Return the 5 million yen Akane-san has borrowed from us and has yet to return.
I'm worried about Akane. Please cooperate with me.
We'll be Bounty Hunters.
1 million yen... How many days of part-time work is that?
I crave more excitement!
I ran off on my DV husband.
Can I be taken into your circle, too?
Haru-chan.
We're going to be living together from here on, so we need to speak honestly to one another.
That's the man!
Let's go to the police... together.
Your special investigation's reward.
"We are..."
"...Bounty Hunters."
"Jasmine"
Cut this into thin slices.
Thin slices?
You don't even know how to cut this into thin slices?
It's because I don't know how that I asked for your help, isn't it?
Common sense is common sense.
So I don't have any common sense.
You're gonna say, "that's why you're still single," aren't you?
Not really.
Now Akane-san had good sense.
Why are you so different from your sister?
Akane...
This is all her fault.
"That's right."
"All this started because my little sister disappeared."
"Say, stay there for a little while and take care of Haru for me."
"Don't say such selfish things!"
Please don't blame Akane-san for your lack of common sense in making dishes.
Yes, yes, Sensei. Please enlighten me in the ways of making meals.
What's with the attitude?
Enough, I quit! I quit!
What's that?! I bent over backwards asking you for this.
Um... Can we move forward on our discussion?
Go ahead.
These are the three I'm nominating this time around.
A murder-robbery at a Pachinko gift exchange shop, for 3 million yen.
A taxi robbery for 1 million yen.
And a case where an OL disappeared for 1 million yen.
If we're talking amount of money, I say the first guy.
It seems he's a foreigner from Asia, so he may have run off to a foreign country.
Then he's no good.
Then, the taxi-robbery.
This happened in Kochi. (~400 miles from Tokyo)
We can't spend the money to get there.
The one other one is the case of an OL who was murdered 10 years ago.
- Hmm! The crime scene's not far away. - You're right.
That one should do.
- Ah, welcome home. - Welcome back.
I'm home.
What are all of you doing?
Huh? Nothing really.
I guess we should keep this a secret from Haru-chan, shouldn't we?
It's the world of adults.
Right. Okay, continue, continue.
Huh?
What's wrong?
The day of the crime, October 29th, is my birthday.
Then, let's take this one.
Why?
Because I always make the decisions.
You just think it's amusing, don't you?
Kazumi-san.
Why have you been upset since earlier?
Could it be, "that"?
"That" again?
- It's not! - Jun-chan!
Kazumi-san, this one's the most realistic for us.
- I won't do it. - Huh?
I'll pass this time around.
If we don't work hard as a team, it'd be impossible for us to get that 1 million yen!
Anyhow, aren't you the one telling us to work hard on these?
I have been working hard, haven't I?
Kazumi-san, what's going on?
Nothing.
Let's do it without her. It'll just increase our shares.
That's right. We can do it.
Let's see...
The victim was Yamasaki Haruko-san, 23.
She was struck with a knife...
...at her apartment home in 2-Chome, Sumida-ku, City of Ishizawa, where she bled to death.
At the time, her boyfriend was cleared.
The door lock wasn't broken, so it appears the crime was committed by someone she knew.
On the day of the crime...
...Yamasaki-san was on her way home when she stopped off at a nearby convenience store.
The security camera there confirmed Yamasaki-san's appearance...
Justice is profitable.
Heiwa Fansubs Presents: HUNTER ~Sono Onnatachi, Shoukinkasegi~ HUNTER ~These Women are Bounty Hunters~
Episode 3: "The Murderer of an OL is a Fellow's Husband... Uncovering the Truth Before Marriage"
"Snack Bar HITOMI"
Here, thanks for waiting.
Thank you very much.
Ah, Akane-chan's sister.
Say, come drink with me, come drink with me.
Yaohachi-san, don't you have to get up early in the morning?
Don't worry, don't worry.
Yaohachi-san. We're drinking together, aren't we?
Ah, that's right.
So long!
Huh? Ala?
Ala? Haru-chan, are you asleep already?
Huh?!
Hey... Kazumi-san, hey...
What's this about?
Huh?
But that's my futon.
Eh? A marital spat?
"He wasn't feeding the dog," she said.
That's why she's in a bad mood.
Even if it's just for one night, can we calmly go to sleep like this?
I hope so.
I'd be best just to hurry and get to sleep.
That's true.
Ah, I can't take this.
Me either.
Do we have some ear plugs?
Not about that.
- Add me to your circle. - Eh?
You're Bounty Hunters, aren't you?
Do you even know what that means?
I love things like detectives.
Okay!
Then I have a special mission for you, Haru-chan.
Eh? What is it, what is it?
Find your Mama.
Then I'll bring you into our circle.
You're sly, Aunt.
- Itadakimasu! - Itadakimasu!
- Super-gorgeous. - Super-sarcastic.
Ippei and Haru-chan and Rei-chan, too...
...you can't have likes and dislikes when eating.
- Yes! - Yes!
Ippei. On your way back from school, bring back a week's worth of clothing changes.
Okay.
Hey, just how long do you intend to stay?
Until my husband comes to pick us up.
That's a bother.
Well, in the meantime I'll work around here at the store.
Which would be better, stay or go... Hey?
Ah!
Hello? Jun-chan.
Huh? You've already moved on it?
All right.
I'll join you as soon as I can. Yeah. So long.
"Ippei-kun."
"Ippei, you'll be late."
"Yeah..."
"Let's go."
"Yeah."
- "We're off." - "I'm off."
"Have a nice day."
It's definitely a mistake.
But...
Ippei-kun, that's your Papa, isn't it?
Ippei, where did you stay yesterday?
At Haru-chan's.
Hello.
We always seem to be under your care, don't we?
And we with you.
Mama... Aren't you going to get her?
Hmm...
When Mama's apologized.
So long, I have to get back to work.
Excuse me.
What were you doing on October 29th, 10 years ago?
Mama's birthday?
When I checked into it...
...seems the female victim was quite uninhibited and was seeing many men at the same time.
The idea is that one man was her favorite lover and that another man got angry about that and killed her.
Jun-chan, you'd better be careful yourself.
I'm doing just fine.
We need more.
Who are the suspect candidates?
A weekly magazine thoroughly dug into it...
...but everyone proved to be clean.
Ah! I copied the article from the library.
The criminal's gotta be one of these men.
In his mid-twenties?
He'd be in his mid-thirties now.
Ah, that's true.
Average height and weight, with a nondescript face that doesn't linger in your memory.
Huh?
What are you doing?
Watashi ga obasan ni nattemo Even if I become an old lady...
How's the investigation progressing?
It's got nothing to do with you.
It doesn't.
It's got nothing to do with me, but...
I thought you might be hungry, so I could make you something.
Please! I haven't eaten since morning.
Jun-chan, you don't want any?
If you would please.
Hmm...
It'll be tough finding a man without any rumors going on about him...
The victim was into diving.
Shouldn't we check into that line of investigation?
Machiko-san, please check into that.
I'm sorry. I specialize in cyber investigations.
All right, then I'll go.
Jun-chan, you track down friends of the victim.
Then I'll go to the company where the victim was working.
What company was it?
Let's see... Okishima chemicals.
- Here's the address. - Thank you very much.
"Okishima Chemical Corporation"
Welcome. Good afternoon.
Hello.
Could you fill this out?
Ah, yes.
Ah, here you go.
Ah, thanks.
"Company Name"...
"Yanai Stationary"
Thank you for your help as always.
Ah, yes.
Kazumi-san, what are you doing?
That's not fair.
I was going in for a pass only to find you there doing an investigation behind our backs.
I wasn't really being sneaky.
What's going on?
She intends to hog all the bounty for herself.
I'm not...
Then why did you go there?
I can go wherever I want, can't I?
Isn't that a perfectly misplaced anger?!
Jun-chan, you're the one saying strange things, aren't you?!
What have I said that was wrong?
- You were watching me, weren't you? - I was watching you.
Because you went in... You went in, didn't you?
Without even hesitating.
Without hesitating.
For pete's sake!
What's going on, Kazumi-san!?
What do you want?!
Is your marital spat still going on?
But why would you do an investigation on your own like that?
I just wanted to know...
...who the criminal is.
If you want to be a part of the investigation, then make up with Jun-chan and us first.
Never mind that, just tell me!
Aren't you being selfish, Kazumi-san?
Isn't the criminal Shinpei?!
Shinpei?
This looks just like my husband.
That's why I had to go there today.
When I wrote down my husband's company name, they let me in right away.
They have business dealings with them.
I borrowed this from one of the victim's friends.
Ah...
He was photographed together with the victim...
They knew each other.
My husband...
...has no alibi for that day.
I told you, didn't I?
The date of that crime is my birthday.
So he didn't come to have dinner with me then at our usual restaurant like he had promised to.
"A phone call for you."
"Yes, hello?"
But he canceled at the last minute.
What was his reason for canceling?
I don't know.
So I walked over to the apartment where my husband lived then.
That evening...
...my husband didn't return home.
One week later, we had dinner at that restaurant.
Where had he gone?
You didn't ask?
Because...
...that's when he proposed to me.
At the time, I had no idea at all about that incident.
There was a fuss about it when the weekly magazine came out, but it was hardly on TV.
Besides, there was just no way I could think of my husband as being a criminal.
He isn't the criminal, now is he?
You can't declare that, can you?
He knew the victim and has no alibi for that day.
Have you confirmed it with him?
That's what I was trying to find out today.
I questioned them closely, but they said they really couldn't recall.
If...
...your husband did kill her...
Like I figured, you do think he did it.
No! I'm just supposing.
What would have been his motive?
Motive...
In order to get married to me...
...that annoying woman he was seeing was in the way...
He killed someone in order to get married to you?
I'm sure of it.
Kazumi-san, are you rich?
Are you saying he's a fortune-hunter?
Then is there some other reason?
He wanted to monopolize my beauty.
I think you're wrong there.
Hey you!
Anyhow, without investigating into it...
No, no, no! I guess I've been over-thinking this.
My husband can't even kill a cockroach...
...and just the sight of blood when he injures his finger is enough to make him lightheaded.
He could never, ever kill a person.
Let's think that...
Senpai! You have a customer.
All right!
Can you...
...come down to the store?
All right.
"The obstacle..."
"...has gone away."
Eh?
That's what he told me when he proposed.
Obstacle?
He meant the victim. I'm sure of it.
Kazumi-san!
Do you trust your husband or do you not trust him!?
I don't know...
I'll check into it.
Please keep it a secret from Jun-chan and Machiko-san.
All right.
Is something going on?
Huh? No.
A married couple...
They can't ever know each other mutually, can they?
If she did know, she might not have gotten married...
Eh?
No, no, I'm talking about myself.
Ah... I see.
Well, still, it was enjoyable learning about the other person...
...and we had a fun first 2 years doing just that.
Ehh... My wife passed away first.
We were together for 30 years.
Somehow, that makes me feel a little like getting married myself.
Just a little?
Yes.
About this little.
Thank you very much.
I'll try calling him.
"Gondo"
"I'm confused right now."
Ichirin areba ii Just you for a flower is enough
Heya ni kazaru nosa To decorate this room
Yakusoku The promise
Dakishimete So hold me
Oi, oi, is this okay?
What should we do about it?
Ah, the sister! Hello, hello. Come drink with us.
Wouldn't it be better if you went home and drank with your wife?
Ah, we'll have a duet, too. Say, what'll ya sing?
Ah, then start with Mya...
Mya?
I guess you really are good.
No, Hitomi-chan, you're the best.
I enjoyed that!
I'm just happy that you've come.
I'll come every day. Every day.
- Come, we need to talk. - What do you want?
You seem to like this store a lot.
Yeah. Because compared to the one next door, they have young cuties here.
Right, Hitomi-chan?
You like 'em young, huh?
Don't get so pouty.
There was a time when you were young and pampered, wasn't there?
Ah, thanks Ken-chan.
And? What did you want to talk about?
He irritates me so much...
Do you remember the case of an OL who was murdered 10 years ago?
Bringing up a murder'll make this go bad.
The victim's name was Yamasaki Haruko.
She was killed in her apartment home at 2-Chome, city of Ishizawa.
Is there a reward for this case?
Yeah. We really want to know who the criminal is.
I get a 30% cut of the reward.
10%.
Shake hands on 20%.
You aren't worth that much.
Such a self-important amateur.
I just want a quick check into whether...
...the name "Wakui Shinpei" was among those listed as being investigated for it.
- Who again? - Wakui Shinpei.
Ah, one of the men who dumped you?
Anything'll do. Counting on you.
This is why you can't get married.
Hmm... I don't want to be told that by a man who's been single longer than I have.
I was married.
Eh? You said you were single.
I am, now.
Ah, he's divorced!
Your wife either demanded it or she ran off on you, right!
She's dead.
She was murdered.
A yakuza gang I had taken down took out their revenge on her.
I'm sorry, I didn't know...
Ah, well, that's okay. Don't worry about it.
But...
I was joking.
Joking?
That's the usual setup in Hong Kong flicks, isn't it?
I'd like give you such a hit...
Give it a try!
Hey!
- Hitomi-chan, what should we sing next? - What should we do?
I can't hear her snoring.
Huh?
Ah, maybe she can't sleep?
Ow! I don't know!
There's no way you couldn't know.
Wait... Ow, ow...!
All right, I'll talk.
Good boy.
I was told to kill Fujita by some man calling himself Ginji.
- All right. - Bye.
Arrest him.
Eh? Wait... If I told you, you're supposed to overlook that!
Who promised you that?!
Compensate for your crimes.
Well done...
That guy's an informer.
You should let him swim free.
I'm different from you.
Yeah. I'm different from a fool like you.
When you were in Unit One, all I did was wipe up after you.
Your ass that was supplying yakuza with money and women.
Thanks for that.
What are you doing?
Huh?
This is Shinjuku.
You aren't supposed to be wandering out of Arakawa's Department of Safety.
I'm allowed to go walking wherever I want as a private citizen, aren't I?
Hey, let him go.
Check into what case Gondo is investigating.
"The victim's name was Yamasaki Haruko."
"She was killed in her apartment home at 2-Chome, city of Ishizawa."
"Ishizawa, 2-Chome"
It'll be okay. Don't worry.
But...
Right? It'll be okay.
But...
You're wrong.
This looks exactly like my Dad.
I'm coming in.
Ippei-kun, I have a favor to ask.
What is it?
You have a family photo album, don't you?
Why?
Could you show it to me?
Why that particularly?
Well... I just do.
Are you suspicious of Papa?
Ippei-kun.
I see...
The one who scribbled on that wanted poster was you, Ippei-kun, wasn't it?
Is Papa a criminal?
I don't know; that's why I want to check that.
That way we can clear things up.
Haru-chan...
You were looking at it?
Why were you hiding it?
This is from when he proposed.
Ala? It ends here?
The rest are on our home PC.
Ah... A digital camera, huh...
We also have pictures we took with our cell phones.
Shouldn't you put them in the album?
You mean deliberately print them out?
Can't, can you?
Aunt.
Ala?
Senpai. It's not "ala"!
Huh?
Aren't you investigating?
Of course I am.
What are you doing? You haven't told us anything at all.
Could it be Rei-san's doing the same thing Kazumi-san is?!
What do you mean?
Trying to hog the entire reward.
You're totally wrong.
So long! 'Cause I'm in a hurry.
"Yanai Stationary"
You're Wakui-san, aren't you?
Yes... That's right.
Um, could you take a look at this?
Who are you?
I guess it is you, isn't it?
Excuse me.
I called earlier. My name is Isaka.
Yes.
Please tell me so I know.
I met your husband.
I asked him directly.
"Was it you who killed Yamasaki Haruko-san?"
Why?
Of course he denied it.
But...
I think he did.
- But... - But what?
- There's no evidence. - In that case...
Let's find out if he's guilty or not tomorrow.
What do you mean?
"Yes, this is Wakui."
"Hello?"
"Remember back to 10 years ago."
"Who is this?"
"To what you did back then on October 29th."
"At 4:30 tomorrow, come the monument in front of Ouji Station."
"Who is this?!"
If my husband comes...
...then he's guilty?
To the best of our ability...
Please don't come...
He's guilty...
Wait, wait a minute!
Shouldn't we confirm it some more?
Then...
Go to Ishizawa's 2-Chome.
When I said the crime scene of Ishizawa, 2-Chome, he headed right for it.
Hello?
All right. I'll come right away.
That was from Detective Gondo.
Seems some information came in to him.
- What should I do? - Continue to follow him.
I'll contact you!
No...
"Ishizawa, 2-Chome"
The scene of the crime?
Please don't scare me.
He told me that during the case's investigation, there was a possibility he had an accomplice.
An accomplice?
He's moving. I'm hanging up.
I lost sight of him.
Eh?
He may have realized I was following him.
Found him! I'll continue following him!
"Arakawa Central Police Station"
Say, something's...
What is it?
My husband's at the police...
Eh?
I guess he's... surrendering himself.
Ala?
Huh?
Thank you for waiting.
- Will this do? - Yes, it's fine.
Is his accomplice a woman?
Are they still connected even now?
This is...
I knew it.
What is it!
You had to go and do it in this roundabout way!
If you wanted to make up, then just say so honestly.
Huh?!
First off, clear things up.
Like what?
You've been acting strangely lately, haven't you?
Coming home late every day.
Going around here and there during the day.
Huh? Buying unnecessary gifts for me and Ippei.
Are you having an affair?
An affair!?
- Me?! - That's right.
That's what you're doing.
Who are you going to meet here?
Who was it you bought these for!?
You're the one who led me here, aren't you? You intentionally changed your voice.
I didn't lead you!
Making me walk to all those places filled with memories.
Memories?
Look. That's why we're here, isn't it?
Hello? Come here right away.
I'm already here.
Was this your trick?
You're...
Ala?
But when you and I were talking, who was on the phone with Shinpei?
That was me.
It was Ippei?
To prove Ippei-kun's father wasn't a murderer, the two of us did an investigation.
I wanted Papa and Mama to make up.
That's why I helped these two out.
Since that monument in front of the station...
...was close to both my company and the part-time job Kazumi had before...
...we would meet there and go home together, wouldn't we?
But since going back and forth was a waste...
...I got the part-time job with a bento vendor in the neighborhood instead...
That shrine was where you went to pray for Ippei-kun's safe delivery, wasn't it?
Because the crime scene apartment just happened to be nearby...
...Kazumi-san seems to have had a misunderstanding.
Then...
His surrendering himself to the police... was my misunderstanding?
After all, your husband isn't a criminal.
You can declare that?
Um...
Are you saying a murder case occurred 10 years ago on Kazumi's birthday?
That's right.
You doubted me?
Because you knew the victim, didn't you?
I have a photo as evidence.
Because she was a client.
That's why the picture.
In the photo you looked like you were having so much fun together at that party.
It was a party, wasn't it?
I was having photos taken together with anyone who wanted one.
Then...
What's your alibi for that day?
I had gone to my parent's home.
Your parent's home?
I confirmed it with his parents.
They were opposed to my marrying you.
Before I proposed to you, I wanted to try and persuade them.
On that day, I wanted to settle things with them before I met you, so that's why I wasn't there.
What was their reason for opposing it?
"How can a half-man like you..."
"...bring happiness to some other family's precious daughter," they said.
In the end, it took until the next morning to persuade them.
So that's why you didn't return to your apartment that night.
Yes.
That's the "obstacle" he said was now gone during the proposal...
It was the opposition of his parents.
Mama?!
That's such a relief!
Here, Mama.
I've remembered the feeling I had when we registered our marriage together.
On the upper floor of that building, I was surprised to find a ward branch office up there.
Mama, take them.
Yeah.
Here.
Thank you.
Say, let's take a picture.
We should. Ippei-kun, you get in there.
Okay, Ippei, come here.
Yes, say cheese.
There.
So that was it.
I'm glad Kazumi-san was able to reconcile, too.
Kazumi-san has told her husband about becoming a Bounty Hunter, hasn't she?
"I want you to quit," he said.
Eh?! If Kazumi-san quits, that would be a problem.
- She won't quit. - Why not?
It was as a Bounty Hunter that Kazumi-san came to understand her husband's feelings, wasn't it?
I think her husband understands that as well.
I wonder...
Oh!
Kazumi-san, are you going to have to quit being a Bounty Hunter?
- Eh? Why? - Well...
Hey, the crucial point is how is the investigation going?
Nothing at all yet.
Geez, when I'm not around, you don't get anywhere at all.
Yes, yes.
Ahh... I feel like I've settled that case already.
Rei-san's naive, too.
Ala?
I think that's the first time you've called me "Rei-san."
Is it?
A totally unreliable person has come...
I investigated, too.
Is that true?
Well, it's too bad about this time around.
What do you mean by that?
Haven't you seen the news yet?
"Ginga TV cameras capture the suspect Makita immediately following his arrest..."
Ah, good timing.
"The suspect Makita was..."
Isn't he completely different from his portrait on the poster?
They've caught him, haven't they?
My husband's way cooler.
Sorry for coming so late at night.
Not at all.
I get this happy feeling whenever I'm working on nails.
- Has something good happened? - Eh?
Yuko-san, what about marriage?
I haven't even thought about it.
Me, either...
But I do feel a little envious...
Here. A repair job today.
Yes.
"Investigation Room"
Oh, good work.
I heard.
Though you weren't even in charge, you got your ass smacked.
At long last, we can get a good night's sleep, can't we?
Even so, why are you doing that?
Ah, that's right.
Me and Ippei-kun worked hard, didn't we?
Yeah. Thanks for your cooperation.
Then I can be a member as of today, right?
Eh? As a Bounty Hunter?
No way, no way.
Why?
I told you, didn't I? You first have to find Akane, Haru-chan.
I just get one-sided phone calls from Mama.
"Public Phone" Could it be Mama?
Hello, Akane? Stop screwing around!
Geh! Why aren't you out?
Don't hang up. I'll kill her if you do.
Where are you?
Can't say.
Let's meet for now.
I told you we can't meet.
Why?
Say Oneechan, are you okay?
No, I'm not okay.
You sound terribly troubled.
- Aunt, is Mama... - Shh!
Hello?
Yoshida-san was targeted for a take-down over 10 million yen and someone...
...set him on fire!
In order to silence him!
What happened to the money? That 10 million yen. Could you get that back?
The results won't topple the police.
But the nails are the same.
Jun-chan, don't take your eyes off that woman.
In other words, you don't believe what's right in front of your eyes.
That's right, where this is concerned.
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