Stop it!
Shit, don't come near me!
Stop it! Stop it! Don't!
- Shirai-sensei! - Ah, mama.
Thanks for the other day. Lawyers sure know how to talk.
That guest was a real problem.
- That was no big deal. - Right, I have to thank you.
Here you go.
Asatsumi tomatoes, they're really good.
- Thanks. - Drop by again, will you!
Sure.
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts
You guys can't even collect debts.
EP 2: Lawyer Shirai Shinnosuke's Great Camouflage
I'm sorry.
Looks like he's not in.
How can you know!?
He could just pretend!
I'm gonna check again.
- Who are they? - Shirai-san!
I know you're here!
Come on now, Shirai-san!
What's with this Shirai fool? Hey, Shirai!
I know he's in! I saw him just now.
You guys take the back!
Which gang is he from?
Hey, Chika-chan. It's me! Hurry! Open the door!
The hell, Shirai! I know you're inside, you bastard!
You better open up!
Ah geez, who are those guys?
Black market loan sharks, it seems.
They sure have guts, coming to a lawyer.
There's another problem. This month's rent and bar association fee...
We need 603,350 Yen by the end of the month.
That increased a lot.
Shouldn't we move to a cheaper place?
We'll be alright. There is nothing for you to worry about, got it?
Come on, Shirai!
Chika-chan, hit me!
Shirai, that bastard! He hit me, that son of a bitch!
Shirai, don't you dare bail through the window! Go to the back, the back!
The back, the back!
For Christ's sake!
- Here, tomato. - Eh, tomato?
Got em from Fuji's mama. Aasatsumi tomatoes, they're good!
Mmmh, that's asatsumi for ya!
Yesterday afternoon, in Koto...
...a man was found beaten to death inside the cold storage...
...of produce wholesaler Yamagishi Food Service.
The dead person is Kamatani Keisuke, 33 years old, from the same company.
What kind of person was he?
He was an earnest man.
He devoted himself to the company.
Do you know what could have caused him to suffer this fate?
I'm sorry, but that's enough.
There is nothing else to say at this point. Let us go now!
President Yamagishi! Please give us a few more details!
According to the police, the vicinity of where he was found...
- ...shows signs that he fought with the attacker. - Ah, Togawa.
Nakano-kun, would you be so kind...
...and replace the lamp for us?
I'm scared of heights.
- Nakano-kun. - Yes!
First, cause of death.
Cerebral contusion from being hit by a blunt weapon to the back of his head.
- As I thought. - Estimated time of death.
Judging by the body temperature of the corpse, three hours before he was discovered.
- Which means around 2:00 pm. - No witnesses or anything?
It's a business holiday, so most of the employees stayed at home...
...but there is one, Kujo Satoshi, 32 years-old, this company's employee.
Record says he entered the storage at 2:05.
Alright, let's have a talk with that guy.
Yesterday, you entered the cold storage at around 2, didn't you?
What did you come there for?
I was told by President Yamagishi to come to the cold storage at 2.
There was nobody when I got there...
...so I immediately left again.
The victim's estimated time of death was at around 2:00 pm, yesterday.
You didn't notice Kamatani-san at all?
- I really didn't. - That's strange.
Couldn't it be that you had an argument...
...you got annoyed and angry, hit him...
...and ended up killing him?
That's absurd! I didn't do it!
Yes.
230 million.
Then there's no way we could settle it out of court.
Doesn't matter to me. We can fight it out in the courtroom, fair and square.
Apologies for having you wait.
I'm Lawyer Shirai.
My name is Sakasegawa.
Please, have a seat.
Sakasegawa-san.
So, what brings you here today?
Do you know about the incident at Yamagishi Food Service?
Yes, a person was killed inside the storage.
About that matter...
My fiance is the suspect.
Your fiance?
- Hey... - What?
You seem busy.
It doesn't wanna work.
Good luck.
I'm sorry.
- Be more careful. - Yes.
Be more careful!
Gotcha!
Mislabeled food?
Yes, our company primarily sells vegetables to restaurants and super markets...
...but they label import tomatoes as domestic asatsumi tomatoes.
I see.
It seems that before his death...
...Kamatani-san appealed to the president to stop this or he will leak information to the public.
So, in other words, he was killed by the president to keep his mouth shut?
There is nothing else to say at this point. Let us go now!
Yes, then the president also summoned Kujo-san to the storage...
...in order to put the murder on him.
We've been together since yesterday evening.
There was nothing unusual about him at all.
Understood. Let's help him.
- Chika-chan, the contract. - Yes.
Well, there's just one problem...
And what's that?
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I don't have any money to pay you.
Oh my, that's a problem indeed.
What I can do...
...is helping in regards of those damages.
What do you mean?
With enough evidence, a class-action lawsuit regarding the mislabeled food should make a large amount of money in damages.
I see.
Man, you really are fortunate.
I, Shirai Shinnosuke, am going to make all the suspicion against you disappear.
Who hired you?
Your fiancee, Sakasegawa Yumi. She wants me to save you by all means.
First, tell me everything about that mislabeled food.
Why don't we reveal Yamagishi's crimes together?
I can't cooperate with you.
- Why not? - I can't drag her into this!
One wrong move and Yamagishi might do who knows what!
Them asatsumi tomatoes, where are they again?
The same place as always.
Them asatsumi tomatoes, are they really asatsumi?
Whatever.
Boxes: Asatsumi Tomatoes
A tomato calyx? Could that be evidence?
Let's take it for now.
Rapid cooling is now going to commence in storage B2.
All personnel, please exit the storage posthaste.
You gotta be kidding!
I repeat.
Hold on!
Rapid cooling is now...
Wait, wait, wait!
Hey, why is nobody opening!? Damn it!
Is anybody there?! Open the door!
I'm still inside!
Open it! Open the door!
That's bad.
So, cold. It's getting real cold.
You idiot! Where did it go?
So cold, so cold!
1 degree Celsius!
What's with this mess?
What has brought you here, Mr. Lawyer?
That's, you know, our aojiru.
- Well, please have a glass. - President Yamagishi.
What on earth is that about?
What's that?
You may have discarded of the contents, but the boxes are still there.
Isn't it weird in the first place to keep asatsumi tomatoes in a storage?
If they don't arrive on the day they were plucked, they shouldn't be called asatsumi!
You see, about those asatsumi tomatoes...
They don't have to be plucked on the same day.
Yesterday or the day before that, as long as they were plucked in the morning, they can be called asatsumi tomatoes.
Harvesting them in the morning ensures a rich sugar content.
So, what's your business?
No, I just wanted to make sure I'm right. Goodbye.
- Want a drink? - I'm fine.
In other words, you can't say that your company is mislabeling food.
Sensei, this isn't about whether they're asatsumi or not.
The problem is that he is selling imports from abroad as domestic asatsumi tomatoes.
Isn't that a case of mislabeling food?
- Objection! - Chika-chan.
If we get that inspected at a lab, we should be able to tell whether it's an import or a domestic tomato.
And if it's indeed an import tomato...
...it will be an important evidence for their fraud.
But the lab is going to cost a lot! We're in a tough spot as it is!
We'll be fine! The indemnities will be many times higher.
Indemnities, you say. Like you ever actually got any, geez!
General Affairs
You lost your note--!
Not so loud!
Was it brought here?
Ah, let me check.
Let's see...
Doesn't seem to be among the found articles.
- Say, Chief Clerk! - What about the investigation notebook?
Ah, no, nothing. I just found it.
Excuse me.
- Glad I found it. - Hold on.
Maybe...
...you dropped it at the crime scene?
Please.
I guess not just anyone can get in here.
Only employees and delivery merchants with a card.
It records who goes in and when.
You see, it's cold in here, so if you like.
- I'm fine. - Thank you very much.
The victim, Kamatani-san entered at 9:56 am on the day of the incident.
Considering that the estimated time of death was at 2:00 pm...
...he entered around four hours before he got killed...
...so he must have had work in here, right?
Yeah, seems like it.
At 2:00, the estimated time of death, Kujo Satoshi entered the storage.
Then he left without noticing Kamatani-san.
Help me out here!
Ah, yes.
Hello.
Hey, that's mine!
And who would you be?
Shirai! Don't just take someone else's phone!
Shirai-san?
Guess I must have dropped the notebook somewhere else.
Let's head back.
Isn't that the notebook?
Eh, I checked there!
- Isn't it great we found it? - Yeah.
- Here. - You didn't look through it, right?
You're not with the police, so why where you in that storage?
I'm not obliged to tell you. Now give it back!
Yes, Shirai speaking.
Ah, Sakasegawa-san? Yes.
- You discovered something? - Yes.
- About the tomatoes that vanished from the storage. - Have a seat.
They usually request an industrial waste contractor to deal with the vegetables left unsold.
On that day, all of the tomatoes were disposed of...
...and then tomatoes stopped coming in ever since.
In other words, the tomatoes at the industrial waste contractor are the most recent ones.
I'll rush over there immediately.
Shirai-san!
I'm coming with you.
There is nothing I can say that would require a lawyer, though.
Just before the incident, you received an unusual amount of tomatoes, didn't you?
Nothing I haven't seen during our both companies' long history.
- There wasn't anything strange about it. - Say, those tomatoes...
- Where are they now? - Right now?
Listen, we're an industrial waste contractor.
It's not like we're keeping such things here forever.
Must be tough for Yamagishi-san, huh?
All that babbling about tomatoes, I don't get it.
What a shady guy. "We're an industrial waste contractor."
First time I heard someone speak like that!
They must have disposed of them right away.
That's a dead end.
Please wait!
Here.
- That is? - Those tomatoes...
They might still be at that address.
- There are still some left? - Is that a reseller?
Hello? A stranger lawyer came here just now.
A guy called Shirai Shinnosuke.
We definitely received 400 boxes of tomatoes from Sukoyaka Enterprise on February 24th.
- Could you show us those tomatoes right now? - Wait here a second.
Here they are. We turned them all into juice.
Sensei, even as juice the ingredients stay the same, so if we get that fully analyzed...
- ...we should be able to tell their producing area. - Really?
Excuse me, but we'd like to analyze those, so could we get one bottle?
Sure, go ahead...
...but they were blended with tomatoes from another place. Will that be a problem?
Yes, hello, Shirai speaking.
Can you please stop snooping around like that.
I'd never do something like snooping around.
Listen, all of us are uneasy enough after one of our employees got killed.
Please leave us alone.
You wouldn't want to make matters worse by having the mislabeling of food getting exposed as well, you mean?
President Yamagishi, you summoned Kujo-san to the storage at 2:00...
- ...to pin the crime on him, right? - I don't know what you're talking about.
Is that right? Well, that's fine. Everything will become clear anyway.
Excuse me.
Ah, sensei.
Isn't that yours?
He threatened me not to poke my nose into this affair anymore.
- What now? - I can't give up here.
I'm a lawyer acting under the name of justice after all.
I'm relieved.
But all the tomatoes got turned into juice...
...so how can we find any evidence?
Well, I still have an ace up my sleeve.
Sensei! The results are in!
It finally came?
Alright, now we'll know whether those are domestic or import tomatoes.
Result: It's an eggplant.
Eggplant?
So you're not admitting it, huh...
- Detective. - Yes?
Come to think of it, when I entered the storage at around 2:00...
...I was on the phone with a customer.
Therefore it can't be me, right?
You remember that now?
Why didn't you say that earlier?!
I'm sorry. It totally slipped my mind.
Kujo had been on the phone with a customer from 1:50 until 2:00 on the day of the incident.
That means what?
You see, he could have done it like that while being on the phone.
I don't know, there were traces of a fight at the scene.
It probably got pretty noisy...
...so killing someone while being on the phone sounds rather unrealistic to me.
Yes, Shirai speaking.
He's being released?!
Go ahead, I'll be right with you.
Much appreciated.
You did well in there.
Thanks for hanging in there for such a long time.
I'm really glad for you.
This has been a really difficult case...
...but the police really are good for nothing.
If that doesn't prove it, what does?
And that Kuroiwa guy, he suddenly got so tiny...
I'm in no position to be delighted.
Right now I wouldn't get any money. But if I do this...
- I'm back. - Welcome back.
What's with all the tomatoes?
You can give me a hand here. We only need to repack them.
Repack? Asatsumi...
Don't tell me, you're fabricating evide...
It's them who got rid of all evidence first.
- We're not doing anything wrong here! - But...
We'll expose them in front of the press tomorrow.
Right when everyone is in an uproar, we'll press for a class-action lawsuit.
Once we get all that money from the indemnities...
...we can turn this thing around!
- Get the door. - Yes.
Coming!
Sakasegawa-san, come in.
Kujo-san is not under suspicion anymore...
...so why are you still helping with this?
I guess I just can't forgive Yamagishi after all.
He tried to make him look like a murderer, you know.
I'm with you on that one.
Alright, we're done. Chika-chan, it's late already so you can go home.
- Right, that sure was a lot of work. - Thank you.
- Well then, let's move those. - Yes.
Alright, take this on the other side.
Looks good.
I'll gather the press here tomorrow and expose their mislabeling of food.
This is gonna put an end to Yamagishi.
Let's move.
- I'll stay at the office. - See you tomorrow.
- Good morning, everyone. - Good morning.
I'm Lawyer Shirai Shinnosuke. I called you here today to let you have a look...
...at the infamous storage where the murder case happened.
Where is Sakasegawa-san?
Dunno, haven't seen her.
Well then, you open it.
Don't gimme that and open the door, will ya?
Everyone, it's this way. Follow me.
- Come here, it's this way. - A storage of vegetables, huh?
Now, everyone. Please look at this.
This is the dark side of Yamagishi Food Service.
Exactly, it's impossible not to be surprised.
They make import tomatoes look like asatsumi tomatoes and deceive their customers.
We absolutely cannot allow for such a criminal act to go unanswered.
We should deal a crushing blow to the person in charge!
- A crushing blow? - What do you think, everyone?
Is that you being frozen in shock?
- President... - A dead body?
Yes! This company is as good as dead!
There is no way...
President!
- It wasn't me! I don't know anything! - Shirai-san! Shirai-san!
Shirai, you really did it this time, huh?
I don't know anything. I only transported the tomatoes...
No, nevermind! Hot!
The corpse wasn't there when you put the tomatoes there?
I would have reported that!
The storage had been accessed two times between last night and this morning.
The first time, those tomatoes were brought in there.
The second time, the corpse of President Yamagishi must have been carried inside.
Both times, it was accessed by Sakasegawa-san.
Sakasegawa-san? That can't be.
We can't get in contact with her. Where is she right now?
I don't know.
Lawyer Shirai Shinnosuke, who is being suspected of taking part in this case...
- Shirai is coming out! - It's Lawyer Shirai!
Lawyer Shirai is coming out after having been investigated . Lawyer Shirai!
- A comment, please! - I haven't done anything!
I'm innocent! Move!
You mentioned that Yamagishi Food Service is mislabeling food, but was that all just made up by you?
I didn't! Watch out!
Step aside! I don't know anything!
Sorry for calling you so many times. Sakasegawa-san, if you hear this...
...please call me on my mobile phone or at the office immediately!
Goodbye.
Hello, Kujo speaking.
Hello, it's Shirai. Do you happen to know...
...where Sakasegawa-san is right now?
She is about to take her life.
What? Why?
She killed Yamagishi...
Sensei...
Can you rush over here right now?
Where are you right now?
First, it was Kamatani-san who got killed.
Kujo had an alibi.
That considered, maybe it was Yamagishi's doing and he was afraid his mislabeling of food coming to light?
No.
There is a possibility that we were deceived with the victim's time of death.
Deceived?
We think that the estimated time of death was at around 2:00 pm by calculating backwards...
...based on the corpse's body temperature.
However, couldn't it be...
...that he actually got killed before 2:00?
Didn't you notice something when you saw his corpse?
What about it?
He was way too lightly dressed.
It's their ordinary work clothes.
When they have to work in there for a long time, they wear exclusive coats.
Now why wasn't he wearing one?
It's because Kamitani-san didn't plan...
...to work in the storage for that long.
What was the room temperature on said day?
It was...
...set to 5 degree Celsius.
Can you really work in there like that for four hours?
I think he was only going to be there for a very short time.
But he ended up getting killed, at 10:00 am.
You're crazy!
How could the coroner have missed something that fundamental?
What if the criminal kept the corpse warm after the murder?
Kept the corpse warm?
Those coats have battery powered heat generators.
After killing him, the criminal must have put it on the corpse like a blanket.
From 10:00 am to 2:00 pm it heated the corpse...
...thus preserved its body temperature...
...moving the estimated time of death to 2:00 pm.
But you see, there wasn't any coat on Kamitani.
It would be easy to tell the corpse retained its warmth if he was found with the coat on him.
Thus it was necessary for the criminal to retrieve the coat.
He was able to enter it a second time...
...take off the coat from the corpse and leave.
- Right. - That would mean...
...it was the person who entered it at 2:00!
I'm really glad to hear that.
Yes, I'm looking forward to our continued cooperation.
It's Kujo-san.
I'm sorry for calling you here all of a sudden. I just couldn't think clear by myself.
Where is Sakasegawa-san?
I couldn't stop her.
If I had half the courage as her, I would have killed Yamagishi myself.
Where is she?
Please wait here.
Sakasegawa-san?
You'll be fine. Yamagishi is the bad guy here.
With me, Shirai Shinnosuke on your defense...
...it's not gonna be a problem.
I get it, you can't just watch your fiancee getting involved with murder.
But you have to forgive her.
She killed Yamagishi out of love for you.
But... that said, why am I tied up as well?
So I can have you both commit suicide by fire.
Suicide by fire?
You say Kamitani was killed at 10:00...
...but there is no record of Kujo entering the storage at that time.
He must have entered at the same time as Kamitani-san.
So he entered the storage behind Kamitani...
...turned on the coat after killing him...
...and exited the room leaving the corpse like that.
That's right.
However...
...why would he do all that knowing that it would bring him under suspicion?
Wasn't it to bring Sakasegawa-san into the play?
She saw her fiance being falsely accused of killing Kamitani-san by the company's president.
Resenting him for that, she then killed the president.
That's what the police is made to believe.
The one who killed Yamagishi isn't her, you say?
What?
What? What's going on? What is this?
The one who killed Yamagishi is me.
After all that work to clear you of those charges?
It has been my intention to get rid of both of them from the start.
If this keeps going on, I'll go to the police!
What is wrong with you now?
I'm doing this for the company!
Nobody can tell the difference anyway!
President, you have to put an end to this!
You see, I've been against it from the start.
Listen! You've gone too far!
Yes, Kamitani speaking.
Kujo here. I need to talk to you.
Can you come to storage B2 tomorrow at 10:00?
Got it.
Stop it, don't!
Stop it, stop it!
- President! - Shut up!
All you're is a good-for-nothing.
What? Stop it, will you. Stop it, I said!
What the..., stop it!
In order for the company to develop as I see fit...
...they had to disappear.
You knew about all that and gave him your card?
- I'll stay at the office. - See you tomorrow.
What are you doing here so late?
You gotta lend me your ID card.
Hurry up!
In the end, it was all Kujo.
I hope Shirai-san and Sakasegawa-san are okay.
Excuse me!
The young should run.
You're not running? It's stamina training week.
Eating right after... You gonna become fat.
Don't do anything stupid! She's your fiancee!
I have to protect the company at all cost.
You understand, right?
It's your lives in exchange for the lives of this company's employees, their families...
...and our trade partners' businesses.
Everyone will be saved.
That's sophistry!
That doesn't mean I want to be shaken by fear myself, though.
I'd be stupid if I burned myself as well.
Excuse me for using such a classic installation.
Please be proud of yourselves.
Your lives are never going to become pointless.
That's a poor way to go!
Shit!
Sensei, untie my rope.
It's lower.
Lower!
Hey, where do you think you're touching?!
I just did exactly as I was told.
Hurry!
Sakasegawa-san, on your left side.
- Cut it with that. - Okay.
There...
- Hurry up! - I am.
- Once it catches fire, we're dead! - Don't rush me!
Don't move!
Where are they?
Inside?
- Thanks. - No, I'm fine. Get that!
I got this!
Hot! It's hot!
So hot!
I'm sorry for deceiving you.
I wasn't really deceived.
Let's go.
I'm a great and generious person.
Everything is forgiven and forgotten.
Depending on the recompense...
...I wouldn't mind representing you as your lawyer at all.
No, thanks.
In relation to the double murder that happened at Yamagishi Food Service...
...the police has arrested said company's employee Kujo Satoshi...
...under suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Nakano-kun, another lamp.
Okay, got it.
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts
- Sensei! - There's a weird smell in the hallway.
The bill for the tomatoes is 345,000 Yen.
The analysis of the eggplant calyx, including the express fee, amounts to 108,000 Yen.
The unpaid rent adds up to 100,000. 100,000!
This couldn't be further from turning it around!
We're good! We'll be fine.
Right, that.
Use this.
You had that kind of money?
Vegetable coupons?
That bastard!
Are you messing with me?
I told you not to worry.
One big case and we'll pay that back all at once.
So please get that case soon!
See.
Maybe it just came.
Coming!
Express delivery!
Wait a second, wait a second!
Hold on, wait a second!
Those are asatsumi tomatoes.
Wait, what's this about?
Sensei! Yamagishi Food Service say you take them all back!
It's cash on delivery.
That's 194,400 Yen, please.
Sensei! Wait!
Hey, Sensei!
- 190,000! - Leave me alone!
- Go away! - It's 190,000!
I wanna be alone! I'm tired!
Go away!