It's a puzzle.
Right?
It's a puzzle, right?
They were dropped outside the clubroom.
Six equals white, seven equals pink?
Eight is striped, eleven is white?
Thirteen is black, death?
T-This is a coded message.
If it is,
it could be a written challenge from hell's puppeteer, Takato.
Really?
Everyone, look at this!
Hajime, this is bad.
Look at this!
Three hundred years of history, falling snow at the Obon Festival.
Yeah.
Yukikage Village
Is it going to snow in summer?
Impossible.
But it's not impossible.
I know this place well.
Hajime, have you been there before?
Yep, my mom's friend is from there,
so I spent summer vacation there during my 2nd year of middle school.
How nice, I want to see it snow in summer too.
Then come along, I'll show you around.
Really?
Yeah.
Count me in.
Then, let's meet in front of the station tomorrow morning at six.
Okay.
Man, I don't get it!
Hey Kindaichi, can you work out this code?
Huh?
These are...
When were they ripped out?
Fourteen equals panda, laughs.
The puzzle has been completely solved.
On the sixth, they were white, the seventh was pink and the eighth was striped.
These are...
the patterns and colors of my underwear!
I had no idea what they were on the ninth, tenth or twelfth.
Now listen here!
Thirteen equals black, death?
Well they were black and black panties give off a deadly vibe.
You're a creep.
I'm not going now!
It snows here in summer for three days at the start of the Obon Festival.
This is a mysterious phenomenon which has occurred in the village of Yukikage for more than 300 years.
Yukikage Train Station
Welcome!
To Yukikage Village
A Village of Mountains, Seacoasts and Snow
Why are-
You didn't even notice that we were in the same carriage.
It was like he was in deep thought.
Thinking about the color of Nanase's panties, huh?
I wasn't.
Kindaichi?
Shimazu?
Shimazu Takumi
2nd Year High School Student, Former Pitcher.
It really is you, Kindaichi.
It's been three years, huh?
Yeah.
How is everyone?
Everyone's still stuck out here in this rural village.
Stuck out here?
Isn't this is a great village?
He's right.
It has a great atmosphere.
Ah, this is my senior and junior from school.
Nice to meet you.
Shimazu was the ace of the baseball club,
he pitches a super strong fastball.
Really?
Oh, stop.
Oh yeah, I have to tell everyone that you've come back.
Oh.
We'll meet up and wait at the schoolyard.
Got it.
See ya later then.
Yukikage Train Station
But, no one could have known
that a series of tragic killings would happen
in this quiet village.
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The Young Kindaichi's New Case Files
The Murder Case in the Village of Yukikage
Yukikage Middle
School
Here?
This place brings back memories.
Whoa.
Hey, Kindaichi!
Long time no see!
It's been a while.
Long time no see Kindaichi.
Tateishi was in the baseball club with Shimazu, they were a battery.
Tateishi Naoya
2nd Year High School Student, Former Catcher.
Really?
And Uosumi
is a really good guitarist, he sounds just like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
Uosumi Kyoushirou
Fisherman, Former Guitarist.
Geez, stop talking about that.
And Ayaka was the tennis club's ace.
Hasunuma Ayaka
2nd Year High School Student,
Former President of Tennis Club.
That's right.
And Fuyumi hopes to become an idol singer.
Stop right there, I changed my mind.
Yashiro Fuyumi
2nd Year High School Student, upcoming star.
I want to become an actress now.
Really?
Fuyumi auditions for productions and stuff,
Tachikawa Miyako
2nd Year High School Student,
Formerly in Manga Club.
but she often has to go to Tokyo.
Well, anyway,
I'm gad everyone's together again like back then.
You said it!
Since we all went to different high schools,
we don't really see each other even though we still live in the same area.
What's up with that?
Wait a minute, someone's missing.
You know who, she painted here,
Haruna.
Hatano Haruna.
You weren't told, huh?
You see, a year ago, Haruna...
Hatano Family Grave
You all have the same rosary bracelets.
The seven of us brought matching bracelets when we went on a field trip.
Right?
Ever since Haruna passed away, we've always had them on us.
I love the pure white snow.
Because white is the color of hope.
Hatano Haruna
Formerly in the Art Club
Haruna committed suicide.
Fuyumi.
He'd find out eventually.
On the hill where you can see the harbor from,
she overdosed on sleeping pills.
It was nearly a year ago.
On the morning when it snows in summer.
I wonder if Haruna would've called Kindaichi.
Well, let's get going.
More, please!
Sure, sure.
Tachikawa
Oh my.
Here.
Thanks.
Can you eat all of that?
That's your fourth bowl.
Kindaichi eats a lot whens he's upset.
What about you?
Come on, here, have some more.
No-
You eat like a bird.
Tachikawa Noriko
Miyako's Mother.
It's true.
Oh, Hajime.
What you said about Uosumi,
he actually doesn't play the guitar anymore.
Huh?
Now, he goes fishing and helps out his family.
Here you go.
Ah, thank you.
Enjoy.
Ayaka quit playing tennis a while ago too.
Ayaka as well?
I heard the tennis club at her school was abolished.
But it looks like she shows up at Yukikage Middle School's tennis club sometimes.
Both Shimazu and Tateishi quit playing baseball too.
Huh, why?
Shimazu wrecked his right shoulder during his third year of middle school.
Shimazu?
Hey, are you okay Shimazu?
Are you alright?
Tateishi stopped playing too soon after that.
But Fuyumi is trying hard, right?
Yeah, she is.
She goes to Tokyo a number of times each month, but...
Are you kidding me?
Didn't you say that I was the first choice to be the star of that film?
But it seems like things aren't going well lately.
Everyone has it tough, huh?
Hey wait, why didn't you ask about me?
I gave up on my dream to write picture books.
Did you even put your heart and soul into that dream?
Be quite Mom.
Oh my oh my.
Hey Miyako, why did Haruna commit suicide?
Ah, well you see...
we still don't really know.
Mom.
She left a suicide note, but...
Haruna's mother even had to ask us if we knew what it meant.
I don't really understand.
What was supposed to be a pleasant color
was an unforgivable color,
so dying is now my only option.
What was supposed to be a pleasant color was an unforgivable color?
Since she liked to paint,
we thought the meaning had something to do with that,
but we don't really know.
And then, at the funeral...
About the arrows to send off above, right?
A parting gift of arrows?
It's an old village tradition
to place three arrows on the chest of the person who died.
They're arrows to send off people to the heavens, representing the Gods of the Oceans, Mountains and Snow.
Those three arrows suddenly went missing.
What does that mean?
I wonder if Haruna would've called Kindaichi.
Huh, what?
I wonder if it will snow tomorrow morning.
Huh?
Snow in summer.
Yeah, it certainly will.
"Around Obon, it snows for about one hour, starting from 6am."
Why don't we wake up early and go to Kageyuki Middle school?
Okay.
Got it.
Then I'll text everyone.
Okay, thank you.
Goodnight.
It's snowing.
It's snowing!
Amazing, incredible!
'Morning
Good morning.
Aren't Uosumi and Fuyumi here yet?
Nope.
We better hurry, it'll turn into rain soon.
It really snowed, I wonder if it will pile up.
Yukikage
Middle
School
Hey, wait for me!
You're late Uosumi.
My bad, I slept in.
You slept in?
Seriously?
?
Uosumi Kyoushirou
Yashiro Fuyumi
Tachikawa Miyako
Shimazu Takumi
Hasunuma Ayaka
Tateishi Naoya
Yukikage
Middle
School
Old man!?
Hey!
Why are you here?
The president of a certain production company in Tokyo
tricked girls who wanted to be actresses and made them work for free.
Those girls launched a class-action lawsuit agaisnt him
and the one who organized it was...
Fuyumi.
Basically, this could be the worried president's way of silencing Fuyumi.
So this is possibly a murder case.
I see.
When you guys came to the schoolyard,
there was only one set of footprints left on the snow.
Tree
Clubroom
School Building
School Entrance
So this was suicide.
Yeah.
Because if someone else was there,
two sets of footprints would have remained.
Plus the lethal weapon was a decorative arrow.
It can't be shot from a bow.
Detective Kenmochi.
What is it?
Testimony asserts that the old loafers which Yashiro Fuyumi was wearing
were stolen from the doorstep of a family who had lost a loved-one.
Plus, the shoes she was wearing when she was killed and those stolen ones seem to be the same type.
Wait a minute, old man.
If that's the case, then Fuyumi may not have killed herself.
Huh?
If the culprit killed Fuyumi in the schoolyard before it started snowing
and after waiting for the snow to pile up,
the culprit put the loafers they stole beforehand on Fuyumi
and then walked back with her loafers on...
Only one set of footprints would remain.
Huh?
So it was murder?
Hey, are you trying to say that there's a murderer in this village?
This is just a 'what if' scenario.
What are you doing?
Well, nothing in particular.
Did Mr Kenmochi properly investigate those footprints after that?
Ah, but that's impossible.
It only snowed for a hour before turning into rain.
The footprints would have vanished by the time the police showed up.
Wait...
If that would happen, why did the culprit...
leave footprints in the schoolyard?
If the culprit didn't want anyone to see their footprints before the snow turned into rain,
there would be no need to set-up a footprint trick.
Since we only met up at school in the morning by chance.
So we were the first people to discover it.
No, I wonder if it really was by chance.
That's it, Kindaichi!
The culprit knew we were going to the school at that time
and made us witnesses to the footprint trick.
Basically, the culprit is someone we met up with in the morning.
Is what you wanted to say?
But president,
we all went from the meeting place to the schoolyard.
Everyone has an alibi.
No.
Not everyone.
Right, the culprit who murdered Fuyumi
was the only one who was late meeting up with us.
It was Uosumi.
Hey, wait for me!
You're late Uosumi.
My bad, I slept in.
Miyako, bad news!
I just got a call from Uosumi's mother.
Like I said, I didn't do it!
Is there someone who can confirm your alibi?
My parents know I left the house with my bike at 6am.
How long would it take to get to the middle school by bike from here?
Probably ten minutes by riding at a normal pace.
You guys arrived at the schoolyard at 6.10am.
Riding normally would take ten minutes, but if you rode there very quickly, it would take five minutes.
You could have killed Fuyumi in those extra five minutes.
That's not feasible, old man.
Kindaichi?
It started snowing at 6am, right?
To leave one set of footprints,
he would've had to kill Fuyumi there before it started snowing
and then would've had to wait there for the snow to pile up.
In other words, Uosumi couldn't have killed Fuyumi if he left his house at 6am.
You're a life saver!
What are you up to, Ayaka?
I'm cleaning up a bit.
Even though you're a graduate?
It's because I made a lot of memories in this clubroom.
At least turn on the lights.
Huh?
What the?
It looks like the light has burned out.
I'll go buy a new one later.
Oh.
Still, it's a shame.
What is?
I was looking forward to seeing you play tennis again.
So you could see me in a miniskirt, right?
Well, that's important too...
You really haven't changed Kindaichi.
Hey, was that an insult?
Nope.
Being able to stay the same is much better than changing.
Who's there?
You gave me a fright.
So it was you?
Ayaka.
The murder weapon was a 'farewell' arrow again.
This is unforgivable.
I'll definitely...
expose the culprit's identity.
In the name of...
my grandfather.
?
Uosumi Kyoushirou
Yashiro Fuyumi
Tachikawa Miyako
Shimazu Takumi
Hasunuma Ayaka
Tateishi Naoya
What was supposed to be a pleasant color
was an unforgivable color,
so dying is now my only option.
Haruna's suicide note,
did she really only leave this?
Yeah.
I think she wrote that suicide note without thinking straight,
since she left it for that man.
That man?
To Imai Tatsuya?
That's Haruna's father.
But we got divorced when Haruna was still too young to understand
and he hasn't been in contact with her since.
Kindaichi, why Haruna's suicide note?
Why were Fuyumi and Ayaka killed with the stolen arrows?
Do you think those two murders are connected to Haruna's suicide?
I met with the victim here yesterday.
What?
At the time, this place was arranged more neatly.
That's because the victim and the culprit struggled, isn't it?
But... take this for example.
The victim's blood has been left under a stool.
The culprit didn't leave here right after killing Ayaka.
What were they doing?
Searching for something.
They searched for something on the floor.
Something on the floor?
Possibly...
something which fell.
Which fell?
What was it?
It looks like the light has blown out.
I'll go buy a new one later.
Hasunuma
Family
Hasunuma Ayaka's Funeral Location
Imai Tatsuya.
To Imai Tatsuya
Isn't that Haruna's...
Let's go.
Sorry we're late.
What's wrong?
Well, the rosary bracelets we had in our bags went missing.
Huh?
That's odd, mine should have been in here.
Were they the bracelets you all brought together?
Yeah.
It's sort of creepy....
that everyone's went missing at the same time.
Yeah.
Ah, gee, what are you doing?
Give that to me.
Did you drop them?
Yeah.
I see...
What are you looking for?
Last night at the wake, some sweets got scattered.
Oh....that?
I found one.
Huh?
Why is a rosary bead here?
This is probably where the culprit's bracelet broke.
So the culprit stole everyone's rosary bracelets to avoid being caught?
At least turn on the lights.
Hey, what are you doing?
The light that Ayaka bought was left here.
But why would the culprit think about replacing it?
What's wrong Kindaichi?
No way.
Hey!
You were visiting a grave before, right?
Yeah.
Are you Takumi's friend?
Um...
I'm Takumi's father.
Shimazu's?
But I got divorced when he was just a baby.
I haven't seen him since.
But I couldn't leave the area.
Oh.
The snow.
Does it pile up on the seacoast too?
Of course not.
Didn't you learn that in middle school?
Ah, over there.
What's the ocean made up of? It's ocean water.
He was making that serious face
and now he's chatting with the locals.
He seems fine, let's go.
It's hard to tell, but
there are times when he's just acting brave.
But it looks like he's alright.
Let's go.
Yeah.
That's right, I learned about the heat of fusion.
Thank you.
No problem.
Take care.
Imai Tatsuya
Excuse me,
you're Mr Imai Tatsuya?
Yeah, that's right.
And you're Shimazu's father, yeah?
Shimazu is my ex-wife's surname.
No, it's not that.
Isn't Haruna's father Imai Tatsuya?
Me and Haruna's dad
have the exact same name.
Around here, lots of people have the surname 'Imai'.
I'm off.
Okay, take care.
Thanks.
Bye.
White is the color of hope.
To Imai Tatsuya
The exact same name.
What was supposed to be a pleasant color was an unforgivable color?
Old man.
Hajime.
Take yourself off this case.
This case has only caused you grief.
Your precious friends are being killed.
At least, that's my fatherly advice to you.
Fatherly advice, huh?
Thank you old man.
But...
I'm Kindaichi Kōsuke's grandson.
I can't turn my back on a case.
And just now,
the puzzle was completely solved.
Sorry for the short-notice.
I figured it out.
Who Ayaka and Fuyumi's killer is.
Give yourself up.
Imai Tatsuya
Uosumi Kyoushirou
Yashiro Fuyumi
Tachikawa Miyako
Shimazu Takumi
Hasunuma Ayaka
Tateishi Naoya
Give yourself up.
Shimazu.
Hey, stop messing around Kindaichi.
Why would you think that?
The bracelets gave it away.
Everyone bought matching rosary bracelets on that field trip.
But...
At Ayaka's wake,
everyone's went missing at the same time.
Why did that happen?
The answer is
one of the beads could be found at Ayaka's murder scene.
When the culprit killed Ayaka, their bracelet broke.
I'm sure you quickly tried to pick them all up.
Since there would be conclusive evidence if the police found one.
Then what about Tateishi, Uosumi or even Miyako?
Why do you think it was me?
The light in the clubroom.
Ayaka said she was going to replace the light in the clubroom for the tennis club.
But the light she brought was left untouched at the crime scene.
Yet if someone changed the light and brightened up the clubroom,
they could have picked up all of the scattered beads.
But the culprit didn't do that.
I tried to but
it's hard to remove the cover off of the ceiling, even if you use both hands.
So it'd be impossible...
for someone who wrecked their shoulder.
You can't lift your right arm above your shoulder, right?
Ouch.
And just in case, you stole everyone's bracelets.
So it'd be okay if you left a bead.
How do you explain Fuyumi's death?
Only one set of footprints remained, right?
I was with you guys when it started snowing!
How could those footprints be mine?
Take a look outside.
This is the trick you set-up that morning.
By using the loafers you stole from Fuyumi
and by laying out this utensil, right?
You made footprints using salt.
Then you called Fuyumi to the schoolyard.
What did you want to talk about?
No!
Like we learned in science, if you mix salt and snow,
the ice's melting point lowers and melts rapidly.
And by the time the police inspected the crime scene,
Yukikage
Middle
School
the snow had turned into rain
and washed away the salt you used to make the footprints.
It was a splendid trick.
Shimazu.
By chance, on the seacoast,
I met Imai Tatsuya.
Your father.
Yours and Haruna's dad
have the exact same name.
You dated her, right?
You dated Haruna.
Like mine, Haruna's parents got divorced when she was very little.
Since we both didn't have a dad, we had something in common.
When I wrecked my shoulder in my last year of middle school
and had to give up on my dream of going to Koshien,
TL Note: Koshien is the name of a stadium where the finals of the National High School Baseball Championship take place, to want to go to Koshien means you want to make it to the final stage of the tournament.
Haruna helped me through it.
Baseball isn't everything.
Cheer up.
But to find something else I can do...
Let's search for something together.
You'll definitely find a new dream.
In her suicide note...
"What was supposed to be a pleasant color was an unforgivable color?"
I'm just guessing but,
in Haruna's stomach....
Yeah.
There was a baby.
I was truly happy that I was going to be a father.
I'd marry her and live for our child's sake.
I thought I found a dream that only I could fulfill.
A hat?
It's kinda small.
It's for the baby.
White can be a color for a boy or a girl,
it's a hopeful color.
A hopeful color, huh?
Hey, Shimazu.
Yeah?
We'll be together forever, right?
Do you even have to ask?
Of course we will.
But...
Haruna called me while in tears.
What's wrong?
You and me are...
siblings.
Huh?
Who did you hear that from?
We never got told that we were related.
Haruna?
Haruna!?
Haruna?
Haruna!
A pleasant color was an unforgivable color.
That pure white hat
was supposed to be an eternal secret between Haruna and me.
But, soon after Haruna's funeral ceremony ended,
I heard their conversation.
I saw her.
Haruna was
knitting a hat for a baby.
A hat?
I'm sure she was pregnant.
She took that story seriously.
The one we made up about her and Shimazu having the same father!
That time we said they were related because they had the same name?
That's why she killed herself?
Hey, Fuyumi, what do we do?
If someone finds out, we'll-
Haruna only died because she got the wrong idea.
It's not our fault.
Why did Haruna have to die
because of their ridiculous lie?
Why did Haruna believe such a stupid lie?
That's because...
soon after we started dating...
Look, aren't I cute?
You are.
I was really cute back then.
Huh?
Huh, why?
This is my dad.
Huh, really?
Yeah...
That photo was enough
to make Haruna wrongly believe that we were siblings and related by blood.
Fuyumi and Ayaka weren't the only ones who drove her to kill herself.
I'm also guilty
because I didn't protect Haruna from their lie.
I planned to do this from the start.
The last one...
is for me.
Shimazu!
I'm pathetic, aren't I?
I'm taking the easy way out!
Like hell you are!
Shimazu!
Tateishi.
Why didn't you tell me about Haruna?
Why couldn't you rely on me?
We're friends, aren't we?
Makabe and Saki gathered everyone at my house, early in the morning.
They thought it was strange that you weren't there.
We all looked for you.
Sorry for making such a fuss.
Yeah.
TL Note: The following two sentences were extremely hard to phrase in English, so I had to do quite a loose translation here.
Everyone goes through problems in life.
But aren't friends there to help solve them?
Let's go home.
Thanks for your hospitality.
Thank you very much.
By the way, I just got a call from a girl named Nanase.
From Miyuki?
What?
What did she say?
I said you weren't here and she said "Never mind then."
Here.
Oh!
Ah!
Miyuki.
What a coincidence.
I'm going back first.
Me too.
I only came because I wanted to see it snow in summer.
Then I'll show you around.
Maybe I should just go back.
Oh.
Actually, I changed my mind.
I feel like staying here for a few days.
Whatever floats your boat!
Hey!
Let's go back together.
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The Rosicrucian Mansion Murder Case
This drama is a work of fiction