I'm proud of you." "Okay?" "Amakara is good." "Isn't it though?" "Eating it makes me happy. when did you realize I wasn't the murder?" "When we spared." "The cause of death was strangulation. they wouldn't attack my neck." "Criminal psychology. did you make me attack your neck on purpose?" "I was just kidding." "I just got back at you for the Ningyo-yaki I lost to you." "Eh?" "this button..." "Is that mine?" "Must have fallen off when we collided." "Excuse me!" "Excuse me." "They are not the same..." "About the beneficiary Mitusi was trying to add to the life insurance..." "Now... my death will complete it." "Just kidding." "I should stay alive for the beneficiary's sake." "I don't know the name or the address yet." "So you don't know who is the beneficiary?" "Why tell us now?" "I think the beneficiary was... her reason to live." "That's why..." "I want you to let the beneficiary know... what she was thinking." "Her reason to live." "Sorry to disturb you again." "I can't figure out why Mineko moved to Kotenma." "I want to know too." "I see." "Your son's whereabouts... you don't know?" "No." "Tokyo" "I got it." "Who comes over so late?" "I'm coming." "I'm sorry for visiting this late." "I'm Kishida Yosaku." "Does Kiyose Koki live here?" "Kishida... it's been a while." "Sorry for stopping by unannounced." "How did you find me?" "Your father." "339)\fs28\b0\fnArial Narrow}Mitsui Mineko Murder Case" "Mitsui Mineko Murder Case." "Death of a Shinzanmono." "Assigned detective is also a Shinzanmono." "Kaga Kyoichiro." "He's an expert at reading people's minds." "326)\fs28}Unnamed" "But I know... there's someone who's mind he cannot read." "I'll run to the convenience store." "Ningyo-yaki?" "182)\fnBookman Old Style\b1}Mystery of the Ningyo-yaki" "The Ningyo-yaki left at the scene was special ordered." "182)\fnBookman Old Style\b1}Mystery of the Fingerprints" "There were three sets of finger prints." "I haven't identified them yet." "People lie." "Am I a suspect?" "161)\b1}What's hiding behind the mysteries?" "Is that right?" "Protecting him?" "A lie is a shadow of the truth." "Matsumiya."