The phone! The phone's ringing!
Let it ring.
Why do you always have to do that?
I'm not in at the moment.
If you are in need of medical attention...
please leave a number where you can be reached, your name...
the seriousness of your condition and how much you are able to afford.
I will return your call as soon as possible.
The more I doubt, the more I believe you.
But before that...
The more I lose, the more I yearn.
Let me say goodbye.
All I want is to keep on watching you smile...
as I hold you in these arms called memories.
We leave on a journey now, through the times of dark...
To the other side of the darkness...
Not yet today, but tomorrow is so far.
Darkest time, just before the sunrise.
If they ask you your name, answer, "I am a traveler."
That's all I want you to say. That's all...
Don't tell them where you're going. Don't leave any parting words.
They will remember you as the one who vanished.
I'm not lonely because I know...
In the end, you're always alone.
That's why I close my heart and end up there.
Darkest time, just before the sunrise.
We leave on a journey now, through the times of dark...
To the other side of the darkness.
I'm not lonely because I know...
In the end you're always alone.
We leave on a journey now, through the times of dark...
To the other side of the darkness...
I gave them an overpriced estimate of three million dollars...
and they agreed without batting an eye.
I was rather reluctant to deal with this patient but...
I figured I should see him at least.
I asked you to housesit for me!
But Pinoko doesn't like to housesit!
Thank you for coming all this way.
I'm Mr. Crossword's personal assistant and the pilot of this helicopter...
David Rosenthol.
Our destination is Racoski Island, part of the Avalon Islands.
Chairman is recuperating at his villa there.
He is eagerly waiting for your arrival, Doctor.
The patient is the current Chairman of Carosan, one of the...
biggest and wealthiest multinational corporations in the world.
This is his three million dollar plea for life.
Life seems to have many different price tags in the world...
Did you say something?
We're almost there.
Wow!
The Chairman bought this 16th century castle that used to stand in Opteron.
He had it reassembled here on the island.
The exterior is left intact but...
the interior has been renovated with all the modern furnishings.
Sayuri! Sayuri!
I'm here darling. It's all right. I'm right here.
Please try to relax. I'm going to wipe your sweat now.
Pardon me. The doctor has just arrived.
Show him to the Artemis Fountain. I'll be there right away.
Impressive, eh? Little lady?
It's the Artemis Fountain that used to adorn the garden of the Helios Emperor.
This'll hit the spot in any woman's heart!
Passionate love is its theme!
How old are you, little lady?
I'm eighteen.
Mrs. Crossword, Doctor.
David, you may go now.
Yes, Ma'am.
Doctor! We meet again. It's been so long. It's me, Sayuri!
Have you forgotten? Ten years ago...
I make an effort to not recall old case records, unless it is necessary.
Doctor...
I prefer it that the patient also forgets the doctor, unless they relapse.
Now, bring me to the patient who currently is in need of my help.
My husband, Crossword.
So are you the unlicensed doctor that's been lured here...
by a petty three million dollars?
Call me Black Jack.
Eighty of them...
Eighty of the most prominent physicians in the world have...
sliced open my body, extracted my blood and probed me in every...
imaginable way. As a last resort they even made me sample my pee.
But in the end, they've all given up on me.
Tell me about your condition.
He suffers severe attacks as many as four to five times a day.
- Where is the pain? - Everywhere.
From the top of my head to the tips of my toes.
The pain is so severe all I do is writhe in pain.
- When did this start? - Seven years ago.
Everyday of those years I've been left to crawl on the floor like an insect!
Darling!
Hurry...
What was that you gave him to drink?
I gave him water.
Water?
Yes. Water is the only thing that alleviates his suffering.
He has to drink it almost steadily all day long.
How much does he drink in one day?
Fifteen liters. About thirty bottles of water.
That's an unusual amount to drink...
but yet his skin is desiccated.
He will excrete it. Every bit he drank will be excreted from his pores.
The state-of-the-art medical equipment here rivals any hospital in the world.
What it lacks is a skilled doctor.
I want you to save my husband, whatever the cost may be.
Don't worry! He's a genius!
Open the blinds.
Yes.
So tell me...
How is this new doctor?
Will he be able to save your husband's life?
He might... No, I know he will.
Oh, come on. You better not be seriously hoping for that.
The old man better croak soon, or else you'll never be free.
You said yourself that you wanted to enjoy freedom with your inheritance.
You even said it the other day. Remember?
The situation has changed...
Situation?
Meaning, it's over between you and I.
Right, right.
You're kidding, right?
What do you mean, the situation has changed?
Manabis Crossword. Seventy years and two months old.
Pulse 70. Blood pressure 130 over 80.
All of his vital signs are within normal range.
No respiratory problems either.
First, I carefully read over the vast amounts of analysis and charts...
the physicians who have cared for Crosswords before me had left.
Everything was meticulously recorded with great care and time,
by world-renowned physicians. Everything was impressive.
No pathogens were found in his blood culture, HIV negative...
Agglutination test using Proteus OXK antigens were negative.
Possibilities of having pulmonary cryptococcosis were voided...
In the end, the common conclusion all of the physicians came up with was...
"Cause of Crossword's severe pain and convulsions: Unknown."
His strength weakens with every attack...
and it can be estimated that they will lead to his death.
At first I was planning to buy this entire island.
I was going to build the biggest oil refinery in Northern Europe.
But then I decided against it...
After deciding, I bought only this cape area and built this villa.
You may be too young to understand a story like this...
but it hit me.
The gloomy skies, the cold ocean, the rough waves,
the lame trees and grass, the winds that blow violently all year...
I thought this would be the most fitting place to die for me.
Because I've experienced everything life has to offer...
I've felt I was ready to die whenever.
Life is a very funny thing...
That's when the first attack happened...
as if messengers from Hell had come to welcome me.
The previous physicians had, of course, analyzed...
the water that alleviates his pain.
The water contains 7.0 chlorine ions, has a residual evaporation of 77...
and an isolated carbonate reading of 5.9.
The results revealed it was ordinary drinking water...
that can be found anywhere.
The water is drawn from the island's water vein, by an enormous pump...
and is used to supply water to every area of the Crossword villa.
Are you coming up blank?
Doctor...
Dr. Black Jack. Please tell me the truth. Is my husband... Is Crossword...
I am not a skilled enough doctor to predict how long a patient...
has to live, while suffering from an unknown disease.
But I am hoping to extend his life for at least another six months...
Because I'm sure this will be his first child.
You knew?
You're five months pregnant. I can't tell whether it's a boy or a girl,
but it's easy for me to see that you're pregnant.
Doctor.
Good night. I still have work to do.
Doctor.
They missed one thing.
After going over and over his case records, I found that there was...
one blind spot that the doctors have overlooked.
Eighty of them...
Eighty of the most prominent physicians in the world have...
sliced open my body, extracted my blood and have probed me in every...
imaginable way. But in the end, they've all given up on me.
They performed three open-heart exams, two laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgeries...
three abdominal surgeries and two intro-cardiac catheterizations.
The physicians performed surgery numerous times and investigated...
where Crossword complained of severe pain.
They were never able to find anything and had no choice but to close him up.
The problem is the circumstances in which the surgeries were performed.
They were always performed after his violent attacks...
and after the physical symptoms had subsided.
Thus there is no one who saw what was happening inside his body...
during the attacks.
You fool!
How are you going to open a patient up while he's...
writhing in pain and having violent convulsions, Dr. Black Jack?
The kid got away!
After him! Kill him! Kill him!
Kill him!
How about asking me how I feel?
Even the most arrogant doctor would at least ask me how I'm feeling.
That's right... You're unlicensed, so you're not a doctor.
The drip infusion uses glucose as base which include 20-amino acids...
electrolytes, and vitamins. To help prevent further physical exhaustion...
I am going to keep administering the drip infusion.
I hear you and my wife Sayuri have known each other from before.
What was the nature of the relationship?
I doubt I need to answer that.
Let me just say that I'd have called you even if Sayuri hadn't suggested it.
Your name was included in my company's investigative report.
Black Jack...
Your real name is Kuroh Hazama.
The infamous unlicensed physician, but undoubtedly a first-rate one.
Wait you!
Stop!
Stop right there, kid!
Don't let him get away!
After him!
They're a bunch of poor folks...
Oh, I'm referring to the villagers.
They sneak into the castle to steal anything that has any monetary value.
They're quite a nuisance.
Try it. It's Fortnum & Mason.
It goes perfectly well with the dull view the old man loves so much.
Hey, did you see the doctor anywhere?
Over here! Over here! Over here!
Over here! I said, over here!
A-a-a-a-a bird! It's hurt really bad!
Hey wait. There's something I want to discuss with you.
We have nothing to discuss.
- A bird? - Yeah, and it's bleeding a lot!
I found him.
This way. This way. I hid it here.
- You hid it? - Yup.
I had to. They were chasing after him!
Please? Will you look at him on my tab?
Don't worry. He's a doctor.
Those dogs fed pretty well off you.
They took a chunk off your leg, almost to the bone.
Try to relax. This is a combination, tetanus and rabies vaccine.
Is there a physician in your village?
Yes.
You'll need further treatment as soon as you get back. This is only first aid.
Thank you.
I'll be more careful next time.
Next time? Don't be stupid!
Next time, I'm not treating you even if you get your neck bit off!
But this is the only place where I can make money.
I want to make lots of money so I can dig a good well for my father.
A well?
I want to do it while my father, who has Kimaira, is still alive!
Kimaira?
Hey! Stop!
Absolutely not! You can't take the Chairman's car without permission!
Get off! We're the ones who are going to get in trouble!
Get out! I said, get out of the car!
Wait! After him! Stop him!
What's with you?
Do you think it's all right to treat me this way?
I could go tell my husband about you embezzling...
the administrative department finances right now if you'd like!
Then I guess you'd have to think of an excuse as to who the baby's father is.
The head chef told me your taste in food has changed drastically recently.
The maids also told me that they see you vomiting all the time.
You're having morning sickness, aren't you?
That's great! You're pregnant with my kid.
You're wrong!
This is Crossword's child! Only a woman truly knows about such things.
I see... But a man wouldn't know such things, so...
If I humbly report this matter to the Chairman...
Come on. You're being unreasonable.
The minute you're pregnant with the pompous old man's heir...
you're gonna cut ties with your lover?
Don't laugh. The reason why I'm saying all this is because...
I've fallen in love with you.
Stop laughing!
I said, stop laughing!
The village was on the opposite side of the island from Crossword's castle.
The village was located near the southern cape.
I was able to find the boy who was bitten by the dog...
and his house almost immediately.
Hi!
Here father. Drink this quick.
It'll stop the pain! Please!
Please! Hurry! Father!
Father!
Shel! He didn't make it?
He didn't make it, doctor! He didn't make it!
I know because he shot out flames!
He shot out blue fire out of his mouth at the end!
He did...
I promised my father! I promised him that I would dig a deeper well...
so he could have tons of fresher water!
I want to ask you about the disease, Kimaira.
And you are?
Same as you. I'm a doctor.
Kimaira was thought to have been eradicated after an epidemic...
a hundred and fifty years ago.
It's an isolated disease, found only on this island.
An isolated disease...
According to legend, the agony from the Kimaira can range...
from three years, up to ten years...
You suffer everyday with unimaginable pain until the day you die.
Drinking water temporarily relieves the agony, but the more you drink...
your condition accelerates and the more severe the pain becomes.
He's my brother.
He's been suffering from Kimaira for four years.
My final day...
The day God will take me will be a joyous one.
The heart will burn like fire...
and blue flame will spew forth to the heavens.
Kimaira has been dormant for a hundred and fifty years but...
has resurfaced seven years ago.
Presently there are twelve islanders diagnosed with the disease.
We must stamp this thing out quickly.
After my brother and I received our medical degrees in England...
We returned to the island to put an end to Kimaira.
But we were helpless.
On top of that Kimaira is chipping away my brother's life.
This is so frustrating!
Father.
Don't cry Shel. People who have died from Kimaira must be cremated.
This is the law of the village.
It was really unfortunate that your well had gone dry.
But it seems like it's not only Shel's well that's gone dry.
My well is going dry, and now there's sand mixed in with the water.
Half the village wells have become cloudy.
It's his fault!
It's all his fault!
It's because he's pumping all of the water...
out of the only water vein on the island!
It has begun... He is finally having his revenge against our village.
Who are you talking about, old man? Who do you mean, "Him"?
Maybe he's talking about that guy?
You know, the guy who built a castle on the northern cape and is living there.
He's right! I hear there's a giant water pump tower...
inside the castle that's sucking up all the water!
Him? Why would he want revenge towards us?
Doctor! Dr. Black Jack!
It's the madam! Something terrible has happened to her!
She slipped and fell in the bathroom.
She landed on her stomach rather hard!
Doctor! My baby! Is my baby all right?
I can't say for certain.
The fetus' heart rate has slowed from the shock.
The bleeding is from a placental abruption.
I'll have to perform surgery on the damaged cervical canal.
The success rate for this procedure is twenty percent for the fetus...
and an eighty percent success rate for the mother.
Please! Save the baby whatever it takes!
I don't intend to lose either of you.
Chairman Crossword. Um... I was told you wanted to see me.
Yes... It's about Sayuri.
I have overlooked your impudence...
thinking that it would be a diversion for Sayuri.
I... What? I don't know what you're talking about.
I have learned that Sayuri has lost whatever interest she had in you.
You may leave the company when you are ready.
I won't have you killed.
You've saved me twice now.
Twice you have made a difference in my life.
Words can not express how grateful I am. I don't even know where to start.
You have to help me, Doctor! I can't live like this!
I can't go on like this... Please.
I want to be born anew... I want happiness...
I did my best to come up with the money.
If I become beautiful I'll be able to treat people with kindness...
They'll treat me with respect!
I said, it's not my specialty.
If you refuse I'll kill myself! I'm prepared to die right here!
I refuse.
But in the end...
You agreed to perform the surgery and gave me a beautiful face.
Thanks to you, my new face had attracted Crossword and...
we became man and wife.
I hear you saved my unborn child.
I will add another two hundred thousand to the...
three million I'm already paying you. Would that suffice?
Whatever you say.
I want to talk to the doctor alone. Everyone may go.
Yes sir.
In another week...
the island will be covered in snow and the icebergs will soon arrive.
As a child I loved watching the icebergs...
I lived on this island until I was ten years old.
I was born and raised on this island.
So your illness is the Kimaira as I suspected...
It's the legendary mystery disease that was supposedly eradicated...
a hundred and fifty years ago.
But in fact, the Kimaira...
had resurfaced on the island just once sixty years ago when I was ten.
First my father showed the symptoms. Then my mother...
and then the rest of my family...
But the disease was contained before it could spread.
The villagers banded together and set my house on fire.
My father, mother, my little brother and sister were killed then.
Only I survived...
I was certain I had caught the disease, but somehow I survived.
I left the island... and I've worked hard to achieve my success.
I had a late marriage, and just when I thought things were looking great...
The symptoms appeared.
I figured if I was going to die, I'd die on this island...
On the island that I've loved so dearly...
The only thing I regret...
is that I won't be able to see my unborn child's face.
There's no way to know for certain.
No... I know the next attack will be the last.
How?
I will spew blue flames during my next attack. I can feel it.
That is what my body is telling me.
It's telling me it'll finally be at ease.
I will return your three million dollars.
Wait! Please wait!
It wasn't my intention to pay you three million dollars...
just so you can sustain my life!
The final attack...
While I am having my final attack...
I want you to cut me open!
I want you to see what the Kimaira is doing inside my body during an attack!
I want your skilled eyes to witness it!
I know you want to see it too!
Well? Dr. Black Jack?
Wait! Wait!
Are you going to repeat the tragedy that happened sixty years ago?
You mustn't take such drastic measures! You must talk it over!
He was once a villager of this island!
There's nothing to discuss when he's hogging all the water!
Plus, the Kimaira started to spread when he began living in that castle!
Shel!
No, Shel!
Come back! Shel!
You mustn't Shel... No matter how much you despair...
You mustn't lose yourself...
You mustn't...
Freddy fought hard too...
He fought until this morning...
Until his strength gave way...
The snow is a week early this year.
Madam.
Where is my husband?
My husband loves the snow too, so...
I was told Mr. Crossword is going into surgery, right as you were coming out.
I see, so Dr. Black Jack is going to perform surgery on him...
Oh, how stupid of me.
Did you forget something?
I didn't get to say 'good morning' to my wife today...
Shall we go back?
No, there's no need.
Upsetting myself would only dull your scalpel...
Good morning, Sayuri.
Those were Crossword's last words...
16:15 hours...
Right after Crossword entered the surgery room his final spasm began.
I hate this! It's awful!
Burn it down!
16:40 hours...
I administered general anesthesia but the spasms wouldn't stop.
General anesthesia had no effect.
At 16:52 hours, I decided to operate.
Scalpel.
David!
Hurry! Hide yourselves in the closet!
I'm quitting the company!
What?
Damn you!
To be honest...
I had absolutely no confidence with this operation.
I obviously had never operated on a patient...
that was having violent convulsions.
But he was speaking to me...
In words that weren't words...
With his eyes... With his entire body...
He was trying to tell me.
Do it! Do it, Black Jack!
My hand must have reacted to Crossword's voice...
This man hated no one... He only hated the Kimaira.
He believed his death would benefit truly eradicating the Kimaira disease.
Get out of the way!
His wife is waiting for him!
Please observe the video.
This is the video taken when the legendary rare disease...
Kimaira, and its source virus was discovered.
This is the newly discovered virus.
This new virus was discovered...
between the outer and inner walls of the thoracic aorta.
A characteristic of this virus is that...
it remains dormant whenever spasms are not occurring.
We can assume that the virus was never discovered before because of its...
unlikely location, between the artery walls.
With us today is one of the leading experts on the Kimaira virus...
Dr. Minea Ross, who resides on Recoski Island.
Dr. Ross, I'm told by drinking large amounts of water...
it can alleviate the pain from the spasms. Can you explain to us why?
Sure. That medical mystery was solved with the discovery of this virus.
We learned that the virus becomes active when the asmotic pressure...
in the blood changes from a consistent state.
By drinking large amounts of water...
the pressure of the asmotic pressure is restored and stabilized...
And the virus becomes dormant again. Thus alleviating the pain.
Change in the asmotic pressure in the blood. I see...
What is the method of transmission of this virus? Tell us about that.
We have yet to know anything about that.
In that sense the Kimaira virus is still the legendary mystery disease.
I have vowed to advance and find these answers.
And about the video we just showed...
This was obviously filmed while a patient was having spasms.
Yes, that's right.
What you're saying is, this surgery was performed...
while the patient was having violent convulsions?
Yes.
Is that possible?
It was surgery that even the most skilled surgeons...
would have probably failed...
But...
I saw the one who made the impossible, possible with my very own eyes.
The city I returned to...
Wasn't how I remembered it.
Glass walls were endlessly erected.
"I want you to wait for me."
The whispers I swallowed that day...
"I want you to wait for me."
My wound opens up now as if it were fresh.
Between the gaps of the high rise buildings...
The moonlight comes through.
Are you also looking for someone?
It will never change... Peace is far beyond our journey.
Does it only exist beyond the skies?
But I'll be back again.