Higurashi-san, I know you're at home.
Give me a break already.
You're the only one left in here.
One more week. Come on, don't be that guy.
They say people die twice.
( Notice of Eviction )
Once when your physical body breaks down,
and the second time when you're completely forgotten.
If that's the case,
then the imminent breakdown of my physical body
won't be my first death.
I'm already completely forgotten.
Me and my cursed power,
I should just disappear from this world without anyone's heed.
On the other hand,
I'm not sure whether it's right for those to disappear with me.
I thought I did the right thing.
Looking at her happy life ever since that moment,
it should have been the right decision.
But, was it really?
I don't know anymore.
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts Twitter: @hpriestsubs
Hello.
Huh? Mai-san?
What?
It's soft. Not solid.
It's extremely soft. Not solid at all.
Bend it softly. Relax. Be Relaxed.
Bend it softly. Don't force it.
You don't have to.
You don't need force. Bend it softly.
Bend it softly. Softly.
It's not solid at all. Softly. Bend it softly.
Softly. Softly...
You seemed so desperate I couldn't bring myself to speak.
You know, this kid here got a spoon bent when he was child.
He was all about psychic abilities at one point.
That's unexpected.
- You actually are into such shenanigans. - Not shenanigans.
Sure, most of them are fake, but some are the real thing.
Renowned organizations are doing research into it
and in some countries the police resort to those powers for their investigations.
It's arrogant in the first place to deny anything
that can't be explained by today's science...
Whatever. You wouldn't understand.
So? What's the urgent matter?
We received a signal about an hour ago.
The client is Higurashi Yuji, 35.
"They say people die twice."
"Once when your physical body breaks down,"
"and the second time when you're completely forgotten."
It sounds like a will.
"Me and my cursed power,"
"I should just disappear from this world..."
Seems kinda unstable.
"Looking at her happy life ever since that moment."
Who is "her"?
No idea.
"I'm not sure whether it's right for those to disappear with me."
What are those?
- Huh? You're unlocking it? - This is a special case.
Special!?
This must probably be it.
The heck?
Nothing but child-like drawings.
I'm at a total loss here.
Anyway, let's get the confirmation first... His number?
I already tried to no avail.
I see...
His address?
I know where to go.
What? You're coming, too?
This is a special case.
It's here. There are still such derelicts around?
It's got solitary death written all over it.
This is it.
Higurashi-san.
Doesn't look anyone else is living here anymore...
We're going in?
Excuse me.
Higurashi-san.
Higurashi-san?
A drawing.
My apologies.
He drew this when he was dying...
Oh, the door's open.
- ...hi. - ...hi.
It's not what it looks like...
Forcing your way inside... What's wrong with you guys?
- It was him. - Now it's my fault?
- I didn't say to break the lock. - You totally nodded!
Shut up!
They confirmed he died from a disease, so you got off the hook this time.
A disease?
Terminal lung cancer, it seems.
He never went to a hospital.
Must have been quite painful.
Poor fellow...
What's that?
The picture he drew during his final moments.
You just took it? That's theft.
His data also included hand-drawn pictures.
I figured it might be important.
I recognize the drawings.
I know who he is.
- He made the contract 25 years ago to be exact. - 25 years ago?
Higurashi Yuji once gained attention as a gifted boy with psychic abilities.
I knew I heard that name before.
It's no wonder you're so proactive.
What do you mean?
The client was his childhood hero.
Higurashi Yuji had an outstanding extrasensory perception.
They call it psychometry.
By touching the picture of a missing person,
he could see that person's location.
He drew the images he saw in his mind.
Through a certain variety TV show,
they managed to find missing people.
His abilities made him the topic of every TV show and magazine,
causing a huge boom.
This was his final appearance.
This girl wanted to find her missing mother
and requested for his help.
Those were definitely drawn by the same person.
But the contents are completely different.
I wonder whether those drawings are about a missing person as well.
He looks kinda sad.
So, did he find that girl's mother in the end?
They overdid it with the production and it turned into a complete failure.
And why was it his last appearance?
All Fake? Unmasking The Gifted Boy
It was this article's fault.
He was worn out from a previous show and had a bad perception that day.
All Fake? Unmasking The Gifted Boy
But the recording couldn't wait,
so the director made him follow his instructions.
They faked it.
Higurashi got pressured by the reporters and admitted it.
I remember. That kid got quite a nasty bashing.
Ever since then he disappeared from the media.
- So he was a phony after all. - No, he was the real thing.
At first everyone was amused, but they gradually became afraid.
It's because they couldn't find an explanation.
That's why they attacked him and erased him from society.
A witch-hunt no different to the old kind.
Excuse me, Higurashi Yuji's cremation?
They're already gathering his ashes.
We were told it would be at 11...
The bereaved family asked to expedite it.
His family...
That's right! They asked me to pay for the cremation!
I haven't seen my nephew in 20 years! Gimme a break already!
So Yama-chan, I need you to lend me some money.
Hey, what's the matter with you? Hurry up and get this over with!
Yeah, ten grand are fine... Seven. Okay, five!
I know, thanks!
Well, I guess I'll get his bones to my brother's grave.
Why do I have to deal with this stuff!?
They may have been separated, but his real mother is still alive after all.
( The Late Higurashi Yuji )
He's my older brother's child.
When he was in junior high, my brother killed himself because of debts
and I had to look after him for two years.
But earlier you said that his real mother is still alive.
She divorced my brother a long time ago and got herself a new family.
I know you're in there! Come out!
Hey...! He's your own flesh and blood!
You cunt! Come out!
Please go away! We're no longer related.
I'm begging you, go away!
I went and asked her to take care of him,
but she refused vehemently, calling him a cursed child.
A cursed child...
Do you guys know that he used to be famous?
The boy with psychic abilities.
Their divorce was due to that ridiculous power, too.
She got scared of her very own son.
"I gave birth to a demon," she said.
This kid got cast away by his own mother.
It must have been hard for him.
We can't just delete it like that.
He's your childhood hero after all.
- Excuse me, hello. - Hello.
I'd like to see Kamata-san.
- Which Kamata-san exactly? - ...Kamata Naoki.
He made lots of shows about psychic abilities 25 years ago.
He's a TV director...
You mean Managing Director Kamata?
Oh, he climbed up the ranks.
Well, I guess it was bound to happen.
You have an appointment?
I can't say I have an appointment...
In that case he won't be able to receive you.
Come on, you don't have to be so stiff...
That's him?
Excuse me...
Kamata-san, hello. Nice to meet you.
I'm an acquaintance of Higurashi Yuji.
You know him, right? The boy with psychic abilities.
The thing is, he died a few days ago.
He's dead?
Yes, and we found these at his apartment,
so I'd like to hear your thoughts...
I have nothing to tell you.
- Wait a second! - No more!!
He left us those important drawings!
Could you please just take a look!?
Wait! Hey!
You worked on multiple shows together, didn't you!?
Making a child lie on TV... He's dead, you hear me!?
You don't even care at all!?
Get off me!!
Yes, hello?
I've located Matsui Mika.
Matsui?
The little girl who was looking for her mother.
My father planted all those flowers.
He lives in the neighborhood and visits us all the time
now that he's retired and got too much free time.
Well, it's just that he can't get enough of his grandchild.
He's picking her up from nursery school as we speak.
How did you become friends with Higurashi-san?
Well, I guess you can call us drinking buddies.
Always talking about foolish stuff.
- Right? - Yeah.
My apologies.
He's a peculiar one, but he isn't a bad person.
It's a shame that Higurashi-san has passed away,
but I'm relieved he managed to make at least a few nice friends.
Did you ever meet him after the show?
But he's always been on my mind.
Those articles about former celebrities and how they live today,
they wrote that he had a rough life...
If it was the unsuccessful search for my mother
that caused his life to change for the worse,
I can't even begin to...
Don't take it too much to heart.
Your mother's whereabouts are still...?
I've already given up by now.
Although I hope that one day they'll at least find her bones.
I think my mother was probably already dead at the time of the show.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Higurashi-kun.
They're our clients, Matsui Mika-chan
and her father, Shigeharu-san.
- Nice to meet you. - Thank you very much.
Okay, this way please.
Uhm...
I'm also living apart from my mother.
So I can very much relate to you.
- You want to see her, right? - Yes.
I want to see her too, very much so.
What's the matter? You saw her?
Go ahead, draw.
What's wrong? Start to draw.
I'm sure that back then,
he saw the dead body of my mother.
That's why...
When I saw the recording of the show,
he somehow seemed to be very sad about something.
If they find her corpse I'll be hurt.
I'm sure he must have felt that way and decided to draw random things...
I just can't shake the feeling...
He actually left us some important drawings from his childhood.
These are the drawings...
We have no idea what they are.
- This... - You recognize it?
Isn't this the aquarium in Uchibou...?
When I was a child, we often went there as a family.
Then, what about the other drawings?
I don't know, but this one...
I'm sorry, I must have been mistaken.
It's fine.
Mama, I'm back!
Welcome home. My father.
- Hello. - Mashiba-san and Sakagami-san.
Friends of Higurashi-san. We shared some stories.
Hello there.
Oh my, I got rejected.
Sara, how do we greet people?
Hello.
Hello! Well done! You're amazing!
Higurashi-san, you mean...
Yes, he died of cancer the other day.
I see, he died.
- Gramps, let's go and draw! - Of course.
If you excuse me. Heave-ho! Take your time.
Bye-bye!
How strange. She's usually very shy.
Maybe... I might be mistaken here again, but...
About one month ago...
- This one's yours. - Looks delicious!
I'm trying my best.
Sara, what are you doing?
I'm waving at the uncle.
When I saw his hunched back,
I thought that it might have been him.
It's been 25 years, though.
It was more of a hunch, I guess.
I'm sorry, I'm saying some weird things.
No...
This part must be about Mika-san.
Then "that moment" must be the fake drawings on the show?
If that's the case...
Do these point to her mother's actual location?
Is that even possible?
Hey, are you listening?
...that's why.
That aquarium got a complete overhaul 20 years ago.
( Picture of the aquarium from before the overhaul in 1998. )
Well, we've made it all the way here...
But what now?
You know, I don't believe in things such as extrasensory perception to begin with.
Seeing a scenery just by touching a picture...
Isn't that ridiculous?
Now what?
Let's try following this road for now.
Two more drawings.
What's that supposed to be? This... building?
And finally a bottle...
Meaning Mika-san's mother is buried underneath the bottle?
You know, I've never trusted those things.
But maybe they do exist, those psychic abilities.
- Hey! - What!? What!?
- What? - H-How did you?
- Huh!? - W-What did you!?
- What did you do? - N-Nothing!
- Of course you did! - I didn't do anything!
- I was only holding it! - Everything alright?
Everything alright?
Huh? That drawing...
It's the campsite at the foot of Mount Akegata, right?
Mount... Mount Akegata campsite?
Yeah, it was closed a long time ago, however.
Brings back memories.
I used to go there a lot with my kid.
Where can we find this?
She must be inside that forest.
We have to find her for Mika-san as well.
It's quite a vast forest.
It won't be that simple.
Here.
We'll be fine. Let's get going.
You won't be able to carry me through a forest. Go by yourself.
What are you saying!?
It's your childhood hero's data, isn't it?
You have to see it with your own eyes. Now get on my back.
There's that as well. I don't want to be a burden to others.
Don't you dare play the handicap card at such a time.
We're going. Ready...
How can someone who believes in such abilities get the jitters?
What's wrong?
What is it?
Hey, why are you going that way?
Well, I just...
What's wrong?
What is it?
Found it.
This...
It's hard to believe that psychic ability crap.
I don't believe it either.
But it's a fact that the drawings of our client
led them to the body.
Anyway, those two are are a bona fide third party!
Ms. Lawyer, you don't have to yelp at me like that.
I can hear you just fine.
We got in contact with Matsui Mika.
Those two said the truth.
As I told you a countless times!
She said that she definitely wants a DNA analysis.
Did she now.
Well then, I'm taking them with me.
Sure, we may allow them to leave for today.
However, we may see each other again depending on the results.
Fine by me.
But if the DNA analysis results in a match,
neither the names of dele.LIFE nor the name of our client
leave this building, you understand?
The bereaved family doesn't want to get ridiculed.
Please keep your information management under control!
25 year-old prediction of the boy with (...) comes true
Young Higurashi His miraculous powers were real!!
Yes. Yes.
Gifted boy with psychic abilities "I believed him"
Anyway, we won't accept any interviews.
If you excuse me.
That damn detective. Even though I made myself clear.
It must have been painful.
My family supported me,
so I managed it somehow.
This is proves that Higurashi-san's abilities were real, doesn't it?
I've never even once doubted his abilities.
I always believed in him.
Yes?
It's a TV station this time, they're asking for an interview.
I'm not taking anymore calls.
Seriously, those two cause me nothing but trouble.
Where are they anyway?
Our apologies for lying about being his friends.
No, I had already given up about my mother coming home.
I should be thanking you two...
Please don't worry about it. It's part of our job...
...although it's not.
Yesterday must have been tough with all the reporters.
They're awful.
They were giving Higurashi-san such bashing
and now they completely changed their attitude again.
That's the mass media for you.
Well, the good thing is that he regained his honor, right?
I'm deeply grateful towards him.
Creating such a lie out of worry for me...
My current self might be able to accept my mother's death,
but if it was my 10 year-old self, I'm not so sure...
Where's Sara-chan today?
What is it you want to talk about?
That belongs to you.
We found it together with your wife's remains.
( Matsui Shigeharu )
I must have dropped it back then.
I didn't notice it at all.
Did you...?
So stupid...
It was such a stupid quarrel that...
Back then I was pressed with work...
Mika was at an outdoors camp school that night,
so my wife barraged me with her complaints...
- Listen to me! - Shut up!
Hey... Kyoko?
Kyoko? Kyoko!?
I'd been thinking about calling the police countless times.
Countless times...
But I couldn't do it.
This might sound like a lame excuse,
but if Mika found out that it was her father who killed her mother...
What would have become of her?
Considering that, I did everything to...
I had to do something about my wife's body,
so I got her in the car and drove.
I was familiar with the land in that area.
The three of us often went there on trips.
But for it to become a place to bury a person...
The next day I made a missing persons report and got questioned by the police.
I tried my earnest to play the role of a puzzled husband whose wife had suddenly disappeared.
After a while
the feeling of guilt began to grow by day...
That's why you agreed to go on that show when Mika-san suggested it.
Even if it exposed your sin...
What's the matter? You saw her? Go ahead, draw.
I believe that back then
he saw how I killed Kyoko.
I decided to devote my life to Mika after that.
I was given the mission to bring that child happiness.
At least that's what I told myself...
The police doesn't know yet?
We've only come here to give this back to you.
Please decide for yourself what you're going to do.
However, we think that our client
would want you to keep on watching over Mika-san's happiness.
Sara-chan...
She's waiting for her grandpa to pick her up.
They could at least clean it from time to time.
As if that woman would clean it.
That's how the dead become forgotten, huh?
"People die twice," was it?
I wonder how he thinks about what we did?
The dead don't think.
But there are spirits and such.
I could sense him inside the forest. Or rather his spirit...
It's like he was guiding us.
Also when I bent the spoon.
There are no such things as spirits.
Oh? Then how come you had the jitters?
Spirits and such were fabricated by religious people to make a profit.
You believe in psychic abilities, but you don't believe in ghosts.
Kei, you're quite a contrary person...
There's one more place I want to go. Let's go.
Where?
Kei, how far are you making me drive?
Why not just tell me or at least give me some address?
Not much longer. Now shut up and drive.
Geez, what would you want so far out in the sticks...
Higurashi Yuji's mother is living over there.
On the verge of dying
he recalled his mother who abandoned him...?
Kinda heartbreaking, huh?
What now?
We're heading back.
You're right.
It should be fine as long as we remember.
Remember the boy with psychic abilities and a mother complex.
If we do that, Higurashi Yuji won't have to die a second time.
That was quite smug of you, Kei.
- Get us out of here. - Right.
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts Twitter: @hpriestsubs