Matori and Kyoken: Men in the Back Alleys

Stimulants, narcotics, cannabis.

People who have used these drugs

are now estimated to total two million in Japan.

The number of people arrested for drug-related offenses

is as many as 14,000 yearly.

If you come any closer,

I'll jump off!

You're going to jump? Then get on with it.

No way.

Mad Dog.

You're an S for the police while being an S for the NCD.

Kurosaki or me?

Think hard.

- I didn't do anything! - Screw you!

Even if it was against their will,

once consumed, one's body will never forget the taste of drugs.

They get addicted without even realizing it.

I don't know jack about cocaine.

Like hell I'm giving you my urine!

You refuse to offer your urine for testing, correct?

Stay still, okay?

You'll injure your urethra!

No!

The reason you're still here

is because your father is a senior commissioner and my superior.

- I'm aware. - Then bring me results, not words.

Never lose to the NCD again.

Yes, sir.

What do you want?

Wait, what?

Your next mission is to mislead the NCD

and leak information on the cocaine supplier to me.

How? Kurosaki is at the hospital, right?

The NCD will be desperate to make Kaga spill the source of his cocaine.

But Kaga won't talk so easily.

I bet.

If he talks, he's in for an even worse time than now.

Their world isn't so simple.

It's a lot like how you had to quit acting after you got violent while drunk.

Buzz off.

Once Kaga gets out of prison, he won't be able to appear on TV anymore.

But at his age, it will be hard to find other work.

In order for him to survive,

he'll need patrons who help get him business.

If he gives up his patrons who supply him with cocaine

and have criminal connections, he won't live long.

That is why Kaga will stay silent.

This way, his patrons will help him get more work, however small, later on.

One scumbag backed by other scumbags, huh?

Finding and arresting suppliers

is the biggest accomplishment for an investigative team.

We can crush the entire operation by following the trail from there.

It's a much greater success than arresting a random punk dealer.

That accomplishment must fall into the police's hands.

But Kaga won't talk, right?

Will the NCD get any info for me to leak?

What's there for me to do?

The NCD has Kurosaki, who'll use any means to make a suspect talk.

You just stay close to Kurosaki and feed his info to me.

Do that, and Kurosaki and the NCD,

the police's rivals, will lose their reputation.

On the other hand, my standing within the police will skyrocket.

I thought the police were supposed to uphold justice.

Yet all you want is status and accomplishments to your name.

I'm sure it's tough to understand for someone who threw away half his life.

Geez.

Both you and Kurosaki are so bizarre.

Don't lump me in with him.

That guy is just a revenge-obsessed wraith.

What does that mean?

Wait.

You're his S without knowing anything about him?

Kind of.

Look, you're going to die if you genuinely stick with him.

The NCD was investigating a case back then,

but it ended up going to the police.

His mother wasn't just a regular meth addict.

She had been cheating with a yakuza guy for years.

She was fed meth and forced

into becoming a sex addict.

Chemsex?

A lot worse than that.

What's that?

Something that will feel even better.

Kurosaki was part of an ordinary household which fell into ruin because of meth.

His mother gradually got addicted,

dug into their savings, and once the money ran out,

the yakuza forced her into prostitution.

The yakuza make money by feeding drugs to housewives with that goal in mind.

Any money earned from prostitution just goes back to drugs.

A never-ending cycle of misery, just like the yakuza want.

However, humans really struggle with accepting who they become

when they're at their lowest.

His mother,

who bought meth by selling her body,

had convinced herself that she was loved by the man.

What?

And then,

things only got worse.

Hey, stop it!

Let me go!

It took less than a year for his mother to break.

- How dare you steal my lover? - Then that day came.

His mother caused an incident.

- You're such a pain, you damn bitch! - Who is this hag?

You're being fooled by that woman!

You love me, don't you?

She's my woman.

You're just a way to make some cash.

Gross hag.

- Let's go. - Yeah.

She's so gross.

Give me a break.

It's your fault.

It's your fault.

Die.

Die!

Die!

Die!

Die!

Die!

Drug-induced psychosis?

Afterwards, when the police went to their residence searching for her,

Kurosaki, still a middle schooler, was standing there blankly,

with his mother's corpse hanging by a noose in front of him.

Half a year later,

his father, overcome with despair, drowned himself in the sea.

Meth laid waste to his family.

That's why he bears a deep hatred for drugs.

To avenge his mother.

Oh, hey, eat it before it burns.

Is that why he…

Why!

Why the hell?

It's just a drug addict who died.

Ouch!

Try saying that again.

What?

I'll kill you.

So he's not just an asshole.

I'll die before I let you off the hook.

You're going to tell me in great detail where you've been getting your cocaine.

How many times do I have to tell you?

I don't know anything!

Nothing! Zilch...

Once the urine test comes back, it will be confirmed that you did cocaine.

So what?

Even if that happens, my only crimes are possession and use of cocaine.

Big deal. It's my first offense, so I'll just get a suspended sentence.

I won't let that happen.

What, you're going to use violence now?

I'll sue you if you get violent!

What? Who's going to get violent with whom now?

You…

What are you doing?

That establishes assault.

Possession and use may get you a suspended sentence,

but you're definitely going to prison with assault added on top.

Wait! Don't hit me anymore, Kaga!

Stop! Please stop!

Assault? When you're the one hitting yourself?

Like hell that will pass!

I'm hitting myself? No.

You're the one hitting me.

You're going to frame me by doing that?