Let's become Bounty Hunters!
"My name is Isaka Rei."
"Currently, 4 of us friends are active Bounty Hunters."
"The eager housewife wanting reward money to supplement her living expenses, Wakui Kazumi."
"The one wanting the rewards as getaway money from her DV husband."
"Suzuki Machiko. (pseudonym)"
"A junior of mine who craves excitement more than any reward money. Motomura Jun."
"And, my younger sister Akane's daughter, Haru."
"However recently we haven't gotten any reward money..."
"...so we hurriedly reconsidered things."
"Is Justice profitable?"
"What is Justice?"
"What is money?"
To your eyes.
To your stubble.
Your appetite is only surpassed by your sexiness.
Huh? What's that about my sexiness?
Why else are we at a place like this for?
Just being dressed as stylishly as you are...
This is just in keeping with the character of this place.
I'm happy.
There's definitely something behind this!
I see... Yet even so, is that a reason to miss an opportunity like this?
Could it be this is an investigation? What's the case? How much is the bounty?
Think of it as being an ally of Justice.
What's with that manner of speaking? You just want us to help the police, don't you?
A case isn't over just because a criminal has been arrested, now is it?
I know that without you telling me.
There's a trial, then compensating for the crime and then it's over... right?
It's not only that. You don't understand.
What's this all about?
Thank you very much. It went without incident.
I see.
Please enjoy your meal.
Thanks.
What was that meaningful talk about?
Let's go.
Eh? There's still more to eat, isn't there?
I don't have free time to waste keeping a disinterested woman occupied.
I'm not disinterested.
Well, 20,000'll be fine. ($260)
What that for?
Your half of the bill.
You invited me, so I don't have to deal with that.
Who was it that begged for the expensive champagne? I didn't drink any.
You had that drink in your hand, didn't you?
20,000 yen.
Look you...
Do I look like someone you can just stick it to?
You stick it to the other person you can stick it to.
I'm never seeing you again.
You sure about that?
Don't you want information?
How dirty!
I get that a lot.
Thanks.
So long.
- What about the bill? - That's okay for today.
What's going on?
A claimant against this restaurant said he wanted to have a discussion.
But if the police dropped in, that would turn it around on them, causing them a major hassle.
I was having a meal while waiting on standby.
And what did you call me for?
Because it's boring being alone.
What's with you!
Oi, oi!
Bleeh!
Not cute... bleeh!
Gondo-san, wait!
Hey!
Gondo-san!
Don't surprise me like that!
You were talking in your sleep.
What did I say?
"Wait, Gondo-san!"
Eh?
Don't misunderstand.
Is that an excuse?
No!
I saw him during the day.
Eh?
He was walking with a young woman.
For his job, wasn't it?
With his arm around her shoulder like this?
Are you interested?
No, not really...
By the way, if he has that sort of time, he could of at least have come back!
"Small Restaurant Akinai Snack Bar Hitomi"
How did yesterday's date go?
Date?
Wasn't it? You were so cheerful when you got that call from Detective Gondo.
"I'm leaving the store to you, 'cause I'm going to the Inter-continental!"
Who was cheerful!?
And you came back late.
I was getting drunk by myself.
Ah, my 20,000 yen!
I'll get that back, no matter what!
Huh?
Let's pick our next target.
- You're kinda off subject there. - Never mind that.
If you've got that kind of resolve...
Ah, a nice guy can be so refreshing... (in her best Kabuki voice)
Refreshing!
Rei-san, Kazumi-san...
...isn't this tension a bit ridiculous?
Ah...
This is my recommendation.
"Ishikawa Prefecture, Kanazawa, Hostess Murder" Kanazawa-shi?!
That's a little too far away...
Don't you feel like going on an outing from time to time?
There are lots of good onsens in the area so we can have baths while we hunt down the criminal.
Where do we get the money to do that?
I think I can get us some cheap airfare.
Plus, I can't leave my husband and Ippei behind.
Couldn't you bring them along?
Just how much do you think it costs for a family of three to travel?
Thing is, there's no reason to think we could catch the guy over 1 day and 2 nights anyhow.
Plus there's a high probability we won't even catch him.
Did you know that December is the month with the most expenses in it?
There's the major clean-up in preparation for the 20 days before New Year's...
...and then there's lots of things that have to be put away before that.
And Christmas isn't Christmas if you can't enjoy it, right?
There's no way we can go to Kanazawa.
Wasn't I just proposing it?
Machiko-san, what's the matter?
Kanazawa is a no go!
Ah, that's right! Machiko-san was born in Kanazawa.
Ala? Really?
That's your dialect, isn't it?
If she were to meet her husband there, that'd be trouble.
The probability might be higher than here in Tokyo.
Then...
Let's take this one.
"Convenience store robbery-murder case"?
That's right.
A convenience store in Ota ward.
The one who was murdered was female part-timer and high-school student, Nakamura Takako-san.
I worked at a convenience store myself, so I can't forgive this!
What's this about the bounty being 1 million yen plus another 2 million yen?
The bounty the police have put on him is 1 million yen.
Her family's putting up the other 2 million.
A public reward plus a private one. This'll be our first one.
Nothing wrong with the bounty, so let's get into our fighting spirits!
All right!
Justice is profitable.
Heiwa Fansubs Presents: HUNTER ~Sono Onnatachi, Shoukinkasegi~ HUNTER ~These Women are Bounty Hunters~
Episode 7: "A Father's Tears for a Beloved Murdered Daughter... Tragedy Born of Desperation"
"Nakamura"
I thought you would be offering us some information about it.
I'm sorry.
We'll be working on it from here on.
Here you go.
Excuse me.
My daughter was 17.
She was into Kendo...
...and had come in second at the capital tournament.
That day...
...when my daughter had come home from school...
...since she had a stomachache she said she should take the day off from her part-time job.
I told her that would be wrong.
Because they wouldn't have time to find a substitute for her...
...it would trouble the store.
The store's manager had asked that my daughter to come in somehow...
...so I kicked her in the rear...
...and pushed her to go out.
My daughter, not saying a word, looked back at me briefly.
That sullen profile...
That was...
...the last I saw of my daughter's face.
My husband...
...isn't able to forget that look.
That's why...
...for her death portrait, I chose one where she was smiling resolutely.
She had just gone for her part-time job.
That's the smile she would have when she got home saying, "I'm back."
She doesn't have a future.
Falling in love...
...getting married...
...having children...
She doesn't have that future.
Eh? A robbery-murder? At this store?
Yes. You didn't know about it?
Hey...
Please don't talk about that robbery-murder in such a loud voice.
Do you know anything about it?
That incident was 3 years ago. I've forgotten all about it.
If the criminal can be caught, then crimes could be prevented...
I told you that would be troublesome, didn't I?!
"Jasmine"
I'm sorry we're bothering you like this.
I don't mind in the least.
Find out any information from the criminal's eyewitnesses?
Not yet.
But this is making me ill.
Say, look at this.
The dead high school girl was exposed to public scorn.
She had a lover in her Kendo club...
...had bad grades and she had to give up on her college entrance exams.
If it were only that, it'd still be okay.
But it's been written on bulletin boards that she was engaging in prostitution as well.
But, is it true? We haven't come across anything like that yet, though.
This is irrelevant, isn't it? She was murdered during a robbery, after all.
Before she was killed there was nothing...
...after she was murdered, she became bait for the world's idle curiosity.
I feel so sorry for her.
What about information on the criminal?
He's terrible, too.
Inoue Tsuneo was designated as the criminal...
...and the press went over the top with info about him.
On the 'net, there's a festival going on about his current status.
"Festival"?
The fuss that's being made about him is like a festival.
There's not only a photo of the criminal, but one of his wife and daughter, too. Look.
"The family should get the death penalty, too."
What is that, for pete's sake!
It's thanks to what's being said here, but we do know the criminal's address.
- Then let's go. - Ah, I did go.
Since I heard about it when I went to the convenience store crime scene.
And? What did you find out?
Ah, take a look at this.
- A vacant lot? - Yes.
The family of the criminal moved and the house is now gone without a trace.
What's their new address?
Dunno.
Ah...
His daughter was still a middle school student.
Somehow, I sympathize with both of them.
Machiko-san, your compassion should be with the victim, not the criminal.
His daughter isn't a criminal.
That's true, but...
What would Jun-chan's viewpoint of this girl be?
Eh?
That is, what do you think this girl's viewpoint would be, Jun-chan?
I'm more interested in the murdered girl's viewpoint.
I'm very sorry when you're so busy.
No, no, please sit down.
Excuse me.
What can I do for you?
Um, 3 years ago, I believe a student by the name of Inoue Emi-san used to come here...
...so could you give me her contact address?
Are you from the press?
I'm not. I'm a Cabin Attendant with Japan-Pacific Airlines...
...and she said some very kind things to me, so I'd somehow like to make contact with her.
You don't know about the incident?
- Incident? - No...
I'm very sorry, but I can't give out personal information.
If there's any way...
If you could call me here, as I'll be on a flight very soon.
"Japan-Pacific Airlines"
Um...
Would it be okay if I called you personally?
Ah, of course.
Is what I said, but I had to have tea with him.
You haven't gotten to use your feminine weapons in a long time, have you?
I'm just happy they haven't gotten rusty.
You still have a ways to go yet.
Still, I have nothing to show for it.
Huh?
It seems the criminal's daughter said she wanted to stay in school...
...but she was bullied by the other students...
...their parents complained to the Board of Education that they didn't like it...
...and the teachers were all fuming about her, so in the end she changed schools.
Would it take any more to make her do that?
She graduated from the transfer school the following year and that's it.
She hasn't been in contact with any of her friends or anyone else since.
It's best she just lived through it, huh?
I hate to, but should I ask him?
Detective Gondo?
"5 Star Shopping District"
Thank you very much.
The customers have broken up for the night, huh?
Yes. That noisy Yaohachi-san has gone, too.
Then, shall we have a drink?
Rei-san and Kazumi-san both.
Itadakimasu!
I have my bicycle.
Ah, you can't drive drunk, right?
Yes.
- Here. - Yes.
Are you chasing after some case right now?
Ah... yes.
This one.
Ah...
You know something about this?
Hmm...
This was a case that occurred after I had left the police.
That's true.
The criminal has been on the run all this time, hasn't he?
Hmm...
In the past, criminals thought if they just could keep running past the statute of limitations...
...they couldn't be charged for their crimes...
But since the statue of limitations is now gone...
...a life on the run like that would be endless.
If it were me, I couldn't endure it.
There wouldn't be...
...any relief from a life on the run.
A place where he could drop by briefly to get some relief...
I guess that would be at his wife and daughter's place, wouldn't it?
Umm... However...
...given he would think that would cause them trouble...
...cases where they would act together like that would be rare.
Hmm, then...
Could it be...
...at his mother's?
The mother.
And home is a place...
...that everyone thinks of as being warm and where you'd be treated kindly.
Where's the criminal's home?
Fukuoka.
Jun-chan isn't flying there, is she?
Then I guess it's impossible to investigate it. And there's nothing to move forward with.
That's true.
You guys can quit midway through...
That's nice, isn't it?
Eh?
Would you like anything to drink?
You're...
Hello. Are you on a trip?
Ah, no.
The police contacted us with information that the criminal had been witnessed.
In Fukuoka?
Yes.
I have a layover in Fukuoka today. If anything happens, please let me know.
Thank you very much.
That girl...
"3 years ago, I believe a student by the name of Inoue Emi-san used to come here..."
Oi... What is it?
Hello.
Ah, hello.
Could it be you're Gondo-san's ex-wife?
Eh?
She's not.
After all, you were really giving him the look-over just now.
I wasn't looking at him...
This person is the old lady who runs my favorite set-menu store.
Old lady?
Ah, don't be mistaken; I'm not Gondo-san's daughter or girlfriend nor am I sleeping with him.
That's how it is, so don't get mistaken.
I'm Isaka Rei.
I'm Hashimoto Risa.
So long, I'm going to my part-time job.
- Oh, be careful. - Yeah.
What's with that look? Do you have a misunderstanding?
That's Inoue Emi, isn't it?
Our current target is her father. Please give me some information.
Don't poke your nose into this.
Say, say, let's work together on this one!
Don't concern yourself in this case.
I don't want you getting near her.
Huh?
What's the matter, Rei-san?
Eh? Ah...
I wonder why that girl seems so close to Detective Gondo?
Ala? Is that jealousy?
You're wrong!
Senpai, Senpai, Senpai. Senpai!
- Senpai, big news! - What's the matter?
The criminal was eye-witnessed in Fukuoka.
Fukuoka? That's the criminal's home.
Please listen to me. I was helping the Nakamura-sans distribute leaflets, but...
The Nakamura-sans went to Fukuoka?
The criminal was witnessed there, so they went there to get information.
And then an elderly woman spoke to the Nakamura-sans.
And then!
She suddenly kneeled down on the ground in front of them!
Could it have been...
...the criminal's mother?
That's right.
Since I'm an outsider I couldn't be present, but the Nakamura-sans were calm.
I heard from them afterwards.
The mother said she had received a call from the criminal.
"I'm very sorry," she said.
Of course his mother advised him to surrender himself, but he just hung up the phone.
Just as Sensei said, he was at home.
Nakamura-san told the mother to be sure and contact him if he called again.
That might be natural, but he seemed scary somehow.
Hello.
Can I have a moment?
Eh? Yes.
Have you had any contact with your sister?
By "sister," do you mean Akane?
That's right.
Why, Terashima-san?
Do you have any idea of her whereabouts?
Not at all.
But I don't think she's very far away.
She met Hitomi-san of the neighboring snack bar recently.
Your sister didn't meet with you?
I don't know why she met with Hitomi-san...
...but Haru... ah, that's Akane's daughter. She was probably worried about her.
If she does get in touch with you, please phone me immediately.
Where is Hitomi-san's snack bar?
Next door.
Thanks.
Excuse me! Can I ask you one thing?
Does it have something to do with this incident?
Could it be this incident was from the time Gondo-san was in the Unit One Department?
No, it's not.
Then why is Gondo-san tangled up in it?
Tangled up?
He's attached to the criminal's daughter.
Is it that Detective Gondo-san is acting on his own again?
Excuse me.
Who's this "Hashimoto Risa"?
You're Inoue Emi, aren't you?
Gondo-san.
Why is the daughter of a criminal going to our school?
We attack criminals like you...
Aren't you disgracing our school?
Those who hardly even come to school at all can't be saying that.
Huh?
The daughter of a criminal shouldn't be talking smack to us.
Ah, how dirty.
Blood's coming out!
Don't mess with me!
Lemme go!
Stop it!
Don't get so full of yourself.
"Hashimoto Risa"
Hello?
I'm sorry, Gondo-san.
I can't have dinner with you today.
Ah, what's wrong? You took the day off from work, didn't you?
Risa, I'm coming in.
Ow!
Put up with it for a little longer.
Gondo-san.
Huh?
I want to go somewhere far away.
Can you drive a car? You can take a break for now.
I can't bear it any longer.
What is it?
The truth is...
Huh?
My father...
...is a murderer.
Ah...
- Truth is, so am I. - Listen seriously.
Do you know about...
...a convenience store robbery in Ota from three years ago?
Dunno.
That was my father.
Wanting money...
...he broke in, holding a kitchen knife.
While struggling with the girl high school student working there, he stabbed her.
My father was put on the wanted list...
...and both me and my mother were reported about.
Because of that, we had to move around.
My mother went back to her parent's home.
She told me to come and be with her...
...but I liked Tokyo.
I changed my name, entered high school...
...and made new friends...
Or so I thought, but...
They were anything but friends.
They called me dirty.
They told me to die! And then...
That's enough.
Do you hate me?
Well, "hate"... I couldn't...
That's not your goal, is it?
I know.
Gondo-san, what do you do?
Eh?
Whenever I call you, you'll come at any time.
Ah...
I told you before, didn't I?
I'm with a building maintenance company.
Because I'm an excellent subordinate, my boss takes it easy on me.
I think you're an ally of Justice.
After all, when we first met, you saved me, didn't you?
"Saved you..." I just picked up your purse, didn't I?
You've treated me to meals.
I was hungry, too.
When I was lonely, you let me make long calls to you.
I secretly love phone calls.
I see.
You're not an ally of Justice.
Ah, I...
I get beaten up by allies of Justice.
I'm one of the bad guys...
It's true your father...
...committed that crime.
However, that wasn't YOUR crime.
When someone does a good thing...
...their family gets praised too, don't they?
So...
...when someone does something wrong, it's only natural that the family be blamed too, isn't it?
Gondo-san...
"Murder"...
...seems contagious.
Then, shall we cure that contagion?
That's for a cold.
No way!
This is a big news.
- Yuko-san. - Yes?
I need to borrow your PC.
Rei-san! Rei-san!
Huh?
The criminal's daughter is being mentioned.
Right here.
"Using the alias, 'Hashimoto Risa,' she's attending Aomi-dai High School."
"By the way, here's her address."
"Catch her and make her take the death penalty."
How horrible...
"By 'death penalty,' do you mean the entire family should commit suicide?"
So it wasn't from you?
That information coming out on the Internet.
That couldn't be true.
Terashima, then?
But you guys did talk to him.
That I'll admit to.
But he's police, isn't he? What's wrong with that?
Why are you involving yourself by hiding the daughter of a criminal!
Don't make me say this over and over.
This has nothing to do with you guys!
Wha... what was that...
Please stop shouting...
I worked so hard so she could live a normal life...
Shouldn't you be working hard to arrest the criminal?
Be quiet.
What's with that attitude?
Sorry, but could you check into this case?
Is it connected to Detective Gondo?
I don't have time to get involved myself.
Keep an eye on that out-of-control Detective Gondo.
Understood.
"Isaka Akane"
"Material Witness List"
"Akane"
"Store"
"Private School - Aomi-dai High School" - I'm very sorry...
"Principal's Office" ...but she's decided to transfer schools.
Isn't it possible she'll just continue to run away?
Can't those from the school show more care for her than that?
What do you want us to do?
Can't you think of some way?
The Board of Education isn't happy about this, either.
What do you mean?
Anyhow, this isn't something the police should be interfering in, is it?
This isn't a request from the police... However...
Wha...what is it?
I've brought what the Principal wanted.
"Notice of Quitting School"
Excuse me.
Oi, hold on there.
You only got close to me in order to catch my father.
Risa!
I am...
Inoue Emi.
"Akinai"
Hitomi-san, you called?
I called, I called. It's something terrible.
Huh?
It was a huge uproar.
He's finally calmed down though.
He won't explode?
He's okay now.
Hey!
I'm the worst!
You figured that out at last!
Gimme back my 20,000 yen.
"Unknown Caller"
That incident that occurred 3 years ago.
I wasn't in charge of it...
...but I understood the gist of what happened in the case.
Emi was still...
...in her 2nd year at middle school.
At first she wouldn't believe her father had murdered someone.
Who would believe such a thing?
"My father isn't a murderer!"
She flared up at the jurisdictional police officer who was in charge.
"Detective!"
I have seen LOTS of tragic families...
...who were the victims of crime.
That's why I tried to hate the crime...
...and get close to the victims.
However...
...the families of the wrongdoers are victims, too.
3 years ago, it was her tears...
...that made me realize that.
That's why you went to the trouble of watching over her.
All I did was watch over her.
That's right...
...all I did was watch over her.
I did nothing for her.
There was nothing I could do.
Even when Emi was being treated as a nuisance at school...
...I could do nothing.
"What's with that messed-up educator!"
That's what I thought...
Ken-chan, liquor!
Yes.
Wouldn't it be better to drink water? Give him some water.
Ah, that's none of your business.
Why didn't you tell her you were the police?
She couldn't trust a guy who was trying to arrest her own father.
If you had told her...
...I think your feelings would have reached her.
Feelings make no sense...
No sense...
Jun-chan, good morning.
Senpai, I'm in Fukuoka right now.
Has something happened?
I met with his mother. She got a phone call from the criminal again.
He said he wants to meet Emi-san.
His mother wavered, but she then gave him her phone number.
I'm rather worried.
Yes!
Who is it?
Sorry about yesterday.
Ah, I don't remember very much.
Never mind about that!
Huh?
Risa!
Hello? This is Gondo.
I need the position of a cell phone. The number is...
Where should we look?
You notified Detective Gondo, didn't you?
The police will be faster.
I just can't sit still not knowing!
Let's search the neighborhood around her apartment and school.
Okay!
I'll go this way.
Release my daughter. Please!
Right here in front of you, I'm going to kill your daughter!
Just like the way you killed my daughter...
...I'll stab her three times and kill her!
If you want to stab someone, stab me!
Stop!
Please! Please spare my daughter!
Please! Please!
Watch carefully!
Please! Please...
Stop!
Nakamura-san, please stop.
I've lived...
...just dreaming of this day.
Release her!
Is that what a policeman who neglects the victims has to say?
So this time, you'll become the criminal?
Detective, please save my daughter!
I refuse!
I will not save her for your sake.
Don't come! Don't come!
She's not guilty of anything.
This fits the crime done to my daughter!
You have no right to judge a person.
It's okay already.
It can't be helped.
Because my father did wrong.
Take care of the girl!
- Emi! - Stay away!
Gondo-san?
Gondo-san!
Call an ambulance! Hurry!
An ambulance! Secure the suspect!
Gondo-san!
Gondo-saaan!
"Akinai"
It can't be.
Detective Gondo, huh?
It's a shock.
There's a possibility Rei-san could have been killed as well, isn't there?
If there had been a need for us to rush in, we would have been rushing into that.
Bounty Hunters...
...are allies of Justice.
I'm... quitting.
Hold on a minute.
I'm going to continue doing it.
To revenge Detective Gondo?
A funeral?
Mourning dress, mourning dress... Plain clothes!
These are mourning clothes.
What's going on?
We're all going to offer incense, aren't we?
Huh?
Look, Detective Gondo isn't dead. He's only been hospitalized.
- Eh?! - Eh?!
But Senpai, you said he died.
I didn't say that.
Jun-chan!
Ah, thank goodness.
Then our reason for quitting as Bounty Hunters is...
But, the fact that we'll be risking our lives hasn't changed, has it?
Sensei's words linger in my ears.
"You guys can quit midway through..."
"That's nice, isn't it?"
That's what he said, isn't it?
In a crime...
...there are victims, wrongdoers and bystanders.
Bystanders?
Those who just watch on, silently.
But isn't that just being a wrongdoer?
That convenience store manager and the Principal of the middle school...
...the press and those writing on the internet... they're all bystanders.
They...
...just hurt Nakamura Takako-san who died and Emi-san.
There's a possibility...
...that all of us could become victims or wrongdoers.
I don't want to forget that.
That's why I will go on being a Bounty Hunter.
We might be stabbed.
That's why I won't say we have to do this together.
You have to decide for yourselves what you are going to do.
Senpai, where are you going?
To get my 20,000 yen back.
Huh?
Thank you.
This is such a relief.
I won't die that easily.
About my father...
Huh?
I don't want to talk to him right now...
...but I will go meet him someday.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
What are you apologizing for?
Because I wanted... to apologize to Detective Gondo.
Sorry about that.
I have to apologize to Nakamura-san, too.
Yeah.
Is it...
...okay for me to live?
That's obvious.
No matter what anyone else says.
Ah, um...
These are for Gondo-san in Room 308.
You can entrust them with me.
If you would please.
Where is my wife hiding out?
- Please calm down... - Shut up!
If I go back home, he'll kill me.
Please divorce me!
You... have been tricked by these guys!
I guess the team will breakup.
Isaka Akane will be placed on the wanted list as a suspect in a murder case.