It's about to get better!
Look, look, look, look, look!
Whoa!
It's absorbing it!
Amazing, isn't it?
The white rose has been dyed in two colors?
What do you think?
It's occulty, right!?
How?
How, how?
This is the capillary phenomenon.
The colored water is sucked up from the stem and then it dyes the flower.
We learned this in elementary school.
We didn't learn this.
We did.
You were probably asleep.
Wow, that was rude.
I would never sleep in class!
You're always sleeping!
That's just me pretending to be asleep to throw the teachers off guard.
Kindaichi, stop being so stubborn.
What?
No one's being stubborn.
You didn't learn this, right Tsuji?
I did.
Why did Kindaichi enroll at this high school?
I can't help but wonder.
Me too.
It truly is
occulty.
Kindaichi, your phone is ringing.
Whose is this?
Huh?
Hello.
Hi Kindaichi, it's me.
I wanted to see you again, Kindaichi.
Takato, huh?
I have a favor to ask of you.
To Takato Youichi, after many years of research,
we have now done the impossible.
We were able to successfully cultivate the illusionary blue roses.
The rose enthusiasts will gather at a Rosicrucian Mansion on the 23rd of August
where our accomplishment will be exhibited.
Rosicrucian
Mansion
So please ensure to join us.
Furthermore, at this gathering,
you'll be able to witness the death of your sibling who has also been invited.
Ensure not to miss this opportunity.
Ro-Rosen Kreu-Kreuz.
It's Rosenkreuz.
TL Note: Christian Rosenkreuz (alias) was supposedly the founder of the religious Rosicrucian (Rose/Rosy Cross) Order. The secret society was said to have been established in 15th century Germany.
A foreigner?
His name means 'Rosy Cross' in German.
Rosy Cross?
I have a younger sibling from a different mother.
I don't their name or what they look like or whether they're a man or a woman.
I want you to join me at this gathering and protect my sibling.
Huh?
My specialty is murder.
I'm not cut out to find and protect someone.
What are you really up to?
I'm being genuine.
Then...
on one condition.
You hand yourself in to the police, right now!
That's far enough!
Takato Youichi, you're under arrest!
Who are you?
One of Takato's henchmen?
I don't know him.
I just got some money from some guy who asked me to do this.
Inspector, Takato was talking via a wireless device.
Where did you meet him?
At the hamburger shop in front of the train station.
Don't let Takato escape!
Yes sir!
It's quite fun playing cat and mouse.
I'll agree to your condition.
As you wish, I'll go to the police.
But only if you can protect my sibling, that is.
It really is rural!
And you didn't have to come out all this way with me.
Going with you is much better than waiting for you to get back.
I'm a bit concerned about this trip.
My, my.
Did you finally fall for my charms?
Now's not the time for jokes.
The hero always laughs when the going gets tough.
Dummy.
Mr Kindaichi and Miss Nanase, right?
Yes.
I'm Mouri, pleasure to meet you.
Mouri Mikado
The Rosicrucian Mansion's Caretaker
The master of the mansion has appointed me as the manager of this trip.
Nice to meet you.
It seems like you didn't bring the police along.
Just as we agreed.
Can I ask you something?
Were you always looking for them?
That sibling you know practically nothing about.
Well...
it looks like we've arrived.
Please, go ahead.
The various colorful roses, every type of them
anticipated the tragedy of those who had sinned.
The puzzling invitation sent by Rosenkreuz.
The crime producer, Takato Youichi, who accepted their challenge.
And his unknown sibling from a different mother.
Their varying motives assembled here, at this Rosicrucian mansion.
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The Young Kindaichi's New Case Files
The Rosicrucian Mansion Murder Case
Ah, these are the illusionary blue roses.
I'm a Fudō High School Student
Makabe?
President Makabe!?
What are you doing here?
No, that's our line!
I was invited too.
I like roses!
So what? It's not weird.
Ta-Te-Ta-Teko!
Hey, I'll tell you the details later so keep quite for a bit.
Sakura Kyou
Rose Photographer
Sorry, sorry, I'm not taking peeping photos.
I was just taking photos of these.
Those blue roses are fake.
Matsurizawa Isshin
President of the Bioflower
Company
They've just been dyed in colored water.
Look closely.
The blue is quite cheap looking, right?
What do you mean by that?
Someone went to great lengths to prepare this ornament before we're shown the real thing.
Fuyuno Yaehime
Flower Artist
The blue rose means 'impossible' in the language of flowers.
I also wanted to serenade the illusionary blue roses,
Tsukuyomi Giselle
Poet Who Composes Poems About Flowers
So I came flying like a butterfly.
She's cute.
But it's painful.
Hey!
Sorry.
Zenda Miruku
Flower Textile Artist
Excuse me.
Sorry, I'm so sorry.
Gee, I got here late.
Do you all know each other?
Well, sort of, yeah.
Because there's not many people who work with roses.
Speaking of which, you are?
I'm Toyama, nice to meet you.
I usually do flower arrangements.
Hello there.
This is my dear friend Kindaichi Hajime and
Nanase Miyuki and last but not least...
I'm extremely fond of roses and the occult, the name's Makabe Makoto.
The unveiling of the blue roses has been planned for tomorrow.
I've prepared the rooms for you, so please take it easy and enjoy your stay.
So the building is also shaped like a cross?
The bedrooms are on the second floor.
However, as this is a fairly old building,
there's a locked door which can't be opened since the key is missing.
So please take note that the south room cannot be entered at this point in time.
A forbidden room?
Wonderful.
The mansion itself is surely a rose labyrinth.
Is it painful?
Huh!?
You'll protect Takato's sibling?
We made an agreement.
He's obiviously lying.
But hey, I get the feeling that
Takato doesn't know how to find them.
Do you believe it Hajime?
That Takato has a sibling who he doesn't know
and to think that he would ask you to protect them...
It is him we're talking about!
He's definitely scheming something.
Oh.
Wow, the room's filled with roses!
The president's lost it.
He was like that to begin with.
So there's no bath in here?
Mouri said there was a large communal bath underground.
Then maybe...
It's mixed-bathing!?
Mixed-bathing!
Kindaichi!
It isn't.
I'm kinda nervous since it's really extravagant.
Right?
This is a welcome present to you all from the master of the mansion.
What could it be?
Well, I'll have a little peek.
You can't, dear guest!
We all have to pray and then we can open it,
just as it's written in the master's instructions.
That reminds me, where is the master of this mansion?
Actually, I'm unaware where.
I thought that they could meet you today, but...
What's with the person who invited us not showing up?
Rosenkreuz.
Even without knowing them,
everyone came all the way to this mansion,
so you must be interested in the blue roses, right?
Well then.
"I know that bad people have no joy.
Also, their lives are like shadows,
they won't last long."
Well then, someone do the honors.
Then.
No...
Huh?
What?
Hey!
This is a...
death mask?
TL Note: A death mask is a cast of someone's face made after they die.
Shou.
A death mask for a welcome present
is in quite bad taste, Mr Mouri.
You've got it wrong!
I thought it was a cake.
I was just following the master of the mansion's instructions.
At 7pm, gather everyone at the first floor dining hall.
Then please bring up the welcome present from the the underground kitchen
to the first floor dining hall by using the cooking elevator.
Once everyone is seated, carry the box, then open up the box once the prayer has been read out and let everyone enjoy the contents.
So I brought this box here.
Instructions?
Yes.
This box was brought from the underground kitchen
to the dining room here using that cooking elevator.
What are you doing Kindaichi?
Let's check out the underground kitchen.
Okay.
Huh, how?
This is the cake I prepared.
Just as I thought.
The elevator has a double wall.
On the other side of this wall
was the box with the death mask which had been in there from the start.
And without realizing that, Mr Mouri sent it up to the dining room.
Then he took out that box which was left on the other side.
Not noticing that it was a double wall
means you only started working here recently, right Mr Mouri?
Actually, I just started working here last night.
But now this clears me of any suspicion, right?
Not quite.
What was just explained means
that if the elevator had been set-up like so beforehand,
anyone could have pulled off the trick.
Basically, anyone here could be Rosenkreuz.
A black rose in the language of flowers means...
'to hate until death.'
And also 'eternal slumber.'
O black rose, the talkative fall silent under one's nose.
!Re-translation Note: "under one's nose" has been added by me so that the sentence rhymes in English just as it does in Japanese. The more direct translation is "O black rose, the talkative become silent." Please delete this note after reading.
You wish that our hidden sins
will be brought to light in this dark place.
!Re-translation Note: I chose to use the idiom "brought to light" and add the adjective "dark" to "place" in order to make the sentence more poetic. The more direct translation of this sentence is "will be revealed in this place." Please delete this note after reading.
I'm going home!
Me too.
I'm not staying in this creepy place!
I've had enough of these practical jokes!
What is this?
The path that leads outside
Has been blocked with roses.
This is nothing.
You'll get hurt by the thorns.
They're just rose thorns.
It'll just be a few cuts.
He's right.
I'd rather go through that than stay here.
See ya.
Wait!
What?
There's probably poison on those thorns.
Poison?
Hydrocyanic acid, a deadly poison.
Even if comes into contact with your skin just once,
it's instant death.
Isn't there another way out?
The perimeter of the building is covered with fences of roses.
This arch is the only exit.
So we can't get out of here?
Tsukuyomi Giselle
Zenda Miruku
Fuyuno Yaehime
Makabe Makoto
Sakura Kyou
Matsurizawa Isshin
Mouri Mikado
Takato Youichi
Everyone,
the police can't help us at the moment.
Since a cliff has collapsed onto the road to the mansion.
Seriously?
How can you eat at a time like this?
Um, Miruku, when you saw the death mask a while ago,
as I recall, you said 'Shou.'
Shou.
Did you know him?
Isshin and Yaehime, you also knew the person who was killed, right?
Well, I only saw him in a magazine.
He was the one managing the Sumeragi Flower Chain,
Sumeragi Shou.
So his given name was Shou?
TL Note: If you didn't know already, in Japanese, family names are said first followed by a given name eg. Kindaichi Hajime would be Hajime Kindaichi and Sumeragi Shou would be Shou Sumeragi in the English word order (although I keep all names in the Japanese word order.)
Miruku, you addressed him without a honorific, right?
TL Note: In Japanese, honorifics are name suffixes to show respect to your elders or juniors, such as 'san', 'senpai', 'sensei', 'kun' kouhai' etc. + Japanese people usually only call each other by their given names without honorifics if they are a childhood or a very close friend or if they are or were in a romantic relationship.
Me and him dated.
Huh?
But that was three years ago.
How old was Mr Sumeragi?
He would've been forty this year.
Why did you ask me that?
No reason.
Sumeragi Shou would've been forty, so he would've been older than me.
Basically, this means that he couldn't have been my younger sibling.
I'm glad that you seem to have believed what I said, Kindaichi.
My goal here
is to find your sibling and protect their life.
Do you still believe his lies, Kindaichi?
Yeah.
I...
want to stop any more killings from happening.
I don't want to let anyone commit any more crimes.
How nice.
Especially you!
Don't forget our agreement.
If I find out who your sibling is and if I'm able to save their life,
you'll go turn yourself in, yeah?
Yeah, I'll go.
Like I said, you can't believe anything he says-
If that happens, then hell's puppeteer won't be able to commit any more crimes.
And that would be great, wouldn't it?
Thanks for believe in me, is
all I'll say for now.
How far can that bastard twist his personality?
Just what is going here?
Huh?
What's Rosenkreuz's goal?
They notified us in advance that Takato's sibling would be killed,
yet someone else was killed.
I've thought about who his sibling could be, but...
Huh, who?
People younger than Takato by their appearance alone, are Sakura Kyou,
Fuyuno Yaehime and Tsukuyomi Giselle.
It's one of those three.
You're right.
I've prepared the bath.
Oh, okay.
Even at a time like this, I've prepared a rose bath.
A rose bath!?
Thank you.
This is Miss Nanase's.
These roses are called Louis XIV.
M and N, my initials are on it, incredible!
This one is-
It's an akane!
And this one with H and K is Mr Kindaichi's.
It's a Toulouse Lautrec.
A rose bath with just guys.
It's nothing to get excited about.
This rose is renge.
And this one is misaki.
The president has lost it again!
Huh?
You're giving female names to roses, I can't understand you.
Renge and misaki are types of roses.
My dad researched roses,
so I've liked them ever since I was a little kid.
President, you're hurt, it looks really painful!
These are just burn scars.
Oh, are they?
It smells good.
Miyuki!
Did you just get in?
I'm about to.
Oh, sorry for intruding.
Woo, I feel refreshed.
Hey, wait.
This way.
Please leave the towels you used in this basket.
Ah, okay.
Sure thing.
You're not going in?
Huh?
As if I'd go into that damn bath!
What's up with him?
What was he angry about?
No, he looked more afraid than angered.
Are you awake Hajime?
Miyuki?
Have you read the card from Rosenkreuz?
The card?
At this time of day?
Sorry for the wait.
The exhibition of the perfected blue roses will finally start soon,
so please hurry to the north-most circular room.
Why is it in the early morning?
Mr Mouri, what exactly is going on?
Well, I have no idea.
The door is locked.
That's kinda weird.
This doesn't seem like any ordinary unveiling.
Huh?
What do you mean by that?
We should be able to see inside from the terrace.
Let's have a look.
Tsukuyomi Giselle
Zenda Miruku
Fuyuno Yaehime
Makabe Makoto
Sakura Kyou
Matsurizawa Isshin
Mouri Mikado
Takato Youichi
O blue rose,
please tell me your story.
The warmth of the fountain and the floating pattern of patches of renge.
While they healed him, they also took his life?
This is like the calvary.
Like the calvary?
It's a hill that is said to have been where Jesus Christ, along with some sinners, were crucified on the cross.
Mr Mouri, does that door open inwards or outwards?
As I recall, it opens inwards into the room.
This room has become a locked room mystery.
Locked room mystery?
The windows were all closed from the inside,
and if that door was opened from the inside,
the blue roses on the floor would've been crumpled.
As expected Kindaichi, you also noticed that.
Mr Mouri,
do you have something like a glass cutter?
I'll go look.
I see.
It's your field of expertise.
It sure is.
Why won't you enter through the door?
If we opened the door before investigating,
The crime scene would become a mess.
I see.
Hey, isn't this really Takato's doing?
Well...
Okay, all done.
Did you say something?
Ah, no.
Well then, shall we try to pull out the stake?
This means...
that it pierced through the body, the carpet and the floor.
It's unmistakably murder.
You said it.
How can you tell?
Someone who committed suicide couldn't stab themselves all the way through to the floor.
We can eliminate the windows.
Which only leaves the door that opens inwards.
And then the impossibility of opening or closing the door without disturbing
the blue roses spread all over the floor in front of the door.
The trick remains unknown for now.
But why him?
Isshin was also older than you.
Why is Rosenkreuz only killing the people you wouldn't suspect as being your sibling?
Maybe they're challenging me?
Maybe they're letting me know that they think they're a better murderer than me.
And that's why they're killing innocent people?
That's the feeling I get.
The culprit for these killings thinks like me.
Do you...
This 'Rosenkreuz'.
They certainly could be my sibling.
Do you seriously think that?
I'm just saying it's possible.
This has my name written all over it.
Don't you agree?
Are you glad?
The sibling you're searching for
might be just like you, someone who takes pleasure in committing crimes.
Like father like son
sort of thing?
Takato!
I have another question.
Why did you really ask me to find your sibling?
I'm interested.
In the ancestral roots of people like me.
Roots?
My father, who worked as a trader when I was a kid,
came home very drunk.
Youichi, come over here.
You're such an annoying brat.
Well, that can't be helped.
Can't be helped?
I'll tell you something nice.
You have a sibling.
Who has a different mother.
Well, you probably won't meet until the next life.
I realized it then.
That I'm not like him at all.
That the man in front of me couldn't be my biological father.
Don't you really want to meet your sibling?
Don't get the wrong idea.
Just as you are here now because of that great detective, Kindaichi Kōsuke,
I too am here now because of my real father, whose face or name I do not know.
But who is my father?
The only clue to answer that question is my sibling.
You and me are like light and shadow.
Perhaps even, two sides of the same coin.
You can't believe that!
He's hell's puppeteer.
That's right.
He obviously planned all of this!
He's evil.
If that was all true,
would he really try to help me solve his own case?
He's just saying that stuff to easily manipulate you.
That's right, he's grotesque!
Be quite president!
Okay.
But I...
don't think he's lying to me.
Hajime?
Who's there?
Oh, you were called here too?
Ah, Hajime, look at this.
At 11:55am,
please gather outside the room on the southern tip of the first floor.
If you neglect to arrive there on time, please be careful of the rose thorns from now on.
Outside of the locked room, huh?
This way.
Hey!
Are you okay?
Hey!
That was Miruku's kimono.
Let's go back inside.
President.
Kindaichi.
Miruku is being attacked.
Huh?
It won't open.
Miruku.
Miruku!
Kindaichi, these stairs.
They're inside that room.
It goes underground.
Mr Mouri.
Did something happen?
Can you get into the locked room from underground?
Huh?
Well, yes.
Hey, what's all the commotion?
Did something happen?
Kindaichi, Nanase?
I'll explain later.
Takato.
Seems like something happened.
Miruku...
Her right sleeve is gone.
Seems like they struggled a lot.
Yeah.
The doors are locked, right?
The shadow?
Huh?
What?
Tsukuyomi Giselle
Zenda Miruku
Fuyuno Yaehime
Makabe Makoto
Sakura Kyou
Matsurizawa Isshin
Mouri Mikado
Takato Youichi
Where did you go?
I was just doing what Rosenkreuz instructed me to.
See.
Mr Sakura Kyou,
Please gather in front of your room at 11.50am.
If you neglect to arrive there on time,
please be careful of the rose thorns from now on.
Does everyone else have their invitations?
Me and Miyuki
were to be outside the locked room by 11:55am.
Kindaichi Miyuki
Rosicrucian Mansion
Kindaichi Miyuki
I was told to be here at 11:55am.
Makabe
I was told to be at the spiral staircase at 11:50am.
Mouri
Mine said to be at that circular room by 11:50am.
Yaehime
Giselle
Mine too.
11:45am.
Kindaichi Miyuki
Makabe
Mouri
Yaehime
Giselle
In front of the underground south room.
Takato
Why do all of this?
This makes it clear who Rosenkreuz is.
It's you.
Kindaichi Miyuki
Mouri
Makabe
Sakura
Giselle
Yaehime
If the culprit fled after killing Miruku,
they would have had no choice but to use that room's spiral staircase.
The only one who could kill Miruku without bumping into anyone was...
the person closest to the locked room underground.
Takato
And that's you!
The red rose in the language of flowers
means 'shoot me dead.'
The ones who fired silver arrows to shoot mortals dead
were not the Gods of Olympus.
They were the bloodied messengers of hell.
You're Takato Youichi, right?
Kindaichi, didn't you say so just before?
Takato.
Seems like something happened.
I thought I heard that name before and when I looked it up...
Known as 'Hell's Puppeteer' and the 'Crime Producer'
Takato Youichi : Wanted Suspect Public Announcement
So you were Rosenkreuz?
He's not.
It's not Takato.
What are you saying?
You're wrong!
Move it!
Get away from this guy.
Let's tie him up.
Takato isn't the real culprit!
Will you be quiet?
Sit here in silence.
Why are you sticking up for him?
He's a brutal serial killer!
But he's...
Interested.
In the ancestral roots of people like me.
The only clue to answer that question is my sibling.
Why does he commit crimes?
He's been looking for the reason why.
Even he...
has a human heart.
Hajime.
Sorry,
but could you guys go on ahead?
I'll be there soon.
Let's go.
Takato.
You're still in there, right?
Of course.
I was tied up.
You say it like that since you've already made a habit out of getting free.
But now, I know their goal.
Rosenkreuz
has made me look like an indiscriminate murderer,
it appears that they want to take revenge agaisnt me.
I find this insulting.
I'll torture them,
make them confess to all of their crimes
and then kill them.
Even if Rosenkreuz is your sibling?
Of course.
I won't let you do that.
I won't let you kill anyone else.
Especially if it's your sibling.
You and me are truly light and shadow,
two sides of the same coin.
I'll definitely solve
this puzzling case.
For my sake?
Nope.
In the name of my grandfather,
the great detective!
Then should I just wait here and chill out?
And I'll definitely find that sibling of yours.
And then you'll have to really surrender.
There are three candidates
who are younger than you.
Sakura Kyou.
Fuyuno Yaehime.
And Tsukuyomi Giselle.
Why not?
But Kindaichi,
you're forgetting one other notable person who meets all of the conditions.
Makabe Makoto.
Makabe is...
your little brother?
President Makabe.
Wait up!
Next time on the final episode...
The Rosicrucian Mansion Murder Case
Conclusion to the Story
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All of the Mysteries will be Revealed