Throw a boiling pot on a fire and jump into it.
Only those with the courage to jump can move forward.
Do not stray from the old road for a new one.
When Venus and the moon align, carefully count the true numbers of the beasts.
Within those three phrases of advice to Solomon lies a puzzle.
There are those who would examine claims of holy miracles from around the world,
and verify a miracle has indeed occurred.
Please show them the way, O Lord, the Vatican Miracle Examiners!
Ikeru mono tsumibukaki kakugo de The living reach out their hands
Ataerareta fukashigi ni te wo nobasu yo With sinful resolve to the mysteries they've been given
Itami ga yobu negai wo tokiakashite The pain calls for resolution of their wish
Hikari yo ashiki tamashii sukuitamae to For the light to save their sinful souls
Koe dake ja tarinainda My voice isn't enough
Kiseki no nai jinsei iranai I don't need a life without miracles
Abunai jounetsu ga miseta akenai yoru no naka de A dangerous passion showed me a vision in an endless night
Dare no yume ga hiraku darou Whose dream will be opened?
Yami to boku wa niteru kai Do I resemble the darkness?
Abunai jounetsu o kaketa kore ga key ad mysterium I took the risk with that dangerous passion for this key ad mysterium
Ima wa semete shinjitetai I want to at least believe now
Dakedo nanimo wakaranai But I don't know anything
We came to Saint Eligius Church to investigate a miracle happening daily,
but after learning of a Decapitating Clown murder thirty-two years ago,
we decided to head into the forest to discover what really happened.
I will contact you again if I make it out alright.
To Lauren, from Hiraga.
This is it.
This is where the four of them sat around the campfire.
Doesn't look like we'll find any trace of a campfire, though.
Hey.
Could this pile of empty cans be Carlo's?
They could. They're in the same bag.
I'm surprised it lasted out here this long.
This thick fog is year-round, and the locals don't come into the forest either.
The police investigating at the time sure did a great job.
These last thirty-two years, everyone was terrified of a demon.
This one can has a strange hole in it.
Cut precisely.
Must have been made by someone.
Yes, to put something into the can.
Which means...?
I noticed something while watching the video.
Compared to Carlo, Antonio, and Teresa,
Domenica was way more terrified.
Almost as if she were on a drug trip.
God, is that what happened?
Who would benefit from having Domenica that terrified?
Carlo Zetti, who worked at a TV station.
He'd be thrilled to have a truly realistic performance from his actress.
And the person who handed Domenica the beer was Antonio, Father Trones.
If we'd discovered this earlier...
What a crude mistake the investigation thirty-two years ago made.
We should move on, quickly.
How do you know where to go from here?
The hints were in the video.
We're going to follow them, right?
Yeah, they're probably old path markers.
Did they know about them, too?
At the very least, everyone except for Domenica knew.
That's the rocky mountain from the video.
That's it. "The House Over There."
There's the well, huh?
Isn't that a magic circle?
This wasn't in the video from thirty-two years ago.
Forget thirty-two years ago, this circle was drawn in the last few days.
Drawn by someone who tried to seal away the demon with a magic circle.
Was it Father Trones?
He was quite scared of it.
Sure is deep.
It is a well.
You sure about that?
What's that? There's something like a ladder going all the way down we can use.
Let's take off the grate.
Huh?
When we were talking about Domenica's beer, everyone looked like they'd realized something.
Well, it's an area you're not all that skilled with, I suppose.
Yes, forgive me.
Here's the story. There are two couples here.
Antonio was feeling troubled about Domenica's unstable emotions,
and Teresa was being abused by Carlo.
It wouldn't be out of the question
for them to develop feelings for one another while talking about their problems.
But that's just speculation.
Yes, but you can clearly understand their motives if you think of it that way.
Are you saying that Teresa was in on it, too?
The Decapitating Clown might've been Antonio in costume.
And he traumatized Domenica to the point of insanity?
It also explains why the athletic Carlo didn't resist when his head was cut off.
He must have thought the two of them were helping him with his TV show.
That would make sense.
And it also explains why Father Trones disappeared.
He felt Teresa's death was divine punishment
and entered into the clergy out of guilt.
When he saw the Motley Clown once again after thirty-two years, he ran away.
The terrified priest then drew this magic circle to seal away the demon.
Yes, he must have wished he could fly away from that horror.
"Fly"? I get it!
That story was very helpful!
Excuse me, Fathers.
We can go down from here.
According to the song, at the bottom of the well is a "shaky shaky pot."
The well was just to disguise this passage.
Wells don't usually have stone-paved floors at the bottom, either.
Let's keep moving forward.
Do you need a break from waking, Hiraga?
No, I'm fine.
This passage sure is long.
That looks like the exit.
Be careful.
Is this the end of the passage?
This must be the pot in the pits of hell.
Roberto, look.
That's the Bourbona crest of arms!
Which means it's the central core of Galdoune.
These doors are here, but they're too heavy to move.
Is this a dead end?
"Throw a boiling pot on a fire and jump into it."
"Only those with the courage to jump can move forward."
What's that mean?
It's part of an old fairy tale.
So we have to jump in here then?
This smell... is that oil?
There's a vent in the ceiling above it, and soot on it.
Why don't we try setting the pot alight?
Lemme borrow this.
Huh?
Hot, hot, hot!
It was connected to the door!
The mechanism is likely identical to Hero of Alexandria's automatic doors.
Steam moves a pulley that opens the doors.
The geniuses of ancient times were truly great men.
As time passes, the doors and chimney will be closed off, and the oxygen in the room will be consumed.
The fiee will go out, and we'll die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Alright, let's hurry on forward.
Roberto, what do you think this underground passage is?
It's a pretty old tunnel.
I don't think Galdoune dug it out. They're just using these ancient ruins.
Fork in the road.
"Do not stray from the old road for a new one."
I see.
Don't look to the side road, just continue down the same tunnel.
That's likely what it means.
Still, we sure have walked a long way.
It must be nighttime outside now.
I wanna go home and eat my mama's cooking.
Luminescent moss.
What are all those holes?
What is this place?
Looks like an ancient settlement.
I just saw someone up there!
He looked just like that boy.
Snow as white as milk.
Doesn't look like this is Galdoune.
Don't shoot.
Huh? Oh, right.
Hey, we'd like to talk to you...
Could you come out?
My name is Roberto Nicolas.
I'm a priest from the Vatican.
Do you live here?
Davanino. My name's Davanino.
Are you-
How old are you? How long have you lived here?
I'm twenty-seven.
I've lived here all my life, same as my father and his father before him,
in service of the House of Bourbona.
Bour-
What do you mean by "in service"?
We mine gold for them.
But even though we can't mine any more gold, they won't let us leave this place.
Roberto...
Yeah, that gold was likely the source of Galdoune's funds.
There are others living here, right, Davanino?
Yes, but my friends here will not come out.
They're afraid of the motley guard.
"Motley"?!
Yes, recently, we got a new head guard, and ever since, there's weird things happening in the golden room.
What kinds of weird things?
They're printing indulgences.
I heard that if they're printed like that, you can get them to the surface.
"Indulgences"?
My friend Canbrino stole just one of them and tried to run away with it.
He was that boy, huh?
But those are no Catholic indulgences.
Those are elaborate counterfeit bills!
Is that why he was killed?
He was killed?!
Oh, I knew he shouldn't have disobeyed the guard!
Who knew they were doing such cruel things down here...?
We'll do everything we can to set you free.
Oh, everyone will be so happy!
Please show use where they're printing the counterfiet bills!
Inside that cave.
Though I can't go with you...
They were trapped down here for generations mining gold.
If you consider when the House of Bourbona rose to power,
then it wouldn't be out of the question for this to have been going on for hundreds of years.
My feet hurt...
Quiet!
That sound!
It's the horn!
The golden room!
This situation sure isn't suited for such an ancient place.
A high-tech printing facility, huh?
What are those uniforms?
They're the uniforms for the Elroa Agricultural Research Facility.
The company mainly produces compost.
Looks like all they produced was financial compost for Galdoune's operations, counterfeit bills.
We've got them by the tail now.
This is Galdoune's base of operations!
Excellent work.
Please put your hands in the air.
I did not think I would meet you two again, Father Hiraga, Father Roberto.
Father Julia!
Welcome to the Golden Room.
Only important guests are welcomed here.
Please make yourselves at home.
What did you do with the other two investigators?
I've taken them to the Room of Death.
So the body we found back then was...
My failure of a brother.
"Brother"?
You don't need to know any more about that.
You were real careful with that.
But you made a clumsy mistake leaving your fingerprints on that counterfeit bill.
Normally, it would not have posed a problem at all.
You are the first to make it here in the eight hundred years this place has existed.
Eight hundred years...
You kept these people here even after there was no more gold to mine?
While this was one of Galdoune's money-making facilities,
it was also a place for experimentation.
"Experimentation"?
Yes. We experimented with how humans could be controlled in a closed environment.
We found a variety of viable methods to control humans
as a result of brainwashing and fear instilled in our subjects.
You make me sick.
Did you invite us in here to tell us all this?
No. Let me move on to the main topic, then.
I would like to invite you to join Galdoune.
Wha...?
That's not going to happen.
I think you have plenty of reasons to join our organization.
Father Roberto, your true worth was not fully realized in the Republic of Sofuma,
but your talents are truly amazing.
But you told the world of your sullied name by revealing you were the son of a murderer.
That is not Roberto's sin to bear!
Yes, of course.
But the Vatican is strict, and you would have zero chance of promotion.
I don't want to be promoted.
Your dream of becoming a bishop and leading a group of specialists in the deciphering of ancient books
is nothing more than hopeless now.
But Galdoune would not treat you any less.
Not only that, we have shelves upon shelves of old tomes we'd like to decode.
You could spend your entire life working on them.
Now, Father Hiraga. It pains my heart to hear about Ryota's illness.
We could provide you with access to medical treatment that can beat out any medical facility in the world.
Whether Ryota lives or dies hangs on the choice you make.
Tell me, would you like to join Galdoune?
Father Julia... who are you?
You looked so serious when you were treating the poor every day.
Did you not treat them out of compassion?
As a child of Galdoune, I want to make a change in the world in our stingy God's stead.
The life Amy Boness gave birth to is now being lovingly raised by Galdoune.
Only the chosen ones can change the world.
You're just using the fact that you were born into Galdoune to justify your soul-defiling actions!
Though the world has its cruel faults,
there are still people who serve the Lord God, who treat people with compassion and kindness.
Galdoune does not have the strength or purity of soul that Father Roberto does.
That's it. That's my reply!
Then you're just going to throw away Ryota's life?
I cannot take help from someone who has no compassion for others.
I will save Ryota.
I don't need Galdoune's help.
That is unfortunate.
What is your reply, Father Roberto?
No, of course.
Then this is where we part.
Take them to the Room of Death.
Are you two alright?
Yeah, somehow.
I'm glad you two are alright.
Though it doesn't look like we'll be alright for much longer.
Looks like we're stuck together 'til the end.
They gave this room a big scary name, but it's just water torture.
I can't believe they'd try to force us into giving in like this...
I don't want to drown!
Isn't there anything we can do?
Solomon's third piece of advice!
"When Venus and the moon align, carefully count the true numbers of the beasts."
"Venus and the moon"? Is there a horoscope in here somewhere?
W-we've gotta look for one, fast!
No, that's not it.
There was a Lhasan artifact, a statue of a three-horned demon,
but they speculated it was actually the demonic combination
of the moon god and the god of Venus, Attar.
"Attar"?!
A three-horned demon?
There! That's it!
Okay!
I found it! There's a magic circle with Greek letters on the foot of the statue!
Carefully count the true numbers of the beasts... what does that mean?
There were no numbers, only letters.
Wait, it might be a substitution cipher where the letters correspond to their order number...
But what does "true numbers" mean?!
Oh God, we're doomed!
Shut up!
True numbers... could that mean prime numbers?!
That's it!
Mama!
I said shut up! Mama!
We're out of time.
Even if I'm wrong, I've got to give it a shot!
Two...
Three...
Five...
Seven...
Eleven...
Thirteen...
Seventeen...
Nineteen...!
Twenty-three!
We made it, Hiraga!
Stay with me, Hiraga!
Hiraga!
After narrowly avoiding my demise in the Room of Death, I sadly lost consciousness.
So you don't remember anything about the tunnel that opened up after the water drained away?
No. I didn't hear about that, or the fact that it led to Saint Eligius Church, until later.
The boy who appeared in the church must've used that tunnel to get there.
I was hospitalized for two days.
Roberto and Agent Suskins filled me in on what happened after.
All the Galdoune staff disappeared, and they destroyed the counterfeiting systems they were using
under the guise of the Elroa Agricultural Research Facility.
The people trapped underground were freed, too.
But again, we can't find where Father Julia went.
Oh, right, that dust you sent me from the floor of Saint Eligius Church.
The test results are back.
Just as you'd thought, it's cocaine.
So it really was a trick devised by Father Trones.
It was a miracle devised to deny the existence of a demon every time the horn rang out.
The sound rang out at the same time every morning,
the time the armored cars rolled out with the counterfeit notes.
The rumbling from below shook the chapel and sounded much like a horn.
And because of the cocaine floating in the air, viewers would see visions of rainbow light.
I'm worried about the priests who were admitted for medical examination.
Well, this one wasn't a miracle either, huh?
No...
We found Fioletta Cordwell.
The live-in girlfriend of the hoodlum Rodriguez that followed Teresa around, right?
Her testimony explained a lot of things.
Thirty-two years ago, someone did put cocaine into Domenica's beer.
Rodriguez, who sold them the cocaine, apparently threatened Teresa and Father Trones,
and he used them to hide a large amount of cocaine beneath the floor of the chapel.
The sin of murdering Carlo weighed heavily on Father Trones, so...
Y-you're...!
When Julia appeared as the Decapitating Clown, he thought he was a demon and ran off.
Father Trones stowed away in the bottom of a plane to covertly leave the area,
but when the plane reached 10,000 meters,
it encountered a mechanical problem and had to turn back.
When the landing gear opened, he fell from the plane into the cow shed.
He had frozen to death under temperatures as cold as -50 degrees Celsius.
Teresa's father learned of the crime his daughter and Father Trones had committed.
He had suffered for so long...
It's quite strange, really.
Carlo's murder thirty-two years ago had nothing to do with Galdoune at all.
But Father Trones' death exposed his past sins to the world.
Perhaps it was Teresa's will, that she wanted to release her father's soul from his endless suffering.
He told me everything.
Really? If we can, I hope the souls of everyone involved in that incident can be saved.
It was obvious that the reason we got to that underground factory
was because we solved puzzles with two of the three pieces of Solomon's Advice.
Despite that, Father Julia still locked us in the Room of Death,
where we would use the third piece of advice to solve its puzzle.
I wonder why he did that.
Perhaps he didn't really want to kill us.
Musuu no kiseki o nazotte Following countless miracles
Maigo no astrum ga yoru o tadoru The lost astrum pursue the night
Subetega mukuwareru hosho nante nai None have proof they'll be rewarded,
Sukuwarenai inochi mo atte Lives that cannot be saved
Sore ga historia Is this historia?
Kono sekai ni mebukinagara mada kashikasarenai Still just a budding seed, still invisible to this world
Shukufuku no hikari ga kitto dokoka ni aru kara Blessings' light is somewhere out there
Nee sagashi ni ikou? Shall we go look for it?
Kono monogatari no owari de matsu sacrament no hana o The flower of sacrement that waits at the end of this story
The people in Galdoune appear to have faith, but they are really just dead, pursuing the greed of the world.
Their greed is infinite, without end.
The only worlds they grasp are this world that cannot be satisfied, and the world going straight to Hell.
Well said.
Something's happened to Ryota?!