Thank you so much for helping out when I was away.
It was nothing.
You have my deepest condolences for the loss of Father Samson.
He must have been killed by a follower of the Bazuna faith...
At the very least, I will continue to pray for the salvation of his soul.
There's something I'd like to tell you, though it's very difficult for me to say...
What happened?
Roberto and I have extremely different opinions on the canonization of John Jordan.
Despite all my experiments, I cannot find a scientific reason for why Father John's body has not decayed.
I can only accept it as the work of a miracle.
But Roberto stubbornly refuses to acknowledge a miracle has occurred!
Not only that, he is so engrossed in his study of your old books, he has even forgotten his daily prayers!
I cannot stand by his side any longer.
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
I'm surprised.
I knew Father Hiraga would come, since he believed,
but I never imagined you would come to this presentation.
I've found out some very interesting things as a result of my investigation.
Still, you're doing this on quite a large scale.
Well, we have to announce John's final prophecy to all his followers around the world.
His final prophecy?
Yes, a prophecy of the End you have not yet heard.
Today is the day John becomes a saint.
Today, Mr. Kid has an important announcement about John's prophecies for you all.
John's final prophecy!
Psalm 4,206.
"The Earth will split in two in a land of J. The windmill will turn, and Vulcan's workplace will spew fire."
And just where is there a wind energy plant at the base of a volcano?
Jimbafo!
That's right.
John was warning us that a huge volcanic eruption would happen in the Kingdom of Sofuma, in Jimbafo!
My friends in Jimbafo, please flee from that place before this terrible disaster happens!
This prophecy was John's last message, a prophecy to save our lives!
I don't know about that.
What do you mean?
The claim that a volcano will erupt in Jimbafo is just your interpretation, is it not?
What?
The conditions he gives are a wind energy plant at the base of a volcano, in a place starting with a J.
There are hundreds of places around the world that could satisfy those conditions.
That isn't it! It must be this-
And, this painting, which is not painted in a realistic style,
does not contain accurate details from which we could discern a specific location.
Additionally, we can interpret the words "Vulcan's workplace" in the written prophecy
as signifying Vulcan's workplace in Roman mythology, Mount Etna in Sicily.
That's...
No way...
I thought that sounded fishy from the beginning.
The priest is right. I thought that sounded fishy from the beginning.
Now then, I'd like you to hear the results of my inspection of John's prophecies.
Are you not going to attend the presentation?
No. I am not allowed to speak on the matter of John's sainthood.
And... have you seen Oriola?
All the things you're saying are just false accusations!
Perhaps.
Now, let's read Psalm 522.
"A hero will be born near the Nile."
"He will make the neighboring countries pay a high price."
This prophecy-
It clearly foretells the birth of Jairobian President Andoa!
He was born in a village close to the Nile, and his birthday is May 22nd!
And, ever since he took office, he has not stopped contesting with the neighboring countries!
True, but how close to the Nile is "close to the Nile"?
You could say that Egypt and Sudan are both "close."
And, in all of my research, I could not find one major conflict in all of history
that one could describe as the Jairobian government forcing others to pay a "high price."
In short, the conditions for such a man:
the numbers 5-2-2, born in an unspecified swath of land "near the Nile,"
and "hero" of a country who has strife with its neighbors, are conditions that could apply to anyone.
Then explain to me Psalm 317!
"When Venus is with Ten, a nation of many islands will incite the wrath of Poseidon."
What about that, huh?!
Venus with Ten, meaning Venus in Libra, which it governs, at an aspect of ten degrees,
which precisely predicted the disaster in the Solomon Islands on October 8th!
Now we're using astrology?
Venus does govern Libra, but it also governs Taurus, or the month of May.
And, if you measure the angle of Venus with very precise astronomical measurements on October 8th,
you'll find that it was actually at twelve degrees.
Which would, of course, diverge from the words of the prophecy.
Th-there's no way John could've measured it that precisely!
Didn't John get his prophecies directly from God?
Are you saying that God made a mistake in measuring the angle?
Moving on, Psalm 930:
"In the north of this continent, Uranus lifts his voice and screams."
"A plague of locusts will spread over the land and ravage all living things."
You have interpreted this psalm as predicting the nuclear accident in Finland on September 30th.
But this is, once again, just a convenient explanation.
The only parts of the prophecy that coincide with that interpretation,
are the numbers 9-30 and the connection between Uranus and uranium.
Trying to connect a plague of locusts to radioactive contamination is a bit too much of a stretch.
Out of nearly four thousand prophecies, you have only presented sixty-two as accurate predictions.
I can only surmise that you chose those because you could easily connect them with real events.
Th-then what about that other one?
You saw it yourself when you came here!
Amy Boness died, just as he foretold!
That prophecy was fake, one that you prepared yourself.
The ink still smelled fresh on the paper.
What?!
Had John typewritten it a year before, the smell would have been much different.
"One will befall a trap laid by an old snake-demon, and on the day of the Shin-Shin Festival, he will die."
That was another one of his prophecies, yet it is past the day of the Shin-Shin Festival, and I am still alive.
Yes, but Father Samson died instead!
That's right.
Father Samson died in my stead!
"In his stead"?
I knew it! John Jordan's no saint at all!
It's alright, Hiraga. I'm not possessed by a demon or anything.
Well, it's true that I've been acting a little weird the last few days.
But it's okay. Don't worry about me.
Alright!
Will you, ah... will you trust me, no matter what?
Of course I will.
Roberto, I trust you now, and I will trust you forevermore.
Thanks.
So, what's your reasoning for John Jordan not being a saint?
Well...
I'll explain later.
Special Agent Bill Suskins, I'd like to ask you for your help on something.
You too, Hiraga.
Just say the word.
Let's go back to Samson's home one more time.
Wh-what?
Father Samson was killed in order to make the prophecy true.
"Killed"? For the prophecy?!
That's ridiculous!
Then what about this one?!
"Naomi, adorned with thorns, sleeps in the river."
No other prophet has ever predicted the tiniest details of a real murder case so accurately!
No. This prophecy is proof that John Jordan is not a saint,
because that painting is a picture of John's own desires.
He painted this because he wanted to kill that girl!
H-he wanted to kill her himself?!
What proof do you have?!
Look closely at the marks on the girl's neck.
The hands were not painted onto the canvas with a brush.
John applied paint to his own hands and pressed them directly onto the canvas.
The proof is in the scars from his stigmata on the marks on her neck!
The fingerprints match John's as well.
And, according to the police report, on the victim, Modania's, neck,
they found hand marks with the same cross on them- and the same fingerprints.
This is not a prophetic painting at all.
It's a painting by a criminally deranged man who put his desires on a canvas!
John is no saint.
Far from it- he's a murderer!
Wh-what are you...
Y-y-y-you don't have any proof!
You made all of that up!
I have proof!
I knew this man well.
You... knew him?!
Yes. The Prophet John Jordan's real name...
is Brono Puccini.
And my real name is Roberto Nicolas Puccini.
He was my father, and the murderer that killed my mother!
Yes, don't worry.
Nobody will be angry at you for it.
Twenty-one years ago, my father, Brono, killed my mother Naomi.
Before then, my mother ran away from him with me, fearing his violent tendencies.
But...
I told you you can't get away from me.
It's futile.
No matter how far you run, I will follow you like a shadow, to the pits of Hell!
My son.
Thankfully, the police arrived after a neighbor called them, but my father ran off.
I was saved just moments before he laid his hands on me.
But because of the psychological shock the incident had on me, I repressed my memories of it,
and for a long time, I could not remember what my father looked like.
Indeed, for this whole time.
Even when looking upon John's dead body, I did not even realize it was my father.
But with the Lord's guidance, I finally opened my eyes.
I was finally able to face the dark memories slumbering deep inside of my mind.
I don't know how my father made his way to Sofuma, but it seems his violent tendencies never let up.
"Naomi, adorned with thorns, sleeps in the river."
This prophecy not only shows his own criminal desires,
but paints a literal painting of his wife, Naomi, whom he killed.
Police records of Brono's fingerprints are a perfect match to John's.
They are indeed the same person.
John Jordan and I are father and son.
If John is just a murderer, then why hasn't his corpse decayed?!
Is that not proof that God forgave him for repenting for his past sins?
I can answer that question for you.
I know the secret behind the incorrupt corpse.
A spell for immortality?
Yeah.
"E,gens es nid le argent."
It's an anagram, and put back into proper French,
it says, "sang eternel de singe."
The code Father Roberto deciphered means "Monkey's Eternal Blood."
The Bazuna religion has a ritual to preserve the body of a monkey to use as a tool in magic rituals.
But this is not magic or a miracle at all, but the work of artificial infection by a strange microbe.
The microbe, harvested from monkey blood,
breaks down blood and transforms it into a rubber-like material.
By continuously infecting the subject with the microbe while they are still alive,
their blood will slowly begin to change, and soon their body will reach an incorruptible state.
However, as the subject's body becomes rubberlike, they will eventually die.
So John... no, Brono Puccini was infected with that microbe?
Yes, I believe he infected himself with it through the wounds of the stigma on his palms.
That would also explain why the sides of his wounds were built up so unnaturally.
When I did an ultrasound scan, I discovered that Brono has cirrhosis of the liver, likely due to the infection.
And this monkey has the exact same symptoms.
If we were to conduct an autopsy on Brono's body, we would find even more that would-
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
Kid Goldman!
There are a few things I'd like to ask you about the murders of Amy Boness and Father Samson!
No! I only did what he told me to do!
The devil behind it all...
...is Father Julia!
The surprising truth has been revealed at the hearing to judge John Jordan's miracles!
Father Julia... why?
The murder weapon...
That belonged to Oriola!
Find Oriola and take him into custody!
He's one of the servants here at the church!
But why would Oriola kill Father Julia?
Indeed...
A hidden room!
Let's investigate.
It could lead outside.
Roberto, watch out for snakes!
You too.
What is...?
It looks a lot like the room above it.
It's still slightly warm.
So someone was here...
The House of Bourbona!
The French noble House that amassed their riches through "alchemical" means.
Could the House of Bourbona have founded the Saint Carmel Church?
That, or...
The hell is this room?!
It looks like a child's room.
Did Father Julia have a secret child?
No, an adult was playing here.
From the size of the hand marks, they must be an adult male.
What about this picture?
I'll collect the fingerprints.
They all have hearts in them.
Wait...
"Take out my heart, and bequeath upon my body the heart of one who would become God."
That's the Galdoune prayer!
"Galdoune"?
It was a secret society that operated in Europe in the middle ages.
They were idolized by practitioners of black magic for their pursuits of immortality and alchemy.
The descendants of the House of Bourbona were in this secret society?
What were they doing here?
Birth by black magic, perhaps.
"Birth"?
This is part of an umbilical cord.
Perhaps around two weeks old.
That's around when Amy Boness died!
We determined that from the autopsy!
What did they do to Amy here...?
There was an exit that lead out to the jungle, but we've got no leads other than that.
So Father Julia really was the one behind it all...
He abducted, imprisoned, and murdered Amy Boness.
Then there's the murder of Father Samson, and I'm sure if we dig further, we'll find more.
But with the suspect dead...
No!
That's not Father Julia, that's someone else!
No way!
Then who is it?
That presentation was broadcast all over the world.
The whole case, with even the police getting involved, broadcast all over the world.
The Vatican has a full plate cleaning up the mess you made.
How do you intend to take responsibility for this?
Please accept my apologies. I'll resign immediately.
It was my fault as well.
Please fire me!
I'm the one who exposed Kid's crimes at the presentation, it should be me!
I agreed with what you did!
But to do that, I made you lie, I made you pretend to hate me!
The sins all fall upon my shoulders.
Please, punish only me for-
No, you must punish me as well!
You two are such good friends.
This situation will not be resolved simply by firing you.
Then how can we atone for this?
You will serve the Seat of the Disciple together even further!
Is there anything better than continued service?
No, Sir!
There are many important people who value your endeavors.
Your exposing of the Prophet John's deceit
revealed the backroom deals taking place between major corporations on the Jimbafo oil fields.
Of course, there are some who do not find it as amusing as others.
They were using the "prophecies of John" to unfairly buy up plots of land.
Was that really all they were after?
Who knows?
So Father Samson was the one who set the snake upon you.
Yes, according to Special Agent Suskins' report...
Kid ordered Samson to disguise himself as a Bazuna black magician and attack me with the snake.
Looks like he wanted to make the prophecies seem more authentic, but boy, did he have bad taste.
And showing me the painting that suggested I'd die was a big mistake.
Thanks to him, I recalled al my old memories.
That painting was of my mother.
Kid dressed as a Bazuna black magician to kill Samson,
who had failed to kill you with the snake.
Seemed he'd even betray his friends to make the prophecies real.
Samson's family had already been dead for a long time.
We found Oriola dead. Hung himself.
Maybe he couldn't take the guilt from killing Julia.
We'll continue the investigation to see if that body belongs to the mysterious "Father Julia."
Where did the child taken from Amy Boness go?
Guess only God knows.
Hiraga.
Yes?
I'm the son of a murderer, Brono Puccini.
His evil blood runs through my veins.
Will you hate me now?
What are you saying, Roberto?
Yes, your father may be Brono, but the father of your eternal soul is our Lord in Heaven.
You are one of God's children.
What do you have to be ashamed of?
So you won't hate me?
Hate you? I've only begun to like you more and more.
That's right, Joseph.
I'm not alone anymore.
O God, I am Your child.
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
Father Julia...
If that corpse really wasn't him, then I wonder if I'll get to meet him again someday.
Want to see him that badly, huh?
No, just... a bit curious is all.
Still, he was quite the strange man.
Yes.