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 5
「The Statue of Illusion」
Inspired by Sakaguchi Ango's 「Meiji-era Ango Detective Story "The Tower of Illusion"」
I believe that war has brought many benefits to mankind.
The advancement of civilization, the exchange of cultures,
House of Representatives Member
Shimada Hakurou-sensei
The Rising Sun Association's Call for Action
and discoveries made by scientific technologies.
By harnessing the power of nuclear energy we've attained air conditioning for use in midsummer,
and late night television programming, have we not?
Therefore, I continue to tell the story of that day.
And always will...
My supporters and I were the targets of the terrorist bombing.
Suzuki himself said, "If it were to blow up here, glass would come raining down and create a terrible disaster".
We must move the bomb elsewhere.
Up until mere days before, they had been average students,
but they supported me and gave their all to the Rising Sun Association.
Those young men, showing no hesitation,
drove off in the truck containing the bomb...
The end result was exactly as reported...
I won't insist that you praise them.
They simply did what needed to be done.
However...
You aren't taking this seriously, are you?
I tried my best to wear formal clothing...
Sasa Kazamori
Artificial Intelligence (R.A.I.)
Sasa Kazamori
Artificial Intelligence (R.A.I.)
Inga
It's cute!
Assistant Detective
Inga
Assistant Detective
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Komamori... What an extreme pervert...
Detective
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Detective
It doesn't please you?
N-Not really. There's no need for me to be pleased.
Well, I know that, but...
...and that very fact lives on within each and every one of us.
Shimada Jirou
Shimada's Son. Actor
Shimada Jirou
Shimada's Son. Actor
Thank you.
That was actor Shimada Jirou-san, eldest son of Shimada Hakurou-sensei,
with a reading from his father's works.
Jirou-san is also appointed as the honorary director of the memorial hall...
You mustn't be fooled by Shimada Hakurou!
Obliterate the Puppet Regime of the Allied Nations
He's made a shady deal with the allied nations,
Yamamoto Teishin
Hakurou's Former Bodyguard
Yamamoto Teishin
Hakurou's Former Bodyguard
and has smuggled the support money allotted for the young men who died.
Yamada-sensei!
Ootsubo Tetsuya
Member of the Rising Sun Association. Hakurou's Bodyguard
Ootsubo Tetsuya
Member of the Rising Sun Association. Hakurou's Bodyguard
Thank you for taking the trouble to come all the way here!
Where the Hell is Shimada?
Is he spouting that same nonsense again?!
We will never forget those three young men,
and will someday create our own miracle!
So believing, we have prepared the following symbol...
Shimada Hakurou
Sponsor of the Rising Sun Association. Former Politician, Writer.
It's so amazing!
Souls!
I commissioned this statue from a young friend of my son's,
who is not unlike those three men.
It was finally delivered here late last night.
Uh, excuse me...
Where's the bathroom?
Ah, it's over-
The Defeated Detective, Yuuki Shinjuurou!
It seems you've been challenging JJ Systems.
You show quite a bit of promise.
According to the rumours, you're somehow connected to the group of young people who became the first victims of the war.
Is that so? Were you the one who invited me here?
There's one thing that bothers me though...
...what is this "Defeated Detective" business about?
That incident could only be considered a cease-fire at worst-
I have to go pee!
Excuse me, I'm about to wet myself.
What are you angry about?
You're a detective.
You play the role of someone who exposes the truth.
But when it's something related to you, you hide it away instead?
All I seek to expose are filthy lies.
Hirato Youko
Friend of Jirou. Sculptor
Hirato Youko
Friend of Jirou. Sculptor
This is quite the fancy place for a nap.
I was working until late in the night,
Sir.
She was the one who made the statue of the three men and brought it here.
My good friend, Hirato Youko.
This is Detective Yuuki.
Oh, seeing that statue alone made it worth coming here.
They wilfully threw their own lives away for the good of others; is that how the story went?
It most certainly wasn't that selfless.
I expect they shed at least a single tear.
At least that's the feeling I got.
I apologise for the way my father acted earlier.
Honestly, even as his son, I find him to be too high-handed.
The fact that he still thinks we haven't lost the war is one thing,
but they even say he advocates reinstating the draft.
And that he's obsessed with money.
Youko!
It's merely the opinion of Yamamoto, a Yakuza who used to be his bodyguard.
Victory through Patriotic Justice
He insists that the details of the story of those three heroes is falsified,
Victory through Patriotic Justice
and that Shimada's hidden the large sum of support money away in the form of gold bars.
Yamamoto is making this fuss in demand that he return it.
Gold bars? That's pretty deplorable.
He was a member of the House until recently! There's no way he would!
Oh!
Using the dead to make a profit...
This heap of junk...
You mustn't, Jirou-sama!
Shinjuurou!
Jirou-sama?
Ootsubo, what is this?
Gomi
Former Member of the Rising Sun Association. Subordinate of Yamamoto
Mitsuhisa
Former Member of the Rising Sun Association. Subordinate of Yamamoto
They've been murdered... huh.
This has become quite interesting.
Because it involves Shimada Hakurou-shi?
I don't care about Shimada-san.
I'm talking about the Defeated Detective.
The two dead that were found were both former Rising Sun Association members.
Mitsuhisa! Gomi!
They were recently in the service of Yamamoto Sadanobu's opposing political association.
How mysterious. Why on Earth were they both killed, then put inside the statue?
Kaishou Rinroku
President of JJ Systems
Kaishou Rinroku
President of JJ Systems
Koyama Izumi
Public Prosecutor's Office Joint Coordinating Dept, Public Prosecutor
Koyama Izumi
It's a Trojan horse.
Public Prosecutor's Office Joint Coordinating Dept, Public Prosecutor
Why were they inside that thing?
Those men were subordinates of yours, weren't they?
What are you planning?
Wait a second! That statue had no need for an access panel.
That means that the only person who could be aware of it is its creator.
Y-You killed those two?
Your men are weak enough to be killed by a girl like this?
What did you say, you bastard?!
How dare you insult my men!
It wasn't Youko, father!
I was the one who requested Youko to do it.
I asked her to hide those two within the statue,
in order to smuggle them inside the memorial hall.
I believe Yamamoto-san is aware of this as well.
The two were ordered by Yamamoto to find the gold bars hidden somewhere in the memorial hall.
Ah, the rumoured gold bars.
Japanese Banks Hold Meeting on Regulations
Additional easing to be expected
I see. In the newly built memorial hall, it would be possible to hide them anywhere.
But why did Jirou do such a thing?
Shimada Jirou was opposed to the way that his father was publicising himself...
...by using the story of those three men throwing their lives away.
Both Gomi-san and Mitsuhisa-san knew how I felt.
That's why they cooperated with me in my plan to seize the gold bars and bring them before the public.
I then requested Youko's assistance in forming a Trojan horse style plan.
Last night, at my studio, the two entered the statue...
...at which point the statue was transported here.
I'm responsible for this entire situation.
Jirou... Dammit! You actually believed them about the gold ba-
For now, I need you to give me all the details.
It's not the time for that.
You said the victims were carried along inside the statue?
What happened then?
The question is who killed them.
The plan was for them to emerge from the statue before the sun rose,
and search out the location of the gold bars.
But the two of them were murdered and stuffed back into the statue.
Last night, there were perhaps a few of Ootsubo's men within the hall's grounds.
But they were stationed at the front gate and were not alone at any given time.
But there was still one other person there, correct? Shimada Hakurou.
You're saying that I killed Mitsuhisa and Gomi?!
You were here alone last evening.
You discovered the two of them emerging from the statue,
and murdered them in order to protect the gold bars.
Unsure what to do with the bodies, you returned them to the statue.
There's no way that cou-
I believe you're capable of it,
having killed those three young men without hesitation.
What do you mean by that?
Hayami Seigen
National Police Agency Director of the Security Bureau
Hayami Seigen
The story is famous.
National Police Agency Director of the Security Bureau
I'm talking about that terrorist attack.
This man forced those three to drive that truck away from the area,
For the sole purpose of creating a sense of obligation among his supporters.
But the truck blew up sooner than expected.
You bastard! Do you have proof of that?
No.
Even if that terrorist bombing was all an act, there's no proof.
Are you saying that I killed Suzuki and the others through terrorist acts?!
Nothing is certain.
But if you've killed even more people now, simply for the purpose of protecting the money you attained by elevating their heroic deeds...
...I'll never forgive you.
Y-You again?!
This individual is my boss, basically.
You seem quite worked up.
I'm aware that only pitiless deaths exist on the battlefield.
There are no heroic tales...
...nor are there heroes.
People have no choice...
...but to answer her question.
I expect that you were worried as to whether those two would be able to find the gold bars.
Come now, I'll ask him
Shimada Jirou, you returned here last night, did you not?
What did you see here?
Tell me...
You think that he witnessed it...?
...Shimada-shi killing the two of them?
We'll know soon.
What...
...did you see?
I... returned here while it was still dark,
telling Ootsubo and his men that I was concerned about the statue.
But.. we didn't find anything alarming.
What did you see?
Father was...
Shimada Hakurou was...
...sleeping. Just as we had planned.
I had put a sleeping drug in father's favourite tea,
enough so that he wouldn't wake until morning.
The plan was to find the gold bars before then.
You said he was sleeping?!
That's what I was trying to tell all of you!
Therefore, there's no way I could have killed them!
This is a testimony from his son... Could it be that he's covering for his father?
If we simply analyse the remains of his tea-
Humans cannot lie in response to Inga's question.
Shimada Hakurou did not kill those two.
Then who did?!
Who killed them, Defeated Detective?!
It's unlike Yuuki Shinjuurou to jump so quickly to a conclusion, wouldn't you say?
And furthermore, for him to declare someone's innocence upon a confession he himself drew out...
But with all we know now, who could be the real killer?
How about if I said, "friendly fire"?
Huh?
The two victims killed each other!
Perhaps they were arguing about how to divide the payment.
By the time they had been transported to the memorial hall grounds,
they had both likely ceased breathing... Still within the statue.
With this theory, Shimada-san doesn't have to get hurt either.
Is that all right with you?
I wonder if Shimada-san will calm down a bit following this incident.
That idiot!
Hey, Shinjuurou...
Buy me ice cream! Ice cream!
That soul wasn't nearly enough for me!
Shut up!
"There are no heroic tales on the battlefield"...
Is that why you think I killed them?
You either threatened them into it, or planned the whole thing yourself.
Ah... so, let us assume that it's true.
But they died... in the process of saving many.
What else is necessary?
In actuality, they may have been terrified of death,
screaming the names of their lovers, and pissing their pants...
...but did any of them remove the driver's foot from the pedal?
Everyone wants to live. That is only natural.
Nonetheless, at that moment, they chose to save everyone there.
If they were considering running away, they could have.
But they didn't!
I believe in the selflessness of their intentions,
and wish from the bottom of my heart to continue passing on their tale of heroism.
Young one, you have no understanding of the true beauty of human beings.
Kaishou Rie
Kaishou Rinroku's Daughter, Housekeeper
Kaishou Rie
According to my father,
Kaishou Rinroku's Daughter, Housekeeper
the two of them were victim to "friendly fire".
What do you think?
It's most certainly another of his lies!
Shimada Hakurou has influence within the military;
My father is trying to make him indebted to him!
You're just going to leave it like that?!
You thought that Shimada-san was the culprit from the beginning, didn't you?
Since he was the kind of person to say things like, "The war was the right thing to do",
and, "Throwing your life away is wonderful"!
You couldn't forgive him...
...but you were mistaken.
Yeah, that's right.
I didn't consider for a second that there could be a culprit other than him.
I couldn't even tell him he was wrong.
That he was wrong?
He said that people were able to throw their lives away for the sake of others.
I was unable to believe in such things.
Human beings live with things in their heart they can't put into words.
I assumed that my role was to bring those things to light...
...but I was wrong.
You really are the Defeated Detective, aren't you... Yuuki Shinjuurou
I expected so much from you...
This invisible wall that we can always feel surrounding us...
...I thought that you might be able to break through it or something.
Don't go selfishly expecting things from me!
I know myself!
I'm a fool, I'm powerless... And I can't do things for other people...
...I can't do anything!
Shinjuurou, what's wrong with you?
I'm sure you're not thinking of resigning from being a detective!
After all, you did promise to feed me tons of souls!
Shinjuurou...
Quite the odd conversation.
Humans are just so strange.
Does that mean we're even beyond the understanding of a worldwide data collective?
You thought that Shimada's heroic tale was all a hoax.
But it was the truth.
The truth never changes...
...it just sullies the beauty of things.
Why are you with Inga?
So that he can give me souls!
Inga!
Without killing anyone, that is.
I was asking about how you first met.
I'm me.
It seems you made a deal with Inga:
In exchange for not killing anyone, you would feed him people's souls... Their truths.
But you're subsequently aware that this means being possessed by him.
What about it?!
Isn't that in itself throwing your life away for the sake of another?
I'm not that great of a person...
From my perspective, it's about the same thing.
Shall I tell it to you in percentages?
The real culprit?
So they didn't just kill each other?
It was actually quite simple.
If only my eyes hadn't been following an illusion...
That would be the illusion that someone had sneaked in to steal the gold bars.
But that's a fact.
Before the statue was transported... before they had even entered the statue, the two of them were killed.
And the only person who could have managed that...
...is you.
Why would I do such a thing?
T-That's right! She had no motive!
As I said, it's simple.
Her motive was the gold bars.
Stop joking around!
During yesterday's party, you were the only person inside the building.
I was tired!
Even with all the commotion happening outside, you didn't leave the building...
...not even after two dead bodies came out of the statue you made?
I didn't want to be... unnecessarily suspected...
From where you were inside, you could clearly see Shimada Hakurou's back.
My back?
Corpses falling out of a statue.
Anyone with good instincts would suspect a robbery,
and thereafter head for their hidden valuables as quickly as possible.
You were constantly watching for where he might head to.
But he didn't move at all.
Youko...
You knew that the gold bars hadn't been stolen yet...
...since you were the one who killed those two.
I didn't want the damn gold bars!
I don't believe that those three that died are heroes!
I believe that they were average kids, who went toward their deaths crying, screaming, "I don't want to die"!
That's why I assisted with your plan!
That's the only reason!
I thought so as well.
That wasn't in the design we approved.
I had thought that it was simply a message from the artist.
But...
It's human blood.
Once the police analyse it, we'll know if it's the same as one of the victims.
If they'd killed each other within the statue, there's no way their blood could reach that far outside.
The two of them were murdered outside the statue... Before it was transported.
In the middle of the next day, the inside of the statue would become extremely hot.
Following that, the time of death would be impossible to calculate.
The tear I saw on the statue was also an illusion.
What should we do?
I'll leave it to you.
However, having turned out like this, I can't just let Shimada-san go unharmed.
To be deceived by a beautiful woman... what a hopeless detective.
I suppose I should thank you.
I only came to sully a thing of beauty.
Are you saying that that woman is beautiful?
Or are you still doubting the beauty of those men throwing their lives away?
They certainly did die.
But I'm alive... As are you.
What are you trying to say?
There are times when people are forced to give their lives up for others.
But that doesn't mean that you or I are admirable.
The ones who are admirable... Who are beautiful...
...are those men who died, and no one else!
The rest of us are petty, foolish, disorderly...
...grovelling upon the ground and desperately clinging to life.
That's all.
You...
The reason you didn't panic, even after seeing those thieves...
Inga.
Geez...
...was because there no reason for you to panic with it right before your eyes.
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 next episode is inspired from "Meiji-era Ango Detective Stories"...
Huh? It's not?
The original work is a short story called "ANGOU"?
The title has a double meaning, both "angou",
which means a code to hide secrets and then, of course, the author's name.
But who cares about that? I'll give it a read.
It's a great story!
I'm crying tears!
I can't believe Shinjurou and I are going to tamper with a wonderful story like this!
Preview of Next Episode
Episode 6
「Far too Simple of a Code」
From Sakaguchi Ango's 「ANGOU」
Next time on UN-GO, "Far too Simple of a Code"!
What a great feeling...