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I'm Ueda Jiro.

A very gentle professor at Japan's University of Science & Technology

This woman is Yamada Naoko. A flat-chested magician.

Please help me find out if his power is real or not,

or if he can trace people's consciousness.

Okamoto entrusted me to find out if Fukami-san really had the power of psi-trailing.

We went to confirm how the victims died in the human-faced taxi case,

And if Kyoko-san is still alive.

I went asked Fukami-san to use psi-trailing to find the owner of a wallet I found.

He did find the owner of that wallet.

Yamada, not resigned, went on to challenge Dr. Fukami.

She made him promise to use psi-trailing to find the missing victims.

But Fukami asked for a 10 million yen reward.

Zone.

Zone...

is the collection of anger and enmity of a person's consciousness at the time of death.

Kyoko-san's uncle, Kobayakawa, is willing to pay the 10 million.

Dr. Fukami started to use his psi-trailing ability.

In just one day, he found three bodies.

The day of Kyoko-san's psi-trailing, the human-faced taxi appeared!

Okamoto claimed the car went through his body.

Yamada, who wants the 10 million, insisted that it must be a trick.

As long as there's 10 million yen involved!

To investigate it further, we returned to the scene of the incident.

But the human-faced taxi appeared right in front of my eyes.

Run!

God of science!

Are there really things that can't be explained by science?

You said last night that the human-faced taxi was just a trick, right?

If you lied about it, you'll definitely be cursed.

Ueda. Don't be afraid.

That's it.

That is the clue that'll reveal this trick.

Ah?

Why are there ashes here?

Last night we were on this road.

Walking westward from the east.

Because it was dark and foggy,

we lost sense of distance.

The human-faced taxi was driven toward us from the west.

"We'll be run down." Just when we were thinking to run,

suddenly a strong light flashed.

Without thinking, we all squeezed our eyes shut.

Then the human-faced taxi,

ran through our bodies and kept going in front of our eyes.

That's what you thought, right?

But isn't that what happened?

The trick was done in the few seconds we closed our eyes.

Ah? Why did you close your eyes?

If you close your eyes in a heavy fog, you'll definitely lose sense of direction.

When we opened our eyes, there was a 90 degree difference.

In other words, the east and west and north and south were reversed.

Got it. That's what I thought too.

What's going on here?

By the way, Yabe-san.

Why would you feel the human-faced taxi was driving that way?

Because that's how I felt.

There's a reason for that.

When we saw the human-faced taxi.

Our instinct was to look at the lights that indicated direction.

The construction light!

Yes. The construction light is

the only sign for direction in the fog.

Yet the light we saw was not from this one,

but that one over there.

Eh? Was there a construction light there last night?

Even if there're two construction lights at two places,

only one would be turned on.

At the moment we closed our eyes,

the light here was turned off,

and that one across was turned on at that second.

You mean someone was here to control the switch?

No. This trick

can be done independently by the human-faced taxi driver.

So you are saying the driver drove the taxi and switched the lights

at the same time to mislead our sense of direction?

Yes. The proof is the ashes.

Last night when we were here,

the construction site here and there

were connected as a straight line.

Is that me?

That is definitely not YOU.

It looks just like me.

When did you do these?

While waiting for you.

You had nothing better to do?

It's because you were so late!

Enough. Look!

Because of the heavy fog, we didn't notice there was a string here.

Appearing in the fog, the human-faced taxi

sped up toward us from the west,

broke the string, and

the bulb exploded and flashed.

Therefore, we closed our eyes.

At that time, we wouldn't notice

the light was switched to another site.

Then the human-faced taxi went southward.

And because we were misled by the construction light,

we thought the human faced taxi drove through us from the south, toward the west.

The spirit of Kyoko-san we saw

could be made by just a poster of a photo.

Basically, in a dark place, if there's a light on

people will depend on that light naturally

to measure distance and directions.

He used these to play the trick.

Really?

I wouldn't have been deceived by that!

Thank you...

See? Yabe-san.

No matter how real it is. A trick is a trick.

It'll be detected at the end.

The grievance in zone... That's all bullshit.

Ueda.

That amulet you're wearing is for the safe delivery of a baby.

You only think about the 10 million.

10 million.

Then you all think that human-faced taxi

was driven by me?

If you ask me, I still feel it's not that possible.

Hey! 10 million.

I feel 99.9 percent that

this woman is wrong. Sorry.

What you said is interesting.

But I couldn't drive that car.

I remember I was in bed at that time.

Ishihara was bringing me Kyoko-san's personal items at that time.

Ah. Now I remember.

A snake...

Who is it? This is Fukami.

It's Ishihara. I brought Kyoko-san's things here.

Ishihara. Sorry. I'm tired and want to rest now.

Please put it in my mailbox.

He's going to bed pretty early for someone his age!

See. Fukami-san has a very perfect alibi.

Soon I'll find the truth of his alibi,

if Fukami-san would like to let me examine his bedroom.

This way.

I got it.

Liar.

You should have put this lamp away.

This is sound-activated, right?

Fukami-san. You. Last night...

removed the intercom's receiver and put it close to the lamp.

Then you turned off the lights of your bedroom and went out.

Soon, Mr. Ishihara arrived,

and pressed the intercom,

the doorbell rang, and the lamp lit up.

The lamp's circuit was connected to the recorder, which started playing.

Your recorded voice was heard.

The reason you asked Mr. Ishihara to come

was to create your alibi.

Ueda.

Then you drove that human-faced taxi during that time, and started playing

the trick you had planned.

For what?

Ah?

Why did I have to set up such a silly trick?

That's because...

You want people to believe there's a dead country like Zone...

to make people frightened.

What is a dead country?

To you, it's ok for me to do that.

But Okamoto-san truly wanted to find his fiancée.

And Kobayakawa-san is my client.

Does it do me any good to scare them?

I know you really want me to be the criminal

so you can get that 10 million instead.

However, it's a pity that

there's only one truth.

Zone really does exist.

Because their consciousness stayed in the zone,

I then could succeed in finding them.

Found their bones.

I guess you already know.

But, at the period the three disappeared,

I was not in Japan.

If there's no Zone,

how could I know how those women that I've never met before,

were killed and where they were buried?

Yamada Naoko NAKAMA Yukie

Ueda Jiro ABE Hiroshi

Yabe Kenzo NAMASE Katsuhisa

Corrections and translation awrittensin

The driver of that human-faced taxi must be Fukami.

But how could he find the three women's bones?

Until I can explain that, I can't solve this mystery.

And I won't know Fukami's real purpose.

Yamada.

Because Professor Ueda asked me,

now you're able to look at those files. Be grateful.

Yes. Yes. Just saying it once is ok.

Yabe-san. Yes. Yes.

It's a rare amulet. Right?

Worth of study. Expensive.

That's very expensive.

Eh?

The date Kyoko-san disappeared was January 8th.

So only during the period of Kyoko-san's disappearance,

Fukami was still in Japan.

Right! He was at a university in Hokkaido.

Even if Fukami-san could control time,

he wouldn't be able to kidnap Kyoko-san in Tokyo.

When he postponed the time to find Kyoko-san,

Fukami said that,

Kyoko-san was killed by a male close to her, right?

Yeah. When Kyoko-san disappeared,

because she's the daughter belonging to the Kobayakawa Group the police investigated thoroughly.

At that time, those who were interviewed were

her uncle, Kobayakawa Tatsumi

and her fiancé, Okamoto.

Brother. I know them both.

Thank you very much.

And then?

According to this, Kobayakawa, three years ago, on January 8th,

Around 9 o'clock,

The time Kyoko-san was seen to get on the human-faced taxi,

Was alone in his house in Azabu.

Who can prove it?

That time someone from the press came to pick up his manuscript.

Eh? Not at home?

Who is it? This is Kobayakawa.

This is Koyamauchi from Pretty Lady Weekly.

I've come to pick up your manuscript.

Is it Koyamauchi? I left it in my mailbox.

Strange.

This situation. I seem to have heard it before.

Is it a memory from my childhood? I only remember some parts of it...

Brother.

Yesterday. That's Fukami-san's alibi.

Oh... What's going on here?

That is to say, Kobayakawa's alibi

strictly speaking, did not exist.

Yes. I know now.

The serial killer is Kobayakawa.

Eh?

It's like this.

Listen carefully.

Kobayakawa killed those women and buried them.

Then he told Fukami where he buried them and paid him 10 million

to dig those bodies out.

- I want to ask a very simple question. - Yes. Professor Ueda.

Why did he want to do that?

Listen carefully.

He must had buried something very important with those bodies.

Eh? If I were him, I'd just dig by myself.

So I don't have to spend the money.

Ishihara-san. Yes.

How about Okamoto's alibi?

Here...

I remember Okamoto-san didn't have an alibi.

Why?

Don't you remember?

The one who saw Kyoko-san get in the human-faced taxi

was Okamoto himself.

I knew that.

Of course what he himself said can't be an alibi, too.

Then those two people don't have alibis.

We seem more serious than usual.

10 million.

Brother. Then I'm off.

Ueda-san.

Isn't this Okamoto-san?

I was asked to come here, by the officer who is in charge of the serial killer case.

They suspect me of murdering Kyoko.

I said it from the start that Kobayakawa is the most suspicious.

- But the police don't believe me at all. - It's you!

You thought of Kyoko as an obstacle, didn't you?

Kobayakawa-san is here, too. Are you here because of Kyoko-san?

Yes. I think the one who killed Kyoko is Okamoto himself.

Because he has the motive.

A motive?

Don't talk nonsense!

I didn't. You spent all your customers' money.

Then you asked Kyoko for money, didn't you?

I didn't... Kyoko told me everything.

What you did is a crime!

So she asked me to go to your office and advise you.

I don't want to listen to this! What?

I don't know who didn't invest well last year

and lost almost everything. I don't need you to talk about my business.

I'm a stock agent! Stock agent! So? Use your clients' money.

The 10 million you promised to pay. I really doubt you can pay that.

What? Don' t talk nonsense!

10 million is nothing! She's my only blood relative.

Of course I would do anything for her.

Kyoko often talked to me about you you have no right to criticize me...

You didn't treat her well since she... You have no right to... Shut up!

Who says I can't talk here? Stop talking! Shut up!

You even killed her dog. I knew it. Did you see it?

I didn't. But she mentioned it to me. You just heard about it...

Shut up! You baldhead... I am not...

I am not... Then what is it on your head?

Stop!

Ok. Ok... Don't quarrel in here.

Let's talk outside. I'll go with you...

My suit...

Sorry.

Where's the man's room?

There.

Sorry.

Sorry to let you hear this.

Then I have to go now.

The two of them are like watermelon and tempura.

Can't eat them together.

When you eat watermelon...

Who's is this? Hello?

What are you doing?

Didn't I tell you to come to Chitai at 2?

How long do you want me to wait?

Come over here right now!

Ueda-san.

Your should quit your habit

of answering other people's phones.

I seem to have heard this voice before.

Welcome.

Now is not the time to find the owner of this phone.

Ah. You are Ueda.

Ah, the Edokko!

Is this your wallet?

Yes. This is mine.

The owner of that wallet that Fukami found through psi-trailing.

Aah! The owner of that wallet.

You still remember my name.

Waiting for someone? Let's sit together.

I'll drink this.

How can I forget your name?

Look!

This means I found this wallet at 7:35 in the morning.

I can write on the date.

Stop!

Excuse me. Do you know Okamoto-san?

Yeah. Do you know him, too?

Yes.

I can't believe that guy.

I'm his customer. And he's late all the time.

How can this man be an agent?

The day you returned my wallet,

he made me wait 20 minutes here.

Eh? The day we found you and gave you the wallet

you were supposed to meet with Okamoto-san?

Right!

The day your wallet disappeared.

Did you meet with Okamoto-san?

Now you mentioned it,

I did.

10 million is mine.

Fukami and Okamoto are in it together?

That's right. Fukami and Okamoto were in it together from the start.

What do you mean?

Okamoto stole the old man's wallet from the start.

Then he purposely put it in the park for you to find it.

Then he went to your place, asking

you to examine Fukami's psi-trailing ability.

We didn't know they planned all this,

and went to Fukami's academy.

Normal people would not carry other people's stuff around.

So when we asked Fukami to use his power to find the wallet's owner

Okamoto just needed to tell Fukami the place he and his customer

were supposed to meet.

Then Fukami could simply find the owner of that wallet.

That's right!

Indeed.

So we can call their bluff?

At the time I uncovered the trick of the human-faced taxi,

I should have found out their relationship.

Why?

Do you still remember the day Fukami postponed using his power?

That day we were at the academy waiting for Okamoto.

Kyo...

Kyoko was sitting in the human-faced taxi.

Did it disappear just like that?

I suggest we postpone the date for searching for her.

You have to know the driver of the human-faced taxi is Fukami.

Yet that time Fukami was with us.

Then who was driving the human-faced taxi?

Therefore what Okamoto said about the human-faced taxi

was just bullshit.

He did that to get us go to the scene where they set the trick.

And we were all bluffed by him.

And then Fukami just waited there

to act as the disappearing human-faced taxi.

And let us see Kyoko-san's spirit.

What I don't understand is...

Why did Fukami and Okamoto do that?

Professor.

A message from the Zone. To Kobayakawa-san.

From the dead Kyoko-san.

Wa... It's "l"

I was killed.

This morning when I wanted to write

I found this message Kyoko gave me from my drawer.

Kobayakawa-san. Don't believe it.

No matter it's the spiritual world or Zone. No one will write you that.

Danger!

Don't bullshit!

Anyone can make it.

That's why I say danger!

The memory in Zone is going to threaten Okamoto.

This message

has clear consciousness track of Okamoto's.

Yabe-san.

Where is Okamoto?

I can't get in touch with him.

What?

He doesn't know the danger of Zone.

He didn't know what he did

was like beckoning the Zone to get close to him.

Then where did he go?

I'll use this letter for psi-trailing

and find out where Okamoto is.

He's in danger now.

Key. Key.

Ueda-san.

Fukami and Okamoto are a group. Don't tell anybody.

They don't know what we knew.

Fukami probably was using Okamoto to do something again.

I know... I know.

This time I'll win. Ueda.

I'll reveal the trick on the spot.

Bet on the honor of 10 million.

Hey. Who are you?

Hey. Get in the car. Hurry!

Turn left.

Quick! Zone is getting closer to Okamoto.

It's here.

Can't make it.

Hey! Where's the staircase?

Over there.

Ishihara. Yes.

Get the key for the eighth floor.

Are you ok?

Hey! How many floors are left? Four.

The Eighth floor is here.

eighth floor...

That room.

Quick! Save Okamoto.

Okamoto. Okamoto.

Open the door. This is the police.

Okamoto. Brother.

The key.

Brother... Open the door.

Oops! Zone has already...

Zone...

Shit!

Zone pulled him out.

Kyoko-san's consciousness pulled Okamoto into Zone.

Zone knows of us now.

It's very dangerous for us.

Before dawn, you'd better not move alone.

It's going to end.

Before dawn, Zone's action will reach its peak.

If I can sense Kyoko-san

and find her out from the cold underground,

I think this thing will never happen again.

Everyone, please use any room you like

and take a rest.

Kobayakawa-san. Don't worry.

We'll accompany you. Nothing will happen.

Ueda-san.

Tonight I'll be watching Fukami.

This... is really terrible.

Are you a kid?

You are.

Zone is but a shell game.

It's Fukami that killed Okamoto.

But at the time Okamoto fell,

Fukami was outside the door with us.

How did Fukami kill Okamoto?

"Abarembo Shogun" starts now.

Isn't there a TV in this house?

Happy murder?

Are you interested in it?

The so-called "happy murder."

Murder is its end.

After tasting the excitement of killing,

one can not stop it.

Even when one knows it's a terrible action,

but before one got arrested. There's just no way to stop it.

I think the killer who killed them,

is probably waiting for someone to arrest him.

Fukami-san.

Actually it's you...

you Will be punished if you get caught...

Even in Japan.

There're so many victims.

The criminal will be doomed to capital punishment.

Brother. Why are you taking so long?

I took too long. It's not good for your health.

What are you doing here?

Nothing. You?

He wanted to go to the toilet.

Brother said he didn't want to go alone.

Thank you very much.

Any information about Okamoto-san?

I think it's probably an accident.

If it's suicide, he didn't leave any testament.

Only some change in his pocket, and matches from that hotel.

Matches from that hotel?

Uh. Those matches hotels provide.

It's cold. Brother.

You're troublesome.

Say cold again. You'll fall down the stairs.

This is Hotel Queen.

I just want to ask a question.

Are you ok?

I'm dying.

Is this an accident? Ouch!

Are you all right? What happened?

He fell down the stairs.

Are you ok?

I know it.

Okamoto was killed.

Not an accident, not suicide. But a set up...

Zone...

What's that sound?

It's from Fukami-san's room.

It's Zone...

Fukami-san was killed by Zone.

Yabe.

He's dead.

Really?

Zone...

My dear Tsuron...

My car.

I was seeing him as a friend.

What? Yabe.

Brother. Why are we chasing him?

Because he ran.

No one can fall asleep!

Why? There's no why.

Forgive me...

Kyoko...

It's the end. Kobayakawa.

I knew... you're the serial murderer.

Arrest him.

Yes.

We are going to interrogate you.

You...

I thought of you as a good friend.

What?

Damn car thief!

I can't imagine the 10 million sponsor is the criminal.

Ah! Damn it! Shouldn't solve it.

You. It's over. Forget it.

You're right. Everything's over.

Now you're happy? Fukami-san.

Fukami?

No way. Why?

But he didn't have pulse.

It's a trick using a rubber ball.

A trick magicians use.

Put a rubber ball under the armpit and it stops the pulse of hands.

It looks like they're dead.

I know your purpose now.

You want Kobayakawa who killed Kyoko-san

to be arrested as the serial murderer

Just for this purpose,

you set up such a big trick.

All of you were a big help.

Why is it a big trick?

From the start, his purpose was

to let Kobayakawa become a happy serial killer.

He makes us believe in using psi-trailing and the Zone,

in tracking down Kyoko-san's murderer.

Therefore, you cooperated with Okamoto to let us into it.

You chose Ueda-san

probably is because he has a personal program on TV.

Fukami-san. At the beginning,

you said you didn't want to use your superpower.

However, you proclaimed on TV

to find out those disappeared women in the human-faced taxi case.

And you also asked for 10 million reward.

That's a trap to induce Kobayakawa-san.

Wait a second.

Why would Kobayakawa pay 10 million

to find Kyoko-san's body that he buried?

Didn't Okamoto-san say that?

You didn't invest well last year and almost lost everything.

Kobayakawa who lost his properties wanted money very much.

He was thinking of getting Kyoko's inheritance and insurance reimbursement.

That's why.

He's the only blood relative of Miss Kobayakawa Kyoko.

As long as Kyoko-san's death is certified,

He could get either one of them.

To certify the death of a missing person it takes 7 years. Right?

But Kobayakawa couldn't wait for the another 4 years.

Yet he couldn't find Kyoko-san's body by himself.

Fukami-san thought about this from the beginning.

You're saying he knew Kobayakawa was the criminal from the start?

Uh. Didn't you feel Fukami-san

was trying to focus our attention on Mr... Kobayakawa?

Yabe-san.

Do you still remember the situation when we saw the human-faced taxi?

It's unforgettable.

Compare with that trick of the human-faced taxi,

the alibi of Fukami-san's that night was unexpectedly simple.

That's because Fukami-san

intended to let us detect his false alibi.

He purposely created the same alibi like Kobayakawa's,

and let us reveal it.

To prove his alibi was fake in order to reveal Kobayakawa's.

I really don't understand this point.

Fukami-san.

Did you know that Kobayakawa-san was the killer from the start?

So you'd decided to get revenge at that time.

Revenge?

Didn't you?

At the time Kyoko disappeared,

I was still in Japan.

I befriended her fiancé Okamoto immediately.

Okamoto suspected Kobayakawa to be the killer at that time.

When I heard Kobayakawa's alibi from Okamoto.

My instincts told me Kobayakawa did it.

At that time I was just thinking

to have Kobayakawa punished by the law.

But why did you want to avenge Kyoko-san?

I remembered Kyoko-san didn't have a father.

Actually you're...

Even though she was my only daughter,

in the court, she was an only victim.

If an inhuman happy murderer just killed one person,

Kobayakawa would come back into this society after a few years in jail.

This, I couldn't allow to happen.

For Kobayakawa to get capital punishment by law

he had to kill more.

Kill more?

A happy murderer,

after tasting the excitement of killing,

as long as he's not arrested, he will continue killing.

That's what you said, right?

To let Kobayakawa kill more people,

you let him go for a while, and went to the United States.

Didn't the police let go of him?

Uh. But you used Okamoto to watch Kobayakawa-san.

Okamoto-san listened to your order.

Watched Kobayakawa commit the 2nd, 3rd and 4th crime.

And reported to you where they were buried.

Yamada.

So you knew where the three victims were buried from the start.

That's how you'd successfully found the bodies by psi-trailing.

That crybaby, Okamoto-san.

How can he complete such scary missions?

That man's purpose was just money.

If Kobayakawa is arrested as a happy murderer

the heritage and the insurance reimbursement of Kyoko are left,

because she doesn't have any blood relative to claim them,

I'll show up as her father,

and claim them all.

Just a test of my DNA is enough to prove our relationship.

At that time I'll split the money with you.

After Okamoto heard me say so,

he took it without any word.

Yet to kill Okamoto was one of your plans from the start.

To let Kobayakawa believe in Zone's existence.

How can I kill Okamoto?

I was outside that room.

You set up a mental trick.

The matches from that hotel is the clue.

Matches?

Uh. In the pocket of the dead Okamoto

is the matches from the hotel.

Yet in Okamoto's room, there was another book of matches.

There are two books of matches.

So I thought maybe Okamoto had entered two rooms.

Then I...

He reserved two rooms by phone.

Room 323 and 823.

Room 323

is right under the room 823 where Okamoto fell.

Of course the one who reserved by phone was...

Fukami-san. It was you!

Yesterday afternoon, you asked Mr... Okamoto to Room 323

right after he had been questioned by the police.

So Okamoto-san felt quite uneasy.

You can stay here temporarily.

"If the police come,

don't open the door, just run away out that window."

You put sleeping pills in his drink, let him sleep,

and then carried him to Room 823 which you reserved in advance.

Yet you didn't know in Okamoto-san's pocket

were the matches from Room 323.

Okamoto-san who knew nothing

was waked up by heavy knocking.

Because of the pills that made him drowsy,

he could only remember to run out the window.

Seeing lights outside the window, Okamoto-san

fell without knowing what happened.

The human-faced taxi and the death of Okamoto-san

made Kobayakawa totally believe in Zone's existence.

To make Kobayakawa reveal himself without caution,

you even pretended to be killed by Zone.

Then everything just went on the way you planed.

Kobayakawa dug out Kyoko-san's bones by himself

and we saw all the process.

*Kindaichi is a (manga) teenaged crime solver

You are just like Kindaichi.

Pretty perfect.

My plan of revenge

if not for your help,

would never have succeeded.

Especially if no one insists on revealing my tricks.

You, Miss.

You are an outstanding psi-trailer.

Psi-trailer?

You traced my consciousness tracks of my tricks

and finally traced me out.

You're really a very good detective.

Yabe-san. It's about time to go now.

Ueda-san.

Probably we were just set up by Fukami-san in the whole thing.

Right to the end.

Why "Right to the end"?

Fukami probably had planned it already.

To let all his tricks be revealed and let himself be arrested.

Fukami was waiting all the time...

All the time... for YOU to detect him.

Zone...

Wrong.

It's Zone...