Woman of Maruho (Maruho no Onna / マルホの女 / Hoken Hanzai Chosain / ～​保​険​犯​罪​調​査​員​～)

The flow of that money must not be publicly known.

That would cause problems for Sensei.

Very much so.

Before President Sakuragawa says anything unnecessary,

won't you use your power to do something?

No...

Even if you say I have the power...

The method doesn't matter.

What?

Didn't you hear?

I said the method doesn't matter.

President Sakuragawa mustn't be allowed to say anything unnecessary.

You understand my meaning, don't you?

If Sensei gets angry,

you and I will both be ruined.

Besides, if President Sakuragawa is gone,

won't the next president be you?

President? Me?

Of course.

When the Dawn comes,

if you lend the ministry your full cooperation,

I will put in a good word for you.

The 5th of April, 2014.

Sakuragawa Masato, president of Sakuragawa Construction, has died.

On stage at a charity concert he had personally sponsored,

in front of a large audience, he burned to death.

The fire started from an electrical leakage from the podium cover

and spread to attack President Sakuragawa.

The police and fire service agreed it was an unfortunate accident.

The probability of that appeared to be high.

If people are killed or injured in an accident like this,

the facility becomes liable for damages.

The management of Sakuragawa Hall had taken out liability insurance,

so that the insurance company would pay compensation.

However, in incidents and accidents with such a large potential insurance payout,

in addition to the work of the police, the insurance company conducts its own investigation.

This is to determine whether there is a possibility of insurance fraud.

In response to the increasingly sophisticated insurance crimes in recent years,

Each insurance company calls on the expertise of an established research company.

This man is the president of one such company: Adjust Research.

Hey~!

There are two employees.

Kashiwagi Natsuko.

Speciality: logical reasoning.

Extremely unyielding.

Extremely fastidious.

Tohno Aki.

Speciality: intuition.

Former female biker.

Equally unyielding.

These two insurance crime investigators are complete opposites.

Are you two alright?

What on earth happened?

A person burned.

Suddenly went whumph!

Burned?

We tried to ask the police some questions, but they wouldn't answer.

Thanks to that ticket from you, I'm exhausted!

This is a story of the wide variety of insurance mushrooming in modern society.

These two insurance adjusters battle against

those committing sophisticated insurance crimes, and attempt to uncover the truth.

Maruho no Onna English subtitles by Candylemon

Day of the incident 17:00

Day of the incident 18:20

You are 20 minutes and 18 seconds later than we arranged.

Why are you waiting? I told you to go in ahead.

Shouldn't you have told me before that you would be late?

I told you I had some urgent business.

As you were leaving you discovered a hole in your sock

and stopped to sew it up.

Would anyone else call that urgent business?

It's undignified to have a hole in your sock.

In any case, don't you have a base salary of 281,500 yen?

Even subtracting the pension premium,

health insurance premium, employment insurance premium,

residential tax, income tax,

and life insurance premium,

there should still be 200,000 yen left.

How much does one pair of socks cost?

I told you to go in first, didn't I?

Which of us has the tickets, I wonder?

Huh?

Well, don't sweat the small stuff!

We're friends, aren't we?

We're not friends.

We are merely acquaintances who know enough to match names to faces.

- You bring them. - Okay.

Ah, in here?

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Here and here, right?

Do you always carry that brush around?

Of course.

What of it?

Well...

The president of Sakuragawa Construction, Sakuragawa Masato.

He's the founder and designer of this Sakuragawa Hall.

Sakuragawa Construction is also the organiser of this charity concert.

Well, everyone.

For taking the time to come to Sakuragawa Hall today,

thank you very much.

But apparently, donations collected from the charity concerts

aren't being donated, but are actually being used for another purpose.

Oh?

Did you just think,

"Tohno-san knows a lot of detail. I didn't think she was that cultured"?

Actually, I was browsing a copy of "Monthly Truth" in a convenience store and they had an exposé.

When you come to a place like this, it's common sense to refrain from chatting.

Oh? You didn't know about that?

Don't you look at magazines or TV?

You're out of touch.

I don't want to hear something like that from you.

- Want one? - Hey!

Now,

the full earnings from this charity concert

will be donated to the Pagram Republic, affected by the recent typhoon...

Sakuragawa!

I've read "Monthly Truth"!

What "charity"? Swindling bastard!

I won't trust you!

Everyone, you're being tricked!

Security! Quick...

What's this? What?

While President Sakuragawa was cloaked with flame,

there was a crush as the audience fled.

Many people were injured.

With regard to the safety management,

the police have suggested there may have been negligence on the part of the hall

and have begun an investigation.

Pablo's here!

World famous tenor Pablo, who was scheduled to appear,

has just emerged from the hall.

- President Sannomiya, good morning. - Heya.

News of yesterday's accident is all over the TV.

Ah! That announcer...

I tried to get an interview as an eyewitness,

but she ignored me. She pisses me off.

You're an investigator,

so don't go appearing on TV.

By the way, in "Monthly Truth" the month before last,

this woman got caught kissing in public with a young businessman.

The smug bitch!

In my opinion,

those who judge people based only on information from television and magazines

are the most unfortunate of fools.

You can't tell people's natures from the outside?

I can see most things from just a glance.

Hai hai, hai hai hai. I get it!

First let's turn off the TV.

Since you're both here, can we talk about work?

- Right. - Go ahead.

Let's see... Ah, whoa whoa whoa...

Tohno-kun, you go there.

Stand here. That's right, good.

Tohno-kun, move 15 cm to your right.

If you move 15 cm,

We'll make an isosceles triangle.

Stereo sound is based on an isosceles triangle.

Why is it I'm surrounded by freaks...

Aren't the strangest one of all?

Hurry up and move 15 cm!

Yes yes.

Ah! Wait...

Go back 5 cm.

What a pain...

There! Okay.

Er...

About the case last night at Sakuragawa Hall.

This morning, the company

Sakuragawa Hall had taken out facility liability insurance with,

Tohto Insurance,

have asked our parent company, Adjust Surveys,

to carry out an investigation.

Facility liability insurance?

If the safety of the facility isn't properly maintained,

in the event an accident occurs causing bodily injury,

if it was due to structural defects, or poor management, or such,

the facility bears liability for the victim.

Well, this time, someone died,

and a lot of the audience got serious injuries like fractures,

so I reckon the insurance payout would be enormous.

Hmm...

Calculating roughly...

compensation for bodily injury liability, uh...

The upper limit of the payout is 100 million per person.

The actual cost of treatment is 20,000 yen.

Cost of transportation to the hospital, 20,000 yen,

consolatory payment, 50,000 yen.

Accommodation allowance for the victim's family, 50,000 yen.

Transportation costs, 20,000 yen. Ticket price, 13,500 yen.

Legal expenses...

It's certainly more than 200 million.

- I see. In other words... - Ah, hey...

In other words, our role,

is to prove this accident wasn't the fault of Sakuragawa Hall?

Wrong.

If the insurance claim is valid, we will pay.

If the claim really is valid.

If it doesn't have to be paid we're lucky, though.

For example, if instead of an accident, it was suicide?