"Come this way." "Across this street, to your left." "Left?" "Yes..." "Left." "Then straight ahead." "About a 5 minutes walk." "Okay." "Yes. 5 minutes walk." "A Keigo Higashino novel" "With Hiroshi Abe as Kyoichiro Kaga" "What's wrong?" "Are you drunk, sir?" "Emergency!" "Yasuda to Central..." "a casualty on Nihonbashi Bridge by the Gryphon (Kirin) statue." "Send an ambulance." "THE wings OF THE KlRlN" "So the first Saturday of next month is all right?" "Start from 11AM." "On that day, I can help too." "Then, I'll leave it to you." "But I'm not sure to show up." "You didn't show up for the 1st anniversary, and you'd skip the 3rd too?" "My father would have prioritized work too." "You're probably right..." "Still... I think you don't get it at all." "What about?" "Your father..." "Excuse me." "Kaga speaking." "Nihonbashi?" "I'm close." "Got it." "On my way." "An incident in the neighbor... an emergency." "I was transferred to Kyobashi Hospital, near your station." "You can call anytime." "I get it." "Here your 40 cents change." "Thank you." "Yes, thank you." "Kaori-chan, let's call it a day." "Yes." "We close shop." "Fuyuki?" "How was the interview?" "Kaori..." "What should I do?" "I... I did something" "I..." "What's wrong?" "Fuyuki?" "Someone in there?" "What are you doing?" "Stop there!" "Stop!" "What are you doing?" "I don't know." "When I saw him he was already there." "I thought he was drunk." "His mind was blurred, he didn't notice the officer." "Where was he stabbed?" "The crime took place in Edobashi's underpass." "I just went there." "There was blood stains all the way." " l see." "He walked the whole distance." "He was stabbed in the chest, it probably took him 7 to 8 minutes." "Did he have a phone?" " He did not." "He had a key case with a business card inside, and a handkerchief." "The question is... lf he walked that distance why didn't he ask for help?" "Kaga, the family of the victim is going to the hospital." "Are you Mrs. Aoyagi?" " Yes." "I'm Kaga from Nihonbashi Station." "How is my husband?" "Unfortunately, soon after he was transported to the hospital, he passed away." "Please leave your message after the beep." "Fuyuki, what happened?" "Hello?" "Well... this is Fuyuki's phone?" "This is the police." "Dear... lt can't be." "Why?" "Dad, why?" "We found a suspicious person." "He had taken Mr. Aoyagi's bag." "Are you Miss Nakahara?" " Yes." "This way please." "Fuyuki..." "Skull fracture and brain hemorrhage." "His condition is very serious." "I wonder why he had this." "Dad goes to Internet cafe?" "Does this belong to him too?" "The glasses are his but the case... I see." "The victim, Mr. Takeyaki Aoyagi, 53," "Director of Kaneseki Metals Manufacturing" "Crime scene, Edobashi underpass he then walk 300m and was found on Nihonbashi." "We can infer that he was stabbed at 8:50." "The murder blade is 8cm long." "The fingerprints have been wiped with a cloth." "This is the video from Nihonbashi surveillance cam." "The victim walking from Edobashi underpass" "Stopped exhausted in the middle of the bridge." "A distance of 800 m from the crime scene toward Hamacho Green Alley" "An emergency patrol found a suspicious person" "He tried to escape." "He was hit by a truck, he's now unconscious." "Fuyuki Yashima, 25 years old." "He lives in East Arakawa-ku Midori Mansion building." "The apartment is rented at the name of Kaori Nakahara." "She's his girlfriend." "Fuyuki Yashima was in possession of the victim's belongings." "A camera, a glasses case, a netcafe card." "Nothing else was taken, as we checked with the victim's family." "No photos in the camera." "The membership card is from a netcafe in West Shinjuku." "That is near the victim's employer." "He had been going there for half a year." "Yashima was abandoned by his mother soon after his birth." "He stayed until the age of 15 in a foster home in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture." "He has a history of petty crime." "I guess we can proceed with Yashima as a suspect." "As soon as he recovers consciousness we'll question him." "What concerns me is about the weapon ready." "Please see with the details so that we can close that case quickly." "Yes." "The names I'm calling now, please start quickly with the investigation." "Matsumiya, investigation Division." "Yes." "Kaga, Criminal Division Nihonbashi station." "Yes." "Questioning of the suspect's roommate Kaori Nakahara." "If the knife belongs to him, Yashima is suspected of premeditation." "Check thoroughly with her if it is Yashima's knife." "Yes." "I knew they would team me up with you, Kyou." "They're not supposed to know that we are cousins." "Sorry, I should call you Mr. Kaga on duty." "The investigation department didn't care deploying more than the two of us." "Please don't hesitate if you have any idea." "So let's go to Yashima's hospital." "Before that I need to go somewhere else." "I'll catch up with you at the hospital." "If it's for the investigation I'll go with you." "Quite possibly a fool's errand." ""Any fool's errand can change the outcome of an investigation"" "This is what your father taught me." "This way." "I knew that." "Yes, he came here at least 2 times." "You sure?" "I never forget a face after the 2nd time." "Right, Mr. Kaga." "Why in this shop?" "He bought something?" "The 2nd time he came he bought this." "The public enterprise employing the victim is in Shinjuku." "He lives in Nerima." "Why would he come here to buy this case and then be killed in Nihonbashi?" "What was Mr. Aoyagi doing here?" "Please count on us for the funeral." "I'm grateful. I wouldn't know what to do." "Director Aoyagi was a promising employee since his youth." "The company will do everything possible." "Thank you for your help." "Goodbye." "Are you connected to the victim?" "Leave me alone." "It's the victim's residence." "Could we ask you some questions?" "Some common sense please." "We're police officers." "I'm his childhood friend from the foster home." "So you lived together when you left the foster home." "Mr. Yashima works at an engineering firm?" "Yes." "3 years ago, the place where he was working went bankrupt." "He told me to go Tokyo together." "You are the last person he sent a mail to." ""Found something incredible" Right after 6:30 pm." ""l'm meeting someone now" Right after 6:30 pm." "Mr. Yashima was looking for ajob." "Half a year ago, he was fired from the factory." "A factory?" "What factory?" "Well... something like Kaneda..." "Kanemoto." "Kaneseki?" "That's it." "Why such question?" "Where was his meeting yesterday?" "He didn't tell." "His accident happened around 21:30." "A moment before he called you." "Yes." "What did he want?" "Well..." ""l'll be back soon, sorry for being late"" "That's all." "You sure he said only that?" "Well..." "Fuyuki is the victim of an accident, why such questions?" "He had this in his possession." "It's not his." "It belongs to a person named Takeyaki Aoyagi." "Mr. Aoyagi?" "Takeyaki Aoyagi." "Director at Kaneseki." "You met him?" "No. I don't know him." "He was killed yesterday at about 9 pm." "Mr. Yashima had his case and his wallet." "When an emergency patrol found him he ran away and was hit by a truck." "You think he killed that man?" "He is the prime suspect in the investigation..." "That's a lie!" "No way... he's not that kind of person!" "He doesn't do that!" "He's not that type." "No, I don't know him." "He was working at Kaneseki national factory until half a year ago." "He would never talk about his job." "Your husband often had business in Nihonbashi?" "We don't know about that." "What was he doing there?" "You have no idea either?" "The last time you met your father, was there something unusual about him?" "Not particularly." "You're wasting your time asking my brother." "You were not talking to Dad lately." "How's that related?" "You always hated father." "You were avoiding him." "You were the one bad mouthing him." "You too Mom." "You always blamed him for playing golf..." "Enough with that." "Shubunkan junior high school." "It's your alma mater." "There's a call to that school on your father's phone" "3 days ago, you know where he was?" "You heard something?" "I see." "We really can't help." "We know nothing about Dad." "Even when the police asks, there's nothing we can tell." "Yuto." "Tell me... why did you stop swimming?" "is that your business?" "Something happened?" "Yuto?" " l forgot." "This was so long ago." "Who his father really was..." "He doesn't know." "That's how it is." "Many kids at that age feel like that." "You felt that too about your father?" "It seems you're going to the third memorial anniversary of your father." "Mrs. Kanamori called you?" "It reassured my mother." "She was worried you didn't feel like going." "I don't see the use of a memorial service." "It's not the point." "You're not the only one concerned by this." "Don't you understand that we too want to remember your father." "You didn't attend the first memorial..." " l get it" "You can relax, I'll do it." "I received a call." "Mr. Aoyagi called me for advice." "Why did he want your advice?" "Well... because I'm the coach of the swimming club." "What was the conversation about?" "I told it to the other inspector." "Sorry but we inspectors often have to repeat things to get to the truth." "He was worried about his relationship with his son lately." "Then?" "He called saying he needed to talk at leisure." "Who could have thought..." "A coffee shop?" ""Miles Dawn"." "A coffee shop in front of Edobashi." "That's close to the crime scene." "According to the clerk, he came at 19:30." "He ordered 2 cafe lattes." "He was with someone?" "Possibility, Mr. Yashima." "Yashima worked at Kaneseki Metals for a while before getting fired." "Yes." "Maybe they fired him during a downsizing." "Yashima probably called him with a grudge." "A temporary staff would call a Director for that?" "He had left 6 months before" "He couldn't find a new job." "He had a grudge and brought a knife." "Kaori Nakahara says she never saw that knife." "Makes no difference." "We need to find the origin of the knife." "Yeah." "We don't know if he met with Yashima." "It's possible he was the person he was meeting in the coffee shop." "You need to check if Yashima had a meeting with the victim." "I'm going to the national factory tomorrow." "You take care of it." "What do you mean?" "Anyway someone from Nihonbashi has to go to the factory." "Where do you go?" "I'll walk around." "We need to know why Mr. Aoyagi came to Nihonbashi that night." "But..." "You don't need me to ask some questions around." "I'm fine." "But please keep in contact." "I get it." "I'll convey the instructions of the department of investigation." "Give me chopsticks." " You can pick your food." "To be honest, Mr. Yashima, I don't really remember him." "The reason why he left?" "Simple staff downsizing." "It's a normal phenomenon nowadays." "I understand the feelings of temporary staff." "But stabbing someone because of grudges, it's horrible." "No." "That is not determined yet." "Mr. Aoyagi was in charge of the manufacturing department." "He is the person who knew that department best." "When I took that department I kept consulting him." "Mr. Aoyagi was coming here?" "Sure he did, regular visits once a month." "This is where Yashima was working on the line." "is there a possibility that Mr. Aoyagi and Mr. Yashima met here?" "No, I don't think they ever had a chance to talk." "Something happened?" " lt's nothing." "Any place else you want to visit?" "I'd like to hear people who knew Mr. Yashima." "I asked already." "Unfortunately... there's no such person." "It seems he kept to himself." "I see." "Would you like to see the cafeteria?" " Please." ""Hiring"" "Welcome." "Sorry to called you here." "So that will be the leading role?" "Excellent." "Yes." "Please go to the performance." "When was it?" "You told me he came here?" "He came half a year ago." "I thought you were the one in charge of the Nihonbashi crime." "There you are." " Thank you." "Excuse me, your shop is about here, right?" "Yes." "What are you looking for?" "No... it's just that I hadn't come here in a long while." "It's a pleasant neighborhood for a walk." "I think so, too." "Exercise makes me want to eat sweet." "Please enjoy." " Thanks." "He hadn't come in half a year." "That's what he said?" "Yes." "He came here on the weekend." "He was dressed casually in golf wear." "Golf wear for a walk?" "More than a walk." "He seemed to have a purpose." "What makes you think that?" "While looking at a map he was checking the time on his watch." "He always had a camera." "He came to Nihonbashi to take photos." "It's possible, and not only this neighborhood." "Exercise makes him want to eat sweet." "Yes." "Observant... you have journalist's skills." "Well, I wish I was." "The article you wrote in the weekly was excellent." "Thank you." "Without this part-time job, I still wouldn't survive." "Here." "Thank you, this is welcome." "It seems you want to talk about Mr. Yashima." "Yes." "Yashima and I were good friends." "Why didn't you tell it at the factory?" "We get into trouble if we don't know our place." "Mr. Yashima forgot his place?" "Do you know the interlock system?" "Nope." "Normally, if a person touches the conveyor belt by mistake there's a system to stop it, to avoid accidents." "A safety system?" " Yes." "But it doesn't work too well." "If you use it too often, it easily breaks." "At the moment we refill the material, we should interrupt the conveyor belt." "Yashima?" "Yashima..." "He hurt his back badly." "He couldn't move for 5 minutes." "The ambulance?" "The supervisor and the manager came right away." "They took him to the staff room for a small rest." "They probably asked him to leave early." "He said his right arm was numb." "He took one week off." "They didn't even take him to the hospital." "We don't earn enough money." "But the company has to pay for a workplace accident." "Even when we go to the hospital they forbid us to talk about accident." "We don't even report workplace accidents." "Why is that?" "Kaneseki management order temporary staff to keep it quiet." "That's probably why Yashima was fired." "And if someone asked who told you..." "Of course I won't tell." "Thanks for talking to me." "I didn't know what happened to him." "He went to Tokyo." "He was my only friend." "They're keeping a workplace accident quiet?" "What's the connection between Yashima and the victim?" "Yashima knew the victim." "Look over there." "This is the Director of Manufacturing." "He could have us fired with one word, just like that." "If Mr. Aoyagi was sent there for downsizing personal he threatened him because of the workplace accident." "That's why he had the knife." "We don't know if the knife is Yashima's." "As long as he remains unconscious many questions remain unanswered." "Good evening." "Where have you been so late." "I lost my train pass, I had to walk back." "Where's that new pair of socks?" "There." "Thank you." "The landlord came again for his rent." "We have two days left." "I get it." "You don't get it." "We can't go by on my salary alone." "You said your numb hand was better." "Well, yeah." "So you find ajob whatever it takes." "Listen Kaori." "There's ajob I wanted to do." "Today I found..." " You need to put bread on the table." "The world is not for dreamers." "Put your heart to it." "This way please." "So many people." "He was a man of virtue." "Thank you for everything." "Do you keep swimming?" "Your father was so proud of you." "Your son?" "He was in a swimming competition recently." "You were an athlete in your youth, too." "Sort of..." "He is just like me, more physical than intellectual." "I know so little about Dad, his good sides." "I wish we had more time to talk." "Are you fine?" "Eat well?" "Sure, I'm fine." "The suspect is still unconscious?" "Seems so." "He'll come out of it?" "I have no idea, the police don't talk." "Aoyagi." " Teacher." "Thanks for taking the time." "It was hard." "Hang on." " Yes." "If there's anything I can do, please tell me." "Thank you very much." "The man unconscious in the hospital had an accident at the factory of the victim half a year ago and took one week off." "For a workplace accident where more than 4 days off it is requested to write a report." "Yet neither Kaneseki nor the employee reported it." "This workplace accidents hiding..." "The news move fast." "They explose the hidden incidents." "It's a leak from our superiors." "In case the worst happened to Yashima it's easier to close the case with a designated suspect." "Really?" "It's your dad's company?" "No doubt, it's Aoyagi's dad's company." "That's the reason why he was killed." "Good morning." "Thank you for coming to the funeral." "Aoyagi, come here." "I deeply apologize." "You received instructions to hide the accident?" "Yes. I received instruction from the director." "Mr. Aoyagi himself gave the instruction." "That's right." "The labor agency will probably launch an investigation." "It will give a bad name to the company." "Welcome." "Excuse me." "Which person is it?" " Right in front of you." "About a month ago you met this man here." "Yes, right." "It was a shock to see him on the news." "You remembered his face well." "He was marked in my memory." "This is for a prayer?" "No." "You don't want to talk about it." "I'm sorry." " No problem." "Sorry I have many more shrines to visit." "If you'll excuse me." "All purple paper crane." "Certainly." "This is something to remember." "The reason why people pray here..." "This shrine is to one of the "Seven Lucky Gods of Nihonbashi"" "My shop is here, in between these two shrines." "Mr. Aoyagi bought the glasses case there." "This is a good walk." "The reason why he came to Nihonbashi was to visit the 7 gods shrines." "Mr. Kaga." "I don't agree the news." "He didn't seem such a person." "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't tell unverified journalist hunches." "If you come to that conclusion after having seen him a number of times, it is more serious than a mere hunch." "Thanks for your help." "Good morning, sorry for the day off I took without warning." "Miss Nakahara... come." "The suspect in the Nihonbashi murder is your companion, right?" "Well..." "The customers seem to realize it." "I heard the police is leading a very thorough investigation." "You understand, we're running business." "When strange rumors start... lt's her." "Kaori Nakahara!" "Miss Nakahara!" "You are the girlfriend of the murder suspect of Nihonbashi." "Did he have a workplace accident?" "Kaori." "How is it?" "Looks good." " lt's lame?" "Kaori." "Right now... we don't have money but I want to make you happy." "Yes?" "Miss Nakahara." "It's me." "Now he's dead because of me." "It's me..." "Fuyuki..." "Her anemia is not a big deal." "Miss Nakahara is pregnant." "In her 3rd month." "Could I talk to her?" "Should be okay now." "What do you say?" "Psychologically it would be heavy for her." "We don't have time." "Please." "It's Fuyuki's baby." "Did Mr. Yashima know it?" "He was working with a contractor long ago?" "Yes." "At that time his function requested him to use knives?" "I don't know." "But now he doesn't own knives." "You don't know about everything he owns, right?" "I know it better than he does." "Why would you say that?" "That day I found his new pair of socks..." "When he spoke to you on the phone he had the bag of the victim." "But he didn't tell you." "Mr. Kaga." "In fact you don't know him." "He told me." "What can I do?" "He said he'd done something... I see." "This was his last call." "Mr. Yashima was looking for his new pair of socks." "That is .." "Why particularly that day..." "There's something I always wanted to do, today I..." "You have to put bread on the table." "The world is not for dreamers." "Put your heart to it." "I pressed him too hard." "I was blaming our poverty on him." "That's why he committed such... I'm the one who killed him." "What I did to Fuyuki..." "He said: "l did something..."" "Once we have found where the knife comes from... I'll announce the suspect's death to the press." "Each of you please put together a coherent report." "Yes." "Well..." "The person Yashima met was not an employer." "Maybe he saw a poster." "He saw a poster offering for ajob and he went for it?" "Then he was told to come the next day." "There was no trace of that call on his phone." "That's why he wanted the new socks for an interview." "He intended to wash them." "Near the company he was visiting." "What are you saying?" "We're having the press conference today." "We could investigate that company just today and make the conference tomorrow." "All right then." "I'm not your puppet on strings." "When talking to the hierarchy you get through smooth and less official." "Everyone knows where the suggestions come from." "I told you before as a rule we must follow the instructions of the Department." "You have to check the 7 temples." "These are instructions from the Department." "In Kasamainari Shrine, about 4 months back the victim was seen setting all green paper cranes." "About 3 months back in Ochanoki Shrine all of them light green paper cranes." "It seems he was taking shots with his camera." "I didn't think we'd walk that much." "Go back if you don't like it." "I didn't say that." "We need to understand why Mr. Aoyagi prayed to all these shrines." "Between today and tomorrow we'll be walking extensively." "If you don't like it you talk to the officer, he'll find you another partner." "I didn't say that." "Next stop is Suitengu Shrine, I'll go on my own." "I'll tag along." "Yes, that was half a year ago." "They were placed here." "I counted them, there's always 100 cranes together with an envelope with $10." "Always the same color cranes?" "The first 100 were yellow." "Then green, then blue, every week a different color." "You saw the person who left them?" "No." "It seems he always came when no one's around." "People come to Suitengu to pray for safe child birth, right?" "Yes." "The only pregnant person around the case is Miss Nakahara." "She's 3 months pregnant." "He came in Suitengu 6 month ago." "You're right." "What kind of paper does he use for the cranes?" "About this size, Japanese made." "This is it" "How did you guess it was here?" "In the Nihonbashi area, that type of paper." "You're such a remarkable investigator." "But you do remember that man well?" "Yes, because he came again." "Again?" "First time I saw him we didn't have enough of this type." "He wanted 10 sets." "So many?" "Why yellow?" "I'm sorry, I can't tell." "Really?" "What's the connection between the Kappa mythological animal and pregnancy?" "It's a charm to protect from drowning." "Drowning?" "Mr. Kaga." "No doubt, this is the paper." "Really?" "Thank you for your help." "There..." "What?" "Of course this murder is absolutely unforgivable." "But to an extent, this suspect..." "Wasn't he the victim of a cunning enterprise?" "As a symbol of modern social disparity..." "Those idiots." "You said my friends would sympathize for our loss." "How do you suggest I face them tomorrow?" "On the net and everywhere they write it's only natural that Dad was killed." "Nothing we can do!" "It's all his fault." "Haruka!" "You're still investigating?" "Even you..." "don't you have still unanswered questions?" "Nothing I need to know." "Why was your father in Nihonbashi?" "You're content with us closing the case without knowing that?" "Content or not, my father reaped what he sowed." "It was so wrong of him to hide that workplace accident." "Someone hated him for that, there's nothing more to it." "And so what?" "Stop it." "He was wandering on Nihonbashi's famous Bridge big deal." "The media making such a fuss over it." "Just more trouble for us." "Your father wasn't just "wandering" there." "On that bridge under the statue of a Gryphon he came collapsing, to die there." "A gryphon?" "A winged gryphon statue" "Why did your father purposefully walk all the distance from where he'd been stabbed?" "But your father didn't ask for help" "Did he always dislike his father?" "That's what your daughter said before?" "It happened when Yuto was younger." "During a summer vacation." "You want to stop?" "I stopped already." "Why?" "You said it was fine with your study schedule." "You said you'd keep the swimming club." "Your reason?" "Why did you stop?" "Dear." "When I was in school I was a dedicated swimmer, I told you..." "But I had to work part-time for my family I couldn't... I heard you the first time." "You're blessed..." "This is annoying!" "Thanks for the meal." " Yuto!" "Yuto!" "My husband taught Yuto to swim." "He wished his own father had done that for him." "He was usually the mute father figure." "But he was speaking about swimming with enthusiasm." "Until that summer vacation" "So why did Yuto quit swimming?" "Well..." "What happened to Yuto at the club?" "Something changed?" "I'm not sure." "Maybe an incident is worth mentioning." "An incident" "Ajunior at the swimming club." "He sneaked in the school pool at night it seems he drowned." "But fortunately his life was out of danger." "Otherwise, your husband was he a religious person?" "He was often visiting shrines?" "No." "He would not even go with the family to the shrine for new year." "Around your husband, is there a newborn?" "I don't know." "I see." "Maybe... ls it so bad to hide a workplace accident?" "He's been killed, let's leave it at that?" "To hide a workplace accident is a crime." "You bear grudges too, right?" "There's no murder that one should "leave it at that"." "It's one belief that motivates me as an inspector." ""Wings of the Gryphon"" "Can't be." "We found the company who interviewed Mr. Yashima on that day." "It is a furniture store in the Kyobashi named "woodwork"" "He saw the poster and he entered." "The manager was not here, like today." "I told him to come again the next day at about 6." "Shoes were not allowed in the office." "That's why he needed new socks on that particular day." "And so he was hired the day of the murder?" "No, they where only offering part-time for an event." "Mr. Yashima was very enthusiastic about the furniture business." "In any case, he met the victim after that interview." "The fact is, the boss empathized with Yashima and recommended him to a colleague in Edobashi." "Yes, it was unexpected." "He was recommended by Woodwork and I interviewed him." "That's wanted to settle it the very day." "I thought he was a trained professional." "He said he used to work for a contractor and was making furniture as a hobby." "That level of qualification..." "He wasn't hired." "Mr. Yashima went back right after 7 pm." "The victim entered the cafe at 7." "The distance and timing would allow it." "In such case" "Yashima coming out of Edobashi's workshop and the victim visiting the 7 shrines could very well have met by accident." "Yashima who had failed at his interview thinking that he was in that predicament because Kaneseki Metals had fired him." "He decided to talk to the victim." "They went to the cafe next door." "Yamasita threatened to expose the workplace accident." "The conversation turned bitter he decided to take him in the underpass." "Quite possibly." "Just tell him yourself." "What doesn't compute is their meeting by chance while Yashima had a knife." "He had a knife for self-defense with a record of petty crime..." "Such type would habitually..." "What?" "The knife... maybe he had it that day to show his carpentry skills." "Absolutely." "Yashima was making furniture with it." "We should follow that lead." "We need to check this with the 2 places again." "I see." "We postpone the announcement until tomorrow evening." "Yuto, come quick." "Haruka." "Haruka!" "An ambulance!" "I get it." "I'm returning Mr. Yashima's belonging." "This is that new pair of socks." "It's embarrassing, not because it's the only new pair he has but it's as if we were married." "We know which company interviewed him." "A furniture shop near Nihonbashi" "He wanted to make furniture." "He made this table too?" "We didn't have any money for this, so he made it." "As you said before I didn't... I didn't know anything about him." "You didn't tell him you were pregnant, right?" "How did you guess?" "To get pregnant without work or money maybe he would have run away." "What you said before he cannot kill." "You still believe that?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "What an idiot." "To attempt suicide... ls to admit that our dad is the bad guy?" "Since last night, she met someone?" "No." "She saw something about the case on the net or on TV?" "Well..." "I don't know." "The incident brought on unpleasant emotions." "A murder is like cancer cells." "Once it entered a person, it spreads pain all over." "Please question Yuto." "What?" "What I just asked his mother." "Mr. Kaga!" "I'm back to square one." "Miss Nakahara." "Excuse me for scaring you." "Mr. Inspector." "Are you okay?" "It's not good to move too much in your condition." "I'm fine." "What are you doing here?" "I'm back to square one." "This is the way I do things." "Isn't it why you came here too?" "Fuyuki's last phone call... lt was here." "This is where... he called me from?" "Then the officer found him." "He ran that way." "Definitely, I can't believe it!" "Fuyuki can't... kill a person." "Even if no one believes in him I'll believe in him." "Mr. Inspector, Fuyuki cannot have killed someone." "I get it." "Where do you want to go in Tokyo?" "You drop us anywhere convenient in Tokyo." "You're a carefree boyfriend." "So... the place where Tokyo started." "What's this?" "The point where Tokyo started." "Yes I'm driving right through there." "Thank you very much." "All Tokyo roads start from here." "This is the starting heart of Tokyo." "See you." "The carefree boyfriend." "Thank you very much." "This is Tokyo." "Tokyo." "Hurray!" "Hurray!" "Hurray!" "It all starts from here." "We were so happy at that moment." "When was that?" "When you shouted "Hurray", was it here?" "That was 3 years ago, this time of the year." "I could tell from my diary." "A woman always remembers such day." "I'd remember if it was an important anniversary." "But, we didn't celebrate it." "Fuyuki and I forgot that day." "So please check." "The diary will tell you, right?" "Sure but..." "Do you know this?" "A dragon?" "It's a gryphon." "It's a legendary animal." "Does it fly?" "No." "It doesn't have wings originally." "But all roads of Japan start from here so..." "The wings were added because all Japanese can fly from here." "But... this one will never fly." "This gryphon is exactly like... me an Fuyuki." "Yuto." "Someone you knew?" "His father died over there." "You mean" "No doubt he came back to the starting point, too." "I came to see how your sister is doing, I'm glad it's not serious." "How about the workplace accident?" "It's all my father's fault, case closed." "It's regrettable, but it's a fact." "Pretending my father was dear to you, but once you get exposed to blame it all on him!" "You're just a kid, you have no idea." "Give me a break!" "Don't blame it on him!" "Stop it!" "My father isn't that kind of scoundrel!" "Let me go!" ""My father isn't that kind of scoundrel"?" "He said that?" "Yes." "Last night he said "he reaped what he sowed"" "For sure some realization hit Yuto overnight." "If Mr. Yashima had a knife or not we couldn't determine with the two furniture shops." "I see." "So our bosses announce he had it for self-defense together with the news of his death, tomorrow." "I won't let that happen." "Using the same bridge security camera that filmed Mr. Aoyagi." "It's the victim's take." "This is most probably Mr. Yashima." "At 7:40 pm." "At the time the victim was with someone at the cafe." "The victim was not with Yashima." "Why did you check that camera at that time?" "If Yashima was in the neighborhood he had to come here." "Why is that?" "To him this is an important place." "We'll have to cancel the press conference." "I'm aware I'm a nosy nurse." "Mr. Kaga, it's only once a year you could remember your father." "I'm not forgetting him." "But to me that account is settled." "What do you mean by "my account is settled"" "My issues with my father are all settled." "So you plan to just observe him from afar?" "as when your father died..." "He wanted to die alone." "He left you and your mother..." "So I planned to respect his intention." "So that's a promise between father and son?" "Exactly." " lt's ridiculous." "That kind of promise made in good health doesn't mean anything." "Have you ever seen someone confronted with death?" "It's my job." "Mr. Kaga, you don't know what you're talking about." "What's that?" "Those you see are just corpses not persons." "I met many dying people." "In the hospital, I played chess with your father." "I know." "Yes, you told me by mail to do so." "And to keep it a secret from your father." "Just as I thought." "You knew my next move?" "The most fun in chess is to read the mind of the opponent." "That looks like an inspector's insight again." "In the police there are many guys good at chess." "You learned with one of those?" "The guy who taught me chess was my father." "So in the same way, Mr. Kaga ...to your son?" "I never had a chance to teach him anything." "I see." "What's happening next?" "Start oxygen." " Yes." "What is it?" "Chess..." "We'll play again tomorrow." "Quick." "Yes." "Can you see?" "Surely, your father at the end wanted to meet you." "In fact it wasn't the chess." "He wanted to talk to his only son." "When people draw near to death they drop their pride." "They come back to their true essence." "And when they have their last message to deliver we living persons have a duty to listen." "Seeing your father I realized that too." "So... I feel compelled to bother you further." "I rarely see you cornered like that." "The message of a dying man is that the duty of the living...?" "Have I been mistaken all these years?" "Wait." "Where are you going?" "Why do you think he changed his mind about his father?" "That one again?" "He received a message from his father." "What would his dead father send him?" "Mr. Aoyagi visited Suitengu Shrine and then despite a lethal wound he walked to here." "This is a message from a father?" "Maybe what he wanted to convey Yuto was..." ""lt's you"" "This is the reason why Yuto came here today." "Chief inspector." "The resolution analysis on the security cam." "No doubt this is Yashima on the picture." "The victim was at the cafe with somewhere else." "We need to question people around that cafe." "We need to find new evidence of contacts with the victim." "Yes." "Lieutenant Kaga" "What are you after?" "You have reinitialized that investigation, why?" "What are you leading us to?" "Yuto Aoyagi." "One of the students drowned 3 years ago, right?" "One night in summer, a student sneaked in the pool." "Why do you bring that up?" "You found him first?" "Yes, I was there by chance." "During the summer vacation at night, why where you there?" "What do you mean?" "That day there was a swimming competition." "I stayed late on the computer to input the results." "Yoshinaga?" "Yoshinaga!" "Yoshinaga!" "I reported immediately." "Fortunately we managed to save Yoshinaga." "Where is Yoshinaga now?" "I heard he moved to Nagano Prefecture, I don't know where." "We'll be searching." "How is that related to Mr. Aoyagi's murder?" "Forgive me, I can't answer that." "But the murderer died, it's over now." "The case is not closed." "By the way, Mr. ltokawa, you teach Math, right?" "Yes." "In junior high school math teaches many formulas." "What are you leading to?" "A person learning formulas can solve all kinds of problems." "But when one memorizes something wrong the first time he is bound to repeat the mistake over and over." "This happens right?" " That's right." "For kids to memorize the right formula the right guidance is needed." "Hello." "Yesterday you had an appointment for an obstetric checkup." "You didn't come so I was concerned." "It was intentional." "People say I'm nosy." "Are you moving?" "Back to my hometown." "I still have a few friends there." "You want to give birth in your hometown?" "Does that mean, you may not want that baby?" "I don't feel strong enough to raise it on my own." "and I'm well aware how tough the world is." "But... that baby is your only family now." "How about Mr. Yashima... if he heard you speak like that what would he say?" "The Japanese police are cool, right?" "You hit a guy, you injure him and you're free overnight." "He didn't file a complaint so you're Scott free." "He's guilty enough to deserve it." "Summer holiday, 3 years ago." "There was a swimming competition." "You participated in it?" "How about Yoshinaga?" "Your father was visiting the Suitengu Shrine." "It seems you know what I mean." "I don't know." "Why do you bring that up?" "It's quite possible that it is related to the murder of your father." "Suitengu is not only to pray for pregnancy but also for drowning." "Would you tell us?" "The message you received from your father?" "That's it." "I have nothing else to say." "He has some sensitive issues." "He is not alone in this, otherwise he would have solved it." "Yokota." "The Director Aoyagi didn't know about the interlock problem." "When the Director makes his inspection the system is up and running." "You can walk?" "Get back to work." "Get back." "I'm calling the Director" " Hold it." "You don't inform Director Aoyagi." "I was thinking of Yashima..." "The report was different from the truth." "I regret I didn't do anything." "I get it." "I will thoroughly investigate that incident." "We need to talk." "You, me and Kurosawa." "Would it be about... I'll email you, you have to come." "Why suddenly now?" "Someone told you something?" "Not at all." "Maybe you're right." "My Dad told me something." "We're the police." "I'm Mrs. Yoshinaga." "My husband comes only on the weekends." "He's an advisor with a number of companies in Tokyo." "Tomo, visitors are here." "Hello." "He can breathe on his own." "You didn't sue the school?" "The police confirmed it was an accident." "And you were content with that?" "Of course not." "But I felt so guilty." "You, guilty?" "He had been selected for a relay competition." "You mean the day of the swimming competition." "All the other team members were 3rd year." "He feared he wouldn't be up to the challenge." "You remember well what happened 3 years ago." "How can I forget." "The day of the competition he wasn't up to it." "He called me on the phone in tears." "So that's why that night.." "he sneaked into the pool to train." "We are sorry to take you back to these memories." "We are investigating about this man." "Who is he?" "Mr. Takeaki Aoyagi, does it ring a bell?" "Every month he visits Suitengu Temple in Nihonbashi." "He offers a hundred cranes every time." "You understand what I'm talking about." "Miss Hanako in Tokyo." "I'm keeping a blog." "It's like a nursing diary for my kid." "From all over the country I receive messages of gratefulness and encouragement." "Some are even kind enough to post regularly." "One of them is Miss Hanako from Tokyo." "She takes a thousand cranes in 10 sets and places them in the 7 lucky Gods Shrines of Nihonbashi for my kid" "When did that start?" "A year ago." "Excuse me." "Mr. Kaga." ""The Wings of the Gryphon"" ""l dream that one day it will spread its wings"" "Her kid, Tomoyuki." "She's doing an inconceivable job." "The relay team." "Yuto Aoyagi, 3rd year." "Tatsuya Sugino, 3rd year." "Tomoyuki Yoshinaga, 2nd year." "Shota Kurosawa, 3rd year." "A friend came and they went out." "He said he was a friend from the swimming club." "Aoyagi?" "Yes, Aoyagi." "Tatsuya Sugino too was called and went out." "I get it." "Your son has a phone?" "Yes." "Why?" "Don't tell him about me, ask him where he is." "Yuto." "You are Kurosawa." " Yes." "They're inspectors." "Sugino is not there yet?" "What time the meeting?" "At 7." "You fixed the time on the phone?" "By email." "That's bad." "We can expect the worst." "I'll look inside the station." "It's Kaga, I need an emergency deployment." "Tatsuya Sugino, high school senior." "Black short hair, about 175cm tall." "He's a person of interest in our present case." "Now arriving on 2nd platform." "Sugino!" "You know why Sugino wanted to die?" "Why did your father visit Suitengu for you?" ""Hanako in Tokyo"" "It's you." "Excellent." "When Yoshinaga arrived in 2nd year his time suddenly improved." "This competition was his first participation in our team." "Not now." "I... I'm so sorry... it's all my fault." "You were pitiful." "You screwed our qualification." "Sincerely, I'm so sorry." "The teacher had noticed you, you thought you were there already." "It's not like that." "Get back to your regular training we'll see how sincere you wanna get." "Sorry!" "From tomorrow morning I promise..." " Not for tomorrow." "From today." "Exactly." "Guys let's go for a special training." "Good idea..." "let's do this." "Larger strokes with your arms." "What's that, Yoshinaga?" "Be serious." "Several more, back and forth." "Don't be lazy." " You're swimming?" "Come on, swim." "Let's sink him... ready go." "Your arms, spin them higher." "We'll get caught, quick out." "Who is it?" "What are you doing?" "Where's Yoshinaga?" " Maybe he ran out before us." "Certainly not..." "let's find him." "He's here..." "Shubun Junior School, it's for a second year student." "As soon as possible please." "I'll do it." "How could this happen?" " Special training." "What you taught us, holding his legs while he moves his arms." "Idiots!" "Teacher, we are so sorry..." "The ambulance is coming soon, you guys get out!" "But..." "Don't tell it to anyone." "As far as I'm concerned, you were never here." "Run now!" "The next day, the police came to the school." "They questioned the members of the swimming team." "Maybe I was too hard on him after yesterday's defeat." "He felt it was his fault." "He sneaked into the pool on his own." "So that's it." "We knew he was going to tell as soon as he wakes up of course I prayed for him to wake up." "But we were terrified at the idea." "And still after that, Yoshinaga didn't come out of it." "Then we graduated." "It's despicable of us but, we totally forgot about him." "Until a year ago a friend from school informed us." "What's this blog?" "It's Yoshinaga." "Suitengu Shrine" "Hello, I visit regularly your blog." "I had an opportunity to visit Suitengu last week." "I prayed for you too." "I wish little Gryphon will wake up soon." "Hanako in Tokyo..." "Thank you for the kind encouragement." "I think little Gryphon rejoices too." "May I introduce him to you through the blog?" "Hanako in Tokyo, thank you for visiting the 7 shrines." "I can't forgive myself for what I did." "I was always aware but better this than do nothing and maybe my prayers will help." "So why did you suddenly stop visiting the temples?" "What are you doing here?" "My computer has a bug, I needed to..." "You crossed the line you can't do as you please here." "This page came up as I switched on." " All right, now go!" "Who are you corresponding with using a female avatar?" "How dare you read?" "Did you..." " l did nothing wrong!" "You get out quick..." " Wait..." "Yuto!" "At this point I was seized by an uncontrollable fear." "I trashed all the tsurus I had folded, even stopped visiting the blog." "Your father wasn't just "wandering" there." "But that inspector..." "On that bridge, under the statue of the Gryphon he used his last strength to come collapse there." "A Gryphon?" "On Nihonbashi Bridge, a winged Gryphon statue." "So I went back to the blog." "It had been a long time." "Hanako from Tokyo was still visiting that blog." "How can it be?" "All that time, someone had placed tsurus." "Dad?" "Your father realized what had been going on." "That the little Gryphon on that blog was a member of your swimming team at Shogun School." "A schoolmate of his son." "However..." "He couldn't figure why you would use an avatar." "Simply his son had prayed for the recovery of a friend but then had suddenly dropped which had negatively affected the mood of the mother." ""This is Hanako from Tokyo" So he took it over." "This, at the end... may have been a way to apologize." "When he read the mails you had sent on the blog he knew what origami paper you used for the cranes." "Yellow." "Green." "Light blue." "And blue." "Tsurus arranged in a line." "Half a year ago he placed the purple tsurus." "Only the white cranes were left." "At that moment a photo was uploaded on the blog." "The photo of the swimming team." "Your dad suddenly realized the accident had happened the day of that competition." "Then..." "At once he solved the riddle of your relation with him." "Right?" "Why you were using an avatar to email?" "Why you had abruptly stopped swimming at that moment?" "Quite possibly..." "Maybe Yosinaga's accident was connected to his son." "Sugino speaking." "is this Tatsuya Sugino?" "Well... yes, but..." "Tomoyuki Yoshinaga..." "do you remember him?" "I am... his father." "I need to ask you something." "I panicked." "I had destroyed the life of his son." "He would not be content with just handing me over to the police." "That's why you took a knife." "What do you want to talk about?" "Before I start I need to apologize." "I am not Yoshinaga's father." "I am Yuto Aoyagi's father." "Aoyagi's?" "I didn't want you to tell Yuto I met you." "So I lied." "I'm sorry." "It was important you thought I was Yoshinaga's father for you to come." "His accident 3 years ago." "Did Yuto tell you something?" "Whatever small thing he may have told you, I'd like to know." "Please." "So, you told him the truth." "No." "I told him I wasn't there at the accident." "That his son had done it alone." "I see." "I'm grateful you told me." "I should have had that conversation directly with my son." "I'm pathetic." "I couldn't muster such courage." "Well..." " l promise." "I won't implicate you." "I'm sorry about all this." "Please!" "What happens to your son now?" "What he did is unforgivable." "I can't leave it at that." "You're going to hand your son to the police?" "But then he will..." " lt is not about him only." "I will offer compensation too." "I'm not a good father." "I didn't understand anything about him." "I didn't realize how much he was suffering." "Sugino..." "But the next day I saw on the net a murderer had been caught." "You were surprised." "But that suspect was unconscious." "I thought it was a miracle." "It was all over without exposing anyone." "But..." "Today when I received Yuto's mail saying the police had connected the pool accident, 3 years ago, with his father's death." "They knew everything." "I thought I should just die." "This is... the real reason why Tatsuya Sugino wanted to die." "How is it..." "Had you not run away from the truth 3 years ago" "You father would not have died." "You kept avoiding your father." "Why did you quit?" "When you stopped swimming..." "When he found your correspondence... then when... he found your fault." "No doubt he was always trying to reach out for you." "Had you accepted to talk at that time?" "Had you faced him with the truth?" "He would not have needed to talk to Sugino." "Why did your father severely wounded as he was without calling an ambulance or calling for help drag himself to that Gryphon statue?" "When he read that blog, he saw it all." "The real meaning of the wings of the Gryphon." "We found that Gryphon statue as we walked back from our visit to Suitengu." "Now, I know it's meaning, that from here we can spread our wing to all places in Japan lt gave me courage." "The wings of the Gryphon are, no doubt... the wings of courage." "That courage... that your father couldn't find to confront you" "was something your father always regretted." "For that reason, he cornered Sugino." "Knowing he was going to die he wanted to reach that Gryphon." "For Yoshinaga to make amends for his son." "Then... to leave a last message for you:" ""With courage"" ""Do not run away for the truth"" ""Do what you think is right"" "That testimony is here." "It was in your father's car." "He kept folding these tsurus in your place." "A father who can show that to you would never hide a workplace accident." "Even if no one else trusted him deep in your heart you know he is true." "That's right." "I can trust him." "It's OK if I trust him." "It seems you don't have a hundred tsurus here." "What are you going to do with these tsurus?" "You of all people know." "Because you concealed that accident a student tried to take his own life." ""concealed" that is... I had only the students good in mind." "When Mr. Aoyagi called you truly, what did he want?" "He asked about the involvement of his son in that accident 3 years ago." "Am I wrong?" "I told him he had nothing to do with it." "At least at that moment had you told him the truth, none of that would have happened." "I did it all to protect the kids." "So that their future wouldn't be ruined." "Don't give me that nonsense." "Now because of you, what does their future look like?" "When Sugino stabbed Mr. Aoyagi... why did he not surrender, you think?" "Because you... taught them something wrong." "That they could get away with an act by concealing it." "The lesson you taught them 3 years back." "Sugino killing Mr. Aoyagi spelled tragedy onto his whole family" "And this is... the future you designed!" "If you can't grasp that, resign as a teacher." "You are not entitled to teach students!" "What Mr. Yashima did here can be explained with two reasons." "2 reasons?" "His body had been maimed by the accident at the factory" "He had no intention to go job hunting lt appears he definitely had a grudge against Kaneseki Metals" "That day" "Mr. Yashima spotted Mr. Aoyagi close by" "On an impulse he followed him." "But soon... he regretted what he had just done." "He called you." "I just did something." "The second reason was here." "Suitengu." "It's a shrine to pray for pregnancy." "Mr. Yashima came here to buy a votive picture (good wish)" "How much is it?" " lt's is $5." "Could I have it for $3." "Really..." "I'm sorry." "It's all right, I'll pay." "He didn't know these pictures were to take back home." "He hung it on this tree, without permission." "So a guardian of this shrine had to take care of it." "This is it." ""For the baby who will come" "l pray for a good job quickly"" ""Fuyuki Yashima, June, 12, 2011"" "Fuyuki..." "The day you came to Tokyo hitchhiking wasn't it a June, 13?" "That's it." "It's the day of the incident." "He never forgot the anniversary." "He wanted to get ajob and celebrate with you." "He wanted to congratulate you for the pregnancy." "This is why he did what he did." "It's not because you pressed him too hard." "I'll give birth." "I'll deliver this baby." "I have to." "I'll raise this child." "Suddenly the world is smiling to me." "If you see the world smile to you, you'll be all right" "There's no use to stay in the dark and lose faith." "Aoyagi." "is this for Yoshinaga?" "This will never amount to any redemption." "Yes." "Still..." "let's go." "Aoyagi?" "I'll be OK here." "A good place to start." "This is our new start." "This child and I." "I will never forget that you cleared Fuyuki of all suspicions." "You can forget that..." "but what you shouldn't forget..." "For this child to promise never to give up, no matter what." "Thank you very much." "Let's go then." "If we're late, Mrs. Kanamori will scold us." "I so have to apologize, for being that annoying, scolding nurse." "She came right for my appointment..." "let's go then."