"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 ajoker 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 foryou." "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 foryour 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 orderto 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 foryour 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 ajunior 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." "Herfather'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 transferyourself." "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 foryou." "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!" "How's she doing?" "Her hands..." "Hands?" "I want to hold her hands but I can't." "It's sad, I know." "What?" "This is the first time I ever felt sad." "Of course you would." "You' re a human being." "Even though I have multiple personalities?" "Of course." "You have a good heart." "As a friend I know it better than anyone else." "Everyone's watching me." "I feel hot so hot." "I get great shots whenever I follow you." "It's great, Mr. Shinji Nishizono." "Episode #5:." "Coronation of the Cursed King" "Here..." "Toru-chan, here." "No, I don't want it." "Gee-whiz!" "I put my heart in making these 'cause it's my day off from filming." "Listen, Mami, will you consider quitting your job?" "But you said I could continue to work." "You could have an ordinary job like an office worker, a department store clerk an assistant professor, and the like." "Oh, I did an assistant professor the other day." "You know, I didn't know you were a porn video actress." "Listen, maybe you don't know this, but I'm real popular among young men." "Doesn't that make you happy?" "That's exactly the problem." "Hey, it's a woman, isn't it?" "Hello?" "Toru-chan, no, no, don't touch me there, you animal." "Mmm?" "Mmm?" "What's going on, Sasayama-san?" "My, you really like me in a maid's costume." "Stop... enough!" "Already." "Listen, leave other people's sex life alone, alright?" "A maid's costume, I see." "Well, I'm not interested in your private life." "I'm not interested in yours, either." "So what do you want?" "Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt you when you' re busy but we've got a case." "What?" "Why didn't you say that first?" "What?" "... yeah... so?" "...what?" "... yeah..." "So what's the status?" "...yeah... yeah... got it." "I wanna go somewhere far." "Human body combustion?" "I've had enough of those." "We aren't the X-Files, you know." "But four cases have been reported today." "Since the first one happened four days ago, there's been a total of nine." "They burned themselves to death, right?" "Like pouring gasoline over themselves, stressing out over the entrance examination hell or protesting for a cause." "That's what they thought they were at first." "But the autopsies on five bodies so far show no trace of any inflammatory substance." "The most severe burns are found on the inner thighs, up the spine and peripheral nerves." "According the autopsies, the inside of the bodies are almost completely carbonized." "What, so you think the bodies burned from inside out?" "Yes." "Isn't that mysterious?" "Sure it's mysterious." "I don't appreciate being assigned to these mysterious cases." "Oh, yeah." "Let's get this taken care of by Machi as a subcontractor." "Subcontractor?" "It's not a plumming job!" "Just send her the autopsy report for the latest victim." "It's fine." "She happens to have a medical license, you see." "Unbelievable... you' re so irresponsible." "Oh, by the way, can you come with me a minute?" "What?" "Just one minute." "What?" "Right here." "Here it is." "What's this?" "This is an important prototype of the simulation model for human body combustion." "Well, this will be quite an impressive one." "But the ignition is still a problem." "It's the gun power content, you see." "Here we go." "Yeah." "For real?" "The condition of this body is no different from the rest." "Look at you, so sissy." "I can't take the real thing." "But Machi, I'm impressed you can cut up a corpse like that." "Don't be silly." "You' re the one who asked me to be the psychologist and the medical examiner." "You seemed to know what you' re doing." "I was studying for a degree in forensic medicine." "But when I heard the Police Dept. had begun the profiling research project, I changed my major." "How come?" "You had to get in the MPD, right?" "That's right." "To meet Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Excuse me, but I've always thought that you two were like Mulder and Scully." "Then, you and I are Tommy and Matsu." "What on earth is that?" "Shut up!" "So, have you found anything, Ms. Scully?" "The victim was a student at Sanko Gakuen High, one of the P-Net participating schools." "Which means she was a carrier of P-Net receptacles, that is personality transference system." "The strange thing is that all the victims had some kind of antibodies in their brains and nerve systems." "Rather than a virus antibody, it's more like resistance of electricity." "When a programmed personality passes through, the load causes the antibody to combust." "Once ignited, a human body burns easily." "Here's a P-Net receptacle with the antibody." "And here's that of Amamiya-kun." "Ah!" "They' re the same!" "Unfortunately." "This is the reason why Shinji Nishizono is unable to transfer himself into Amamiya-kun." "And, that may be the most practical way to eradicate Shinji Nishizono." "I see." "We can let Shinji Nishizono transfer into such person, then isolate that person and let him burn up along with Nishizono." "But just a moment." "Who will be the sacrifice?" "I'm responsible for letting him loose." "No, I can't leave Shinji Nishizono behind." "Amamiya, don't get stupid ideas, alright?" "We can inject P-Net receptacles and the antibody into this one and..." "Please wait a moment." "That's where the problem is." "What is?" "If it was responsible for spreading P-Net receptacles, who spread the antibody?" "It can be hereditary." "They were born with it." "That doesn't make sense." "Look at Amamiya-san." "He was able to accept transference at first, right?" "But now he has the antibody." "Someone must be trying to protect Amamiya-san from Nishizono." "What a sharp insight." "You' re reading too much into it." "Let's look at this-we can probably trace Nishizono's movement from it." "Yeah." "What's this?" "Where the combustions took place." "What's this?" "That's the hospital Miss Chizuko is in." "It's clear." "Nishizono is after Chizuko." "Probably." "Hello?" "Yes..." "What?" "...yes... he's with me... yes... yes!" "What happened?" "Another person burned." "This time the victim is still alive and was hospitalized in the Gakuso Group Hospital." "Let's go!" "Amamiya!" "I'm in trouble." "I'm in trouble." "I'm in trouble." "She burned up suddenly, and the train station staff stopped it with a fire distinguisher." "Secure the respiratory tract." "Yes!" "Before that the telephone." "What?" "Telephone." "Where's the phone?" "Get away." "What?" "Thank you." "Why's she burning?" "Hold the phone lines." " Yes!" "You, too." " Yes." "We' re the police!" "Please stay calm and follow our instructions!" "What on earth is happening?" "There's a vicious criminal hiding in the hospital." "What?" "We need your cooperation." "And I'm sorry but we must shut down all the outgoing phone lines in here." "Hey, take care of it." "What about emergency patients?" "Send them to other hospitals." "The priority is to capture the criminal." "You can't do that." "I'll take responsibilities." "Get me the director." "Sasayama-san, we can close down all the phone lines but there are cell phones." "Are you stupid?" "Who'd be using a cell phone in the hospital?" "I've checked it already." "This hospital is designed to shut out cell phone frequencies so that the medical equipment aren't affected." "But what if he sneaks in via a computer terminal?" "The hospital computers are isolated from the external network in order to prevent personal information from going out." "Which means, he can enter but can't escape outside." "The target is trapped in a dead end." "It seems too predictable." "What?" "I wonder if Shinji Nishizono didn't plot to get trapped." "Amamiya, what on earth are you talking about?" "I have bad premonitions." "Barricading the hospital?" "Has he gone mad?" "Get Sasayama on the phone right now." "Yes, but we can't contact the hospital from outside." "I'd say let him do what him wants." "What?" "Sasayama seems to want to take responsibility for this mess." "So let him." "Hello, Miwa-chan." "Yes..." "I really like what you' re wearing today." "Hey, what's he doing?" " What?" "Him." "Oh, you' re new so you don't know him." "Don't pay any attention." "He's, you know, a so-called fanatic." "He's on a date with a girl character in a game." "Human girls are too scary for you, aren't they, Murata-kun?" "Yeah..." "I..." "I wanted... to see you, Miwa-chan." "Well, he's harmless." "Then... then..." "I'll see you at the... same place." "Yeah at the... gym, OK?" "Thank you, Kiyoshi Murata." "You helped me a moment ago." "Thank you." "Miwa-chan, you've got a heart now." "Murata-san you don't get bored, do you?" "Virtual dating with a game character gal?" "Can't a man at your age tell fantasy from reality?" "That's dangerous!" "Hello you!" "Do you wanna have sex with me?" "Wow, this is amazing." "Voice activation?" "This is fun." "How about doing it for money?" "Will 30,000-yen do?" "Drop dead." "What's this bitch?" "She's just a game." "I bet she doesn't even have hair on her." "Miwa-chan is an innocent girl Miwa-chan..." "Miwa-chan is an innocent girl." "Miwa-chan..." "Miwa-chan is an innocent girl." "Because she is an innocent girl you... shouldn't dirty her with such words!" "Alright, alright." "Come with us, OK?" "Wow, I see a fanatic can fight for the one he loves." "How admirable." "Hey, stop it!" "I'll tell Doctor Shiroido on you!" "Alright, alright." "Please don't tell on us, Ms. Nurse." "Thank you." "You' re kind, aren't you?" "Sorry, but I'm not Miwa-chan." "The rain hasn't stopped." "Amamiya." "I wonder why?" "Chizuko is alive but there's no soul in her." "I've got two in me, Yosuke Kobayashi and Kazuhiko Amamiya." "You think too much." "Thinking too much is the worst thing you can do." "You see my existance is supported by Chizuko but Chizuko... just sleeps on." "I don't know why, but I sensed you might try to turn that switch off." "The doctor ask me what I wanted whether to turn the life support off and have the premature baby taken out and raised in an incubator or to wait 'til it's fully grown in the mother's body and then turn it off." "Well, which way would you go?" "I don't know." "I chose the latter." "But I feel like I agreed to use her body as a mere incubator capsule without a soul." "I feel sad." "Not at all." "You probably made the right choice." "You see, humans prefer to stay in their mother's body as long as they can." "Look at me-10 days past due date and I still wouldn't come out." "I weighed 4500g when I did." "I was a wimp." "I think I wanted to stay in mom's belly as long as I could." "You' re kind, Sasayama-san." "Oh shut up." "Don't make me blush." "Is Shinji Nishizono really inside this hospital?" "Machi is identifying barcode carriers among both doctors and patients." "But there's no evidence Nishizono has entered here." "The girl who burned was brought in here, so I'm sure he is." "You agree, don't you?" "There's no 13th floor." "What?" "What?" "Ah, isn't that because it's a hospital?" "You see, 4's and 13's are unlucky numbers." "Ah, I bet this is a Christian hospital." "It probably isn't." "OK." "All patients are clear." "Get the staff." "Yeah, yeah." "They' re ready." "Please follow me." "What kind of vicious criminal is it?" "Does he have something weird in his left eye?" "No." "This is what you' re looking for, isn't it?" "You..." "Go and get Amamiya and others if you want." "Shinji Nishizono?" "But you won't." "How did you enter the hospital?" "Oops, there she goes, showing her true colors." "Seems it's becoming difficult for you to hide your dark identity." "You shut down the network not so that I wouldn't leave but so that I wouldn't enter here, right?" "Even when the network isn't connected, I can get inside this and move around, you see." "Isn't it unbelievable?" "Complete data of a programmed personality only takes up one single disc." "I snuck into the disc that this doctor carries around for his Ph. D. thesis." "We can try to shut down the network but a person can always physically transport you inside." "It's not like you." "You acted too hasty." "Look who's talking." "You baited us to track you down, so that we'd come here." "You must've wanted to see me." "That's right." "And now it's confirmed, that this is the center of your activities." "What are you talking about?" "So, where are all the babies you've stolen?" "I have no idea what you' re talking about." "That's alright." "I'll find them." "Oh, there you are." "Any barcodes?" "No one so far." "I wonder if he got in through the network?" "That's not good." "If he entered through the network, what should we do?" "Don't worry, I've got this." "What's that?" "A type of virus protector." "It searches out programmed personalities and deletes them." "You shouldn't fight any more..." "But you shouldn't use violence..." "Don't say that, or I won't like you any more..." "Promise me, you'll never say that again." "Oh, let me show you friends of mine." "Where are we going?" "To the secret floor." "Kobayashi-kun..." "Amamiya-kun..." "Ueno-kun..." "Tanabe-san..." "Mori' izumi-san..." "The last one, I can't remember her name." "Are these your friends?" "Kobayashi-kun..." "Amamiya-kun..." "Ueno-kun..." "Tanabe-san..." "Mori' izumi-san..." "Hey, where are you?" "We were real close when we were young." "But before I knew it I was alone." "You know, these are dead bodies." "I know." "I pretend they' re my friends." "Don't you have any friend that's alive?" "I do." "Who is she?" "The real Miwa-chan." "Miwa Isono." "Let me give you a piece of good information, Mr. Shinji Nishizono." "What?" "I know where to find what you' re looking for." "Really." "I'd like you to tell me." "I will." "So don't kill off all the barcoded bodies." "Leave one for me." "Not a bad trade." "Chizuko!" "Her condition suddenly worsened." "Both the mother and the baby are in danger." "We'll let you know the status as soon as possible." "Please wait in the lobby." "Damn it!" "He got us!" "Hey, it's Sasayama." "The criminal escaped using Elevator #1." "Watch Elevator #1 on each floor." "He's disguised as a doctor." "Catch them no matter how." "This is the 14th floor." "It just passed the 12th floor." "Here it comes." "Idiot!" "It cannot disappear!" "Find him!" "Where?" "Everywhere!" "Oh no, police equipment..." "Hey, why are you so calm?" "Shinji Nishizono got away, taking Chizuko hostage!" "Chizuko is on the 13th floor." "See, there is no 13th floor." "There's room number 1413." "They aren't avoiding number 13 because it's unlucky." "There must be a hidden floor below this one." "What's that?" "I'm installing a virus protector, so that Shinji Nishizono wouldn't enter in the network." "Not Machi Isono?" "Why do we have to get locked up in here, too?" "It pisses me off." "We were going to a drinking party with college girls." "You know how much money we've invested in it?" "I'm angry." "I want to kill them." "Tell me..." "Tell me, Miwa-chan, what can I do?" "You should kill them." "Stop it, Shinji Nishizono!" "Don't worry, I'll come right back as soon as I've ignited the killing instict in him." "Do it to your heart's content." "I'll kill them all." "Don't do it, Kiyoshi-kun." "Basket Woman, Basket Woman..." "The bird in the basket;" "When will it escape?" "On the dawning's night, a crane and a turtle slipped." "Who's the one right behind you?" "I... where am I?" "Everyone die." "Stop it!" "She's a nice person." "Murata-kun." "Come on." "We'll go kill the interns." "Who's the one right behind you?" "Hey, where's the fire at?" "It's the 13th floor." "Oh, it's the floor below us." "Don't let him escape." "Yes!" "Hurry up!" " Yes!" "What are we gonna do?" "It won't stop on the 13th floor." "We'll make it stop." "Wow, forceful, aren't you?" "Alright." "Oh, here we are, the 13rh floor." "Let's split up and look for Chizuko." "Oh, I've got to save the real Miwa-chan." "Machi!" "I suspected it was you." "Oh, you caught me." "It was always you who did it, wasn't it?" "Five years ago, too." "Unfortunately so." "Who on earth are you?" "I feel lost for words when a multiple personality like you asks me so seriously." "You..." "I like your confused look." "Well, we' re the children of Lucy Monostone, so to speak." "Lucy Monostone?" "He was a rock musician and a terrorist." "They were the first babies with P" " Net receptacle implants." "They?" "There were seven of them." "The flesh of Lucy Monostone provided for seven." "A certain U.S. group was carrying out a research in identifying common characteristics in the DNA of criminals even before the wars." "They found seven special characteristics of the DNA." "They' re the DNA that can make a person a criminal, so to speak." "DNA that can make a person a criminal?" "The seven with each one implanted with one of the seven characteristics were the first generation." "When you get a programmed personality transferred into them their personality as a killer gets triggered." "In the name of Lucy Monostone they carried out a number of terrorist acts in the U.S. in the 60's." "It was in '72 that the 6th Lucy died in the U.S." "Right before that happened the programmed personality transferred itself into the 7th Lucy who was Japanese." "Then, the personality moved to Japan." "He then reformed his own programmed personality and created Shinji Nishizono, along with the 2nd generation Lucy Seven." "That's what we are." "You see we' re brothers and sisters." "Amamiya-kun, you and I as well." "You mean we were the dandelion fluff carrying seeds." "I was trying to create the 3rd generation Lucy Seven, honoring the will of the 1 st generation Lucy." "That's the truth about the incident of 5 years ago and one this time." "Aren't Oye, Mishima and Shimazu the 3rd generation?" "Those kids were simply test subjects of the government's project that our organization collaborated with to raise money." "You've witnessed how easy it's become to infect people with P-Net receptacles just like vaccination." "But they' re just an ordinary population." "They're not chosen existence that do not die." "They' re a dellusionary bunch." "The barcodes they carry aren't authentic in any way." "What I want are the chosen children, the ones that carry Lucy's original DNA." "I pity you, Machi." "Why do you have to prove you' re special?" "What's the value of that?" "Value?" "I've never even thought about that." "I'm just the true heiress of Lucy Monostone's legacy." "It's as simple as that." "You don't wanna hear it from a multiple peronality, do you?" "Amamiya!" "Get out!" "Amamiya!" "Chizuko and the baby..." "Let's talk about the last Kazuhiko Amamiya." "I'm home." "Hi." "I got burned." "Burned." "You washed my pajamas." "Is the bath ready?" "Bath?" "The tub's ready." "Hey, come in." "Shampoo." "What are you laughing about?" "Wait, Miss!" "Miss!" "Please pay!" " Got none." "You can't say that!" "Bye-bye!" "Hey!" "Thief!" "I'm sorry, I'm late." "Here's Mom." "She's got you diapers." "You've got to make sure you carry change of diapers when you go out." "I'm sorry." "You must have some secret." "Hang in there." "I hope you'll have a real baby soon." "Secret... it's an ancient concept." "Let's go, Murata-kun." "I'd love to have a real baby." "Episode #6:." "The Bond between a Heaven-bound Soul and a Man" "Looks like you shouldn't have gotten so deeply involved." "Did you do this, Toguchi?" "I'm just a subcontractor, working for Gakuso." "I made it look like something else for your sake." "Wife kills son who refuses to go to school, then kills herself-something like that." "People will be sympathetic to a man who's lost his wife and son." "Thanks for your concern and trouble." "But let me set the record straight." "It was my mistress and her son that you killed." "Hello?" "Sasayama-san?" "Listen..." "Your wife Mamiko-san she was in a car accident." "The hospital just called us." "Sir?" "Your wife is one step before so-called brain death." "I did the best I could do as a medical doctor." "Please turn it off." "What?" "The life support system, is it?" "You can turn it off." "But it's not like there's no hope for recovery." "It's alright." "I want it to end." "What are you doing?" "A lawyer brought that here yesterday." "He said you were designated as the retriever of her ashes in her will." "Did they execute my sister Yoko's sentence?" "The lawyer was upset that the time between when the sentence was given and its execution was unusually short." "You know she asked me to find you, and kill you." "That's what she told me." "Though I'm not totally sure that it's you." "I wish I had met her." "She knew about how I was born, right?" "Is that why you' re arranging flowers for her?" "To represent her heaven-bound soul." "Thanks." "Then can you make me three more?" "My wife, my mistress and her child have been killed." "Hey, Sasayama-san..." "What do you think are the colors of souls?" "No idea." "You' re a kind guy." "What's that about, out of the blue?" "People usually pretend to be sympathetic and ask you many questions in times like this." "Is that so?" "I guess I lack that intangible something ordinary people have." "You' re better off without it." "But you know, when you lack that intangible something, your heart tends to get cold as if you've swallowed a pearl." "You' re a poet, aren't you?" "You know how I always talk about I don't have friends?" "Well, I know I'm not the most likable character around." "But when I joined the police force and stumbled upon the existence of Gakuso I decided not to form relationships with others." "I shouldn't open my heart to others." "Doing so would get them tangled up in my affairs." "I knew that and yet instead of making friends, I ended up having two wives." "You know I don't look like it, but I like being fussed over." "I'm stupid." "Hey, Kazuhiko Amamiya you want to know too, don't you?" "Know what?" "The truth." "I guess." "Oh, Sasayama-san." "What happened?" "Were you fired from the investigation HQ?" "No, I wasn't." "Well the investigation HQ is gone." "They say that there was never such case as the barcode serial murder." "That there never was any investigation HQ and this room has always been a lounge." "Good morning." "I don't recognize anybody." "Good morning." "It seems everyone in the building was replaced." "Good morning." "Hey!" "But everyone seems to know me." "I don't know, have I gone mad?" " Idiot." "It's a cover up." "They want to make it look like nothing happened." "Cover up?" "What painful trouble they took!" "They persuaded all the staff who were here 'til yesterday to be transferred." "Those guys were all careerists." "This looks too sophisticated for a drill, doesn't it?" "How come I wasn't transferred?" "No matter how hard they try to cover it up, information will leak." "When that happens, if a fanatic of young pretty girls tells the world it's a national conspiracy what would the world think?" "What would they think?" "They'll think a cop who's a fanatic is imagining things." "They know what they' re doing, with your social image." "They can't they' re cruel!" "Was there really a case or the investigation HQ?" "I wonder if it wasn't just my imagination?" "Idiot!" "Fanatics these days are such wimps!" "Influenced by others so easily and they can't trusting themselves." "Fanatics in my days used to believe only in what they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears, and stuck to their paths." "Though it was simply anime and cartoons back then." "No matter what others say, the stuff in there that you made clearly proves that there was a case!" "Trust!" "In what your own eyes, ears and hands felt, a little bit!" "Yes." "Stop crying." "You' re a man, aren't you?" "I'm sorry." "Stop crying." "Stop crying!" "Look straight!" "There are only three of us left." "No investigators." "Of course there's no record of investigation." "It means that even if we find Shinji Nishizono or catch Machi-san we wouldn't be able to make a case out of it without the official records." "Are we still committed to seeking the truth?" "That's all I want to know." "I am." "I want to know what it means to be who I am." "If that's the truth of the case, I want to find that out." "Me, too, in the pride as a police officer and as a fanatic." "Alright!" "Then, let's review the history to date." "Truth #1..." "With the case of serial murder of pregnant women that took place 20 years ago the babies taken out of the victims' bodies were the second generation like you." "They were barcode carriers Yosuke Kobayashi, the other personality of yours and Ueno, Tanabe, Mori' izumi, Murata, Machi, and Kazuhiko Amamiya." "You were the subjects of an experiment conducted by Gakuso, a yet-to-be-identified organization." "They were developing a personality transferring system called P-Net." "Special synapses called the P-Net receptacles that are necessary for receiving programmed personalities were implanted in each of you." "A P-Net carrier can be infected by programmed personalities." "Most likely, some member of state power took interest in this and formed a partnership with Gakuso and offered financial support." "But Gakuso has a different agenda." "To transfer a programmed personality into P-Net carriers and artificially create criminals with multiple personalities." "For what?" "There's probably no reason." "Let's get back on track." "The code name for such programmed personality to be transferred was Shinji Nishizono." "Then 20 years ago, while being transferred, the program Shinji Nishizono ran away." "Nishizono transferred himself into a boy, killed the doctors and set the hospital where the experiments took place on fire." "The boy Nishizono got into was Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Kazuhiko died in the incident but right before he did Nishizono took him along and transferred themselves into Yosuke Kobayashi." "Shinji Nishizono was a creation based on the profiled data of young boy Amamiya coupled with the transferring program that was partly upgraded." "That's why Nishizono couldn't let Amamiya die." "Yosuke Kobayashi ended up carrying 2 personalities, Shinji Nishizono and Kazuhiko Amamiya." "I'm sure Machi had already told you this much." "Yeah." "And the rest she kept a secret." "I found this in her Mac." "These are the DNA of the mothers of the second generation." "And these are your DNA's." "We can match each child with his mother, except one." "Amamiya, we don't know who your mother is, or rather that of your physical body Yosuke Kobayashi." "No matching DNA has been found." "Thanks but I knew that too." "OK, then there's no need to explain more." "Truth #3..." "Part of it is my guess." "The leader who conduced this experiment was a former med student who calls himself Lucy Monostone." "There was another man, a member of an extreme right wing cult, who called himself Lucy." "My guess is that the Lucy's were from the generation that came before Shinji Nishizono in the P-Net project, something of prototypes of programmed personalities." "What led me to this idea is that I noticed many crimes since the 70's had something to do with Lucy, and I kept track of them." "I befriended a Gakuso member Toguchi, and obtained films and videos from his video shop." "This was since before I met you or Machi." "Lucy transferred himself into Machi somewhere down the line." "Machi who was now Lucy revived the P" " Net project as a Gakuso member and carried out the serial killings of pregnant women." "Something like that." "The story began with Lucy Monostone and it created the world." "Impossible Ms. Machi...?" "I don't want to believe it, either." "But she took out Chizuko's baby from inside her in front of Amamiya's eyes." "You have a visitor, Mr. Isono." "Oh." "Hey, Murata-kun, the show's over!" "I guess he wouldn't get it." ""The age of your reign" "May it last for thousand and eight thousand folds... "" "Oh, what are you doing here?" "Filming on location, so to speak." "Adding to your collection of corpse footage?" "I won't let you." "Where's Machi?" "How should I know?" "I heard she left the project." "I've got as little idea as you have of her whereabouts." "Is a cop allowed to kill people?" "I've checked everything about you." "You have no family registration." "I'm a Macbeth, so to speak." "I wasn't born from a woman's body." "So if I killed you, no one's legally dead." "Your so-called organization will discard your dead body and cover up the incident as if nothing happened." "It's noisy outside, isn't it?" "Wait for a moment, OK?" "Toguchi!" " I don't think anything of murder." "'Cause my heart is broken." "Murata?" "Murata!" "Kiyoshi Murata was the only witness to the barcode murder case." "Now that you've killed him, I expect you to make up for it." "I've got no left eye." "I took it out myself a long time ago." "What's this?" "I told you I took it out myself." "We'll take our time to get the story out of you." "Murata-kun?" "What?" "Murata!" "Shinji Nishizono, aren't you?" "Bingo." "What?" "My left brain was blown out so I quickly moved into the right half." "It was close." "But this body's not gonna last long, either." "Why did you kill him?" "Why?" "Didn't he kill your family?" "That's exactly why I needed him as a witness." "What can you do against the national power?" "They'll just put out the case like a cigarette butt." "Then I'd rather put their organization out before they do me." "You' re a murderer yourself." "You killed the first lover Yosuke Kobayashi had." "You took the baby out, too." "It was Machi who did it just as with the second Chizuko." "When I got there, that girl was already dead." "But it was you who transferred yourself into barcode carriers and committed serial murder." "It's true they did what they do as a result of borrowing their bodies." "But those were their own desires." "Without me giving a push, they'd have ended up the same way someday anyway." "They were made for that specific purpose." "Hey, I was dying to see you Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Amamiya!" "Don't touch him." "Let him transfer into you and you'll be dead." "He wants to take you along to hell." "That's a mean thing to say." "I have no intention of committing double suicide with him." "Hey, Miwa, you got the little bag Murata asked you to keep?" "Bring that over." "Give what's inside to Amamiya-kun." "Don't take it!" "It's something like a vaccine that cancels out the P-Net antibody implanted in your body." "They wasted no time in developing this damn thing." "Miwa-chan, throw that thing out." "Throw it out!" "Hey you, Kazuhiko Amamiya." "I don't want you to act friendly with me." "I'm not suggesting we should go back to what we used to be before." "I'm just asking if you don't wanna settle the accounts first hand with the folks who created us." "We two are Abel and Cain." "We made God angry, sending the world on the road to destruction." "Amamiya-kun!" "Amamiya-kun!" "Amamiya-kun." "I'm sorry." "I couldn't stop Shinji Nishizono from acting up." "I... think I'm dying." "Transfer yourself into me." "You should be able to do it." "No, I can't leave Shinji behind." "'Cause he's just like my other half." "Then, you can both come inside my body." "Don't, Amamiya!" "Leave him alone." "Let him die in Murata's body." "Then you can release yourself from Shinji Nishizono." "Forgive me, Sasayama-san." "I can't leave him behind!" "No, don't believe what he says." "Because...!" "He was a friend of mine no matter how rotten he is." "You... are you Yosuke?" "Are you Yosuke Kobayashi?" "I don't know!" "But the three of us make one whole self." "I hear the melody of celebration." "Lucy Monostone, you are the ruler of the great kingdom." "Stupid!" "Stupid!" "Stupid..." "Stupid..." "Stupid!" "I'm inside amethyst of my life right now." "You gullible fool!" "Alright already." "Sasayama-san?" "I don't care who you are." "I'll stick with you 'til the end." "Got it?" "Thank you, Sasayama-san." "You...?" "I'm sorry, Sasayama-san." "Miwa-chan, sorry to bother you, but will you handcuff him to the handrail over there?" "What are you doing?" "You may not believe me, but I want you to live no matter what happens." "Don't act so heroic, Kazuhiko Amamiya!" "That's how all three of us feel, Sasayama-san." "'Cause you' re the only friend we have." "What's wrong with you?" "Where did you get the handcuffs from?" "'Cause I'm a police detective." "Oh I see." "I wish you were a private detective!" "Sasayama-san, thank you for everything." "Wait, I'm coming, too." "Don't go!" "Don't leave me behind Kazuhiko Amamiya Yosuke Kobayashi Nishizono..." "Shinji Nishizono!" "It's done." "OK, thanks." "What a nice day!" "Here you are." "Thanks, everybody." "See you!" "What, my car!" "Hey, don't take away my car!" "Hey, you!" "Hey, hey, hey!" "You!" "The era of Showa's over without any major incident happening." "Yeah." "The word Heisei for the new era sounds weird, doesn't it?" "Yeah." "Oh, this song is very popular now." "I hear some personality that transferred into Miwa-chan spread it all over the net." "A record company made it into a CD without her permission, and it became a massive hit." "I hear 7 million copies sold." "All of Japan is trying to find out where Lolita C is." "Yeah." "My goodness, you've complete lost your edge." "By the way, I wonder who programmed the personality that transferred into Miwa-chan?" "I hear it's a prototype from way before Lucy or Shinji Nishizono." "Some early test program made by Gakuso was left abandoned on the net." "Some fanatic found it changed it around a little, gave her a girl's personality and made her into his little sister." "I bet you have friends like that, too." "She was a better creation than Lucy or Nishizono, though." "Seems like she doesn't require P-Net receptacles to transfer herself into someone." "It means that the fanatics are ahead of Gakuso." "Is that true?" "It is-I heard it from Miwa-chan herself." "What?" "When did that happen?" "Here." "I exchange e-mails with Miwa-chan." "What's that?" "Oh Manabe, the traffic signal!" "Look!" "You' re a cop and you don't wear a seat belt!" "You don't have a license, do you?" " Shut up!" "Anyway, you never told me you were e-mail friends with Miwa-chan!" "'Cause you never asked me, you only asked about Amamiya." "You' re being illogical!" "You know how I was left behind handcuffed." "Miwa-chan took pity on me and sends me e-mails from time to time, saying she'll be a friend of mine." "It's quite nice to have a gal e-mail pal." "So what happened to Amamiya-san?" "Why would she tell me?" "Seems like he's going after Machi." "Oh mail from Miwa-chan." "You know, it's something of an eyesore." "Manabe, drive me to Gumma." "What, all of a sudden?" "Miwa-chan wants to see me." "It's not a dating club, you know." "That's an order!" "Wait, I'll come with you." "No you can't." "If I don't come back in two hours, go down the mountain and go to Sasayama-san." "Don't worry, I promise to be back." "Be good, and I'll give you what you always wanted." "Promise?" "Yeah, promise." "Alright!" "I can hear you." "We' re committing a crime." "I don't care." "We won't get away with simply being suspended." "Listen, Manabe, a social status is for throwing right out the window in times like this." "It's for the sake of my best friend and my girl." "I've got to chance it." "But where is Amamiya-san anyway?" "He's probably heading toward his birthplace." "Birthplace?" "Don't you know what this mountain is about?" "No." "Young people today..." "Listen Manabe 27 years ago from now an extreme right wing group gathered on this mountain and lynched their own members." "After the ones who remained were arrested, 13 dead bodies were found." "And-this is a top police secret but, there was the 14th body that was found." "It was a woman, and she was pregnant." "You don't say..." "That's right." "Her belly was ripped open and the baby had been taken out." "And, the baby's body was never found." "You mean that was Yosuke Kobayashi, I suspect." "There's nothing to prove it now." "The leader of the cult was called Lucy." "Though he was a man." "Doctor, please see Mr. Isono!" "14: 15, January 17th, the 2nd year of Heisei..." "Exactly one year after the new era began." "He was a strange old man, wasn't he?" "Wearing women's clothes." "He'd get upset if we didn't call him Lucy." "Your dad's here." "Is it Yosuke-kun in your body now?" "Or is it Amamiya-kun or Shinji Nishizono?" "You don't address Nishizono in a friendly term." "I don't like him much." "I suppose he's somewhat of a difficult character." "He is." "Hey..." "It's not too late." "Do you wanna join me?" "In this place 27 years ago with Tsuneo Isono a. k. a." "Lucy of the first generation as its father and his female soldier as its mother, a child came into the world." "The baby taken out of the mother's body was the holy child, Yosuke Kobayashi." "A chosen child, I see." "And a child who carries your blood with the mother also being a second generation that's what this baby is." "You' re the pure breed of Lucy's children." "They' re the chosen children with a stamp of authenticity, so to speak." "Children who will never be affected by deadly illnesses, whose souls are immortal, so to say." "It's a boy." "So Chizuko was a second generation, too?" "Yeah." "She was a comrade of mine." "Remember she said she was sorry?" "I'm sorry." "Listen, Amamiya-kun..." "Why don't you join me and turn the world around?" "The world?" "That's right." "The world, Gakuso, P-Net, the projects-doesn't matter what." "Oh, so it doesn't matter." "I feel as if I could achieve any goal together with you." "Goodbye, Machi." "I see so Amamiya-kun doesn't like me after all." "You can't run, Machi." "Sasayama-san, please do it." "OK, got it!" "Manabe, do it!" "Are you... really sure?" "Do it." "You have my permission." "It's done." "We did it." "We did it, Amamiya." "We did it." "Can you hear me?" "Amamiya, we did it." "We did it, Amamiya." "You can't get through to him." "We've destroyed the relay point for telephone lines." "Idiot!" "You don't understand anything." "I'm talking to his soul." "We don't need a telephone line." "Our hearts are connected, you and him." "That's right, he's your friend, your only friend." "You got it." "Hi!" "Here, what you've always wanted." "It's a baby." "Can I really have it?" "Yeah." "Adorable." "Let's go." "Yeah." "What's that?" "A costume play?" "Hello, welcome, hello exposing the dark secret of the national power." "Please take a look." "Please take a look, it's 8800-yen." "Please take a close look." "Please take a look." "What the heck are these?" "They' re monsters." "How do you like it?" "Please don't run away." "Take a look..." "Hello, welcome, hello..." "You fool, they don't sell at all!" " You' re the one who said they'd sell!" "You know I've ordered a Chinese factory to manufacture 100 complete sets with the dolls and all." "What am I going to do with them?" "What are you rambling on about?" "You've got to sell, sell with all your might." "For the pride of all fanatics, sell!" "You' re being unreasonable." "You know what this all means, don't you?" "They destroyed the records about everything from Machi's dead body to the telephone tower being blown up, pretending nothing ever happened." "And we' re still doing cops." "This is the only evidence we've got." "You understand?" "This is the only evidence that testifies to the truth." "That these incidents happened, that Amamiya existed, all of it." "Yes!" "It's not over yet." "'Cause nothing's yet to begin." "Translated by Ann Jiitsu" "Subtitled and Mastered by Cannibal King" "No..." "No..." "You aren't Shin-chan." "Who are you?" "Yosuke Kobayashi?" "Kazuhiko Amamiya?" "Or Shinji Nishizono?" "Let's talk about Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Stop!" "Stop, Amamiya!" "Don't shoot him!" "Don't shoot, Amamiya-san!" "Let me get a good shot!" "Stop it, Amamiya!" "You can't kill that guy!" "You can't do whatever you please!" "You know the regulations!" "Are you sure it's alright?" "Skipping work, hanging out at a place like this." "You're a chief of sorts, aren't you Sasayama-san?" "Yup, of a sort." "It'd be problematic if there was an incident while the chief is hanging out here." "The safety of this New Town depends on you." "Flattering doesn't work with me, Chizuko." "There won't be any incidents." "But there was a series of bizarre murders just recently, wasn't there?" "You know, the kind of stuff you see in TV dramas." "Those kind of extraordinary incidents only happen on TV... got it?" "Is that so?" "That is so." "Plus, in an emergency like this, TV stations are restricting themselves from reporting murders." "The police and criminals have no choice but to restrict themselves, too." "How come?" "How come?" "'Cause the Showa era might be coming to an end, that's why." "Amamiya Kazuhiko." "Let's talk about him." "Stop it, Amamiya what're you thinking!" "?" "You fool!" "Amamiya!" "Amamiya!" "You run fast, don't you?" "Chizuko..." "Bang!" "For real?" "Aren't the comics you're reading in pretty bad taste?" "You know, when you're a police chief, you need to study youth subcultures so that you can prevent delinquency." "How about regulating those kinds of comics?" "Kids who read those end up killing people and stuff, don't they?" "But there's such a thing as freedom of expression, you know." "It's true, when we were kids comics weren't like this, were they?" "They gave us dreams and stuff." "Are we gonna talk about Kazuhiko Amamiya?" "And not Shinji Nishizono?" "Doesn't matter who." "Just like blowing away cherry blossom petals." "Like blowing away cherry blossom petals." "Let's talk about the truth." "Why did you kill her?" "She wasn't pregnant at all." "There was nothing in her stomach." "There was nothing in her shit, either." "Don't you think it was an imaginary preg..." "Don't be so mad, Mr. Detective." "You'd better tell me." "About what?" "Don't feign ignorance!" "Why'd you kill pregnant women and take away their embryos?" "And I was sure this was what you were talking about." "This is a sacred sign of the ones chosen by Lucy Monostone." "You've got one, too, don't you?" "I know we're of the same kind." "The same kind?" "You'd have killed her if I didn't." "Mr. Barcode of the same kind." "I'm not!" "I'm gonna kill you." "Can you kill me?" "Sure, I can, Shinji Nishizono." "Try and kill me, Kazuhiko Amamiya!" "Hello?" "Hello?" "I see you can do it." "Hello?" "Oh it's me, I'm about to die." "What?" "Who are you?" "Die." "I'll kill you and disappear myself." "Don't worry, I'll hush up this case." "Alright, Amamiya?" "Amamiya?" "Who on earth is Amamiya?" "I'm not Amamiya." "Who am I?" "You're Kobayashi." "Yosuke Kobayashi." "Could it be you returned to being Yosuke Kobayashi?" "I've got a great shot of the very moment Kazuhiko Amamiya killed Shinji Nishizono." "The Return of the Multiple Personality Detective Kazuhiko Amamiya" "The Memory of a Sin and Floating Flowers" "Ah!" "Here he comes." " Hello!" "Oh, you're back again already, Sasayama-san." "Hey, don't say it like that, it hurts." "You're the only friend I've got in this town, so don't be so cold with me." "So dramatic." "I'm not being dramatic." "I was a career guy of sorts and now I've been transferred to be the chief in a burb like this." "The only person I know around here is you, my ex subordinate." "I'm not the kind to make many friends to begin with." "So be nice to me." "He's right, be nice." " Thanks." "Plus, being friendly with the state authority could be advantageous in many ways." "How?" "Well, for instance to have them escort us when we need to make a fast delivery." "Ah, so I wouldn't have to get wet on a rainy day like this." "I know you don't like rain." "Yeah, I'd be happy to help you in any way you like." "'Cause we're friends, right?" "Yeah, we're friends." "But you two are really close with each other." "He's my precious husband." "Newly weds..." "It was an arranged marriage, wasn't it?" "Oh, let me tell you something in case you didn't know." "With an arranged marriage, the romance starts after the wedding." "Right?" "Did you know?" "I didn't have the slightest idea!" "It's murder!" "Give me the change next time." "Excuse us!" "The crime scene investigation is going on the body of the second female victim was found here at..." " For Real?" " So I'm on TV?" " I knew this was a live broadcast!" "Misuzu!" "I'm first." " So I look pretty on TV?" "What?" "I look fat?" "What's that?" "Has the battery run out?" "Let me see it, too!" "No, no!" "You can't!" "Another body's been found!" "What!" "?" "I see, so you wanna be a flower said the man." "Why did the guys from the metropolitan police have to come out?" "You're asking the wrong person." "First, Officer Manabe who performed the autopsy will report on the condition of the corpses." "Now, let us deliver the report." "I'm in your way, so I'll leave the rest to you." "Yes, sir." "Well, the victim's skull was cut off with a sharp knife, like this." "It left the brain exposed, with a beautiful flower growing in it." "Officer!" "What on earth is that!" "?" "Well, this is a full scratch figure." "The prototype was made with pound..." "ah, pound means fine paper clay." "That wasn't my question!" "Well, well, I apologize." "He's a so-called mania." "Aaghh!" "You just called me a mania!" "A mania... that's a prejudicial term!" "It's a decent art today, the figure making!" "So what if it's art you big fool!" "I sincerely apologize." "Isono..." "Machi." "Why did you return?" "What are you scheming this time?" "So Amamiya's been married." "His new girl looks like his ex, doesn't she?" "What's her name?" "Chizuko." "Hmm, the same name, too." "So how about him?" "Is he aware at all?" "Doesn't remember a thing." "From the day he found Chizuko's dead body in her Honda and turned into Kazuhiko Amamiya up until the day he killed Shinji Nishizono and returned to being Yosuke Kobayashi, everything is missing." "He probably doesn't remember you either." "I'm sorry." "That's fine." "I have no intention of discussing the good old days with him." "You mean to say you were never attracted to him as a man?" "I am, and always have been, only interested in his ability as a profiler." "Machi..." "Could it be..." "Yes, Shinji Nishizono is at work again." "That's a lie." "I wouldn't come all the way out here to tell you a lie." "I know you're aware of it too." "Stop it!" "Don't go near him." "If you go near Yosuke Kobayashi I'll kill you" "Ooh, I'm scared." "He's my best friend." "I want him to find happiness this time around." "So stay out of his way." "His happiness is none of my business." "I just need him." "His skills, that is." "Machi Isono, Isono Crime Research Center" "I'm opening business here." "Isono Crime Research Center?" "See you around." "Wait, Machi!" "What are you planning to do?" "Machi!" "Hello, the Station." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Is this a prank call?" "It's not a prank call." "Who is it?" "I'll tell you just one thing." "Don't answer the call that's coming in next." "What?" "Who are you?" "Yosuke..." "It must be Yosuke." "Hello, Yosuke?" "I can hear the singing voice of Lucy Monostone." "It's transferring Shinji Nishizono to someone" "Let's talk about Kazuhiko Amamiya." "So what did you wanna talk about?" "A gardener dug up a flower bed trying to change flowers on the island of a flower clock." "There he found a human flowerpot, and a woman's body was dug up." "Please stop it!" "I can't deal with dead bodies and stuff." "That's why I left the police." "Oh, that's true." "I'm sorry." "Anyway, I wonder why they'd leave it in a place so noticeable by passers-by?" "Hi!" "Welcome." "Don't be so open about your business, Toguchi." "Don't worry, we strictly observe the laws at this store... blah blah." "Here's the tape of the incident from the other day." "We can exchange it with this." "It's got it all, that stuff you're looking for." "To go?" "Or to stay?" "You know I can't take it home, you fool." "Sasayama-san, you look like a different person every time you show up." "Is everything alright?" "I don't want any sympathy from you." "I knew he'd be here too, Lucy Monostone." "OK, come over here." "Quick." "When I stand in front of the camera, press this button." "Roll it." "Really even I can't believe that the piece over there is my work." "It was there before I knew it." "I have no recollection of having made that thing." "But while I am recognized as an architect and I conform to authority perhaps my other self desired this in my heart." "Because I'm also a follower of Lucy Monostone's philosophy." "One of the flower children, so to speak." "It's a strange woman." "Let her in." "Please come in!" "I don't know why, but women come here to become flowers." "Nice to meet you." "Another tooth gone." "Can I keep the tooth?" "Do as you like." "I relax for just a second and I get this." "The race called the artiste is an extinct primate obsessed with the development of a self-portrait." "You gonna make her a flower?" "After I do you." "You're a funny thing." "Why don't you run?" "Do you want to become a flower, too?" "Isono Crime Research Center" "What are you plotting this time?" "Continuing the investigation of the pregnant women murders by the man with a barcode in his left eye." "Quit it already." "The case is closed." "It's not." "You saw how those high ranking men lined up for a hearing." "They're still on the case up there." "It's not necessarily the same case." "To begin with, it's the victims who had barcodes this time, not the offender." "It means the killers and the killed are of the same kind." "Something is about to begin among them." "Anyway, I never expected you to visit." "I wanted to ask you something." "What?" "Where is Chizuko Kobayashi?" "What're you talkin' about?" "It's you, isn't it?" "Hide Chizuko and shock the personality of Kazuhiko Amamiya into awakening." "Something you'd think of." "'Cause he went out of his mind since that day." "Out of his mind is not a nice thing to say." "Yosuke!" "How come you're here?" "Summoned." "Or threatened is more like it." "Asked to cooperate if I wanted to get Chizuko back." "I knew it Machi, it was you who plotted this!" "No, it isn't." "Sasayama-san." "What isn't?" " Shinji Nishizono?" "Yosuke do you have any idea what you're talking about?" "Shinji Nishizono is one of the personalities that emerged along with Kazuhiko Amamiya when Yosuke Kobayashi first suffered the multiple personality disorder." "Shinji Nishizono departed from Yosuke Kobayashi's physical body transferred its personality to the barcode carriers, and committed a series of murders." "The only one who know about this are you, Ms. Machi Kazuhiko Amamiya, and myself." "You thought you were Yosuke Kobayashi." "Since when?" "All along." "Since the time the first Chizuko was killed and Yosuke Kobayashi disappeared I stayed as Kazuhiko Amamiya." "I'll kill you and disappear myself." "Shinji Nishizono, by transferring himself into a barcode carrier releases the potential of the carrier as a killer and merges himself with the carrier at the same time." "What?" "Shinji Nishizono, by transferring himself into a barcode carrier releases the potential of the carrier as a killer and merges himself with the carrier at the same time." "Sounds like being possessed." "The same theory." "That's why there's been only five cases reported of multiple personality disorders including Amamiya." "In the field of cultural psychiatric medicine, it's been categorized as possession." "So it's being possessed by Nishizono instead of being possessed by the fox spirit." "Anyway, although the superficial phenomenon is hallucination the personality of Shinji Nishizono actually exists." "It's not something a psychiatrist would want to admit but it's a fact that a personality translated into a program transfers itself." "So, if the killers have Shinji Nishizono's personality transferred in them no matter how much profiling we do don't we end up with Nishizono after all?" "No." "Nishizono's personality is merely a key that unlocks the will to kill within the barcode carriers." "Nishizono's personality merges with them, but the actual murder is done according to the barcode carriers' own desires." "We should look at it as the carriers doing what they want, encouraged by Nishizono." "What is it?" "That flower is the same as those in the flower clock." "Don't say such a creepy thing." "Seika Univ..." "Here's the university." "The botanical garden." "The library." "Nothing in common." "I don't get it." "Why plant human flowerpots in such places?" "Sasayama-san, trace the border of the New Town." "How come?" "Just do it." "This is the map of a college town in the suburb of Salt Lake." "I saw it on the net, on the Lucy Monostone web site." "Lucy Monostone?" "Haven't heard that name in a while." "A failed rock musician who turned terrorist in the 60's." "This is the town where Lucy pulled off his first bombing." "At first he planted flowers in places which symbolized authority, and he called them flower bombs." "Later he employed a warfare policy and used a real bomb for the first time in this town." "How 'bout that!" "So when the drawing is turned around, this town and our New Town have the same shape." "The bombing locations and the flower locations overlap." "In Salt Lake, two more places were bombed:" "the police dept." "And the aquarium." "Huh?" "What?" "So, there are human flowerpots at our station, too?" "We'll look for them later." "This means the killer is someone who built this town." "So that means the Mayor?" "No, no, not the Mayor." "Don't say it just yet, Amamiya." "Let me do a quick profile." "Ishihara, isn't it?" "No, the one before him..." "It's Aoshima!" "No." "It's the architect." "The offender used this town to copycat Lucy Monostone's bombings." "It's no exaggeration to say he created this town because he so identified himself with Lucy." "Then why didn't he use real bombs himself?" "That's because this town is also his creation and he couldn't bear to destroy it." "The suspect is Tatsuya Ueno, 34." "6 years ago, at the young age of 28, he got involved in the general planning of this town." "Most of the main buildings in this town were planned by him." "That's all." "Alright... we'll get a warrant for his arrest." "Sasayama-san, that was great!" "Sasayama-san!" "Well-done, as expected." "Thank you, sir." "That was excellent profiling, just like Yosuke Kobayashi would do." "Yes..." "Looks like I've done it again." "I'm sorry." "You gotta run or Shinji Nishizono will come to kill you." "Who's that?" "The person who planted and grew the flowers." "It's me who did it." "It's my art." "It's Shinji Nishizono who makes you do it." "You know that, too." "I don't know anyone by that name." "I don't." "You see." "There he is." "Ah, beautiful!" "You don't have to plant the seeds to grow them." "Everyone becomes a flower and dies." "You seem to be the same kind as me." "I thought I could always run." "But you can't, looking like that." "Run... onto the net." "What?" "Thank you." "Where am I?" "What?" "What happened to me?" "You won't survive anyway, so I'll put you all to sleep." "Seven burned bodies with flowers stuck in their heads were found." "One was a male body whose fingerprints matched those of Tatsuya Ueno." "But Chizuko is alive." "There were no matching teeth." "So what are you gonna do now?" "I'll look for Chizuko." "Yeah, I guess that's the thing to do." "She was pregnant." "I see." "Hey, Amamiya, I was thinking..." "Machi has asked me to help her research center." "How about returning?" "Become a detective again with my precinct." "I'm no longer Yosuke Kobayashi." "That's alright." "Kazuhiko Amamiya or whatever." "Let's work together." "Come back." "Hey aren't we best friends?" "Thanks, but I've already decided." "from:" "Yoko Yamamoto" "I'm home." "Where's mom?" "Enter." "What a surprise, it's been a long time." "You look well." "What did you want to see me for?" "Toru..." "I'll... be sentenced to death tomorrow." "What, there are different kinds of final sentences." "You've got many capable humanitarian lawyers working for you too." "Doesn't matter now." "There's just one favor I'd like to ask you." "What is it?" "So formal..." "I want you to look for this child." "Sis, you mean you have..." "Fool!" "It's not mine." "I see... you threw me off." "Don't scare me." "27 years ago..." "It's the child of one of our comrades that we killed during the incident." "Remember a comrade of mine, a girl named Lucy?" "Yeah... the Lucy Monostone fan that strange girl who called herself Lucy." "Yeah..." "Lucy cut open the stomach of the comrade we killed and took out the baby." "Sis, it's not cool to talk about it here." "I don't care 'cause I'm gonna be sentenced to death tomorrow." "This is the mark you wanna look for." "The child had the same mark as this one." "When you find the child kill him without hesitation." "What're you saying?" "Kill it." "If you don't, the whole world's gonna change." "Wasn't a revolution your dream?" "To change the world..." "I think we probably made a mistake." "Sis..." "Kill it." "Yes..." "Yes..." "Chizuru has a fever." "Yes..." "I'd like her mother to come right away and..." "Shinji Nishizono is coming." "Hello?" "Hell..." "It's good music." "What?" "What?" "I don't want to listen..." "Now let's go." "Special school for gifted infants" "Hello?" "We've got to stop Shinji Nishizono this time." "Miyo!" "Let's go!" "Yeah, coming!" "Kazuhiko Amamiya..." "Let's talk about him." "I'm waiting for the day I pick the flowers that will grow on earth 100 million years from now." "The Return of the Multiple Personality Detective Kazuhiko Amamiya" "Let's talk about Kazuhiko Amamiya." "How to Produce the World" "It feels like there's someone other than myself in my body." "Man, that's cruel for the zebra." "Busy." "Your wife's heart is about to stop." "Talking so long on the phone." "I told her to get call waiting." "Thank you." "It's stopping in 20 seconds." "I hope someone will pick them up." "Is this yours?" "Mister." "Huh?" "Don't you want photos of real dead bodies?" "Hey, if life is a dream what would happen if you woke up from it?" "Don't know." "Repeat a new dream, I guess?" "Why don't you answer it?" "Give me real stuff." "What?" "Photos of real dead bodies." "You've got lots, don't you?" "Toguchi Kikuo." "Ain't I famous." "Hey, Toguchi it seems this girl carries a baby in her." "I see." "Be careful not to be killed and have it taken away." "Case of serial murder of pregnant women..." "Maru." "Well, well, thank you for waiting." "Ah-ah, testing the mic, ah-ah." "Well, there's a report I'd like to make." "Yosuke Kobayashi, formerly of the 11th Section of the 1st Dept of the Metropolitan Police, has returned." "We are happy to announce his new position in my precinct." "I didn't hear anything about this!" "Now good boys will be quiet." "Well then, we'll start the investigation conference on the return of the serial murders of pregnant women." "Well, as you know, the first serial murders of pregnant women occurred 27 years ago the second 5 years ago, and we're in the third season, so to speak." "The murder method is exactly the same as in the previous cases." "By the way, this is the latest figure created by Officer Manabe, who performed the autopsy." "Officer Manabe, you really got the details down." "Nice work, Officer Manabe." "Can you appreciate it too, Sasayama-san?" "I came up with a special design for the detachable parts for this one." "Officer Manabe!" "Please refrain from any private talk." "Yes." "Well, the killer only targets women about to deliver." "The method is consistent." "First he makes the victim bleed to death then slits her abdomen open with a sharp knife takes the baby out and steals it." "Like this." "Wow..." "You sure got the details down." "I can see why you had a hard time deciding where to work, Kaiyo-do or the police." "Yes." "Another thing in common, he leaves the telephone buried in the victim's stomach." "This aspect has been concealed from the media altogether." "This indicates..." "The killer is not a copycat of the previous cases but is one and the same person or someone who was involved with the previous cases in some way." "The killer cuts out the abdomen without damaging the womb." "This indicates the killer is someone who works in the medical field or a medical student, or someone with the equivalent knowledge, highly intelligent." "In addition, nothing in the house gets touched." "The victims are in no way related, except one thing, that they were pregnant." "Therefore, it seems logical to conclude that the killer has a death fetish for pregnant women!" "However, we have found no material evidence at the sites to help build the killer's profile." "Yes, that's so." "Hence, or because of where we're at we need a brain which is more or less equally matched with the killer's." "That is, we need to do more thorough profiling in order to narrow down the killer's identity." "I'd like to incorporate it in this investigation." "This is a rather common investigation method used by FBI and so on and although at one time 5 years ago we had employed a psychological analyst the practise had been suspended for a particular reason." "Because the psychological analyst committed murder." "Excuse me sir but the case was reported as an accidental firearm discharge." "Wasn't it you who filed that report?" "Excuse me sir but I believe that without the help of high level profiling we won't be able to solve this case." "So is that the reason why you hired Kobayashi again without our permission?" "Well, to be completely frank, it is." "This is so like you, the most eloquent one in our class." "Still, whatever the reason I don't agree with hiring a profiler who's caused trouble in the past." "Listen please!" "Both of the victims carried a barcode in their left eyes." "5 years ago, Shinji Nishizono also carried a barcode and there were barcodes with the recent flower murder case." "Shu-u-ut u-u-up!" "That's enough." "Do as you like." "Thank you so much." "I, Toru Sasayama, who used to be a career officer, shall be held accountable for everything." "If by chance Yosuke Kobayashi ever gets into any kind of trouble please go ahead and transfer me to a deserted island or whatever." "Well, I advise you to at least take care so that his illness doesn't reoccur." "Please don't worry about that." "He's no longer Yosuke Kobayashi." "What?" "What do you mean, he's no longer Yosuke Kobayashi?" "It was a slip of the tongue." "Now..." "The man who returned, Yosuke Kobayashi!" "Please proceed to the stage!" "Huh?" "Kobayashi?" "My colleagues gave you a hard time, didn't they?" "This feels good." "Like being a rain tree." "Talking gibberish again." "I heard you returned to working with the police dept." "Sasayama-san summons me, and he announces it in front of everyone." "Oh, the order." "I got an official one at last." "It's a problem." "You can't just steal my employee." "Well it's Yosuke Kobayashi, a former police dept profiler, who returned to the police dept." "You hired detective Kazuhiko Amamiya, the other personality." "What selfish reasoning!" "But Machi you see how it can be advantageous to look for Chizuko this way." "The high ranking officials decided that rather than having Yosuke Kobayashi snoop around as a civilian they'd have him work under their control." "That's why they issued unprecedented permission to have him back." "Just the kind of idea career people would come up with." "Yeah." "Hey Amamiya before you get involved in this case, will you promise me one thing?" "Officer Yosuke Kobayashi will only need to loosely obey the orders from me who's got a joke-like career and is the chief of the precinct." "But as Kazuhiko Amamiya I want you to put your trust in me, man to man." "You're always so dramatic." "Shut up!" "I'm not talkin' to ya!" "Hey will you trust me no matter what happens from this point on?" "Yeah..." "I will trust you, Sasayama-san." "Alright!" "You're as nice a guy as Yosuke Kobayashi!" "So you're gonna trust me." "You're such a dork." "What!" "Teacher, good bye!" "Yes, goodbye." "Be safe." "What did you do today?" "Um, we sang a song in English!" "What's the matter?" "Don't cry." "What're you afraid of?" "Your life has just begun." "Teacher will teach you many wonderful things from now on." "You're going to be special kind of people!" "That's our goal... the goal of the Faxons." "You're our precious, chosen children." "The genes of Lucy Monostone buried inside you will show you the way." "Toru Sasayama, and Masako and Shota" "Hi, Mr. Sasayama." " Good evening." "Hi, Mr. Sasayama." " How are you?" "Fine, thanks." "It's me." "Yiippee!" "Hello!" "You're home early!" "I'm glad." "Looks like I came too late." "Who're you?" "Guess it's alright." "I'm taking the baby." "How come?" "How come?" "'Cause you're not worthy of this child." "You aren't able to draw out its infinite potential." "I've no idea what you're talkin' 'bout." "Give it back." "It's mine." "I gave birth to it." "I gave birth to it." "Mother... that's only the name of an organ that produces babies." "Once the baby's out, its existence is worthless." "Don't be so smug just 'cause you gave birth." "What, just 'cause the baby's taken away." "Big deal!" "Before long, we wouldn't know what to do with it either." "But I became a mom." "It's my baby." "Is that where the woman who stole your baby is?" "Yeah." "I saw someone who looked like her going in there so I have her being checked out by a friend." "Who?" "Do you want me to steal it back from her?" "What?" "You won't be able to." "Sure, I can." "It's a piece of cake." "All I've got to do is scare her a bit." "It isn't possible." "That woman really isn't normal." "Why're you so afraid of her?" "Just a kindergarten teacher, isn't she?" "I'm not normal, either." "Because she's different." "She really is different from others." "Hey, what's the matter?" "I still bleed sometimes." "Are you alright, Kaori?" "What's with that?" "The cell phone seems to be ringing." "Hey, she says the baby is over there." "Who's saying that?" "Don't know." "Don't know." "What'd you mean you don't know?" "It feels like there's another me inside myself." "I'm no longer myself." "Toguchi, how's business!" "You seem to be in heaven, surrounded by these videos of dead bodies!" "Welcome." "How 'bout some classics for all ages?" "Such a white lie." "You, a snuff video dealer." "It isn't illegal to watch videos of murder, is it?" "People have the right to know, you know." "Anyway, these are fake." "Not sure about that." "The rumor is you rent videos of real murder." "What, there's no way we carry things like videos illegally obtained from Sasayama-san." "This and that one over there, they're real, aren't they?" "Aren't you in a bad mood." "Did you have a quarrel with one of your wives?" "What?" "It's known, Sasayama-san, that you've got your main home and an annex." "Are you blackmailing me?" "Come on, it's just a joke." "Oh, would you be interested in this?" "I've got nothing to bargain with today." "It's on the house." "What is it?" "It's a list of pregnant women with the barcodes." "A list of pregnant women with the barcodes?" "Toguchi, where on earth did you get this from?" "When I hacked into the police dept's computer, this was floating around." "Sasayama-san, I bet you're becoming aware by now we're all controlled by somebody." "What are you doing?" "This place will be the investigation headquarters for us starting today." "And you Manabe..." "Yes." "Let's see, grab a desk from over there somewhere." "Oh, this is a gift for you." "My latest piece." "For your space." "Oh, thanks." "Now, Manabe, give me a report." "Where's Amamiya?" "Outside in the rain." "Let him do what he wants." "It's OK, just begin, Manabe." "Uh, yes." "Since we have no evidence to work with, I've looked into the weapon once again." "A kitchen knife is something every home has, but with every case the knife seems real sharp, like for professional use." "I guess it's logical 'cause with a dull knife it would require more effort he embryo could be damaged." "But I couldn't look over this fact." "So, I began looking into it, and..." "So?" "What have you come up with?" "Surprisingly, the victims had all purchased the knives themselves the day before murder." "I confirmed it with the receipts and the store clerks." "Does that mean the victims went out and bought the weapons used for their own murder?" "Yeah, it does." "This is the same one." "Yeah." "Who's he?" "Her husband." "So when you called from outside, the phone was busy?" "It's the same again!" "Do you remember seeing this?" "I don't really know." "We found the receipt for the knife." "From yesterday, isn't it?" "Yeah... it was purchased from a supermarket in the neighborhood." "Chizuko..." "Hey, what'd you find?" "I remembered seeing something similar." "It's just like the incident from 5 year ago." "Was this too stimulating for you?" "Not to worry." "That's Yosuke Kobayashi's memory, not mine." "I'm indexing the memory of Yosuke Kobayashi right now." "Indexing?" "Shall I re-dial?" "Hey stop, that's an important piece of evidence." "Hello." "Who's this?" "What, you haven't got it yet?" "Don't act like you don't know, Amamiya, dude." "You know it's me, don't you?" "Shinji Nishizono, isn't it?" "Bingo." "You win the prize, we'll bring Yosuke Kobayashi's lover back from the dead!" "By the way, would Kazuhiko Amamiya want Chizuko back?" "Stop joking, Shinji!" "That's right, I'm joking." "Anyway, it's been a while, hasn't it, Kazuhiko Amamiya?" "Last time was when you killed me back then." "Where are you?" "Don't know." "So the killer is Shinji Nishizono, is he?" "No, the killer is the victim herself." "What?" "What?" "The victim cuts her own stomach open and takes out the child." "This woman was holding the brand new knife in her hand, wasn't she?" "I thought it was a diversion by the killer up to now, but it seems I was wrong." "Wrong about what?" "The victim fell in a kind of state of hypnosis and committed the crime." "She cut up her own stomach and took out the child." "How?" "How did the victim fall in a state of hypnosis?" "It's Shinji Nishizono." "He transferred himself into the victim over the telephone line." "He can transfer himself into certain people over the net or by physical contact." "Who can he do this to?" "People who have these." "All victims had a barcode in their left eye." "I suspect this has something to do with his transfer." "It must have hurt." "Not sure." "The victims weren't in a normal mental state." "They cut their own stomach open, take out the baby, then slit their own wrist." "Before they die, they make a phone call somewhere." "For instance, the number I re-dialed is one." "He transfers himself to whoever answers, then some associate comes to pick it up." "Why go through such a complicated process?" "It's a ritual." "Or perhaps they don't want a case for murder legally established." "It's a challenge to the order protected by the law." "Who are they?" "Somebody." "Something's fishy." "But there's one question I have." "Is Shinji Nishizono a doctor or something?" "'Cause the way he handles knives, I can't believe it's a lay person!" "If Shinji Nishizono were..." "I don't think it matters." "He's just smart." "Hey, I won't let you tape it!" "Why are you hiding it?" "I'm not hiding it." "Didn't I give you a list to work with?" "If you checked the list, you'd have noticed there are victims who aren't on the list and didn't have barcodes." "So why are you hiding it from Machi and Amamiya?" "Didn't think it was necessary to tell them." "You wanna make Shinji Nishizono a baddie." "He is a bad person." "Sasayama-san, we've traced the number that was dialed on the cell phone!" "It's an infants' school in Hiratsuka-cho!" "Guys, let's go!" "Does this hurt?" "Feels like you're dying, right?" "Good timing." "Good timing to have a barcode carrier here." "It's in the back room." "What?" "Which one is my baby?" "I can't tell." "My baby was in my stomach." "And I can't tell which one." "It's this one." "Really?" "It's true." "Is it really the one?" "Go." "And you, Ghee?" "I've got one more thing to take care of." "Do as I say, or I'll kill you!" "Go... go out the back door." "Then call me later... promise." "Thanks, Ghee!" "Who are you?" "I'm someone who was inside you until a moment ago." "What?" "Sorry but I want you to die." "Die?" "Me?" "You have an idea, don't you?" "Someone in your head ordered you to steal babies from the dead bodies of pregnant women and not only that, you also killed several pregnant women yourself." "There were some victims who didn't carry a barcode." "You followed that high school girl wanting to kill her." "Then she gave birth to a baby in the restroom, and you had no choice but to steal it." "Isn't that right?" "No, it isn't." "Someone inside me said I could kill more." "That's an excuse." "You wanted to do it." "No!" "No!" "Don't move!" "Police!" "This must be the offender." "Looks dead but call the ambulance anyway." "Yes, sir!" "Sasayama-san, there are babies in the back!" "Must be the victims' babies." "Seems like Chizuko's not here." "What 'bout over there?" "No one here." "I'm sorry." "We lost him." "But how come she cut open the stomach to steal babies?" "Makes more sense to abduct them after they're born." "A denial of maternity." "What?" "A refusal to be born through the mother's tube." "It could be an expression of such a will." "What is it?" "Profiling Shinji Nishizono?" "No, it's not." "Such a good baby." "It's your mom." "We meet at last." "Thanks to Ghee." "But isn't he late." "I've been waiting for three hours now." "Who are you!" "?" "You got that baby by mistake." "It's not your baby." "You see, your baby hasn't got this." "'Cause you're an ordinary girl." "You'll die without pain." "Am I going to die?" "I've gotta make a call." "I've..." "I've got to get out of this body." "Let's talk about Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Translated by Ann Jiitsu" "There goes Ms. Manami Fujiki and the members of the Bible Study Group." "Stunning!" "There sure is an aura of the chosen around her." "Man is born from woman." "His life is short and there is constant sorrow." "Man comes out like a flower, then wilts away." "He fades away like a shadow and never lives forever." "Lord, hide me in your wings." "Until your anger ceases, cover me and determines the time when you will awaken me." "Once a man dies, he no longer has to live." "Call me and I will answer." "I am the alpha and the omega." "Shucks!" "I was quite comfortable in this girl's body." "But Manami-chan went over the edge out of the blue." "I hate her." "Now I can escape into the head." "Bye-bye Rena." "Fortunate is the woman who is given the right for the Tree of Life." "May the blessings of Lord prevail in all." "I am the alpha and the omega." "I can see all the dreams of the world." "Children with red bar codes are popping up." "Why?" "Will the world be filled with people with bar codes in the end?" "[Episode #3" " A life is always wrapped in the double spiral structure]" "[Lnvestigation Headquarters for a Series of Random Shootings in High Schools]" "I'm Pan!" "I'm Tee!" " We're the Pan-Tees!" "We're coming to the end of the year, and here we are with another murder case." "Yes." "How come some humans have to kill others in order to live, Manabe-kun?" "You sound so profound, Sasayama-san." "It's not like you." "'Cause I was planning to spend some quality time with my family this Christmas." "I'd secured a day off on the 24th, you see." "With which wife of yours?" "With little Mami." "Little Mami?" "Well, I've had zero day off for exactly 365 days since Christmas last year." "I've gotta get into philosophy or something or I'd go crazy." "My graduation thesis was on Espinoza." "I wish the world were the literature." "Backing up, backing up, backing up." "Back up, pack up, black out?" "We're relaxed just as men should." "Stankovich." "Stoicovich?" "Stankovich." "Stankovich." "Stoicovich." "Stoicovich." "Diarrhea, a little bitch." "A little bitch." "So, did you say 40 female high school students got killed?" "No, it was 39." "The last one just fainted when she saw her friends shot." "Well, even you couldn't have possibly made 40 figures." "39, I said." "OK, OK." "So, today we've collected 39 fashion dolls and recreated the crime scene in georama." "It's in georama!" "Ta-dah!" "St. John Girls High is a boarding school." "Only few people have actually seen their uniform which has become a legend among fetish uniform collectors." "Collectors, you said?" "Yes." "It's a uniform highly praised among them." "It's sold at a very high price at used schoolgirl uniform shops and treated like the rarest of treasure." "Since they sell fashion dolls wearing the uniform... it was easier to put the scene together than I had expected." "Look at this, they even reconstructed the underwear faithfully according to the school's specifications." "Jerk!" "Underwear isn't only for the lower body." "There's one forthe upper body, too." "Should I show you the upper one?" "The luxurious bras." "OK, here we go." "Manabe-kun seems to live in a far away place different from mine." "There's been so many brats who commit group suicides and random shootings recently." "I guess Japan's becoming more Americanized." "There's a report that shows our current crime rate is that of America 10 years ago." "The brats today are a problem." "They sit on the ground wherever they can." "I even saw them lying on the ground the other day." "It was like unreal." "I wonder if the students who died carried bar codes on them?" "Huh?" "Yeah, they add up to 40%% % of all victims so far." "Hey, but don't you think there are a little too many bar code carriers?" "Let's see, perhaps there are." "When the incident happened 5 years ago, the only bar code carriers were the killer that Shinji Nishizono transferred himself into and Amamiya." "But this time there are dead bodies carrying bar codes piling up everywhere." "It may be infectious." "The bar codes are infectious?" "What do you mean, Machi?" "Someone's trying to fill the world with bar code children." "Just like the dandelion fuzz carried by the wind." "This is the first cup of coffee ever that a guy made for me." "I work here as an assistant." "Equal rights, I see." "That's commendable." "I want a cup of coffee, too." "Amamiya-kun, take a look." "These here are the genes of the students when they entered their schools these are of the kids with bar codes at their deaths." "They've altered." "What?" "Do genes ever change?" "Sure they do." "Like when one receives genetic engineering." "So, is it with all the dead students?" "What about the possibility of contamination like you said a minute ago?" "There is." "In the same way the Clio disease spreads." "What?" "The Clio disease was originally considered to be genetic but it turns out it's an infection." "It directly alters the gene to express itself." "I'm getting more confused." "So the bar codes can be infectious." "Though I don't know how it works." "But it would be more effective than to operate on them one by one." "If their purpose is to increase the number of bar code carriers, that is." "Hey, wait a minute." "Do you have a question?" "Well, before asking my question, how come you have the data of the unaltered genes of all the dead lasses?" "Now that's a good point." "The government has been sampling the DNA of every newborn baby during the mandatory infant health exam forthe past 25 years." "Can't be." "It's true." "I hacked into the computer of the Ministry of Health and got this information." "This is your child's data." "There's no genetic damage." "So, the reason she refuses to go to school lies somewhere else." "That's none of your business." "Excuse me." "That's alright." "I feel relieved, too." "By the way, Machi, if this data is connected to the bill of citizen numbering system that passed the parliament the other day, wouldn't that be dangerous?" "That's right." "The government plans to control the information of the individuals by sampling their DNA." "The bill was passed to consummate the plan." "That's an infringement." "What rights does the government think it has?" "People like to be controlled by the government." "The power that be never overlooks the opportunity." "Quite amazing." "To see our school that had been completely ruined by the constitutions forced upon us by America and the postwar democracy restore itself to this level." "The ability innate to the Japanese race is simply expressing itself in our students." "But you are the one who awakened the Japanese spirit in them as a student counselor." "To be honest with you, I hadn't expected any result when I learned the Ministry of Education was going to send a student counselor to every school in the nation." "I'm a female counselor, on top of that." "Frankly, that's what I thought." "It may be wrong to say this as the principal but I'd thought this Sosei School had been ruined." "It's not just with this school." "Yes." "The shared view among working teachers is that the so-called school disintegration is no longer confined to the elementary school level but has spread tojunior high and high schools." "Our students didn't attend classes." "And when they did they either weren't listening to the teacher or made loud noises and distracted the class." "Some smoked boldly in front of teachers and some would even come to school drunk." "It's embarrassing to admit there was even a female student caught in the act of prostitution and got detained." "One teacher confronted such a student and the student attacked him." "He got so badly injured that he had to be hospitalized." "You have my sympathy." "It didn't seem like each incident was a problem on its own." "I couldn't help but to feel that the foundation of this nation itself had been destroyed." "It seemed like the Japanese spirit had been destroyed." "At least here at our Sosei School order has been restored with your efforts." "Students have aspirations forthe future, they study hard and their average scores on the national level has improved." "Thank you, Ms. Moriizumi." "Please forgive my initial prejudice and misunderstanding." "I didn't really do anything." "It was the Japanese spirit in the students themselves that chose the new order." "They're the new generation of Japan fit forthe new millennium." "Excuse me." "Principal, Mr. Miyanai of the Education Committee is here." "Oh, I'll be right there." "Thanks for your continuing work with us, Ms. Moriizumi." "Please leave it to me." "What the hell are you doing?" "Computer isn't easy foryour generation, is it?" "Shall I make some coffee for you?" " No thanks." "But Manabe, did you know this?" "The common thread has been found of the schools where the incidents happened at." "They all have a budget for research allocated by the Ministry of Education, don't they?" "How did you know that?" "The youths of today know how to hack into other computers." "Please, can you move over?" "Now, Sasayama-san, did you know this one?" "Hey..." "What the heck's that?" "It's called the Simulation Project of P-Net Citizen Control." "What does that mean?" "I don't know." "But that's the name under which the funds are distributed to all the schools." "It sure is." "That means something could still happen at any one of the schools that's received funding." "They may well be." "But there's no information available on what this project is about." "Shall we visit the schools and find out?" "We can't." "Without any case and without the school's request we can't just go on campus and carry out investigation." "Ah!" "I've got a plan." "What kind of a plan is this?" "Excuse me." "I'm Yosuke Kobayashi." "Nice to meet you." "You'll be substituting forthe teacher on maternity leave, so it'll be a short engagement." "But I count on you to do your best." "Yes." "This is our school counselor Ms. Moriizumi." "Oh, I'm Yosuke Kobayashi." "Glad to meet you." "The pleasure's mine." "Welcome to our school Teacher Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Now, let me explain about the nonrestrictive usage of relative pronouns." "She went to Hokkaido where she enjoyed skiing." "She went to Hokkaido and enjoyed skiing." "As in this example, with the restrictive usage of a relative pronoun, we can translate the sentence backwards." "On the other hand, the nonrestrictive usage of a relative pronoun..." "Teacher." "Considering the order in which the activities took place, I think the section starting with the word where can be more naturally translated if we think of it as and there." "Further, Teacher, if it can be use a conjunction and an adverb like that..." "I think we could also translate it as if it's two sentences separated at the conjunction." "Um, yes, you're right." "Teacher, in case of a longer sentence with a relative pronoun..." "Well, let's continue in the next class." "Mr. Yosuke Kobayashi." "Yes?" "Can I visit your room to ask a question?" "Question?" "I'd like to learn about the grammatical variations according to the social status age or educational history of each character in the novel by Irving." "What?" "I suspect a part of the problem is gender variations, too." "Oh... sure, sure." "I have to teach the 10th grade in the morning so please come to the English Study Room in the afternoon." "I'm usually there when I don't have a class." "I see." "Thank you." "Rise." "Bow." "My goodness." "I've gotta do some work or I won't be able to keep up with them." "How are your classes going, Teacher Kobayashi?" "How'd you expect me to teach on the high school level?" "I've lost a lot of memories to begin with." "It would've helped if you had a personality of an English teacher, too." "Sasayama-san, what on earth are you doing here?" "I've brought lunch for Teacher Kobayashi." "Lunch?" "Here, give me a hand." "It's a meal my wife made with love." "Forthe two of us." "Here, that's yours." "This is mine." "Be thankful." "She's a good cook, so I hardly ever let others touch her precious dishes." "But I'm making an exception 'cause you're a friend of mine." "It looks real good." "I wanted to show you that I do care about your predicaments." "See?" "I appreciate it." "So, have you found anything fishy?" "You can't expect a result so quickly." "I see you're busy with studying." "Listen, I didn't volunteered to..." "Sasayama-san, you'd better get back now." "Huh?" "Hey, your lunch." "What, wait, please eat my wife's work of art." "You said it looks good." "Do you like Irving?" "A student asked me a question about it." "How do you like this school?" "The students' academic standard and enthusiasm both exceed my initial expectation." "I know." "They're truly wonderful students." "I heard you were the one who brought them up to this level." "The principal and everyone who works under him all agree." "Order has been restored at this once-ruined school thanks to your work as a counselor." "I don't deserve that praise." "All I did was to draw out the innate ability within the students." "How?" "What?" "I'm extremely interested as an educator myself." "How enthusiastic." "Is it a bad thing?" "I'm about to conduct a lesson in mass game now." "Would you like to observe it?" "Certainly." "Who's that boy?" "His name is Saku Oye." "He's one of the best students." "Fit to be a leader." "Thank you for taking your time to come." "Don't mention it." "And they are?" "They're the presidents of English study groups from other high schools in this area." "Oh, so you wanted to look at the novel by Irving..." "We can do that later." "To tell you the truth, we'd like you to become our supervisor." "Or our leader, rather." "Thank you!" "Well, uh, I can't be your leader." "I'm only a sub, you know." "We don't care." "I'm sure there's someone else more fit forthe job." "You won't be able to turn us down once you see this, Mr. Kazuhiko Amamiya." "In our left eyes..." "Mr. Kobayashi?" "There you are..." "How dare you stepped over your boundary." "Because it's dangerous foryou to contact Kazuhiko Amamiya on your own that way." "He's your type, isn't he?" "It's not like that." "You're well aware the P-Net Project is going successfully because of us mutants that are in each school." "Take your clothes off." "Take them off." "I don't want to do it here." "I said to take them off." "I'll make you understand." "Hmm." "So there's this student." "Yeah." "The school believes the counselor is leading the students, but that's not true." "Send me the pictures of Moriizumi and the kid." "Sure." "Hmm, so it's female." "Who is?" "Moriizumi." "Yeah." "Is she yourtype?" "Not really." "Hmm..." "I suspect she's someone simply chosen to promote the Project." "Koi Murase." "Mr. Koi Murase, do you know why you're here?" "Not a teeny bit." "You shouldn't talk like that." "Ooh, I love the way you say shouldn't, teacher." "It gives me some kind of butterflies in my pelvis." "Mr. Murase!" "Wow, your angry voice makes me imagine something else." "Please keep talking, Teacher." "Louder, just like when you're doing it with Saku." "Hey, stop it." "What's with you?" "You don't believe in anything this one says." "Acting like a model student, playing the stupid mass game with a grin on your face." "Are you stupid?" "Mr. Oye." "Listen, Mr. Murase." "I want you to tell me if something's bothering you." "That's what the Ministry of Education sent me here for." "That isn't it, Teacher." "Are you here to check up on the progress on the Simulation Project of the P-Net Citizen Control?" "I know all that!" "I..." "Sorry but you're gonna have to die, Teacher Akira Moriizumi." "No, I don't want to die." "Teacher." "You're going to die." "Teacher?" "Sensei!" "Why are you pretending?" "You know who I am." "You're Shinji Nishizono." "There, you've revealed your true identity at last." "I knew you were using this woman to control the rest of the students a long time ago." "What are you talking about?" "Don't pretend ignorant." "I don't want your help, Shinji Nishizono." "Who said I'll help you?" "That's true." "You're the one to bow down to me, Shinji Nishizono." "That's the end of your elegant talk." "I can possess your body just with the touch of my hand." "We can try it if you don't believe me." "Go ahead." "My P-Net receptor mutated suddenly, and it's different from the common one." "It's completely different from the protector stuff Mr. Amamiya has on." "You simply cannot transfer yourself into me." "You want me to believe that?" "I can't transfer myself?" "Die, a relic of the ancient generation." "Oye!" "Stay out of the way if you don't wanna die, Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Don't be so difficult." "Stop it!" "Get out of the way, Kazuhiko Amamiya." "You know he killed your lover." "I know." "Then, get out of the way." "That woman told me not to kill you." "What do you mean?" "Kazuhiko Amamiya to be protected by you." "Die, Shinji Nishizono." "I hit." "Just like a mosquito." "I of the third generation to die." "Of all humans destined to die I thought I was the only unbreakable mutated man." "See ya, Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Catch you later." "It was fun." "See ya, Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Catch you later." "It was fun." "See ya, Kazuhiko Amamiya." "Catch you later." "It was fun." "By the way, let me warn you about something." "Don't trust Machi Isono." "See ya." "Moriizumi also carried a red bar code." "I checked her floppy disc and found out that the P-Net Project seemed successful on the surface but unexpected things were happening." "The third generation bar code carriers mutated suddenly they formed a group and controlled other students." "In short, the Project failed." "But because of them Moriizumi was able to act as if the Project was going well." "That seems to be the truth about it." "The mutant told me to be their leader." "Why?" "I wonder why." "Don't trust Machi Isono." "Don't trust Machi Isono." "Don't trust Machi Isono." "Don't trust Machi Isono." "Amamiya-kun, are you alright?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Though I let Shinji Nishizono go." "Toguchi, I brought this for you." "What's the matter out of the blue?" "It's a lunch my wife made, a taste of home." "It's about to expire." "This is all you need to bring." "And the stuff I asked for?" "Sasayama-san, what's this video about?" "I want you to tell me." "Let's talk about the true Kazuhiko Amamiya."