Babylon (バビロン)

Can you explain what's going on, sir?

That's why I invited him.

You've sure done your research.

I'm impressed. You're like the Special Investigations Office's right-hand man.

You look like you're going to bite me if I don't explain soon.

The Shiniki initiative.

On the surface, it looks like an economic development zone.

However, it also has another purpose, which hasn't been announced yet to the people.

Purpose?

I had asked Doctor Inaba, who was chosen from among the members of the Japan Doctors League,

to work on the problem of drug lag.

The delay in getting new drugs approved

is an urgent problem that our country must tackle.

If there are delays in approving cutting-edge treatments,

patients could end up dying.

I asked the Tokyo Construction Contractors Federation to design a plan for relaxing restrictions on construction.

I asked the Tokyo Trade Union Confederation

to cooperate on the new Labor Standards Act.

In other words, these groups are voting constituencies and they're also

the ones who are actually going to build Shiniki.

Did you understand everything I just said, Public Prosecutor Seizaki?

Build Shiniki?

What are you trying to do with Shiniki?

I'm trying to do everything that's not possible to do with Japan.

Shiniki is a special administrative zone for testing out new laws.

In other words, it's a testing ground for nations.

A testing ground for nations?

You want to become the first mayor

so that you can carry out that plan?

No.

The first mayor is going to be...

Kaika Itsuki.

Itsuki?

The five main candidates in this election manage the voting contingencies.

We can completely control the results.

Why are you making Itsuki the mayor and not yourself?

What we're about to do in Shiniki will be revolutionary.

We need a strong leader who can capture the peoples' hearts.

Itsuki, the youngest one among the candidates,

is going to win the election dramatically

and become a politician for the new generation.

Is that your plan?

That's right. This is the entire picture for the Shiniki initiative.

Did you... Did you all...

murder a human...

just to achieve your plan!?

Unaffiliated candidate Kaika Itsuki won the election

deciding the first mayor of Shiniki,

a city that is going to be established in the western part of Tokyo.

Itsuki is the youngest candidate at only 30 years old.

The new mayor is very young.

After the election--

That's not true.

Seizaki.

We weren't involved in the deaths of Fumio and Professor Inaba.

Do you think I'll believe in such an excuse?!

It's the truth.

Think about it.

I could have stopped this investigation anytime.

Why would I kill one of the investigators myself?

It'd only spread suspicion.

First and foremost,

I'd never kill Fumio.

First, in regards to Inaba's suicide.

It struck us out of nowhere.

That's why we put you in charge of the investigation.

But now it happened to Fumio.

We want to know the truth too, as you do.

Seizaki.

Would you please continue the investigation?

Are you telling me to continue the investigation while ignoring organized crime,

which is our main job?

You're crazy.

I'll let you make the decision.

However, Mr. Nomaru and I and everyone else involved

are all acting with the belief that the Shiniki initiative is just.

I won't force you.

If you don't agree, then you can fight against me.

However, I won't go easy on you.

Public Prosecutor Seizaki.

ATSUHIKO FUMIO

Think hard and well.

Public prosecutors are allies of justice.

Justice.

Have you decided?

No.

I don't agree with you regarding the recent chain of events.

Actually, I'm angry at myself for not being able to stop you,

and for not being able to prosecute the crime that's happening right in front of me.

However, the person who killed Fumio is out there somewhere.

And it's an indisputable fact that the person who did it is evil.

So... I'm going to continue investigating the case involving Fumio and Inaba.

-I see. -I'll be going now.

Hey, Seizaki.

What are you going to do after you catch them?

I'm going to think about that when it happens,

about whether what you're doing is right or wrong...

and what justice truly means.

A testing ground for a nation?

What a big story.

You can pretend you didn't hear it.

I'll just leave things the way they are and say I heard it.

When things get bad,

l trust you'd cover for me.

We're going to continue investigating the two suicides for now.

I'm going to find the person who did it.

Yeah, but...

I'm not so sure anymore.

-What is it? -In other words,

Inaba was trying to make it legal to use unapproved drugs

as soon as possible by utilizing the new legal system in Shiniki, right?

-Yeah. -Isn't that, you know...

a good thing?

I was actually still considering

the possibility that Inaba's death was a suicide. Not Mr. Fumio, though.

I had two hypotheses.

First, is that Inaba committed suicide because he couldn't tolerate doing the bad things Nomaru asked him.

The other one is that Inaba was killed by Nomaru to stop him from talking.

But now, both of those hypotheses are gone.

We have to look into Inaba more closely.

-I'll continue investigating him. -Okay.

I'm going to retrace Fumio's footsteps again.

By the way, how was Kaika Itsuki?

You met him the day before yesterday, right?

He's a man without any flaws.

To the point that it seems fishy.

First and foremost,

I would like to express my appreciation for everyone here today.

Even though I'm still just a novice in the world of politics,

you chose me to be the first mayor.

I am deeply honored.

Are these people all involved in the underground Shiniki initiative?

That's right.

I know you don't want to be involved in this,

but Mr. Nomaru wanted us to attend the promoters' meeting. Stay with me for a bit.

He's even younger than you.

Are you saying that youth is what makes a man popular with the people?

Yeah. But the most important thing is aura.

Technically speaking, you don't have to know anything about politics.

A mayor's job is to fill the people with hope.

He's a liar who can take on two million people?

Mr. Nomaru.

It's almost time, Itsuki.

Thank you.

I haven't seen you for a long time, Mr. Morinaga. Oh, who's this?

This is Seizaki from the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office, Special Investigations.

Oh, you're a public prosecutor?

A job for making sure justice is served.

The policies we're pursuing for Shiniki will benefit the human race and are just.

Our policies will be accepted in the near future.

History will prove that we were right.

Public Prosecutor Seizaki.

Please lend us your hand until that day comes.

It's not an error.

Then does that mean Fumio actually went there?

Yeah. I validated it, so I'm sure.

And we can also derive his behavioral patterns to some extent.

Really?

-What do you think? -I can see it.

There it is. Let's see...

At 12:14 a.m., he entered from the street through the entrance.

He stopped once, and then he started moving again.

Maybe he rode an elevator. His altitude changed.

Do you know what floor he got off on?

There's going to be some measurement error. But if he was moving upward without stopping,

he would have arrived at the 6th or 7th floor. Then he went to the apartment at the end.

Mr. Mitoni. Thanks for the help!

Give me some more time for the professor's computer.

Thank you.

NEW MAIL SENT BY KUJIIN

Do you see what I sent you just now?

Hold on.

What's this?

It's from a security camera near Inaba's apartment.

It's from the day before Inaba died.

It's that woman who came to the university with Ano.

Yes. But even when I checked a few other cameras,

she was the only one I could see.

-She was acting alone. -Probably.

Hey, Mr. Seizaki.

Nomaru is going to cooperate with the investigation, right?

That means we should look into the woman next, right?

You came at a good time.