Winter 1998
I thought...
that everyone had forgotten.
I will definitely catch the criminal.
Your father was found in an unfinished building in front of Ooe park.
Do you know anything about that.
I see, thank you.
I'll see you again.
Sasagaki?
Don't you remember a persistent detective?
Ah...
But wasn't he transferred?
He might have come back.
So, I want to stop doing this for a while.
It's alright!
Since you know,
those that did it, and the case is closed.
However much Sasagaki might think about it,
the police do not have time to waste investigating old cases.
See ya.
The winter of 1991...
I killed my father.
The one who killed him... was me.
In order to cover for me,
Yukiho framed her mother as the killer,
then killed her.
We became the victim's son...
and the killer's daughter.
In order to hide the incident forever...
We chose to become strangers...
who had never met or seen each other's face.
That was 7 years ago...
I haven't heard a word from Yukiho since.
We have become complete strangers.
Why aren't you at school?
It's our anniversary.
However long you wait, there's no way she will come back.
You've moped around for 7 years.
She has already forgotten you.
Accept that already!
But...
Even if you do see her again, what will you say to her?
Will you ask her out?
I don't know.
Go to school!
Maybe you're right...
Because it's been 7 years...
I was beginning to think that she would never...
Get off at this station again.
However,
if she's found happiness somewhere...
far away from the incident,
8 more years to go...
...then I will be happy for her.
Because...
that is the reason we became strangers.
There were various construction materials and...
concrete blocks behind the door...
Kikuchi Michiro
Sasagaki-san, it's time for work.
Right.
Has that been bothering you for 7 years non-stop?
Not really non-stop.
The Yaeko Snack bar bothers you?
Yeah. Don't you think it's odd?
Why would you open a shop where your husband died.
Why indeed?
Ah, you're just humoring me.
Probably... Just like this...
Without anything happening,
We will...
Continue through life as strangers...
...without anything good or bad happening.
Don't you think,
Yukiho?
I didn't even imagine in my wildest dreams...
that we would ever see each other again this way.
Byakuyakou (Journey Under a Midnight Sun) Chapter 2
Do you remember me?
The one who found your father...
Was me.
Kikuchi?
You and Kikuchi knew each other, Akiyoshi?
Ah, I have nothing to do with this.
Go over there!
His dead dad's hobby was photography.
He left this one for you.
Ah...
Don't play dumb.
What was your dad doing...
taking a young girl into this building?
I wonder that, too.
1,000,000 Yen.
I don't have that kind of money.
Why don't you talk it over with your mom?
Anyway, who would do something like this?
Right,
all this work for nothing.
I don't believe that letter, you know.
Letter?
You don't know?
What letter?
Don't be shocked, okay.
Karasawa Yukiho who attends Seika Academy is Nishimoto Yukiho
Suicide driven to edge? Murder suspect attempts double suicide with daughter.
Yukiho...
Sorry, I'm just a little surprised.
I'm not surprised, something bogus like that...
Hey,
don't you have anything else to do?
No news is good news, isn't it?
That's probably it.
I hope you're right.
A murderer's child...
Technically, she was a suspect.
People don't treat such kids nicely, you know.
You may have some fond memories,
but to her, that's out of the question.
All she has is the past that she wants no one to touch.
If I was that girl,
I would probably not think about meeting you again.
You should try to look forwards, not back.
Seika Academy Station
Suicide of someone driven to the edge? Murder suspect attempts double suicide with daughter.
The train is approaching the platform,
please stand back.
Stopping at every station.
The doors are about to close. Please watch out.
He's not there...
I just can't stop drinking with you here, Yaeko.
I mean it!
You're just saying that.
I'm not just saying that! It's true.
Hey! It's my son.
You have a son?
It's been ages.
Is anything new?
Um...
(SASAGAKI) The other day he came around all of a sudden.
He's so persistent!
Asking me things like...
"Why have you opened up a shop where your husband was killed?"
He didn't believe me that it was...
just because it was so cheap.
Was that all?
He said something about the door.
You've changed the door so it opens outwards, haven't you?
He just said "So, you've changed the door to open outwards?"
And I suddenly realized...
my one single mistake.
In order to delay the discovery of the corpse,
I piled up construction materials and blocks...
in front of a door which opened inwards.
As a result,
I created a situation where the duct...
was the only way to get out.
That duct...
Is too small for an adult.
If...
Sasagaki had noticed that...
If...
He talks to Kikuchi about it again...
If...
Kikuchi remembers that the door wouldn't open at all...
I was the one who found your father.
If...
He shows Sasagaki this photo...
There's no doubt that the first thing he'll do...
Is go after Yukiho.
Over there.
My present in return.
Thank you.
I thought that I should pay her back...
The debt, no matter what.
Don't you think they would be better closer together?
Because it's unbalanced.
No.
Hm?
This...
is my really good friend from the past.
Because we can't see each other anymore,
you don't have to be so uptight...
If you want to see him, why not go and see him?
Someday I will.
Always saying "someday, someday,"
you might end up not seeing him for the rest of your life.
It's alright,
because we're riding the same stream.
Maybe...
Kikuchi
1,000,000 Yen.
This program is brought to you by Suzuki...
Kobayashi Seiyaku...
Windows XP...
And KDDI...
Yukiho...
It's not a trash can...
Karasawa-san, what's wrong? Are you okay?
Ummm...
Do you need any help?
Yukiho...
You have to tell the teacher.
There's nothing they can do.
We don't know who did it.
Pest!
Next time I'll call the police!
PEST
That guy, Akiyoshi from Ooe High.
He takes incriminating pictures and blackmails people...
Either for money or for our bodies.
He might be the one tormenting you.
You should watch out,
because you're pretty.
Thank you.
Hey,
do you think Fujimura-san is behind this?
There's no evidence that suggests so.
Is it because it's true?
Is that why you're staying quiet?
But... But...
Even if it is true, you didn't commit any crime, right?
I understand why you wouldn't want anybody to know.
But when the secret is out in the open,
and it's too painful for you to ignore and be smiling.
If you go as far as to hide it,
people will think that you've changed your name,
now you want to live happily ever after.
I see.
Wait.
Wait, Yukiho. Let's talk it out, okay?
About what?
I want to know about you.
Like what you're thinking, how you're feeling.
Eriko, you already know, don't you?
I'm devious and shameful.
See you later.
I'll call the police!
What's wrong?
Yes?
Hey, hey, hey, I saw it on the message board.
Is it true that it's just 1,000 yen?
It seems like they've posted our phone number...
around the stations and such.
Yukiho!
Let's go to school!
They're probably tormenting you again, aren't they?
Even at the orphanage...
they did lots of nasty things to you.
You know better than anyone else...
that if you don't say anything, nothing changes.
I'll go and find where they've got it graffitied, okay?
Will you keep running away like that for the rest of your life?
You can't completely blank out the past.
Even if you were able to blank it out,
would you really be happy then?
That's a bit exaggerated, isn't it?
I'm really okay.
See you later.
Kikuchi
Nothing...
Ah, Kikuchi-san. Sorry for calling so late.
What is it?
I want to have a word with you about the incident.
That was 7 years ago.
At the time, you said...
"There were construction materials and blocks...
behind the door, and the door would hardly open."
Yes.
When you say "hardly,"
do you remember how much?
Why are you asking me this now?
I thought that since you are an adult now,
your memories of the incident...
might have been all sorted out.
Well?
Well? Do you remember?
I have the feeling that it wouldn't open at all.
I see...
Not at all then...
Thanks a lot. I'll see you again.
24 HOURS A DAY IS OK
Karasawa Yukiho's big breasts Nishimoto Yukiho is Seika Academy's Karasawa Yukiho
She loves to be dirty wherever, whenever, she likes a good time. Wanna have some fun with me?
Just 1,000 Yen
Nothing's changed...
When the secret is out in the open,
and it's too painful for you to ignore and be smiling...
Will you just keep running away...
That kind of life doesn't have a future.
Shut up.
You won't be able to walk under the sun.
Shut up!
1,000,000 Yen.
All I can do is kill him...
Not at all then...
But if I do that...
We really will never be able to see each other again, huh?
But that's probably a good thing.
Why?
Yuki-chan.
Why isn't there anybody?
Why am I all alone?
I'm sorry.
If that's the case, you should have told us to begin with.
My apologies.
Take care.
Nishimoto Yukiho is Karasawa Yukiho
Ummm...
Th... That...
My friend...
Is being bullied...
If you had a time machine,
would you go to the future or the past?
If you had a time machine,
would you go to the future or the past?
Out of Chage and Aska, which do you like?
You heard of a flower that blooms in ditches...
Do you know of a flower that blooms in ditches?
It doesn't...
Actually exist.
But it was...
Beautiful.
It was so very...
Beautiful.
Yuki-chan.
I...
You're...
You're really sweaty.
I see...
Shall I just give myself up?
If I say that I did both...
What if I say I crept into your house and turned the gas on?
That won't work.
I already said the scissors were my mother's.
I'm sorry.
I've always regretted about what happened.
If I had only given myself up,
you wouldn't have become a killer at least.
And the ones that torn your life into pieces,
whatever anyone says,
were myself and my father.
I can't say anything high-and-mighty like "I'll make you happy."
But I've come to think that I can. Or at least make you happy.
Enough with that already.
If I just kill Kikuchi and Sasagaki and then myself, it will all be over, won't it?
Excuse me.
My happiness?
What do you think that is?
Why do you think I've been trying so hard to be another person?
If people realized I were Nishimoto, people will start remembering what happened.
Why do you think I take the...
express train every single day?
Because if I get on a slow train, I will be tempted to get off the train!
Because you are standing there,
I will be tempted to get off there!
Whatever people say,
whatever people do,
I've kept smiling.
Why do you think I have acted as a complete stranger for 7 years?
So I can walk with you one more time, of course!
When the statute of limitations expires...
Then...
we'll walk together...
under the sun...
one more time.
Like the old days.
Like the old man and old woman,
holding hands,
laughing and saying brutal things like...
"We killed him, didn't we?"
Saying things like "But we didn't have a choice, did we?"
And then consoling each other.
There's only one person...
I can do that with.
Apart from you...
I...
don't have anybody.
Because the case is 7 years old,
as long as they don't have the negatives,
they won't be able to re-open the case.
After that,
we thought of a way out of this situation.
It was a plan that left a lot to fate...
Can you really do it?
We...
had our backs against the wall.
Fujimura Miyako
Huh? My hat...
Kikuchi, phone.
Are you kidding around?
Where's the money?
Well...
The fact is, I was his illegitimate child.
Huh?
Will you just wait a little longer?
For the moment, that's all I have to give you today.
Alright...
6:00 in front of the Benten Trade's no. 10 warehouse. It's embarrassing, so please come alone.
Huh?
Miyako, are you not going to after-school club activities?
Sorry, today I have to meet an old friend.
I was wondering if you wanted to go home together?
Are you going by the flower shop?
I'm sorry... For making you come with me.
Umm...
I'm sorry about yesterday.
Hey... What is it?
So... Have there been any strange people...
hanging around your school lately?
Not especially.
But there was someone from Ooe High...
taking sneaky pictures...
and blackmailing some of us.
Fujimura-san said that, didn't she?
Do you know his name?
I think it was...
Akiyoshi.
It wasn't me.
I just took pictures and sold them.
Who did you sell them to?
Have you ever seen this before?
I was watching a movie between 5:30 and 7:30.
Then why was this found at the scene of the crime?
I have no idea!
Watching a movie by yourself...
is not an alibi!
I have your money.
I'll give you the negatives.
You provide an alibi for me.
Did something happen?
Fujimura
I can't thank you enough for checking on her every day.
Not at all.
Have they caught the criminal yet?
She said a plastic bag was suddenly pulled over her head...
And she passed out.
So, she doesn't remember a thing.
Strangely enough,
it seems that she wasn't raped.
What about the police?
My husband thinks that for the sake of her future,
we shouldn't file a complaint.
As such, I was hoping...
We promise we won't say anything to anyone.
But the nerves of the person who did this!
Someone who thinks nothing of doing this, isn't human, don't you think?
They really aren't, are they?
See you.
I wonder why such things...
end up working out okay.
What irony...
I now realize that...
I'm doing the same thing as my father.
If there is somebody out there...
who knows the answers, I want them to tell me.
Why were we...
...born into this world?
For what purpose were we born?
Is it just to do this kind of thing over and over again?
From now on, what should we live for?
If I just kill Kikuchi and Sasagaki and then myself, it will all be over, won't it?
However,
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't find the answer.
We'll walk together under the sun...
...one more time.
Apart from you...
I don't have anybody.
I didn't find any answers...
except for one.
If I had only given myself up,
you wouldn't have become a killer at least.
The ones that torn your life into pieces...
Were myself...
And my father.
11th November, 2006.
The day when the statute of limitations expires...
Umm...
Are you alright, miss?
I'm fine.
Hey,
Yukiho,
We never had great wishes, did we?
We just wanted to walk together...
one more time. Right?
Under the blue sky.
Detective.
What is it?
I want to talk about Kirihara Ryouji.