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What did it feel like?

Like my arms were being pulled about by the magic marker.

I thought that if I were to let go,

that maybe the marker would go off somewhere on its own.

Manager, you sure are calm, huh?

That's because I'm so insensitive.

Stop.

Rewind to 53 seconds, and go frame-by-frame.

"I don't want to die"

"I don't want to die" There wasn't anything written on it just before.

There wasn't anything written on it just before.

Masako!

I'm sorry... I don't feel so well...

Let's go back to our room.

Matsuzaki-san, please go with them.

We'll be fine on our own.

No!

A-all right.

Naru is more on edge than normal.

The smell of blood?

Yes, like my whole body was soaked with it.

So much so that I felt nauseous in the séance room.

You said something like that when we first got here, too.

But it wasn't as bad as this until after the rapping sounds started.

Could it be a scent from the spirit?

Remember, there was that strange smell

during the case at Rokuryo High School, wasn't there?

What about you, Mai-san?

Do you sense anything?

W-what's come over you, asking me something like that?

Well, during the last case,

you were the only one who saw the same apparition that I did.

Apparition? Oh, you mean Sakauchi-kun?

Not this time. I haven't had any of those dreams.

What's this? You two sure are getting along well.

You must be joking.

You won't catch me becoming friends with such a person as her.

Excuse me for being "such a person."

I never said it was a bad thing, did I?

What a revolting personality you have!

I have been blessed with a greater share of looks and talent, instead.

Geez, why do you hate me so much!?

Place your hand over your heart and see for yourself.

What's that supposed to mean!?

You two sure have made friends in a hurry, huh?

- Oh, no we haven't! - Oh, no we have not!

Good morning, Lin-san.

- Morning. - Good morning.

Is everyone sure you haven't seen Suzuki-san?

What's the matter?

Suzuki-san has gone missing.

Please settle down, Igarashi-sensei.

When did you last see her?

This morning.

I woke up once around daybreak, and she was right there, sleeping...

About what time was that?

When did you get up?

About 7 o'clock.

It's 10 o'clock now,

which means she hasn't been seen for three hours, at least.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

I asked the staff, but they all say that they haven't seen Suzuki-sama.

When I checked the front door this morning, it was still locked, so...

That means that there's no possibility that she went outside.

Suzuki-san has poor eyesight.

She wouldn't have gone anywhere without her contact lens case.

I know! What if we had Dr. Davis use his clairvoyance?

He found that billionaire's son who had been kidnapped

using clairvoyance, right?

Is that true?

Igarashi-sensei, I just heard. This is terrible.

We will help you, as well.

Um... in that case,

I'd like to ask Dr. Davis to perform his psychometry.

This is Suzuki-san's contact lens case.

Please, will you just ask him?

Very well.

I will ask him.

Mister Davis...

He says he cannot perform clairvoyance with this.

Why not?

The doctor should be able to!

The doctor is limited to performing clairvoyance with an object

that was with the person at the time they went missing.

Oh, no!

There isn't anything like that around here, is there!?

How should I know? Moreover, regarding Suzuki-san,

couldn't she have gotten traumatized at the séance, and ran home?

Young people these days can be so irresponsible.

That may be true.

I'll try calling her house. Thank you.

Igarashi-sensei...

We'll divide up, and help look for her, too.

It turns out, Suzuki-san hadn't returned home.

Where on earth could she have vanished to?

Even to search for Suzuki-san,

there are too many places in this house that we don't know about.

We're counting on your surveys, so hang in there.

I didn't hear a single word out of you offering to help.

We're worn out from walking around,

trying to sense the presence of any spirits. Right, Masako?

Yes. Although, Matsuzaki-san, you tend to complain about it more.

And you don't know when to stop talking.

Could she have been taken away somewhere?

By whom?

By a spirit. One who thought that Suzuki-san could help them.

I get you. She is the person who heard the spirits

calling out the word "help," after all.

Or perhaps...

...Suzuki-san may have written those on her own,

and fearing that she'd be found out, she ran away.

Then, what about the one written in blood, and the rapping sounds?

Oh, right...

The floor sinks down here.

A door?

More like, a lid.

Shall we open it?

What is this?

A hidden room?

Mm-hmm!

This was down there.

Look what's on there.

"Miyama Charity Hospital Shelter" Look what's on there.

"Miyama Charity Hospital Shelter" "Miyama Charity Hospital."

"Miyama Charity Hospital Shelter" That's the hospital that the earlier head of the family founded.

That's the hospital that the earlier head of the family founded.

If that's the case, then this would be hospital issue.

The question is, what would that be doing in here?

There's something here.

Isn't that money from way back?

Oh, there's something written on it.

What does it say?

Yo... ge... ku... ki... ta... sa... ni...

ura... ru... kyo... shi... mina... ha... rai... sho?

What is that? It doesn't make any sense.

It's so dirty, I can't read it in some places.

Why is it written on a bill?

Maybe there wasn't anything else to write on.

Let's keep investigating. Just make sure you're not acting alone.

So, here I am, keeping watch with Lin-san.

It sure seems like he's been in a rotten mood since yesterday.

I get the feeling he's ignoring me.

S-say, Lin-san, care for some tea?

No, thank you.

U-um, so, anyhow...

Yeah, about Suzuki-san...

Look, why are you ignoring me?

Have I done something to offend you?

All I did was remark that you were Chinese, Lin-san, didn't I?

Was I wrong to do that? I didn't especially mean anything by it.

I hate the Japanese.

Do you not know what the Japanese did in China, long ago?

I simply do not want to become friendly with any Japanese,

when you have no knowledge or realization about it.

My heart is pounding. What could this be?

It's like I get when I lose my temper, but this is different.

I'm sad.

It's not like I don't know.

It's true that Japan did bad things,

but dragging out grudges from the past...

...just seems wrong somehow.

If we do that, then the whole world

will have to go on hating each other forever,

and that would be freakish, and downright nasty.

Lin-san, I can't help it if you hate me,

but I wish you wouldn't hate me, just because I'm Japanese.

D-did I say something funny?

Long ago, there was someone who said the same thing to me.

I was just remembering that.

You mean, Naru?

Oh, no. When I said it to Naru, he just said, "That's pretty stupid."

Sounds like something Naru would say.

Yes, it does.

I do not hate you.

It's just that the visceral aversion I have will not go away.

I'm terribly sorry for saying such an impolite thing to you.

No, I'm the one who should be sorry.

Welcome back! Did you find anything?

W-what's that?

- G-ghost! - G-ghost!

Good evening!

Madoka, what in the world are you doing here?

I wanted to tell you what my investigation turned up.

I told you, it's dangerous here.

What would you do if anything happened?

You'd come to rescue me, right, Naru?

N-Naru's being browbeaten...

Okay, we'll start with Suzuki-san,

whom you contacted me about this morning.

I asked all of the bus and taxi companies around here,

but none of their drivers said that they saw or picked up anyone like her.

Next, regarding the two that disappeared two months ago,

the first one was in a room with seven friends, having a party,

when he staggered out of there, and never came back.

A week later, when the search request was sent out,

and the police came searching,

a 21-year-old man from the fire brigade disappeared.

As for the Miyamas, I'll start with Mr. Miyama Kaneyuki.

He was a very meticulous person. Apparently,

there was once an incident with an employee at the silk mill,

where the employee was embezzling from the other worker's salaries,

so naturally, that employee was fired, but his oldest son,

who worked in the same mill, and three other sons,

who were hospital staff, were also fired.

The house that they lived in, as well as that of his daughter and son-in-law,

were rented to them by Mr. Kaneyuki,

and after they were driven out of those houses...

There's more!?

Mm-hmm.

The culprit's parents were also employees

on Mr. Kaneyuki's property, and they were driven out, too.

He was thorough, huh?

Wasn't he, though? It became legendary.

Anyhow, he was unsociable,

and is said to have hired a lot of maids from outside the area.

He wouldn't let anyone come near this mountain cottage,

so it was said that maybe there was something fishy taking place here.

The same was true of his son, Mr. Hiroyuki.

It's said that he used to say strange things.

Strange things?

When people asked him why he kept building on to the house,

this is how he answered them:

There are ghosts in there!

I'm doing it to shut the ghosts up inside,

and keep them from getting out!

To keep ghosts from getting out?

I've collected their personal histories, and put them together in here.

Is there anything else you want to know?

I'd like you to investigate Miyama Charity Hospital.

Roger!

Bye, now.

I'm sorry I wasn't any help this afternoon.

I was the one who spoke so rudely.

I sure hope we find Suzuki-san soon.

Good night.

Atsugi-san is such a nice man.

I wonder what he's doing with Minami-san.

It's more baffling why Naru would hire you as an assistant.

Hey, what do you mean by that!?

Huh? Where did everyone go?

No! Don't go that way! Please, come back!

If you go that way, something bad will happen!

Yes?

Excuse me, it's me, Minami.

Have you seen Atsugi-kun!?

First it was Suzuki-san, and now Atsugi-san has disappeared.

None of the members of the staff have seen Atsugi-sama.

Isn't there any way that we can ask Dr. Davis to do something?

And if the doctor can't see his way through,

then perhaps someone else could.

Uh, no... However...

This is an emergency! Two people have vanished,

one of whom is your assistant, right?

Or were you just lying from the start

when you said you had the assistance of a famous psychic!?

Don't tell me, Dr. Davis is an impostor!

I-I've had enough of your insults!

How dare you look down on not only me, but on Dr. Davis, as well!

Very well, we will solve this case on our own.

Come, Doctor, let's go.

Doesn't this seem fishy somehow?

There is no proof that he really is the doctor.

Minami-san has only insisted that he is.

He didn't use his clairvoyance this afternoon, either.

It's been four days since we arrived. The case is going nowhere,

and we still can't find Suzuki-san or Atsugi-san.

This really is a strange house, huh?

Ordinarily, you'd never think of someone going missing inside a house.

Oh, there's a door here!

Hey, now, another hidden room?

It's awfully dusty.

Whose portrait is it?

"Meiji 32: 1899" It says "Meiji 32, self-portrait, Urado" on there.

Urado?

"Meiji 32, March - self-portrait, Urado" Urado?

"Meiji 32, March - self-portrait, Urado" So who's Urado?

So who's Urado?

His self-portrait was hanging in there,

so I'll bet he was someone close to Mr. Miyama.

If we asked Ohashi-san, he might know.

What is it?

Urado..."Urado"!

But, wouldn't you normally read that "Toura"?

That's it! This bill is from the Meiji era, right?

They read from right-to-left, the opposite of how we do it now.

So...

It would come out like this, wouldn't it?

"Everyone__ __ come__ __ dead __ __ here __ heard ___ ___by Urado __ away"

That first sentence would be,

"Everyone who has come here is dead," wouldn't it?

Dead?

In that case, the last sentence is "Run away."

This was a message to someone.

"This" would naturally refer to this mountain cottage, right?

Madoka-san did say that Mr. Kaneyuki wouldn't let anyone near here.

Maybe this Urado person did something,

and he didn't let anyone come here, to keep it hidden.

But, why wouldn't he have just disclosed it?

Maybe he was holding something over him.

So, when he went to communicate it to someone on the outside,

he used that bill to do it.

In any case, there's no doubt that something did happen here.

Once we know what it was...

We do know one thing.

The word that the spirits said at the séance.

"Help"

I'm sure they were the spirits of those who came here, and died.

The people who died in this house...

Who did that coat belong to?

Could it be that the people who went missing, as well as Suzuki-san and-

I can't move!

I can't say anything!

Ayako! Masako! Wake up!

What do I do!?

No! Stay away!

No!!

No! Let me go!

Let me go, I say!

What room is this?

Someone is in here.

No!

This has to be another one of those dreams!

Otherwise, this would be...

The smell of blood...

Stop.

I don't want to go in that room.

No!

What is this?

Why am I wearing a kimono?

What are you doing!?

This is a dream...

I have to hurry and wake up!

I don't want to die.

Somebody...

I don't want to die.

Help...

I don't want to die.

This can't be...

Next time: File 7, "The Bloodstained Labyrinth" #3