ID: INVADED (ID：INVADED イド：インヴェイデッド)

It's the picture.

Mr. Matsuoka!

Nahoshi Inami, answer me!

Where is Haruka Kazuta?

Awfully compliant of you to produce this evidence.

Hondomachi!

The second floor!

Stay right where you are.

This is Hondomachi.

Gravedigger located.

Two suspects.

The perpetrator Haruka Kazuta and the mastermind who was directing Kazuta.

Her name is Nahoshi Inami.

Attempt to arrest met with resistance.

Mr. Matsuoka was injured.

Kazuta remains armed and continues to resist.

Requesting immediate backup!

What is it?

You have an interesting face.

Do I?

I haven't seen my face.

There are no mirrors here.

True.

I'm being made to look other than myself.

He says it's to protect me from the scary monster.

Oh?

Excuse me.

Excuse me. Could you come here?

Do you think Kazuta ran?

He would never.

Everything he does is for his princess here.

And isn't she just cool as a cucumber.

Well, she is an ice queen who enjoys getting a man

who's not even her boyfriend to kill for her.

Mr. Matsuoka, just shoot her.

Excuse me?

Please shoot her.

She's a worthless woman.

If you won't...

... I will.

Kazuta!

Cognition particles. Nice.

So what's your deal?

I wouldn't call it having pride.

True.

It's just being childish.

Isn't he asking for you?

It's fine. Just ignore him.

Do you know how that stuff works?

Is there someone you have a crush on?

Uh, sorry, man. Want me to get her?

Oh, don't worry about it.

Thank you.

She should still hear me, so it's all right.

"It's all right"?

You sure?

Yes.

Well, if you say so.

Shall I extract Sakaido?

Yeah.

Please do.

"Police Funeral For Fallen Officers"

How many serial killers' wells have manifested John Walker...

Kazuta makes six, doesn't he.

Any connection between him and the other five serial killers?

I've run countless queries with different conditions,

but so far nothing comes up.

Putting aside how he finds them,

how does he make them into murderers?

To say he controls people's emotions seems right out of fiction,

but could he be a psychiatrist?

All six have no treatment records.

To begin with, he's ingrained not just in their memories,

but even in their unconscious!

To dress that way even when he meets them face to face--who does that?

What, is it a cosplay?

I see.

You're saying that despite how strange the unconscious can be,

the fact that all six share the same image of him

must mean they've actually seen a man in a red frock coat.

Exactly.

Moreover, that cosplay bastard produces no witnesses.

He appears only before the person he targets.

It's a nearly impossible feat.

No, I'd say completely impossible.

Hey, you know...

What if John Walker has a machine that's similar to the Mizuhanome?

Except instead of exploring data like the id well,

it can invade a person's unconscious directly.

Couldn't he be using that to dive in as a pilot?

There could easily be a second Mizuhanome, or possibly an original, right?

After all, we operate the Mizuhanome,

and even we haven't been given all the details on it.

Assistant Director Togo, isn't the Mizuhanome's inventor, Nishio Shirakoma, missing?

Yes.

Thanks to that, no one can even access the main unit's central component.

Can't we get them to disclose a bit more information?

I'll try sounding out Chief Hayaseura about it.

Though, he says it's to prevent military applications,

and political pressures are a large factor,

so the info is purposely difficult to dig up.

Don't any of you try to get your hands on it.

The punishment would be excessively severe if you were discovered.

Still, it would certainly help to have more information.

Wait.

Even without other Mizuhanome units, the one at the Wellside that we use now might be plenty.

In other words, someone might be using it differently...

...from within the Wellside staff.

Don't say stuff that'll make needless waves.

But...

...then it might explain why he uses a disguise.

Because it would be one of our colleagues hiding their face from us.

But the Mizuhanome was introduced a year ago.

Take Tamotsu Fukuda for instance. His first kill was at least three years ago.

With that timeline, it would have to have been a Mizuhanome prototype.

A prototype? That's very possible.

We're working off of too many hypotheticals.

Then let's back up.

How is John Walker finding his serial killer candidates?

About that.

The variation in distance and timing gives the impression of being random.

And yet, some of the killers are connected.

Fukuda the Perforator and Haruka Kazuta, his victim as well as the Gravedigger.

Randomly selected killer candidates just happened to have a connection?

I don't think so.

Yeah, that's a good point.

That means John Walker arrived at Kazuta from Fukuda by some method.

Fukuda's only contact with Kazuta should be when he put the hole in his head,

so what, did John Walker just happen to be there?

It's all too convenient...

They found mics and cameras.

John Walker really was monitoring Fukuda after all.

Then do you suppose...

Assuming Kazuta was also under surveillance,

then John Walker might have had his eye on Inami as well.

Got it. I'll be returning soon.

Have Narihisago get ready.

Hey there.

Mr. Matsuoka.

Allow me to convey--

Oh, no need for all that when it's just us.

Did you meet with the families?

Of course. How is your shoulder, Mr. Matsuoka?

It's not that serious.

But I stopped you to discuss something else.

Tamotsu Fukuda... Brilliant detective Anaido.

I hear he's useless once he's in the well.

The brilliant detective job doesn't actually require a criminal, correct?

If just having killed is good enough,

then I might just be able to point you to someone with the aptitude.

Kaeru.

The moment her name passed my lips, I remembered.

I'm the brilliant detective, Sakaido.

I must solve the mystery of Kaeru's death.

Apparently the killer walked down the aisle after being drenched in her blood.