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The cognition particle emissions increased!

Are you sure they're coming from inside the house?

Particles have been known to be carried on the wind from far-away crime scenes.

But as far as I can tell, there's no indication of a separate murder elsewhere...

...so they must be.

Is my intent to kill being sucked up into it, too?

Feeling hatred or like you want to kill someone,

however strongly, shouldn't register on the Wakumusubi.

Freeze! Hands up!

Put the drill on the floor!

Obey! We will shoot!

Put the drill down now !

Just get on your knees!

We said don't move! We're gonna shoot!

Dammit!

Secured!

He's not bleeding.

This head wound is old!

Suspect captured. No one else found.

This is...

Yuji Oonuki! It's not the Perforator!

Hey! Are you okay?

Dammit! What's going on?

The Perforator took Hondomachi captive and fled!

How did he pull this off?!

To sum it up, the Perforator had a hole drilled through his own head.

Not only did he survive,

but he's been drilling the same kind of hole in others.

When the case is finished, make sure to leave our house, okay?

Who're you?

Oh, of course I'll leave.

As soon as I catch the bad guy.

You won't escape!

That doesn't fit.

It doesn't line up with the structure of this world.

But, there's a reason.

Though I guess he did escape...

What do you want? Have we met somewhere before?

John Walker!

Everyone but Togo and Kokufu, shift all analysis to John Walker.

Draw out whatever information you can.

Yes, sir!

Hey! Sounds like you're neglecting the search for Hondomachi!

It's a temporary reallocation of the unit's resources.

We haven't abandoned the search.

Why?

It's John Walker, Mr. Matsuoka.

The Perforator had contact with John Walker.

Shit! I wish you'd at least put a goddamn GPS on the Wakumusubi!

I...

...cannot do that.

It may undermine the secrecy of the device.

Chief Hayaseura.

Chief, this all happened because you don't think enough of us!

On the contrary. I think very highly of the field analysts' work.

I ain't talkin' about our work! I'm talking about our lives!

You should have permitted us field officers to carry a pistol!

I've been telling you that for months!

Among police organizations, Kura and the Wellside already receive special treatment.

And so it's not that your requisition has been rejected. It just takes time.

For now, let's expend every effort to find Ms. Hondomachi and arrest the suspect.

No shit!

Dammit!

Although I'm apparently not the fighting type,

it appears I will fight when I have to.

Are you... my enemy?

Over... already?

Well, let's just say I'm OP and go with it.

Victory!

Now then.

Are you awake?

I prepared several hideouts in addition to my residence.

Better safe than sorry, as they say.

Have you been confining the people you've kidnapped here, too?

Why not kill them right away?

Because I have a lot on my mind, you see.

Hey.

What is this device?

Listen, I'm about to drill a hole in your head like mine.

But few have been able to answer my questions after that.

So I'd like you to answer me now.

"Few"? Don't they all die immediately?

No one dies immediately. They linger for a while.

The guy I left in my house is fine for now, too.

Unless he's been shot in my place, that is.

You drilled a whole in your head yourself? Then you did it to others?

What, are you making a club?

First wind comes in this hole, then it goes out of the other,

and it makes the world a little bit clearer.

"Clearer"?

You mean you're doing this for the world?

However things seem in that broken head of yours, the reality is this:

You've killed many people and have at last been discovered.

You fled, but you will be caught, and soon.

And when you are, the world really will improve, by your absence!

So, what does this device do?

Tell me.

How did you find me with this thing?

Of all things, why did the killer decide to hide inside Kaeru?

And why didn't he escape once hidden?

He could easily have gotten out when I left the room.

He wouldn't even have needed to open the door or the window.

Wait.

To him, those gaps don't exist. Is that it?

For him, might this disjointed world be a normal one,

with no gaps and everything connected?

In other words, for him, this is a locked room.

What about the source of the residents' fear?

The guy with the cane...

Maybe the killer feared him as well,

so he locked himself in here and was hiding inside Kaeru's corpse.

I see.

Basically, the Perforator's, I mean Tamotsu Fukuda's, mind is broken into pieces

and he has no awareness of it.

His mind's deceiving him.

Or perhaps it has something to do with

the fairly large piece missing from Fukuda's frontal lobe...

His worldview assumes people are broken and in pieces.

Perhaps that's precisely why he drills holes in people's heads.

Then... he's gonna do that to the rookie?

Momoki.

We haven't found Fukuda.

But... there is still one way for Hondomachi to tell us where she is.

Not that it's pleasant to consider.

I know.

We'll be ready for that.

Hondomachi, don't do anything too crazy.

I'll tell you about that device.

It's called a Wakumusubi.

The well goddess Mizuhanome appears in the Kojiki, the Nihon Shoki, and elsewhere.

Her son's name is Wakumusubi.

Don't.

Don't just stand there spinning the drill.

You use it...

...like this!

A new well is forming!

Checking field officers' Wakumusubis.

The new well...

...appears to be from Koharu Hondomachi's Wakumusubi!

Extract Sakaido! We're putting him in immediately!

I don't live here!

Narihisago, sorry, but I need you to dive into a different well.

Understood.

Are you okay?

Just peachy.

Inject Sakaido.

I don't know where I am.

Nor do I know what's going on.

What I do know...

...is her name.

Kaeru.

And I'm Sakaido.

I can't remember my full name,

but as the brilliant detective, I must solve the mystery of her death.

But what is the mystery?

"Last Testament"

"This was a suicide."

There's no mystery to solve at all.

So I guess there's no reason for me to survive here either.

Her legs are bound. Did she want to look composed?

Because she's a girl?

Sakaido is dead.

His time active in the well was 68.25 seconds.

Beginning analysis!

Koharu Hondomachi's face!

A reflection of it was on the end of the drill.

Then there must be other reflections. Find them!

The stainless steel table she's tied to is made for restaurants.

There's an industrial refrigerator.

Extrapolating room size from the angle of reflection of light from the Wakumusubi.

Between 5.4 and 6.2 meters.

There's a closed restaurant three kilometers from Fukuda's house.

Obtaining blueprints.

The restaurant's basement is consistent with the room.

Got that, Mr. Matsuoka?

Yeah. I'm on my way.

It... detects intent to kill?

It's true. You don't die right away.

Yeah.

Thank you.

For what?

I drilled holes in all kinds of people.

But that was a mistake.

What I really wanted wasn't to drill a hole in somebody's head.

I wanted to see someone drill the hole themselves.

Like you did?

Right. Because I felt I had to.

What's that mean?

How's the breeze?

Right now... everything's just... cold.

Freeze!

Step away from there and get down on the floor, dirtbag!

Hondomachi!

She has a pulse!

She's still alive!

Don't die, Hondomachi!

Come visit me if you pull through!

Tamotsu Fukuda apprehended.

In transit to headquarters.

Got it. Notify me once they arrive.

How's the rookie?

We've heard from the hospital.

Somehow she held on.

Sir?

There's one more person to thank for today's success.

Good work.

Thank you, sir.

The Perforator was apprehended.

Oh, that's good.

This one was a close encounter with John Walker.

Yes it was. But he was empty on the inside.

What do you think that meant?

It's a product of the human unconscious.

There are countless interpretations. For now.

Did you discover any clues about John Walker?

No.

We got almost nothing.

I could dive again.

Yeah. Okay.

I'm fine. It's not my first time dying in the well.

But you experience the death, don't you?

That must take a toll on you.

Must it? I dunno about that myself.

I'm ready.

Is she okay? The girl from your unit.

Didn't she have contact with the killer?

How did you know?

All of a sudden, she acted like she had gained a mind of her own. Only her.

I figured something she did must have shaken the killer after he targeted her.

Yeah. And she suffered for it.

But thanks to her, we got the guy.

I see. So the second id well today was hers.

Impressive. A determined suicide.

When I dive into the killer's well again, I bet there'll be new elements.

I'll look forward to that.

Every time you dive, you forget everything and have to start over.

That isn't agonizing?

It's part of the fun. You know, to see Kaeru.

It's almost like seeing my daughter.

They're both dead every time.

Two years, huh.

The killer this time...

He knew he and the others were broken,

and yet he didn't realize his world was broken.

Incredible self-deception, don't you think?

It's hard to understand yourself.

Isn't that the issue?

Maybe so.

Are you...

The killer hid in Kaeru's body...

He used her corpse...

That upset you, didn't it?

Kaeru isn't Muku.

Don't get worked up over the world of the unconscious.

While we're on the subject, remember that you dive to assist the investigation...

...not to root out the killer's mental weakness.

You drove some to suicide. I don't want a repeat.

A repeat?

Don't you mean a five-peat?

I'm joking.

I'm not going to do that.

But if I completely stopped, then wouldn't I be unable to enter wells anymore?

That would be a problem for both of us.

Tamotsu Fukuda makes five--

five serial killers that appear to have dealt with John Walker.

But to be able to manipulate people's unconscious--is that even possible?

Who can say?

Kura launched only six months ago.

But in that short time, you've peered into a great number of serial killers' wells.

Based on your experience, what do you think, Ms. Togo?

I doubted John Walker actually existed.

I assumed he was a shared characteristic of serial killers--

something that the Mizuhanome recoded as a symbol out of convenience.

Oh. In the same way that Kaeru always appears and is always dead?

Yes. I thought he was just a default setting of the wells the Mizuhanome generated.

And that his function wasn't understood yet.

Hmm. At present, I see no contradictions in that line of thinking.

Besides, even now, no one has elucidated

the entirety of the Mizuhanome's workings.

Momoki seems a little overly concerned with him.

I think it's natural to want to understand the tools you're using.

In any case, the residents' reaction to John Walker's appearance

in the well in this case convinced me.

Their fear was unmistakable.

Even though they were completely unfazed by Kaeru's corpse.

This was not part of the setting of the world the Mizuhanome generates.

I believe it was due to the specific feelings of the well's owner, the Perforator.

In other words, John Walker actually exists somewhere in this form.

Moreover, he implants an impression so strong it remains in the id.

And that has an impact on the impulse to kill.

Exactly how one does such a thing intentionally, I have no idea.

Regardless, we are finally forced to consider the matter in earnest.

To consider an investigation into John Walker the Serial Killer Creator.

The death you chose was hanging, not to be run through by a drill.

That's what I should have done.

For Kaeru's sake.

Next time I dive into the well, if there's time...

...Sakaido will be able to do that for you.

As the brilliant detective...

...he'll know.