konna hazu janainda atama kakae
こんなはずじゃないんだ 頭抱え
This can't be happening; I clasp my head in my hands,
houwa shita sekai kara nigedashitakute mogaiteiru
飽和した世界から 逃げ出したくてもがいている
As I struggle with my desire to escape from this saturated world.
sarasara suna no you ni toki ga sugiru
さらさら 砂のように時が過ぎる
Time goes flowing past with the rustling roar of sand,
kawaribae no shinai genjou
代わり映えのしない現状
Things never get any better;
yume no nai asu wo mitsume
夢のない明日を見つめ
I'm gazing on toward a dreamless tomorrow.
mayotte bakari no kinou sayonara shitai
迷ってばかりの昨日 さよならしたい
I want to bid farewell to my days of constantly feeling lost;
aragau you ni te wo nobashitemiru
抗うように 手を伸ばしてみる
I try stretching out my hand in resistance.
nanbyakumankai naite umarekawaru yo
何百万回 泣いて 生まれ変わるよ
We'll cry millions upon millions of tears, then be reborn,
akai me no mama de yukou egaita mirai he
赤い目のままで行こう 描いた未来へ
Let's keep going, with red in our eyes, toward the future we drew for ourselves.
koko made oide te wo narashiteru
ここまでおいで 手を鳴らしてる
Come over to me, I'm clapping my hands,
kimi ha doko no dare?
君はどこの誰
Who are you? Where are you coming from?
yami ni me wo korashite
闇に目を凝らして
I strain my eyes in the darkness.
nanimo mienu wakannai sore demo yuku yo
何も見えぬ わかんない それでも行くよ
I can't see a thing, and nothing makes sense, but I'll go anyway,
hikari ga sasu kimi ga matsu basho he
光が射す 君が待つ場所へ
To the place where you're waiting, lit by a beacon of light.
Episode 3
「Masked Mansion」
Inspired by Sakaguchi Ango's 「Meiji-era Ango Detective Stories "Shoplifting Family" and "Masked Mansion"」
Sasa
Yeah, I'm almost home.
Sasa Kigihiko
Younger Brother of the Late Sasa Konamori
Sasa Kigihiko
Younger Brother of the Late Sasa Konamori
We'll discuss this issue at tomorrow's meeting.
President Kazamori?!
Even if that's his title, this company still belongs to the Sasa family.
There's no need to obey everything he says.
Uncle Kigihiko, I've prepared the materials
related to the property matter.
Kazamori Holdings
Real Estate Sales Proposal
Representative Director, Sasa Kazamori
Kazamori, it's not like that!
I wasn't trying to leave you out and make the decisions myself.
Can I pay you a visit?
That isn't necessary
Sasa Itoji
Son of the Late Sasa Konamori
Widow of the Late Sasa Konamori
Sasa Fumihiko
Sasa Itoji
Son of the Late Sasa Konamori
Widow of the Late Sasa Konamori
Sasa Fumihiko
Kigihiko-san, we're starting our prayer session soon.
N-Nee-san... I was going to see Kazamori...
He won't come anyway.
Let's go, Fumihiko.
Okay...
Komamori-sama, Komamori-sama,
please protect and watch over us.
Please protect the Sasa family.
Today marks seven years since your untimely death.
The Sasa family has continued to thrive.
Komamori-sama, Komamori-sama,
Komamori-sama, Komamori-sama.
Nee-san?
I'll call my brother to join us.
Brother? Do you mean Kazamori-san?
It's enough that we, his true blood relatives, are in attendance.
Even if he was adopted, Kazamori nii-sama is the head of this family.
Daughter of the Late Sasa Konamori
Sasa Mitsuko
Daughter of the Late Sasa Konamori
Sasa Mitsuko
He should at least be with us on the anniversary of his father's death.
That guy loves being closed off, all by himself, nee-san.
Mitsuko!
I've told you already,
Kazamori-san is afflicted by illness, so you must keep your distance from him.
Komamori-sama, Komamori-sama,
Fumihiko, one of your blood,
will be graduating university without issue and will be entering the business in spring.
A blackout?
Kazamori nii-sama?
Adopted Son of the Late Sasa Konamori Current Head of Family
Sasa Kazamori
Adopted Son of the Late Sasa Konamori Current Head of Family
Sasa Kazamori
I'm so glad... I thought something might have happened to you.
Um... You haven't shown me your face for quite some time...
Kazamori-kun!
Live-in Doctor
Taku Hidenobu
Live-in Doctor
Taku Hidenobu
Come back inside, quickly!
Kazamori!
Hey! Did something happen?!
Kazamori!
Nee-san.
Kazamori!
It's just like seven years ago, today...
Kazamori!
Taku-sensei... what is this?
Kazamori-kun...
Kazamori?
No way...
Kazamori... by the time I took notice, he was already ablaze!
Micchan!
There's no way that could be Kazamori-kun... That's too...
Kazamori-san! Kazamori-san!
It's a curse...
You're right! This is my husband's curse!
I see... this is the anniversary of my brother's death...
A curse, huh?
That can't be...
Sign: Shinjuku Station, East
In Preparation!
No Trespassing
Hello, restricted area admittance guards. You're doing a fine job!
Kaishou Rinroku's Daughter, Housekeeper
Kaishou Rie
Kaishou Rinroku's Daughter, Housekeeper
Kaishou Rie
What happened? An explosion?!
Are we okay?
Ah... no, no, no!
Possibility that pre-emptive self-defence measures will be invoked!
New regulations for Self-Defence Forces approved.
Three days later: confusion still abound.
Lethal force in response to terrorist attacks has been authorised.
A reformation of the Regulations for Self-Defence Forces was passed today,
receiving unanimous approval from members of the House of Representatives.
Currently, emergency procedures are scheduled to occur three days from now.
In accordance, all forces participating in observational responsibilities overseas...
...will be eligible for reassignment to combat duty.
Assistant Detective
Inga
Assistant Detective
Inga
You're so rough! Do it to me gently!
Shinjuurou!
Detective
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Detective
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Hey!
Please, don't go!
I'm sorry...
It's like it won't connect...
...or rather, the connection is being rejected.
Shinjuurou!
Take a look!
It's talks!
Shovel: Scoops and shovels are opposites sizes in Kansai.
Wow!
TL Note: Inga says "shaberu", which means to speak, but also sounds like a word for shovel.
It's just picking up vocabulary off the net using...
...the kind of chip you find in old game consoles.
Do you not have any others to try?
All of my customers have the mail address for that phone.
Customers... you mean your...
You know.
Don't tell me you negotiate price through texts as well...
Well, if he's nice, I'll try to give him a discount!
The contents of all messages are code-checked;
possible terrorist activities and other illegal dealings are identified...
...and the perpetrators have their access cut.
Do something about it, Detective-san!
You're acquainted with Chairman Kaishou, aren't you?
He's "The Defeated Detective"!
He's currently building record losses against Chairman Kaishou!
That man holds the communications network in one hand,
and is the advisor on all military and police analysis.
He's quite the elite.
But at this rate I'll lose all of my customers!
Shinjuurou! Horses!
Yuuki Shinjuurou!
I have a case that I want to consult you on!
Seems troublesome...
I'm gonna make myself disappear.
Have you forgotten me? It's Rie!
Kaishou Rie!
Kaishou...?
Is she...?
I have one condition.
I'd like your dad to use his connections to reconnect a smart phone.
Huh?
Why horses?
I was told that your residence is within the restricted entry zone.
What?
There's an ordinance deeming that no one can enter by car or foot,
but there wasn't anything about entering on a horse.
That's a first-class brain you've got.
I'm Kaishou Rinroku's daughter.
I can't break the law.
You...
What's your name?
Inga!
Inga...? Isn't Inga...?
You're that woman's little brother?
This here is the younger sister of the late Sasa Kazamori, Mitsuko-san.
She contacted my father right away following an incident last night.
I wanted Chairman Kaishou to prove that my brother wasn't killed by a curse.
A curse?!
Yes...
It's a curse...
Who would be putting a curse on you?
They think it's my father's curse...
Might you know of my father, Sasa Komamori?
Sure don't!
Uh, I'm not too familiar with him either.
Even though he was all over the news?
I wasn't in this country at the time.
Sasa Komamori was a researcher of artificial intelligence.
To create machines with intellect equal to humans,
which could even pass the Turing Test,
and sell them as entertainment products...
...Sasa Komamori was truly a genius.
Developer of R.A.I.
I heard something about him being a weirdo who always donned a mask when in the presence of others.
Sasa Komamori
Developer of R.A.I.
Sasa Komamori
He said it was to hide his embarrassment when meeting people,
but I always assumed he was trying to build an image for himself.
But seven years after Komamori-san died in that manner,
President of JJ Systems
Koyama Izumi
Kaishou Rinroku
Public Prosecutor's Office Joint Coordinating Dept, Public Prosecutor
Koyama Izumi
President of JJ Systems
Public Prosecutor's Office Joint Coordinating Dept, Public Prosecutor
Kaishou Rinroku
Kazamori-kun also...
I do know about R.A.I.
A program that can mimic human thought processes.
There were even exclusive bodies created for them as well, weren't there?
But my father's inventions became illegal under new legislation.
In the middle of the war, a search team of police was deployed.
Sasa Komamori, we have suspicion...
...that your research is in considerable violation of the New Information Privacy Protection Act.
Mother...
This entire country has gone insane.
Just how much has that man, Sasa Komamori,
contributed to this world?
Kazamori nii-sama?
Is father with you?
Father!
An explosion!
Ow...
After the remains of my father were verified,
the remaining fortune and related business responsibilities were passed on to Kazamori nii-sama.
Why would nii-sama receive this curse from Komamori-shi?
Kazamori onii-sama was suddenly brought to our house one day.
Father said that he was the child of a distant relative...
...but also that he had adopted him and would be naming him successor.
He named his adopted son as his heir?
As proof of his successorship, he started wearing one of those masks from the very beginning.
Mask!
Therefore, I have never witnessed his true face...
...and now I'll never be able to see it.
On the anniversary of Sasa Komamori's death,
the successor is engulfed in flames, meeting the same end.
Makes you think it's a curse, doesn't it, Detective-san?
This is my uncle, Kigihiko.
Kazamori never showed his face at the company and was president in name only.
The entire group was run by my sister and me.
Nii-sama only came to avoid people so desperately because of that mask.
He still made decisions on all the most important issues.
Fumihiko, what are you doing?
Now that Kazamori is no longer among us,
Fumihiko has become the new head of this household.
On a separate note, I don't care if you're the daughter of Chairman Kaishou;
for you to bring a detective along with you is an insult to us.
Well then, do you really think that a curse exists?
Of course that was just a figure of speech.
Kazamori suffered shock from the death of my husband...
...and was afflicted by an emotional imbalance.
Enough so that he constantly needed his doctor, Taku-sensei, by his side.
Where is this Taku-sensei?
The doctor is resting, due to the burns he sustained.
My husband's death caused Kazamori-san constant anguish, just like a curse.
When he reached his breaking point, he simply chose to die the same way as my husband.
No.
Kazamori nii-sama wouldn't ever commit suicide.
Why is that?
Nii-sama knew something.
He was trying to warn us that some kind of danger was near.
Just like seven years ago...
He was already prepared to commit suicide and was telling you to stay away, Micchan.
No!
National Police Agency Director of the Security Bureau
Hayami Seigen
National Police Agency Director of the Security Bureau
Hayami Seigen
Izumi-chan, huh?
And just why are you two here?
I requested that he be here...
...once I heard that you were going to leave the deduction to my father.
Chairman Kaishou is going to examine this?
They say he can solve any puzzle without even appearing on the scene...
If my father is trying to make another lie in order to protect "something bigger"...
...I won't allow it.
Don't worry.
I'll tell you the deduction that the Chairman reached.
This way.
Other than his mask, Kazamori-kun was an intellectual and composed executive.
For him to become obsessed with his father's death and commit suicide is unthinkable.
However, there are cases where people take such actions on impulse.
Then why didn't he mimic it entirely, explosion and all?
I sense a scheme to link Kazamori-kun and Komamori-shi's deaths.
This was a murder.
A murder?!
Apart from the victim, there were five individuals present.
The victim's stepmother, Sasa Itoji-san.
The victim's uncle, Sasa Kigihiko-san.
The victim's step-siblings, Mitsuko-san and Fumihiko-san.
And finally, Dr. Taku Hidenobu.
Whoa, nee-san and I are both suspects!
We can say that Fumihiko, who stood to succeed the company and become the head of household,
had the most to gain in the event of Kazamori-shi's death.
No.
Fumihiko left the room after I did.
Chairman Kaishou has also said that he can't imagine Fumihiko was involved.
There was a time when Sasa Kigihiko-shi assisted Komamori-shi,
and he's knowledgeable about mechanical engineering.
It would be a simple matter for him to tamper with a cable in the room,
setting it to catch fire at a specific time.
But even with Kazamori-shi dead, Kigihiko wouldn't stand to inherit anything...
Who's the one who wants Fumihiko to succeed the company most?
The mother.
You're saying I asked Kigihiko to murder him for Fumihiko's sake?
How rude!
What's your interpretation of it?
Hey!
Help us out here!
We had no reason to kill Kazamori!
There's no way we could have!
Kigihiko-san!
No way you... could have?
We'll have to tell him, nee-san...
At this rate, we'll be...
We'll continue this in the interrogation room.
It's a surveillance camera.
That's it!
This must mean that Kazamori put surveillance cameras all over the house...
...and was watching every move we made.
If that's the case...
Wait!
Shinjuurou...
My spirit is swirling...
I've waited long enough, right?
Wait, Inga!
I can't hold it in!
Come now...
What should I ask... and to whom?
It's all recorded!
No matter how far back you search, you won't find me sabotaging anything.
Check it yourself!
That's why I said it was suicide!
I wonder about that...
That woman again...
Just who are you?
She's my boss.
She said she has something to ask, or whatever.
A built-in computer, huh?
Tell me...
Who is Sasa Kazamori?
Who is he under that mask?
Someone was posing as Kazamori?
You don't have to answer that!
It's hopeless to resist.
People have no choice but to answer what she asks.
Just one question...
Who is... Sasa Kazamori?
Who?
He doesn't exist...
Mother!
There never was a human by the name of Kazamori!
That means...
Kazamori wasn't human.
Isn't that right, Kazamori-san?
You found me out・・・・・lol
awai asa moya ni sasayaku inori
淡い朝もやに ささやく祈り
Wandering hazily on a pale morning, hearing a whispered prayer,
yuganda keshiki wo kimi to nazotteyuku
歪んだ景色を 君となぞってゆく
You and I trace a twisted scenery.
hontou wo motome uso demo ii kara nante ne
“本当”を求め、「“嘘”でもいいから」なんてね
We're seeking the (truth), "We don't even care if it's a lie";
misukashiau you ni
見透かしあう様に
As if we can see right through it,
tadotteku
たどってく
We follow it along.
looking for, kotoba koete
Looking for 言葉越えて
Looking for, going beyond words,
ochiteiku hane no you ni
おちていく 羽のように
Like a falling feather.
looking for, mitsukete
Looking for ミツケテ
Looking for, find it,
koko de yorisou you ni
ここで よりそうように
So we can come closer together.
looking for, tokihodoite
Looking for 解きほどいて
Looking for, unravel it,
chigire kumo no you ni
ちぎれる 雲のように
Tear it apart, like a cloud.
looking for, mitsukete
Looking for ミツケテ
Looking for, find it,
koko de yorisou you ni
ここで よりそうように
So we can come closer together.
The original work for next time is the same as this time, "Masked Mansion".
But that's not all...
A story called "Shoplifting Family" is in there too?
I'll give it a read!
Huh?
It's like in this old family, there are all these members and people connected to them, and everyone has a hidden secret.
This story is kind of similar to ours.
Don't tell me Ango-sensei has gone through all this trouble so he can blow the whistle on sharing ideas!
I like that kind of meanness!
So anyway, next time on UN-GO:
Preview of Next Episode
Episode 4
「An Unmasked Residence」
Inspired by Sakaguchi Ango's 「Meiji-era Ango Detective Stories "Shoplifting Family" and "Masked Mansion"」
"An Unmasked Residence!"