Kamiyama Kousuke
Former Investment
Consultant
O God, please forgive me.
Twelve years ago, I was consumed by greed and I helped three of my friends
trap that child and their parent in here.
Twelve years ago, was it?
Those two would...
have already died by now.
This is Professor Kariya.
But...
the kid isn't here!
There should have been another body.
I'm not your enemy.
I came here to rescue you.
Takato Youichi
The Crime Producer
Hell's Puppeteer
Now,
starting from today,
you'll be Gankutsuo.
Why don't you get revenge for these twelve years?
While trapped inside that cave,
they pondered about despair and hatred in the endless darkness.
Those twelve years gave birth to the personification of hatred, Gankutsuo.
The crime producer who lent a hand so they could have their revenge
is Takato Youichi.
Those two will set-up an ingenious trap
to turn Hajime into a wanted suspect for a series of murders.
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The Young Kindaichi's New Case Files
Kindaichi's Do-or-Die Spirit!
Well, Gankutsuo is a 19th Century masterpiece of French Literature.
The story follows a protagonist who is imprisoned for crimes he didn't commit
and then takes revenge agaisnt his close friends who framed him, one by one.
TL Note: The title of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' was originally translated into Japanese as 'Gankutsuo', thus the novel is still commonly referred to as Gankutsuo in Japan.
It's proper name is 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
It was written by Alexander-
Please give me ten yen!
What?
Oh.
Hey, Kindaichi, what were you dreaming about?
Well, I was scooping up goldfish!
You have to write a 10 page essay on Gankutsuo by next week.
Write it and then hand it in.
Got it?
Really?
To promote the anniversary of the King Dragon Hotel's remodeling.
Kawakami Takeshi's Miraculous Hypnotism Show.
I will make a miracle happen before your eyes.
What's that?
Free tickets and accommodation for two days and one night were sent to the Mystery Club.
Hypnotism?
Plus Kawakami Takeshi is a hot topic right now.
Yeah, it's occulty!
I'm going.
Kindaichi, you're going too, right?
Well about that...
Gankutsuo was very pitiful.
Huh?
Only 18 characters?
That's not nearly enough!
What?
He seems to have failed Japanese.
And he was also sleeping in supplementary lessons.
How am I even supposed to write about my opinion?
Hey, teach me!
Why me?
He's venting his anger, huh?
Ah, but Hajime, these tickets are for a hotel in Kawasaki.
Kawasaki?
TL Note: These buns are imprinted with the face of Daruma (Dharma) doll's, hence the name.
Daruma steamed buns!
Of course I'll go!
For that?
Then it's decided!
What about your homework?
I don't have to worry about doing it yet!
Your favorite food is daruma steamed buns, right?
Well they do look like boobies.
Okay, I'll eat at least 100 of them!
Look, that's the hotel, isn't it?
Huh?
Oh!
That's for later.
Huh, eh, why!?
You can still buy 100 or 200 later.
Ah, we're running out of time.
I'm starving.
The show is just ahead.
Huh, it's the old man.
Old man!
Huh?
Could that be...
I've brought along the secretary, Miss Minami.
Minami Reiko
Secretary of the King Dragon Hotel's Owner
This is the HQ of the investigation into the abduction of the King Dragon Hotel's owner.
The secretary, Miss Minami, has just arrived.
Wait for the kidnappers to make contact again.
Roger.
Hello there, I'm Tomori from the Kanagawa Police Department.
Ah, I'm Minami.
Tomori Kei
Detective from Kanagawa Police Department
Miss Minami, let's close the hotel early.
That would cause problems.
The owner's kidnapping has to be kept secret until the bitter end.
Especially since today's show is celebrating the hotel's remodeling.
I won't allow it to be canceled.
But you see, we have limited security and there are a lot of people around.
So, come on.
What are we going to do if the culprit gets away?
Well, now, Detective Tomori,
let's respect her wishes for now.
Seeing that the culprit's goal is the ransom, they obviously won't do anything stupid.
Kamiyama's late, huh?
Shinomiya Toru
Antique dealer
He calls us out here after ten years.
I wonder what he wants.
Fuji Fumika
Jewelry Seller
He'll probably ask us to lend him money while we're in a good mood from seeing the show.
Matsuoka Suuji
Investor in Information Technology
Sorry to interrupt.
Are you Mr Matsuoka?
I was told to bring this envelop to you.
Excuse me.
Kamiyama
It's from Kamiyama.
Huh?
What is it?
Sign on body: From Gankutsuo
Sit down Fumika, quickly!
Hey, that Gankutsuo story...
That time we...
Don't be afraid.
Let's go.
Makabe, I want to eat a steamed bun.
All you talk about is daruma steamed buns!
Without delay, let me introduce the show.
With the miracle-making hypnotist, Kawakami Takeshi!
Welcome to the King Dragon Hotel.
Today, I'd like you all to see the miracles of hypnotism.
Takeshi!
Come forth.
You're a fairly young boy.
What's your name?
Michiba Ryuu
Young Concierge
I'm Michiba Ryuu.
Well then Ryuu, what do you desire?
I'll grant any one of your wishes.
Then, how about flying?
Seriously?
Hey, look, he's completely off the ground!
Isn't this just a levitation trick?
Hey!
That hurt.
You're too loud!
Me?
What's your wish?
Say it.
Well, I don't really-
Ah, huh?
Kindaichi...
What do you wish for?
Wish for?
You should have a heartfelt desire.
Mama!
Ouch!
What's wrong with this kid?
Huh, did I make a mistake?
You desire boobies too much!
Well that was all a big joke, I was just pretending.
Even so, you went too far.
Whoa, I feel really tired.
Maybe I really fell under his hypnosis.
Geez, you're planning to blame that on the hypnotism again?
Huh, Hajime?
Kindaichi?
Kindaichi!
Excuse me, coming through.
Please try to keep the conversation going for as long as you can.
This is Minami, the secretary.
Have you prepared the money?
Yes.
Hand over the ransom to a woman in red clothes
in the elevator on the third floor of the King Dragon Hotel.
What about the owner?
Where is he?
Where did the call originate from?
From inside this hotel.
Deploy officers to all exits and entrances of the hotel.
Yes sir!
You take care of the woman in red clothes.
Roger that.
Miss Minami, let's go.
Okay.
Third Floor
Going down.
The woman in red clothes.
Hey!
It's going to the second floor!
The second floor!
Roger.
Second Floor
Hey, hey, it's going to the first!
Below, below, below, below, below!
First Floor
Hey you!
What happened to the woman in red who was on the elevator with you?
Um, if it's her you're after, she got off on the second floor.
The second floor?
Hey!
Got it.
Second Floor
Split up and search!
Yes sir!
Inspector!
Detective Tomori.
Okay, suspect secured!
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ouch!
That hurts!
Huh?
Hajime?
Ouch!
Matsuoka Suuji
Shinomiya Toru
Fuji Fumika
Kamiyama Kousuke
Minami Reiko
Tomori Kei
Michiba Ryuu
Gankutsuo
Kindaichi Hajime
Hey.
Don't play dumb kid, you were holding a carving knife.
Well, after I came out of the show, I felt strange,
and when I came to, I was there.
And then I looked down and wondered what fell and so I-
You're lying!
You're probably the kidnapper.
What's all that about?
Well you see, Hajime,
the day before yesterday,
Ouji Koichiro, the owner of this hotel, was abducted.
Ouji Koichiro
Ouji Koichiro has been abducted.
Prepare a two billion yen ransom for the day after tomorrow in the afternoon.
I'll be waiting at the hotel.
So we secretly started an investigation and set-up our HQ here,
and when we hurried to the scene of the ransom delivery,
we found that body and then you were there.
Anyhow, I'll question him as a detective of the Kanagawa PD.
That's okay, right?
Detective Tomori,
I've known this guy for a long time,
he wouldn't kill someone.
Well, although he gets desperate when he needs ten yen to buy a soda,
he'd never be interested in such a large sum of money.
There's just one thing which baffles us.
No one has ever seen the face of the owner who was kidnapped.
Their face?
Yeah.
Isn't that right?
He became the owner after purchasing this hotel when it was on the decline.
I've only met him once.
Though, he had suffered terrible burns or something
and his face was wrapped up in bandages.
What about his voice?
He communicated by writing.
After that, we discussed all of our business decisions back and forth by email.
Um...
What is it?
Go on.
I've seen that deceased lady before.
She came to the hypnotism show.
Really?
Is that so?
Was there someone with her?
Come to think of it, at the time...
Ouch!
What's with this kid?
She was with two men who she seemed to know.
Lock down the hotel right this minute.
Don't let anyone leave.
And start doing identity checks on all of the employees and guests.
It's all up to you!
Understood.
Please come this way.
Rest assured, we'll definitely catch the culprit.
You should help out too.
Got it.
Hajime?
Huh?
Oh, Kindaichi.
Huh?
He seems kinda strange, I wonder if he's alright.
I'm exhausted.
Could that hypnotism really have...
Ah.
Fumika was apparently killed.
Fumika was killed?
Yeah, the hotel is swarming with cops.
Hey, couldn't they still be alive?
Huh?
Don't you think?
"From Gankutsuo" is written on this photo of Kamiyama.
Pack your luggage.
Why?
We can't let the police catch wind of that incident.
Let's get out of here and check if it's possible.
How can we check?
Isn't it obvious?
We're going to that cave.
What's the meaning of this?
I'm terribly sorry.
In the meanwhile...
I don't have time for this.
We're sorry for this, just wait a bit longer.
I've brought the rice omelet you ordered.
Huh?
You were in that show, weren't you?
Come in, come in.
Hey, um, wait.
Here.
Huh? Oh.
Thanks for the food.
Um, hey.
When you said that you wanted to fly,
that was scripted, right?
I can't say.
I would break the contract if I revealed the trick.
Did you say contract?
Oh no.
It's okay, I won't tell anybody.
This is our little secret, okay?
Okay.
I'm sleepy.
You can take this back down.
Please.
Oh.
You're a really terrifying man.
Though the plan is just getting started.
I have a question.
Why have you involved that high school student, Kindaichi Hajime, in the plan?
You don't have to know why.
Tell me.
It's due to those parallel lines.
They're always next to each other, yet they never meet.
That's what he's like.
Well then, on to the next show.
I wonder if you're ready, Gankutsuo.
Hey Kindaichi, wake up!
How long are you going to sleep for?
"I've solved the murder of the woman wearing red clothes."
"I want you to come to the fifth floor of the hotel."
What the?
What brings you guys here?
We got a message from Hajime, he said that he had solved the puzzle.
What?
Why are you guys here?
Huh?
We got a message from Inspector Kenmochi saying that he found out who the kidnapper was.
See?
I've found out who the kidnapper is. I want you to come to the fifth floor.
Ah, it's Hajime.
Mr Kenmochi is there too.
And he's sleeping?
There's something off about Kindaichi.
Guys?
Hey, where's Inspector Kenmochi?
What's with you?
Kenmochi!
Inspector Kenmochi!
Inspector!
Hang in there, inspector!
Inspector!
Bring him around.
Okay.
Hang in there, old man.
Old man!
Let's hear what you have to say, kiddo.
I was asleep in my room.
Then I heard some kind of alarm ring.
And before I knew it, I was there.
Did you think that story would get you out of trouble!?
We were all there and saw you stabbed Kenmochi.
Did you really see me do it?
I stabbed him?
You really can't remember anything?
You may have done it unconsciously,
perhaps it was a side effect of being hypnotized.
But hypnotism has nothing to do with the occult.
To begin with, it's theorized that it brings out your desires from deep down.
And even smart people seem to easily fall for hypnotic suggestion.
But President, you're-
In other words, you might have been hypnotized
and your genuine desires that were sleeping deep down inside, may have come out.
My genuine desires...
Kindaichi Hajime,
I'm arresting you on suspicion of attempted murder on the authority of the Kanagawa Police Department.
Please wait!
Hajime would never kill someone!
Move it.
Why did you say that hypnotism was real?
Do you really think that Hajime did it?
I want to believe in him too.
But didn't we see him do it?
When he stabbed Kenmochi...
Matsuoka Suuji
Shinomiya Toru
Fuji Fumika
Kamiyama Kousuke
Minami Reiko
Tomori Kei
Michiba Ryuu
Gankutsuo
Kindaichi Hajime
Ouch!
Ow, ow, ow, ouch.
What is it?
My stomach hurts a little.
May I go to the toilet?
You're taking your time.
Hey!
We've sealed off all of the hotel's exits.
He shouldn't have left yet.
Got it.
Over there.
Yes sir!
This is bad.
Mr Kindaichi.
Over here.
Hey you.
Could you let me see what's inside those cardboard boxes?
Thank you for co-operating.
The coast is clear.
That was a nice idea Ryuu.
He's bleeding out.
Bring more blood for transfusion.
Okay.
His heat-rate is falling, it's V-fib.
Prepare for a counter-shock!
Stand back.
They said that Kindaichi ran away.
Kindaichi...
I wonder what he's thinking.
Um, how's Mr Kenmochi?
We still can't say.
That's enough for today, let's go back.
We'll wait it out at the hotel.
Though...
How could this happen?
We shouldn't of come to see the show.
Are you trying to say that it's my fault?
But it's because you insisted on going!
Miyuki, let's go.
We searched the whole hotel but he's not here.
So he left without us realizing?
I told the investigation team to seal off the hotel in order to find him!
Now search outside.
Yes sir.
We're to search the area outside the hotel now.
Okay.
Ah, it's those guys.
They knew the woman in red clothes who was murdered.
They might know something about this case.
Please follow that car.
Hey...
T-This is...
Why is it open?
What is this place?
A mummy?
You're those brats from the show, right?
Why did you follow us here?
I'd like to ask you why you came-
Answer my question!
Or do you want to be killed?
It's not here!
The kid's corpse is nowhere to be seen!
Shinomiya!
Kariya's kid is alive, they got out of here and became Gankutsuo-
Shinomiya!
Who's Kariya?
What does this have to do with Gankutsuo?
This doesn't concern you two, keep quiet.
I don't feel so good.
Hey now, don't throw up here.
You leave me no choice.
Hey, take him outside.
Huh?
Keep an eye on him.
Sure.
Come on, get up.
It's this way.
So, what are you after?
You knew that woman in red who was killed at the hotel, right?
What if I did?
They suspect I was the one who killed her.
But I didn't do it.
That's why I want to clear my name!
Hey!
Ryuu!
Get off him!
Huh?
What have you done?
You're wrong, it wasn't me!
Throw it away!
Matsuoka Suuji
Shinomiya Toru
Fuji Fumika
Kamiyama Kousuke
Minami Reiko
Tomori Kei
Michiba Ryuu
Gankutsuo
Kindaichi Hajime
Move it.
Come on, walk properly.
Why did you kill Shinomiya?
You're not moving an inch from here until I get a confession out of you.
There we go.
Huh, no way, how?
When I was being tied up,
I held on to a bit of the rope.
By doing that, even if it's tied tightly,
the bit of the rope leaves you room to untie it.
Amazing, you're like a magician.
Where?
Where did you go?
Ow, ow, ouch!
You don't know how to use that.
Spit it out.
What's this Gankutsuo thing about?
What happened in that cave?
Fine then.
I'll talk, so put the gun down.
This is the photo that I received in the hotel's lobby.
From Gankutsuo
Gankutsuo?
Kamiyama, the one in the photo, and that woman who was killed, Fuji Fumika, and Shinomiya...
were all my friends from our university days, we were majoring in archaeology.
Twelve years back, the four of us
went with our archaeology professor, Kariya Shuuhei and his kid, who he brought along,
to that cave.
If our research is correct, this region of the mountain was used during the war
as an air-raid shelter that a Zaibatsu controlled.
Really?
I've found it!
Whoa!
Is this for real?
Yes!
How much is all this worth, professor?
Five, no, it's probably worth six billion yen.
Six billion!?
Even if we split this pile evenly,
that's still one billion each!
What are you talking about?
I found this.
I won't give any of it to you.
I used my name to get permission to investigate around here.
So naturally, everything I find is mine, right?
But we actually investigated it and tracked it down.
Yeah.
The world won't believe you third-rate students, no matter what you say.
Stop, I'll report you to the police!
Then take back what you said earlier.
Shinomiya, Kamiyama, you two tie him up.
Hurry it up!
No, don't do this!
So after we packed all of the gold bars we could,
we left Kariya and his kid behind in the air-raid shelter.
And blocked the entrance.
Fumika, ready?
Not yet.
And no one ever went near that cave for twelve years.
That's cruel.
There's a French novel titled 'Gankutsuo'.
A man who was deceived by his friends and was then imprisoned in a dark cave
takes revenge agaisnt those who betrayed him, one by one.
There was only one corpse in that cave.
That's right, Kariya's kid is still alive.
They survived for twelve years and then managed to escape from that cave.
How old was that kid?
They were still just a kid.
Fourteen or fifteen years old.
Which means that they would be twenty-six or twenty-seven now.
And now they've taken on the name of Gankutsuo.
Do you...
know about the kidnapping?
Kidnapping?
What kidnapping?
Greetings, Kindaichi.
How have you been?
This voice...
So you were directing things from behind the scenes?
Takato.
Don't give me too much credit.
Who was the one who stabbed Fiji Fumika, Inspector Kenmochi and then Shinomiya?
This time, the culprit is Kindaichi Hajime.
That's right, it's you.
You've been able to solve a lot of murder cases so far with your deductive powers.
Though, when it comes to thinking about how a crime is committed,
there's only a paper-thin difference between criminals and sleuths.
I only brought out your inner-murderer.
Isn't that what you really desire deep down in your heart?
Did I hit the nail on the head?
Don't run your mouth like an idiot.
I've seen through your trick.
When was it and who was it who ruined your plans as a stupid 'crime producer'?
Ah, I feel clear-headed now.
You instructed this 'Gankutsuo' to execute your plan, right?
You did a good job.
But I'll prove...
that I'm not the culprit.
And the truth behind the kidnapping incident and Gankutsuo's identity.
I'll definitely prove that you set-up everything.
In the name of my grandfather,
the great detective!
What that a declaration of war?
Well, why not?
By the way, have you seen the afternoon news?
Someone precious to you is on it.
Kawasaki Murder Case:
MPD Detective Just Passed Away In Hospital
|
Once again,
45-year-old Kenmochi Isamu from the MPD's Criminal Investigation Bureau who
was seriously injured after being stabbed in the chest,
has recently passed away at Kawasaki Hospital.
Inspector Kenmochi was in the middle of investigating the murder incident which occurred in Kawasaki City
when he was stabbed with a knife by a male high school student from Tokyo.
Let's announce that he's a wanted suspect.
Kindaichi Hajime is now a wanted murder suspect.
I repeat, urgent response needed to apprehend the wanted suspect.
If something happens to me, I hand over all of my wealth, including the ownership of this hotel, to Minami Reiko - Ouji Koichiro
Kindaichi.
I'll thoroughly enjoy watching you suffer.
I'll be close-by.
To Be Continued Next Time...
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The Young Kindaichi's Do-or-Die Spirit!
Conclusion to the Story
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