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It's the picture.

Mr. Matsuoka!

Nahoshi Inami, answer me!

Where is Haruka Kazuta?

Awfully compliant of you to produce this evidence.

Hondomachi!

The second floor!

Stay right where you are.

This is Hondomachi.

Gravedigger located.

Two suspects.

The perpetrator Haruka Kazuta and the mastermind who was directing Kazuta.

Her name is Nahoshi Inami.

Attempt to arrest met with resistance.

Mr. Matsuoka was injured.

Kazuta remains armed and continues to resist.

Requesting immediate backup!

What is it?

You have an interesting face.

Do I?

I haven't seen my face.

There are no mirrors here.

True.

I'm being made to look other than myself.

He says it's to protect me from the scary monster.

Oh?

Excuse me.

Excuse me. Could you come here?

Do you think Kazuta ran?

He would never.

Everything he does is for his princess here.

And isn't she just cool as a cucumber.

Well, she is an ice queen who enjoys getting a man

who's not even her boyfriend to kill for her.

Mr. Matsuoka, just shoot her.

Excuse me?

Please shoot her.

She's a worthless woman.

If you won't...

...I will.

Kazuta!

Cognition particles. Nice.

So what's your deal?

I wouldn't call it having pride.

True.

It's just being childish.

Isn't he asking for you?

It's fine. Just ignore him.

Do you know how that stuff works?

Is there someone you have a crush on?

Uh, sorry, man. Want me to get her?

Oh, don't worry about it.

Thank you.

She should still hear me, so it's all right.

"It's all right"?

You sure?

Yes.

Well, if you say so.

Shall I extract Sakaido?

Yeah.

Please do.

"Police Funeral For Fallen Officers"

How many serial killers' wells have manifested John Walker...

Kazuta makes six, doesn't he.

Any connection between him and the other five serial killers?

I've run countless queries with different conditions,

but so far nothing comes up.

Putting aside how he finds them,

how does he make them into murderers?

To say he controls people's emotions seems right out of fiction,

but could he be a psychiatrist?

All six have no treatment records.

To begin with, he's ingrained not just in their memories,

but even in their unconscious!

To dress that way even when he meets them face to face--who does that?

What, is it a cosplay?

I see.

You're saying that despite how strange the unconscious can be,

the fact that all six share the same image of him

must mean they've actually seen a man in a red frock coat.

Exactly.

Moreover, that cosplay bastard produces no witnesses.

He appears only before the person he targets.

It's a nearly impossible feat.

No, I'd say completely impossible.

Hey, you know...

What if John Walker has a machine that's similar to the Mizuhanome?

Except instead of exploring data like the id well,

it can invade a person's unconscious directly.

Couldn't he be using that to dive in as a pilot?

There could easily be a second Mizuhanome, or possibly an original, right?

After all, we operate the Mizuhanome,

and even we haven't been given all the details on it.

Assistant Director Togo, isn't the Mizuhanome's inventor, Nishio Shirakoma, missing?

Yes.

Thanks to that, no one can even access the main unit's central component.

Can't we get them to disclose a bit more information?

I'll try sounding out Chief Hayaseura about it.

Though, he says it's to prevent military applications,

and political pressures are a large factor,

so the info is purposely difficult to dig up.

Don't any of you try to get your hands on it.

The punishment would be excessively severe if you were discovered.

Still, it would certainly help to have more information.

Wait.

Even without other Mizuhanome units, the one at the Wellside that we use now might be plenty.

In other words, someone might be using it differently...

...from within the Wellside staff.

Don't say stuff that'll make needless waves.

But...

...then it might explain why he uses a disguise.

Because it would be one of our colleagues hiding their face from us.

But the Mizuhanome was introduced a year ago.

Take Tamotsu Fukuda for instance. His first kill was at least three years ago.

With that timeline, it would have to have been a Mizuhanome prototype.

A prototype? That's very possible.

We're working off of too many hypotheticals.

Then let's back up.

How is John Walker finding his serial killer candidates?

About that.

The variation in distance and timing gives the impression of being random.

And yet, some of the killers are connected.

Fukuda the Perforator and Haruka Kazuta, his victim as well as the Gravedigger.

Randomly selected killer candidates just happened to have a connection?

I don't think so.

Yeah, that's a good point.

That means John Walker arrived at Kazuta from Fukuda by some method.

Fukuda's only contact with Kazuta should be when he put the hole in his head,

so what, did John Walker just happen to be there?

It's all too convenient...

They found mics and cameras.

John Walker really was monitoring Fukuda after all.

Then do you suppose...

Assuming Kazuta was also under surveillance,

then John Walker might have had his eye on Inami as well.

Got it. I'll be returning soon.

Have Narihisago get ready.

Hey there.

Mr. Matsuoka.

Allow me to convey--

Oh, no need for all that when it's just us.

Did you meet with the families?

Of course. How is your shoulder, Mr. Matsuoka?

It's not that serious.

But I stopped you to discuss something else.

Tamotsu Fukuda... Brilliant detective Anaido.

I hear he's useless once he's in the well.

The brilliant detective job doesn't actually require a criminal, correct?

If just having killed is good enough,

then I might just be able to point you to someone with the aptitude.

Kaeru.

The moment her name passed my lips, I remembered.

I'm the brilliant detective, Sakaido.

I must solve the mystery of Kaeru's death.

Apparently the killer walked down the aisle after being drenched in her blood.

Nothing but dead people.

Still, when did they die, and how long have they been on this train?

I've identified the train.

It's the local train for the line Kazuta and Inami took to attend high school.

In the crossing.

The Gravedigger's victims.

From front to back, Minami Ayase, Shiki Kouda, Toshiki Yamashita,

Kaori Shiina, Kazuyuki Masuda, and Kana Mishima.

They're in the order they died.

According to the documents, when Nahoshi Inami was 14,

her mother committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train.

Apparently the train Sakaido is on is the one that ran her mother over.

Moreover, Nahoshi Inami was aboard this very train when it happened.

Look.

The last car and the first car connect.

So the train forms a ring.

Hello.

Hello...

I've been waiting for you.

You killed Kaeru--that girl?

Huh? You mean her?

She died.

So you didn't kill her, then?

What do you think?

I imagine not.

Your hands are bloody from that handkerchief, but there's no sign of blood spatter on you.

To begin with, the killer would've disposed of both the handkerchief and those bloody shoes.

On second look, there's not much blood at the scene.

And the footsteps could well be Kaeru's shoe size.

So her name was Kaeru.

Huh.

You also didn't know her name.

Meaning there's no reason for you to want to kill her.

Well, not that it really matters.

Hey, don't look at him.

Your boyfriend?

As if.

Okay... Just a few more questions.

I suppose Kaeru circled the train covered in blood,

and then asked you to wipe off her feet?

Yeah. I don't know why, though.

I do.

Kaeru did it to lead me here.

In order to bring me to this girl.

Or possibly to bring me to this boy.

Hey, do you know when this train reaches the next station?

My mom's probably waiting for me there.

If her mother's at the next station, then won't she never be hit by the train?

Perhaps Nahoshi Inami is protecting her mother?

No.

It was at the crossing they passed earlier.

That's where her mother jumped.

The time also fits perfectly.

In other words--

Nahoshi Inami is forever aboard the train as it runs over her mother.

Hey.

Just now.

How awful.

Does this mean Kazuta and Inami committed murders they otherwise wouldn't

because of John Walker?

Impulses don't determine actions.

How do we know that?

Isn't that an assumption, like whether humans are fundamentally good or fundamentally evil?

Or whether reason holds primacy.

That human reason must be strong enough to beat out impulse.

That idea.

You sure I'm not interrupting?

Jeez. I told you to quit it with that.

I...

I hate seeing someone dead.

The incident with her mother must have warped those feelings.

Nahoshi Inami revealed the location of a barrel.

You're being awfully compliant.

I mean, now that I can't view them by camera,

there's no point keeping them like that, is there?

I'll tell you where the rest are buried, too, just as you want.

Wanna join us?

Stop that.

I want it to be this way forever.

What do we do?

They've located all the victims' remains,

and it seems the case has drawn to a close.

Let's... let Sakaido do what he wants a little longer.

No, I mean, I also...

I want to go on looking at this world.

Is that strange?

Copy that.

The remains have all been recovered.

I see.

Um.

Could I perhaps meet with Ms. Hondomachi, that cute detective who arrested me?

I don't know.

Is there something you want to tell her?

Both she and Kazuta have holes in their heads.

So I just wanted to see whether they had a connection.

I don't see what you mean.

I know she'll understand.

Because she's a girl.

What? Me? A brilliant detective?

Really?

Yes.

Mr. Matsuoka made a suggestion with regard to your preeminent powers of deduction.

Ms. Hondomachi.

Yes?

Can I count on your help in the investigation of serial killer creator John Walker?

Of course.

I have great expectations for your performance.

I'll try to meet them!

Kaeru killed herself.

"This train doesn't go anywhere."

"It just goes around in circles."

Just to tell me that.

How could she do such a thing?

Is Kaeru's death--is anyone's death worth something like that?

I just don't understand.

Where are we?

Since we'll never arrive anywhere, I guess it doesn't matter.

You don't have to die!

I don't want you to die!

I...

I just wanted to save you!

Mr. Matsuoka!

Thank you so much for what you did.

You don't need to thank me.

Well, I suppose you mean you were just doing your job, but...

No, I mean it's nothing to feel good about.

I didn't want to make you a damn detective.

I wish you didn't have it in you.

But it means I'll be entrusted with difficult, important work.

Do you know what makes a brilliant detective?

Their powers of deduction, I suppose?

Right. And there's the prerequisite for diving into an id well.

You have to have killed.

Apparently, to be a brilliant detective within the well,

it's also not good enough just to have killed.

You have to be a serial killer.

I don't fault you for your attempted suicide when you were captured by Fukuda.

But I wonder,

why did you split at Genpei Oono's house and go to the basement on your own?

Just how early on did you realize that Nahoshi Inami was the Gravedigger?

Or should I say, when you sent the picture to the others,

just how high did you think the probability was?

I--

When you used cognition particle detection as a pretext and killed Haruka Kazuta,

just how great did it feel?

That's not...

It's fine. I'm not condemning you.

Particularly at this organization,

I suppose that sort of thing is compatible with justice.

All I did by recommending you was protect myself and my other colleagues.

Director, about the cameras and microphones hidden in Tamotsu Fukuda's house.

They matched items seized in a past case.

A past case?

The serial killer called the Challenger.

The man who murdered Narihisago's daughter. Denshin Katsuyama.

They're the same as the equipment found hidden in his home.