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Drama 10

The woman who was once my tutor...

Ten years later, she was arrested for defrauding men, attempted murder and for murder.

Hijii Motoko wrote us a letter asking us to be her defense team.

I... missed you all this time.

One of the men she murdered...

...was the President of a restaurant planning company, Agawa Hiroyuki.

Everything about your existence was a lie.

The second man was an employee at a TV station, Bando Yukio.

I have no reason TO kill anyone!

The third victim, company executive Chikura Taizo...

...hit his head while barely escaping with his life and now lies unconscious in a hospital bed.

Why do I have to meet Haruki-kun in such a place...

Please allow me to take part in Hijii Motoko-san's case.

Ah... I wonder if that boy didn't fall in love with that Sensei?

Eh?

There was just one man that I loved.

After all, that woman is a villainess, isn't she?

She isn't a villainess.

Then let's try exploring her roots.

Kitakyushu Airport Terminal Building

She was born in Kitakyushu?

Where are the others today?

Ah...

Nakamura and Kurosaka have gone to Kitakyushu.

To Kitakyushu?

Yes.

Fukuoka Prefecture Kitakyushu City

I wonder what happened here?

A long time ago, a leisure facility was to be built here.

Then the plans for it got shelved somewhere along the way and it was left as is.

Kind of a sad place somehow, isn't it?

Are you with the press?

No. We're...

It's about Hijii Motoko, isn't it?

She's our local shame.

Well, it's ironic since without that case...

...we wouldn't have any visitors coming to us from Tokyo, would we?

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Woman Saint

Episode 3 "Pride"

The home Hijii Motoko had been raised in when she was very young...

Tutsuji

Okonomiyaki

...was even shabbier than I imagined it would be.

This neighborhood had once been a red-light district...

...and this store as well, disguised as an okonomiyaki restaurant...

...was said to be, in truth, merely a front...

...where women would take men to the second floor and perform acts of prostitution.

Motoko's mother... had also worked here.

Thanks for waiting.

Pretty deserted place, isn't it?

Excuse me!

Would you mind if we asked you a few questions?

Ah, I'm...

Best not get involved with them.

They'll just do that again.

They think all the parents and children who live here are strange...

No, we're...

Do you know of Hijii Motoko-san?

I don't know no strumpet like that!

Leave already!

Please wait.

Would you tell us? Anything is fine.

Leave!

Please!

Lawyers?

We're lawyers responsible for the defense of Hijii Motoko-san.

Um...

After Hijii-san's mother died when she was fourteen...

...we heard she came to live here.

I have nothing to say to you.

But you did live with her for one year, didn't you?

We're doing this investigation in order to save Hijii-san.

Could you please tell us her story from that time?

I don't want to remember anything about that dreadful woman.

Dreadful woman?

I said I don't know!

Leave!

Hurry and leave, I said!

If a woman like her gets the death penalty, that's fine!

\hNakane\h Cleaners

Why do we get this everywhere we go? Geez!

Are you okay?

Of course I'm not okay!

This is all Hijii's fault...

That would be so.

Were ya asking the Obaachan here 'bout Motoko-chan?

That's a bit of a delicate subject fer her.

Huh?

Hey, is Motoko-chan gonna get the death penalty?

Huh?

Well... the rumors started right from the time she came here.

That an incredibly beautiful woman had come to the cleaner's store.

I was in grade school at the time...

...but all of us from the school went over just to take a look at her.

To see the admired Oneesan, right?

That's right.

Rumor was she was the daughter of a prostitute...

...so we who were in our puberty, just had to go.

My Ma said...

...it seemed the cleaning store's Obaasan objected to Motoko-chan's coming.

But that her uncle was forcing her to accept Motoko-chan.

That uncle would be, Nakane Tadashi-san, who died last year, right?

Yeah, that's him.

Her uncle was kind to Motoko.

And patterned ones go over here...

But he wasn't being just kind to her, was he?

He wasn't just kind to her?

Don't tell me the two of them had a man/woman relationship going?

Eh?

That couldn't be...

Well, ya wouldn't a thought so...

...but I done seen it.

Her uncle handing money over to Motoko-chan.

Money?

Yeah.

There were voices coming out o' the store late at night, so I took a look...

...and from the back of the store, there was her uncle, prostrating himself.

It was wrong of me about the bath.

Please... don't tell Misako.

I won't tell Aunt... so give me money!

Oh, oh, oh!

I would see them doing that from time to time after then.

Him secretly passing her spending money.

But when it became a rumor around the neighborhood...

...that's when him and his wife got in dis huge fight.

After that she had Motoko-chan shipped off to other relatives right away.

She was devilish from that time, huh?

Kurosaka-san.

Well, my Ma and the other mothers would call her things like "devilish" or "bitch."

And that she was a bitch through her mother.

And with this current case it's been, "Look! Told you!"

Say, Motoko-chan won't be gettin' the death penalty, right?

I'd hate it if someone I knew got the death penalty.

Do you know anyone who was close with her?

I don't think she had any friends, though.

She was always off by herself in the classroom, putting on airs by reading books.

Right.

She was always saying, "I want to hurry and get out of this town."

And, "If I stay in this town, I'll just rot."

She was someone with good grades.

She was the only one who'd declare, "I'm definitely going to go to Tokyo University."

Right, right.

"If I study hard and go to Tokyo University..."

"...I'll surely be able to become anything."

What did she want to become?

Something like a doctor or a lawyer or a celebrity.

Something where she would be respected by anyone.

She had a high level of pride to go with her big mouth, didn't she?

A big mouth?

Right, right.

What would she say?

That her dead parents were doctors...

...and that her relatives were higher-ups in banking.

But those were all lies, right?

When they heard about the fraud, all her old classmates said, "Ah, it figures."

Please wait.

She had a part-time job here, right?

Don't know, don't know. I had no connection to that.

Don't say that...

I got taken in by her talk, too.

That's no good; letting men support you.

Ah, Izumi-chan.

Yes?

Are you an acquaintance of that lawyer who came the other day to see Chikura-san?

Huh?

After Chikura-san refused to be interviewed by him again...

...he asked me, "Is Izumi-chan doing well?"

And it seems he knew you're getting married.

Ah... Is that right. Truth is...

You know him?

Chikura-san...

All we're getting from those who knew her back in grade school and high school...

...is just bitter testimony about her...

Seems what she said about her being fixated by money is confirmed, isn't it?

And not only money.

Money and her pride.

She wanted to lift herself up to be seen as a high class woman, didn't she?

We often hear about people who've experienced poverty who strongly want some upward mobility...

...but she made a bad pattern out of it, didn't she?

That's why she pretended she was a student studying at a famous Tokyo women's college, isn't it?

She really did think she could make herself into a high class woman someday by telling those lies, didn't she?

She's really stupid.

If you do study properly in this way, various futures will open up to you.

You can come to do anything.

That's why you have to work hard now.

Hey!

Could you stop spacing out?

I don't want to look like I'm talking to myself.

I'm sorry.

Well... we haven't been able to find that one man she told the Director that she loved.

Naturally.

That was just another of her lies, wasn't it?

There's no way a woman like her could fall in love.

There are lots of such people.

But I wonder if I shouldn't reconsider you a little?

Huh?

You've worked hard at everything for this preliminary investigation, right?

Ah...

It's for your fiancee, right?

Or else could it be for the sake of your beloved tutor-sensei?

Please stop making fun of me. We're in the middle of work.

Let's take another line of action until we depart.

I'll try hitting up her relations a bit more.

Nakamura, canvas her old neighborhood again and see if you have better luck this time.

Understood.

I remember this young lady very well.

Really?

Yes.

The first time she came here, she was a middle school student.

She was carrying this huge book she had borrowed from the school's library.

A book?

Yes.

It was an art book of religious paintings.

An art book?

Ah, could it be...

Ah... it was this painting.

How do I become someone like this woman?

For that, you should merely pray to God.

That you'll become like her.

That's impossible.

I don't believe in God!

If God makes me do such a thing, then he's a really bad person!

A terrible guy.

I can't pray to someone like that!

It was an exceptionally sad thing.

Still, she would drop by sometimes after that.

Will you read this?

Mary Magdalene is a saint?

Even though she was a prostitute.

Mary Magdalane was present at Jesus Christ's rebirth...

Mary Magdalane went to where his disciples were

and told them, "We have seen the Lord"

and also reported what the Master had said.

...and she spread his teachings to the world.

She was surely a holy woman.

Reading the Bible, bit by bit...

...and participating in the Sunday liturgies...

...she gradually began praying to God in earnest.

Her devout figure as she prayed...

...was surely a divine one.

About ten years ago...

...she showed up here for the first time in a long while.

At that time, she had become surprisingly adult.

Father...

It's been a long time.

This is, this is...

This is great, isn't it?

Huh?

You've become one, haven't you?

The woman you prayed to become.

No.

No.

No...

I...

Where have I taken the wrong path?

And then, as I baptized her at this church...

...she said, "I won't be coming to this town again" and then she left.

Is that right.

I'm very sorry.

I only just found out about it the other day.

That my fiancee will be her lawyer in that case.

It's okay.

It has no connection to you...

I didn't want you going to my parent's home...

Why would you selfishly do that...

We're very sorry for going without getting your permission.

But this was for the trial, too.

We wanted to know what your roots were.

In order to save you.

And?

Did you find anything?

Something that will save me?

I can imagine what all of them were saying.

I don't have any roots in such a place.

Just bad memories.

I see.

We were able to get various testimonies...

...but we still have a ways to go yet before we have enough to use in a trial.

If you want to know so much, then I'll tell you anything.

You already know though...

...that my Mother was a prostitute.

Thank you very much. That'll be 50,000 yen.

Hey!

Wait!

Wait!

Pay up!

Don't joke around with us, you pervert bastard! Don't joke around with us!

Get the hell away!

Mom!

What're ya doin', geez!

Ready?

You must NEVER do an indecent thing like this.

But the money...

The money is important.

Thank you.

But you must absolutely never fall into this yourself.

No matter how pretty your face might be...

...no one will ever love an indecent woman.

I don't care!

I don't like men!

What are you saying?!

Motoko.

You will surely be loved.

I'm certain a wonderful future is waiting for you.

That's why you mustn't fall into this yourself.

Always face forward... be dignified...

...and be a noble woman.

There'll be a huge amusement park built here before long.

An amusement park?

And not only an amusement park.

But hotels and pools and onsens and even shopping centers will all be here.

It'll be a dream-like leisure facility.

Ehh...

And once that's done, this town will be much livelier, too.

Tourists will come in droves...

...and the number of jobs will go up.

And I'm sure even I'll be able to get a job...

A job where I can get a proper salary.

And then I'll get you some new clothes, Motoko...

...and I'll make sure to buy you socks, too.

Really?

That's really like a dream, isn't it?

That's right! It's like a dream, isn't it?

Yeah!

But in the end, it wasn't built.

The bubble collapsed and the plan was shelved.

Of course...

...that town didn't become wealthy at all.

Then a little while after that...

...my Mom overworked herself, damaged her health and died.

I...

...left that town...

...wanting to be reborn.

And yet...

...why am I in a place like this?

Thank you!

This is from Kitakyushu, isn't it?

Was it tough?

Eh?

Ah... yeah.

Well... I'm fine.

It's okay to get it all off your chest around me.

After all, we're going to get married!

Ah, that's right!

Your Mother is also really worried about when the ceremony is supposed to be.

'Cause she wants to contact your relatives as early as possible.

And I, too...

Sorry.

I think you know this...

...but I have that trial coming up soon.

And until it's over...

...I'm not likely to be able to think about anything else.

Sorry.

I see...

That would be, wouldn't it?

That will be a tough trial, won't it?

This is the first time you've been a part of a major trial like this, Haru-chan...

...and in front of lay judges, right?

That'll be a first for you too, won't it?

That definitely will be tough, won't it?

You wouldn't be able to think about other things, now would you?

I understand, I understand.

Thing is, why am I coming up with excuses for you, Haru-chan?

I'm sorry.

"Can't think of anything else..."

What "anything else"? There are other things.

That would be strange.

No matter how important a case it is, it shouldn't affect your private life, should it?

It's not like I'm trying to rush us into marriage.

I'm not, but...

But you've been acting a little strange recently, Haru-chan.

The one who said he wanted to get married as soon as possible for his job...

...who wanted to settle down and become a full-fledged lawyer...

...and who wanted to get married this year was you, Haru-chan, wasn't it?

And yet now...

Sorry!

But... you've been a little strange, too, Izumi.

Eh?

No, I'm sorry. I'm wrong.

This is all my fault.

But...

...I'm asking you...

...if you could wait for me just a little while longer.

I'm sorry.

Today's not working out for me.

You're leaving?

It's only just for now.

Just until the trial is over.

Ah, that's right.

I have a message from your Mother.

It seems your older brother...

...has been coming out of his room from time to time recently.

Hijii Motoko Trial Next Month. Will the witch show her true colors?!

Hijii Motoko's three incidents trial...

...which was coming next month at last...

...would be carried out in a lay judges trial at the Tokyo District Court.

All of you were out hiking at Mt. Mineyama that Spring, right?

Yes.

Do you remember what the conversation the two of them were having was about?

That day, Hijii-san bought some kerosene, right?

Was there anything unusual about it?

Nothing in particular.

And then, when Bando lost his balance and was falling off the cliff...

...he hurriedly grabbed the Defendant's leg.

And then as a result of that, the Defendant also lost her balance and fell backwards...

...and caught hold of a nearby tree branch.

Whaa...

In this position, being caught by the leg would be intolerable, wouldn't it?

Ah, thank you.

And? Where were the witnesses located?

Ah, over there.

Sorry for asking you to come out with me like this, Koike-san.

No. Mountain climbing's a hobby of mine, so I don't mind.

At any rate, you've been working hard this time around, aren't you?

Is your health okay?

No, I'm totally fine.

Hmm...

It's great to be young.

Still...

...your long-awaited case...

Huh?

Well, look...

Nakamura-kun, you're an acquaintance of the Defendant's, right?

Since that's you, I was thinking your approach to this situation...

...in such a long-awaited case, might be interesting.

Be careful.

Excuse me.

Yes?

Ala...

You were...

Yes.

It has been a long time, Naito-san.

Before the pretrial conference procedure tomorrow...

...let's summarize the allegations being made by the prosecution one more time.

Yes.

Yes.

The first murder victim, Agawa Hiroyuki...

...had, on October 29th, 2009...

...in his apartment in Minato-ku, Tokyo...

...released gas and had taken a large amount of sleeping pills.

The police investigated whether it was a suicide or a murder...

...and then judged it was a suicide when no suspicious characteristics in the case could be found.

In the course of this case, they heard from the Defendant, Hijii Motoko-san, that she had been dating him then...

...and though the Defendant admitted to having given Agawa the sleeping pills when he said he couldn't sleep...

Drug for Internal Use

...she denied involvement in the incident.

Hijii Motoko

Because there had been eyewitness testimony for her at the time of his death...

...and not seeing any motive for her to murder him...

...the police judged the Defendant to be unrelated to the case.

However, from the home of the private taxi driver who had been parked out in front of the apartment complex...

...a large amount of data from his drive recorder was found...

...and from that, the figure of the Defendant, coming out of Agawa's apartment, was recorded.

Though the Investigation five years ago knew the taxi driver had parked there, that evidence didn't come out.

Because they did investigate into it, the Prosecution's been working hard, too, hasn't it?

The second murder victim, Bando...

...on October 12, 2012, at around 3 pm...

...fell to his death from off a cliff at Mt. Mineyama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Isehara-shi.

In this incident, as there seemed to be eyewitness testimony that the Defendant was quarreling with Bando...

...and that at the aforementioned place, the Defendant shook Bando off her foot...

...and the Defendant allowed him to fall to his death, according to the eyewitnesses..

The police, using witness testimony and conditions at the site...

...said the woman Defendant hadn't done enough to try and save Bando...

...and so she was arrested on suspicion of murder for having deliberately pushed him off the cliff.

But the Defendant claimed that in this incident, Bando was trying to induce her into a double suicide...

...and the eyewitness testimony was vague.

She insists she felt she was in a dire situation where her life was at risk...

...and so shook him off her foot on the spur of the moment.

The third incident, involving Chikura-san...

...which occurred on December 4th, 2012 at 11 pm.

A fire broke out at his rented apartment in Nerima-ku, Tokyo...

...and so he jumped out the window on the second floor, hit his head severely during the fall...

...has been hospitalized unconscious and is in a serious condition.

Shortly before the fire occurred...

...there were numerous sightings of the Defendant coming out of his apartment...

...and in addition, the kerosene found in his apartment was something the Defendant had purchased.

Furthermore, given the fact that several days before...

...Chikura-san had taken out a large insurance policy and had made the Defendant its beneficiary...

Life Insurance Policy

Insured: Chikura Taizo

Beneficiary: Hijii Motoko

...the police considered this incident to be a deliberate attack by the Defendant to get the insurance money...

Total amount of Insurance Premium

(~$1.3 million)

...and have charged her with attempted murder for it.

Hmm... This case will be the hardest to break, won't it?

The Prosecutor in charge is Chiba-chan, right?

As this has a high degree of difficulty, we'll have to think and think on this one.

It'll be exciting.

Courthouse

Don't be too hard on us.

It's sultry out today, isn't it?

Prosecutor

Chiba Tsuneo

That's true, isn't it?

Pretrial Conference Procedure

Well then, let's resume the Pretrial Conference Procedure.

Because the defense lawyers have changed...

...we will go over the points of evidence once more.

Are there any new contentions by the Prosecutors?

Nothing in particular.

Are you saying you are changing your opinion from what the previous counsel had?

Yes.

In the Defendant's leaking-gas murder case...

It has already been established that it was a suicide, and the statue of limitations has run out.

Therefore, I argue that it be dismissed.

In the other cases in which the Defendant is accused of murder...

...we are pleading not guilty.

The Defendant is not a villainess.

We will make that clear during the trial.

Oh...

You were pretty cool there, Director.

This game ain't over yet.

Yes.

Trial Starts Next Week

Trial Starts Next Week

Innocent

Pleading Not Guilty

Pleading Not Guilty

Okay!

Just you wait, Hijii Motoko.

I'll definitely get you sent to prison.

Here is a map of Mt. Mineyama.

Do you recall any other points or places that I've missed?

Yes. Right here.

Stop.

Nakamura. It's better if you specifically mark out areas on the map.

Yes.

If we mark out those places where the couple were, it would make it easier to understand, even to lay judges.

Ah... Izumi-chan.

Maehara-san.

I told you this the other day...

...but when someone other than authorized people come in, it's troubling.

Well... that's true, isn't it?

Sorry.

By the way, speaking of your fiancee...

...he's finally become a good man, hasn't he?

You could say he has a face that's gone from being a youth to being an adult.

I guess with burning at his job, he's changed, hasn't he?

Yes.

Motomiya-san, we have an emergency! It's Chikura-san!

Dear!

Call for a doctor.

Yes!

Dear! Dear!

Excuse me, please.

Chikura-san. Chikura-san, can you understand me?

Chikura-san.

Where is this?

This is a hospital.

Maria!

Maria!

Chikura-san?

Where is Maria-san?

"Maria-san"?

Chikura-san, please don't move.

The doctor is coming now.

You'll be okay.

Chikura-san... you'll be okay.

She...

Please... save her.

Maria-san... did nothing wrong.

That day...

...I told her.

That I would break up with my wife...

...and marry her.

At that cheap apartment...

...we would live together.

A married couple...

Just what is that?

She said "thank you"...

...with a smile.

"Thank you"...

She was so happy...

...she laughed.

She's no villainess.

She's...

...more kind and beautiful...

...than anyone else.

Yes...

She's a saint.

She's a very saint herself.

I'll contact the court and prosecutors...

...and urgently press them to make a witness application procedure for Chikura Taizo-san right away.

Because of the unavoidable reasons, that shouldn't be a problem.

Yeah.

This just might be our win.

Become a respectable man that no one looks down on...

...and make me your lover.

I love you.

"Woman Saint."

Defendant Hijii's Trial

Villainess

Trial Starts Tomorrow

Hijii-san.

Yes?

You have a meeting.

Eh... A meeting?

Sorry for coming so suddenly.

No...

Before the trial, I was anxious about it, too.

I come today...

...not as a lawyer.

There was one thing I wanted to apologize to you for.

Earlier...

...I said something really awful to you.

That everything you had told me was a lie.

But...

When I thought about it carefully, not all of it was a lie, was it?

At the very least, it was thanks to you...

...that I'm able to do what I'm doing now.

It was thanks to you that Summer...

...that I learned how to study.

Your sudden disappearance...

...was really painful for me.

I no longer believed in anything and thought of quitting going to a University.

But...

...I enjoyed studying.

Studying...

...was the only thing that didn't betray me.

Studying recklessly...

...was the salvation of my heart.

And so...

...while I studied...

...I wanted work where I could come to know the truth.

And so... you became a lawyer?

Yes.

It's thanks to my finding the work I wanted to do in being a lawyer...

...that I am here now.

Just like you had told me ten years ago...

...because I worked as hard as I could back then, I am able to be here.

That's why...

Thank you very much.

Although I am still inexperienced...

...I will do my very best for you, starting tomorrow.

Please, let's work together.

Mom...

...would often tell me this when I was a child.

"Become a woman like a saint."

Unlike me, you're beautiful...

...so you definitely shouldn't live like me.

It's no good if you're used by men.

Be more beautiful, clever, stronger...

Become a woman like a saint so that everyone will want to worship you.

That's right.

Become a woman saint.

Since that time, I...

Only when I was with you...

...did I ever feel I had become such a woman.

Only with you...

The reality is totally different, isn't it?

I'm a fool, aren't I?

But, I...

You're not a fool.

You...

You are my...

My...

I...

...loved you.

You are... the only one I ever loved.

You might not believe me, though.

I'm happy.

Before long...

This... glass wall will go away...

...and I will be with Haruki-kun.

なぐさめの台詞なら 今はまだ欲しくない Nagusame no serifu nara ima wa mada hoshikunai If it's words of comfort, I don't want those just yet

あなたのその声に 似合う言葉ではないから Anata no sono koe ni niau kotobade wa nai kara Because such words don't go well with that voice of yours

『これで終わりにしてよ』 切りだしたのは私 “Kore de owari ni shite yo” kiri dashita no wa watashi "We have to end this" The one who cut things off was me

きらめいてる想い出 錆びてゆくまえに Kiramei teru omoide sabite yuku mae ni Before these glittering memories turned to rust

Courthouse

Trial - First Round

『あきらめるには早い』 あなたはそう言うけど "Akirameru ni wa hayai" anata wa sou iu kedo "It's best to end it early," is what you said, but

やり直せないことはわかっているはずよ Yarinaosenai koto wa wakatte iru hazu yo You should understand we can't start over again

ふたつの現実(ﾘｱﾙ) ひとつの真実 Futatsu no RIARU hitotsu no shinjitsu The reality for the two of us was just one truth

こんな場面出遭う予感がしていた Kon'na bamen de au yokan ga shite ita I had a premonition of just such a scene when we first met

なぐさめの台詞なら今はまだ欲しくない Nagusame no serifu nara ima wa mada hoshikunai If it's words of comfort, I don't want those just yet

あなたのその声に 似合う言葉ではないから Anata no sono koe ni niau kotobade wa nai kara Because such words don't go well with that voice of yours

All rise.

Bow!

さよならも いらないわ Sayonara mo iranai wa I don't need goodbyes

どこかへ消えてほしいだけ Dokoka he kie te hoshii dake I just want to disappear somewhere

これが ﾗｽﾄｼｰﾝ あなたと私にふさわしい 最後 Kore ga RASUTOSHIN anata to watashi ni fusawashii saigo This is a suitable Last Scene for you and me to end it

And thus... my trial began.

To Be Continued

Drama 10

Seijo

Episode 3 "Pride"

End