Just die... already.
I didn't tell a soul...
about that thing.
In return, I will get you under the sun once more.
Your happiness is my indulgence.
Indulgence?
Is this the reason that you married Takamiya?
For people like me...
the only way to make money is to marry someone rich and then divorce them.
We were despicable...
Ryo's happiness...
is also my indulgence.
So despicable that everyone wanted to look away.
That's why we decided to embrace...
That's why you should stop being a ghost.
...that despicableness that everyone would reject.
Welcome home.
I'm home.
We decided to hold each other.
2 years later
We, system engineers,
work to design a software and hardware system that meets the customer's demands.
2004 Winter, Tokyo
By next week, we will fix the places we discussed.
We are really grateful for your quick response, Akiyoshi.
Thank you.
Akiyoshi, what did you do before you came here?
Hm?
A ghost.
Huh?
I was a part timer in a haunted mansion.
You're joking.
Is it true that you created the Expert System for metalworking?
That's right.
Two years ago, I stole the prototype of an internal system under development,
from Touzai Densou, Takamiya's company...
and gave it to Memorix.
The president of the company accepted it, even though it was suspicious.
If we modify it carefully, there's no way to make a case for plagiarism.
In the case of an emergency, he can always say he didn't know and discard me.
The clever president didn't ask me any more questions.
Yukiho... She opened a shop in one of Takamiya's buildings,
and ran a membership boutique with a friend.
Yukiho... I need you for a bit.
Okay.
She found customers through social dance connections.
You can't find this brand anywhere in Japan right now.
Please follow me.
They're the kind of people who would spend generously on themselves.
The only problem was that...
Takamiya, in spite of Yukiho's abuse,
wouldn't bring up divorce.
I'm home. Sorry for being late.
What about dinner?
I'll prepare it right away.
I don't want to say it but...
I told you when you opened that shop...
not to neglect your house duties.
I tried...
When you guys had no track record, who do you think made it possible to rent that shop?
I understand it's because of you.
I'm really a lousy woman.
I couldn't keep my promise to you.
And I can't have children.
I can't give anything back to you.
I'm useless.
I didn't mean it like that.
I'm so sorry.
This marriage is like prostitution... to me.
Please look at the attached report on C.M.
Forward
Thank you for the rest of the payment. Please look at the attached report on C.M. Lately every Saturday she goes to the "Eagle Golf Club". If you need further investigation, please contact us. Thank you very much. Horizon Investigation Agency.
Did you see it?
Yes.
Thank you for investigating it for me.
Misawa Chizuru seems to have come back.
You take good care of your wife!
It seems the marriage match-up didn't work very well.
And it seems that she's not seeing anyone.
But, Yukiho... There's no need to get divorced so soon, right?
You'll get more money when you divorce if you were married longer, right?
And there's no guarantee that if they met, they'd have the same feelings again.
I know...
but there is a small part of me that's not just about money.
In any case, let's have them meet each other at the golf club.
If you face any problems, tell me.
I will, thanks.
Hey, Yukiho...
Although I was living as another person,
I was satisfied.
The world that you gave me was bright enough for me.
Good morning.
Good morning. Good morning.
That's why I couldn't understand...
what more you were looking for.
Just a little longer...
Mr. Akiyoshi, let's hurry up a bit.
Byakuyakou (Journey Under a Midnight Sun) Chapter 8
Are you really going to attend golf school?
I told you that I don't have to be at the store on Saturdays.
You sure you're not going to quit next week?
It's alright.
Is there anything wrong?
Just being curious.
Ah, I have a call, excuse me for a bit.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, are you okay?
I'm sorry.
Makoto... Sorry.
What happened?
A customer suddenly showed up without an appointment.
I really have to go. I'm sorry.
That's too bad.
I'm going right now... What about you?
I came all this way. I want to give it a try.
I see... In that case, I'll go on ahead.
I'm sorry.
Sasagaki Investigation Office
Please.
Thank you for the trouble.
You came here on vacation?
Yes, I'm on a company trip to Nikko.
This is something for you.
Thank you very much.
Kirihara Ryouji - Karasawa Yukiho
I'm investigating people around Karasawa Yukiho, but...
it's hard to do anything without a badge.
Why are you taking it this far?
Of course, I want you to catch the people responsible for what happened to Koga.
Please, take a seat.
Actually, I really don't know myself...
what to do with these guys.
I even got people around me involved.
Is Kirihara Ryouji in Tokyo?
Huh?
If it was me, I'd run far away.
A shrimp is always found near a goby fish, they say.
Memorix
This is Akiyoshi.
What is this?
This...
I got this from you before... This is my gratitude.
I'm home.
Welcome home.
What about dinner?
It seems that you've already had dinner.
Yes.
I ran into a person who used to work at the company, Misawa Chizuru.
Makoto, sorry...
but it seems that I won't be able to attend that golf class after all.
It seems that it will be a problem for the store if I don't show up on Saturdays.
Really?
Then I'll quit as well...
Eh?
I see... Golf wasn't fun?
How about going to the gynecologist?
Let's take the infertility test together.
Eh? Why so suddenly?
When I talked to Misawa about you,
she said that if you want to have a career, it'll be for your benefit to have a child soon.
That way, you'd be able to go back to work sooner.
After all, I really want one.
You also said before that you wanted one, right?
I did say that...
Enterprise investigation from Touzai Densou?
You're not a good actor.
Our client doesn't feel comfortable, and they gave me a call.
They asked if it is really ours.
It's ours.
They can't claim the copyright.
Touzai Densou knows about that, of course.
If they're tailing you, they have a pretty good idea that it was you.
They want to know how I got into Touzai Densou, right?
If it was through an insider, beefing up security won't do any good...
for Touzai Densou.
Private investigators are not policemen.
If there's no results, Touzai Densou will cancel the investigation.
It's not a big deal.
But if they somehow get to Yukiho, that will be a problem.
What's needed is a false target,
for them to jump onto.
Hello...
How was it?
It was great as far as getting them together.
Instead of having an affair, he took Misawa...
Chizuru's advice and decided he wants us to have a child.
It's not that he doesn't have feelings for her any more, I don't think.
About that... Is it okay for me to get involved?
I want to use Misawa Chizuru to be the connection between me and Takamiya.
A connection?
Right.
Hello, Misawa speaking.
Hello...
Makoto... About that infertility treatment...
Oh, yeah...
I hate to say this, but...
I think our infertility stems from that abortion.
Are you trying to say that it is my fault?
No, of course not.
It's my fault that we can't have children despite the abortion.
Let's talk about this tonight.
Okay.
Tonight, right?
Touyou Commercial Affairs...
Please wait...
Good morning.
Misawa, you have a call on line two.
Ah, thank you.
Yes, this is Misawa.
Good morning... so you just arrived.
Who is this?
How cruel. You forgot about me.
You just arrived home.
Who are you?! I'll call the police.
Then... I'll come to see the police tonight.
Misawa
I'm sorry, I was so afraid.
Have you called the police?
They wouldn't do anything.
They think that I just had a fight with my boyfriend.
It's become my favorite.
You're still using it?
I have an interesting story.
Before I went back to my parents house, I planned on staying in Queen Hotel.
Ah! I remember.
That time, I forgot the umbrella and went back to the cab.
At that time, a criminal was staying at the hotel...
and a policeman came and asked to use my room for a stakeout.
So I couldn't stay at the hotel.
I'm home.
Welcome home.
You worked late.
I had some troubles back at the office.
What's wrong? You made dinner.
You said that we should talk about having children.
I thought you'd be late anyway.
Was it really work?
What's with that look?
It's usually me who waits.
Why is it a problem for you to wait this one time?
You're right.
It's my fault, right?
Everything is my fault... always.
A lousy woman like me...
can never be a good parent, right?
Infertility Treatment
Just married. Masayoshi & Eriko
Thank you for taking the time to see me.
I wanted to congratulate you personally.
Your husband works at an electronic company?
He looks like a ball... round.
It's true.
After that incident, I couldn't believe in people.
Why just me... you know?
The one who accepted me was my husband.
He said that's why he was born fat.
He's strange, isn't he?
Shinozuka?
Congratulations, Eriko.
What about you?
Have you found a good person?
Me?
As for me...
There is someone that's been on my mind constantly.
Takamiya...
After that, he seems to be in constant contact with Misawa Chizuru.
He still comes home though.
What about on your side?
I think it's going fine.
I'm going on a business trip tomorrow.
To be doubly sure, I will...
You will?
Lately, Sasagaki hasn't come around.
Really?
But we shouldn't be careless.
Ryo?
Sorry.
I was just thinking how great it'd be if he disappeared for good.
That's too good to be true.
If that's true, we could walk together under the sun, right?
We did say that once.
Right.
Well, bye.
Something like UPDID will work.
Add it to the database structure.
Okay.
How many digits should we allow?
Same as the customer ID's.
Okay.
Karasawa Yukiho and Kirihara Ryouji?
They may be connected to an incident that happened to my friend.
Really?
You're looking for Kirihara Ryouji, right?
Nothing good comes out of getting involved with them.
Isn't it better for you not to get involved?
Okay, let's go.
Is it really okay to stay at your place
It's easier to go from my place, right?
What about your husband?
Actually, I don't feel comfortable with him.
Really?
He appears to be understanding,
but he's actually a domineering type.
We've got to do things like this to butter him up...
That's not true... He's a good man.
Please...
Thank you.
Thank you for worrying about me.
The prank calls stopped suddenly.
Is that true? Good for you.
I'm really sorry for troubling you.
Please say sorry to your wife as well.
She's so busy with work that I don't think she remembers anything I do.
It doesn't matter to her whether I'm around or not.
Should I go and tell her that it was me that requested your help?
It's not that...
Sleeping pills
I'm home.
Welcome home.
You're early.
I'm sorry, I can't talk right now.
I'll be going on a business trip tomorrow, for a week... to Italy.
Huh?!
Sorry for intruding.
Hello. Um...
I'm Kotake,
the one who's running the shop with your wife.
Tomorrow, we'll be leaving together so I thought of having her stay here tonight.
I haven't heard anything about this.
You don't say anything about your work schedule day by day either, right?
I bought some food. Please eat it as you please.
Ryoko, I'm going to the convenience store. Do you need to buy anything?
I'm okay.
One croquette meal, please.
One croquette meal, right? One moment please.
Because I'm like a ghost...
Ryo...
Sorry, could you turn down the volume?
I think Ryoko's already asleep.
I can't hear it.
I'm telling you it's noisy.
What is it?
It must be good... Everyday you come home early, watch TV and drink alcohol.
Is that so wrong?
That's why I said that it must be good.
If you have something to say, say it!
I'm just wondering if you have a dream...
an ambition or a desire to achieve.
Without any effort, you do the same things every day.
I'm just surprised that you don't feel pity for yourself.
Then, what about you?
You're just sponging off my parents to run the store!
I've paid the deposit and pay my rent regularly.
Who do you think helped you open the store?
It's your father's building, right?
You shouldn't overdo it. Otherwise, you'll pay for it tomorrow.
Is it okay?
It's okay.
I put some drugs in his alcohol.
So, what do you want me to do?
Hit me.
I want to make it look like Takamiya beat me.
Having an affair isn't enough?
We don't know what's going to happen.
I also told lies that might haunt me if exposed.
I want to make it a solid case for divorce as much as possible.
This marriage is prostitution.
If I don't get money, it's meaningless.
Hit me for real.
It hurts...
What happened?
Don't you remember?
What are you talking about?
You were drinking a lot, weren't you?
What happened there?
You did it.
That's a lie, right?
Why don't you ask Ryoko?
She heard everything.
If that's really true, I'm sorry.
Resorting to violence when you're mad...
How childish are you?
Takamiya?
Something wrong?
I'm finished.
It's impossible.
Misawa Chizuru as a clerk,
once worked at Touzai Densou in the patent department.
Around that time, Akiyoshi went to Memorix.
It is possible that these two,
using Takamiya's trust, stole the software.
With this, their suspicion shifted to Takamiya and Chizuru.
Without any results, Touzai Densou seems to have stopped the investigation.
And then Yukiho...
You recognize these pictures, right?
An affair with a former colleague,
...laid out his affair, violence.
violence on your wife,
abusive words about her infertility,
your words of insult about her infertility,
caused by her earlier abortion.
Are these true and correct?
What?
Nothing.
How do we proceed from here?
You should've called your own lawyer.
You're too generous.
Yukiho looked miserable to me.
Bringing a lawyer...
twisting the truth as she likes, and demanding money.
There's only money on her mind, I thought.
I felt pity for her.
This marriage is prostitution.
If I don't get any money, it's meaningless.
There's only money on her mind, I thought.
If it's about money, I can get as much as I want.
Ryo's happiness is my indulgence.
It's as if I made her do it...
Why are you here?
What's this?
Stock market information.
With this money, buy stocks from the companies on the disc.
With this, you can clear all the dirty money.
I see...
Yukiho.
From now on, just run the store honestly.
Why all of a sudden?
I don't need much money, and I can live under any condition.
That's why...
You think I'm miserable, right?
Like I'm in a frenzy over money.
I don't care what people think.
Didn't we say that we have nothing to do with the world anymore?
And moreover...
my dreams already came true.
Dreams?
I asked a friend to be my partner of this place.
The concept of the store, sales, operation, purchasing...
It's all my ideas.
That's how I built this store.
Takamiya didn't give me any money or ideas.
Even so, we had to use such a name.
To avoid getting kicked out, I had to suck up to him.
I've noticed... that it's just like before.
Why do you say such selfish things?
I sold my body for money.
I sucked up to them so that they wouldn't hate me.
I couldn't remember what I wanted to do in the first place.
It's definitely...
like walking under the sun together again with you.
That's just a dream.
Is it a dream?
Is it really only a dream, Ryo?
I have divorced.
Finally, I can walk with that irreplaceable person.
I'm not going to lose him again.
The home that I finally acquired, my point of origin.
The land of Tara, to be protected even by crawling on it.
The descendant of Scarlet.
I thought I wanted to live forever.
I thought that it was alright for me to die anytime.
I was happy.
Thank you... I'll see you.
But the sun...
surely won't forgive us.
Good day, is anything wrong?
You've changed the name.
I thought I'd start anew.
Y is for your name, right?
What about the R?
It's Ryoko.
It's our store.
I see.
You're really persistent, aren't you?
Do you know Karasawa Yukiho's new store name?
It's R&Y.
Marriage and divorce... Don't you think that these things are for this purpose?
Even if it is so, it is not a crime.
Like I said, it's better not to get involved with those two...
I'm already involved.
This is Kawashima Eriko.
Ah... Karasawa Yukiho's friend from high school.
Yes.
For a little while she was my girlfriend.
In college,
an attempt was made to rape her.
Until she got a happy life, I was going to keep silent.
Those two... what is their relationship?
Have you ever heard of a pistol shrimp?
Bridal Support - Your desired partner search
A pistol shrimp lives in a deep, dark hole.
In that hole, there also lives a freeloader.
Shinozuka may have noticed something.
It's a goby fish.
In return, that goby fish stands at the mouth of the hole,
and if an enemy appears, it waves its tail to tell the shrimp about it.
It's called symbiosis.
They work together in order to survive.
Symbiosis...
Can you look into this case?
Were they involved?
If so, why?
What for?
It's for me.
Hey, Yukiho.
Kurihara Noriko
Pharmacist
I thought I didn't care when I died.
Because I was happy.
Are you okay?
Should I call an ambulance?
But...
Alcohol...
Can you give me some alcohol?
Alcohol?
I thought I didn't care when I died.