To be honest, I thought you wouldn't come.
You have personal history of letting people down.
Last year on Norihiko's birthday.
Sorry.
I'm really sorry about that day.
I'm just joking. Don't be so serious and apologize.
I understand, that
you were arrested for a crime you didn't commit and sentenced 10 years in prison,
you left Kyoto,
everything you did for Norihiko and me.
To Miyako, Norihiko, I'm sorry, I can't go. Yoshito
Also
why were you involved in that case?
You came to Tokyo in order to reveal the truth.
That's why I decided to wait for you.
You still can't come back, but I will always wait until you can.
Just a little bit more.
I'm sure it will end soon.
What do you want to do?
What?
When everything is over, what will you want to do?
I want to do nothing.
What?
With you and Norihiko,
I just want to be on the beach and idly listen to the waves.
You saw that, right?
You got me.
Ah, right,
this is for you.
Isn't this Kyoto Prefectural Police's PR brochure?
I forcedly ask someone to find the one you edited.
This is nostalgic. Thank you.
Why did Miyako send this book?
Ah! How was it?
Being alone with long-time-no-see wife?
She's my ex wife.
Coincidentally she has a reunion and came to Tokyo.
Of course the reunion is only an excuse.
You were in prison for 10 years and 10 months, so you don't know about women's heart.
There is no woman in prison, it'd be weird if I understand.
By the way, where is Yuiko san?
Yuiko san and Horikawa san are investigating love hotel guest stabbing to death case in Ota ku.
Hum.. she was forced again.
First Division members are all busy with three serial shooting cases.
Besides this is unexpectedly your favorite case.
The first victim is an employee, Ooki Naobumi san, 32 years old.
He was shot inside his favorite shower room while taking shower.
shooting to death
Second one is supermarket employee, Takano Tomie san, 53 years old.
She was shot on her way home near her neighborhood.
shooting to death
The third victim is Kasagi Koji san, 38 years old, unknown business.
He was shot to death in an alley of a business district.
shooting to death
Riffling marks from three cases' deadly weapon matched.
All crimes occurred late at night.
The crimes aimed unnoticed places.
The gunshot wounds are at the stomach or chest twice or three times.
They have the same modus operandi.
But these three victims didn't have any relations nor commonness.
A random crime is also possible.
We found unusual material evidences.
First Division Chief's tension's raised and said, if we're unlucky, it might be killing for pleasure.
Unusual material evidences?
Right now
you just let something important slipped.
What are those things?
But... hum... I mean,
they're probably important evidence that connected to the perpetrator.
there's a rule to never leak it to outsider.
That's the same with criminals.
Finally they reluctantly said their ultimate secret.
Nogata..
I also ask you to tell us.
Please... - Geez... Azuma san too...
One stab to his heart.
The perpetrator carried the weapon away.
The victim is Gunji Kisaku, 65 years old.
He's an ex leader of organized crime Ryuusuikai.
From the circumstances, the woman he brought here, stabbed him while she had a chance.
Was he madly in love with a woman who has a grudge against him?
But he already cleaned himself almost 10 years ago.
What is this?
Are these material evidences?
Yes.
Each of them was left at the shooting scenes.
X-mark,
plus,
radiation?
What kind of mark is this?
I think it might be ESP (extrasensory perception) card.
I have a bad feeling about this.
I feel that these murder crimes will still continue on.
Hey, you're a detective, don't say irresponsible thing like that.
By the way,
this is the story of Uo chan, who was my opponent in shared-cell sport day's three-legged-race.
Uo chan,
Uo chan
before sneaked into an apartment in multi-unit complex,
he always chose the owner's name.
Suzuki
In a huge complex
he stole from Suzuki, Takabe, Isaki, Inada, Itou, Oikawa, Kiguchi and Hata.
Finally
he was arrested at Hiramasa san's apartment.
Arrest him!
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Hiramasa is not a common name, why was he arrested there?
They're like fishes.
Suzuki = sea bass Takabe = knife fish Isaki = chicken grunt Inada = bullhead Itou = Japanese huchen Oikawa = fresh water minnow Kiguchi's first Kanji is tortoise Hata = grouper
Ah! Fish!
Correct!
Uo chan a big fishing enthusiast and only targeted apartments with fish's names.
There's a fishing lover detective in jurisdiction, so he was arrested.
They're not related at all.
How is that related to this crime?
There are still 3 of them so they look meaningless,
if many more appear, we can find out their meanings from the commonness.
For example, at the next crime scene
this kind of symbol
is left there,
this case is quite dangerous.
At least 6 cases,
if we're unlucky, 16 cases,
no, maximum 32 cases.
32 cases?
You said nonchalantly about the next scene, that's creepy.
Yes, this is Anekoji speaking.
How about you?
Got it. Send it.
What is it?
They want us to investigate a weird material evidence from the crime scene in love hotel
What?
Your prediction is correct.
How could you know that?
This is dangerous.
This is seriously my favorite case.
Takuma Yoshito,
served 10 years in prison for a false accusation.
He absorbed many kinds of criminals' modus operandi, motive and psychology.
And then he became a detective.
Gunji Kisaku san, who was stabbed to death, has criminal record.
14 years ago he was a yakuza boss and had a trouble with a real estate employee,
he died after being assaulted. Gunji was arrested for manslaughter
He was released after nolle prosequi?
At that time a yakuza member was arrested on suspicion of blackmailing,
he confessed that he assaulted and caused the real estate employee's death,
A young yakuza member confessed?
Gunji was released without suspicion.
We also knew about these material evidences.
These three were left at the shooting scenes.
The first murdered victim is Ooki Naobumi san,
when he climbed to a no-entry electric-supply and took photos,
the person who climbed with him fell down and died.
Both of them had money problem,
he was suspected on taking radio reception.
Yamada slipped by himself and fell down.
It's true.
The person himself claimed it was an accident,
that case was processed as an accident and he wasn't charged.
The second victim is Takano Tomie, 10 years ago
buried her mother's corpse, who lived with her, in a mountain,
she was arrested for abandoning corpse.
She was suspected for murder,
but Takano Tomie claimed that her mother died of illness,
moreover her judicial decision was suspended sentence.
The third victim, Kasagi Koji san, is more suspicious.
10 years ago he was repeatedly stalked his ex girlfriend,
he was arrested on suspicion of arson resulting in death.
He completely denied charges during interrogation and there wasn't any witness,
the scene, the apartment, was burnt and didn't leave any evidence.
At that time, in that neighborhood arson attack repeatedly occurred,
they watched over him for that.
Because of investigation HQ's initial response failure left trails until the end,
there was no sufficient evidence and his indictment was postponed.
See? They really are connected, aren't they?
Three shooting cases and the stabbing case of ex yakuza leader.
All victims were suspected on murder,
neither were inquired for manslaughter or murder.
But how will you explain the different modus operandi?
Three were shooting cases and ex yakuza leader was stabbed.
The criminal won't do anything unnecessary on the crime scene.
To the contrary, the things left on the scenes certainly have meaning.
I asked cyber crime unit to investigate all websites with these forms.
What?
Come here.
An underground website where these four forms appeared.
Chess?
The big piece at the center is king,
each two pawns, rooks, knights and bishops in white and black.
Queen is not here.
Are those marks the pieces' movement?
I have a bad premonition. I might guess it right.
What do you mean?
Is this website related to the murder?
The mark found at Gunji's murder scene is
black pawn's movement.
Probably is this fallen black pawn.
Is this numerical character the date?
Wait a second.
The date Gunji was arrested is June 20, 2002.
If we rearrange the alphabet, it becomes Gunji Kisaku.
Probably the other three fallen pieces are...
three victims's names.
Numerical characters are the date when Ooki Naobumi's friend fell down,
the date Takano Tomie's mother died,
Kasagi Koji's stalking victim's death by fire.
Eight pieces are pointing at murder's targets.
Murder's targets?
If eight of them have all murdered someone, but they weren't charged for their crimes,
Don't tell me that these murder cases replaced administration of justice?
then the advance notices on this underground website are meaningless.
If they were not an advance notice...
what's going on?
People who watched this website recruited participants and pointed these 8 people to be killed.
These are murder requests.
Could it be that the victims and unrelated people watched that website,
killed people only because they saw the website?
Did someone prepared a price in form of money or honor for this contest?
Four people were killed for such absurd reason?
But if we think about it,
the 3 cases and the current case's modus operandi are not common.
They saw the website,
if at first there was only one participant,
he used a gun,
and killed three people.
After that a second individual participated,
and killed Gunji, the fourth victim,
it won't be a contradiction even if the weapon is different.
If these cases are just like what Takuma said,
everyone who saw this underground website are suspects,
how should we investigate it?
This is not a joke.
That's why we must arrest this challenger ASAP.
There are 4 pieces left.
Don't tell me that the murders are still continuing?
Hurry and investigate who are the remaining four.
Yes.
Who made this game?
Don't you remember?
Aren't these actually criminal code bingo?
The man who uses internet to make a game that everyone knows,
to get unspecified large number of people involved in the crime.
It can't be...
that man?
How suspicious...
Criminal fortune telling Zeni yan's house
A criminal at lost, come in please.
This wiretap I got from you, is very useful in this case.
Oh! Tak kun!
Long time no see!!!!
Since when have you become a fortune teller?
What is criminal fortune telling?
Hey, a molester has come!
You're three times more suspicious than when we were in prison.
Zeni yan.
Hum?
About this underground website,
it has another page.
Do you know its password?
Is this one...
I can see it.
Never mind that method.
That website is too dangerous.
Its handling
needs special attention.
I know that.
Then,
your fortune telling cost
10.000 Yen.
Thank you.
And one more thing,
Yes?
I hear that man has been released.
As predicted, that website uses foreign server to upload materials.
The administrator is unknown. We can't close it down.
I see.
Do you know the remaining persons?
Yes.
The white pawn is Makise Terumi, 37 years old.
14 years ago she was arrested on suspicion of abusing her remarriage partner's child until he died.
But her abuse and his cause of death's consequence was not proven and she was not indicted.
In other word, she probably took someone's life, but not inquired for suitable crime.
This black rook is
Koike Tomohide, 31 years old.
He was still a minor in 13 years ago's case.
After the ruling, his photos were disposed,
MPD doesn't have his mug shots.
He was suspected of giving a large amount of dangerous drug
that was still legal at that time to his classmate and caused him to die.
But he couldn't be indicted for inflicting bodily injury and received probation.
The white knight is Anzai Keiko, 39 years old.
15 years ago she was arrested on suspicion on being accomplish of her husband in killing for insurance money.
The main offender fled abroad and his whereabouts are unknown.
Keiko herself has alibi,
no proof was found that her husband asked her to do it. Non-indictment.
The last one is black bishop, Suga Tatsuya, 28 years old.
14 years ago he took part in bullying and murdering in juvenile delinquent group.
He was almost 15 years old, so he wasn't indicted.
he was released on probation.
We have to warn these four people ASAP.
Hum... we couldn't
contact all four of them.
We went through each of their adequate addresses' jurisdiction to confirm their safety,
but they're all missing.
Probably they saw on that website that they became murder targets,
and hid themselves.
All of their crimes occurred more than 10 years ago.
These cases occurred just right after he went out.
Who is he?
Do you have any clue?
This website has another one page.
Looks like the administrator is the only one who has its password, but everyone can access it.
Is that target's detailed crime?
For example Gunji, the ex yakuza leader,
slaughtered a real estate employee and clearly had to motive to kill him,
A young member has confessed?
he put his crime at his member and successfully escaped.
It's clearly written that Makise Terumi abused a child.
Koike Tomohide was annoyed by his classmate, so he gave him large amount of drug with intention to kill him.
In other word, all of these 8 people have killed someone, but they weren't prosecuted.
So did it say it's okay to kill them because of that?
Isn't it bullying by ignoring the law?
To begin with, is everything written here true?
It might be nonsense.
What?
Even if it's nonsense it doesn't matter.
It's written on the website,
the moment large number of unspecified people emotionally moved by reading it and believed it as real,
it will be justification.
Justification?
Justification. They won't be punished even if they kill those on the list.
But I just can't believe that only by reading this and killing unrelated people.
"I want to try to kill someone."
There are people in this world,
who really kill someone for nonsensical reason.
This website
gives the targets and justification to kill.
It's a detonator that explodes the intention to kill,
that sleeps deep inside people's heart
and normally doesn't come to the surface.
The game is to implement killing,
it cleverly shakes up evil intention inside people's heart and lets it come to the surface.
There's only one person who thinks about that.
Sagami Wakahiro!
Who is that Sagami?
Sagami Wakahiro, alias criminal scriptwriter.
This man drafted criminal plans that brought stiffness in the shoulders as scenario and offered it to criminals.
If someone can execute it, I will write any kind of crimes free of charge.
Sagami is in prison.
No,
I heard from Zeni yan, that he's been released.
Is that Sagami the mastermind of this crime?
This case
has very strong smell of Sagami.
Probably Sagami created this underground website,
and he let large amount of unspecified participants to execute these murder requests.
Someone is accessing the administrator's page.
What?
Probably he's uploading data.
Our monitoring target website is on the move. Find its source ASAP.
From an internet cafe in Shibuya.
A murder case might occur, call First Division!
Yes. Let's go!
Maybe this is
a contest that Sagami sent to me.
This booth is always used by a long stay customer.
He might be that underground website's administrator.
If Takuma's prediction is true, it might be Sagami too.
Police! Don't move!
He's really accessing that website.
I will be killed!
Koike Tomohide
Koike Tomohide?
Could it be that you're one of the targets?
Yes,
the black rook.
The one who gave dangerous drug. Koike Tomohide.
Why are you accessing that website?
I heard from my friend, that my name appeared on a website.
When I saw it, it's really true. The others were also killed.
And?
So you can't go home and stay in internet cafe.
I thought at least I could erase my data.
So are you accessing administrator's page?
I beg you,
If you are the police, you could protect me.
Yes, this is Matsubara.
The fifth murder has occurred.
Go upstair!
The victim is Makise Terumi,
on the website it's written that she abused and killed her remarriage partner's child.
She was beaten to death.
The modus operandi has changed again.
The weapon is a round object like iron pipe,
maybe the perpetrator carried it and we can't find it.
We found this instead.
There are victim's fingerprints and we also found blood.
The victim's blood?
We're still examining it.
Probably at first the perpetrator
used knife to attack the victim,
he failed and the knife was snatched,
then he used an iron pipe near him to kill her.
And the evidence?
The white pawn.
What's written in that website is a random story.
I didn't kill Katou.
So that's website really wrote justification.
Detective, I beg you.
please protect me.
I don't want want to be killed.
I don't want to become like them.
Who are they?
Mikase Terumi was murdered at night,
and there was no eyewitness.
We didn't find any evidence that links it to the perpetrator.
Look at this.
Since when?
There are only 3 persons left.
We secured Koike and we must find the other two.
They can be murdered anytime.
We have to stop other murder!
This is bad!
Koike Tomohide knew the one who received the same probation.
This Suga Tatsuya.
The 8th target is also connected.
Seems like Suga told Koike about the underground website.
After that he couldn't be contacted.
When Koike visited his hiding place,
Tatsuya.
He was scared and didn't report it to the police.
Suga Tatsuya's dead body was discovered a month ago, right?
Administration autopsy was not conducted either, right?
True, it was ruled that there's a possibility that he died of illness,
his ID and personal belongings weren't found either so he was cremated.
He was processed as a homeless who suddenly collapsed and died.
If there was no external wound, he might really have died of illness.
An example of murder method that doesn't leave trace on body is suffocation by drugs.
Wasn't there something similar to this left on the scene?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
Probably it was burnt together with the corpse.
If Suga Tatsuya was murdered,
among 8 people in underground website
he was the first to be targeted.
However Suga Tatsuya's piece is not falling down.
Probably Sagami still doesn't know that he was killed.
If that's the case
the survivals among those 8 people
the one who 15 years ago
was suspected of murdering for insurance, Anzai Keiko,
and Koike Tomohide, that we have protected.
Excuse me.
Honestly this investigation is difficult.
Takuma thinks that Sagami Wakahiro is connected,
but we don't know any further information.
Takuma.
I will go home tonight at 7 pm with Shinkansen. Miyako
Miyako san returns to Kyoto today, right?
How could you know that?
Because it's hard for you to see her, why don't you send her off?
What are you talking about? This is not the time for that.
This is your senior's order.
Right now it's better for you to step back from this case a little bit.
Why is that?
Otherwise
your adoptive behavior is getting scary.
What do you mean by his adoptive behavior is getting scary?
Previously
Kyoto Prefectural Commissioner told me,
He's an excellent detective.
But at the same time
there's a constant danger that he will be absorbed by the crime.
Could it be
that Takuma san can become a criminal?
Of course
I believe it won't happen.
But Takuma
can't help himself to like crimes.
If he meets murderer who doesn't feel the pain when he kills someone,
He desperately try to earnestly understand opponent's psychology and mental's make-up.
If a little bit at a time
Takuma's heart is affected by it adversely,
someday
the time will come when he crosses over to the other side.
It's too dangerous for Takuma to immerse himself in Sagami's case.
That's why it's necessary to have someone close to him who can restrain him.
Is that person
Takuma san's ex wife?
Yes, this is Anekoji.
This is bad! Koike, who's under our protection, disappeared while I didn't watch him.
What are you doing?
Find him ASAP!
Yes.
Koike ran away. We have to find him too!
Yes.
I'm sorry.
Give this to your precious person
Miyako.
Yoshito san.
I want to say something before you go home.
I promise,
that I will go back to you and Norihiko.
Me too. No matter what happens, I will always wait for you.
For that, I have to meet Sagami Wakahiro.
If I meet him, I want to ask him something.
Sagami...
Just now, someone hit me, and when I realized it, I found this.
Sagami Wakahiro
Where did he go to?
Over there. Probably to the parking lot.
TAKUMA!
Assault criminal escaped on a bike! Emergency dispatch!
Why are you here?
Koike Tomohide escaped and we have information that he ran here.
Don't tell me...
Takuma san, your hand has to be treated!
Found him.
Koike Tomohide.
He's dead.
Damn it!
Is Miyako san alright?
She returned to her room.
I told her to not leave her room no matter what.
If the one who bumped her in lobby was Sagami,
Sagami wasn't the one who murdered Koike Tomohide.
His cause of death is cerebral contusion. The weapon is the same iron pipe with the one used to hit Takuma.
The bike the perpetrator used to run away is a stolen vehicle.
He wasn't caught despite emergency deployment.
This was found among his belongings.
Black rook.
It's the same with the piece represented Koike in that website.
Is he the seventh victim?
Makise Terumi was also bludgeoned to death, right?
The perpetrator is highly likely the same.
The killing requests participants are
first three people were shot,
Gunji the ex yakuza leader who was stabbed,
Makise Terumi and Koike Tomohide who were bludgeoned to death.
If Suga Tatsuya was also murdered,
currently there are at least 4 people participants.
Yes.
Forensic?
Yes.
The bloodstain found at Makise Terumi's murder scene?
It's not Makise's blood...
it's a match with Gunji's blood, who was already murdered before her?
What?
Thank you.
Makise Terumi was bludgeoned to death,
but why are there two different weapons at the scene?
Was that weapon used for different purpose?
It's not like that.
It's different if the crimes are insignificant.
The perpetrator chose the crime method which he specializes the most.
If it's successful, he will repeat it again.
Then
how can you explain it?
Wait.
To begin with, Koike was already protected by the police,
why did he escape and go to that hotel?
He couldn't just leave specially to be killed.
Even so
anyway, now,
we have to find Anzai Keiko and protect her.
Because she's the last person.
I wrote the scenario that you picked long time ago. The remaining piece is an ordinary person. I sincerely want you to be careful. Sagami Wakahiro
The remaining piece is only one.
The victim is Gunji Kisaku, 65 years old. He's an ex leader of organized crime Ryuusuikai.
The blood belongs to Mikase Terumi was detected.
I understand everything.
Yuiko san,
Put this person's name and location at bulletin board of that underground website's administrator's page.
What for?
As the perpetrator's decoy.
Do you know the perpetrator?
Are the participants not the unspecified people?
So Sagami indeed..
This is what I expected from Sagami's scenario.
This is not merely a murder request.
Hold it right there.
White Knight san.
Anzai Keiko!
Right,
15 years ago an accomplish covered a crime,
the other one escaped the crime from murder for insurance money. Anzai Keiko san.
Isn't the target only one person?
How did you know this woman is the perpetrator?
Because she's the only one remained.
What do you mean?
That underground website
looks as if it requests large number of unspecified participants to murder its targets,
but there's a scarier meaning behind the 8 targets.
Written invitation: Anzai Keiko sama
Why?
Even though you murdered someone,
the 8 targets, whose crime was not inquired,
are not only selected by themselves,
but when they entered the administrator's page using the given password,
Only one person remains, the crown is moving.
While 8 people are killing each other,
only the last person will remain alive.
That was notified in advance.
That's why you have to kill each other as you're told.
If I don't kill, they will come and kill me.
If I want to be saved, I have no choice but to do it.
Then that is
not murder request,
it's better to be called "Murder Tournament".
All seven murders were all
among 8 people who killed each other?
There was a hint since the beginning.
Even if the modus operandi are different,
weren't they large amount of unspecified people's crimes?
They're not only different,
the same modus operandi continued,
and it changed within the process.
After three shooting cases continued,
in turn, Gunji Kisaku was stabbed.
The strange one is the fifth victim, Mikase Terumi's, murder scene
a knife with Gunji's blood was left.
Did Mikase Terumi murder Gunji Kisaku?
Yes.
The first three were shot by Gunji.
It's easy for an ex Yakuza leader to obtain a gun.
Was Gunji stab by Mikase Terumi?
Yes, Mikase Terumi suspected that three cases were done by Gunji.
She showed herself in front of Gunji.
And then
she offered to join hands with him,
and invited him to a love hotel.
Mikase Terumi who took over Gunji on killing,
chose you as her next target.
Stupid woman.
She called me to that infamous place.
It's obvious that she targeted me.
That's why the knife that shed used at the previous killing was left at that scene.
You continued the killing with the same modus operandi,
and murdered Koike Tomohide.
You attacked me, because you thought I witnessed you.
Am I wrong?
You're right.
If you arrest me there, Suga, the last one, won't be killed.
I see.
Suga Tatsuya is still alive in that underground website.
Wait!
Is Suga already dead?
Yes.
He was already dead here before the first three cases.
Then
I'm the last one who lives, right?
I have the qualification, right?
Then let me go!
I have to do it before he comes! Let me go!
Take her to MPD. Continue her arrest's procedure.
Let me go! Let me go!
Let me go!
Who has murdered Suga Tatsuya, the first target?
Aside from death by suffocation using drug as modus operandi,
if Gunji and Makise Terumi didn't do it, Anzai Keiko didn't either.
Then, who murdered those three by shooting?
It's too bad,
we can't confirm it because they're dead.
I can't believe it.
No matter how he was forced to, how could he murdered 8 people?
Anzai Keiko said about qualification, didn't she?
In exchange of reward,
maybe there's fanatic magic word.
Maybe we can find out if we check this underground website's history.
What?
These are Anzai Keiko's and Suga Tatsuya's pieces, right?
If all of these pieces are falling down, does it mean there's a new target?
This is my name.
What?
The date is 15 years ago.
But I don't remember what happened that day.
What's going on?
Are you the next target? - I don't know.
Because I don't know, there must be something else.
In Sagami's scenario, there must be a hostage.
"There's only one"
If I also count the king,
I have qualification, right?
I have to do it before he comes!
What does she have to do?
Don't tell me...
What is it?
8 people were made to participate this murder tournament.
The last person remained will receive "qualification" as reward.
What is the right to challenge?
"The item you picked"
"We"
I was the king at the center.
Then I should have killed you that time!
Sit down!
No!
What do you mean?
Answer me.
Why am I the last target?
What kind of scenario is this?
Didn't you create us?
You're the first one who said it, and why do you ask now?
What are you talking about?
You
created us, didn't you?
Tomita Yui Muromachi Miyako Kanai Toshihiko Nakashima Yuriko
Yes.
I come to bring new water.
Yes, please.
Did I create you?
What's going on?
Takuma, the scene has changed again!
The piece's shape changed.
What is it?
So it's not you.
The first person is queen.
Queen?
Muromachi Miyako?
Miyako!