Summary of Last Episode
Free tickets were sent to the Mystery Club
for the hypnotism show commemorating the King Dragon Hotel's remodeling.
Look, that's the hotel, isn't it?
Huh?
Hajime went missing after falling under hypnotic suggestion at that show.
And the next time he was seen....
Hand over the ransom to a woman in red clothes in the elevator on the third floor.
Third Floor
In this hotel at the same time,
Second Floor
at the ransom delivery location for the kidnapped owner of the hotel, Ouji Koichiro...
First Floor
What happened to the woman in red?
Um, if it's her you're after, she got off on the second floor.
The second floor?
Hey!
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ouch!
After being suspected of killing the woman in red clothes,
a text message came from Hajime, who was supposed to be in his room.
I've solved the puzzle of the woman in red's murder. I want you to come to the fifth floor of the hotel. - Hajime
On the fifth floor which was being remodeled,
we saw...
the moment that Hajime stabbed Mr Kenmochi with a knife.
Guys?
Kenmochi!
I'm arresting you on suspicion of attempted murder.
To prove his innocence,
Michiba Ryuu
Young Concierge
Hajime left the locked-down hotel with the help of a boy named Ryuu.
And then followed the two men who were with the woman in red.
They followed them to an eerie cave.
And there they found a mummified corpse.
Kariya's kid is alive, they got out of here and became Gankutsuo-
Shinomiya!
Get off him!
Huh?
What's this Gankutsuo thing about?
What happened in that cave?
Kamiyama, the one in the photo, and that woman who was killed, Fuji Fumika, and Shinomiya
From Gankutsuo
Kamiyama Kousuke
Former Investment Consultant
Fuji Fumika
Jewelry Seller
Shinomiya Toru
Antique dealer
were all my friends from our university days, we were majoring in archaeology.
Matsuoka Suuji
Investor in IT
We left Kariya and his kid behind in the air-raid shelter
and blocked the entrance.
Kariya's kid survived for twelve years and then managed to escape from that cave.
So they would now be 26 or 27?
This time, the culprit is Kindaichi Hajime.
That's right, it's you.
You instructed this 'Gankutsuo' to execute your plan, right?
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.
45-year-old Kenmochi Isamu has recently passed away at Kawasaki Hospital.
Let's announce that he's a wanted suspect.
Tomori Kei
Detective from Kanagawa Police Department
First, who's Gankutsuo?
Minami Reiko
Secretary of the King Dragon
Hotel's Owner
And can Hajime prove his innocence and that the crime producer, Takato Youichi,
If something happens to me, I hand over all of my wealth, including the ownership of this hotel, to Minami Reiko - Ouji Koichiro
set up this ingenious plan to frame him, alone?
Kindaichi.
I'll thoroughly enjoy watching you suffer.
With an up-close view.
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The Young Kindaichi's New Case Files
Conclusion to Kindaichi's Do-or-Die Spirit!
We're reporting live from outside Kawasaki Hospital.
Police officials have been rushing in and out.
Detective who was stabbed during investigation dies.
The drama has created a heavy atmosphere.
The DPPO has also come.
President Makabe?
Furthermore, the boy who stabbed the late Inspector Kenmochi
was recently labeled a wanted suspect and the police are doing everything in their power to find him.
The DPPO has also come.
The DPPO has also come...
TL Note: DPPO = District Public Prosecutor's Office.
It's unfair.
Even though you haven't done anything wrong...
That's enough, you got what you wanted.
I won't let them kill me.
I'll definitely live on.
No way...
It can't be.
I can't keep quiet after this!
Hey!
Wait up!
Oh crap.
Wait!
Urgent request!
We're currently pursuing the wanted high school boy.
Nanase.
By any chance, are you Kindaichi's girlfriend?
Huh?
No, you've got it all wrong.
Me and Hajime are just childhood friends.
I see.
Um...
You don't believe what Hajime said, right?
That's right.
Hajime knows how precious someone's life is more than anyone else.
He's a kind person.
Hajime would never kill someone-
Then why is he running away?
Because...
He's trying to find a way to catch the true culprit.
So that person doesn't commit any more crimes.
Although...
just like Kindaichi is important to you,
the owner is also an important person to me.
That's why I'd do anything to make sure that the owner comes back safely.
Ah, Saki.
Miyuki.
You're thinking the same thing, right?
Let's go.
I'll go this way and search.
Okay.
So it really was you?
Mr Matsuoka.
Mr Kindaichi.
Put your hands up!
You're wrong, it wasn't me!
Don't!
Hide in here.
Split up, split up, split up!
Yes sir.
Kiddo.
Give it up.
Go around, go around!
Yes sir!
Mr Kindaichi.
You guys go this way.
Yes sir!
Here, this way.
You guys go over that way.
Yes sir.
I feel kinda dizzy.
Mr Kindaichi?
Are you alright?
Matsuoka Suuji
Shinomiya Toru
Fuji Fumika
Kamiyama Kousuke
Minami Reiko
Tomori Kei
Michiba Ryuu
Gankutsuo
Kindaichi Hajime
Where's Hajime?
You have a very high fever Mr Kindaichi!
I wonder why, it might be a cold.
Please rest here.
I'll go buy some medicine.
No, sorry for causing you so much trouble.
This is your place, right?
It's totally okay, I live by myself.
I'll going to the pharmacy.
Do you want anything else?
Feel free to ask.
Well...
Huh?
One-hundred daruma steamed buns please.
A hun- sure.
Here you go, sorry for the wait.
Thank you.
Mr Kindaichi, you need to get some sleep!
Please drink the medicine.
Hey, what are you looking at without permission?
Is that your girlfriend?
It's not like that.
Don't hide it.
This is a photo from two years back.
She was my one-sided love.
Do you have someone like that, Mr Kindaichi?
I want to take the next step in a relationship I have with someone.
But...
But?
I don't want to ruin the type of relationship that we have now.
I want to treasure that with her forever.
The police?
Hajime.
Miyuki?
Hajime!
Hajime!?
Kindaichi!
Hajime?
How did you figure out that he was here?
Well you see...
Excuse me, one-hundred daruma steamed buns please.
A hun- sure.
Wasn't that kid from the hypnotism show?
Daruma steamed buns?
A hundred?
Kindaichi said that he wanted to eat at least 100 Daruma steamed buns.
That's why we followed you.
But Mr Kindaichi has been made a wanted suspect!
It's fine.
Since Hajime isn't a murderer.
Absolutely not.
Yep, we're 100% sure.
I'm sort of jealous.
Why?
I used to be in an orphanage.
TL Note: In Japan, a child can usually leave an orphanage before turning 18 without being adopted if they start working and become self-dependent.
I never had friends like you.
Give me steamed buns!
Huh?
You were awake Kindaichi?
Ryuu.
You and me are friends.
No...
I can already say that we're close friends!
Right?
Yeah!
I slept well.
We have to go soon.
Go where?
To see a certain someone.
Congratulations, Gankutsuo.
Now you've got your revenge.
And if you play along with me and Kindaichi for a little while longer,
you'll finally have your freedom.
I have just one favor to ask.
What is it?
Yo.
There's... a ghost!
Are you alright old man?
You had to come in a wheelchair.
Well I'd be lying if I said it didn't hurt.
So they really do hurt, those hemorrhoids?
Which one were you worried about?
Wait, why is Mr Kenmochi alive?
And how did you know Kindaichi?
I saw President Makabe's message on the news.
Detective who was stabbed during investigation dies.
The DPPO has also come.
You did well to work out my anagram.
I was only half-convinced since it was such a tricky anagram.
Sorry it was so tricky.
If you write out all of the characters for 'The DPPO has also come' in hiragana and then rearrange it,
chi ke n mo ki te i ru
ke n mo chi i ki te ru
it becomes 'Kenmochi is alive.'
Man, I was so frantic.
I was wondering how to let Kindaichi know without the police finding out.
Why didn't you tell us?
Well, I tried to, but he said not to.
For some reason, I had a feeling that the culprit was also involved in all of those other incidents.
That's why I thought it'd be more convenient for the investigation if I faked my death.
And so I asked the higher ups to get me out of the hospital...
Ah.
Then this guy found out.
Huh?
Inspector Kenmochi, to think that you'd harbor a wanted suspect.
This is unprecedented.
Kindaichi, I'm arresting you.
Takato Youichi is involved in this case!
Huh?
Who's that?
He's a wanted criminal, he's known as 'Hell's Puppeteer', the crime producer.
I spoke with him over the phone.
The hypnotist who performed the show
was actually Takato.
Plus, I think he used Gankutsuo to commit the serial killings and to kidnap the hotel's owner.
And then he pinned all those crimes on me.
But you know, Kiddo,
nothing will change the fact that you stabbed Inspector Kenmochi in front of me and the others!
No, there has to be some trick to it!
I don't care about tricks and whatnot.
I care about proof!
Show me some evidence.
Well...
I still don't...
Detective Tomori,
I'm also asking you.
Give him some time.
He'll definitely find some proof.
Please just agree to
this.
Fine then.
However, he only has until morning.
If he can't find any evidence by 7am tomorrow morning,
the Kanagawa Police Department will arrest him.
Until morning...
That's impossible!
It's fine.
Nine hours is plenty.
Matsuoka Suuji
Shinomiya Toru
Fuji Fumika
Kamiyama Kousuke
Minami Reiko
Tomori Kei
Michiba Ryuu
Gankutsuo
Kindaichi Hajime
Before Kenmochi was attacked,
we got a text message from you.
From me?
Yeah.
And so we came here.
Ah, it's Hajime.
Mr Kenmochi is there too.
And he's sleeping?
There's something off about Kindaichi.
Huh?
And when we hurried to the corridor that you were in...
Guys?
Hey, where's Inspector Kenmochi?
What's with you?
Kenmochi!
And when we came to this room next door...
Inspector Kenmochi!
Inspector!
Hang in there, inspector!
It's strange.
Miyuki, where was the old man stabbed?
Huh?
The corridor over there.
Ah, hey, Kindaichi!
Huh? What? Eh? Huh?
Old man!
Yeah?
How are you alive?
So now you ask?
That was obviously due to my indomitable vitality.
Show me when he was stabbed, once more.
Okay.
Pause it here.
Let me see the wound.
Hey now, stop.
So the culprit used that?
Old man, what happened when the woman in red clothes was killed?
At the time...
The second floor!
Roger!
Hey, hey, it's going to the first!
Below, below, below, below!
Hey you!
What happened to the woman in red who was on the elevator with you?
Did you see the face of the woman who was on the elevator?
No, I saw her wearing red clothes, but she had her back to us.
So they used that trick in the first murder too.
But...
It's not here.
Or here.
It's not here either.
What's not here Hajime?
If this Gankutsuo was trapped here,
then those things must have been left behind here.
Things which should have been left behind?
But that means...
Hajime...
Something, anything will do.
If there were traces which pointed to the true culprit...
Just two hours left!
We'll definitely find some proof!
Guys...
We didn't find anything in the end.
Nope.
What's wrong?
Do you want to eat more steamed buns?
Speaking of which, I am a bit peckish.
It's still only daybreak, the shops aren't open.
No...
The puzzle...
has been completely solved.
It's been nine hours.
Mr Kindaichi, as we agreed,
I will now arrest you.
I've solved this case.
Gankutsuo, the culprit for the serial killings
is among us!
The one who instructed Gankutsuo to follow his plans
was 'Hell's Puppeteer', the crime producer.
It's Takato Youichi.
Takato disguised himself as the hypnotist at the show
and made it look like he had hypnotized me.
After that, a series of killings took place which made me look like the culprit.
That was the doing of someone going by the name of Gankutsuo.
You better have a basis for what you're saying, kiddo!
It's where the old man was stabbed in the chest.
Do you remember where the old man was stabbed during that incident?
As I recall...
wasn't it the left side of his chest?
But the old man was actually stabbed in the right side of his chest.
There's only one thing which can cause that inconsistency.
Something which lets you see what's on the right on the left and vice versa.
It's this.
A mirror?
The culprit used a mirror,
which let you guys see a reflection in real time.
This is a model of that hotel floor made for the remodeling.
The culprit put the old man and me asleep using sleeping pills beforehand
and then carried us to the fifth floor.
After that, he called everyone there with those messages.
What the?
What brings you guys here?
At the time you came to the fifth floor,
an alarm rang and woke me up.
From where you were standing
it looked like we were in the same room.
But the old man was actually in the room next door.
The culprit placed a mirror on this window
and made it look like we were in the same room.
They estimated the time it would take for me to walk past the window,
then they utilized the mirror and made it look like my arm reached out and
stabbed the old man in the right side of his chest.
For the witnesses sake,
they made it look like the crime happened entirely in one room.
What about Fuji Fumika being killed?
Wern't you the only one who was on the same floor and could have killed her?
It's the same as before.
Well, who's the woman in red clothes who's standing behind Miyuki?
The correct answer is...
Miyuki.
At the time of the incident,
you guys received a call from the culprit about handing over the ransom to a woman in red and thus you came to the third floor.
And the 'woman' in red who was on the elevator
was an optical illusion of Fuji Fumika who was killed.
But by the time you went to the third floor,
she had already been killed on the second floor.
The person who could have used the mirror and pretended to be the woman in red...
You're Gankutsuo,
Matsuoka Suuji
Shinomiya Toru
Fuji Fumika
Kamiyama Kousuke
Minami Reiko
Tomori Kei
Michiba Ryuu
Gankutsuo
Kindaichi Hajime
You're Gankutsuo,
Ryuu.
The one who did all of the killings
was you.
You're wrong!
I can't be Gankutsuo.
Since that Kariya guy was trapped in that cave
twelve years ago.
The professor's kid would have already grown up.
And I'm still just a kid.
What you're saying is crazy.
It's not crazy Ryuu.
In the cave where Gankutsuo was trapped,
the one thing which would've been left behind wasn't there.
And what's that?
Shoes.
If Kariya Jun grew up
during those twelve years,
the shoes he wore into the cave would've become too small.
But Jun's shoes weren't in that cave.
There's only one explanation.
That Kariya Jun is still wearing those same shoes.
I realized this when
I came up with a dreadful hypothesis.
I thought "What if Kariya Jun's body stayed the same and didn't grow during those twelve years?"
He stayed a kid?
He didn't grow up in those twelve years?
I have evidence to support that theory.
I asked the old man
to bring along the photo from your apartment.
You said that this photo was taken two years back, right?
But something which obviously should have been there two years ago, isn't.
Look, that's the hotel, isn't it?
Huh?
It's this King Dragon Hotel.
The hotel seems to have been built in 2003.
That was eleven years ago, but the Kariya's were trapped in 2002.
In other words, this photo was taken sometime before 2003.
You still haven't changed much since this photo was taken.
What Matsuoka said now makes sense.
It can't be.
I can't keep quiet after this!
Matsuoka realized...
that someone who looked just like Kariya Jun did twelve years back, was standing before his eyes.
It's plausible,
in very stressful situations,
there are cases of the human body changing in unimaginable ways.
Jun?
Are you Jun?
Could you let me see that photo?
The girl in this photo
is you, twelve years ago, right?
How did you know that?
The hotel's owner who was supposedly kidnapped
was Ryuu.
This plan began the moment Ryuu got out of the cave and then brought the hotel six months ago with the remaining gold.
Why?
During those twelve years in that dark cave,
the thought of living on to see you again was my only light.
Kariya Jun...
is me.
Twelve years back,
my father said that there might be buried gold hidden in a cave.
So we came to Kawasaki.
When we were on the travel agent's tour,
I hope we can meet again.
we made a pinky promise.
Back then, I couldn't have imagined...
that twelve years of hell would begin the next day.
Hey!
Let us out!
Hey!
We were trapped by those four people.
My father didn't survive long
because he only drank water and didn't eat anything.
And, that caused him to....
A number of years passed by and the food rations were running out,
so I caught rats and geckos which came wandering into the cave
and conquered starvation.
Day by day in that darkness,
I only wondered if I could get out of the cave and take revenge agaisnt those guys.
And then...
It's Professor Kariya.
The kid isn't here!
There should have been another body.
I'm not your enemy.
I came here to rescue you.
Starting from today,
you'll be Gankutsuo.
There she is.
Hey!
So it really was you?
I have a question.
Why have you involved that high school student, Kindaichi Hajime, in the plan?
You don't have to know why.
You also helped me escape until you had your revenge.
That was so you could continue killing and make it seem like I did it, right?
It was like that at first.
But I realized something when I ran away with you.
That what I really wished for
wasn't revenge.
I just...
wanted to live like a normal person.
In a place where the sun shines and where I could make friends...
and be near the people I love.
Kariya Jun...
You're under arrest.
Okay.
Let's go.
Wait up.
Where were you taking Ryuu?
Mr Hatakeyama,
or rather,
Takato Youichi.
You...
disguised yourself as Hatakeyama during the chase, right?
What are you talking about Kindaichi?
'You' pointed
your gun at me twice.
Between the first and second time 'you' did,
your dominant eye to aim your gun changed.
People can't change their dominant eye so easily.
That was a shoddy mistake on your part.
I guess it was.
Well, I imagined it would turn out like this somehow.
You know what he said to me on the phone?
I have just one favor to ask.
What is it?
I want to live in a small corner of this city and of course, make friends.
I want to be near the people I care about and live like a normal person.
Even though his vengeful heart grew up in the darkness of that cave,
he returns to being just an ordinary person once he basks in the daylight.
He's almost like a puppet whose strings have been cut.
How unfortunate.
I nearly defeated you.
You easily destroyed my best crime production which I spent half a year planning.
But you see,
I don't have to do someone a favor now.
A puppet with severed strings no longer has a future.
Takato!
Um... Don't move!
An ultra-small cluster bomb is attached to the knife I just stuck into the wall.
It's not very powerful.
But if I do press this, I'm pretty sure it'd be enough to kill or wound people within a three meter radius.
Bye.
Not so fast, Takato!
Ryuu isn't a puppet,
Ryuu has a future.
Anyone can have a fresh start!
We'll meet again...
Kindaichi.
Mr Kindaichi.
I robbed people of their lives.
But...
Once I finish atoning for my crimes...
can we meet again?
Of course we can.
Since we are friends.
You're gradually getting sleepy...
No, it didn't work.
Then...
Things like hypnotism don't really exist after all.
Ah!
A Mystery Club member has to believe!
So in the end, was Kindaichi hypnotized?
Or wasn't he?
Which one is it?
He also might have been acting weird because he caught a cold.
Oh crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!
I haven't done my homework!
Okay.
Gankutsuo was really interesting.
I thought that was good.
Oh crap, this is bad.
So it wasn't a cold?
Since that proverb says that fools never catch a cold.
I see, so if it's not a cold, then he must have been hypnotized?
No, but President Makabe-
You're distracting me!
Besides Miyuki, you got that proverb wrong just then.
That fools never catch a cold?
It's not that fools never catch a cold,
it's fools never realize they've caught a cold.
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