Madoka, hold on tight to mama.
Get in!
Quickly! - What about you?
It's fine.
Mama!
What do you think, professor?
Ah, my legs are killing me.
No, I mean these readings look fine, don't they?
Oh...
I suppose so.
Mizuki Yoshirou, male, aged 67.
The fire department's gas inspection detected traces of hydrogen sulfide.
Hydrogen sulfide was detected at the site of discovery.
I repeat: Mizuki Yoshirou, male...
It should be alright to lift the restrictions on entry soon, shouldn't it?
Professor?
Hm...
If it goes on like this, these hot springs will be finished.
If you could declare them safe even a day earlier...
Even if you say that...
Is that where the body was?
You can't be in here!
It's off limits, you know?
The terrain at this site makes it particularly easy for wind to blow through,
so the probability of hydrogen sulfide flowing in
and accumulating in amounts exceeding a fatal concentration is exactly zero.
In other words,
there's no problem with the hot springs themselves?
Does that mean this man committed suicide?
No.
It's true that suicide by hydrogen sulfide is very common.
However, all such cases
occur in enclosed spaces, such as rooms or cars.
There's no way to maintain a high enough concentration of hydrogen sulfide outside.
Well, anyway.
If there's no problem with the hot springs, then we...
Is it possible that another person
forced the victim to inhale the hydrogen sulfide?
You mean...
murder?
That's right.
And you are...?
Oh, excuse me.
I'm Nakaoka of the North Azabu police.
Azabu?
What do you think, professor?
Could this be murder?
It's impossible.
At that site,
no one would be able to keep the hydrogen sulfide at a fatal concentration.
It's not an accident, a suicide or a murder.
So then how did he die?
As I said, we can't tell that yet.
Excuse me.
Professor,
please talk to me for a bit longer.
Professor!
Oh.
Oh!
You need equipment to produce hydrogen sulfide.
But there was nothing at the site.
So the criminal must have taken them away.
Professor? Are you listening?
Oh, excuse me.
Anyway, as I keep telling you,
at that site the gas would thin out no matter what you did.
Murder isn't possible.
Professor? Your tea is ready.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
What if the wind had stopped completely?
Even if you can't feel it,
it's not possible for there to be no airflow at all.
And to aim for such miraculous timing...
Well.
You'd have to be a witch or a god.
Thanks for the tea.
How about a demon?
For example, someone who'd happily kill their husband for money,
to get the life insurance payment.
Like a wife who's almost 30 years younger.
Excuse me.
When the CO2 concentration reached below 500 ppm,
this shows that an ice sheet had developed.
As I explained earlier, the development of the ice sheet
started a positive feedback loop,
and is believed to have caused major climate change.
This paper gives a comprehensive look at the entire Phanerozoic period,
but it also includes 2 well-known examples related to climate change research.
I mentioned the name of one of these earlier:
the "Snowball Earth" hypothesis,
meaning that the entire planet was frozen.
That was 700 million years ago.
The other is Raymo's hypothesis.
- Professor. - Yes?
It's time.
Ah...
Too bad.
I was about to get to the good part.
Next time I'll explain the Snowball Earth hypothesis
and Raymo's hypothesis in detail. Please look forward to it.
Hm...
Most of volcanic gas is steam.
If the gas was carried there by a very weak wind,
but the wind changed and it happened to stop there...
It usually disperses into the atmosphere,
so there's no way it would reach fatal levels to begin with.
What produced the hydrogen sulfide?
Where did the gas come from?
It's at most around 0.001%...
But there was an accident.
No... I can't accept it.
Oh!
Are you still worrying about that investigation?
There was nothing wrong with the hot springs, right?
Isn't that okay, then?
Yeah, but still...
You should tidy up and get back to work.
You haven't graded the students yet, have you?
Sorry.
Well, you're going to give them all higher marks anyway, aren't you?
You're so easy on your students,
but you're so particular about these investigations.
Miss Okunishi, there are two mistakes in what you just said.
First of all, I don't go easy on the students.
Isn't it wonderful that such young students are interested in geochemistry?
I don't want a single grade from me to nip their futures in the bud.
Huh? Did I say something strange?
No.
It's just that the students aren't interested in the earth so much as their own...
Never mind.
Second of all, about the investigation,
you aren't wrong to say that I'm being particular,
but that's not quite accurate.
Look, they're showing it now.
We heard there was a great waterfall there,
so my husband and I were going to see it.
But on the way there,
Mizuki Chisato, wife of the deceased Mr Mizuki
I realised that I'd forgotten the camera battery...
So your husband had an accident while you were heading home?
I should have just left the camera!
It's my fault.
I'm to blame.
I'm sorry.
Mrs Mizuki, please...
The guy who died was a movie producer who worked under a pseudonym, right?
They're saying his wife will inherit a lot.
Yes, Professor Aoe's office.
What?
Yes.
Professor, was there a problem?
What?
You have a call from Mr Nakaoka of the North Azabu police.
- Be careful here. - Okay.
The victim's name was Nasuno Gorou, aged 39.
He lived in Saitama.
According to the person who found the body,
the victim died sitting here, as if he were sleeping.
The cause of death was hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
What do you think, professor?
In just one month, at 2 hot springs that are nowhere near each other,
we've had 2 unsolvable cases of death by hydrogen sulfide.
Can we really call these accidental deaths?
That kind of thing isn't possible.
That's the complex terrain.
If this is the victim,
then the hydrogen sulfide...
As I thought, it wouldn't reach fatal levels like this...
Ah.
Kake-soba, no onions.
Okay.
Nasuno wasn't alone.
What?
A local saw him near the entrance to the hot spring district, getting out of a car with a female driver.
Her face was covered by a hat and sunglasses,
but it could have been Mizuki's wife Chisato.
I found out something about Nasuno, too.
He wasn't very popular, but he was an actor.
An actor?
Mizuki, who died at Akakuma, was a producer.
I wouldn't be surprised if he had links to an actor like Nasuno.
If so, Mizuki's wife,
Chisato could well be involved too.
In other words,
this opens up the possibility that
Chisato could have killed them both.
Maybe a love triangle,
or she used him to kill her husband for the inheritance, then had to shut him up...
Mr Nakaoka.
Why are you so focused on her?
Detective's instinct.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Thanks.
Enjoy.
What is that?
Heh...
Thanks for the food.
Come in!
What?
Hey!
What?
Sorry to disturb you so late.
Did a young woman just come through here?
No.
We're looking for a young lady who ran away from home.
What on earth...
Oh!
I want you to take me to the scene of the accident,
Professor Aoe Shunsuke.
Who are you? How do you know my name?
You're the professor they asked to investigate the poisoning, aren't you?
With that much information, it wasn't hard to find out.
I can't find out the details myself, but the police would suspect me if I asked them.
Even locals aren't allowed in at the moment, right?
So I thought asking you was the only option.
Take me there.
A local saw him near the entrance to the hot spring district, getting out of a car with a female driver.
You were at Akakuma hot springs too, weren't you?
You're more stupid than you look.
What?
If I were the criminal, would I deliberately ask you about the scene?
So, please.
What's your name?
I can't cooperate with someone who won't even tell me their name.
Uhara Madoka.
Why do you want to see the scene of the accident?
I'm looking for someone.
There's a close friend I have to find.
Why do you need to go there to find your friend?
Please take me to the scene of the accident.
Please.
This is a map of the scene.
I'm a university professor. I can't break the rules.
With this, you can go by yourself.
A map?
That's a map?
This is the entrance to the mountain path,
and this...
Fine. Let's go.
Let's meet at the mountain path at 9 a.m. tomorrow...
Let's go.
What?
Until a few years ago,
Nasuno Gorou had a few minor roles in drama specials,
but he was only in 2 films.
Does he count as an actor?
Well, if he said he was, then I suppose so?
Unfortunately, none of the things Nasuno was in
involved Mizuki as a producer.
In other words,
they probably didn't have a connection through work.
Excuse me for a second.
Ah.
Of course, Mizuki has a lot more credits.
Huh?
This director...
There.
Amakasu Saisei.
Oh, he used to be pretty famous, didn't he?
Although I never hear about him these days.
So Mizuki and Nasuno were connected through this Amakasu?
Wow, what a coincidence.
Do you want some coffee, Mr Nakaoka?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Amakasu Saisei.
â€œHe never flattered his audiences, and many of his projects had prominent thematic elements."
â€œHe was said to be a once-in-a-century level genius
and received numerous prizes."
Here it is.
What are you doing?
I was wondering where the gas came from,
if that was possible.
Up there, maybe?
It wouldn't have happened in summer.
The rising heat would have produced air currents
and dispersed the gas, of course.
But in winter the ground is cold,
and on windless days the air barely moves,
so hydrogen sulfide, which is heavier than air, just settles downwards,
accumulating in hollows.
But normally,
the slightest change in airflow would cause it to disperse...
You...
Who are you?
A witch.
Laplace's witch.
Laplace... the mathematician?
The one who formulated Laplace's equation?
A mathematician from 18th century France.
The inventor of "Laplace's demon".
"Given for one instant an intelligence
which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated,
if this intelligence were sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis,
for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain,
and the future, just like the past, would be present before its eyes."
Therefore, it would be able to perfectly predict the future.
Miss Okunishi.
Do you believe in the power of prediction?
What?
Do you think witches exist?
What?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Come in.
Excuse me.
I'm here to ask your opinion, professor.
Again? Why do you keep following me around everywhere?
It can't be helped. Professor, about the possibility of murder...
Professor, if you don't prove this could have been a murder,
I won't be able to pursue this case.
Oh!
You couldn't deliberately kill someone there using hydrogen sulfide.
It's not possible.
Amakasu Saisei.
What?
The so-called genius film director. Have you heard of him?
Well...
I've heard his name.
Both of the deceased, Mizuki and Nasuno,
had worked with that director.
Rather, that was their only point of connection.
Well, they were in the same industry.
That's not all.
When Amakasu Saisei was 47 years old,
Hydrogen sulfide?
Yes.
His daughter killed herself with hydrogen sulfide at home,
and her mother and brother were caught up in it.
Amakasu himself was in Hokkaido working on a new film,
so he was unharmed.
Hydrogen sulfide. Is that a coincidence?
But that was 8 years ago.
Actually, there's more to this incident.
This is Amakasu's blog.
He updated it a year after the accident.
Please read this part.
It's about his son, who was saved from dying.
On that day, my beloved wife and daughter died.
If any of my readers
is considering committing suicide with hydrogen sulfide,
I'm telling you this for your own good: you shouldn't do it.
They say hydrogen sulfide gives you a peaceful death,
but that's a lie.
They were no longer
the wife and daughter I once knew.
Can you think of any reason why your daughter would have wanted to kill herself?
No.
Of course not!
I'm sorry, Kento.
If your father had been there...
Happy birthday, Kento.
The four of us always celebrated as a family,
but this year,
it's just the two of us.
So you're saying it's possible that Kento could wake up?
It's only a possibility.
It would be the first trial of this operation.
We can't guarantee the outcome.
We have to think about the worst-case result, too.
Please consider it carefully.
That's fine.
If there's even a 1% chance that Kento could get well...
"And then,
a miracle happened."
Yes.
However...
Can you really hear me, Kento?
Once means "yes". Twice means "no".
3 times means "I don't know".
Those are the signals we decided on with Kento.
Kento.
You did well.
I'm impressed.
I believed in you.
3 times means "I don't know".
Actually,
it seems that Kento has lost all his personal memories.
So you mean,
he's forgotten me too?
WHO ARE YOU
Amakasu Saisei.
I'm your father.
I make films.
You know what films are, right?
I KNOW
You came to play at the studio where I was filming,
and there,
you saw someone taking off their hero costume.
You had a huge tantrum about them being fake.
I'M TIRED, I WANT TO REST
Ah,
of course.
Sorry, sorry.
Don't you remember anything about your mother and sister?
How about school?
Your teachers and friends?
That reminds me,
Kawakami from your football club wants to come and visit you soon.
Come on.
You were good friends, always together.
I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS ANY MORE
Hey, Kento.
Can I ask you one last thing?
Would it be better if I stopped coming here?
I DON'T CARE
I see.
Of course.
Kento as he is now is no longer my son.
To Kento as he is now,
it's as if I'm not his father.
Even so, the fact that Kento is still living in this world is enough.
Someday, I'd like to make another film.
Whatever happens in the future,
I'll still be a film-maker.
But I don't yet know when that will happen...
Do your best,
Kento.
Finally, I want to thank my family.
I'm still alive today because you were there for me.
Now, I can think about living tomorrow.
Thank you, Yukako.
Thank you, Moe.
And...
Thank you, Kento.
Hm...
What do you think, professor?
What do I think?
I understand Mr Amakasu's terrible misfortune,
but how is that related to this case?
Suicide by hydrogen sulfide was fairly common at that time.
Yes.
Well, it could be just a coincidence.
But,
if you consider a certain hypothesis, things strangely start to line up.
A hypothesis?
Some of Amakasu's films were hits,
but he also had a lot of flops.
Back then, producer Mizuki
was also in a lot of debt himself.
Apparently his family split up as a result of that.
In contrast, as you can see from Amakasu's blog,
he loved his family more than anything else.
He was always boasting about his family,
or speaking fondly of them.
So what did Mizuki think, seeing how happy Amakasu was?
Are you saying that Mizuki killed Amakasu's family and made it look like suicide by hydrogen sulfide?
To be more accurate, Mizuki's plan
was carried out by Nasuno.
At that time,
Mizuki and Amakasu were in Hokkaido, so he has an alibi.
Perhaps he made use of the film and persuaded Nasuno to commit the crime.
Then Amakasu realised this,
and now he's killed Mizuki and Nasuno with hydrogen sulfide in the same way.
Why now?
I don't know that,
but after Amakasu wrote that last blog post,
he completely disappeared.
It's like he went into hiding.
Okay? It all makes sense, doesn't it?
No, it doesn't.
As I keep saying, at those two hot springs,
it would be impossible to deliberately cause hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
What if Mizuki Chisato had helped?
If Chisato lured the victims to a place where gas could easily build up,
then Amakasu waited somewhere upwind,
and used a fan or something to send the gas towards them.
Impossible.
In such complicated terrain,
you couldn't predict where and how the gas would flow.
The probability that you could aim it where you wanted
is almost zero.
Almost zero.
So it's not actually zero.
Thank you, professor.
Ah...
The doomed genius, Amakasu Saisei...
I've seen this face somewhere.
There's a close friend I have to find.
The person you're looking for is Amakasu Kento, isn't it?
How did you know?
There's a detective looking into the gassing incidents at those two hot springs, right?
I see.
Is Kento involved in those accidents too?
What do you know? Please tell me everything.
Why do you want to know that much?
I'm involved in the investigation,
so if I make an error in my report, it will cause problems for the two hot spring districts.
No, the truth is
as a scientist, I want an answer that I can accept.
Please.
Hello? Where are you?
On the bridge.
On the bridge?
I owe you for the other day, so I'll tell you.
Stay out of it after this.
Stop. Stay there.
Walk straight ahead.
What?
Move forwards.
Stop. To your right.
My right?
Sorry, your left.
Huh?
A bit more.
What?
Stay there.
This is ridiculous.
This isn't possible!
But it's really happening.
If this were hydrogen sulfide...
Ah!
What are you doing?
Would you come with us?
What?
I'm Uhara, a neurosurgeon at Kamei University Hospital.
Uhara?
Are you...
It seems my daughter has been bothering you.
What are you doing here?
Do you know about Amakasu Kento?
Not in detail.
I just read the blog of his father, Amakasu Saisei.
Then you know a little about it.
I know he was hospitalised,
and miraculously showed signs of recovery.
That's him in the video, isn't it?
Yes.
That's Kento, 3 years after the surgery.
3.
4.
What does it look like he's doing?
5.
Well,
he's just rolling a die and reading out the number.
Watch carefully.
6.
3.
It can't be...
5.
4.
He can guess how it will land?
He's not guessing,
he's predicting.
Kento can correctly say how the die will land
as soon as it leaves his hand.
While it's still in his hand,
he doesn't know how it will land yet.
As soon as it leaves his hand, the die is affected by
gravity,
air resistance, which can mostly be ignored,
and the angle when it hits the desk,
the moment of inertia,
the coefficient of restitution,
friction...
The die's movements are controlled by these kinds of forces,
until it finally stops.
This series of physical phenomena
doesn't involve any unpredictable components.
Therefore,
as soon as it leaves his hand, the die roll's result is fixed.
That may be theoretically true,
but it can't be possible.
If I let go of it here,
what number do you think it will be?
It should be 6.
See?
Under the right conditions,
even you can predict it.
Those two situations are...
The same.
Whether a phenomenon is simple or complex,
there's no change in its predictability under the rules of physics.
Have you ever been to a temple festival?
- A temple festival? - Yes.
I used to go when I was a child.
There are lots of people coming and going along a narrow path lined with stalls, aren't there?
However,
they rarely bump into each other.
Are you saying that's prediction, too?
Exactly.
But if all you think about is the people coming towards you,
you can't enjoy the festival.
What do you do then?
If you follow people who are going in the same direction,
it creates a natural flow of people.
You could call it a system.
The important thing is
that this happens subconsciously.
It's a natural ability of humans.
His abilities are an extension of that.
Do you know what that means?
It's possible that we, or anyone else, could have those abilities.
If they had the same operation,
anyone could be like him?
There may be some individual differences,
but I believe that's basically true.
However,
there's one major obstacle stopping us from proving it.
The surgical treatment of healthy people.
Exactly.
With so few cases,
there's no evidence that doing the same operation would even work.
There's also a non-zero possibility
that we could cause severe disability.
But you did it, didn't you?
To your own daughter.
This is a national research institute, too.
I've been ordered to keep Kento's case secret
until we make progress with our research and establish the technique.
"With such ground-breaking research, we want to maintain a national monopoly."
I'm sure that's what they're thinking.
According to their instructions,
we have to make progress as quickly as possible.
Even so,
you used your own daughter as a human test subject.
A decent person wouldn't do that.
Madoka volunteered herself.
What?
To be a test subject.
Doctor Uhara worried about it until the last minute.
Why did she do that?
When she was 10 years old,
she saw her mother die in front of her.
Quickly!
- What about you? - It's fine.
Mama!
A tornado?
Her mother wanted to go home.
He says the weather is turning bad, so we should come home.
But I want to see the lake!
Okay then, let's hurry.
Madoka begged to go and see the lake.
If she hadn't been selfish,
they wouldn't have been caught in the tornado.
I think Madoka always blamed herself.
Then she found out about Kento's abilities.
If she had those abilities,
she would be able to predict the weather, too.
To stop the same tragedy from happening again,
she decided to have the operation.
Yes.
By doing that,
maybe she could stop feeling so guilty.
I understood how she felt,
and used that to justify performing the surgery.
Professor Aoe,
I told you all this
because we are both scientists,
so I believe you can understand the importance of this research.
So please,
stay out of this from now on.
And please forget everything that happened today.
Until the day comes when we're able to reveal this research in public.
Will that day really come?
Of course.
If everything you've told me is true,
then the two accidents at the hot springs...
no -
the incidents could only have been caused by one person other than Madoka.
Amakasu Kento.
Maybe he's taking revenge?
On Mizuki and Nasuno, who killed his mother and sister.
In other words,
he didn't really lose his memory, did he?
If that's true,
your research has already killed two people.
Don't you have anything to say about that?
This is for your sake, too.
Ah...
Are you threatening me?
After this,
whatever happens will be out of my hands.
That's what I mean.
Hello?
Ah, professor.
I found Amakasu.
You met him?
Yes.
But I don't think he'll listen to me.
He just kept drawing storyboards.
He said they were for the climax of his next film,
but that film was already finished a long time ago.
It seems he never recovered from the loss of his family after all,
and he's a broken man.
I checked his alibi with an employee just in case,
but of course,
he couldn't have taken revenge on Mizuki and Nasuno.
I see.
So your detective's instinct was off the mark, then.
No.
There's one more person with the same motive as Amakasu Saisei.
Amakasu Kento.
Perhaps,
if he got his memories back...
It's going to rain in 40 seconds.
What?
It takes 3 minutes to walk to the research centre from here.
You won't make it, so here you go.
Huh?
So you're my father's patient.
I was surprised.
Thank you.
Sorry.
I should have explained properly,
but I would have missed the bus.
How did you know?
I've seen your photo in your father's office.
No, I mean how did you know it would rain?
Well...
I just did.
That's all I can say.
Can you predict all kinds of physical phenomena?
No, I can't predict earthquakes,
and air turbulence is hard to predict too.
Air turbulence?
Like thunderstorms, or downbursts.
Or...
tornadoes.
Have you heard of the Navier-Stokes equation?
It's a physics problem that has never been solved.
Solving it would have an immeasurable effect on science.
They say there might be a hint for it in here.
If you could solve that,
would you be able to predict tornadoes?
Theoretically, yes.
But it would take time.
It would be better if there were lots of people like you, Kento.
I wonder why my father doesn't do that.
If they got the surgery, they'd be like that, right?
Everyone would be like you, Kento.
Maybe,
but it's not that simple.
Why not?
You have to be prepared to become Laplace's demon.
Of course, I can't understand it.
I just don't know what I should do.
I mean, the doctor has been involved in this research for a long time.
I only just found out about it, so I'm not qualified to talk down to him.
I shouldn't get any more involved.
That's what I'm telling myself.
If that helps you to accept it,
it's all the same to me.
What happened?
I'm sorry.
Report which floor it stops at. Go down!
Yes, sir!
Please help me just a bit more.
I really need your skills, professor!
My skills?
Here.
By "skills" you meant driving?
Ah...
What are you doing? Quickly!
Ah...
Damn it!
Even so, you shouldn't be following that case alone.
I'm sorry.
I guess it can't be helped.
Fine.
But not a word to anyone until I give you permission.
In return, I'll let you focus on this one case.
I understand. Thank you.
You want to outwit those elites from the central branch?
- Yes. - Heh.
So who's your next target?
Amakasu Kento.
Do you have any leads?
I don't,
so I'm planning to go back over it from the beginning.
Okay.
Right.
- Give it your all. - Yes, sir.
What will you do if you find Kento?
I have to find him soon.
If he takes revenge,
then maybe...
I throw these whenever I get stuck in my research,
as a good change of pace.
It makes me feel like I'm flying freely on the wind myself.
That's escapism.
Yes, it is.
But this simple thing can lead to some good ideas,
and help find a way to break through.
Hey-
I think Kento saw something that I can't see.
He said you need to be prepared to become Laplace's demon,
but I don't know what he meant by that.
Could it be that you regret it?
Perhaps these powers really are an amazing step forward for humanity.
However,
it's those powers that turned Kento into a criminal.
And you,
you're locked up in that lab,
being treated as a test subject by your own father.
Isn't it too early for humanity to have these powers?
These uncontrollable powers...
They could destroy our future.
Can these changes really make people happy?
Perhaps it would have been better not to have them.
I don't really know.
But there's one thing I do understand.
Kento is not a criminal.
There's no way.
5.
3.
I think I get it.
4.
2.
6.
1.
Are you okay?
Maybe we should give up.
I'm fine.
I just have to get over myself.
It's time, isn't it?
Yes.
If my predictions were correct, a tornado should appear soon.
5.
4.
3.
2.
1.
Ah...
I guess not.
Air turbulence really is hard to predict.
Under these conditions,
maybe...
Sorry, but come with me for a bit.
What is that?
A lunar rainbow.
A moonbow.
A moonbow...
They say moonbows are a symbol of happiness,
that they mean you can meet the souls of the dead once more.
Thank you.
Kento always supported me,
but I didn't notice a thing.
For 8 years,
he was thinking about nothing but revenge.
He must have suffered a lot,
but he never told me.
So now,
I'm going to save Kento.
She's here.
Even if Mizuki and Nasuno were killed by Kento,
there had to be an accomplice who brought them to those places.
If Detective Nakaoka's hunch is right,
she's our only way of finding Kento.
Please answer it.
Put it on speaker.
This is Aoe.
I went back to the starting point,
and looked into Amakasu's family again.
Apparently we were being fooled.
Fooled?
Yes.
According to a housewife who was friends with his late wife,
back then, Amakasu was actually planning to divorce her.
Divorce?
He never mentioned that on his blog.
Right.
Amakasu's daughter was in middle school,
and got involved in "compensated dating" to earn money,
and there was a big fuss at the child welfare centre.
What?
The ideal family that he describes in his blog
was all made up by Amakasu.
So what on earth was happening?
Hey,
why did Kento have to pretend to lose his memory in the first place?
That was so he could take revenge by himself someday.
But when Kento came to,
he couldn't have known he'd ever be able to move again.
Wouldn't telling the police to catch the criminal
have been a more certain way to get revenge?
Maybe...
it was to protect himself from the criminal?
What?
If the criminal was right beside him.
Maybe the one who killed Kento's family was...
Damn.
Mr Amakasu.
Your son's friend is here to collect you.
A storm?
That will liven up the climax.
Not bad.
Stop it! Who are you?
You are suspected of abducting a minor. Come with us.
What?
She's an important test subject. Please be more careful.
This is a problem.
If you can't keep things under control,
it makes more work for us.
My apologies.
Please follow Amakasu.
The doctor said to "look after Kento".
I'll stop the guards.
Thank you, Mr Takeo.
Let's go, professor.
Go where? We don't know where he's...
He just kept drawing storyboards.
He said they were for the climax of his next film,
but that film was already finished a long time ago.
How nostalgic.
This is where we filmed the end of "The Ruined Bell".
It's a great location,
so I bought the whole thing.
That film was terrible,
but this time I'm sure I'll make something wonderful.
Your son is inside. I'll be leaving now.
That's no good.
What?
Come out, Kento.
After 8 years, at least let me see your face.
Oh...
You've really grown up.
That makes me happy.
- Ah. - Ah.
Why did Kento choose this place?
Air turbulence...
What?
Thanks for bringing me out here.
I wanted to serve you some tea in return.
Since she's here too,
you can't use your hydrogen sulfide trick.
I thought this would happen earlier,
but you were surprisingly slow.
I had my own things to deal with.
But soon, the curtain will fall.
Don't rush.
As a director, I'm particular about the details,
so even the decorations all have to be real, or I'll feel uneasy.
A downburst?
Air flows down from cumulonimbus clouds
and crashes into the ground with great destructive power, blowing up the surroundings.
It's all starting to come together.
Kento is planning to wipe out these ruins.
He's going to die together with Amakasu.
Mama!
What's wrong?
Hey.
Tell me, Kento.
It's true that 8 years ago,
I made it look like Moe killed herself with hydrogen sulfide.
But at that time,
you were already in a coma.
How and when did you realise it was me?
You told me, didn't you?
Wonderful.
It's a real tragedy for my whole family to die.
This will make a good film.
What are you saying, Mizuki?
"I want a real story.
I want a real, dramatic story." Aren't you the one who said that?
That's why I prepared all this.
It's fine.
He can't move or speak any more.
If things start to look bad,
I'll just close his mouth again.
Don't worry.
Anyway,
Nasuno will give me a good alibi.
Do you know how it felt to hear you,
but not be able to do anything?
I see. So you could hear me.
That must have been tough.
How sad.
But that's another good scenario.
The sad fates of a father and son who can't understand each other.
People will cry.
Isn't that the best?
This film is getting better and better.
It's no good...
We're out of time.
Calm down! There must be a way!
Kento's going to die!
You'll regret it if you don't do anything!
You're the one who chose to become Laplace's witch.
Do you want to lose someone else too?
You have to be prepared
to become Laplace's demon.
It makes me feel like
I'm flying freely on the wind myself.
But this simple thing can lead to some good ideas,
and help find a way to break through.
Flying on the wind...
A breakthrough.
If we make a hole in the building before it's destroyed by the downburst,
the wind will enter through it,
and the internal pressure will increase...
Move the car over here.
- What? - There's no time! Quickly!
Stop messing around!
What film?
Is that why you killed my mother and Moe?
That's right.
It's sad, but that was my only option.
Because you were a complete failure as Amakasu Saisei's family!
Ah!
My wife and children were all useless!
You kept messing up over and over,
so I had no choice but to remake my family into something more appropriate.
But first, I had to remove you all from this world.
I had to correct the memories of the past.
That's why I wrote that blog.
You should be happy.
That's where I made you into the perfect family.
I plan to turn it into a book,
then a film.
Only then will Amakasu Saisei's perfect family be complete.
Professor, get as far away as you can.
Thank you.
Wait, I'm going too!
Woah!
What's perfect about twisting the truth?
If I record it and other people accept it,
that becomes the truth.
It can't be true that I disappeared without anyone knowing.
In other words,
most people disappear without leaving behind anything true.
For those people, it wouldn't matter if they were never even born!
They're meaningless!
Originally, all of you were the same.
So aren't you happy?
You said the curtain was about to fall.
That's not true.
The curtain is just about to rise,
and my greatest work, which I bet my life on,
will finally be complete!
You should live on in that work as my perfect son, too.
Kento!
Don't come in!
You know what's going to happen next, don't you?
That's why I came.
Move!
Are you okay?
Yes.
Good. You're alive.
The car made a hole for the wind and increased the pressure inside the building.
That's why it wasn't destroyed.
Get out of my way.
No.
Don't touch him.
This is the only reason I've kept living until today.
I'm sorry.
But you have to live for another reason from now on.
There's no way that my feelings will change.
You should know that, Kento.
You know what's going to happen in this world, don't you, Madoka?
Even so,
I'm sure it can change.
Kento!
I'm just going to talk to him.
After I gained these abilities,
I understood something.
This world isn't just controlled by a few geniuses and people like you.
People are atoms.
People who seem to have nothing unusual about them,
or to have no value are still an important component.
Even if each one is living a mediocre, apathetic life,
when they come together, they can cause dramatic physical phenomena.
In this world,
no individual existence is meaningless.
Not even one.
Not even my mother and Moe,
not even Mizuki and Nasuno.
Not even you.
And even though I knew that,
I still...
I used you.
I'm sorry.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm the one who used you.
Amazing.
I've never seen that before.
Where's Kento?
Mizuki Yoshirou. Nasuno Gorou.
Top national officials ordered that their deaths by hydrogen sulfide
shouldn't be treated as cases, but as unfortunate accidents,
and the investigation was closed.
It was reported that Amakasu Saisei was rescued from a collapsed building,
but as for Kento,
neither his shocking abilities
nor even his existence were discussed.
In other words,
together with the crime committed by Amakasu Saisei 8 years ago,
the truth was buried in darkness.
As for Kento's whereabouts,
despite extensive and top-secret efforts to find him,
he hasn't been caught.
Why and to where did he disappear?
Well done on completing the investigation.
Even though I wasn't any help in the end, was I?
In that case, please do something useful now.
There's a lot of student grading to be done, so please get to it.
The film director known for "The Ruined Bell" and other works,
Amakasu Saisei passed away last night.
Mr Amakasu had been fighting illness for several years,
and it appears his suffering led him to commit suicide.
Too bad.
I quite liked that director's films.
Oh...
I wanted to meet you one last time
and thank you properly.
Have you heard from Kento since then?
No.
I don't think that Kento will contact me.
He probably hates me.
Why is that?
He should owe you his life.
He has those abilities because of you.
Abilities improve when you have a goal in mind.
Even if that goal is hatred.
In some sense,
I'm grateful to that man Amakasu.
Kento's powers would never have grown so much
if Amakasu didn't exist.
I don't believe Kento would be able to accept that I think that.
I see.
So you're saying he can see what you are thinking.
It's possible that he can see where modern society is going,
and even the future of humanity,
even if it's only vaguely.
They know that much?
Both of them?
However,
not knowing about the future is why people can have dreams.
I stole that kind of life from them,
so in that sense I committed the same crime as Amakasu.
Well then, goodbye.
Goodbye.
I take back what I said before.
I said it would be better not to have those powers.
but at least they let you save Kento's life.
I'm sure you'll be able to use them properly.
Thank you.
Can you really see it?
The future of this world.
Maybe you even predicted Kento's disappearance...
If we could see the future,
would you want to know it?
I'll leave it.