Child Welfare institution "Kougon Cult DAIRINKAN"
Happy birthday "Hanagami Oori"
Oori.
Bro?
Are you alright?
She’s cold.
De—
She's dead.
Could this have been an accident, great Buddha?
But why is nobody here?
Stop it!
Shugo, please stop! "Note: Shugo means cult leader"
Shugo, you can't force yourself.
She is already gone.
Isn’t that Shirae-san that comes here every once in a while?
By Shugo, does he mean Bro?
How could she have gotten those wounds?
Who could that girl be?
Does it intrigue you?
That corpse I mean.
What?
There is something you can show to that corpse.
That is...
Do it, Tagami!
I am just a beginner, but I can do it.
I may be able to make it.
You should wait for a new one!
She is a human being.
Keisei...?
Forgive me.
I’m sure that girl was dead.
Shikabane Hime AKA: "The Dance of Death"
You must be Hagino.
We've found seven corpses in your trash.
They must be from the women you were sleeping with.
What would you do if I told you someone in your Police Corps was causing crimes?
So, I punished them.
I’m just like you.
Only I was the one who executed the punishment.
What crimes did those women commit?
They disobeyed my orders.
It’s a terrible crime.
It's all thanks to the great Buddha that we can eat today.
What the hell are you doing, Keisei?!
Don't call me Keisei, I am the Priest of this household.
Are you sure you are allowed to do this?
Listen up.
These days, there are those who build up positive perceptions of themselves...
...to hide behind while commiting evil acts.
Do not be deceived by their facades, and search for the truth within them.
Of course I am—
What are you telling them, Tagami-san?!
As the one responsible for this group, I...
This is the ground of the Sekkuuji temple.
But I am the manager!
Everyone, let's forget about this, okay?
Let’s share Tagami-san's breakfast with everyone, okay?
- What?! - Yeah!
Manager?
Is it okay if I leave this in the hall?
Is it tonight that you’re moving out?
Yes.
A friend from school is going to help me.
What's wrong with you, Hanagami?!
Are you really moving out?!
It’s not Hanagami!
It’s Kagami... Kagami!
I’m calling you Hanagami!
Hanagami! Hanagami!
Ouch...
Whoa! Are you going to take all of that with you?!
Gravure Idol
It’s you!
You put all of this in my boxes!
Isn’t your name written on it?
But this is your handwriting!
As your father I felt that you could have used these when you live on your own.
I don’t need you to look after me in this way!
And you’re not my father!
You’re right...
But you’ve been raised here too.
I really think of you as my older brother.
Why are you going, Oori?
I’ll be in the neighborhood.
I’ll come for dinner once in a while.
It’s expensive.
I’m off!
I’ll come back immediately after school.
Please look over my things until then.
He’s going to work two jobs, he said.
He probably felt uncomfortable here at his age.
Just let him go his own way.
But didn’t you notice?
The first time he thought of living on his own was last year, when you got wounded badly and had to stay in bed, Keisei.
It all began that day.
Was that so?
You always leave all of the sudden and come home wounded.
I've gotten used to it, but Oori...
So the Dairinkan is closer to school?
No, but the rent is so expensive around here.
So why are you living on your own then?
The truth is that you got scared of the cemetery behind your house, right?
Don’t say stupid things.
I’m not scared at all.
But you told us before right?
That you’ve seen dead people.
Yeah, that’s because it's a temple.
But it’s not scary at all.
Anyway, that’s not really the problem.
By the way, could you guys help me move my stuff?
Hey, you guys?!
I need to go to my club.
I’ve got my part time job.
Shit! Let’s get out of here!
Inuhiko?
Don’t call me by my first name. (Note: The name Inuhiko can be translated as “Dog Boy”)
I hate it.
By the way, did you hear?
What?
The Harem-case that everybody is talking about.
A harem?!
Nice! Every man wants to experience a harem once in his li—
About the man who was living with numerous women of which many are still missing?
They’ve been talking about it on TV all the time lately.
When the cops investigated the man’s residence last night...
...seven corpses were found.
Corpses?
So he really did it?!
So did that guy get caught?
It looks like the cops let him get away.
They said that we should stay alert because he might be wandering around here somewhere.
Not something you want to hear from the Student Council.
This isn’t a good time to be moving out.
But today is my only day off.
That man's apartment is at the next station, right?
This doesn’t feel real.
I can’t believe those corpses have been so close to this place.
In this house, the suspect has...
Only a few corpses have been found outside this city.
Even if he would get the death penalty and died, his mystery would die with him.
But this guy turned into a corpse.
The cops are hiding it but...
It seems like he jumped off the twentieth floor of his mansion.
Alive...
I’m alive.
I can’t die.
I’m immortal!
A strong vibration...
He turned into a corpse that keeps on moving fiercely.
However...
The cops cannot acknowledge such an existence.
But he turned into a corpse.
Corpses kill human beings.
They get supernatural powers from their instinct.
That is why we have come to you, Shugo.
As always I shall investigate the matter.
I’ll be enough.
Monsters like you can only act carelessly.
Honda!
What I have to do doesn’t change anyway...
I just have to find and kill it!
You sure did a good job finding this.
Above that, it was for free!
They showed something on the news...
You’re talking about the Harem-case?
It’s women he’s after.
Just be careful.
Um... Manager...
Thank you for watching over me all this time.
Oh you...
I’ll be off.
One of the harem’s women has...?
Yes, one of them entered that building a while ago.
Does this mean that the criminal has summoned her?
The cops are looking for that woman too.
I think we should hurry.
What are you doing?!
I died and have been resurrected.
And I’ve become a vampire...
God has chosen me!
You’re wrong!
You’re just another corpse!
This can’t be.
How can a corpse give life to another corpse?
I thought I told you...
I’ve become a vampire.
I can create corpses.
Are they really corpses or are they just...?
Do you want to become a corpse too?!
What’s this?
You’re not human either.
Makina!
I need to get some help.
But I’m sure somebody will steal my stuff while I’m gone.
A person?
This can't be.
It’s that girl from before.
That's right.
It’s the same girl.
But why?
She’s dead.
It's too late.
But you aren’t scared.
Because it has been shown to you...
You can't fear death.
But you fear yourself because of that.
What are you going to do?
That time, bro did something like this.
That is a corpse.
A lifeless object.
I know that.
But even so...
No!
Keisei.
Who are you?
Your heart stopped...
Forget about this.
It's still not beating.
Aren’t you scared knowing this?
But you’re alive.
Wait!
Makina!
How are you feeling?
I'm fully recovered.
And now you're here with me.
The corpse has been seen in the neighborhood.
Can you go on?
Yes.
But try not to hurt the women around him.
Corpses aren't contagious.
The women he abducted can't have become corpses.
What was that then?
He has them in control by his charisma.
There is a big chance that he was bluffing about being a vampire.
Whatever happened to them, they are still alive.
And I'm not allowed to kill living things, right.
That isn't allowed for humans, corpses or anybody else!
It came through Hagino’s place.
What about the criminal?
Do you think he would kill one of them?
It is possible that he ordered the harem’s women to kill each other.
But even so...
I know.
Those women are alive and I am not.
You?!
After falling from such a height...
So you must be...
Corpses like you have come to this world.
Indeed, I am dead.
I am a corpse created only to act, hunt down...
...and defeat man-killing corpses like you.
They call me the fearful, merciless, despising, scorning...
"Shikabane Hime" (Note: "Shikabane Hime" means Corpse Princess.)
And you’re the one who told me not to hurt them.
I just put them to sleep safely.
Come here, corpse!
You’re the same as me.
Devouring humans and living on to eternity.
Saying you and Makina are alike? That's ridiculous.
Wait, Makina!
Watch out!
Watch out?!
There is nothing I fear!
Destroying the corpse's brain is the only way to defeat it.
Right now...
You feared me.
It's your loss!
Note: The day that Kagami Oori became a man!
What's this? Geez.
I stink like a corpse.
To be continued
The new world has already...
...turned into a mere mirage in front of our eyes. Now!
When these boring days are over,
My possibilities will be endless.
Hold me now, Sign of hope, Let me stay with you.
I can't lose to this solitude, I must prepare my heart.
I can't let my future and dreams end.
Tomorrow is not fiction.
Counting the anxious nights and overcoming them.
Thinking about why I am alive.
I've reached dawn without finding the answers.
Next time
People have forgotten death is all around us.
Because they can't live while thinking of it.
But they can't help but think of it.
The game continues.
Next time, the game continues. *
Note: Headlines: "The mystery of the Harem man." "Group murder; 10 deaths." "The man who turned beautiful women into his slaves." Picture: "Hunting down the truth about the Harem man." **
*note: in Japanese there are 2 ways of saying corpse. “Shitai” and “Shikabane”. “Shitai” is used for more recently deceased persons and is also a nicer way to say it.