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 8
「The King of Paradise」
Inspired by Sakaguchi Ango's 「Meiji-era Ango Detective Stories "The Foolish Apparition" and "The Election Murder"」
The detective still isn't back?
I wonder if something happened to him...
Sorry... You guys have a mystery or something?
Inga
Assistant Detective
Inga
Assistant Detective
Well, it's about the cucumbers at my farm;
they're almost ready to be picked!
Water is starting to leak through my walls again!
My cell phone is getting terrible service...
I want him to try out my food stand's new menu!
My precious necklace has disappeared somewhere! Please look for it!
How should I win back my girlfriend?!
Kazamori! Kazamori!
Well, considering the circumstances, Inga-chan will have to do!
Inga-chan, why not work for me part-time?
You won't have to do anything too indecent!
We'll just put you in a swimsuit!
Inga-chan is a boy!
That might be even better!
They're really starting to scare me...
You still haven't found Shinjuurou?!
Stop squeezing me!
Bamboo juice!
Where's Shinjuurou?
The firewalls are complex... Let me try again.
Forget it, just help me out here!
Sasa Kazamori
Artifical Intelligence (R.A.I.)
Sasa Kazamori
Artifical Intelligence (R.A.I.)
Shinjuurou-sama!
Mamori... Kaze?
Kaza... Mori...
Was he there?
Kaishou Rie
Kaishou Rinroku's Daughter, Housekeeper
I found him. He's there, just as we thought.
Kaishou Rie
Kaishou Rinroku's Daughter, Housekeeper
The Eastern Kantou Social Rehabilitation Promotion Center...
It may be privately run, but it's still a prison. Shinjuurou...
Shinjuurou said that he felt like he was being used when solving the case of the codes.
He said he was going to the prison that guy is being kept in.
If he was only visiting, it wouldn't take more than a couple of hours;
why on Earth has he been gone for days?
Can you fetch up any more details?
Our home connection is probably the most stable in all of Japan.
Any average firewall could never stop me,
since part of me would have already combined with it in the cloud.
Nonetheless, there's an aggressive barrier around Shinjuurou-sama that I'm unable to identify.
You can't talk to Shinjuurou?
There are also some differences in his behaviour that I can't make sense of.
I stole some footage from the surveillance cameras.
It's an honour to be called upon by you, Chairman.
Well, Rie was making quite a fuss.
Kaishou Rinroku
President of JJ Systems
Kaishou Rinroku
President of JJ Systems
It seems that Yuuki Shinjuurou is indeed imprisoned in a privately run prison,
the Eastern Kantou Rehab Center.
He has no criminal history, and hasn't been sentenced by any judges,
but he's been given a prisoner registration number.
There's a possibility that someone has falsified the data.
Koyama Izumi
Public Prosecutor's Office Joint Coordinating Dept, Public Prosecutor
National Police Agency Director of the Security Bureau
Public Prosecutor's Office Joint Coordinating Dept, Public Prosecutor
Hayami Seigen
National Police Agency Director of the Security Bureau
Koyama Izumi
Hayami Seigen
What should we do about him?
Well, we may as well get him out of there for now.
If he's innocent, that is.
Rie-sama! Please stop this at once!
Kaishou Family Maid (Head maid)
Kaishou Family Maid
I'm going too!
Kaishou Family Maid (Head maid)
Kaishou Family Maid
Milady...
Please let me go as your assistant, Izumi-san!
Assistants and maids are two different things...
Huh?!
Wait a minute!
I made these.
I'll take 'em.
I'll put them to use if the detective starts acting up.
Visiting Room #1
So you were the one who remotely attempted to make Yajima-shi kill his wife.
Self-Proclaimed Novelist
Prisoner
Self-Proclaimed Novelist
Prisoner
You refer to yourself as a novelist, but your real name is...
New characters have shown up in the middle of the story and messed up the plot...
Try not to talk too much.
What did you do to the detective?
Who are those women?
A murder occurred on site while filming a movie.
Filming?
The culprit is the cameraman, Yuuki Shinjuurou.
You're a high-class detective, got it?
Quit lagging behind!
Y-Yes, milady!
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Cameraman?
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Cameraman?
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Cameraman?
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Cameraman?
A murder?!
And you're saying that Prosecutor Koyama has arrested the culprit?
Everything seems a bit mixed up...
They're going to begin a more thorough investigation soon,
so it will probably take a while.
The prosecutor just happened to be here,
and with Kaishou Rie, a civilian;
there's no way they'd be able to carry out an investigation...
It's as if they're all seeing the same illusion-
An illusion... That's it!
This is similar to the Oono Myoushin case,
in which the founder of a new religious cult murdered his followers.
The followers were hallucinating to the point of believing his words were reality.
It was as if they were looking at a blank screen,
and seeing whatever Oono told them was there.
Oono had the power to make his words into reality.
That's the power of Bettenou.
Bettenou? The same Bettenou that was the founder of Oono's cult?
Bettenou is a god...
...one that turns people's words into reality.
That's why I've been telling you that I can smell her here!
All you were saying was that something smelled strange!
But if that's the case...
Perhaps all this...
...is being caused by one of...
...Bettenou's illusions.
She must be using Shinjuurou and everyone in there to create some kind of story.
It's probably about time I...
Click!
Maybe a little more...
Kazamori!
Bonus round!
So this... Is the mystery.
Yuuki-san?
Kazamori... The bonus round wasn't necessary.
It's nice to see you again.
What can you see right now?
The truth, most likely.
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Detective
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Detective
Sinners, huh?
Yes, the Metro Police informed me of it already...
If it's made public that someone who came here for a visit ended up as a prisoner...
For now, we have no choice but to leave it to them.
Solving this murder takes priority!
I found the crime scene.
Do shutters without safety mechanisms even exist anymore?!
It's been modified to leave no record of it opening or closing!
The safety mechanisms are disabled as well...
Non-existent streetcars don't run.
This is the murder weapon.
This shutter is only used to separate the mens and womens quarters,
Okamoto
Eastern Kantou Social Rehabilitation Promotion Centre Director of Security
Okamoto
Eastern Kantou Social Rehabilitation Promotion Centre Director of Security
so it's rarely even used.
Director Mitaka... I mean, the security guard, I guess...
He was opening this shutter nightly in order to visit the women's block...
...in order to make contact with a female prisoner.
That's why the circuit was cut.
Cut it out already!
Why is our prime suspect acting the detective and conducting an investigation?
It's just as Milady says.
Milady is the pride of our department.
She solves cases with money, authority, and sheer will;
she's known to all as "The High-class Detective"!
I guess that novelist can't write light novels...
I'm going to go confirm the identity of this "novelist".
Don't forget about Bettenou.
I'm through with being obstructed by her.
Huh? You think you're coming along?
As if they'd let a kid in...
They wouldn't have a problem with me, would they?
I can go as your assistant.
O-Of course!
Leave the handcuffs on.
If you don't keep applying stimulus, you'll be sucked back into that novelist's tale.
Oh, and if it looks like they're going to cause you trouble...
Yuuki Shinjuurou!
Ah, like this?
How long do you plan to keep up this farce?!
W-What are you doing?!
If you resist me, I'll sentence you to 780 years of imprisonment!
"Ah, I'm so scared!"
In parentheses, with a monotone voice.
All of the prisoners here are monitored using their individually numbered chips.
This is the recording of the area around the shutter from last night.
Yuuki Shinjuurou
That's me.
There were no other numbers, and therefore prisoners, in the area until the morning.
In other words, no one could have been the culprit but you, Defeated Detective!
Why would I...?
I can imagine it happening.
You probably screamed,
"The truth must be revealed", like you always do,
and got in a fight with the guy.
After all, you've got a terrible mouth, but a stronger sense of justice than anyone.
Is that praise? Or an insult?
Those numbers...
Did you notice something?
I was placed in here by a man claiming to be a novelist.
But is it possible to issue a new number to me when I'm not a criminal?
There's a lot of maintenance that's necessary with mounting the chips, so even a guard can install them.
But the registered numbers are issued by the courts and public prosecutors.
In that case, an existing prisoner's number may have been transferred to my chip.
That is a possibility...
Then, if there's another prisoner with that same number...
Our security system wouldn't allow a double registration of the same number!
That just means that, even if they have a chip attached,
we have one prisoner here who doesn't have a registered number.
That prisoner can move about without the security system monitoring them.
There are surveillance cameras though!
The victim was probably tampering with the angles of the cameras,
just as he was able to modify the shutter,
so that no one could detect his movements.
I'll start checking immediately!
If we can find who originally had your number,
we'll have the killer!
No.
There wasn't ever a war.
If I solve this mystery, the dream that novelist gave us will disappear.
Bring me the criminal records of your female prisoners!
I wonder what will happen to the movie...
I don't want it to get cancelled...
...just when I felt I'd finally been able to accomplish something.
We don't even know the conclusion yet...
Shinjuurou-kun!
Before his murder, Director Mitaka was looking for movies in the library.
Stuart Rosenberg, Franklin J. Shaffner, Frank Darabont.
Can you tell me what all of them have in common?
They're all foreigners!
They each directed a famous prison break movie.
Prison break?
When I saw the director...
You get it, don't you?! You're a papillon!
No! You mustn't let go!
Please don't let go!
I'm begging you!
He called the woman a "papillon"...
Let go of me!
Please, just listen to me!
...and begged her to not let go of him?
Was that the final line of a breakup?
No. He wasn't telling her not to let go.
"Please, don't tell anyone."
TL Note: The words for "speaking" and "letting go" have the same pronunciation.
He was telling the woman, who knew his secret, not to tell anyone.
The director had a secret and that's why he was killed?
Isn't that a bit backwards?
The reason the director was entering the women's block nightly...
...was to help the woman who knew his secret escape this prison.
He was trying to find even the smallest hint by looking into those movies.
Escape this prison?
If he switched out her prisoner number and altered the cameras, it would be possible.
I don't understand... What prison are you talking about?
I solved the mystery.
These are your finishing lines.
"Yes... I was really just a simple NEET, pretending to be a hacker."
What is this?
"It was so much fun leaking the governments confidential information,"
"but once my blog started getting attention, I even began uploading lies."
"One day, the police came..."
"I had relations with more people than I could count..."
"...because I was so insecure."
"Is this war going to last forever? I fear it may never end..."
"I wanted to be with someone so that I could forget my anxiety,"
"but when the war ended, I was accused of selling my body."
I was merely an ordinary mother.
I couldn't allow my son, who wasn't even a year old,
to become a victim of the war.
I simply wanted to protect my everyday life.
That's why I accepted a friend's invitation,
and participated in a demonstration against the government.
Before long, I thought,
"If that prime minister doesn't quit, the war will never end."
"And... If he won't quit, I'll just make him quit."
I researched how to make explosives...
...then one day, the Public Security Force came.
During the war, there were many bombing plots against the Prime Minister that were uncovered,
but among them was a housewife who was trying to protect her everyday life?
Mitaka Kichitarou also participated in demonstrations against the government during the war...
...and met Izawa Sayo there.
But to him, those demonstrations were nothing more than a fad of the times.
Now that he was working as a security guard for a private prison following the war,
he would lose his job and his future if it was known he'd interacted with terrorists.
So that's why he switched out Izawa Sayo's number and tried to help her escape?
Mitaka asked me something once.
Tanimura and Yada are over there, right?
Izawa, too?
At that time, you were behind the shadow of that box, and he couldn't see you.
But Mitaka's tablet displays each prisoner's number and location in real time,
so even if he couldn't see you, there shouldn't have been a need to ask me.
So then, why did he ask?
Izawa Sayo...
...it's because your number is the only one that isn't displayed.
He told me, "I'll get you out of here, so don't tell anyone!"
But I didn't understand.
I'm shooting a movie.
I thought that I would be able to finish...
...and become my true self!
Why should I have to be cut from the movie?!
That's why I...
He was trying to help you escape!
He probably pitied that you couldn't be with your child...
No!
It was the streetcar!
It moved! It moved,
and ran him over!
Is not war but a toy?
I'm not the only one who think this.
You... You too, have been treating war as a toy.
Information Criminal
Yada Sumie
Tanimura Motoko
Sex Offender
Information Criminal
Yada Sumie
Tanimura Motoko
Sex Offender
Izawa Sayo
Terrorist
Izawa Sayo
Terrorist
Are you that frustrated that, this one time, the great Yuuki Shinjuurou...
...had to rely on Chairman Kaishou's deductions?
You're making a terrible face.
You know, I'm going to stick around here a bit longer.
I want to escape, but I can't run from this opportunity;
this is a chance to reflect upon myself from a more thorough perspective.
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.
Something's wrong...
Answer me. What is it you want?
What are you trying to do with Yuuki Shinjuurou?
You won't be able to resist.
Humans have no choice but to answer my question.
And until you've done so, you won't even be able to call that mischievous god of yours.
What are you trying to do with Yuuki Shinjuurou?
He's my... Great Detective.
Ooh!
I'm a novelist.
Using this reality as a stage, I bring forth events.
That is my novel...
...and every novel needs a detective.
I wanted to keep him near me,
so that I could continue writing new works.
I have an innumerable amount of plots!
And that's why you forced the security guard to help you,
and disguised Shinjuurou as a prisoner.
Then I disposed of that security guard;
it was the detective's first case!
But he mustn't solve the mystery!
Because if he did, the wonderful world of illusion would begin to break down!
He was supposed to eternally grapple with an unsolvable mystery in an illusionary world.
He was supposed to become mine!
That's too bad. There's no such thing as a mystery Yuuki Shinjuurou can't solve.
Even if he has to spill every drop of his blood in the process...
He always offers me more truths... more souls...
Where's Bettenou?
You didn't take her away yourself?
The way you always do...
"If someone hadn't killed him, I might have killed him myself."
"Instead of going to all this trouble to look for the criminal,
I'd rather hunt down the killer of Takeda Shingen,
who might've died of natural causes, suicide, or murder,"
Shinjurou answered with a scowl.
Inspired by "The Sneering Demon" from Ango Torimonochou,
Preview of Next Episode
Episode 9
「Kaishou Rinroku's Crime」
Inspired by Sakaguchi Ango's 「Meiji-era Ango Detective Stories "The Sneering Demon" and "The Red Trap"」
Next time on UN-GO: "Kaishou Rinroku's Crime".
There's a reason I'm so sherious...
I mean serious! I'm serious!