Suicide Note
Miyuki...
Fudō General Hospital
If I die, I'll leave everything to you.
Gee, you're such a drama queen.
It's only a stomach examination, right?
"It's only", you say?
At least be a little worried.
It hurts!
I'm gonna die.
Right now.
I guess a part-time job is out of the question if you're that unwell.
Part-time job?
This hospital is recruiting staff.
I was thinking that we could both apply for it.
What's all this then?
President?
We need two part-timers who can stay overnight for the medical interns summer training camp
on Shiranui Island off the remote Izu Islands.
Staying overnight?
Two part-timers?
Well, it can't be helped.
I'll have to apply in your place for this part-time job.
You will?
No way!
You can't do that!
But, your stomach...
I'll definitely make it through this stomach examination!
In the name of my grandfather,
the great detective!
Your grandfather has nothing to do with this!
Mr Kenmochi.
Mr Kenmochi Isamu.
Huh?
Kenmochi?
If I die,
I'll leave everything to you.
Please don't jinx yourself by saying something like that.
Mr Kenmochi.
What are you doing here?
Well, you see, Kenmochi had to go in for a re-examination.
He has...
rectal cancer.
It isn't cancer!
It's a mystery!
Why are you guys here?
We're here for Hajime's stomach examination.
Oh.
Let's fight for our lives, old man!
Yeah.
Oh!
Don't leave me...
Oh!
Doctor!
Please relax, you'll be alright.
This is just due to overeating.
Overeating?
Do you want to take a look?
This is an endoscope.
The cord is made out of a bundle of thin wires.
By looking down this lens, we're able to see live images from the attached camera.
Hurry up, pull it out!
Huh?
Pull it out!
What?
Damn, that was a close call for my insides.
That's really embarrassing.
It was just because you ate too much.
Hey, where do I pay?
On the first floor, do you have money on you?
Just a second.
Oh.
Hajime!
Gee.
Sorry for intruding.
Shuujii Tanaka
Ebisawa Kuniaki
Fudō General Hospital
Unknown Flaw
Unknown Flaw?
What are you doing Hajime?
Get out of there.
Sure.
And we're rolling.
Hello to everyone from all over Japan.
Right now, I'm setting out on a life-changing journey.
That's right, this summer,
I'll become a real man!
Become a what?
Miyuki?
What will you become?
It's none of your business.
This is Miss Shintani Yuri, she's responsible for us part-timers.
She'll tell us what to do.
Shintani Yuri
In charge of part-time staff
Call me Shintani, let's work well together.
I look forward to working with you.
Huh?
I was told that there would only be two part-timers.
Ah, I'm just documenting something.
Documenting what?
Well, of course it's your's and Kindaichi's-
Is that a pink dolphin!?
Huh!?
Where, where?
Look, look, look, see, see, there!
Oh no, oh, oh, oh, oh.
I might have been wrong.
Anyway, the weather sure is nice.
I know!
Ah, although, the weather forecast said that a typhoon was on the way.
Huh, really?
It would be nice if you kept your mouth shut.
You just need to properly document the next three days.
Then back me up with that camera when things go well between me and her.
Please leave it to me, Kindaichi!
Ta-da!
Lip balm,
TL Note: 'Suppon Drink' (Turtle Drink) mostly consists of turtle blood and alcohol. The blood of turtles is believed to have 'health benefits.'
Turtle Drink?
These are...
Battle boxers!
My secret weapon to becoming a real man.
You're thinking of going that far with Miyuki?
Of course I am.
But you'll get another upset stomach if you drink too much of this.
Shut it.
I'm betting everything on this trip.
What are you two talking about behind my back?
Oh, nothing.
Huh?
Aren't you...
Ah!
You're that doctor from the hospital!
So you applied for the part-time job, huh?
What brings you here, Doc?
I'm also a lecturer for this training camp.
Kawasaki Youzou
Camp Lecturer and Doctor
Oh!
I can see the island!
Guide Map of Shiranui Island
Shiranui Island, huh?
You are here.
Harbor
Training Institute
Kanshi Beach
Chapel
Tennis Courts
Ow, ow, ow, ouch.
Are you alright?
I'll give you a hand.
Ah, it's fine, don't worry.
Geez,
Morimura Keiichi
Medical Intern
I see you're acting weird like usual, Shiina.
Katou Kentaro
Medical Intern
Don't drop our bags.
Sorry, my bad.
Kawashima Yutaka
Medical Intern
Hey, at least carry your own bags.
Shiraishi Miho
Medical Intern
It's only because Shiina insisted on carrying them for us.
Shiina Makio
Medical Intern
Right?
Yeah, of course I did.
I'll give you a hand with these, I'm Kindaichi, a part-timer.
Ah, don't worry about it.
I'm just clumsy.
No, but-
I'm used to this sort of thing.
Thanks for the kind offer.
Good grief, who knows if they're good friends or worst enemies.
They're all children of doctors who are employed at Fudō Hospital.
Particularly, that guy in the red shirt.
He's Morimura, the son of the hospital's chairman.
Really?
So, where are we staying?
Welcome...
to Onibi Island.
Onibi is the name of a light phenomenon, there are scientific explanations for why they occur, though it is said that they are the resentful spirits of the deceased.
I'm tasked with managing the training institute, my name is Tsukahara.
Tsukahara Denzou
The Manager of the Training Institute
Onibi Island?
Isn't this Shiranui Island?
Let me show you around.
Sorrow, regret and resentment.
When the deceased have such strong feelings,
they start bearing grudges and drift over from the afterlife into this world.
The onibi are the apparitions of those deceased people.
That's right.
This Shiranui Island,
also known as Onibi Island,
is the place where such onibi gather
and hand down punishment.
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Tennis Courts
Now, I'll get you to clean some rooms on the second floor.
You guys are responsible for this half, okay?
Okay!
Yep.
Okay then, here's your cleaning equipment.
That was dangerous, part-timer.
You're too eager, Hajime.
Do a good job.
With pleasure!
Ginkgo.
Japanese White Birch.
Well I'll clean this room so you do the other one.
One-hundred Days of Crimson?
TL Note: Kindaichi is reading the kanji characters wrong.
Crape Myrtle
That's read as Crape Myrtle.
Stop embarrassing yourself.
Crape?
I thought it was one-hundred days.
Whoa!
Tidying up this room is going to be hard.
This room...
seems like it hasn't been used for a number of years.
Um, is someone going to use the room this time?
It doesn't seem like it'll be used this time either.
Though clean up this room just in case.
Sure.
Where do I even begin to clean?
Well then,
let's be irresponsible and slip out of here.
I knew you'd say that.
Huh, what's with this door?
Oh, it looks like it directly leads next door.
Miyuki, shall I give you a hand?
Have you already finished there?
Hey, what are you doing?
Ah, it's no use.
This door has been nailed down.
So are you ever going to clean this room?
I'll do it tomorrow since no one's staying here, right?
I knew you'd say that.
A powerful category-nine typhoon is currently southwest of the Izu Islands...
Take this over to them.
Okay.
Don't forget the jug of water.
Roger that.
Dr Kawasaki, I've been thinking
that we should hurry up and sell the institute on this remote island
and have a new training institute built in Hawaii.
Oh, that sounds good.
Though, this place wouldn't really sell for much.
No one would pay much for such a remote place like this, huh?
Excuse me.
Whoa! Geez...
Quiet down Shiina, you're such a scaredy-cat.
Before your meal,
I thought I'd come tell you that I'm holding a traditional event tonight.
What's this traditional event?
I've heard about it.
With those onibi who come at midnight and stuff.
It's a test of courage, right?
That so?
It sounds like fun.
I'll pass.
I don't believe in ghosts and whatnot.
Ah, I'll take part in it.
You will too, right Shiina?
No, I won't.
Wow, this guy is seriously freaked out.
It's just that I want to study alone in my room tonight.
Well then, I'll pass too.
Huh?
What's with the sudden change of heart?
So that then Shiroishi can take my place.
Okay?
Okay then.
I definitely won't take part in that test of courage.
That test of courage was terrifying.
You'll be alright Miyuki.
Since I'm by your side.
Hajime...
Miyuki...
What are you doing Kindaichi?
Long ago, this building
was used as a medical clinic for chronically ill patients.
Are you alright Miyuki?
Many patients who came here
lost what you would call 'their will to live'.
And even now,
their grudges lead them to wander around the island.
Grudges?
Why are you getting scared?
This is just a fictional story.
This is not a fictional story.
You can see the proof on this island.
In what form?
They're the onibi.
Onibi, as in that light phenomenon which is said to be the apparition of dead people with grudges?
Yes.
And it's also said that people who are abducted by the onibi
are spirited away to the afterlife along with them.
And?
What does this test of courage have to do with that?
At midnight, when the date changes,
I ask you all to peek through the keyhole of the door on the second floor's Crape Myrtle room.
The keyhole?
Why?
Before you reach the beach and this training institute,
there's a chapel
where they held memorial services for patients who had passed away.
Those patients with grudges appear as onibi and visit the Crape Myrtle room at midnight, on the dot.
Then, the reason why
the Crape Myrtle room hasn't been used in years is...
Because the onibi are known to come and visit that room.
One summer, in the middle of night,
a medical intern who came to this training camp
heard something coming from the room which no one should have been in.
Thinking it was strange, he went and peeked through the keyhole and...
Crape Myrtle
It's nearly midnight.
It's time to begin the test.
Let's all decide the order of peeking through the keyhole.
Okay.
Well, rock, paper, scissors?
Get up.
Rock, paper, scissors.
No way!
Hurry it up.
You gave me a fright.
Crape Myrtle
Beyond that door is...
the onibi's gateway.
The Crape Myrtle room.
Miyuki, swap turns with me.
No chance!
Fine then, here.
Besides, there's no way that onibi actually exist.
It's pitch black inside.
It will be midnight very soon.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Hey!
Huh?
Wha-what did you see?
It- It came!
Huh?
What is it?
Move it.
He's dead.
Morimura is being hanged.
Huh!?
Why are you saying such stupid things?
What were those sounds just now?
Is there someone inside?
Hey, what?
What?
What is it?
What's with all the ruckus?
Morimura just died in this room.
No, he was killed.
What!?
What are you talking about?
He isn't lying!
I saw it too!
Mr Tsukahara, where's the key?
It's in the dining hall.
Excuse me.
I've got it.
He vanished?
How?
See, there's nothing here.
Geez, you scared the hell out of me.
It can't be, I saw it with my own two eyes.
Gee...
You two were lying, weren't you?
For crying out loud.
Don't go making a ruckus over something so ridiculous at this time of night!
The show's over, everyone return to your rooms.
An illusion?
Gee Kindaichi, I could see right through your scheme.
Huh?
You did that on purpose to scare Miyuki, right?
Huh?
What's up with that?
No, you've got it all wrong.
You're unbelievable, I was really scared!
You idiot, Hajime.
No, it's not like that, Miyuki!
Miyuki!
I don't want to see your face.
That's so harsh...
Chocolate-vine!
Huh?
TL Note: Miyuki thought that Hajime misread the room name again.
Chocolate-vine
What?
Idiot!
The powerful category-nine typhoon has changed course.
It's currently growing weaker as it approaches the Izu Islands.
Okay... bring the eggs over too.
Miyuki, about last night...
Don't record at times like these.
But this is a memorable moment too.
Stop making a gag reel.
Wow, the wind sure is strong today.
Yeah.
We were going to go cycling today, though
I've had to delay it.
Hey, where's Morimura?
Ah, isn't he still asleep in his room?
Hey part-timer.
Yes?
Go call Morimura down.
Maple leaves.
Basuimoku.
TL Note: This is actually read as 'Asebi' which means 'Japanese andromeda' though Kindaichi misreads this and makes up the word 'basuimoku' which could mean 'Wood which makes horses drunk'
Horses shouldn't get drunk or else they'd be unsteady on their feet.
Morimura, breakfast is being served!
Huh?
Morimura isn't in his room?
Yeah.
Anyway, let's all split into groups and search for him.
Huh?
In these winds?
What a pain in the ass.
Why don't you part-timers go looking for him?
Sure.
Ah, I'll go too.
Tennis Courts
Research Institute
We'll go this way.
Morimura?
Morimura!
Morimura?
Morimura!
Where is he?
We couldn't find him.
Damn, where did Morimura run off to?
Hey, that red thing.
Morimura!
The scaring suggests it was strangulation.
What's that room?
It's the Crape Myrtle room.
Kawasaki Youzou
Shintani Yuri
Katou Kentaro
Shiraishi Miho
Morimura Keiichi
Shiina Makio
Kawashima Yutaka
Tsukahara Denzou
Morimura was...
but how?
The scars are a sign that he was strangled.
It must have been suicide.
Like hell it was.
Why would you find someone outside if they strangled themselves inside?
Isn't it strange?
But you know-
That's right.
What we saw last night was the real thing after all.
Someone hanged Morimura.
Then they threw his corpse out the window, didn't they?
Who is this someone?
Did you see their face?
No, they had their back to me so I didn't see their face.
But besides Morimura, someone else was definitely in that room!
Hey part-timer,
you saw it as well, right?
But...
But what?
You did see it, right?
What's wrong? Spit it out!
Please calm down.
He may not look it, but Hajime is reliable for something like this.
This little scaredy-cat?
Hajime is the grandson of that great detective, Kindaichi Kosuke.
He's already solved so many various cases.
Well then, let's hear what this scaredy-cat thinks.
Well first off,
let's review what me and Katou saw here last night once again.
At midnight, I peeked through the keyhole of this Crape Myrtle room,
and saw a onibi-like light which was hovering outside the window
and then I saw someone who was dressed like a hospital patient, hanging Morimura's corpse.
Later, when we wandered into this room after opening it with the key,
there wasn't a onibi, Morimura's corpse or the person dressed like a hospital patient.
Basically, about 2-3 minutes after we peeked through the keyhole...
the corpse and that person
both vanished like the mist.
And what you two saw were real, right?
Mr Tsukahara,
are there other people on this island?
Currently, the only people
on this island are all here.
I have another question, are the keys always kept here in the dining hall?
Yes.
Exuding the original keys which I lent everyone,
the spare keys are nearly always left here.
Is that so?
Then I wonder if someone may have entered the Cape Myrtle room
before we peeked through that keyhole.
Well...
the only people who didn't participate in the test of courage besides the late Morimura were
Dr Kawasaki and Kawashima and also Shiina, right?
Wait a minute.
Are you trying to say that one of us hanged Morimura?
Are you tying to say that the people who didn't participate killed him?
I was just saying that it's possible.
Since we are the only people on this island.
Why you...
Kawashima,
calm down.
Shiina...
Don't tell me that this was your doing.
Huh?
Your room
is right next door to the Crape Myrtle room, isn't it?
Shiina
Crape Myrtle
Fragrant Olive
That's the Crape Myrtle room's window, which Morimura was carried out of.
And your room's window is right over there.
With that distance, wouldn't it be easy to walk across the roof?
Why would I do such a thing?
Don't play dumb!
You weren't really scared of that test,
you already had other plans next door, right?
No.
Shiina couldn't have done that.
Please take a look at this.
The window-ledge is still covered in dust.
I remember it well since I slacked off yesterday and didn't clean it.
Therefore,
I don't think it's possible that someone came through it.
Then what about this door?
Shiina's room is on the other side, he could've gone through here.
No he couldn't.
Huh?
Although this door connects Shiina's room and the Crape Myrtle room,
it's been nailed shut.
Shiina couldn't have kicked the door down in such a short time
and come in and out of it.
Which means...
this is a complete locked-room mystery.
Then the person who hanged Morimura was...
The onibi!
That young fellow...
is another one who's been spirited away to the next life.
Now hang on,
I don't know much about onibi, though they can't possibly cause someone's death.
And what would you know!?
The onibi on this island
hold deep hatred and resentment for you doctors who come here,
they're grudges are so strong that they can deliver divine punishment agaisnt you all.
They were patients who still bear grudges agaisnt doctors.
At any rate,
since this has happened, I'm calling off the training camp.
We're returning to Tokyo immediately.
That's not possible.
Huh?
No ships will come to pick you up in this typhoon.
Then please call the police.
They can come by helicopter.
As reported earlier,
no ships or helicopters can set out until the typhoon eases.
What?
Then does this mean that we're stranded on this island?
While it's unfortunate...
Please excuse me, I'm feeling a bit sick,
I'm going to take a lie down in my room.
Grudges?
He couldn't be... on this island.
That's ridiculous!
He's not even dead yet for starters...
Huh?
Hey, look!
It's snowing.
As if it would snow in the middle of summer...
How?
Wow.
What is this stuff?
This isn't snow, it's sand!
Huh?
Why is sand falling from the sky?
It's snowing sand?
It's an after-effect of the tornadoes.
Tornadoes?
Yeah.
When a typhoon comes,
a tornado can grow on the ocean floor near the island
and then the sand from the beach is picked up by it.
It isn't that rare on an island like this.
It's about time for lunch.
Yeah.
Even in times like these, people still have an appetite.
I'm counting on you.
Okay, I'll start preparing the meal.
Hey!
Shiina's gone!
He's vanished.
We'll go look around the training institute again.
Okay.
It's stopped.
Ah, hey, look at these!
These may be Shiina's footsteps.
Let's find out.
Hajime, this is...
The chapel used a long time ago, for the memorial services of the patients who passed away.
Ah, you've said it.
What are you planning to do Hajime?
Isn't it obvious?
I'm going to let Shiina down.
That's insane!
But we can't just leave him hanging there, right?
Kindaichi!
Hajime!
Ouch!
You can't reach him.
Saki,
call everyone here.
Okay.
Kawasaki Youzou
Shintani Yuri
Katou Kentaro
Shiraishi Miho
Morimura Keiichi
Shiina Makio
Kawashima Yutaka
Tsukahara Denzou
Shiina.
Though,
why do it so high up?
Did he climb up there alone and then hanged himself?
No, it would be impossible to climb up there by himself.
I tried to not long ago.
It's the same as yesterday.
He was also abducted by the onibi of this island
and was spirited away to the afterlife along with them.
Why are you people just standing around?
Even while a corpse is hanging there before your eyes?
And you call yourselves doctors?
I can hear them...
The bitter voices of the onibi,
they're screaming out,
"Trash like you should be erased from the face of the earth."
I wonder who will be spirited away next.
Where's Ebisawa?
Has he really come to this island?
It's the only logical explanation.
Screw him!
I haven't done anything wrong.
Who's this Ebisawa guy?
He's Ebisawa Kuniaki.
Ebisawa Kuniaki?
He's a young man who was also a medical intern at our hospital.
Was?
Ebisawa...
I don't know the details or the reason why,
but three months ago,
he attempted suicide by nearly hanging himself.
Last time I checked, he was still unconscious,
he's a long-term patient at our very own Fudō Hospital.
Ebisawa Kuniaki
Oh.
I always thought it was strange.
When I peeked through the keyhole during that test of courage,
the person who was hanging Morimura was dressed up as a Fudō hospital patient.
It was him!
Ebisawa has come to this island with a grudge.
That's why he abducted Morimura and Shiina who he held a grudge agaisnt
and killed them by strangulation, just as he should have died.
I won't let myself be killed.
I'm leaving!
You can't run away from this.
Because of the typhoon, the seas are still too wild.
Hey wait!
Katou, stop!
Katou!
Hajime!
Is he alright?
Hey, get a grip!
You're a doctor, right?
Why are you being so reckless with your life?
Kawasaki Youzou
Shintani Yuri
Katou Kentaro
Shiraishi Miho
Morimura Keiichi
Shiina Makio
Kawashima Yutaka
Tsukahara Denzou
Ebisawa Kuniaki
I heard that this isn't in our jurisdiction.
So you said that there were two deceased victims?
Yeah.
That reminds me old man, how did it go with your examination?
Oh...
I'll live.
So you're alright?
Well, actually,
it was hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoids, huh!?
They're not just hemorrhoids,
they're acute hemorrhoids!
It's nothing to be concerned about.
You made it out to be.
So what did you want us to investigate?
I want you to investigate a person by the name of Ebisawa Kuniaki.
Ebisawa Kuniaki?
Right now, he should be a long-term patient at Fudō General Hospital.
It seems that he's involved somehow in this current case.
Got it.
Hey Kindaichi, did you say onibi?
Is it true that onibi are actually killing people?
President?
Well, they obviously aren't-
So you've solved the puzzle, what's the truth?
No, I still haven't solved it.
Damn you!
Why couldn't I come along!?
We'll be there as soon as the typhoon dies down.
Be careful.
I know.
Don't go dying on me.
I'll be okay.
See ya, old man.
Where are you going Hajime?
I really want to bring Shiina down from the rafters.
Miss Shintani, is there a ladder?
A ladder?
It's too cruel to leave Shiina hanging from a place like that.
I was thinking that we could bring him down somehow if we had a ladder.
I see.
Well you see, the ladder went missing.
It went missing?
Yeah.
I used it in the garden soon after we arrived on the island yesterday.
Follow me.
I made sure to stand it up agaisnt the wall though
it suddenly went missing sometime afterwards.
And about how long is the ladder?
Well, it's quite long when it's stretched out,
I think it's about four meters.
So the ladder went missing...
Who would've taken it?
Does this mean that the culprit still has it?
So then it was needed to hang Shiina, huh?
Sure, if they had a ladder,
they could've made it look like Shiina hanged himself.
That's certainly true.
Does the culprit intend to use that ladder again?
Ah.
If they had used a four meter ladder that time when Morimura was killed,
it's feasible that they escaped from the window of the Crape Myrtle room.
But the window-ledge in that room...
So it doesn't add up, huh?
Oh man!
At the time...
I saw it with my own two eyes.
Where are you going Hajime?
Hey Saki!
Ah, you startled me.
Show me the video from yesterday.
Okay.
Kindaichi.
He's dead.
Morimura is being hanged.
Huh?
Why are you saying such stupid things?
This sound, what's making it?
It sounds like something was knocked over.
But the second one sounds like something fell down.
I have a feeling that it was the sound of something made of metal.
And then something bumped into it and it fell down.
See, there's nothing here.
Geez, you scared the hell out of me.
It can't be, I saw it with my own two eyes.
Look here!
The trash can has changed places.
The trash can?
The trash can in that room was originally...
Whoa!
left next to the desk.
But look,
during the test of courage,
it had moved closer to the door.
It's true, it was moved.
Though why did the trash can's position change?
For what reson?
Huh?
Is something wrong?
Come to think of it, that medical intern, Shiraishi, isn't in the footage.
Huh?
Why isn't she here?
What did you want to talk about?
When we did the test of courage,
you suddenly left without us noticing, right?
You're nowhere to be seen
in the video I recorded at the time.
Where did you go without telling anyone?
Please do me a favor and tell us.
I saw it.
Saw it?
What was 'it'?
On the night of the test, I saw the outline of someone carrying a ladder
from the window.
So, I left to go find out who it was.
And did you find out?
Who was carrying it?
Well, it was nighttime.
I couldn't really tell who.
Really?
You really couldn't see who it was?
I have my reasons.
Reasons?
I'm sorry.
Bye.
Wait.
Someone carried the ladder away?
Could it have been the onibi ghosts again?
No.
Of course not.
The fact that she couldn't tell us who, means that
it was someone who she knows.
In other words,
it must be someone still at this training institute.
Oh, I see.
Then are they the culprit?
No, I can't say for sure.
If they used a ladder, it explains how Shiina was killed, though
they definitely didn't use a ladder during Morimura's murder in that locked room.
You're right,
we're back to square one.
Not quite.
Someone brought the ladder around just before Morimura was killed.
Something really doesn't add up.
Someone used the legend of Onibi Island
to murder Morimura and Shiina.
It was someone who participated in this training camp.
They're the true culprit.
Watch me piece this puzzle together without fail.
In the name of my grandfather,
the great detective!
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The Onibi Island Murder Case
Conclusion to the Story
This drama is a work of fiction