3 years ago
"Kawakami"
What's going on!?
Red - [Aka -]
treasure
What does it mean?
You!
Treasure.
Exactly.
Memorize this as "dore ja?" [Which?]
Treasure~ treasure~ Which treasure?
Okay, everyone.
Treasure
treasure
Which treasure?
I can't hear you!
Treasure
treasure
Which treasure?
Good.
Thank you for your hard work.
What's this...
Who put this hindering thing...
Dirty...
Sensei!
It's a beautiful flower, don't you agree?
It really is.
It expresses the heart.
What's the matter for this Omichi-sensei?
I just came across a florist in my neighborhood.
It seems they call it "Blue Diamond."
Every year when this season arrives, this flower certainly blooms.
In the language of flowers it means...
Eternal love.
What?
No.. that doesn't resemble my intention.
I'm just saying my feelings, therefore...
Eternal love.
Eh?
The square of "i" equals "-1", so...
Your love put together...
..with my love equals...
.."-50,000 yen" from my wallet, for going out to some high class French cuisine.
That means that your love equals...
"The search for Japan's best detective!"
A mystery loving rich man seems to have...
..reserved a mansion where nobody lives in and decided to hold a reasoning quiz tournament in there.
He seems to have prepared a luxury prize for the winner.
You can either participate as an individual or as a team.
So, why don't we go and try it together...?
A reasoning quiz tournament.
Ah, everyone!
You have been here?
Sensei.. is there anything?
Look, look. It's beautiful, don't you agree?
Blue Diamond, isn't it?
You can take it home, if you like it.
Really?
My mother actually really likes flowers...
That makes it 3000 yen, pay it this week!
- Eh? Then it's okay. - Impossible, the trade was completed.
What's this?
Ah!!
"Luxury Items" ??
[Reasoning quiz tournament - Preliminaries chairman] [At the top]
Alright.. first are the preliminaries...
Excuse me, but in order to prevent cheating, you have to put your mobile phones in here.
Okay.
- Then, this way please. - Okay.
Imamura-kun~
The 6 of us in 1 team, is that okay?
An absolute victory!
Yes!
What are you doing?
That's our enemy! Don't be over-familiar!
Well.. we and those girls...
Ah! That was one moment too late.
I've already made the application.
You..
[Kinben Senior High School 3rd Year Class B with Ayu] ..and me are one team.
Let's go!
Sensei~!
Crap.. why that woman again!?
[Preliminaries - First Game]
Then, the first game...
..of the preliminaries is held now.
The whole preliminaries are in a tournament format.
Only six teams can go through and advance to the final round.
Before you can say the answer, you have to go to the center and...
..pick up the "Right to Answer" sign.
Well then, the question.
[Sakuraba Girl's Academy LOVE2 Angels]
To be seen everywhere in the town, the king of a country...
[Akihabara Quiz King Koaza Hachiro] ..built a 1000m high tower on top of his castle.
However, there is one place from where the tower can't be seen.
Where is that?
1000m... that's higher than the Tokyo Tower.
From where it can't be seen...
Got it.
That's it!!
Moe~
Inside the tower!
Correct.
I got it!
Yukgaejang Kukpap! [Korean Spicy Beef Soup with Rice]
Correct.
That's bad.. They are said to be the top favorites for the title.
"Tokyo University Doctoral Course Reasoning Quiz Study Class"
To apply to such a thing...
You... are from Kinben Senio High School?
If you want to join our club, you have to study very hard.
However, passing an exam and becoming popular are said to be two different things.
What shall we do sensei...
Leave this to me!
Say.. could I come to your side?
Sensei! What...
The team that wins in this competition will advance to the final round.
Well then, the question!
Here are six glasses.
You can only move one of them.
Change it so that it becomes an alternate line up of full and empty glasses.
The first from the right...
The second from the right to the left...
Isn't it impossible no matter how?
The answer.
Correct.
Yay!!
Alright~!
Those guys are nothing but big mouths...
Hey!
You haven't done anything.
"Kawakami"
This is the place where the final round will take place.
The others have already assembled.
Well, that's it for me...
You are leaving?
After showing you around, I'm said to leave promptly.
Imamura-kun!
Matsuo!
You all also remained.
We somehow made it.
It's good to meet you.
Well, it was an easy victory for us three...
Don't get over-familiar with the enemy!
Sensei?
Really a hindrance.. that woman.
In the end, we are going to be the one laughing.
They'll get the overall victory. And we'll get the prize.
Everyone!
Welcome to the reasoning quiz tournament today.
Those who splendidly advanced to the final round are...
Mystery novelist, Mrs Kurida Kumiko
Lawyer, Mr. Hashimoto Kenji
Private detective, Mr. Iwai Hiroshi
The primary school teacher, Mrs Hirooka Keiko
Everyone from Sakuraba Girl's Academy' team.
And then, everyone from Kinben Senior High School 3rd Year Class B
..and their English teacher.
with Ayu...!
I am this tournament's organizer, Hazegawa Haruo.
As a matter of fact, I cannot help but to apologize to everyone for one thing.
This tournament's purpose was never to decide who is Japan's greatest detective.
As for this mansion...
3 years ago, there was a family living here.
One day, 3 years ago, several robbers broke in here.
A tragic incident happened, one by one, the family that were trying to escape were killed.
I think that, as the victims were running away from the robbers, they certainly...
..must have left hints somewhere in this mansion, indicating who the criminals were.
That's what I'd like everybody to find out.
Hey, isn't that the police's job?
The police didn't find anything, that's why I need your help.
Why are you doing such a thing?
One of the killed victims.. was my younger sister.
Because she married into this family,
..my younger sister got killed by those criminals. Up until now, I've only been thinking quietly about this.
This mansion is going to be torn off soon.
When that happens, every clue in this case will completely disappear.
So, before that...
..all of you somehow...
..please help me.
If the police didn't get anything,
..why would we...
But, it could be somewhat interesting to handle a case that actually happened...
Err.. I have one question.
Yes?
What happened to the said prize of the tournament?
Hey, sensei!
The person who finds a clue about the criminals will certainly get a suitable expression of gratitude.
The details about the case are in those envelopes.
When you discover something, please call me by pushing the buzzer over there.
However, until somebody finds something,
..you can't leave from here.
Well then everyone, please see whether you can do it or not.
Hey, we can't leave from here... What's the meaning of this!?
Won't open...
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Useless.. it won't open...
Better be careful.
We might be able to leave from here.
High voltage...
Even going that far...
In any case, the only thing we can do now...
..is to find the clues the victims said to have left behind.
To start with, we should sort out what had happened 3 years ago.
So based on the materials, the victims of 3 years ago were...
Kawakami Junsaburou and Yone, married couple
Their son and his wife, Youichiro and Natsuko
This Natsuko is the younger sister of...
..the organizer, Hazegawa Haruo.
And then the daughter of the two, Sachiko. so, there are 5 of them all together.
And the intention of the criminals?
It seems that there were gold bars inside the house. The police saw that...
..the safe was opened after the incident.
The gold bars were there?
They weren't.
The criminals must have stolen them...
There is one strange thing that I read.
After the incident, the police quickly started investigating, but, they didn't find anything that hinted to the gold bars being loaded into a car.
If the criminals would really have done it, then...
..they would have found something during the investigation...
So, I wonder if we shouldn't consider,
..that the gold bars are still somewhere in this mansion.
What?
In other words, the criminals stole the gold bars from the safe and hid them somewhere inside the mansion.
Then, after the heat cooled down, they would come to pick them up.
Say.. how much would those gold bars worth?
Well, the lowest would be several hundreds of millions.
Hundreds of millions?
Wouldn't a robber who leaves it like that for 3 years really be disinterested?
So it must have been amateurs...
Such gold bars can't immediately be changed into money.
The criminals would have gotten exposed!
Anyway, let's get to the action.
We'll go and look around the mansion.
Whether your theory is right or wrong...
We'll find out soon...
Are you alright?
We are feeling not so well...
You can leave this to us.
You 3 can go back to your room.
Thank you!
That hurts!
Let's go!
Yes
Hey!
This is the room where the wife Natsuko-san and her daughter Sachiko-san...
..were tracked down and killed.
What about this seal?
That was also written in the document.
After the incident, people from the neighborhood often saw ghosts appearing in this mansion.
That's why they locked it up.
So there might be a ghost lurking inside here now?
You fool...
Things like ghosts don't exist.
Let's open it!
Look, there is nobody in here.
Hm?
What's this?
I guess one victim left a note.
"Red" ... and line ['aka' and 'bou']
Baby? [akanbou]
I got it! The criminal is a baby!!
Sensei.. do you think a baby would want gold bars?
Think about it... A baby would be unexpected...
In my masterpiece "The Murder in the Venice Royal Palace,"
..there is a trick where a baby had a key hidden inside its mouth.
It was the trick to get into the secret room.
You really.. a baby wouldn't kill people.
Hey there?
It seems like the killed Natsuko-san left another note...
"7111 yen"
What does that mean...
Perhaps.. Natsuko-san lent somebody 7111 yen.
And to make that person return it...
Hey, don't you think we should split up now and freely look around?
What do you mean?
If we work together in this competition, what would happen if we discover something?
I mean about the suitable expression of gratitude for the person who finds it out,
...that organizer Hazegawa talked about.
That's right, ever since we came here, we have originally been rivals.
But...
If you are scared, then why don't you shut yourself away in your room?
Well, that's how it is then.
From now on, we are enemies...
Okay?
It's here!
Heavy.. Hurry and help!
When the police got in here,
..there were no gold bars already?
How did the criminals open this?
Let's see.. They key for the safe was deposited in a visible place in the kitchen.
The police guessed that the criminals must have used it.
Really careless, those rich people...
What's this...
Don't you think somebody tried to break through this wall?
For what reason?
Well...
It's still in the state of when the incident happened.
The robbers also did this?
Who else if not them?
Don't you think it's strange?
If the gold bars were in the safe, why would they look in such a place?
What are they doing...
Why do we have to search for them?
Aren't you also starving?
Yeah, I am...
Starving...
A flower bed...
The daughter Sachiko-san took care of them.
Alright, let's dig and look.
Wait, if there is something hidden in there, the flowers wouldn't bloom like that.
Look, that flower bud is going to open very soon.
Huh?
That flower...
"To everyone from the mystery mansion,
"..the meals have been prepared."
"Please assemble in the banquet as soon as possible."
That was Matsuo's voice..
Ah, that was really thoughtful of you girls.
That's not it.
We've been in our room for the whole time, but...
We became hungry and came here to look for something to eat...
Completely unaware of this...
We were scared and called everyone with the microphone...
Perhaps.. it was Hazegawa-san who prepared it, don't you agree?
Let's eat!
Huh? Where's Kuroda-san?
Nowhere...
At this side too...
Only in here is left...
Strange, it's locked from the inside.
Kuroda-san!
Kuroda-san?
Not here?
But it's strange, isn't it?
If that's so, then who locked the door?
The window!
Maybe the window?
Look if you can find some signs of somebody going in and out.
Yes
Something is nailed on from the outside.
Hey...
Wasn't it in at a different position some time ago?
Is that so?
In fact, I've been thinking the same thing.
Call Hazegawa-san... In any case, get in contact with the police!
Hello?!
Hazegawa-san?!
Hello?!
There is no reply.
What is he doing? At such a time...
That guy in general...
Putting us into such a faked staging. Where is he hiding?
Could I say something?
If it was Hazegawa-san who prepared this meal...
Don't you think it's strange?
Even a primary school student would understand this arithmetic problem.
That's right!
There were exactly as many meals as us...
One was missing right from the beginning...
In other words.. Hazegawa-san.. knew it beforehand that Kuroda-san got killed?
But how?
Perhaps...
Hazegawa-san did.. Kuroda-san...
There is one more thing...
Haven't you forgotten about something important?
Even a primary school student would understand this science problem.
When we tried to get into the room,
..it was locked from the inside, wasn't it?
As for the person who killed Kuroda-san...
How could he have left that room?
Ayukawa.. did she go to bed?
Yes, sound asleep.
Hey.. although the murderer might hide somewhere...
Isn't it dangerous?
Therefore!
Those girls are fearful and frightened.
If it's like this, we'll succeed.
It's just us!
It's so scary that we can't sleep, so we thought that we should go to you.
We also thought that we should go to your room.
Let's go!
Wait!
Apart from that, why don't we think about a way to leave this place?
There definitely has to be a loophole somewhere.
I can't say it with absolute certainty, but from my experience as a lawyer,
..after seeing the rigor mortis of Hazegawa-san, it seems like that he was killed...
..before the mystery novelist Mrs. Kuroda was killed.
I also think so.
I know it based on many years of experience as a private detective.
In other words, Kuroda-san didn't get killed by Hazegawa-san...
If that's what it means, then there is only one possibility.
Someone among us killed those two.
For what reason?
Hey, if you play dumb, you will be the most suspicious...
That means that a criminal from the incident 3 years ago is among us?
And then he killed the two that got too close to the truth...
What's happening to the rest?
A robber among us...
What are you talking about?
Yet, you might be the criminal...
You too.
Besides, behaving like pure high school students...
I don't know about you...
We'll be in trouble, if we don't find the criminal soon.
"7111 yen"
You really think this is about returning lent money?
Humans...
..on the verge of death, it's said that you think about such things.
How do you think she wrote this?
In this way she got cornered by the criminals.
And this way... Hey!
That's it!
She wrote it with the hands behind her back.
If you have your hands behind your back...
a i u e o
The letters become upside down.
In other words, you only have to look at it upside down...
"Ha ru o" ?
Haruo!!
That's the robber?
But was there such a participant?
Organizer Hazegawa-san
I am organizing this tournament now, Hazegawa Haruo.
Haruo
He was the robber 3 years ago?
That makes no sense.
He's a victim in the current incident.
That's right, isn't it?
If he was the criminal, he wouldn't have asked us to search for clues in the first place.
Something bothers me about this room...
Isn't something different from the first time?
Sensei, here!
It was here and somebody moved it to this side.
That's right!
First, this was here.
Why did it get moved?
Well...
Alright, move it back to its original position.
Yes
Wait...
If we assume that it was written this way...
Kuro da
Kuroda!
Really!
Kuroda
Perhaps the victim...
..heard a conversation between the criminals and one of them must have called the other one Kuroda.
And then on the verge of death.. she left this behind.
I see! If she had written "Kuroda,"
..the criminal would have certainly erased it.
Kuroda... The mystery novelist, Kuroda-san?
But Kuroda-san and Hazegawa-san...
..are victims in the current incident.
Perhaps.. we could have completely misunderstood something...
This is delicious, isn't it?
Yes.
Just like in the olden days.
You know that there was a robbery in a mansion near here 3 years ago?
The case with the 5 killed family members and the stolen gold bars, right?
The whereabouts of the golden bars are still unknown, even until now.
The objective of the criminal?
As a matter of fact, I think there was a relative of the family among the criminals.
We knew this from an anonymous tip-off.
And?
We haven't found any proof when we investigated it.
But you know.. my impression of the case was dark.
In other words, the killed Hazegawa and Kuroda were the robbers 3 years ago.
And the person who killed the two robbers is somebody else.
But...
If that's true, then, why do you think Hazegawa let us assemble here?
Wouldn't they both be worried about digging up the case from 3 years ago?
3 years ago, they probably...
..broke into here, but they weren't able to obtain the gold bars.
You get it?
Why was the wall in the safe damaged?
Why was the closet devastated?
Since the criminals were able to get straight into the safe,
..it wasn't necessary for them to do such a thing.
The gold bars must have been stored somewhere else other than the safe.
Therefore they weren't able to obtain them.
I see!
If you think about it, this also solves the puzzle behind the frequent ghost appearings in this mansion.
After the incident, the robbers crept in here and stealthily searched for the gold bars.
This mansion is going to be pulled down soon.
If one of the construction workers discovers the gold bars,
..they would never get the chance to get their hands on them again.
Therefore, they let us search for it in the mansion before that and...
..if by chance somebody finds the gold bars, they would snatch them away...
I see! That's why Kuroda-san back then said such a thing...
So, I wonder if we shouldn't consider,
..that the gold bars are still somewhere in this mansion.
With this, they made us search for the gold bars...
If we assume that we would really find the gold bars, at that moment...
..we probably would all share the same fate of getting killed.
Well, then who killed those 2 now?
Perhaps, with the exception of Hazegawa,
..there is another one related to the family that got killed 3 years ago..
..among those people, don't you think?
This person is taking revenge on the robbers....
Somebody of those remaining...
Iwai
Hirooka
Hashimoto
Certainly.. if you think about the time when Kuroda got killed...
You can solve the puzzle behind the locked up room...
Let's temporarily call him criminal X.
X saw the letters on the glass and combined them with the pattern of the cabinet.
He noticed that it points to Kuroda.
Then he informed Kuroda about it in a casual manner.
To keep it a secret from the rest, Kuroda gets into the room...
..and secretly changes the place of the cabinet.
At that moment, we all turned up to look for Kuroda.
Kuroda, in a hurry, locked the room from the inside and hid herself behind the furniture.
We then got into the room by breaking the lock.
And when nobody was looking, the criminal stabbed Kuroda.
Sensei, doesn't something smell strange?
That's terrible!
Somebody, open it!!
Damn.. they don't open!
Is this some kind of poison gas?
If it is, we are all going to die!
Open it! Somebody!!
Hey sensei... when we continue the ghost story we just talked about...
Right now is not the situation to talk about such things!
The ghosts were the robbers who were searching for the gold bars, right?
3 years ago the neighbors locked up this room because of those ghosts!
If that's the case, then how did they get out of this room?
They must have walked through a loophole out of this room!
Yes!
You could have said that earlier!!
Hey, hey!!
Here it is!
- Alright! Hurry! - Quick!
Sensei! Are you okay?
"3000 yen"
I don't think it's the situation to leave a dying message!
3000 yen...
What?
Let's leave her behind.
Hey! Wait you guys!!
We survived!
You.. why are you here?
I see.
The criminal tried to kill you after you got too close to the truth.
If we assume that he is still somewhere, there is no doubt that he will certainly attack again.
We should better immediately find a way out of here.
Hashimoto-san, is that a present from your girlfriend?
Well, yeah...
K heart S
The K stands for the K in Hashimoto Kenji, right?
Someday.. we will certainly also get such a thing...
You...
Do you think it's the right situation to talk about such a thing?
That's right.
We should branch out and search for a loophole.
Could you look over there?
Yes
This side! This side!
You..?
What's wrong?
It was you, right?
You locked us up and tried to kill us...
When you found us,
..you said "Why are you here?" Didn't you?
You.. why are you here?
You...
..were surprised by the fact that we were alive, weren't you?
Could it be that.. the S in "K heart S" ...
..stands for the Sachiko-san that got killed 3 years ago?
You...
..are taking revenge for Sachiko-san...
Excuse me, sensei.
Having to involve you into such a thing...
But you've interefered too much with your head already.
It's useless to call for your students...
Right now they are carelessly...
..investigating the surrounding of the mansion...
Hey! Hey...
I think it's pointless to kill me.
What?
There's a perfect evidence that you have been Sachiko's love.
You haven't noticed its location...
Don't say irresponsible things!!
Stop it!
Don't be foolish and stop it please!
Give it up!
Give it up already...
Look there!
Kenji...
Sachiko-san took care of this flower bed...
I think she planted it to surprise you...
This flower is called "Blue Diamond."
Every year when this season arrives, this flower certainly blooms.
In the language of flowers, "Eternal Love"
Sachiko-san's love for Hashimoto-san...
..is never going to extinguish...
Because it's going to be torn down soon, we just wanted to stop by for a visit.
Right, then such an incident occurred...
However, I am also curious about you.
Why are you at such a place?
I'm inexcusable.
Those kids were like "We are going to participate in this reasoning game!"
...and went like that without permission.
As their educationalist, I have the duty to protect them.
Sensei...
You guys!!
Again you brought this teacher some trouble!!
So, have the whereabouts of the gold bars been found out?
Not yet.
Hashimoto said that...
..Sachiko-san once said...
"The gold bars are definitely inside the door of the safe."
But no matter how much we examine the safe,
..there are no gold bars...
Kuroda-san, could you come for a moment?
Then...
Again there was nothing good coming out of it.
That's not right at all.
I got it, the location of the gold bars!
Let's go!
It's in here.
Didn't we already searched in here?
Wrong! It's inside the door.
That door is quite heavy, when you think about it.
That's what "inside the door of the safe" means!
Where? Where?
Huh?
Gold bars~!!
We did it!!
Listen, listen...
We have to carry them outside so it won't be found out!
Yes!
Sensei...
What are you doing at such a place?
They were hidden in such a place!
How wonderful that you have been able to find them.
Yeah.. right...
Hey, you...
What's this!?
No, this...
You guys!!
Hey!! You are all bad!
You, this weekend again...
..did something for your own convenience and brought a lot of trouble for Ayukawa-sensei!
No, that's.. when speaking of her, she originally...
Imamura-kun, it's okay.
To have to bother about trouble is also a job of a teacher.
You have such a kind heart...
Ah, that reminds me... What happened to the flower I gave you the other day?
Perhaps.. it was a hindrance...
No.
I took it home and with great care...
Eh? To your home?
Yes.
Going so far for something from me...
My love led to...
Sensei! How is it? About the 50,000 yen French cuisine!
Thanks for your hard work.
It's really your fault that I wasted my precious days off again.
So, this is all your treat.
Thanks for the treat!
Hey, wait...
Ah.. give me the 3000 yen for the flowers tomorrow!