Hunt for the Treasure!
Hello!
It's time for that weekend treasure, "Hunt for the Treasure!"
Tanigawa Christina
I'm your reporter, Tanigawa Christina.
Sometimes our participants cook for themselves and sometimes they pitch a tent,
but they always use their ingenuity as they search for treasure throughout the country!
And lo and behold, this is a two-hour special edition!
The setting is a remote island in which over 400 million yen in gold bullion is hidden.
Renkin Island!
Renkin Island
We have our usual participants...
Akashiba Taiki, Comedian
Akashiba Taiki and...
Fukamori Hotaru, Talent
...Fukamori Hotaru!
And three more people, who won a puzzle-solving battle the other day!
Isshiki Rikako-san, a beautiful science whiz who's known as the High School Quiz King...
Isshiki Rikako
Kamioka Fuuma-san, a student at an elite national dental university...
Kamioka Fuuma
And Kindaichi Hajime-san, a 2nd-year student at Fudou High, who delivered a surprise win!
Yay! I'm gonna get the 400 million yen treasure!
And our special guest this time is...
...Hayami Reika-chan!
Hayami Reika, Talent
Hello!
Reika-chan's so cute!
Thank you, Kindaichi-san!
Come on, you don't have to use "-san" with me!
By the way, what is Nanase-san doing here?
Actually, she found out I went to your party...
She said "Take me next time!" and I couldn't refuse...
When I looked into it, they had an opening for a part-time assistant director...
A part-time AD, huh?
Good to be working with you, AD-san!
Me too...
There it is!
The cliff-side western-style house where we'll be staying.
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The Alchemy Murder Case!
We're here! It feels totally abandoned!
Well, let's go!
Yeah, come on!
What's the idea with making me carry these heavy bags?!
Jeez, if I knew it was gonna be like this, I wouldn't have come.
Hang in there, newbie AD.
I'm Mikage Satsuki, Reika and Hotaru's manager. Good to work with you.
Mikage Satsuki, Manager
Good to work with you, too. And you're also lugging some baggage there, huh?
It can't be helped. Idols always have a lot of luggage.
You're beautiful enough to be an idol yourself, Mikage-san.
Why are you a manager?
S-Sorry! Did I hit a land mine?
Not at all! Actually, originally I was one...
Really!
Again, I'm the producer, Enkouji.
Enkouji Shinobu, Producer
As for the undiscovered treasure of Renkin Island,
our director, Onizawa Ryuuko, will explain.
The producer seems like a nice guy.
But he's a notorious tightwad.
Rumor has it that's why he put together a show about treasure-hunting.
Hey, over there! Don't talk unless you're told to!
Onizawa Ryuuko, Director
I-I'm sorry!
And Mayumura, you're in the shot!
Mayumura Takuya, Assistant Director
Sorry!
Scary...
Her nickname is "Demon Dragon".
Ever since she directed a reality show with just a talent and a cameraman on a remote island,
this kind of thing is all she's been doing.
You are rolling, right?
Fujimori Akira, Cameraman
All right! Okay, your attention!
G-Gold!
Wow! Onizawa-san, is it real?
Of course, it's only a replica!
But the real thing is worth over 400 million yen and is buried somewhere on this island.
The gold weighs about 966 kilograms, which is close to a ton.
966 kilograms...
Who brought that much gold to this island?
The owner of this house.
Huh? The owner?
He was a prominent physicist, but I guess he was too smart for his own good.
With each passing year he became more eccentric, spending his fortune on quack research,
until he finally just shut himself inside this house on a remote island.
Quack research?
Alchemy.
Alchemy? Isn't that where you use magic to create gold?
This is why idols have a reputation for knowing nothing.
Strictly speaking, alchemy and magic are different.
Turning lead or other base metals into gold is no more than one part of the purpose.
The ultimate goal is an elixir, the key to life.
Elixir?
Ezaki Claude was a genius physicist.
He built this mansion for the sake of the ultimate scientific research, alchemy.
But when he reached the peak of that alchemical research, he disappeared.
That's right. Somewhere in this house of alchemy.
And now that you know about the treasure, we'll do room assignments.
Mayumura, prepare the usual lots.
Sure.
Here we go.
And as always, we'll draw from the youngest to the oldest.
So I'm first up, huh? I was born last.
It says "79".
I've got "47".
I'm "26".
I'm next.
"13".
I'm up next. Here I go...
"82", huh?
I'm "50"!
"29".
I've got "22".
"28".
I've got "24".
T-Twenty-five.
"30"!
And lastly... I've got "12".
Dinner prep is at 6:00. We're filming then too, so it's mandatory.
Um, please throw your lots away here.
Here, right?
Also, the rooms on the second floor aren't in numerical order,
so please check the location of your room with this diagram.
Elevator Hall
The numbers really are all over the place.
And what a strange shape.
Feels like I've seen that form before...
Hey, let's go, Kindaichi-kun. Our rooms are close to each other.
Oh, sure.
I know! We can play cards tonight!
Cards?
Uh-oh!
What's wrong?
Oh, I forgot to make the congratulatory ball that drops from the ceiling.
I'd better come up with something a lot like it.
Would you help me and not say anything to Demon Dragon?
Sure, no problem.
You're a lifesaver!
What's she doin' getting chummy with the other AD?
I'm an AD, too, so naturally I'll help.
If that's the way you wanna play it, I can do it, too...
Kindaichi-kun!
Sorry! Let's go, Reika-chan!
Let's play cards somewhere.
Yeah!
This is my room.
79...
Huh?
Now that I look closer, is this door made of silver?
Then the other rooms, too?
Really?
No.
Kamioka-san!
That color isn't silver.
And besides, silver is a general color for metals.
Like aluminum, tin...
There are actually a lot of silver-colored metals.
But with the apparent thickness of that door, I'd say one layer must be metal.
What, it's not silver?
Huh? It opened...
So this is my room...
I see...
It locks from the inside.
I can't sneak in easily this way...
It's kind of scary, like with that metal grate.
Oh, yeah. It's like a prison cell.
Hey, don't say things like that!
Knock it off, Reika-chan! Fujimori is filming.
O-Oh, dear! Well, I'll see you later, Kindaichi-kun.
It's like we're under surveillance. Kind of creepy...
Okay, finished!
Reika and Hotaru-chan's...
...special curry!
This premium curry is a treasure on its own! I can't wait!
Delicious! I'm moved! It's like a flood of love in my mouth!
That's the frozen curry I just heated up a little while ago...
That's the way it goes, Miyuki-chan.
Yep. That's how everything works in show business.
Thank you, AD-san.
All right, let's dig in.
This really is good.
Hey, Kindaichi-kun, do you think there really is gold here?
Mmm, I don't know. But there is something that bothers me...
Something is bothering you?
Yeah. We were told the gold weighs .966 tons, a half-assed number that sticks out.
At a time like this, those kinds of details usually mean something.
Kindaichi-kun, you really are great!
Amazing! Amazing!
Give me a hug like that, too!
Reika-chan, for an idol, you're going overboard.
At the time, I hadn't yet realized...
This "house of alchemy", the site of our 400 million yen treasure hunt,
would become the stage for a bloody horror story.
3:00 already?
I wish I knew some good get-rich-quick scheme.
The money I got from that one time is just about to run out.
Maybe I'll try to shake them down...
After all, even if we all get caught, they've got a lot more to lose.
With 400 million, I may be able to get a one-million slice.
Oh, come on. Demon Dragon wants me again?
Yeah, coming.
W-What is this?! Am I being Punk'd?
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Morning, Kindaichi-kun!
You're cute from the morning on, Reika-chan!
Thank you, Kindaichi-kun. Anyway, breakfast has become a headache.
A headache?
What's wrong, Miyuki?
Hajime-chan! Please give us a hand here.
Mayumura-san isn't around.
Mayumura, the AD?
Without him, I don't know what's in where.
Making breakfast has become a fiasco!
Don't tell me he found the gold in the middle of the night and made off with it?
I strongly doubt it. Not when the gold weighs about a ton.
Say 30 kilos per trip. He could've taken it all in 32 trips.
True, if it's all in ingots,
but if it's one big block, no one would be able to carry it away on their own.
Hey, we've got a situation!
It's terrible! Everybody, come!
The cruiser's burning up!
We found this while searching for Mayumura. The small boat is gone, too.
So that AD did escape with it!
On the way here, he and Enkouji-san took turns piloting the cruiser, right?
Let's call the police on the radio and have him arrested!
Tanigawa-chan, we can't. The only radio is on that boat.
Then we're...
Yeah. Stranded on Renkin Island.
Hey, Mr. Enkouji...
About that camera in the elevator hall...
It's to film people coming from and going to the second floor, where the rooms are, right?
Yeah, that's right...
If Mayumura-san escaped with the treasure at night, it could've been caught on camera.
Let's check it out!
Go ahead, start it.
A-After 11, I adjusted the camera,
t-then went right to my own room on the second floor.
Fast-forward until something actually happens.
Okay.
Well, well, Nanase-san. You were with Mayumura-san, huh?
On the first floor until almost 11:30...
Y-Yes. There was still a lot of work to do...
What were you doing alone with him, Miyuki?
It seems like Nanase-san and AD Mayumura may be right for each other.
Fukamori Hotaru-san, right? What were you doing at midnight?
I was just thirsty.
Fujimori, fast-forward again.
O-Okay.
Fujimori-san! Let's see that part one more time!
Right!
Stop!
W-Who's wearin' that suspicious cloak?!
And they're draggin' a huge sword!
W-What is this?!
Who is it?!
The alchemist?
True, I have heard the previous owner always wore a mask and cloak...
...but he disappeared long ago.
He must have used alchemy to stay alive all this time.
Don't say such scary things!
Anyway, let's keep going.
O-Okay.
A-After that, n-nobody is on camera.
It is strange.
Let's look for Mayumura-san one more time.
If there's no other passage, he's got to be somewhere on the second floor.
Fujimori-san, please reset the camera.
O-Okay.
He isn't here!
This room is empty.
Not here!
No good. He's not here.
Not here either!
All of the rooms were empty.
Mayumura-san and that guy with the cloak and the big-ass sword...
Where did they go?
You'd have to think the cloak guy is Mayumura, right?
That's impossible, Akashiba-san.
The camera shows Mayumura-san going from the 1st to 2nd floor, but not coming back.
And yet, the cloaked figure appears somewhere from the 1st floor and heads to the second.
In other words, they can't be one and the same person.
I see. You're like a detective, Kindaichi-kun.
Oh, Kindaichi-kun is a detective!
Detective...? Could he be that Kindaichi?!
That's right! Hajime-chan is the famous detective's grandson!
Really?!
Y-Yuck! Is the roof leaking?
From the skylight, huh?
Well, no one's lived here for years.
W-What is this?!
Blood...
The dim morning light on the cliffs had cast a somber shadow on the skylight.
It was the barely recognizable form of AD Mayumura Takuya.
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At last, the curtain of horror rose.
On the stage of a solitary island, one victim after another falls.
And inside this mansion's locked room, he's targeting us even now.
Wait! Only one of us doesn't have an alibi!
Reika-chan, you're the alchemist?!
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The Alchemy Murder Case
In the name of my grandfather, I swear I'll solve this mystery!