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-As punishment
-Here you go.

-for failing the exam,
-Okay.

we had to clean up the storage room
in the old school building.

I wish I could go home right now.

Let's quickly clean up.

If we work a little harder,

we can leave early.

-Okay.
-Okay.

Sugimoto-sensei,
let me help you carry that.

Thank you.

(Episode 8: Grim Reaper's Score)
Motohashi-sensei is really a nice man.

PASSED EASILY
I know.

Speaking of which,

my sister told me about a ghost story

called "Grim Reaper's Score"
that took place

in this old school building
before it was deserted.

Grim Reaper's Score?

Although that thing is a score,

it's also not a score.

Legend has it that

the Grim Reaper will cast a spell
upon anyone who sees it,

bringing them misfortune or even death.

You're talking about that again?

This school really has
a lot of ghost stories.

In fact, though,

it looks like a male teacher
did indeed disappear.

-Huh?
-Really?

He didn't disappear.

Mr. Claude had good reasons
to go back to his home country.

Is that teacher a foreigner?

He is an American,
responsible for teaching English.

He was nice,
and a lot of students liked him.

Later, though, things got worse
between the US and Japan,

so he had to quickly go back

to his own country before war broke out.

Sugimoto-sensei?

Is something wrong?

No, it's nothing.

Speaking of which,

Sugimoto-sensei, you and Mr. Claude

don't get along, right?

I am truly sorry if this makes

you remember anything bad.

No, it's okay.

We were not really getting along
in a lot of ways.

Sugimoto-sensei?

A score?

Isn't this score a bit strange?

A bit strange?

Because

we can't find any clef or bar lines here.

As a score, it's incomplete.

The scales are also completely off.

Right, Sugimoto-sensei?

Sensei?

Could it be the Grim Reaper's Score?

How is that possible?

Let's get back to work.

Kawada-sensei,

there are a few empty bookshelves here.

Do you know why?

Well.

Because there was
a foreign staff here before,

the military police came
to specifically look into it,

and they probably
took them away at that time.

It looked like you weren't
working that day.

I see.

Sensei,

you look pale. Are you alright?

Thank you.

I'm really okay.

Don't worry.

-I've seen a score
-Even if the Grim Reaper shows up,

-like that before.
-I'll scare him away.

I'll be counting on you.

It's getting a bit late.

Everyone, thank you for your help today.

You're welcome.

Alright, let's go home.

It's finally done.

MUSIC ROOM

Sensei?

Sensei!

Sensei, are you listening?

Sorry.

It looks like Sugimoto-sensei
is not quite right.

Y-Yeah.

Hey.

It seems like someone has been
keeping an eye on us all day, hasn't it?

Huh?

Shizue, do you feel that way too?

I actually felt that too.

Is it because we saw that score?

That must be the Grim Reaper's score then.

I had looked at it for a long time too,

but nothing happened.

It must be your illusion.

I've seen that score before

while cleaning up
the book preparation room.

I remember it was around here.

Found it!

It surprised me
that there would be so many, though.

What are you doing?

S-Sensei!

Don't scare me!

I happen to be the manager of this room.

Could you not just come in here
without permission?

I'm doing this for a reason.

Grim Reaper's Score?

Do score monsters exist?

The purpose of the score is to write down
those sounds without any shape

so that they can be played again later.

Because music has
a deep connection to witchcraft,

it might still make sense to say
"having heard that piece"

or "having played it over in your mind."

However, if you have only seen the score,
the significance of its existence…

What's the matter?

It is already late.

I'll walk you to the bus stop.

You should hurry home too.

Eh?

There can't be so many
Grim Reaper's Scores, right?

I'll tell Sugimoto-sensei about it,

so she doesn't have to worry.

Excuse me.

Sugimoto-sensei…

Huh?

That is

Grim Reaper's Score?

Someone must be playing a prank.

Sensei, are you okay?

Oh, are you worried about me?

Kusakabe, you're so kind.

S-Strange…

She looked worried when she saw the score

back in the storage room.

MISS SUGIMOTO NATSUE

What's the matter, Sugimoto-sensei?

Did something happen?

No, nothing.

If you need help,

you can always come talk to me.

Thank you.

This score looks a lot
like the last one I saw,

but it feels a little different.

Kusakabe?

Sensei!

It is now very late,
and you still haven't gone home.

You too.

How can you be out that late by yourself?

Let's go back together.

O-Okay.

Then, I will go this way.

Be careful on your way home.

Okay, goodbye, Sensei.

It looks like she's okay.

Sugimoto-sensei!

Kusakabe!

Kusakabe, run!

You bad guy!

I was scared to death.

Kusakabe,

I clearly told you to run.

What if you got hurt?

I'm fine.

How are you, Sensei? Are you okay?

Yeah.

But if I had been a little later,

something bad might have happened.

-Could the Grim Reaper have done this?
-All right.

Before we go home,
let's go to the police station.

It's not what you think at all.

Don't worry.

I was really scared to death yesterday.

I heard about it at the staff meeting.

I heard Sugimoto-sensei
was almost attacked by a thug.

Right.

But I threw my bag at him.

Then he ran away.

Nothing happened yesterday
because he ran away.

What if he fought back?
What would you have done?

Well…

Confronting someone with a sharp weapon

is a suicidal act,

Kusakabe.

I-I'm sorry.

Geez.

Please be more careful.

Is he worried about me?

Never mind, let's set
this matter aside for now.

I have something to ask you.

What is it?

The score I left here is missing.

Did you take it?

Huh? I didn't take it.

What is the score

you are holding now?

This is the part I brought home
to investigate.

Investigate?

Investigate what?

Well.

Kusakabe,

this is actually a secret code.

A se-secret code?

The so-called secret code

is sometimes called cryptography.

It is a method of concealing information.

Its purpose is to keep other people
from figuring out what the content is.

Legend has it that secret codes

can date back to the 19th century BC.

Concealment methods are roughly
divided into two categories,

hiding the communication content
and altering it.

Some examples of possible
content concealment methods

include writing a message
on the reverse of a stamp

or hiding a letter in a bag of wheat.

But once it's found out,

you've failed completely.

The method

of altering the content can be roughly

divided into two types,

code-type and cipher-type.

Code-type

involves changing words or phrases,
so they mean something else.

10 PM AT THE EAST EXIT OF TOKYO STATION
Like changing "morning"

MEET AT THE TICKET GATE
to "night".

RIDE A BIKE FROM IKEBUKURO STATION TO SUGAMO STATION
Or swapping out "train" for "bike".

Its main merit is how ordinary
it appears at first glance,

but once you learn the rules,
it's easy to decipher.

When it comes to cipher-type,

it's all about changing the letters
in a specific way.

Like changing the letter "a" to "f"

or "e" to "s" in substitutions
that aren't regular.

The cipher-type is harder
to figure out than the code-type.

One problem is that the letters are
not arranged in a regular way,

which makes it easy to be
spotted as a secret code.

The secret code will no longer be secret
once it is known to be one,

and people will try to figure it out.

Ideally, it should not
look like a secret code.

In this light,

this work is indeed
very well put together.

By putting together a ghost story like
The Grim Reaper's Score,

it hides the strange parts
of the score itself.

As always, you know a lot.

I wouldn't be able to speak
that well at all if it were me.

So, what message is written on that score?

I can't tell you that.

Huh? Why not?

Don't be so mean.

I'm not being mean.

It's just that I can't tell you about
the content and the reason behind it.

No way.

Actually,

Sugimoto-sensei got some scores
that were put in envelopes.

I picked them up from the trash can.

SUGIMOTO NATSUE
Is this also a secret code?

Do you even read others' letters?

I-I'm sorry.

But I'm really worried about her.

Gosh.

Geez.

Have you figured something out?

Though I had no intention of doing so,

because of the attack,
I have to take appropriate action now.

Even though it's annoying,

I'll try to deal with it.

D-Did he die?

What nonsense.

He just fainted.

Hey, you can come over now.

Motohashi-sensei?

Is this guy also a teacher?

Do you know why he attacked you?

He's been

courting me the whole time.

Though I frequently turned him down,
he wouldn't give up.

Has he decided to attack
because he thinks there's no chance?

That's too reckless.

No, things are not that simple.

He staged all this.

What does this mean?

Look closely.

This is a fake knife made of iron.

He didn't want to attack but to scare her.

That's why he used the rumors
about the Grim Reaper's Score

to instill fear in Sugimoto-sensei.

He then purposely showed
a trustworthy side to get closer to her.

What a problematic strategy.

No wonder he was rejected.

That means…

Motohashi-sensei
wrote these letters, right?

Also,

you shouldn't read
the letters without permission,

even if someone throws them away.

I'm sorry.

But

you've always been
worried about me, right?

I'm very sorry for getting you involved.

Be careful on the way.

There really is
no Grim Reaper in this world.

By the way,

why did Motohashi-sensei

steal the score
from the book preparation room?

Motohashi-sensei wasn't the one
who stole the score.

Huh?

Well then, I'll take my leave.

Take care.

A letter written by Motohashi-sensei?

I thought I had thrown it away.

I've been waiting for you,

Sugimoto-sensei.

Chuzenji-sensei and Kusakabe?

What's going on here?

I wrote that score

just to get you to come over.

It might be a bit impolite,

so please forgive me.

You wrote this?

How come?

I will now talk about this incident.

For some personal reasons,
Kusakabe might need to listen to it.

So I asked her to come along.

This incident?

The secret of the Grim Reaper's Score.

Huh?

This is what I found
in the preparation room.

A part of what is called
the Grim Reaper's Score.

However, as a score,
it lacks naturalness and completeness.

It's just someone else's prank graffiti.

It should be a record written by someone
with no musical background.

Despite these possibilities,

I noticed a pattern

in this score.

For example, in these parts,

the second note,

the fourth note,

and the sixth note.

When these notes are in even positions,
they don't seem to follow a pattern.

But when they are in odd positions, they
always stay on the lines of the staff.

Based on this,

I think the odd positions

stand for the five vowel sounds.

That being the case,

the expression of consonants

should go
from the first to the tenth sections,

with "n" being the eleventh section.

Basically, five lines

and from the lower first space to
the upper first space is sufficient for expression.

However,

the ninth and tenth notes
fall between the staff lines.

This doesn't fit the pattern
we talked about before.

So I began looking for elements
that could explain this.

I detected the time signature just then.

2/8 time signature.

This usually represents
a 2/8 time signature.

But there are no bar lines in this score,
so the time signature makes no sense.

Consequently, I thought
it meant "group of eight, with two skipped."

That is,

every ten notes is a unit,

and the first eight notes mean something.

After interpreting based on this rule…

6 p.m. tomorrow,

I'll wait for you in the library.

This is what I used to make the code

to call you over, Sugimoto-sensei.

So,

this coded message is a way for people
at school to communicate with each other privately.

Sugimoto-sensei.

You and Mr. Claude
came up with this, right?

You two are secretly dating, right?

Huh?

But Sugimoto-sensei
and Mr. Claude don't get along, do they?

This must be a disguise, right?

You probably decided to keep it hidden

because of the social climate back then.

Right.

When we started dating,

things were slowly getting worse
between the US and Japan.

Furthermore, we were coworkers,

so we all felt it was best
if we kept it to ourselves.

I had a hard time getting along
with him in the beginning,

but Jonathan…

That is, Mr. Claude is a good person.

Though he's not always reliable.

Was it your idea

to turn the message into a code?

No,

it was suggested by him.

When we decided to date secretly…

Shall we make a code?

Even though it was hard,

it was fun,

like reading a detective book.

Additionally, we grew closer

because I assisted him in the bookstore.

He wanted to read
Japanese detective books,

but he wasn't

very good at reading Japanese yet.

As I taught him to read,

we got closer and closer over time.

Speaking of which,

it's impressive
that you could decipher it.

As long as it was created by humans,
it can be deciphered.

You were the one who took those scores

from the preparation room, right?

Yes, I'm really sorry.

No, because those things belong to you.

I will also give you back
the rest of them.

I just couldn't throw those things away
after Mr. Claude went back to his country.

So I put them in the cabinet here.

They were gone

when I was cleaning up a few days ago.

Kawada-sensei said

that the military police took them.

I thought they'd never be found again.

But I heard Kusakabe say
that she thought she saw them somewhere.

I believed that keeping an eye on her
might help me locate them.

It was a surprise

that there was a room
in that kind of place.

That room was originally
set up to avoid inspection.

Maybe when people hid other things before,

they put those scores in by accident.

Kusakabe, that intense stare
your friend felt was actually

from Sugimoto-sensei who was
keeping an eye on you behind your back.

Huh?

But I didn't feel anything at all.

That's just because
you're too insensitive.

That's so mean.

I see.

Is it because you created the code

that you knew
Motohashi-sensei's score was fake?

I chose to ignore it for now

since I didn't know what he wanted.

I didn't think he'd really attack me.

He most likely didn't mean
to hurt anyone, though.

I'm glad you weren't injured.

This clears up the mystery.

It seems he arrived just in time, too.

Jonathan!

What's going on here?

During the interpretation process…

"I want to serve the US and Japan
in a way other than fighting."

"I'll become an interpreter
and come back to you."

He wrote so.

I suspected there might be a chance,
so I asked Mr. Soichiro to look into it.

We were able to find him in the end.

Later, he made great efforts
and barely managed to let Mr. Claude leave.

I kept my promise and came back, Natsue.

Jonathan!

Sorry, I'm late.

Because I wasn't able to
get permission to leave.

Jonathan!

Due to the fact that it was
a letter they sent to each other,

you didn't tell me earlier, right?

But why were you doing

so much in secret this time?

All of this was done to keep
the preparation room peaceful.

After all, there really
was a mob incident.

Students interested in the Grim Reaper's Score
may sneak into the old school building.

If the students find out
there is a preparation room here,

it will cause trouble for me.

Actually,

why do I need to be there too?

Is it to tell everyone the truth?

Quite the opposite.

I hope you can
steer the rumors in a smart way

and keep everyone from focusing on here.

Of course, this incident
shouldn't be told to anyone else.

Wait until they are made public.

You should try your best

not to cause trouble for them.

Huh?

Huh?

Another accomplishment will be
added to the paranormal detective's list.

Huh?

Why?