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Hitoshi-kun was going to visit me.

- Sister of the murdered...?
- It seems that she's getting a divorce.

Because of people like you, my parents have to hide.

He'd like to decline your offer for an interview.

You mean, as in blackmail?

Someone who knew about what he's done.

Aozora-kai

Third episode

What does he mean by declining the interview?

As I said, the director's plans have changed.

If it's a scheduling problem, then I can gladly adjust.

- Well, Maehata-san.
- Yes?

You're a reporter who deals with the crime field, am I right?

It's true that I deal with such topics,

- but this time, that's not the...
- I understand.

I do understand, but we're an organization that takes care of children. We have to maintain our image.

Director Kanekawa has strictly instructed me to decline.

I'm very sorry.

Director's office

I'm sorry to make you do something unpleasant.

No, I also apologize, for accepting it without considering anything.

She was so enthusiastic about it, so unconsciously...

- Oh, she was so enthusiastic?
- Yes.

She even wanted to interview as many members and volunteers as possible.

Well, that's something to be grateful about.

- But, unfortunately, this time.
- That's true.

- Then, I'll be on my way.
- Good work.

Well, it sounds like an excuse.

- I think so, too.
- Hm?

If someone acts unnaturally when he hears about a crime reporter, doesn't it mean he has something to hide?

Then, does that mean that there's some connection between his drawings and Aozora-kai?

We still don't know, but it's worth checking.

It's better to get rid of any doubts that we might have.

I was completely unaware.

Despite school being hard for him, he attended Aozora-kai.

And yet again, he might've experienced something bad over there.

We still don't know if that's true.

I'm sorry. I've failed at approaching them.

I'll think of another way.

If so, then I'll try.

Eh?

If I were to help there as a volunteer, wouldn't we be able to see what it's like inside?

Couldn't you let me handle it?

Then, Hagitani-san is to work undercover at Aozora-kai?

That's no good.

Even though I promised her to investigate it myself.

You don't need to feel so responsible for it.

Hitoshi-kun was in an accident because he was coming to see me.

Sorry.

Here.

But I wonder, what kind of person is he?

- Hm?
- The one who was blackmailing Doizaki.

Someone who knew about a crime that nobody knew about for 16 years.

Someone who wouldn't report it to the police, but would use it for intimidation.

Man...

- Hm? Ah, sure, it fits a man more than a woman.

- No, not that.

Akane-san's man-- her boyfriend!

Doizaki told everyone that she ran away from home. Wouldn't the boyfriend be the first one to doubt that?

- If it were you, would you believe something like that?
- Of course not. Because, there's no way you'd leave without telling me anything.

Thank you very much.

It's alright.

The requests for interviews have diminished considerably.

The press is quick to give up.

Fortunately.

What are you planning from now on?

In time, society will forget about the incident.

My role as your contact with the press will end, too.

Or, maybe you want to continue? To hide yourself from someone?

Pardon?

A writer who's snooping around you said this.

Is someone blackmailing you?

I'm checking into Doizaki Akane's acquaintances.

Do you know if she was going out with someone at the time?

Are you maybe that reporter that went to Kacchan's place?

- Pardon?
- "Omiya"-- over there.

- Ah...
- As I thought.

- I don't know anything!
- I don't intend to write anything.

- Just...
- Oi! What? You again?

- See, just because your Mom babbles so much!
- Huh?

Make her understand that it's gonna bring trouble to Sei-chan.

- Are you a friend of Seiko-san?
- That's right. So, you doing this is bothering me!

I completely understand that you're worried about Seiko-san, but

- there is a reason that I have to investigate that.
- Listen...

We can help you, no problem.

- What are you talking about?
- However.

When you find out where her parents are, you're gonna tell us.

I'm gonna eliminate them from her life.

I don't care how bad her older sister was.

But, Seiko doesn't hold any responsibility for that!

Akane completely messed up Seiko's life!

Seiko-san's life isn't messed up in any way!

It is! Completely! Huh!?

She's going to be even sadder if her friends think about her like that.

"No matter what happened to her, her life's going to be alright."

Don't you think you should be saying that for her, instead?

Hey, did you think about the exorcism?

- No, thank you.
- That's no good.

Your sister's spirit is going to stay with you.

Can't you please stop it?

I wonder if that's true, that Doizaki-san was being blackmailed.

But if he was,

why did he hide it from you?

The man who was going out with Akane was blackmailing Doizaki Gen?

I think there is that possibility.

That's why I'm checking into her acquaintances.

She was famous around the neighborhood for being quite a delinquent, so I thought that maybe the police would have some records.

And you'd like to ask the chief of the juvenile division from that time?

I'm sorry for asking so much from you...

I'll ask.

If your reasoning is correct, maybe it'd be better not to show yourself in public so much?

Eh?

If there really is someone who was blackmailing Doizaki, then they must've went into hiding and is now looking for him.

If you keep working, you're going to catch his attention.

Leaving that aside, I'll also check up on Aozora-kai.

Maybe I'll find something.

Thank you very much.

Since we've gone this far.

This may be a good chance for both of us to undo the curse we've got from Amikawa Koichi.

If this incident's resolved, you'll be able to write again, won't you?

I don't know.

It's a pity about Hitoshi-kun.

Yes...

Was it really an accident?

- Eh?
- Ah, sorry. Professional habit.

I think it was an accident. There were witnesses.

Just...

It was my fault.

He wanted to tell me something.

And, walking on unknown road, constantly checking the notes that I wrote...

It is? Is it? Is it there?

Alright, close the door. Quickly close the doors, close the doors to elephant's pen.

Alright!

He's just like that in the forest. Quicker than the train.

Then, completely pale, he comes in.

"Master, the elephant!"

"He rushed at the doors! Master, the elephant!"

is what he'd been screaming at the top of his lungs.

Hagitani-san, am I right?

Ah, yes.

I wanted to

- offer you my deepest condolences.
- Ah, please...

I lost my son when he was young, too.

It was a disease.

I blamed myself, wondering if I couldn't have done something more.

I understand.

But, if I continued to do that,

I thought that he wouldn't be able to move on to the other side.

I decided to smile once a day for him.

This way, taking so many years, little by little,

I was able to smile naturally.

It'd be good if you too, little by little, made peace with yourself.

- Thank you.
- Then.

- He appears to be a good man. Kids like him very much.
- Thank you.

Everyone else working there also had only good impression of him.

I've also tried asking everyone about their full names and where they live.

- Thank you very much.
- Please, don't.

Isn't it painful?

Going to Aozora-kai...

I mean...

Yes.

It reminds me of Hitoshi.

But, I want to keep remembering him.

I want to always keep remembering him.

Your mom sent it.

30,000 yen is what you're worth.

What're we going to do?

Should we put an end to it already?

No...

Stop it...

I'll do anything!

I'll do anything, anything!

Please don't do it! I beg you! Don't!

Please! No! Noooo!

What, you were here?

What about the apple?

- I'm sorry, I'll...
- Don't forget about it.

She really looks forward to it.

Amikawa Koichi - criminal on death row executed
Last moments without an apology

To be honest...

it's a burden.

What's happened?

I'd like you to investigate the incident.

I'm sorry... even though I told you to stop doing it the other day.

I don't mind, but why now?

Then, I still believed that I'd be able to hear about it from them.

But, they ran away from me, both Father and Mother.

To be honest, it's not that I have faith in you.

I'm sorry.

But, I don't have anyone else that I could ask.

It's mortifying this way...

Mortifying?

I want to take it back-- my life.

For that, I want to know the truth.

Why did my father kill my sister,

why did he hide it all this time?

Did you hear the police's explanation?

I know the outline.

Father got pessimistic about the future of a delinquent daughter, who was getting out of hand, and killed her.

He hid it for my sake, but had to confess because of the fire.

Makes it easy to understand, don't you think?

But, I don't understand it, at all.

My sister was 15 at that time, only 15 years old.

At that age, she was just growing into adulthood.

No matter how much someone was worried about the future, would they really kill a person?

Couldn't it have been done on impulse?

That's impossible.

Both my father and mother were gentle and very patient.

They never shouted, or threw anything at us.

Before putting blame onto others, they would rather endure it, themselves.

So, there must've been some other reason?

I'm thinking the same.

However, right now, I'm working on a request for someone else.

How about if I combine those two investigations?

As to what happened between your parents and Akane-san, if it's alright with you, I'll gladly investigate it.

Please do.

I wonder if it's the end.

I wonder if it's going to end as it is now.

- Here you are.
- Thank you.

Were you on a good terms with Akane-san?

Terms?

Did you like her?

I hated her.

She was always angry.

What's this? Pretending to be a good kid.

She often used to hit me, and was mean to me.

I hate you. You should just die.

I felt relieved when she disappeared.

But even so, she was the center of our family.

Naomi and Kacchan are going.

I don't like going on trips, you see.

Dad, let's go on a trip over the summer holiday. Take me to Okinawa.

I've got work.

Go together with your mom.

Uncle Kazu said that you can go visit him, if you want.

She won't come back just because you're waiting.

You think that if she comes and there isn't anyone here, she'd go away somewhere again, right?

That's why you won't go on any trips, right?

She won't come back! She hated this house.

She won't ever come back!

But, it wasn't that.

They were too scared to leave the house where she was buried.

Whether she was there or she wasn't, I hated how she monopolized our parents for herself.

I've brought their photos.

You're going to need them, if you investigate.

Thank you.

Also, this was always in my parents' bedroom.

After the fire, everything that didn't burn was placed in the warehouse.

This was among those.

I thought that there might be some clue.

May I?

Please.

12, 13, 14, 15, 16...

Sixteen.

Awesome, the lot.

But, you can find collections like that in every house.

At mine, we had an old rice crackers tin that was next to the telephone.

We used to call it the "for the time being box".

It's about this couple.

Have they been here?

I wonder...

They might've been, but I can't remember.

One of them might've come alone.

I don't really know.

Excuse me

Welcome!

Then, excuse me.

Welcome!

Maybe they just aren't connected to the case?

Maybe it was his hobby to collect matchbooks,

because, see, they're all brand new, and not one has been used.

But, isn't it a pretty extravagant hobby?

To get them, he must've at least ordered a tea.

Ah, right, he did have debts in various places, didn't he?

Yup.

But, look. If he didn't have money, then why was it necessary for him to visit all those cafes?

Strange.

Necessary...

Please let me see Doizaki-san.

I've visited all of the places he had matchbooks from.

Every one of them is next to a train station, and is very busy with clients.

No matter who visited, it was impossible for the staff to remember everyone.

Couldn't he have met there with the man who was blackmailing him, and given him the money?

Excuse me, I need to go.

He took those matchbooks because he thought that he might be called to the same place again.

- That's why he needed those matchbooks, but he also couldn't use them, so he stashed them in that box.

- Could you please stop doing this? I'll protect my client myself.

Amikawa has said that he won't die.

Huh?

In this world, there are people who commit crimes to control others.

The man who blackmails Doizaki-san, couldn't he have been one of that kind?

Doizaki-san borrowed small sums of money over and over.

That was because the amount of money that was demanded was also small.

If he demanded more, Doizaki-san would be broke right away.

This way neither let him live, nor let him die.

Tormenting Doizaki-san for 16 years, he couldn't help enjoying it.

Calling Doizaki-san on a whim to different places,

dragging him around.

What would the person robbed of that "joy" be thinking right now?

Wouldn't his next target be Seiko-san, whom the Doizakis wants to protect at all costs?

- Hey...
- Hm?

- Look.
- Do your homework yourself.

- That's not it. Look!
- Don't pull.

Move aside.

- This flew out of the windo..

- Ah, I told you not to pull me. I could've dropped it!

Where are you going? Dinner will be ready soon.

"Sanwa"?

It's Miwa.

This is my home. Is something the matter?

You're cute.

What grade are you in?

Sorry you had to wait.

Which one do you want? You can choose the one you like.

Then, let's go with this one.

Here, it's good.

Go on, eat.

And? Sweet?

Does it look like she'll let you see Doizaki Gen?

No...

But, if he really was blackmailed,

he really had a lot of patience to endure 16 years.

At some point, he must have thought it could be a way to atone for murdering his daughter.

Eh? Could he atone with that?

Of course, he couldn't. But it's possible to be lost in such an illusion.

Then, doing exactly that, he fulfills himself.

Quite a bastard he is.

- Don't work too hard. 'Night.
- Good night.

Please, no matter what, I need to know about Akane-san.

If you know something, please tell me.

What's the reason?

You've said that you have to investigate it for some reason. What is that?

I can't divulge the details. It's for someone who had faith in me.

No matter how trivial it is, do you know something?

I found out about her acquaintances.

The hometown network is pretty good around here.

Did you look it up for me?

Because you seem to care a lot about Sei-chan.

Listen...

Next time you meet with her, please tell her,

that I've said that her life is absolutely alright.

I will.

It seems that she had one boyfriend in particular at the time.

Well, I don't know who, exactly.

But, I got to know someone she used to hang out with.

It's here.

Snack
Pigeon's nest

Hello

I met Akane in first year, when we were in the same class. We hit it off pretty quickly.

Probably because we're alike.

What kind of person was Akane-san's boyfriend?

Why do you ask? I has nothing with the incident, does it?

Was he someone you would rather not talk about?

It's better if you don't stick your noses into it.

Well, we already did. Please tell us.

Well, me and Akane were bad, but we all we did were petty things.

Skipping school, shoplifting.

But once she started to hang out with them, it all changed.

"Them"?

High school boys from the neighborhood.

Too funny!

Hey, ain't he dead already?

I, on the other hand, got scared of them.

Because some things happened, little by little, I started to stay away from them...

Things?

Well, never mind that.

Akane was going out with their leader. She did everything he told her.

She didn't know the limits anymore.

What was the name of that leader?

I don't know his real name.

Everyone was calling him "Shige".

- Shige?
- Like Shigeo?

- I've told you that I don't know.
- What kind of person was he?

He was cruel.

Why don't you just take it?

It's easy.

- Welcome.
- Also cigarettes, please.

- Yes.
- That one.

- Uhm... this one?
- No, no, on the left.

That one. I'd like a carton.

Ah, yes.

Uhm, carton...

Take it~!

Go, go!

- Seem we don't have it.
- Then, never mind.

This, too.

Thank you very much.

Yup, cute.

Ah, sorry, a little more.

Alright.

Please, let me see Doizaki-san.

Wouldn't his next target be Seiko-san, whom the Doizakis wants to protect at all costs?

Kacchan?

Hello, it's Maehata.

Eh?