Kei, morni...
Hey... Hey, Kei.
What's with the "Kei" ?
Kei is Kei.
Hey, hey, Kei. Watcha listening to, say?
I'm not used to you coming here every morning, neither do I want to.
So knock before you enter.
- I did. - Do it so I notice.
What should I do?
Somebody died again?
Miyauchi Shiori, 26.
If her smart phone doesn't get used for 48 hours,
we're to delete all data that's on it.
- Confirm her death. - Nope, voice mail.
- She didn't write her place of work. - So we don't know her occupation?
Contact me as soon as you've confirmed her death.
Right.
When I come back, I'll make sure to knock.
No, I'm serious. I'll 100% knock.
And off I go~
( You have a new message. )
Please! You have to try and burst into Kei's place without knocking!
He's got a chicken in his room!
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts Twitter: @hpriestsubs
Mr. Custodian!
It's been a long time.
You see, I'm the younger brother of Miyauchi Shiori in 201 and...
Can you hear me?
Ah, you can.
We haven't been able to contact her for two days,
so our parents told me to go check on her.
Excuse me? I'm sorry...
- Which apartment again? - 201, Miyauchi's apartment.
It's been a while since I've come here.
Sis.
Sis?
Have you seen her recently?
No...
Do you even know how she looks?
We hardly met.
Excuse me!
Have you seen my sister recently?
- Who? - Miyauchi Shiori, she lives here.
I'm sorry, I don't know her.
Apologies. Have a good day!
Say, you got a duplicate key?
That would be against the rules.
Huh? No way!
- It's fine, right? - I don't...
You're supposed to knock.
No chicken anywhere.
This guy...
He's fired.
Are you alright? Please get up!
Should I call an ambulance?
No...
She's dead?
Yes...
Please call the police.
Why cause me such trouble...
Is it really Miyauchi Shiori? Confirm it's her.
Leave before the police arrives.
Claiming to be her brother, we can't get you get questioned.
I'm deleting her data.
Wait! This Miyauchi-san...
Don't be in my way.
Yutaro-kun, can you see something like a will?
A will?
Ending Note
Dear dele people, please don't delete my data after all.
It's a young woman. This way.
I knew it.
I remember her well.
Maybe half a year ago?
She came to my office inquiring about ending notes.
An ending note?
A list of wishes in case you die.
It's different from a will?
It's sort of the same.
But the way it works is different from a will.
A will is a legal document and shouldn't be done without a lawyer,
but an ending note can contain whatever your last wishes may be.
There are no guidelines.
I told her the same thing.
Is that so? This should be fine then.
I don't need something as exaggerated as a will.
Excuse me for asking, but do you have some kind of sickness?
I don't.
I've always wanted to write an ending note once I turn 25,
so I've just been casually thinking about it.
Casually? She wrote it casually?
That's right. This why she left an impression.
Ending Note: In case of my death... 1) Please don't hold a funeral for me. 2) Donate all of my money to UNICEF. 3) Anyone who wants the tiny cactus in my living room can have it.
Dear dele people, please don't delete my data after all.
So what do we do?
Delete.
No, no, no! Can you read Japanese?
There's no official request to cancel it.
Again... Can't you be a bit more careful?
She added this for a reason, don't you think?
You don't believe this got any significance?
If it had any significance, she should have made a formal request.
Maybe she didn't have the time?
She suddenly was about to die and wrote it in a hurry?
Meaning it was no suicide?
I mean, she grasped this.
Even though she once made the request for deletion,
what caused her to change her mind on the brink of death?
- Right? - Right?
Hey! Are you even listening?
This should be on hold until we've figured out her true feelings, right?
Oh, he listened.
So how do you plan on investigating the true feelings of a dead client?
How about we use her phone and ask her friends?
That's a breach of contract.
Besides, the client herself asked for all of the data on there to be wiped.
And since you came up with the incoherent lie of being her brother,
you won't be able to get into her apartment again.
Searching the web with just her name won't do us any good either.
Music?
I think she was a composer.
Her bedroom looked more like a workshop with all that equipment.
( Miyauchi Shiori, Music )
( Miyauchi Shiori, 6th grade )
That her?
The age works out.
Yeah, I think it's her.
A site from 15 years ago...
Protecting personal information hadn't been a thing yet.
They even published her address and parents' names.
( Her father was an award-winning orchestra director. )
Come.
Thank you...
Shiori, one of your friends is here.
It was an acute heart failure.
She's always been a frail girl,
but for her to suddenly...
It's a shame.
But I'm glad that one of her friends came over.
Shiori-san told me
that her father was a conductor for the Touto Philharmonie,
so I contacted the orchestra
and got your telephone number.
We haven't been able to get in contact with her recently,
so all of her friends got worried...
She talked to you about her father?
Yes, about how much she respects him as a fellow musician.
I'm glad, even though that's a lie.
There's no way she would have continued to do music,
but for her to talk to you about her father at all, that's...
Can you please tell me about her?
I don't know anything about her anymore.
Like what she does for a living or what kind of friends she has...
Anything, really...
That's why I'm really glad when you contacted us.
No, that's...
I'm not sure how much
she told her friends about us,
but we did something really terrible to her.
I'm sorry Shiori, I really am.
Tomorrow is the wake.
If you don't mind, can you bring her friends with you?
It wouldn't feel right if her wake was only attended by her relatives...
I will.
You can't just agree to her and say that you will.
Do you even know her friends and where they are?
The mood compelled me to agree, I guess?
Anyway, all we have to do is check her phone and...
That's a breach of contract.
Huh? Wait a sec...
Given her wish, wouldn't a funeral be bad?
In case of my death... 1) Please don't hold a funeral for me.
What should we do...
We don't do anything. It's the client's final wish.
We aren't obligated to follow it.
But why wouldn't she want a funeral?
I wouldn't want a funeral for myself either.
Cause you got no friends?
That's true, but not the reason.
That's odd, I'm the same.
A funeral...
So how are we going to find her friends?
Wait, you're getting off track here.
What we should think about
is the reason why our client changed her mind at the brink of death and not...
Look...
"bar GAFF"
You shouldn't have done that.
But wouldn't she feel lonely without her friends seeing her off?
Was he really her friend? I've never seen him.
But I had to tell him that she died...
Shut up!!
You're talking back to me now as well?
Let's not do this... Not in front of Shiori.
The funeral will be relatives only.
"GAFF"
Welcome.
You got a customer!
Welcome!
We're a girl's bar, though. That okay with you?
( small shot bar with an all-female staff )
- Oh, you are? Sure. - Okay, have a seat.
- It's your first time here, right? - Yes!
- That's a nice song. - Thank you very much.
It's her band.
For real?
No need to do that...
Amazing! I'm gonna buy it.
What can I get you?
Let's see...
We also have small bottles of beer
and I can make you some simple cocktails.
Huh? I thought it's your first time here?
This is Miyauchi Shiori's pen.
You know her?
Yeah...
- Can I talk to you for a sec? - Sure.
What's your business with her?
Do you know that she died?
I expected as much...
You expected?
She's one of our staff.
She's been in poor physical health and often couldn't show up for work.
After three days without any contact
I-I just had a hunch... The worst case might have happened.
It wasn't suicide, right?
No, it appears to have been a sudden death.
And you're connected to her how...?
I'm her cousin, her mother's side.
But I know nothing about her, including her work or friends.
And so I... Tomorrow will be her wake, so...
I'm sorry but I haven't known her that well either.
We weren't close enough to talk about her friends and other private stuff.
I also believe this place was her only job.
I don't know if she worked anywhere else.
That so...?
Look who's back!
And, huh? Isn't he actually pretty cute?
Stop it you slut. You'll only catch a disease!
- I'm a virgin! - Yeah, right...
He confirmed that Shiori-san is dead.
It wasn't suicide.
It was a heart failure.
And?
He wants us to attend her funeral.
Well, that's a bit much.
I mean, we've never seen or talked to her parents.
It would only make things awkward.
Yeah, I don't think we should go.
- Another one! - Right away!
And, did you tell them about her ending note?
- It wasn't the right mood. - Again with the mood...
You're surprisingly mindful about that.
That's not it.
I think the staff and the customers were really sad about her death.
Or...
Maybe they already knew about her death?
Everyone was quiet when I entered the bar,
but then they tried very hard to seem cheerful when I came back inside.
- Like they were pretending? - Why would they have to do that?
In order to find that out,
I guess we've got no choice but to try and check her phone?
- We can't. - Why? It's for her sake.
It's not for her sake. It's you who can't wait to find out.
You want to carry her secret on your shoulders?
Join me for the wake at least.
We'd like to burn some incense...
Thank you very much.
He's also one of her friends.
It's only you two?
Yes...
It happened too sudden,
so nobody else could make it in time...
See, I told you.
Shiori's father.
I'm thankful for you coming here,
but not even showing up at their friend's wake...
Is that what you call friends!?
- What has this world become... - Don't.
I'm sorry... We're already a little tired.
Don't be...
It's about to end.
Go ahead if you want to burn some incense.
And you call yourselves her parents?
What?
She was a fine adult in her twenties.
Not some little child.
She was free to live her life and choose her friends as she liked.
I don't think you got any right to complain about her life.
My condolences.
That was too much.
I hate childish parents like them.
It's you who asked me to come.
- Sir, you shouldn't...! - You!
Since you're her friend,
you must have heard why she left us, right?
Is that why you're blaming me?
No, I didn't hear anything.
She never told me about her parents.
When he showed up at my doorsteps, I only did some digging on the internet.
Although I think I got a pretty good idea.
She received some special education in classical music, didn't she?
You had high expectations and she failed them.
She ran away from home and got mad at you.
And then she completely severed her ties with you.
Of course you guys concluded
that she must have stopped doing music.
But you're not some unique case.
There are parents and children like that everywhere.
It's only you who feel you're special...
Let's go.
Have you went to her apartment? You would know if you did, right?
You went, but not her mother, huh?
Then wouldn't you already know?
About the fact that she continued to do music.
Is this true?
- You're too nosy. - Same goes for you.
Look.
It's true, she...
Stuff like this isn't music.
Such a hackneyed phrase.
Time hasn't changed with you.
Of course not, time stopped...
...when our daughter cut all ties with us and left.
What's with you siblings? This gotta be in purpose, right?
What?
I came to look for Miyauchi Shiori's consultation card.
See, here.
She wrote that she got referred to us by a friend.
She was introduced by Haruta Sayaka.
That's right. And here are Haruta Sayaka's documents.
Wanting to become a musician she entered the world of show business.
She started out as a gravure model,
but apparently she was sexually harassed at the time.
She summoned the courage to write about it on social media,
but that deprived her of any future job offers.
And then, forced retirement.
Wow, this is the worst...
She came to us in order to press charges against her former agency
and the guy who harassed her.
It eventually came down to settlement money,
but in the end she never managed to become a musician.
This is her.
And then we got recommended by her to Shiori-san.
Huh? Could she be?
You recongize her?
She's the one from the girl's bar!
And she's actually a musician.
They said that his is her band.
It was playing in the background and was quite good...
Here.
Okay...
This is it! This is the song!
So cool! Such an incredible song.
The Mints.
The Mints are an anonymous band,
a rare gem of honest music like an oasis
in a desert full of streamlined music.
Especially this song.
I suddenly felt like paralyzed after listening to it for the first time.
No, the opposite.
It made me feel like I could walk again.
It's especially nice to see a self-styled
girl's band who actually enjoy making music together.
- You sure they played this song? - Yes.
Listen! It's the same song, right?
Can you turn off the music?
Are you Haruta Sayaka?
Yes...
- You nervous? - I'm not.
Are you this band's Haruta Sayaka?
This is the limited fan-club jacket...
Yes, I'm a fan.
- Thank you very much. - No...
Don't worry, I won't tell anybody.
So you got deprived of your career
and since everyone knew your name and face,
you concealed yourself and hid your identity?
This is me and this is Shiori.
We're a girl's bar and a girl's band.
Then those other two work here as well?
I wrote the lyrics and Shiori composed the songs.
Why did you lie about it?
Why pretend not be friends?
You also lied about being a relative, right?
You must be the dele guys.
She told me.
Did you delete all of the data on her smart phone?
No, about that...
Well, yeah...
It really was a sudden death, right? And no suicide?
We don't know if it's the truth.
All we can do is believe her parents' explanation.
You believe she killed herself?
She left an ending note, so she must have been aware of her imminent death.
That's...
But that doesn't matter. Sudden death or suicide.
What's important is to find out why Shiori-san left that message.
Kei...
It's the first time you called her by her name.
She's one of the Mints. I have to show her some respect.
Gimme one sec.
( Her messenger log with Shiori. )
(4/23) Shiori: Maybe it's because we fought... The pain in my chest is killing me...
(4/26) Sayaka: Shiori, why did you die? (Yesterday) Sayaka: Come on, answer me!
Why don't we check her data?
If we do,
I believe we'll be able to understand
why she left such a message.
Are you prepared to carry her secret?
- I am. - Don't say that so lightly.
I'm serious, though.
You don't get it.
Are you not interested at all?
What I want to know is why a client changed her mind just before death.
I see...
So you ARE curious about people.
Oh? Did I hit a nerve?
Because it's the first time.
For one of the clients to withdraw
a deletion request at the brink of death.
Tell me, Kei.
"I should have seen that" or "I should have known that."
Have you ever felt that way?
All of us have.
I think Shiori-san also felt that way.
"I shouldn't have made that deletion request."
She changed her mind on the brink of death...
...and left this note.
In a way...
Doesn't this mean...
...that she wanted for this data to be revealed?
Thank you very much for making time to come all the way here.
The two of them are linked to my law firm
and provide a type of assurance
to clients who want to get certain data deleted
from their digital devices upon their death.
They're being entrusted with important secrets
and it's their job to make sure the data gets properly deleted upon a client's death.
Alright, I'll leave the rest to you.
If you excuse me.
My apologies for having lied to you.
Shiori-san also was one of our clients.
She also left something very important on her smart phone.
I think she remembered the request she gave us
when she realized that she was about to die.
It's due to those words
that we felt like we had to check the contents of that data.
What kind of data did she leave behind?
The truth about her.
Are you prepared to see it for yourselves?
This is the data she left behind.
And next up,
a speech on behalf of all of her friends!
That wasn't right...
This isn't a wedding!
- You alright? - Get a grip!
This is a memorial address.
The final moment! A farewell speech!
Haruta Sayaka, please come forward.
Guys, shhh! Shhh!
Miyauchi Shiori...
Shiori, she...
...was the best friend I ever had.
Shiori and I met in this bar.
No more than two years ago.
But with her being on the brink of hating music,
we shared a similar past.
We immediately hit it off.
You really can't wish for a better friend.
However...
Now matter how many nice words you have,
it's too late if the other person is already dead.
No matter how much you praise someone,
it's too late if you do it at the funeral.
You should say it while that person is still alive.
You want to convey your gratitude to your special someone.
What seems so easy turns out to be quite difficult.
That's why, if I had the chance to attend my own funeral,
wouldn't that be a wonderful thing?
Standing in the front row
listening to the speeches my friends have dedicated to me one after another.
If Shiori could hear my words right now,
I'd want to convey my deepest gratitute to her.
Thank you for being my friend.
Listening to all of your kind words at this funeral,
I feel like this Miyauchi Shiori
must have been a really great person.
Praising yourself?
I think you all already know,
but I'm on no good terms with my parents...
There was a point when I was worried that I'd have to lead a lonely life.
But now I have all of you who are here right now.
I had a very blessed life.
I'm not actually going to die anytime soon,
so I'd like keep on living
by thinking that all of us here are family.
Since we are a family, you even allowed me to have this living funeral.
For keeping up with my foolish self for so long,
thank you.
But you guys are quite some fools yourselves.
Hey, calling us fools...
My previous self is dead.
But my current self is still alive and kicking.
So, please...
Let this version of me
be your friend forever.
Thank you.
Shiori-san was already given a funeral while she was alive.
That's why she wrote in her ending note that she doesn't want a funeral.
This video shows that it's not you two
but her friends who she considered her family.
That's why she chose not to show you this video.
That's why she asked us to delete it.
But when she had the sudden heart failure,
she frantically added the note despite the pain in her chest.
In her very last moments,
she wanted to show you this video.
She wanted you to know...
How fulfilled her life had become after she got estranged from you two...
How many wonderful friends she had around her...
Shiori-san had a blessed life.
They said she wanted to leave the footage of the living funeral behind.
Apparently she wrote the note just before her death.
Why?
Maybe she wanted her family to see it.
So there was no point in us acting as total strangers?
Twisting us around her finger until the very end, huh?
But you know...
- That's so much like her. - True.
Welcome.
We're a girl's bar, though. That okay with you?
Do you even know what a girl's bar is?
We're Miyauchi Shiori's parents...
We've suspended Shiori's funeral service for now...
Before the cremation...
Please...
Please come and see her.
Please!
Please raise your head.
Please...
...tell us about our daughter.
We want to know about her.
Of course.
We've wanted to tell you
about her much sooner, too.
For bringing her into this world...
...thank you very much.
I'm glad for her.
You really think so?
It's a good thing.
She got her parents to learn about her happy life.
If I was her...
The reason for showing that video to my parents would be...
Would be what?
Revenge.
Well, not that I can speak for her.
Good evening.
This world is built on million compromise
it obligates us to lying
though it looks naturally so hypnotizing
You say no more pretend
*Check my d-addicts thread for full song and lyrics!
Look at you You’re nobody I know
Look at me Do you know who I am?
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts Twitter: @hpriestsubs