"You're here." "You have it with you?" "What, are you scared?" "No." "Don't try to do too much." "They're much tougher than the usual bunch." "But we can't escape the situation." "That's..." "That's..." "The Nodate Party!" "It snapped!" "Married women are nice too." "It's the age of married women from now on." "Nodate Party has finally crossed the line." "My image of detectives is changing." "Married women are the best!" "Okay, let's go!" "Huh?" "The fastest fingers to get the e-mail address cell phone game!" "Are you alright?" "I'm unskilled, you see." "Here it comes!" "Who?" "Who?" "Who?" "Yamamura-san." "Yes!" "I'm the man who's got it, Yamamura." "He hasn't been texting 30 years for nothing." "Texted so much, I don't have a thumbprint anymore." "It's like pistachio shell." "My friend." "She wanted me to call her when the party got going." "Good morning." "I'm Yamamura, the man who's got it." "Moreteru (leaking) man?" "No, motteru (got it) man." "What are you doing?" "Did you put this up?" "Oh, how did you..?" "!" "You caught me." "I've got it, after all." "You got to see a different side of me." "The culprit is this pistachio." "Pi.." "Pistachio?" "A rumor's going around." "That someone from the MPD is abusing confidentiality by putting up a blog." "No, no, this is, uh..." "So you're the man who was leaking after all!" "According to this, he arrests a violent criminal by himself every week." "The hero of MPD." "Well, you gotta spice it up a little to move up in the popularity ranking." "Sorry." "Popularity ranking?" "If you like, I'll give you this." "What's this?" "B-ring*?" "(*Marriage consultation agency in "Shiawase ni narou yo")" "I figured it's about time I found happiness too." "Why not give it a try too, Boss?" "It's 841st in the general public blog ranking." "Are you stupid?" "Delete it immediately." "Yes." "Seriously...841st." "What's No. 1, by the way?" "It'll be hard to topple this No. 1." "Yuu Mama's Tips to Economize Blog" "The great popularity is in the economizing tips and recipes that can only be given by an ordinary housewife." "That ordinariness is the secret to her success." "Oh, like this one." "She's the complete opposite of you, isn't she?" "Yes, that's true." "You be quiet!" "We don't have time to be doing this." "There's been an incident." "Katayanagi Saori-san, 40 years old." "She's a working wife and an employee of Denyoudou, a large advertising firm." "She's been missing since she left work on Wednesday, April 27th." "Oh." "What?" "She's the friend of a woman who was at the Nodate Party." "He's even dragging in married women now." "The formidable Nodate Party." "That by itself would simply be a missing person." "However, last month on a Wednesday, Takahata Miwa-san, a 24-year-old housewife, and 2 months ago on a Wednesday, Aoki Youko-san, a 42-year-old housewife, vanished without reason in a similar fashion." "You're here." "The weekly magazines are writing it up like entertainment, and it's become quite a topic." "The case of the vanishing housewives on Wednesdays." "Wait..." "Wait a minute." "You mean we're going to search for missing people?" "I can't believe that they're simply missing." "There's absolutely no reason for these three to go missing." "On the day they disappeared, their cell phones suddenly wouldn't connect either." "Considering the fact that it's been 2 months since the first disappearance," "it's highly possible they've been murdered." "Leave it to me." "You can leave married women to Hanagata." "To Yamamura." "At any rate, we're going to split up and look for any connection between the three women." "I'm counting on you." "So Nodate-san got mad at you for being a dud at the Nodate Party?" "You must not have much experience with women, huh?" "Since you're unskilled." "That's okay, that's okay." "I'll coach you." "Basically, you just need to make them look at you." "So this Katayanagi-san who vanished on April 27th..." "As her colleague, how was she at work?" "She was very good." "Have you heard anything about her relationship with her husband?" "He was a wonderful husband." "Is it a criminal case?" "Or rather, why don't you look my way once in a while." "Will you hurry up and find her." "I can't even go to work." "I'm sorry." "Ouch!" "What was Miwa-san's hobby?" "Hobby?" "What next?" "Seems like her husband doesn't know what his wife was doing." "That's how husbands are, even when they're living in the same house." "Could it be that Tadokoro-san's household's the same?" "No, really?" "Ouch!" "Stu-pid, Stu-pid." "Ow..." "Aoki Youko wasn't in our group." "Even though we all attended Yotsuba Girls' Academy, there's a difference between those who attended from the beginning like us and those who came in high school." "Youko was reserved, wasn't she?" "Yes, she was." "Anyway, we only saw her at the reunions." "That's how it was, wasn't it?" "Why are you sitting there." "Speaking of reunions, was there one recently?" "Real recently." "A week ago." "But Youko wasn't there, was she?" "No, she didn't come." "By the way, where did you buy that dress...?" "Do you know who was close to Aoki-san?" "Yaguchi Keiko was." "And Yamamoto Kanae." "Wasn't Keiko saying that she was going to LA right after the reunion?" "That's right." "She did say that." "Yaguchi Keiko." "Lives in a luxurious condo and vacations abroad during the week." "A wealthy socialite's life's so wonderful!" "Let's go." "This Aoki Youko is a person with no flaws." "Everyone says she's a good-natured kind person." "A model housewife." "Speaking of model housewives, that would be the person we're going to visit next." "Yamamoto Kanae." "Don't you know?" "Yuu Mama blog." "The charismatic blogger?" "Yes." "Yuutaro-kun's mama, hence Yuu Mama." "I read it every day too." "For example, this." "A shoe shiner made from old pantyhose." "You use it like this and make it shiny." "Which way are you going?" "Tips for everyday living..." "Yuu Mama!" "What?" "Youko's missing?" "You're kidding me." "Since when?" "That long?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Let me know if you find out anything." "Okay." "For sure." "Talk to you later." "Hello." "I'm Osawa from the MPD Special Incident Response Team." "Ah, you're here in regards to Youko-chan who's missing, I hear?" "I just got a phone call about it." "I'm shocked." "Do you mind if we asked you a few questions?" "No." "Come on in." "Although it's a mess." "I get to be friends with Yuu Mama!" "What a nice yard." "A vegetable garden too." "That's so enviable." "Nice, isn't it?" "But what's messy about this." "It's very clean." "Cleaner than my house." "I know." "Please have a seat." "Thank you." "This is..." "It's chamomile herb tea." "It's from my garden." "How wonderful." "And so, you don't have any leads at all?" "Well, no." "That's so scary." "We're currently investigating the case of the Wednesday disappearances." "Incidentally, these are the other two." "You wouldn't happen to know them, would you?" "I don't think I've met them." "Please, go ahead." "They disappeared when they were walking at night?" "Probably." "Scary." "How do you know Aoki Youko-san?" "She was my classmate in high school." "We've been friends since our junior year when we were in the same class." "Were you close?" "Yes." "You attended the prestigious Yotsuba Girls' Academy, didn't you?" "I would've liked to have gone there too." "What?" "!" "Don't mind him." "People call it a prestigious school, but it's a small school, so we were all close." "Students form a strong bond at girls' school, don't they?" "Which high school did you attend, Osawa-san?" "I went to Tou-Ou Gakuin." "That prestigious school?" "Not really." "And you're a detective now?" "Something wrong with that?" "No." "I just thought you're tough." "Once she takes off her clothes, she's a man." "Our school's teaching was not to live depending on men, unlike yours." "That's harsh." "Oh no." "I haven't put the grocery away yet." "Oh, sorry for bothering you." "Boss, shall we take our leave now?" "Yes." "Thank..." "Just one more question, alright?" "Yes?" "You heard of Aoki-san's disappearance for the first time just a little while ago in front of the house, right?" "That's right." "So?" "You struck me as a very composed person." "You know." "Normally, a person wouldn't be able to go through the mail while hearing about a friend's disappearance." "It would be too upsetting." "It's become a habit for me." "To do something while talking on the phone." "As you know, I'm busy." "Ah." "Thank you for your time." "Katayanagi-san was in charge of planning at the advertising firm." "It seems she was an outstanding worker." "A capable socialite, huh?" "Takahata-san married young, and she's the mother of two." "The so-called yan-mama (young mother)." "Aoki Youko-san graduated from a prestigious girls' school." "She devotes her time to volunteer activities." "All three are totally different." "Looking at them like this, there's no motive, at least from their personal relationships, for them to be involved in foul play." "Yamamoto Kanae" "is somehow involved in this case." "What?" "Yamamoto Kanae wasn't affected at all when she found out about Aoki Youko's disappearance." "If they were people she didn't know, she would have took a better look." "Faint-hearted offenders often can't bear to look at their victims' faces." "She's the criminal?" "!" "I'm not saying that." "There's just something about her." "Ikemen (gook-looking) chef?" "Yes." "You know, the popular chefs." "It's like the thing to do these days to invite them to your home amongst us." "Was Katayanagi-san doing that too?" "Yes." "She's the one who started it." "Katagiri, Katagiri..." "Take a look at this." "What." "What do you mean what." "He's the famous ikemen chef, Tomoda Katsuhiko." "It's Tomokkii." "He's so cute." "Yes, she was here quite often." "On bargain days." "How about this person?" "Yes, this person too." "Always on bargain days." "So they're connected by bargain days." "Oh, this is a good price here." "Excuse me." "Can we please work?" "Oh, that's right." "I'm pretty sure they were talking over there the other day." "Over there?" "Yes, there." "They were chatting with our store's original quick recipe flyers in their hands." "I got this e-mail out of" "Aoki Youko-san's computer." "Her last e-mail's addressed to Yamamoto Kanae." "She angered her?" "Good evening." "You startled me." "What is it?" "Oh, nothing." "I just happened to be nearby." "Oh." "I went to pick some wild herbs." "Thistle, chickweed, parsley." "They're delicious when you use them in tempura." "I got carried away and forgot about the time." "You're indeed the frugal housewife." "I'm sorry, but I'm a little busy today." "I invited the readers to celebrate the launching of my book, and I'm giving a demonstration of some budget recipes." "I heard that several books have been published from that blog." "Impressive!" "I read about you on the internet." "That you're an outstanding detective." "Can we talk after you're done?" "Anyway, come in." "Today's topic is a galette you can cheaply and easily make at home and a salad." "Once you get the hang of it, it's surprisingly easy to make, but please pay attention because lot of people fail too." "Yes." "Then..." "Osawa-san." "Yes?" "She's the detective who's guarding me." "Can you come here?" "I was told that she's a good cook on top of being an outstanding worker." "We should all try to be more like her, don't you agree?" "Yes." "First, we shred the cabbage." "Go ahead, Osawa-san." "That would be cutting in chunks." "Make the pieces a little finer." "This is how I shred my cabbage" "Next, we'll make the dough for the galette." "Yours looks lumpy." "I like lumps." "Well, normally, I think it would taste better if you mix it a with a little more care." "This too, please." "Why me." "Denyoudou?" "Katayanagi?" "Yes." "Ah." "I met her once at an event." "So?" "You said you didn't know her last time." "Oh, the picture." "I didn't recognize her since I've only met her once." "What about Takahata-san?" "You know her, don't you?" "Takahata?" "A 24-year-old housewife." "You were talking with her at the supermarket." "I'm sorry." "People stop me all the time at supermarkets to tell me that they read my blog." "Aoki-san e-mailed you last, didn't she?" "She apologized for making you mad." "I'm sorry." "I get a lot of e-mails every day." "You didn't tell us that either." "So what is it that you really want to ask me?" "You're the only common link to the three who disappeared." "And so?" "You're kidding, aren't you?" "Yes, I do enjoy the 2-hour mystery dramas, but still..." "I think the possibility's there." "Do you have proof?" "Have the bodies been found?" "They were saying in the mystery dramas that it's hard to build up a murder case without a body." "No matter how convinced you are." "Excuse me." "They're separated?" "Yes." "The husband's the one who left." "Couldn't take it anymore." "Although I can't say it too loud." "Didn't they have a child?" "I believe he's in third year of middle school." "Ah." "You mean Yuutaro-kun." "He went with his father." "The mother was very strict when it came to education and discipline." "I think maybe the son got tired of it too." "Katayanagi-san was involved in several projects at the advertising firm." "One of her projects was this." "Search out an ikemen chef sign him to a management contract, and market him." "Also, take a look at this." ""Tomokkii, the charismatic chef, came to my tea party."" "There were 9 other articles beside this one all related to the charismatic chef." "So?" "We asked Tomoda-san, himself, but he didn't remember Yamamoto Kanae." "He never went to her house either." "In other words, what's written on this blog is a lie." "Although it's true Yamamoto Kanae was invited to an event sponsored by Katayanagi-san and did meet the chef there." "Eventually she started making up lies as if" "she was really close to the chef." "For what purpose?" "The issue here is the number of people accessing her blog." "According to Rika-san's research, when the topic of this chef is on the blog, the number of access increases by almost 10,000." "In other words, she wrote about celebrities on her blog to gain popularity?" "Katayanagi-san became aware of that and questioned her." "She pointed that out and was killed." "I went to the supermarket that Takahata-san and she used to go to." "They would frequently stand here and talk." "Take a look." "The problem is the shelf behind them." "The store's original easy recipe notes are displayed there." "What about them?" "The same recipes are" "on this blog." "In other words, she's stealing them." "I also made some inquires at Takahata-san's neighborhood bar, and heard that Takahata-san was saying that she recently became friends with a charismatic housewife blogger at a supermarket." "According to eyewitness testimony, the two were having a pleasant conversation." "She was heard saying how convenient these recipes were to Yamamoto Kanae." "It could be that Takahata-san often visited her blog, and without any ill will, pointed that out to her." "This one, this one!" "No wonder it looked the same one." "I use this a lot too." "Yamamoto Kanae and her husband are separated." "Her son isn't there either." "But on her blog, she writes as if she has a happy family." "Her classmate, Aoki Youko-san found out about that, and out of kindness, tried to give her advice." "And so..." "Wait a minute." "Are you saying she killed 3 people just to protect her blog?" "For her, the blog is more important than people's lives?" "The Wednesdays in question." "We enlarged the pictures from the surveillance camera near Yamamoto Kanae's home." "Take a look." "After this, none of the three appear on the camera." "In other words, they didn't go back." "There's no doubt Yamamoto Kanae killed these three." "The question is how she killed them, and how she disposed of the bodies." "She doesn't have a driver's license." "She didn't use a vehicle to transport them." "After stabbing them to death, she dismembered the bodies and discarded them." "In reality, she lives alone." "It's possible for her to kill and dismember at home." "There was a yard." "Is it possible she may have buried them there?" "That's possible." "Let's find out what she bought the days just before and after the disappearances." "Something she might use for murder?" "She'd buy something like that with cash so that it can't be traced." "That's true." "There's no way to find out then." "What a waste, though." "You're here!" "If it was me, I'd buy it with a rewards card to get points." "She's not like you..." "You might have said something very meaningful right now." "Make it quick, please." "Even though you have a warrant." "I understand." "It's up." "From the POS system, we can see what Yamamoto Kanae purchased in the past 3 months." "As expected, being the frugal housewife, she used her 5 percent discount rewards card." "Bingo!" "The day before Aoki-san disappeared, she bought a folding shovel and a tarp." "The day before Katayanagi-san and Takahata-san disappeared, she purchased tarps as well." "This should do it" "Yes." "She killed and buried them." "Looks like you did quite a bit of shopping." "There were a lot of bargains today." "I have a growing child with an endless appetite, so the sales help." "Did you want something?" "Housewives are busy too, you know." "I imagine so." "You even take and upload photos of how you make each meal." "It must keep you very busy." "Are you being sarcastic?" "No." "I'm just thinking it must be a lot work." "You have so much to do." "What exactly do you want to say?" "You're busy every day with cooking classes and all except for Wednesdays." "What were you doing on Wednesday, 3 weeks ago?" "I was at home." "What about Wednesday, March 23 and April 20?" "I was at home." "I take it easy on Wednesdays as a reward to myself." "In other words, you don't have an alibi on the days the three women disappeared." "I'm not sure what you're trying to say." "If you're saying that being at home isn't an alibi, then all housewives could be criminals." "Good bye." "No." "All you have is circumstantial evidence." "We know for sure at least that their tracks stopped near her house." "If we dig up her yard," "something's bound to come up." "And if nothing comes up?" "She's a blogger who has thousands of fans." "What are we going to do if she sues us?" "Can you afford to leave this vanishing incident unresolved?" "The media's going to raise a fuss." "The responsibility... will be taken by my subordinates." "If nothing comes up," "I told them firmly that they'll all be fired." "You..." "You have to find the bodies no matter what." "Even if we have all kinds of circumstantial evidence, we can't prosecute her if we can't find the bodies." "Yes." "We have a search warrant." "We'll be searching your house in connection with the case of the missing housewives." "You're going to put everything back where they were, right?" "Yes." "What if nothing comes up?" "If nothing comes up, then... maybe you can treat me lunch." "Just kidding." "Isn't she doing anything?" "She says she's not good at digging holes." "What kind of reason is that!" "Where's Hanagata?" "He had to go poop." "He's too loose, that guy!" "It's not a bad thing to have loose bowels." "Thanks for letting me use the bathroom." "Can I turn it off?" "Oh, sorry." "Thanks." "You have to turn the light off as soon as you're done." "At 60W, a saving of 30 yen a day." "Carrots, spinach." "Garland chrysanthemum, mustard greens." "Boss." "Can I see you for a minute?" "We didn't find anything inside the house." "There was no luminol reaction from the shovel either." "Boss!" "Nothing in particular." "There was no luminol reaction from the soil either." "You idiot." "Didn't I tell you you're not getting away with it if you found nothing?" "What are you going to do?" "You're all fired." "Fired, huh?" "I'm done." "Marriage is getting even further away from me." "You have to be young in the gay world too." "Maybe I'll start an herb farm." "Like Yuu Mama's garden." "Spoken like a true frugal housewife." "So there were herbs in the garden?" "Yes." "But you know, they were all edible herbs like basil, but there was one different flower." "Different flower?" "Yes, flame lily." "It's not edible?" "You'll die if you eat it." "The tubers are highly toxic." "I wonder why they were planted there?" "You may have said something very important just now." "She used that poison?" "It's highly possible." "But if she committed the murders, what did she do with the bodies?" "If she poisoned them, we might have missed something about the method of disposal." "Anyway, let's re-investigate everything, including their personal relationships." "Got it." "Is this everything for March?" "Yes." "Then let me take at look at April." "Have you seen this person around?" "Ah, yes." "She comes in frequently to buy garden fertilizer." "Garden fertilizer?" "Yes." "Can we look at your rewards card records?" "RES?" "Oh, the Garden Center." "It says garden fertilizer." "We made an inquiry at a different supermarket." "March 22, April 19, April 26." "One day before the three women were killed, for some reason, she purchased 5kg of RES." "RES." "Oh, the one that contains protein and catabolic enzymes." "Protein and catabolic enzymes?" "Yes, they dissolve meat." "If a corpse is soaked in it for a few days, it may actually dissolve the body." "Do you know, what an unbelievably tremendously important thing you're saying right now." "They were showing it on the Tuesday Mystery Drama." "So she wrapped this and the body in a tarp." "But what about the bones?" "Yes." "They showed that in "CSI:" "Tokyo." The bones will remain, but they would have become brittle from the loss of collagen so" "they crumble easily." "I see." "It could be done in that house." "Where's the evidence?" "Theoretically, it's possible, but again, it's only circumstantial evidence." "You know I can't get a search warrant anymore." "I know!" "Besides, she could say she bought it for someone else, right?" "Be quiet already!" "Woah, scary!" "May 5th." "After the three women vanished," "she purchased a tarp and RES again!" "Right?" "Looks like she's not back yet." "Excuse me." "You're...?" "I'm from the rental shop." "Rental shop?" "This is terrible!" "Yamamoto Kanae's classmate," "Yaguchi Keiko's been missing since May 4th too." "May 4th?" "That's one day" "before Yamamoto Kanae purchased RES again." "You mean she killed Yaguchi Keiko too?" "Yaguchi Keiko was captured on the surveillance camera by Yamamoto Kanae's home on May 4th." "She didn't return." "Did she poison her too?" "No." "Look at this." "The day after Yaguchi Keiko vanished, she bought a cheap kitchen knife." "I thought it was strange when I was helping her do the dishes at her house." "She had very good knives." "According to her blog, they belonged to her mother." "But for some reason, she was using the cheap knife she just bought." "In other words..." "She impulsively killed Yaguchi Keiko with a knife she had on hand." "The thought of using it was disgusting, and so she bought a new one, but couldn't get herself to throw the old one away." "But what about the body?" "Look at this." "The color of the soil under this plant is slightly different from the rest." "She likes to gather wild herbs." "She probably got the thistle somewhere else and re-planted them here." "The body might be there?" "There's a good possibility." "Please." "If we do a thorough search we should at least find some trace of blood." "What if nothing comes up again?" "If that happens, fire me." "What?" "!" "Maybe" "I'll start a goukon business or something with those guys." "Huh?" "I was alarmed to hear that Yaguchi Keiko-san's missing too." "She isn't missing." "She was murdered." "By you." "What in the world are you talking about." "You do understand, don't you?" "If you don't find anything again today as I told you on the phone," "I'll talk to my lawyer and sue you." "We're fully prepared for that." "We learned a lot about you since we talked to you last." "You were in Yaguchi-san's group since your high school days." "Hello." "Rika-san?" "The geological strata is a loamy layer of the Kanto Region." "Look for an area with quartz and biotite." "Got it." "Yamamoto Kanae's residence." "Distance you can go by bicycle." "Area of activity." "Area where thistles grow naturally." "It must have been tough for you." "I heard that" "Yaguchi-san's group all came from wealthy families, and they were ignorant in the ways of the world." "On top of that, they were beautiful and arrogant." "The type that infuriates other women the most." "Yet, they're enviable too." "You somehow managed to make your way into that group." "It must have been very stressful for you." "I got ulcers when I was 19." "Ulcers at 19, you know." "Is that right." "But in the end, the world is a place where where women like that continue to live happily." "Those women who buy brand-name bags all the time as if they were nothing." "Those women who have no interest in anything but to make themselves look pretty." "Any traces of blood or luminol reaction?" "None upstairs." "The floor and walls have been cleaned to perfection." "You can really tell when you go to reunions." "Those women end up with rich men even after playing around and doing whatever they wanted to do." "And so the day after the reunion you killed Yaguchi-san." "She probably brought up the fact that you and your husband were separated and that enraged you." "You found some reason to get her to come to your house and stabbed her to death." "You wrapped the body in a tarp, dissolved it with RES, and discarded it." "You found the knife disgusting so you bought a new one." "Like I said before, where's the evidence?" "Can the police do this based simply on conjecture?" "Did you look at the sink?" "Under the sink." "The drain pipe." "The luminol reaction... is positive." "Your whole house is spic and span." "Not a single strand of hair is on the floor." "But even you didn't think of cleaning the drain pipe, did you?" "Found it." "The riverbed at 2-1 Nakazawa-cho." "Got it." "It's true that the luminol reaction is positive for traces of blood." "However, we still have to determine if it's human or animal blood." "Oh, I did prepare a meat dish yesterday." "With liver." "I heard that once beef or other blood gets mixed, it becomes impossible to distinguish the two." "I saw it on "CSI:" "Arakawa."" "If I had known this was going to happen," "I shouldn't have made anything yesterday, huh?" "Can you start wrapping it up now?" "I have to get ready for tomorrow's cooking class" "Don't worry." "I won't sue you." "You established your persona as a frugal housewife on your blog." "Preservation of your self-concept." "Your effort to preserve your own persona kept on escalating." "You wanted to eliminate anyone who threatened that persona." "That's why you premeditated the murder of the three housewives." "Are you still insisting?" "But" "Yaguchi-san is the only one you killed with a knife." "Yaguchi-san probably hurt your pride at the reunion." "You had been harboring a grudge against her for the oppression you suffered because of her." "You, who pride yourself in being frugal, are a control freak." "You're the type to keep your anger inside and explode later." "Your anger magnified after you came home, and you called Yaguchi over to the house the next day." "This house really has your feel, Kanae." "Sorry for making you come." "The publisher insisted on meeting you." "You wouldn't have killed her in this room" "You wouldn't want the blood on your sofa and carpet." "Thanks for all the things you said about me yesterday." "Somewhere that would attract the least attention..." "Some place that's easy to clean..." "That place is...!" "This storage room that's not used very often." "You cornered Yaguchi Keiko against this empty wall, and stabbed her." "Do a thorough inspection of this wall and the surrounding area!" "Why don't you give up already?" "There's no doubt you killed her here." "But you haven't found anything." "Behavioral schema." "It's hard for people to alter their behavior that's become a habit unless they consciously try to change it." "That's the reason you used the rewards card for your purchases." "Your habit to conserve in the house too." "At 60W, a saving of 30 yen a day." "When you stabbed Yaguchi-san, the light switch accidentally flipped on." "By habit, you immediately turned the light off." "And you forgot about it." "Did you find it?" "Okay." "Thanks." "You'll tell us everything, won't you?" "I tell you, she's got charisma." "Oh, stop it, I'm not like that." "What's going on?" "Don't you know, Yaguchi-san?" "Kanae's amazing." "She's the charismatic blogger." "Look, she even published a book." "They're all useful tips." "A pen holder made from a milk carton." "Why would you do something like this?" "Isn't it easier to just buy one?" "I really don't get it." "And so?" "Yes." "That's why I killed her." "I slashed up her precious bag and threw it away too." "That was a rental, you know." "What?" "Don't you know?" "These days there are shops that rent brand-name merchandise." "She was using that." "Her husband found himself a young woman and they divorced." "She got almost no alimony and was just barely surviving." "She lied about her trips abroad too." "Ironically, we found out that she was missing when the guy from the rental shop went to her house." "Just because you were both being pretentious." "I'll call in for a car." "It's me." "Send a car around this way." "Say." "Hey!" "Can I update my blog when I'm in prison?" "This blog must have been everything to her." "It's hard enough to do the usual things in an usual manner without writing a blog about them." "Good night." "Good night." "Hello." "Oh, I'm sorry!" "I'll be home right way!" "The Yamamura Club is will be giving a lecture on how to get used to dealing with women." "First, let's start with a casual greeting." "Come on!" "Hello." "I'm Osawa Eriko." "Potechin* (*just a nonsensical word)" "Hi." "Too stiff." "One more time!" "Potechin." "Hi." "No good!" "Yamamura Club practices spartan training." "Potechin." "Hi." "I've been having this uneasy feeling." "Potechin." "Say, why are you so obsessed with goukon?" "How come?" "That's the man's quest for romance." "To seek an unknown prey." ""You can't see the forest for the trees." The best prey is right in front of you." "Please." "Quit your jiving." "You're so outdated." "What's jiving." "But I do understand your quest for beautiful things." "Hello." "Okay, I'll be right there."