"Onikui Shrine"
(20 years ago) "It's a story about the village headman's mouse,"
"one twisted being inside a box,"
"stuck by a poisoned arrow, mouse."
"mouse"
means mouth.
Remember this as "mousu". [to say]
When you say something, don't you certainly use your mouth?
You say "mouth" with your "mouse".
Ok, everyone.
Everyone!!
Excuse me, sensei
the spelling for "mouth" is different.
That's not mouth, that's mouse.
Does this matter? It's the same pronunciation for both.
The exact one for mouse is "mouse",
for mouth it's "mouth."
Mouth
With "th", "mouth".
It's "th".
Shut up!!!
Sensei?
What happened?
Actually..
there is a student in class 3-B who doesn't want to pay enough attention to my class.
What?
I just made a rather tiny mistake on something I wrote on the blackboard,
but he used it triumphantly
and made complete fun of me!
Who on earth.. That guy!!
This Oomichi here will knock him down!
That bruise, what happened?
It's just a minor..
So, what did you want to talk about?
At a place called Onikui village,
there seems to be a special festival held once every 20 years.
"Counting song treasure hunt rally"?
Yes.
Using the counting songs which were passed on from a long time as a hint,
you go and look around that village for a hidden treasure.
The person who finds it first,
seems to receive an orange mountain as a present.
A whole mountain if you succeed?
I think if it's Imamura and the others, we will absolutely be the first.
Right?
"Present for the winner.. orange mountain!!"
You get a whole mountain?
"If the rally makes you tired." "Complete nature open air bath."
There's even an open air bath..
What are you guys doing?
What's with your faces..
That's your fault.
Oomichi scolded us very hard..
You opposed a teacher after all.
I guess that's right..
What's that?
Tsukamoto..!
Orange mountain?
Doesn't it feel great?
Hey, still not there?
Sensei!
It says it's only a little left until Onikui village!
A little left..
How far is that?
Don't run!!
"Onikui Shrine"
We are here.
Finally arrived..
A festival?
How nostalgic, let's go!
Imamura-kun~
Did we keep you waiting?
How is it? Do these yukatas suit us?
Yeah, they suit you very much..
Do your best at the rally.
We will.
You guys!
You are not here to flirt with those plain-looking girls. Let's go!
Why is that woman here again?
Thank you very much.
Everyone, after keeping you wait for a while,
I think it's time to begin with the
(Onodera Seiji - member of youth assocation) "Onikui village counting song treasure hunt rally".
(Ichikawa Kitao - youth association leader)
Ladies and gentleman~!
In order to change this village
into a global international village,
we've decided to do this rally
and to combine it with counting songs.
Moreover we also hid treasures at 2 places in this village.
For the two who find them first,
we've prepared a very very surprise prize.
Well then, now to the counting song that serves as hint for the treasure hunt.
We'll announce the first number.
(Kubota Shuichi - member of youth assocation) We'll announce the first part.
"It's a story about the village headman's mouse,"
"one twisted being inside a box,"
"stuck by a poisoned arrow, mouse."
(Kobashi Kyoko - shrine maiden)
Then, let's begin.
Are you ready?
Ready~
Go!!
"It's a story about the village headman's mouse,"
What mouse?
"Mouse"
"Box"
There's a mousetrap set up somewhere?
Okay then let's split and search under the houses.
Alright!
You fools!
Listen,
the point is English.
English?
Did you hear that leader's speech?
They used proper English.
Huh?
The hint should definitely be in English.
"nezumi" is mouse
mouse in a box
Computer?
That's it!
It's a computer.
There! That!
"Please use as one pleases."
Let's go!
There it is.
Will they be okay..
They will do the rally..
and we receive the orange mountain.
"Please enter a password with 8 characters."
Probably this.
"stuck by a poisoned arrow, mouse."
We have to change it into English.
Sensei, you can leave this to us.
Mouse stuck with poison arrow..
If we take the first letter from each word..
Won't do,
you don't get 8 characters no matter what.
- I made it. - Eh?!
A mouse stuck in an arrow.
This..
..is it?
Sensei, you got the spelling wrong for "mouse".
That's not mouse, but mouth.
I know!
You are fine either way..
Correct it!
-mouse->
OK, Enter!
At this place is the first treasure?
"Onikui Waterfall"
When you are prepared, there is no "urain".
I combined "ureiinashi" and "rain"! [without grief]
Sensei you are bit too noisy.
Wait a moment..
Around here, huh?
What's that?
Sensei!
What's this?
We did it!
Only one more!
Ah, sensei!
The next counting song.
"It's a story about the village headman's frogs,"
"two surprised inside the water,"
"drank too much water and overturned."
Who are you?
Are you a person from the village?
Run!!
Hey!
What's going on?
Translator: HPriest Editor: furransu Timings by tianj
"Onikui village citizen hall"
You got attacked?
Yes.
People with demon masks.
Those guys from the eldest faction?
Eldest faction?
Actually..
there's a trifling discrepancy with the eldest
about that promotion of the village now.
I am opposing it!
(Yamagami Kijurou - Onikui village eldest) To use a festival to promote the village.
I'll never permit it!
Besides, we don't trust these guys.
Please don't talk about them like that.
Ichikawa and the others came back because they were worried about the village.
Those people abandoned our village and went to Tokyo!
After we went to Tokyo, we found out how bad the village is getting!
It isn't the era anymore to hold on to old traditions forever!
We have to get tourists..
It won't happen!
If you disgrace the festival, we will be cursed.
Besides..
That counting song has a sinister legend.
You aren't supposed to sing it without reason!
But..
that they really resorted to violence..
What's the sinister legend of the counting song about?
That counting song..
is said to point out the whereabouts of a treasure that...
the village headman left behind when he ran away
after an infectious disease was widely spread inside the village.
In truth, there seems to be a third song..
Treasure?
Say..
So, when you know the third,
you'll know the hiding place of the treasure, right?
But..
I don't think that there is anyone left in this village
who knows the third one.
A curse is applied to the song,
it's said that the person who recklessly
tries to find the treasure will be cursed.
Moreover..
there is a legend that the person
who sings the third one is certainly going to die.
Kyoko-chan, that's superstition!
But 20 years ago there really..
Do we have to speak about such a thing now?
However, what should we do?
If we just continue the rally,
somebody is going to get attacked again..
We have no choice but to cancel it..
Eh?
Hey..!
What about the ownership of that orange mountain?
Well, in that case it will go to the person who found the first treasure first..
Ah, here!
Okay then, it's yours.
A mountain of oranges harvested in this area!
Congratulations!
You must be very delighted.
We are very sorry.
Sensei.
If we don't hurry as well, the bus will leave without us.
We will stay here.
Eh?!
You get it?
Somewhere in this village..
there's the treasure that the former village headman left behind.
The only thing we need to know is the third counting song.
With that we will get it.
That's a rare chance!
Alright, let's go! Come On!
Matsuo!
You are also returning home?
My dad booked us a super high class hotel in a neighbouring town.
We will stay there for tonight..
We won't interfere with each other.
Well, take care..
Such..
What should we do?
B-But..
Ayukawa said that she wants to search for the hidden treasure in this village..
Treasure?
A real one?
Imamura-kun~
Hey, don't you think we will be lonely when we separate like that?
We will search for the treasure together with you.
That's right, can't we meet somewhere tonight?
Near the shrine..
there was an open air bath, wasn't there?
Open air bath?
Open air bath..
You guys..
What are you doing? Come quick!
Yes.
(left: night duty room)
Why are you in such a shape?
Are you going to take part in the ceremony of the eldest?
It's inevitable, isn't it.
If you neglect the ceremony held once every 20 years,
there will be a curse in the village.
Kyoko-chan
Why don't you abandon the village..
and come with me to Tokyo?
Or could there be someone you like?
Of course there is.
When we were small, everyone aimed for Kyoko-chan.
Kubota and Onodera too...
Or is it by any chance..
still Junpei?
Eh?
This charm bag..
is Junpei's, right?
I'm sorry, I..
somehow don't feel like going to Tokyo.
May we come in?
You are still here?
Yeah..
Ah, somehow there's a nice fragrant olive aroma.
I think it might be because of that sachet.
That aroma is to drive evil spirits away.
Well..
is there really nobody
who happens to know the third counting song?
You seriously want the village's treasure?
No, err..
We aren't aiming for the money!
Say..
the incident 20 years ago, what really happened back then?
20 years ago..
when those three from the youth association..
and their friend Junpei were still kids,
they secretly begun..
the counting song treasure hunt which are for the adults.
Then..
on the day of the village festival, Junpei-kun..
Wasn't it an accident or something?
I certainly saw it..
At that time..
there was a demon near Junpei-kun.
He shouldn't have gotten close to the counting song..
Moreover..
on the day of the festival, you may not go out between 10pm-2am.
Eh?
There is a legend that you will get eaten by a demon, if you go outside.
"Danger!" "It's prohibited to go outside."
"You can't go outside."
Alright, now is our time.
Matsuo and the others are waiting at the open air bath.
But..
we are not allowed to go out at that time anymore..
Shouldn't it be okay because of that?
Whatever we do..
nobody will see it~
I see.
You guys!
What are we going to do?
There might be a hint about the treasure
in the ceremony held once every 20 years.
Plus, there might be some quite expensive
comma-shaped jewels inside there.
Comma-shaped jewels..?
"Underworld Shrine"
Go, hurry!
This?
Let her free!
Wait!
Stop!
Hey! You guys!
Hey!
Release it.
Onodera-kun.
What did you do at the sanctuary?
Eldest!!
The comma-shaped jewel is gone!
What?
A comma shaped jewel..
You..!
Say, is that real?
Huh?
There's a number written on it.
That's one the youth association prepared for the treasure hunting rally.
A toy comma-shaped jewel.
"Yamagami "
In other words you..
you broke into the sanctuary to steel the comma-shaped jewel
and stole it without noticing that it's a forgery?
Yes.
I'm very sorry.
Somebody must have..
switched the real one with a fake one before him?
The comma-shaped jewel I saw,
when I removed the seal of the sanctuary,
was the real one without a doubt!
That means that somebody..
must have switched them and left the sanctuary when you burned the charm.
Exactly!
And the one who's able to do that..
Can only be you!
Eh?
That's wrong! Hey! Don't!
I saw somebody near the sanctuary.
Wearing a demon mask..
Hey, where's Kubota-kun?
I don't know.
His luggage is also gone..
I understand.
That man switched the comma-shaped jewel
and escaped with the real one!
Are you really going to turn him over to the police?
Yeah.
But Onodera-kun didn't steal the real one.
A thief is a thief!
Let's go.
"It's a story about the village headman's mouse,"
"one twisted being inside a box,"
"stuck by a poisoned arrow, mouse."
It's the same as in the first counting song, isn't it?
But..
Who did this?
I properly stood guard in front of the barn!
It's the curse of the counting song!
It's because our precious comma-shaped jewel was stolen!
If that's the case, then Kubota-kun is the next..
If Kubota-kun stole the real one and ran away,
then the curse is going to..
The second counting song..
"It's a story about the village headman's frogs,"
"two surprised inside the water,"
"drank too much water and overturned."
Drank too much water and overturned?
Kubota!
Kubota-san!
Kubota-kun!
Kubota-kun..
As in the counting song..
This is Kubota-kun's bag.
This is?
It's the real comma-shaped jewel from the sanctuary.
"..village serial murders case examination.."
We've put the activity of everyone on here..
At 10pm, the prohibition of going outside the village started.
At midnight, the seal of the sanctuary was removed.
At that point, there still was the real comma-shaped jewel.
All of you left the sanctuary at 0:30am.
The ceremony at the main shrine finished and you went back at 1am.
At that time..
Onodera tried to steal the fake comma-shaped jewel.
Kubota must have broken into the sanctuary between 0:30-1am
and exchanged the real comma-shaped jewel with a fake one.
After that at 3:20am,
you found Onodera dead inside the barn.
At 5:10am,
you found the corpse of Kubota near the waterfall.
That means that Kubota must have been killed between 0:30am
and the time of when you found his corpse at 5:10am.
If that's the case then none of us were able to do it.
We've all been together in the meantime..
I'm not asking you!
But detective,
it's just as they said.
I see.
However, if none of you really entered the barn,
then how did Onodera get killed?
Kyoko-chan.
How much would it sell..
the comma-shaped jewel.
Sensei, telephone.
Huh?
Hello
I'd like to speak with you.
Huh?
Could you come to the Onikui Bridge in the outskirts of the village in 30 minutes?
Don't tell anybody.
Ichikawa-san..
Why Ichikawa-kun too..
Do you understand now..
what'll happen to the people who try to disgrace our village..
We are very grateful.
Ichikawa was probably killed to shut him up.
He wanted to tell me something..
Still, the first thing we have to do
is to destroy an alibi, right?
And then the locked up barn..
Crap, does this mean that the criminal is smarter than us?
No, that's impossible.
Yeah, that can't be true.
That stupid detective..
leaving the real comma-shaped jewel here.
Sensei, are you trying to take this home?
What are you talking about..
I would never do such a thing.
I'm polishing it.
Ah, you polished it..
Alright, let us go through the events once more again.
Yeah.
Ah, hey, wait!
You know who the criminal is?
Yes
Say.. do you still have the sachet?
Eh?
The one that made that fragrant olive aroma at that time.
Ah..
You probably mean this.
I also wore this back then,
so it got soaked with the aroma.
Apart from that..
who's the criminal who killed those three..?
It's you, isn't it?
Huh? What was that?
Didn't we make sure that none of us could have done it?
You were able to do it.
You..
and the dead Onodera-san worked together!
First..
before the seal of the sanctuary was removed,
you killed Kubota-san.
Then you placed his corpse near the waterfall
and chose the second counting song.
At midnight, when the seal of the sanctuary was removed,
the man with the demon mask Tsukamoto saw,
was probably Onodera-san.
To pretend that Kubota-san was still alive at that time..
Onodera-san broke into the sanctuary
and stole the real comma-shaped jewel when everyone was at the main shrine.
When you all returned you started to struggle with him..
During that moment..
you exchanged the real one he had..
with the fake comma-shaped jewel you previously put in your dress.
Everyone thought that somebody must have exchanged them
before Onodera-san broke into the sanctuary.
After that, you..
went with us to search for Kubota-san..
and found him under the waterfall.
Kubota-kun..
At that time..
when you found Kubota-san's bag,
you secretly put the real comma-shaped jewel in it.
This is Kubota-kun's bag!
Naturally, everyone was under the impression..
that Kubota-san switched them and..
that he was killed after the seal of the sanctuary was removed.
Thus you created yourself an alibi.
That was interesting, wasn't it?
But do you also have an evidence?
Your charm isn't the only thing..
that got soaked with the aroma of that sachet.
The real and the fake comma-shaped jewel.
One of them..
also smells like the sachet you wore last night.
It's evidence for that..
you wore it under your shrine maiden clothes for quite some time!
What about Onodera-kun who died in the barn?
How could it have been done, if there was a guard all the time?
That too..
can be explained if you and Onodera-san worked together.
Ah! How terrible!
You told Onodera-san to purposely
act as if he was dead in the barn,
so that the surprised guard
would run away to call the others.
It worked, didn't it? Kyoko-chan.
Now we can both escape.
Right?
We have the real one.
But at midway.. you betrayed Onodera-san.
What are you doing?
Stop it!
You..
killed Ichikawa-san who found the criminal.
Kyoko-chan?
Those three had to die.
For the first time in 20 years..
I was arranging the barn for the village festival.
Then..
the diary of Junpei-kun who was supposed to have died because of the curse came out.
I understood it the first time I read it.
"Is bullying fun? When somebody experiences it.. it's extremely painful!"
"Onodera-kun" Junpei-kun..
"Kubota-kun" got tormented by those three.
"Ichikawa-kun" got tormented by those three.
"Painful. It's painful!" He didn't die because of a curse.
"I want to die." He didn't die because of a curse.
Wait!
- Don't run away! - Wait!
Stop it!
Because today, we are going to sacrifice you to the fierce god.
I don't want to!
The demons I saw that day..
were those three!
That was 20 years ago..
There are things that can't be forgotten in 20 years!
Sensei!
We finally found the criminal.
It's that dead Ichikawa guy.
It came out because of the letter he left in his pocket.
This one.
"Everyone, I'm very sorry."
"I killed Kubota and Onodera."
Perhaps after writing this,
Ichikawa regretted his crime and jumped from the bridge.
Before meeting with you..
Detective..
Ichikawa-san isn't the criminal.
Ichikawa-san called me..
to surely pass..
this letter to me.
When he realized that you are the criminal,
Ichikawa-san wanted to turn himself in as the criminal instead of you.
That's the Ichikawa-san..
you killed.
"20 years ago, us three
commited an unthinkable crime that caused Junpei-kun to die."
"Knowing that Kyoko-chan loved Junpei-kun,
we, in our childish minds were hateful towards him."
"Us three loved Kyoko-chan the whole time."
"20 years ago..
and even now."
"Please tell her to forget us quickly and find happiness."
Kyoko-san..
Those who loved you..
you killed all of them..
you said you wanted to know it, right?
I actually know it.
That's how I killed Ichikawa-kun..
It's a story about the village headman's jellyfish,
three were found on the bridge,
they turned and fell,
pitch dark jellyfish.
It was a sad event, wasn't it.
Eventually, we didn't find any treasure..
All we got is a pile of oranges..
You are so naive, aren't you.
I know the location of the treasure.
Eh?
Listen, the counting songs..
you have to retrace them reversely from 3 to 1.
"Turn and fell, pitch dark"
that's a water well.
In the hole of a water well..
"inside the water"..
is a "box".
That means that the treasure is hidden inside of it!
You are idiots!
In other words it means,
that it is over there!
Imamura, is there anything?
Sensei!
There's certainly a box!
- Eh? Really? - Are you serious?
Pull it up, pull it up!
Pulling it up.
Pull it up, pull it up!
Hey, do your best!
"Demon"
What's this?
What the hell is this..
What are you doing?
That's..
Hey, don't! Don't!
This is..
The village headman who escaped from here because of the infectious disease
wrote down his precious teachings,
in case there could be a time
when his offspring might return back here.
Look!
"One. Early to bed, early to rise."
"One. Throw away your greed, live honesty."
"One. All is well that ends well."
"This is all."
We are very grateful!
If you take this lesson, give me some money!
You guys!!
Not only did you disturb Ayukawa-sensei's lesson,
you even went as far as bringing her some great deal of trouble over the weekend again?!
Actually Ayukawa-sensei originally..
Imamura-kun.
You shouldn't complain.
After all Oomichi-sensei is talking with you for your own good, isn't he?
No, well..
Other than that, sensei!
Yes?
Thank you very much for that comma-shaped jewel as gift.
She again brought something with her.
However, why is there a number on it?
It's because it's a special limited thing.
A serial number?
Yes~
A unique one?
Yes!
Sensei?
If you eat them like this, you'll get trouble with your stomach.
Shut up!!
It's your fault that my precious days off gone to waste again..
Delicious~