"0)}Bank of Tatehama they say they can't give it to me on principle." "Isn't there something wrong with that?" "I just think this world has surpassed its capacity." "It's overflowing." "Our day-to-day lives are replete with both happiness and misfortune." "H" "we still feel unfulfilled." "Hel" "He" "H May something good happen we might as well not exist." "Huh?" "I don't get it." "What're you getting at?" "In other words... you can't withdraw coins from an ATM." "That's common sense." "I'm not convinced. anything below a thousand yen isn't money?" "430 yen doesn't exist in its world?" "Talk about twisted!" "Um... sir..." "Just go to a teller." "I'm hungry. but she's being kind of stubborn." "Hajime-chan's getting hungry now." "you should get down..." "Huh?" "Year 2014 700)}File 01:" "Egg of Columbus" "Come on!" "Good job." "Nice haul." "sir." "It was all over by the time we arrived." "What do you mean? the man over there subdued all the perps." "Boss!" "Do we have any jobs?" "Don't yell in my own store." "I'll ban you." "the Hamatora." "Hamatora Private Investigations Office any jobs?" "Where's Koneko? but I'm just renting you one of my tables." "Nice." "Did you manage to withdraw 340 yen?" "That's 430 yen!" "it's down to 310 yen." "where's Koneko?" "Hamatora Private Investigations Office" "Whisper Hamatora PI Office" "Don't eat on the go." "Your digestive system will go out of whack and may cause you to vomit." "Doc!" "You're not just some starving detective with only 300 yen to his name." "310 yen!" "Milk..." "That'll be 280 yen." "I'll put it on Nice's tab." "Now you have 30 yen." "Hamatora Private Investigations Office" "We're open for business today!" "Hamatora PI Office" "Hajime-chan..." "Can I have money to get dinner?" "Time is money!" "Hamatora Private Investigations Office" "Whisper Hamatora PI Office We're open for business today!" "We await your requests! you must work!" "Koneko!" "Do we have a job?" "pronto!" "Hamatora Private Investigations Office" "The poor are never idle." "Murasaki?" "Jobs?" "We have one." "Even two of them." "The first one is a request to capture the one responsible" "Today's Case Serial Abduction of College Girls for the serial kidnappings of female college students in this area recently." "The second is a request from a well-established family" "Yokohama:" "the Toyosaki family." "It seems the family patriarch leaving behind a secret safe. and the family is at its wits' end." "someone is plotting to steal the safe." "Today's Case Serial Abduction of College Girls or The Sealed Safe safeguard the safe and catch the would-be thief!" "All righty!" "too." "don't eat in my car." "fine." "Where'd you put that?" "!" "right?" "Hey." "Here's the raw egg I'd put in earlier." "When'd you do that?" "!" "Ha." "Now it's a boiled egg." "Those two are on a different job?" "They took on bodyguard duty." "They said they'll be guarding some girl who learned something she shouldn't have." "Another Case Girl Who Learned Something She Shouldn't Have" "There are many things in this world that no one should ever know." "This job's reward is ten times higher than the other one." "I guess they're not an old family from Yamate for nothing. but that's not the whole story." "Those planning to steal the safe have apparently hired a Minimum Holder." "I see." "So the fee accounts for the extra risk." "But..." "Nice?" "'Course not." "000 yen Café Nowhere Café Nowhere Contract Negotiator:" "Koneko Contract Negotiator:" "Koneko then." "The job we'll take is apprehending the kidnapper." "...protecting the safe." "Did you hear a word of what I said?" "The reward amount's 10 times higher." "are we?" "You so don't get it!" "This is why you can't even afford dinner." "how about divvying them up?" "I..." "I've got dinner covered!" "I'll have some of Hajime-chan's milk." "Thanks for the milk." "She just finished it." "no problem!" "About divvying them up..." "I'm not dealing with this." "Go be a starving PI who works cheap jobs." "Um..." "I don't need you telling me what to do!" "Are you guys listening to me?" "See you." "Great!" "They're going to divvy up the jobs." "Ugh!" "Is anyone listening to me?" "!" "Continental Women's College" "I heard Miki got kidnapped." "I'm just worried." "Do you have any ideas who it could've been?" "Was anyone after her? but we just didn't hear anything like that." "just never." "Miki quit her part-time job a long time ago. she seemed to be doing just fine money-wise." "she'd just pay like it was no big deal." "So she quit her part-time job..." "I'd heard that Hamatora agents operate in pairs." "There've been changes." "This is the safe." "What's inside?" "Even I don't know that." "My father was a secretive man." "The former master was a perfectionist and a very strict man." "The young master became the distinguished man he is today thanks to the thorough upbringing that the former master gave him." "You flatter me too much." "You can't just force it open?" "That would not be possible." "It appears that certain modifications have been made to this safe." "Modifications?" "Indeed. the safe's contents will be set on fire and incinerated." "That's pretty thorough." "Seven female college students have been abducted." "I questioned their friends which was that none of them lacked for money." "Why am I not surprised?" "Tell me what you know." "Well..." "The Yokohama Cosmoland's ferris wheel takes 15 minutes to make one round." "I don't need that info right now." "At all." "I can't sell you info for 30 yen!" "But that's all I have! but I'd never sell it to you for 30 yen!" "It'll cost you a thousand times more!" "I'll pay you later!" "Will this be enough?" "Would you prefer it in change?" "Your client for the abduction job is actually the police." "we've got our hands full with another case that's pretty complicated." "no big deal." "We make our living off of crumbs from your guys' table." "I'll pick up the tab." "I'm willing to hold off on adding interest until next month." "What?" "!" "I still gotta pay that?" "okay?" "Info..." "Someone happened to witness the abduction." "this bitch'd better know the deal!" "How many do you think it's been?" "This bitch'd better know the deal"?" "Know privileged information..." "Knowledge!" "There are many things in this world that no one should ever know." "They took on bodyguard duty." "They said they'll be guarding some girl who learned something she shouldn't have." "Have you heard of the egg of Columbus? the value of the act lies in becoming the first one to accomplish it." "A famous anecdote." "though." "Doesn't it just mean that Columbus was the first person to waste an egg?" "Didn't he learn not to waste food when he was a kid?" "What's your point?" "Do you have salt or something?" "You're going to eat that?" "!" "Nice?" "Is she a college student?" "Huh?" "Where'd that come from?" "I wanted to ask you something anyway." "The girl we were supposed to guard was in a bank robbery earlier today." "Isn't that the one you took care of?" "apparently." "So she got attacked in a totally separate case before we even started guarding her." "huh?" "Isn't that funny?" "An intern..." "So she's a college student?" "Our client's name is Azusa." "She's a fourth-year at Continental Women's College." "I knew it..." "Huh?" "What do you mean by that?" "Whoa!" "What the?" "The Minimum..." "An extraordinary power beyond the understanding of man that manifests whenever a specific condition is met in the form of an action." "right?" "Minimum Holder" "Gasuke-san." "There are many things we still don't know about the Minimum." "I have a lot to learn every day." "Not to mention that case." "2A5678BX." "Are you certain?" "Are we done?" "Not yet." "We'll need you until we confirm that it's valid." "scum?" "A Minimum Holder..." "Whoa!" "you okay?" "I just got that car last month..." "Columbus." "I have obtained the necessary information." "right?" "That info'd better be legit." "I can just get the real one out of her." "Don't tell me what to do." "My father's room?" "whatever you need to do." "He sure was a neat freak." "Hm? sleepwalking." "What about it?" "What?" "What're you all talking about?" "!" "Please calm down." "You are safe here." "Probably." "You can have this." "You're lucky!" "It's a miracle for Hajime-chan to give food to someone she's just met!" "I bet it's going to rain hamburgers tomorrow." "Huh?" "!" "Don't be irresponsible." "You made Hajime-chan believe it." "So it's not going to rain black wagyu hamburger patties?" "What're you gonna do?" "She's even decided what breed the beef's gonna be from." "Don't you think it might happen if it's just the ground beef?" "Should I make a rain charm using ground beef?" "That sounds like a great juicy sub-type of a rain charm!" "What'd he ask you about?" "A number." "Of what?" "I don't know..." "The common underlying cause is stress." "actions and emotions that are typically repressed come to the surface while the person is asleep and unconscious." "let's say the person has a secret he can tell no one else." "If carrying that secret is a source of stress... it's entirely possible that he'll reveal it while he is asleep." "I really don't know what that number's about." "I only heard it by accident." "Who'd you hear it from?" "From Toyosaki-san..." "In... his sleep..." "His sleep?" "!" "Toyosaki?" "I've heard that name somewhere." "The well-established family from Yamate!" "Toyosaki is the name of the family whose safe Murasaki-san has gone to protect!" "Talking in his sleep..." "A number..." "A sealed safe..." "I see." "can I use that?" "how's it going?" "Nice?" "Looks like divvying up the jobs was a wrong move." "What do you mean?" "but one... the same case. but that secret became a source of stress." "He began to reveal that secret while he was unconscious... 2A5678BX in the form of sleep talking." "Someone did his research and found out about the condition." "His personal physician must've been the one to sell him out." "He doesn't deserve to be considered a doctor." "Too slow!" "When the kidnapper learned about the unopenable safe he began to snatch anyone and everyone who might know the number." "In other words..." "The serial abduction of college girls..." "All the victims must have had a relationship with your father." "no one would remember a string of numbers and letters that someone said in their sleep." "But she was different." "so I was really psyched about it." "I developed this weird habit of writing down any numbers I hear right away." "So that's what I did." "I knew Toyosaki-san was seeing other girls." "Some of them were my friends." "and requested protection." "Dad!" "Huh?" "Why?" "Ahh..." "Dad" "What the hell?" "! Huh?" "Why?" "Ahh..." "Dad" "What the hell?" "!" "but you were fooling around with college girls?" "!" "Huh?" "Why?" "Ahh..." "Dad" "What the hell?" "!" "I didn't want to know about your sex life!" "now that I do know?" "I feel sick!" "young master." "I have one." "I'll wear one anytime you want!" "I don't want that!" "why do you even have one?" "!" "Here he comes." "My power is the Gravity Minimum." "if only to my view." "Sounds like a Minimum well-suited to manual labor." "Want me to refer you to a mover for a part-time position?" "huh?" "You piss me off!" "too." "Shit!" "too!" "You talking about me?" "This is a lightning alert." "kids!" "Damn!" "Wasn't this supposed to be easy money?" "You should work on your biceps a bit more." "Lucky you." "He's still holding a grudge because of the car." "You can do muscle training even in prison. but you should look behind you sometimes." "Cars aren't meant to be thrown." "They're for driving." "A brat with headphones and a toothpick with glasses." "I know who you are." "You're the Minimum Holder PI duo." "So we're comrades." "Comrades"?" "that's right!" "We all have superhuman powers!" "aren't you?" "you know?" "We are the chosen ones!" "We should prey on the weak and feed on them." "comrades?" "huh?" "We're nothing like you!" "Can you "see" sound?" "I've got no idea what you mean!" "So this is Hamatora..." "This is..." "Um... what was inside?" "Let's burn it." "you." "Give that back." "What?" "Why do I have to?" "This is important evidence belonging to one of the perps." "huh." "Minimum Holders are nothing to sneeze at." "What's the matter?" "I still think we should tell them." "About the serial killer targeting Minimum Holders." "I will finish any job I accept." "Just you watch." "Something big's going down." "What's that?" "A Minimum Holder?" "Is this the Hamatora Private Investigations Office?" "He's trouble." "He was taken into custody as a suspect in the serial bombings case." "Where's the fried cutlet sandwich you promised?" "He's not like that!" "500)}File 02:" "Beloved Bastard" "You're gonna eat while on the run?" "I will get away." "What a depressing job."