Scientists of the past
searched for the soul within the the human body.
Is the soul in the heart?
Or in the brain?
Does the soul even exist at all?
But when it comes to "love",
that certainly exists.
The feeling of liking someone,
of wanting to talk with them forever,
of wanting to see them again.
Does love dwell in the heart?
Or in the brain?
Or...
...does it perhaps dwell in the memory?
Sandglass
You can get up when you want to,
and eat meals every day.
When it rains, or the wind blows, you sleep...
I want to be like that.
- No human is like that. - I wouldn't mind being a cat.
An unlucky cat?
Even as a cat, would I still be unlucky?
Such a negative aura seems contagious.
- Makuru-chan, keep those thoughts to yourself. - Yes~
Oh? What happened to your job at Minabara?
The project got bigger,
so the lab hired a load more staff.
As a contract worker, I was cut.
Unemployment again?
No, I found another job straight away.
I went around each flat in a condominium
and put out pesticides,
but there was someone weird there.
He's got an odd name like "Unaki" or "Unagi" (eel).
"An odd name", says Yakusuke-kun.
The "Yaku" in my name means "Misfortune".
Thanks to that, my life has been a series of bad luck.
"Yaku" is used in the words for misfortune, calamity and disaster.
Nuru-kun, you don't have to read it.
It's already engraved into my bones.
So? What happened to your pesticide job?
Thanks to that Unagi-san, I was fired.
If you've got free time, don't just hang around here.
This is a café.
It's apartments, a private detective intermediary service and a café.
However, look at this note.
"No customers may linger for over 30 minutes without purchase."
Your 30 minutes have passed.
Another cup of the same.
Yes, sir.
Welcome.
On, well spotted. That's saffron.
It's said to be effective for improving memory.
Memory...
I met a strange detective the other day.
Her motto is "Speedy Resolution",
she can't be requested in advance,
she takes payment in cash on the same day,
she writes memos to herself all over her body
because when she falls asleep, her memory resets...
Where is this detective agency?
Who knows? We just mediate,
we don't invade the detectives' privacy.
The number is on there,
so why not phone if you're interested?
She might be unexpectedly nearby.
But...
she was pretty mean to me before.
Yakusuke's
recollection
Since you have incredibly bad luck,
if a car hit us, you'd take the brunt.
I'd get off unscathed.
That was my conjecture.
Using me as a shield? Isn't that horrible?
Still, Yakusuke-kun, haven't all the other women you've met,
run away for fear of catching your bad luck?
Yes.
Compared to that, it's a positive reaction.
That's...
Whatever the reason, if she'd hated you enough not to want to touch,
she wouldn't have taken your hand.
In other words, to her,
she didn't think you were altogether bad.
If there's someone you like, you should go for it.
People never know what will happen.
She might lose her memory tomorrow.
Pleased to meet you,
I'm private detective Okitegami Ky?ko.
Please contact me if you need to.
Oh? Ky?ko-san, weren't there any good books at the shop by the station?
I didn't go to buy a book, I went to solve a mystery.
This morning
Mystery?
I didn't solve it. May I see the clothes?
- Ah, we also have clothes for sale. - This way.
So she really doesn't remember me.
Let me give you some advice.
It's fine to rely on Ky?ko-san as a detective,
but I don't recommend her as a love interest.
Because you're not her type.
Eh? That's what you're saying?
I think she prefers sporty men.
There, just like him.
- Ah... Excuse me... - Welcome!
I heard I could be introduced to a private detective here.
Yes, high-, middle- and low-ranked.
- I'm looking for someone. - What kind of person?
The truth is, I'm involved in a case.
The police believe it's a murder case,
and suspect me.
I want to find the woman who can confirm my alibi.
What are her defining features?
- She's pretty. - Pretty.
- In her mid-twenties. - Mid-twenties.
Her hair has changed colour, and her name's Ky?ko.
She does some sort of investigation work...
...and she likes mystery novels.
Incidentally, where did you meet her?
I saw her drinking tea at a café..
She looked lovely, so I spoke to her.
- Picking her up? - Never mind. What then?
We chatted with a good atmosphere for about 2 hours,
and when we parted, Ky?ko-san said, "I had fun".
Kyo...
You're calling her that after one meeting?
She asked me to herself.
Unfortunately, although we can find that woman
- or rather, she's already been found -
she cannot prove your alibi.
Ky?ko-san!
It's me! From the café.
Who might you be?
Eh?
She is a detective, but...
she's a fast but forgetful detective.
Pleased to meet you.
My name is Okitegami Ky?ko.
Okitegami Ky?ko's Memorandum
Subtitles by Candylemon
Last Wednesday, Kujirai Ruka-san
received a phone call from an old university friend.
The door was unlocked so he went in,
and found his friend completely changed.
The cause of death was an electric shock from a hairdryer.
From the fact the victim was dressed,
and the evidence of a struggle in the flat,
the police concluded it was murder rather than an accident.
In addition, when the hairdryer was thrown into the bath,
the flat's electricity short circuited
and a programmed DVD recording stopped
From this, the time of the murder
was estimated as 15:53,
30 minutes before the body's discovery.
At that time, the first discoverer Kujirai-san
testified he was with a woman at a café.
So then, that woman
was this Okitegami Ky?ko-san?
Yes.
But once Okitegami-san went to sleep
she lost all memory of that day
so she has no memory of Kujirai-san at all.
Right.
That's not an alibi.
- My apologies. - Ah, no...
But it's hard to believe...
Then how do you even know who you are?
I have memories from before this happened, several years ago.
Anything more is a company secret.
Was the cause of death definitely electrocution?
Yes, the autopsy confirmed it.
Is it possible he'd been poisoned, or fed a sleeping drug?
None was detected in the body.
In other words...
Why are you asking, anyway?
I'm a private detective.
Ky?ko-san, how about helping Kujirai-san as an apology.
- Joining the investigation. - Good idea!
Kujirai-san, please hire me.
But...a private detective joining the investigation...
It's unacceptable.
This is Kizunai from Sandglass, hello.
How are you?
Your kitty, Maron-chan.
Ah~ That's great~
Well actually, Ky?ko-san wants to investigate a case.
Yes... Yes...
A police detective called T?asa-san is here...
Tall and fierce-looking.
Yes, I'll put him on, yes.
What?
Who are you?
Ah! Section Chief!
I'm sorry!
No, but...
Ky?ko-san has often helped with investigations in the past.
Since she's forgotten everything the next day,
the police find her very convenient.
Understood...
"Give her the details of the investigation."
Ridiculous...
Well then.
Here we go.
Investigating to help client Kujirai Ruka-san.
Thank you, I've memorised it.
Eh? Memorised?
I have a good memory.
Within each day.
The documentation mentions another witness?
Someone at odds with the victim Unaki-san.
- Unaki? - We currently only have his name,
but he was a part-timer with Green Clean, Kakushidate Yakusuke.
He seems to be a troublemaker who frequently changes jobs.
- I haven't... - Huh?
It's just because I'm unlucky...
Well, we'd better get going.
- Let's go. - Right.
Please let me visit the scene.
Understood.
Kujirai-san, please guide me to Unaki-san's home.
Yes.
- We're off. - See you.
Bye.
You finally killed someone?
I didn't! I just...
- Get lost. - Uh, I'm from Green Clean!
I've come to spray preventive pesticide.
- Under the toilet and kitchen sink... - I don't need it.
I have to ask, so I've tried several times...
In the end, he wouldn't let me in.
So that's it?
I remembered they'd called you Yakusuke.
It's a good thing I came back.
In other words, you were angry at Unaki-san's unreasonable attitude
and forced your way in.
In the struggle, you pushed him into the bath,
switched on the hairdryer and threw it in!
Wait a minute.
- You think I'm the culprit? - It's possible.
- H?r?-san. - Yes.
If I can't find evidence to prove Kujirai-san's innocence,
I may need to prove this person's guilt.
Please keep him in custody here.
Okay!
Ky?ko-san.
Thank you for waiting. Let's go.
- See you later. - Have a good day.
She completely trusts Kujirai-san, doesn't she?
It's not fair!
I may be suspicious, but you can't say he's innocent!
- Isn't it that she's interested in him? - That's right. That's it.
How's that reasonable for a detective? She's too biased.
And what's with that over-familiar "Ky?ko-san"...
- You're jealous. - You should call her Ky?ko-san.
It's too sudden.
Just tell her she said you could!
- She'd have forgotten anyway. - That's right!
Ah, no...that's cowardly.
Getting close based on a lie wouldn't feel right.
Hey, does that mean
Ky?ko-san's an easy person to trick?
- Ah! Those sneakers! - Sneakers?
However you look at it, on that day...
Fired again.
According to Kujirai-san's testimony,
he visited Unaki-san at 4.30 pm.
But I saw those sneakers at about 1 pm.
Kujirai-san claims he was drinking tea with Ky?ko-san from around 2.30 pm.
During which time, Unaki-san was killed...
The body was found at 4.30 pm.
If that was Kujirai-san in the sneakers,
it's possible he was in Unaki-san's flat from 1-4 pm.
His alibi testimony...was a lie?
We were there together for about 2 hours.
It's possible that story is untrue.
Untrue?
You knew of a forgetful detective called Okitegami Ky?ko,
and falsely claimed you were with me
to use me for an alibi.
I really did meet you and chat.
You like the novelist Sunaga Hirube, right?
Is that written in your detective profile?
I'm a Sunaga fan too, so we discussed that.
What are my favourite novels?
The surprisingly entertaining "Great Detective Meiko" series.
Got it. You believe me?
What's your favourite novel?
The one I reread often...
...is "Reform Sentence".
This morning
That's a very old one.
"The experimental element is strong."
And yet...
"In subsequent Sunaga novels,
"the same complexity of good and evil is established"!
I get it.
You know things I'd forgotten about myself.
Please call me Ruka.
On that day...that's what we called each other.
"Ruka-san" and "Ky?ko-san".
Like the couple in Sunaga's first book.
That's right.
Lovers who just spent 2 hours drinking tea.
I like it.
Ky?ko-san.
I wanted to see you again.
Oh, he's back.
- Was he rejected? - Don't say that out loud.
- H?r?-san. - Hm?
It seems Kujirai-san and the victim
were swimmers at the national level.
The same discipline at the same university.
These are from 4 years ago.
Oh~ They were rivals?
Kujirai-san retired long ago
and became a swimming school coach.
Unaki was still active.
He was tipped for a medal at the upcoming World Championships.
Oh? Could it be this Unaki...
I thought so.
The "Demon Swimmer", Unaki.
He often made radical statements.
He was finally caught doping and trashed by the media.
Unaki died by electrocution...
Electric eel?
Electrocuted Unaki
Electric Eel?
Ooh~
The killer made a pun.
You hadn't seen Unaki-san for ages, had you?
Unaki's Condominium
Right.
And then he suddenly called you that morning.
"I want advice about the upcoming tournament."
"Come and seem me at 4.30."
Did you use the lift on that day?
Yes.
What sort of person was Unaki-san?
He had lots of enemies.
He was the type to snap at anyone.
And yet he asked for advice?
He was a selfish man.
Did you hate him?
Come on.
If you think about it,
we shouldn't suspect Kujirai-san just because he had those sneakers.
You're carefree for someone who's also suspected.
It's because I'm always a suspect that I don't want to suspect him.
Do you know how many
innocent people are convicted?
How many false arrests have you had?
I've stopped counting.
Well, I know that's your policy.
But if Kujirai-san is the culprit,
he might give Ky?ko-san a sleeping drug...
But the site will be swarming with police...
The site verification is long over,
so they're alone there together.
- Major damage. - They're alone there together.
He said it again!
On that day, the door was unlocked
and there was no reply when I called, so I went in.
The washroom door was open, so I went in.
Was the bathroom door open?
The cord of the hairdryer
was stretched through from the outlet,
so there was a gap of a few centimetres.
That's strange.
When viewed from the hallway,
Unaki-san in the bath wouldn't be visible.
Why did you go inside?
The power had short circuited.
I don't believe anyone would normally think
there was someone in the dark bathroom.
I just did it.
Maybe I sensed something.
Doesn't that feel creepy?
He was like this, wasn't he?
The culprit may be suffering right now.
"Will I be brought to justice or not?"
I wonder which would be worse for him.
Strangled and stunned,
and placed into a bath full of water.
The hairdryer was switched on, then...
...splash.
Did you do it?
I couldn't have done.
I was with you at the time.
I'd better get back to work.
If you think of anything, call me.
Hello?
Okitegami-san, are you safe?
...It seems so.
On that day, at about 1 pm,
I saw someone like Kujirai-san in that building!
In other words...
it's possible he was here from 1-4 pm.
Yes, and this is just a thought,
but maybe he really did meet you at the café
but it was on a different day.
I've considered that possibility.
But his alibi testimony is the truth.
The proof is Sunaga Hirube's "Reform Sentence".
"Reform Sentence"?
- I'm hanging up. - Ah, wait!
Please don't drink anything you're given!
- Pardon? - It might be drugged again,
and if you forget everything you'll have to start again from scratch!
And not only that,
you'll be defenseless when you're alone with him!
Anyway, drinking is forbidden! Ah...
Not just drinking, either.
don't accept even a single sweet!
You'll be in trouble if it's drugged!
- However earnestly it's offered... - Tedious.
T-tedious...
Oh, put Nuru-kun on, please.
Hello?
Hm? What did Ky?ko-san say?
- "Tedious"... - Eh?
Every time we meet she says I'm tedious.
And yet Kujirai-san already gets to call her by her name.
It's impossible for me.
I'll be calling her "Okitegami-san" all my life.
Is this love counselling or life counselling?
- I don't know how to approach it. - Right.
Why not just ignore him?
Hold your face under for 5 seconds. Go!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and up!
Well done.
Once upon a time in a certain place there was a villain.
He had committed every crime in the Statute Books
and was an exemplary criminal.
He kept increasing his record of crimes
without regret or hesitation.
But at last he was arrested.
Everyone called for the death penalty,
but he was spared thanks to a doctor's suggestion.
What was that suggestion?
The man would undergo surgery
to remove his violent urges
Thus, from a villain
he was reborn as a saint.
The reborn man's trust
was preyed on by swindlers
and he saved people by shouldering their debts.
He was betrayed by the people he had come to like.
And in the end
he died penniless and alone.
What? Was it boring?
It made an interesting point,
and you could call it poetic justice
that the villain ended up a victim...
But it's depressing...
I don't know what to think.
That's fine.
The book was never intended
to be a lesson on how to live life.
It's enough to close it and think it was interesting.
Because it's a story.
I don't think reality is like that, though.
Where's Kujirai-san?
Nuru-kun's watching him for me.
If he's forcibly arrested in the middle of an investigation
I'll go out of business.
This is Kujirai-san's favourite book, isn't it?
How does this prove his alibi?
To be precise,
this book proves it.
- Aren't they the same story? - What's going on?
It seems I purchased it last Wednesday.
I found the receipt in the bag this morning.
Why did I buy a book I read years ago?
To solve that mystery,
I went back to the bookshop this morning.
But it wasn't laid out on display
so I didn't understand the reason.
That mystery has been solved.
- Look at the time stamp. - Hm? What?
- 4.25 pm. - The time of the incident.
Having heard Ruka-san talk about it at the café,
I decided to reread it.
So I walked to the bookshop.
Since you don't remember that day...
We definitely met on the day of the incident.
Oh, welcome back.
Kujirai-san's alibi holds up.
- Hm? - The detectives came to the pool...
A café employee put photos on the shop's blog
taken on the day of the incident
at 3.58 pm,
5 minutes after Unaki-san was killed.
This clears you of suspicion.
The photo is from the day of the incident.
The time is 5 minutes after Unaki-san's death.
That clears Kujirai-san of suspicion.
This is the investigation fee from Kujirai-san.
I haven't done anything yet.
Message:
"Thank you for letting me spend the day with you."
End message.
That's all?
I wish he'd said it directly to me.
But it's good that Kujirai-san's been cleared.
Even I had begun to suspect him,
and I felt bad about that.
Ah, Yakusuke-san, you're a wanted man now.
That's not good at all...
- It's the same as always. - I know, but...
Will you make a run for it?
Or ask a private detective?
Here.
Well, the quickest one to ask...
- Okitegami-san. - I see, you're requesting Ky?ko-san.
- Let's go and see Kujirai-san. - Eh? What?
You said it yourself, didn't you?
"If there's someone you like, you should go for it."
Nuru-kun, lend me the car.
No no... What about the warrant for your arrest?
That's the same as always.
Let's go.
Yes.
She went.
So-what attitude mode.
At school,
I secretly bought the favourite book of a girl I liked.
I remembered that.
I've been thinking all this time...
If he wasn't in the flat from 1-4 pm,
he went to the flat twice, at 1 pm and 4.30 pm,
everything adds up.
He could've set up a timing device in the bathroom for the murder,
left to set up his alibi,
then gone back to remove the device.
The police would've seen him leaving with a large apparatus,
so it was probably very simple...
Wait a minute, does that mean...
You saw Kujirai-san's sneakers, didn't you?
But the person wore featureless white socks.
He was wearing socks?
Yes.
Do you know what happened?
Yes, although it's presumptuous.
Your form looks like a drowning whale.
I don't mind if you crawl along behind me.
Gimme a break!
Ky?ko-san!
Let's race over 50m.
If I win, you'll tell me about your crime.
It's a promise.
I'm a formal national representative.
If we don't try, we won't know.
That's some confidence.
I don't remember.
How good a swimmer am I?
Maybe I can't swim at all.
When it reaches zero, let's start.
Ky?ko-san!
Wait...
Lifeguard! Is she drowning?
Lifeguard!!
Ky?ko-san!
Breathe... I thought I'd die.
Diving's a foul.
Why did you do all this?
To earn my fee.
So you're Kakushidate Yakusuke!
No no! No!
Come quietly!
Detective! Detective!
Before you arrest that man,
let's hear what Kujirai-san has to say.
Kujirai-san has an established alibi!
I will destroy that alibi.
Aren't you ready yet?
This is a hairdryer like the one used in the murder,
but what was it doing there?
- What? - Unaki-san had a shaved head.
He had no use for the latest high-powered hairdryer.
We can assume the culprit prepared it in advance.
Premeditated murder...
Kujirai-san, on that day
why did you take off your socks in Unaki-san's condominium?
Wasn't it because they were wet?
When you went into the bathroom,
the bath water had overflowed.
These 2 points lead to one answer.
Rather than throwing the hairdryer into the water,
the hairdryer was switched on,
hooked over the side,
and the water flowed in.
When the water reached its level,
the current flowed through.
- That's the simple timing device. - Yes.
In this way, even if you weren't here
Unaki-san would be electrocuted in the bathtub.
That's right.
I did it.
I left to establish an alibi,
then came back when I knew he'd be dead.
I stopped the water and reported his death.
Jumping the gun.
And misreading.
I'm still explaining my reasoning.
No hypnotics were detected in Unaki-san's body.
...In other words,
he might have been stunned
but there was no guarantee
he wouldn't wake up while the water was still accumulating.
It was too uncertain a technique.
What do you mean?
This was a premeditated...
...suicide.
Suicide?
Isn't that right, Kujirai-san?
For an ordinary suicide, the hairdryer could be put directly into the water.
But then the current might leave marks on the victim's hands.
So to avoid touching the hairdryer,
he waited patiently for the water to accumulate.
Rather than a timing device,
it was a trick to make it look like murder.
Since Unaki-san had been ridiculed as "Electric Eel",
he chose death by electrocution.
But why go to all that trouble?
He was a stubborn person.
His pride wouldn't allow suicide.
He manufactured evidence of a fight,
then called up Kujirai-san
to ask him to be the first discoverer
and to turn off the water.
The idea for creating your alibi
was also his, wasn't it?
Why did you help him?
I didn't intend to.
1 pm, day of the incident
Fired again...
What do you mean, you'll die?
I'm in a slump...
I'm not gonna help you.
My killer will never be found.
Won't that be fun?
- Gimme a break! - It's too late for me.
I'll lose the next national race.
But if I withdraw,
- I'll be a laughing stock. - Unaki!
So that's that.
I thought he was just joking, and left.
2 pm, day of the incident
But about an hour later...
Kujirai...
I'll leave the rest to you.
Help me out.
The snitch 4 years ago...
...was you, right?
"Snitch"?
4 years ago,
Unaki-san was caught by a surprise dope test.
After an anonymous report.
There was a rumour among the team.
"Unaki's doping".
I followed that rumour.
4 years ago
I was determined to beat him.
T??dai's swimmer Unaki...
...is doping.
I felt smug when the drug was detected.
"Don't be a cheater", I thought.
But he...
...was innocent.
A prescription medicine he happened to take
contained an unlisted ingredient.
Although his innocence was proven,
he missed all that year's tournaments
as though that whole year was struck from his record.
The reason you retired as a athlete
was your feeling of guilt, wasn't it?
In "Reform Sentence",
there's an unforgettable passage.
"Cause and effect doesn't mean fireworks"
"The consequences of crimes
"just sit and fester."
The phone call from Unaki
felt like just that.
Help me out.
The snitch 4 years ago...
...was you, right?
I reached my peak that year.
But everyone just said,
"Unaki couldn't do that without doping."
That's why I'm asking you.
Because you sold out a friend just to win.
This feeling that if I can't win, I wanna die...
...you understand it, right?
I...
I was confronted with the result of my actions.
That's your excuse for assisting a suicide?
- That's no reason! - It's not an excuse.
It's...a confession.
From Kujirai-san...
...who let Unaki-san die.
On that day, Kujirai-san thought,
"I shouldn't make an alibi."
Even if as the first discoverer
he was suspected and caught,
he would accept that consequence.
But at that time, he saw her.
Reading a book by his favourite author.
He thought he'd try risking it.
May I sit here?
Would his own alibi
forgive his crime?
Go ahead.
I was thinking I'd like someone to talk to.
At that time,
I'm glad I chose you.
I wanted to talk to someone.
About my guilt.
Thank you for listening.
I'm sorry.
I'll forget everything.
That's fine.
I'll remember.
About the one who died because of me,
and about you...
...the forgetful detective who saved me.
Ruka-san.
Let's never meet again.
Be well.
Ky?ko-san.
In you get.
You didn't have to say you wouldn't meet again.
I'll forget him anyway.
The outcome is the same.
As if I'd never met him.
That's all it is.
I wonder if Okitegami-san
will live her whole life that way.
Having embraced a feeling that might be love,
even if her memory resets...
I wonder if somewhere in her heart
she will feel lonely.
I told you,
I don't recommend her as a love interest.
It'll be best to keep a certain distance...
Ky?ko-san.
May I...
...call you that?
I don't mind.
What should I call you?
Yakusuke.
Understood.
Yakusuke-san.
Ky?ko-san, Ky?ko-san...
Ky?ko-san! Ky?ko-san! Ky?ko-san!!
- Ky?ko-san! - He's overreacting.
Is he alright?
Now, everyone, it's curry time!
Yakusuke-kun, that'll be 3000 yen.
Expensive! That's too expensive!
Never mind.
I-is it really okay?
Yes.
Ky?ko-san...Ky?ko-san...
- Is he alright? - He's fine.
Sit down, it's time for curry.
Bon appetite!
Itadakimasu.
but she won't remember.