Kyogoku-san! Kyogoku-san!
It's been a month!
Come out of your room already!
Things were so nice back then...
--That's right...
--I'm sorry! --That's right...
Why dun' we do it again?
"D-Dun"?
Ayup. Dat's right.
Now...
Fuyuto Kyogoku is on his way!
I hast fallen!
He's just a physical and mental mess,
"Take Back Your Melon Heart" and he needs to spend some time in the hospital.
"Take Back Your Melon Heart" You listening?
Hey, so was Gokkun still alive?
Yeah. Just barely.
Oh, I thought he was dead.
He's had a hard time.
Let's go see him in the hospital and cheer him up.
John, Fuyuto's wounds are deeper than the Mariana Trench.
The love of his life was a serial killer.
And is dead.
And also was a man.
There's no coming back from that.
Heya general, how about a drink?
Some other time...
Get lost.
Afro.
What's up, kid?
Afro.
Legendary... detective...
Hey!
Eat up, Futaro-chan!
"Patient at Melon Hospital" "Client" Eat up, Futaro-chan!
I'm surprised you knew about the row house, though.
It's famous online and on 3.5 channel.
"Six legendary detectives in the darkness of Kabukicho..." Six legendary detectives who lurk deep in Kabukicho.
"Terrifying Black Afro Guards the Gate" Their gate guided by a terrifying black afro.
And the owner is an ancient hag monster with too much makeup!
How terrible!
So, what's the job?
Teleporting to another world!
Like you see in those online novels.
It happened in Shinjuku East Melon Memorial Hospital.
That's where Kyogoku-san is hospitalized.
Something very strange happened to me and the other boy in my room, Ranpo-kun.
Like always, I was reading my books,
and Ranpo-kun went to sleep early.
I went to sleep soon after, but...
...something felt weird, and I woke up and...
...we were transported to another world!
When I woke up...
...he was gone!
I must've been sent back here alone,
while Ranpo-kun is still in the other world!
But...
Um, Ranpo-kun left the hospital. His mom came to get him.
I know they're lying.
And the police won't do a thing.
Don't you think that's weird?
Well, I think you're weird.
You were dreaming, right?
It wasn't a dream.
You believe me, right, mister?
Miss.
Isn't it possible he ran away from the hospital, like you did?
Or it was a prank?
Impossible.
Ranpo-kun wasn't that type.
When I invited him to leave the hospital and go play, he never went with me.
He's a very honest and good kid who understands what it means
to be a son of Melon Hospital's director.
Please, detectives.
Bring Ranpo-kun back!
He's my friend!
Did you bring anything to pay us with?
Of course.
What are these?
Talismans to increase your magical power.
They boost your MP by 100!
Okay, I'm out.
They said on the internet that you'd take payment in things other than money.
Only Kobayashi would want that.
Fine, bring him here then...
He left to buy the new game console
and has been standing in line since last night.
I'll take the job.
Really?
--Hooray! Thank you!
--That's right. There's one other guy here who doesn't need money to work. --Hooray! Thank you!
Yeah.
So, you're supposed to be in the hospital, right?
Is it okay for you to be out of bed?
It's fine. I almost never have the fits.
No need to worry.
What's in there, by the way?
Well, you see, I know somebody else who's hospitalized there.
I'm going to pay him a visit.
There's no need to visit a guy like that.
Why don't we just stop in and say hi?
Hey, do you have a bag?
Yeah.
Go on without me.
I'll catch up.
Okay. Let's go, Futaro-kun.
Okay.
"Shinjuku East Melon Memorial Hospital"
What is that? A melon?
"Shinjuku East Melon Memorial Hospital" It's a planetarium that's under construction.
It's going to be a symbol of the hospital.
Futaro-kun!
You can't keep running away from your room!
Come over here!
Okay! Detective, take care of the rest!
No running!
I'm fine!
I really appreciate this.
"Melon Hospital Director" Trust means everything in this business. So it's hard for me to go to the cops.
Director Yokomizo,
does that mean your son, Ranpo-kun, really vanished?
I searched the whole hospital...
Looks like this "other world" is somewhere in the hospital.
Does that mean they've got their own in-house dragon?
You're not as far off as you might think.
Yokomizo-san, who first noticed Ranpo-kun was missing?
Me. I'm Harukiyo Matsumoto, his secretary.
"Melon Hospital Secretary" Me. I'm Harukiyo Matsumoto, his secretary.
"Melon Hospital Secretary" Matsumoto-kun here's been very concerned about my son's health,
"Melon Hospital Secretary" and has spent a lot of time going to see him in his room.
The nurse said his mom took him home...
That's what I've told the staff.
I don't want an uproar...
My wife and I separated. He's not with her.
We suspected a kidnapping, but there've been no ransom demands...
Something seems up with that director.
He seems way too calm...
Um...
Is Fuyuto Kyogoku doing well?
I've known him since preschool.
He's a patient here right now...
Both Fuyuto and I were very sickly as children.
We spent a lot of time here.
Extreme!
--Ex! --Cali!
Bur!
At the time there weren't a lot of children here, so we became friends.
It was always Fuyuto, me, and one more...
I have fallen...
"A Patient at Melon Hospital" A boy named Ango.
"A Patient at Melon Hospital" The three of us always played together.
"Hospital School"
I'm gonna be a doctor!
I want to be one, too, but I don't have a dad, and my family's poor.
You've never heard of student loans?
If you want to study, they'll lend you the cash and you pay it back.
Really? Then I'll study!
What about you, Fuyuto?
I'm scared of blood...
Then be one of the people who makes a hospital.
But you need a lot of money to do that...
So you'll need to go to the West Side to make your fortune.
Make my fortune?
Be a cool, rich guy.
This book talks all about it.
You make the hospital, and Harukiyo and I will work there.
We can cure all the adults and the kids,
and the rich people and the poor people,
and the good people and the bad people, too.
The bad people?
I don't want to help bad people.
We'll help anybody who needs it.
That's what you do if you're a cool doctor, right?
Hey, you brought a gift, right, Sherlock?
Yeah.
Take it.
'Sup.
That disgusting pervert!
What art I doing?
Where art I be?
A hospital in the East Side...
Thou...
Is the way you're talking Extreme Excalibur?
Thou dost have a job for me?
You have the skills, right?
But I art no longer a detective...
That kid who vanished, Ranpo, has the same disease Ango did.
Take it.
"Western Dream"
Why? I thought this was your treasure.
I've memorized it all.
I just can't help think of Ango when I look at him.
I need the help of a cool detective. Please.
Fuyuto?
I shalt head to investigate.
Then there's someone here 24 hours a day?
Yes. We checked all the security camera footage, too,
and didn't see anybody suspicious.
I see.
Kyogoku-san! Are you okay?
--I'm worried about your health... --Ignore me!
Matsumoto-san told me you're going to help with the investigation?
--I'll help you, so let's work together-- --Silence!
Hold me tighter!
Okay!
So where are we going?
The scene of the crime.
Understood.
Give it back, mister!
Hey!
Shut up!
Hey, I know the answer!
"You there!" Hey, I know the answer!
--What? Come on, I got that one right!
--What art that fool doing? --What? Come on, I got that one right!
It's the new game console.
Supposedly really realistic.
Realistic...
Kobayashi stood outside all night lined up for it.
All! The! Boobs!
There should be a secret passage to the other world...
That's right! That must be how he was taken out of here!
Come on, that's ridiculous.
They're all letters from his mom.
I guess she can't come to see him...
There art none for this week.
Huh? That's odd.
Matsumoto-san brings them every week.
I was sure he brought one this week...
Does that mean somebody took it?
It probably contained the code to reach the last boss.
I see!
Right, right.
I hath solved the mystery.
What's going on here?
Ssh!
Liar! You said you'd let me see Mommy!
That's Ranpo-kun's voice.
Harukiyo!
Yokomizo-san?
What are you doing here?
I can explain! There's a really good reason-
Well done.
I didn't think you'd make it this far, Fuyuto.
What's going on here?
Nothing unusual was found at the scene of the disappearance.
There were no witnesses.
But everything makes sense if you assume Ranpo-kun left on his own.
Ranpo-kun? Why?
Mommy told me to...
She said I could see her if I did...
Harukiyo most likely rewrote the letter.
And Ranpo-kun fled the hospital using the same route Futaro-kun did.
Then the other world I saw?
That game system.
Harukiyo ordered Ranpo-kun to put it on you.
And then in the morning, Harukiyo removed it.
So that was it...
But why go through the trouble?
Futaro-kun had a habit of escaping the hospital.
It was likely that he would tell the police of Ranpo-kun's disappearance.
But if what he said was that he went to another world...
No one would take him seriously.
--Come with me! --Wait, Ranpo!
Ranpo!
Harukiyo!
Harukiyo, give up!
Stop it!
Let go of Ranpo-kun!
You're not the kind of person who would do something like this!
You and Ango swore to be doctors who would save people, right?
What do you know?
I gave up on that a long time ago!
You're no different. You're a detective in some dump on the East Side, right?
I haven't given up on my dreams yet.
I wanted to at least work in medicine even if I couldn't be a doctor.
So I managed to get hired here.
But here's where it gets funny.
Yokomizo, the director, was my father.
He hired me out of sympathy when he saw what a failure I was.
At first I was grateful, but...
He wanted Ranpo to take over the hospital.
He gave him the best education money could buy to make him into a great doctor.
Even though he barely gave me and my mom a dime!
So I decided to use Ranpo to blackmail him.
So I could inherit the hospital!
You're disappointed, aren't you?
I'm not who you thought I was.
Thou canst still start over.
Let's start over together...
Fuyuto, the reason I hired you
was that I thought a shitty detective from a dump
would just make a mess of the investigation.
That's horrible!
We'll help anybody who needs it.
That's what you do if you're a cool doctor, right?
That's so lame...
You and I are both so lame.
Right, Harukiyo?
It's time for our last Extreme Excalibur.
Let's go to hell together, Harukiyo...
Kyogoku-san!
Let the battle...
...begin!
Not yet.
We're not done for yet.
Fuyuto...
Kyogoku-san, you're crazy...
How is a disappearing act like an otherworld fantasy?
I don't know, how?
It's a miracle if it has a satisfying ending.
Thanks, Sherlock.
For what?
For giving him hints to solve the case
and helping cure him with the poop.
You tried to help him get better, right?
Mr. Detective,
here's your talisman for a reward.
I'll take it.
When I grow up, I'm going to be a detective, too!
I must go.
The case calls Fuyuto Kyogoku, the cool guy detective.
N-No one.... can... stop me...
'Sup.
"Tokyo 7th Prison"
Hey, that was nice of you.
Thanks.
What's wrong?
You're kidding...
He's dead?
--Guards! --Get back!
Get away from him!
"Where is He?"
This doesn't make sense! I'm so worried!
"An Explanation of the Mysterious Character That Appeared in the Episode" "Only to hide animal poop. Beneath the character is real poop."