Original Subs by Ureshii
Today, it was "The dream I don't want to see number one."
How to avoid dreams I don't want to see...
Rather, a dream I do want to see would be...
And yeah, it's doesn't rain at all, does it?
Please, have a drink.
Oh, Ms. Komori, I just came by, so...
Oh, have a nice day.
Well, even if the rice this year is good,
Kamewan Dam is completely empty, so...
Well, I understand. About that... we should talk about it later.
Oh, I made such a careless remark.
I'm sorry.
I'm going.
I've heard Tarou's family makes sake.
Well—
Yes, we do...
Hmm... so your ancestors used to be the landlords around here?
I don't really know.
That's why eleven years ago...
You and your sister... Mizuka, was it?
How great it is, to be friends with someone who's been kidnapped.
I researched that incident quite a bit online.
Your alleged kidnapper...
because of a mistake by the police...
He did make a phone call to the police requesting ransom,
but was it really money that he wanted?
Did you move here from Tokyo?
Huh?
In Tokyo,
would someone who you've just met
ask so impolitely before becoming friends?
Astral projection...
Dream...
September 21st, 1996.
Mizuka-chan, age eight, the eldest daughter
of Komori Yoshiya-san,
an alcoholic beverage producer in Suiten-chou,
and her brother Tarou-kun, age three, went missing.
At exactly midnight,
a male suspect called the police, saying he had kidnapped them.
The suspect did not clearly state the place of exchange,
but made Komori-san drive around in his car.
At an overhead crossing above a toll highway,
the suspect forced him to stop on the shoulder of the road
and ordered him to throw the bag with the money from there.
However, perhaps because he noticed that the police were securing the area,
the suspect did not pick up the bag and did not show up.
On the other hand,
as the police successfully tracked the location from which the call was made
to a pre-paid mobile phone used by the suspect,
they confirmed that a white van was parked outside of a Pachinko parlor on the outskirts of Suiten-chou.
TL Note: Pachinko is a mixture between slot machine and pinball.
The police entered the building.
The man tried to escape,
but as he ran towards a prefecture-maintained road,
he was hit by a truck and died instantly.
In the abandoned house,
the pre-paid mobile phone used by the man was found,
and it was believed that the dead man was definitely the suspect, however...
the kidnapped siblings were nowhere to be found.
The suspect was Sukuwa Yachiyo.
He was from the Chubu
and had no ties to this area.
Also, not only did he have no previous criminal record,
but his previous employment was unknown.
With the suspect dead,
and the kidnapped siblings still not found even four days after the incident,
the prefecture police were becoming impatient.
The former Kameiwa Village, which had been abandoned to construct a dam, dried up because of a dry season.
According to a citizen's tip, the children might have been in a rundown hospital.
The police searched for the two children,
but it was too late for the sister, Mizuka-chan, who was already dead.
The brother, Tarou-kun, was in a state of shock, but still alive.
In the room there were drinks and snacks, but perhaps because the suspect intended to return soon,
the children were tied to beds,
and could not eat anything.
In the six months leading up to this incident,
there were many reports of missing children in western Japan,
but this incident in Suiten-chou was the only one in which a ransom was demanded,
and the relation between them is unknown.
October 2nd, 1996.
The vice-representative of the Oogami Church, a small religious corporate body in Suiten-Chou,
Oogami Hideo-san,
died mysteriously in his own house.
He was found in a locked room,
TL Note: the scene here shows a fried, which is called a 'fried eye' in Japanese, as the yolk looks like the pupil.
with a knife stabbed in his eye...
and a cut on his neck.
Even though he left no suicide note,
the police concluded it was a suicide.
Because a kidnapping happened in the same town a week before his death,
people believed there was some sort of connection between them,
but there was no evidence to prove it...
How can you climb all these stairs every day?
I found it!
I found it! It was true!
Welcome back, Miyako.
Did you buy some sake for me?
Well... never mind.
Later, I'll go buy—
There's someone here, isn't there?
Why?
There was a bike at the bottom of the steps.
This is... a little strange.
Onee-chan!
Mizuka nee-chan!
It couldn't be Onee-chan...
But still...
This is... this is... a dream!
End already, dream!
End!
Huh? I just...
You're too young to be playing at a place like this.
I don't want an elementary school student to tell me that!
What were you looking at?
A Dragon god...
TL Note: Ryuujin is a Dragon God
Oh, hey!
What?
Last time... near the rock stairs, weren't you watching?
Who knows?
She was definitely watching!
I pray that I won't have a bad dream.
I was probably waiting for Onee-chan that day.
And your Onee-san, did she come out?
I think so.
I can't see Onee-chan's face too clearly.
You don't have to force yourself to recall that right now.
Umm... I don't get sleepy at all.
It's because this isn't hypnosis treatment.
It's called EMDR.
We just have you talk about the troublesome times in the past in your own words, while moving your eyeballs.
Just... moving my eyes?
Actually, the theory behind it isn't understood yet.
By crossing the functions of the left and right halves of your brain,
you stimulate your brain,
and it is said to reduce the symptoms of those with PTSD.
PTSD...
Well, I understand that you don't have any visible symptoms.
But instead, there are forgotten memories,
missing memories which you want to recall.
Isn't that right?
Yes.
But...
Is it really better to recall them?
I don't know.
Let's continue.
You are all right now.
That giant doesn't exist anymore.
Let's end here for today.
I-I'm... surrounded by things I fear.
Ehh? So the person who said Tarou and his sister were in the hospital near the dam was...
The granny at Oogami's.
Oogami Himeko, was it?
A granny with a stunning name, huh?
In other words, a real psychic.
And then, Oogami's father committed suicide shortly after, huh?
Also... people would have thought there was some kind of connection, right?
They seemed to,
but that was only a rumor.
Ehh? Ehh? Ehhh?
This town surely is interesting.
Even though it looks tranquil as shit,
it has such a gruesome past.
Well, the hospital at the bottom of the dam had many rumors from the past.
Hey! Tell me about them!
Hey, tell me!
Here... as I promised.
You can play it for a while and enjoy.
Bye.
I'm just interested!
But she's pretty cute.
What part of her?
People strive to find ways to help those who are traumatized.
The method in which the patient moves their eyeballs while recalling the memories that caused the trauma
is said to stimulate the information processing center of the limbic system.
But is that all there is?
When their eyeballs are moving, could the patients be seeing something...
behind the fingers of the healer?