This is bad. Perhaps this is really my favorite case.
Eight people were to kill one and the others. Only one will survive.
Should we call it "Muder Tournament"?
There's only one person who can think like this.
Sagami Wakahiro.
Alias criminal scriptwriter.
This might be Sagami's written challenge for me.
He's an excellent detective.
But at the same time he could be dangerous. if he's absorbed by the criminals.
He immersed himself entirely in Sagami's case.
Takuma is too dangerous.
That's why he needs a person who can restrain him here.
Is that Takuma san's ex wife?
You were the one who initiated this, why do ask now?
You are the one who created us.
The piece's shape changed.
What? So it's not you.
It's a queen.
Queen?
Tomita Yui Muromachi Miyako Kanai Toshihiko Nakashima Yuriko
Muromachi Miyako?
Miyako!
Her condition is still unpredictable.
Looking at the damage in her cerebral nerves,
it's highly likely that she might stay unconscious forever.
Chinami san.
Okaasan!
I'm sorry that you even specially come here.
How is Norihiko kun?
He was brought to our house and Akane is looking after him.
And
how is Miyako?
Doctor said, he doesn't know when will she regain consciousness.
I see.
How is Takuma san?
He's still inside.
He's tremendously shocked.
Miyako san's existence is like the boat's anchor for Takuma.
Anchor?
Takuma remains here and not being absorbed by the criminals,
because Miyako san is there.
Miyako san became like this,
I don't know what should I do.
What are you talking about?
Do you know why did Akane and I let you go to Tokyo?
Okaasan.
Exactly for a time like this,
you have to do everything
to protect Takuma san.
If I put this coin inside, you'll become a criminal.
If I don't put it in, you'll live a normal life.
This is the present you.
Ah
by they way,
you dropped this thing in Kyoto, didn't you?
Look.
You can keep it as a protection charm.
Is this a protection charm?
It's not yours, but my protection charm.
You can keep it.
I will protect Takuma.
Let's go.
You should stay by Miyako san's side a little bit longer.
Even if I stay here, there's nothing I can do.
What?
I will arrest the one who made Miyako like this.
We are the only one who can do that.
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.
According to Forensic,
organic poison has been traced from her water jar.
unknown composition's nerve poison has high immediate efficiency,
its characteristic is not showing any conspicious trace on body surface.
Suga Kazuya, who is the murder tournament's first victim, was the same.
There is poison that causes suffocation which doesn't leave races on body surface.
If he was murdered, it's highly likely the same poison was used in both cases.
If the poison is the same, is the murderer the same person?
From the questioning, bellboy uniform has disappeared from that hotel's laundry.
It's highly likely that the perpetrator dressed as bellboy and delivered the poison water jug to her room.
But why did he target takuma san's wife?
Takuma,
are you okay not being at the hospital?
The beginning is this underground website.
Even if someone takes away other person's life, he won't be prosecuted,
a murder tournament that made 8 people kill one another.
The first victim is homeless Suga Kazuya.
He was probably poisoned.
After ex Yakuza leader Gunji shot three people one by one,
he was stabbed to death by Makise Terumi.
That Makise was bludgeoned to death by Anzai Keiko.
Then Anzai continued by bludgeoned Koike Tomohide.
I am the only survivor, aren't I?
But Anzai Keiko has been under arrest and she's now in custody.
Right. Legally speaking,
Anzai Keiko, as the sole survivor, was supposed to have the right to challenge the King,
but because she couldn't do it,
this individual can't perform on stage.
Administrator X Anzai Keiko
Of course Administrator X will execute the last crime.
Is that Administrator X
Sagami Wakahiro?
This man drafted criminal plans that brought stiffness in the shoulders as scenario and offered it to criminals.
Murder script..
Don't tell me that Sagami will execute it himself?
Isn't he going to let someone else do it?
I had a showdown with Sagami before.
You remember it, don't you? The Penal Code Bingo Case that occurred in Kyoto.
The executioner of Sagami's crime script was
Kyoto Prefecture's SP, Yoshino Sumika.
the purpose was to kill Commissioner Takakura,
but we have prevented that scenario from happening.
I feel frustrated by this.
If sagami challenges me for a rematch,
this scenario was carefully written to target me in the end.
But the last target is not you.
Why did he change the target?
Obviously everything will become clear if we can find Sagami.
How can we find him?
There are 3 methods.
We expose who is that fake bellboy.
We investigate the relation between the sole survivor, Anzai Keiko, and Administrator X.
And number three?
To reconstruct this murder tournament.
Azuma san, accompany me.
Okay, Everyone, share your taskes. Or else you will be called salary thieves.
Come on, hurry up. You're slow!
Is Takuma san
alright?
He looks normal, but to the contrary that makes us worry.
Even so, we can only do what we can.
You're right.
We will interrogate Anzai Keiko.
Matsubara san, please take care of the hotel.
We will check its CCTV footage.
The crime occurred after 6 pm.
It's this floor.
There he is.
It's really Miyako san's room.
Is this person Administrator X?
Is he Sagami?
It's useless. I can't get facial authentication.
You can explain that underground website's mechanism, can't you?
At first I thought it was a bad joke.
Then I got an unidentified email.
That underground website's address was written there.
Who was the sender?
It was only written as Administrator.
If I put the password and got into administrator's page,
It showed 8 persons including me.
it also wrote everything about the insurance money murder crime i got involved in.
I wrote an email to the sender right away, asking what does he want.
what did that administrator write?
If I don't participate in the tournament,
he threatened me to expose what we have done to public.
That's why you participated in that murder tournament?
If I hadn't done it, probably the other person would do it.
The only way to save myself is to kill the other 7 people.
An individual with a bad taste.
To make things worse,It's effective.
Effective...
At the beginning, he threatened to expose someone's crime,
moreover he taught fear of being targeted by the others.
In order to escape...
he plant you to kill one another.
What kind of person is the administrator?
I've never seen his face.
But
One thing that I'm certain of from the email is
it's a man.
Moreover he is quite clearheaded.
He's Sagami after all.
I fell that he's quite dangerous.
He's overflowing with the feeling of excited by crimes.
Just like me.
Why do we have to reconstruct the murder crime from the beginning?
In murder tournament each person chose his killing method.
If the first victim, Suga, was poisoned,
it's possible that Administrator X did it.
But Suga Kazuya was processed as a person who collapsed and died on the street.
Is there any clue left?
The first person who found him might remember something.
Officer Kishida's police box is over there.
What? - Is he sleeping?
At this hour?
Excuse me.
Kishida san?
Kishida san!
this is bad. He's not sleeping.
Wait a second.
Is this
poison?
Excuse me, could you look at this?
Is that the footage when Miyako san was touched by Sagami?
He's very careful. He didn't even show his face.
But this man has been watching over Miyako san since a while ago.
His face is projected. We might get his facial recognized.
This is bad. His gun has been taken away.
This is...
I'm sure..
WAIT!
Otousan...
why?
What?
This is
Azuma san's father!
But he died in a bomb explosion 10 years ago.
Sorry.
Have you know something about Officer Kishida?
Yes.
His cause of death is poison.
It's a nerve poison with unknown component and doesn't appear on his body surface.
Is this the same poison which was used to Miyako san?
Did he poison a police officer to take his gun?
The murdered Officer Kishida is the first person who found Suga Kazuya.
Could it be that he was murdered because of that?
The problem is, why did Azuma san's papa appear at that crime scene?
Minato Chuo Station still has 10 years ago's case report.
Is it from when Azuma Kimiyaki san died?
What is this?
They didn't perform any legally-ordered autopsy.
The body was badly damaged by the explosion,
His body was not in his shape anymore,
but they didn't perform any DNA test either.
This is strange.
Azuma san,
do you remember something?
I was still in high school at that time.
My father's colleagues and my uncle confirmed it.
They told me, it's better if I don't see it.
He colleagues are of course Public Safety people, right?
Concealment is their specialty.
They could easily write postmortem report.
Didn't my father die in that explosion?
The woman who made that bomb, Niwa Natsumi, was really clever,
but Azuma san's papa was one step above her.
he noticed that Niwa wanted him to explode,
he puposely followed her plan.
Why did he do this?
It might be necessary for his duty from Public Security Intelligence Agency.
His duty? He even threw away his family register for undercover duty?
No matter what duty it was, he has one and only daughter.
There might be a reason, why did he have to pretend to be dead.
Maria,
I...
love you and your mother.
Just as I thought, you're hiding something important.
What is it?
Didn't you say it during interrogation right after you were arrested?
You created us, didn't you?
When I interrogated you too.
If I don't participate in that tournament,
he threatened me to expose what we have done to the public.
You didn't say "I" but "we".
The 8 persons who were chosen to join the tournament,
not only they wouldn't be punished for the crime they will commit,
but they were already connected to one another since the beginning.
You are also a member of "WE".
This is not a joke.
It's impossible that this delicate elite and I were at the same place.
Azuma san's papa was among "US".
Gokurousama.
Who came here just now?
What?
Oh, the cleaning service picked up the garbage.
Takuma, what's wrong?
Seems like I was invited too.
Invitation? From whom?
WS. This is Sagami Wakahiro. I'm positive it's him.
Why did Sagami invite you?
Because he purposely invited me, I think I should meet him.
Then I will go with you.
This is a personal invitation from Sagami.
There's only one sheet invitation.
Sorry, but you stay here.
What are you thinking about?
Sagami is a dangerous criminal.
Prison and interview are different.
It's too dangerous!
Even so, maybe he'll give me a hint.
It's gonna be quite interesting.
You will get souvenir from me.
How could you be that strong?
Miyako san has experienced something like that.
but how could you be like this?
By the way,
you see,
this is the story of Nr. 244, who was always together with me in prison.
What?
Nr. 244
received prison sentence for a murder attempt,
but actually it was a false accusation.
Because of that, he was separated from his family.
Is that...
Of course at first
I couldn't accept that irrational matter,
I cried, I screamed and got angry.
I was already out of control.
But in the end
I realized one thing.
To cry,
to get hurt,
desperation,
if I become similar to a disabled person,
I become exactly like what those people want.
Did those people
put Nr. 244 in a trap?
Since then, Nr. 244
will never let his emotion goes straight to the surface.
This is the war between me and "us".
Don't worry.
I'm crying.
What?
When I can find
and clean up the perpetrator,
I will cry until my tears run dry.
To Clean up?
Could it be...
I believe you.
Because being a detective is the only one for you.
I'm sorry, today is for reservation only.
I received this.
Excuse me.
Please.
Oh, unexpectedly I might like this.
My deepest condolences.
So you arranged artistic gadgets.
It'd be a trouble if you suddenly arrest me.
Because of the scenario you wrote,
Miyako was the same as being killed.
Of course.
There's a misunderstanding here.
This case is indeed from the scenario I wrote.
However
even though it was written by me,
it was quite too dangerous so this scenario was rejected.
Then why?
It was stolen.
By who?
The one you're looking for,
"us".
Isn't it about time to get out?
It's hard being unable to move.
You're great.
Did you notice me?
You will tell me about "us", won't you?
Yes.
this will be a long story.
The beginning was
a Study Group that was established 15 years ago.
Study Group?
It should involve atrocious crime.
Furthermore it's to collect people from multiple public institution
to oppose unnoticed terror threat within this country.
A Study Group.
The members are police from all place in Japan,
public prosecutors, judges,
Public Security Intelligence Agency,
Cabinet Information Research Office and secret Service.
Also Ministry of Justice's Bureaucracy and politicians,
were also included.
Study Group discuses urgent assignment that we're engaged into.
It was opened to ensure the safety of this country with our hands.
NOTE: In Japanese subject and object have the same word. Wareware's function is both as subject "WE" and object "US". My translation is based on its position in the sentence.
Worrying about people being fooled by the peace, superior elite to voluntarily gather,
It's called as an informal duty until the end,
one day the members called themselves
with popular name "we".
At the beginning it was plea bargain's witness protection program,
they only met the criminals and talked with them,
But along the way, the criminals got together.
They're not merely criminals.
It's a gang of people like me, who really love crimes since we were born.
What?
It's because you notice the "our" presence.
Was Mutou Hisashi
was also "We"'s member?
To be precise he was not a member,
a criminal who was scouted like me.
So you were scouted too.
I want to brag myself,
but I'm special.
May I call myself advisor?
Could it be that it's to control a person with poison with a poison?
By using a criminal, they think they can control the criminals from committing crimes?
Of course this country is a constitutional country.
No matter which criminal he is,
they can't assign rehabilitation attempt according to law procedure.
Besides there must be percentage of criminals who ware not covered.
We need to use these people for rehabilitation attempt.
Or rather, the only way is to use them.
That's our advisor's recommendation to "us".
The final goal is
criminals' effective use.
To use the criminals?
It's better not to reduce their source.
But I want to know.
Why did my father pretend to be dead and hid himself for 10 years.
And why is he connected to this case?
If in the worst case
my father is Administrator X,
Who is the administrator?
A man. And he's quite clearheaded.
He even tried to kill Miyako san.
No way...
We found Suga and Koike's photo while they were alive.
What?
Their photos were left at their probation officer's office.
It seems like the movie is being sent.
It seems to be sent through internet line.
Takuma.
He seems to be talking to someone.
Why is this being uploaded?
This video is being sent from somewhere.
Yes.
I want your colleagues to listen to it too.
That's Sagami's voice!
Record it!
Oh? Anekoji san appeared.
There's also Azuma san, right?
She has been involved too.
What is exactly do they do by using the criminals?
Provision of information,
undercover agent,
a profiling-like towards actual occurring crime.
if possible, intelligence gathering of unsolved modus operandi.
What are you doing?
We have investigated your crime in the past.
What is this?
Do you want to bring up the insurance murder case again?
No, I don't have any intention to do that.
However
it's more convenient for us if you're a criminal.
Huh?
Our condition is that you will never murder anyone for insurance money anymore.
will you cooperate with "us"?
They use criminals as hunting dogs.
Or to speak, they use criminals to solve the cases.
I see. Every man knows his own business.
If I think about it now,
you might be artificially used for experiment.
I was 10 years and 10 months in prison, but I'm not a criminal.
I'm sorry.
You're also special.
That nonsense experiment
of course it failed.
Yes.
Because
their opponents are born to be criminals.
One day the gathered criminals conspired among themselves,
they escaped from "us".
At the same time,
they brought all absolute secret information data
that "we" have gathered with them.
In order to get massive amount of crime's knowledge, "we" have allowed
huge amount of criminals, who can't help themselves but to like the crime, to run free on the field.
If I summarize it,
"Our" magnanimous experiment for several years has disintegrated.
It headed to the worst result.
I see.
As the result,
someone would appear in front of
people who knew about "our" existence and people who investigated them, to erase them.
Commissioner Takakura was murdered because of this.
Takakura san as a police officer
has participated in "us".
But just because of that..
He was an earnest person.
That's nonsense.
Because they considered to make "us" public and to stop them when the time comes.
Even so, why did they do that to Takuma san?
Mutou put me in a trap,
and made me prosecuted for false accusation,
just to erase people who are connected with "us"?
Yes.
Isn't it about time for you to remember?
When I was working in Public Relation,
I wrote a column.
This is the opening passage:
I read an interesting novel.
It's a story that's connected the police and criminals.
It's too bad but there are criminals who can't be rehabilitated.
If those criminals can be used in a program,
Use the criminal to prevent and stop the crimes.
You wrote exactly "our" basic principle in that column.
That's nonsense.
But that was just a PR column.
But you can't change what you wrote.
To be precise,
it has begun with the novel your wife wrote earlier.
When I ran out of idea for that column,
and troubled by that,
I found the novel Miyako wrote during her university day and used it.
The problem is you officially published that,
and became "our" basic principle.
That's the fact.
That's just a novel.
The idea is just fiction.
But why did Miyako have to end up like that?
The criminals gathered by "us" went on without controller,
they erase everyone that's related to "us".
With that as their purpose, they started to walk on their own.
But you were the one who wrote that scenario, weren't you?
I should have told you from the start,
it was stolen.
Who did it?
Who stole it?
Someone who was a principle member of "us".
I won't say otherwise.
At that time he was still assistant commissioner,
Takakura Kiichirou,
NPA current secretary, Shirakawa Sentarou,
and also one person from Public Security Intelligence Agency.
Your colleague knows this person well,
Azuma Kimiyaki.
Don't be like this, Azuma san!
Don't be swallowed by Sagami's words.
But...
Hey,
Murder Tournament's underground website has been updated!
Why is it updated now?
Don't tell me that they will not end it yet?
If the queen is Miyako san,
the king is Takuma san...
So they're targeting Takuma after all.
As long as you have disappeared,
this murder tournament's scenario
will not be ended.
Administrator X is still targeting me.
Yes.
He's doing cosplay to change himself.
He likes gimmick.
Be careful.
What do you want?
Are you my ally or enemy?
I should say that I am your negative.
No matter how close you are, there is a thin wall that you can never cross.
Yeah.
You and I may have to compete once again.
Until then
I will be in trouble if you die.
Bullshit!
Damn it!
We have to save Takuma! Get the car ready!
Yes!
Sagami!
Where are you?
Sagami, where are you?
Sagami!
It's no use. Takuma isn't answering the phone.
No way...
Could it be that...
Takuma will never be easily trapped by the perpetrator.
I'm worry about the opposite.
What?
Hey, could it be that Takuma will kill the perpetrator?
Takuma is targeting Administrator X, who has made Miyako san like this.
Will Takuma take revenge for Miyako san?
We will stop Takuma to prevent that from happening.
Did he stole the gun for this?
No.
There wasn't any external wound and he didn't have ID.
The murdered Officer Kishida is the first person who found Suga Tatsuya's corpse.
There must a reason that made him pretended to be dead.
If it's the same poison, is he the same person who poisoned Suga Tatsuya?
He's doing cosplay to change himself and likes gimmick.
So that's what happened.
What did you say about Suga and Koike's photos?
I couldn't find their recent photo and I found this.
This is Koike Tomohide, right?
Koike Tomohide?
Could it be that you're one of the targets?
Yes, I am the black rook.
Their probation officer said that he is Suga Tatsuya.
Suga?
Then among the 8 people, who is the first murdered by poison victim?
Then the one who's photographed here is...
We finally meet each other.
You really like cosplay.
You pretend to be Suga Tatsuya.
Administrator X,
the black rook,
13 years ago you murdered your classmate using a dangerous drug.
You are Koike Tomohide kun, right?
Wait!
Why do you run away from your own dead end?
Well, it's fine. I want to talk to you a little bit.
What do you want to talk about?
You are one of the criminals who were gathered by "us", aren't you?
So you know it well.
So,
After you ran away and "we" have been disassembled,
Someone from those members commanded you and you took into action.
It's because I got many interesting violent jobs.
just as I thought,
there's an employer among "us"'s survivors.
Yeah.
Since you finally came to Tokyo and started to investigate about "us".
I was told to always monitor you.
One day the employer sent me that scenario.
It's pretended to be a murder tournament,
but it's to eradicate all criminals who knew about "us".
At the same time it was written to eliminate you, who made the basic fundament of "us".
This is too interesting.
So I created an underground website and started a murder tournament.
You're clever to even put yourself as a target.
I used my brain.
so in order not to be targeted and be able to move freely, you used Suga Tatsuya.
Me?
Do I call myself Koike?
Yeah.
If I make Suga Tatsuya die from the beginning,
we can escape ourself being the targets of this murder tournament, right?
No, wait a second.
To make ourselves die?
But how?
You used an unknown composite nerve poison to kill a homeless around the same age with you.
We created Suga's dead body.
In the middle of murder tournament, Suga called himself Koike,
he purposely let the police arrest himself.
While Suga was protected by the police,
if you kill the remaining targets,
neither Suga and Koike will be suspected.
It's a trick that can work, because the police don't have Suga's or my photo.
Don't you feel that I did a better job than "us"?
you put yourself in safety zone since the beginning,
you waited the other 7 people to kill one another,
you purposely make Suga escaped from the police,
and let Anzai Keiko kill him.
If I let Anzai Keiko kill the last survivor, I will be the winner.
It can't be helped that the police arrested her.
One weak point is
Officer Kishida, who found Suga Tatsuya's corpse, confirmed Suga Tatsuya's photo.
I also wanted to have his gun, so it's killing two birds with a stone.
Can I ask you one thing?
"Our" ideal's first suggested person
is not me, but Miyako.
How could you know that?
I was told
by the employer I told you earlier.
That's why I hurriedly stole a bellboy's uniform,
I brought new water.
Yes, please.
Who is the employer?
I don't know the name.
Our contact is always through the internet.
But
he has quite high spec of criminal investigation.
So I'm positive that he's connected to Public Safety.
Anekoji san!
There is bloodstain.
Split into groups and find Takuma!
Yes.
I'll go around the backdoor!
I thought it went well,
because if I erase your existence,
Koike Tomohide will be dead by law.
I will never be arrested.
You can escape from "our" curse.
That's your purpose, right?
You got a good point, Detective.
Besides
no legal action will be conducted on a dead man even if I commit a new crime.
But you forget the crucial point.
What is it?
Once you're dead,
I won't commit a crime if I kill you.
Do you want to kill me?
I want to kill you.
Takuma san!
Takuma!
What happened?
Takuma...
did you...