In recent years, the number of vicious crimes was increasing rapidly.
In order to arrest the criminals and solve the cases, the police's scientific research center,
Forensic Investigation Office Section Nine, has begun investigating cases using MRI.
The image produced by the extracted brain of the victim not only shows the suspect,
but also the victim's entire memory.
Monokuro ni some ta hibi
モノクロに染めた日々
I stain the days in monochrome,
Maki modoshite wa sore wo kuri kaesu
巻き戻してはそれを繰り返す
and replay them again and again.
Dokoka no eiga de mita serifu narabete
どこかの映画で見たセリフ並べて
Lines with words from movies you've seen somewhere,
Kono kokoro kakushita mama heiki na kao shite aruiteta
このココロ隠したまま 平気な顔して歩いてた
I hide my feelings and walk on pretending I'm fine.
Ashimoto ni utsuri konde ita
足元に映り込んでいた
My face was reflected beneath my feet,
Yuganda boku no kao ga kanashisou ni miete ta
歪んだ僕の顔が悲しそうに見えてた
and contorted as if I was in sorrow.
Congratulations, you are the CHAMPIONS!
A Visitor (Part One)
An odd case involving boys who committed suicide on the same day, but in varying places.
Including the bodies found the following day, this is a nine-sequential suicide case.
Through the night, we scanned the brains of the boys.
Sensor's connected.
These are the images from Yamaguchi Kazuhide; he jumped off the roof of a building.
This boy...
What...
What's going on?
Why?!
What's wrong?
This is no suicide!
He's obviously being pushed!
According to witnesses, when he jumped, he was alone.
What?
Didn't you notice something odd about those images you just looked at?
The boy in the images was wearing a short-sleeved shirt.
He's rather underdressed for the season, wouldn't you say?
That's...
If we're to interrogate the boy in the short-sleeved shirt, we'll need to dig up his grave first.
That boy's been dead for a long time.
So he was being chased by a ghost.
That boy was bullied by his classmates and committed suicide two years ago. In other words, the current observers bullied him to death.
First year high school student, Shimizu Yoshitaka (17), was found dead with a rope wrapped around his neck by Aoi Noboru (38) while out walking his dog in East High School, Komaba town.
Shimizu hanged himself from a tree near the incinerator at the back of the school using gardening rope used by the school janitor. Forensic investigation confirmed a suicide. Approximate time of death was fixed at one in the morning; death by suffocation.
On the 13th of the same month, three youths were charged with threatening and abusing the victim, and six more were questioned with their consent. According to the suicide note left by the victim, he was threatened and abused daily by these nine youths. Forensic examination of the victim's body corroborated his account.
First year high school student, Shimizu Yoshitaka (17), was found dead with a rope wrapped around his neck by Aoi Noboru (38) while out walking his dog in East High School, Komaba town.
Shimizu hanged himself from a tree near the incinerator at the back of the school using gardening rope used by the school janitor. Forensic investigation confirmed a suicide. Approximate time of death was fixed at one in the morning; death by suffocation.
On the 13th of the same month, three youths were charged with threatening and abusing the victim, and six more were questioned with their consent. According to the suicide note left by the victim, he was threatened and abused daily by these nine youths. Forensic examination of the victim's body corroborated his account.
Apparently, he'd been threatened and abused for a long time.
Shimizu hanged himself from a tree near the incinerator at the back of the school using gardening rope used by the school janitor. Forensic investigation confirmed a suicide. Approximate time of death was fixed at one in the morning; death by suffocation.
On the 13th of the same month, three youths were charged with threatening and abusing the victim, and six more were questioned with their consent. According to the suicide note left by the victim, he was threatened and abused daily by these nine youths. Forensic examination of the victim's body corroborated his account.
Shimizu hanged himself from a tree near the incinerator at the back of the school using gardening rope used by the school janitor. Forensic investigation confirmed a suicide. Approximate time of death was fixed at one in the morning; death by suffocation.
On the 13th of the same month, three youths were charged with threatening and abusing the victim, and six more were questioned with their consent. According to the suicide note left by the victim, he was threatened and abused daily by these nine youths. Forensic examination of the victim's body corroborated his account.
From Shimizu's parents' bank account, a total of more than one million yen had been withdrawn. Evidently, these threats caused the victim to be in constant fear.
On the 13th of the same month, three youths were charged with threatening and abusing the victim, and six more were questioned with their consent. According to the suicide note left by the victim, he was threatened and abused daily by these nine youths. Forensic examination of the victim's body corroborated his account.
From Shimizu's parents' bank account, a total of more than one million yen had been withdrawn. Evidently, these threats caused the victim to be in constant fear.
On the 13th of the same month, three youths were charged with threatening and abusing the victim, and six more were questioned with their consent. According to the suicide note left by the victim, he was threatened and abused daily by these nine youths. Forensic examination of the victim's body corroborated his account.
From Shimizu's parents' bank account, a total of more than one million yen had been withdrawn. Evidently, these threats caused the victim to be in constant fear.
On the 13th of the same month, three youths were charged with threatening and abusing the victim, and six more were questioned with their consent. According to the suicide note left by the victim, he was threatened and abused daily by these nine youths. Forensic examination of the victim's body corroborated his account.
From Shimizu's parents' bank account, a total of more than one million yen had been withdrawn. Evidently, these threats caused the victim to be in constant fear.
Yamaguchi, who jumped off the building, was convicted for threatening and abusing Shimizu, and was sent to reformatory...
...The remaining eight were also sent to reformatory at around the same time.
On top of that, they were in the same building.
That means...
That's the link between the nine.
Yes, as the Director said, we're currently looking for images related to when they were all at the reformatory.
But that boy in short-sleeves... It looked more real than the images seen in other observers!
Ah, Director, he's tired from work. He's hardly slept these past three days, so...
I think you realize this, but the ones that come to Section Nine aren't just murder victims.
As you know, these are the brains of those who are murdered in the most unusual and truly horrific manner out of the entire nation.
Our job is to observe these brains, days on end, and pick out the truths in them.
A person like you, who believes everything they see and hear is the truth, will easily go...
...insane; driven by the mad brains.
Director...
Go home and sleep.
And when you wake up, why don't you write a request for a transfer?
Aoki-san.
Keep going, okay?
In criminal psychology, a situation like this is referred to as—
Not now, I'd rather not hear about that right now...
Oh, I'm sorry.
We don't usually drink our coffees here; today's an exception.
Then isn't it a bad idea to drink this in here?
Oh, are you talking about Onogida-san?
He sure loves this system from the bottom of his heart.
We might be in trouble if we're caught...
Everyone's worried that the Director is being too strict with you.
No, I feel that he's starting to lose patience with me...
That's not exactly true.
Commander...
At ease. Maki's certainly strict, but he's a man with a big heart.
He's overly conscious of you, perhaps because you remind him of someone.
Remind him?
Suzuki Katsuhiro-kun.
He's already passed away.
It's already been a year and a half, eh?
Suzuki-san... Wasn't he the Director's best friend?
Yeah.
Was he that similar to me?
Well, it's the aura you give out, and how earnest you are. Those sorts of things.
A year and a half ago, a case that shocked the nation occurred, The Massacre of 28.
On an ordinary morning, a body was found nailed to a tree in a children's park in the city.
From the autopsy, it was concluded that the victim was first skinned alive before being murdered.
Following the first discovery, a series of mercilessly mutilated bodies were found.
The number of youths murdered while alive in this cruel manner totaled 28.
The man arrested as the killer behind "The Massacre of 28" was Kainuma Kiyotaka.
Why did a man like him commit so many murders?
While the investigation was still ongoing,
Kainuma Kiyotaka committed suicide in prison.
It was an unprecedented horrific case.
In order to get a full picture of the case, Kiyotaka's brain was processed by MRI.
And this led to the start of another case...
Fired. On the chest...
....Regarding this case...
...considered to be self defense, and will be dealt as...
...mentally deluded...
The MRI investigator scanning Kainuma's brain suddenly became mentally deranged, and destroyed the entire MRI system.
He was Maki-san's best friend, Suzuki Katsuhiro.
In order to stop him, Maki-san shot and killed his best friend.
Maki-san killed his best friend with his own hands...
What it was like... I can't even imagine it.
This is?
An image from one of the boys who committed suicide, Ito Kazumi.
This boy, Ito Kazumi, committed suicide a few hours after leaving the toilet.
He was the boy who rushed out into the road when the traffic light was red, right?
*Danger The ghost frequently appears in this cubicle ^ I've seen one too!!
What're you freaking out for?
It's the same as usual.
There was a warning on the wall that ghosts appear there.
The observer was merely influenced by the writing on the wall.
Yes, but...
Well, because of the graffiti, he probably became frightened and created his own phantom.
The common link between all nine who committed suicide was that their fears had materialized and appeared in front of their very eyes.
Rather than facing their fears, it was a hundred times easier to end their own lives. They were cornered that far.
Hey, you're the man who single-handedly brought a dead man's brain back, aren't you?
Well, that time I just closed my eyes and did it without thinking...
You closed your eyes?
Good idea!
But when I sense an other's fear, I just can't remain calm...
Everyone here is the same.
We say this all the time:
"Don't watch what you can see with your eyes."
What you can see with your eyes, what you can hear with your ears...
Don't be fooled by what's on the surface.
We're looking at what's underneath.
People don't say what's really on their mind,
nor do they show it on their face.
Why did they see such a thing?
Why did they say such a thing?
Think about what's happening under the surface.
Even the most fearsome images are just creations of the human mind.
Though, sometimes there are cases where even a veteran investigator can be tipped over the edge.
Ah, the brain of Kainuma Kiyotaka, the murderer behind The Massacre of 28.
Apparently, detailed images of how he killed his 28 victims were left in the brain.
Those are what you call freaks.
The brain of a real monster.
If you try to understand them by watching, you'll go mad.
Now that I think about it, perhaps Suzuki made the right choice in destroying the data and Kainuma's brain, so that no one else could view it.
Maki-san shot Sukuzi-san, right?
Yeah, from that moment on, the Director has had to shoulder an extremely heavy burden.
Don't be fooled...
Don't be fooled!
We're seeing what's beneath the surface!
Jeez, you're so loud. Cut it out, please.
Why can't you let me do it in peace? Seriously...
Now, regarding the fact that the boys who committed suicide were all at the same reformatory at the same time,
Soga has found some images that strongly suggest a link with the suicides to that period of time.
These are images from when all nine were gathered together in the same place.
Right, show the images from all nine of them on the main monitor.
Yes, sir.
We're starting the scan.
Percentage of operating brain neurones: 120%.
Images are being shown.
They're in the recreation room.
All nine have gathered there together.
Why have they gathered there?
According to the reformatory, they had healing sessions on their duty-free days; a visitor came in and gave them comfort.
Healing?
It's a kind of therapy. They use special music and scents to heal the body and mind.
Seems like that fat man is the one who carries it out.
With just these images, we can't smell or hear the music,
so we can't really tell what's going on...
The images are kind of unstable.
Is it because of low output?
The percentage of operating brain neurones are 120%.
It's working normally...
Inducing hypnosis using a strong scent...
This is hypnosis!
Hypnosis?
Maki-san?
This man... He's...
Kainuma!
No way!
Director!
Maki-san?
Maki-san!
Shitte itano nanimo kamo
知っていたの 何もかも
I knew about it, everything.
Matte itano imamo nao
待っていたの 今もなお
I was waiting for you, even now.
Ittai dokomade yukeba ii noka
一体どこまで行けばいいのか
How far do I have to go?
Mabutano urano kioku se kono kakawari wo nurasu
まぶたの裏の記憶背 この関わりを濡らす
Memories of his back are burnt into the back of my eyelids; it soaks our relationship.
Anata wo wasurete dokoka tooku e ikitai
あなたを忘れて どこか遠くへいきたい
I want to forget about you, and go somewhere far away.
Ikenai Ikitai
いけない いきたい
I can't leave yet I want to leave,
Ikenai atashi wa
いけない あたしは
because I can't leave.
You fade, your play, your play
You fade, your play, your play.
Atashi no namida wo anata to...
あたしの涙を あなたと・・・
My tears with you will...
A Visitor (Part Two)