Undead Murder Farce (アンデッドガール・マーダーファルス)

Aleister Crowley!

Well, hello there.

Don't go stealin' my prey!

You're just my type.

Carmilla!

Shizuku!

Pointless.

Truly pointless.

Both you and the werewolves are.

You are a locomotive.

I am a wrecker.

Do you understand?

Farewell, you ugly monster!

I've come to return the favor from earlier.

Be careful. His chains—

Oh, I was watching. He's just like Baiken Shishido.

Alice...

By the way, I believe we agreed that you'd return the diamond.

Tightfisted, I see.

I have a question for you.

About the rest of Master's body...

Is it safe?

It's safe. The professor's got it locked up.

I'm pretty sure it hasn't been cut up.

We're done here.

Thanks.

London.

Our base is in London.

We'll be waiting for you, so come get it back.

Tch!

Tch! Does he have unlimited ammo?

Ikutsushima!

Why in the world aren't you wearing underwear?

I'd rather not tell you.

You're fighting to avoid my poison.

But this poison has a weakness...

Once you're bitten, you build up a tolerance.

The second time won't go like the first.

You're not sure what to do.

You're not sure if I'm telling the truth.

Now, then...

Why don't we give it a try?

This fight is over.

Well... I don't know about that.

We'll have to finish this next time.

No! I'm ending this here!

Was everything you said earlier the truth?

See you soon.

I'll finish her next time!

Fear not. You won't die immediately.

You friggin' fraud...

I'd prefer to be called a magician.

Master, are you done with whatever you wanted to confirm?

I am.

In that case, let's get right to explaining the mystery!

I'll actually be doing that with Vera and Shizuku.

You have another job to do.

Shizuku...

Kaya.

The village... Please save them.

Don't worry.

We will.

That's enough!

I've identified the culprit in both the Heulendorf and Wolphinhel murders.

I've come to tell you who it is!

What's she talking about?!

Episode Thirteen

The Culprit's Name

What's she doing here?

It was all done by one individual.

I'm sure you're watching.

Please come out.

Surely you've achieved your goal by now.

I-It can't be!

Allow me to introduce you to...

Louise of Heulendorf, also known as Nora from Wolphinhel, and also known as...

Jutte.

Wh-What's going on here?!

Isn't it obvious? Your daughter was replaced with an impostor.

It happened a year and a half ago, when she went missing.

When did you figure it out?

The moment I opened the door to Louise's room.

A werewolf's therianthrope form couldn't fit through that window,

and its human form couldn't have climbed through it,

which means it likely jumped through in its wolf form.

But how could a wolf have carried the girl away?

The state of the chimney was also suspicious.

If a wolf had come down through it, there would have been soot everywhere.

Which means no one infiltrated that room.

And yet, one girl and one wolf were unaccounted for.

Which meant there was only one logical explanation...

A werewolf had taken Louise's place.

The impostor Louise then planned and staged her own kidnapping.

As I went around the village,

I learned that the werewolf named Jutte greatly resembled Louise.

I began to wonder if Jutte might still be alive.

Then, that night, a werewolf appeared in Heulendorf.

I knew instantly that the werewolf was not Alma, but the impostor Louise.

Its bites matched those of the impostor Louise, after all.

The real Alma must have been killed right after we visited her.

We found her body underground.

Next, I was quite surprised to learn

that there were girls being killed in the werewolf village as well.

And then, last night, Nora was also murdered.

We found an underground passage at the murder site.

When we followed the trail of blood, we found an open space.

That was where the murder actually took place.

Someone had dipped the victim into a lake, put clothes on her,

shot her dead...

and then carried her outside.

So just who is this murderer?

It's a human! It must be!

No, that is the one impossible solution.

There was a portion of the passage where thousands of tineid moths lived,

and they gave us quite the welcome.

They were attracted by the lamplight.

Once we left the cave, we were covered in scales.

But there wasn't a single scale on Nora's body when it was discovered.

There's only one way to avoid being covered in scales in that narrow cave,

and that is to walk through without any light.

The only one capable of doing that

would be a werewolf, with its superior senses of hearing and smell.

Thus I concluded that the killer in both villages had to be a werewolf.

And we found one other rather curious thing in that open space.

There were signs that someone lived there.

On the wall, there were eighteen months' worth of tally marks designated "probation."

But those carvings only reached the height of Tsugaru's thighs.

The walls of the cave were quite large and wide...

Which meant that there was a significant possibility that

the one staying in the cave could not stand.

Someone who couldn't stand, who disappeared a year and a half ago...

There is only one person that could be.

Louise...

Precisely. The real Louise.

But by the time we found the cave, she was already gone.

Louise and Nora were close in age.

I thought that if Nora had been killed in the underground cave where Louise was staying,

then perhaps the one who was killed yesterday was not Nora,

but Louise.

The picture then came into focus.

Jutte, who was able to escape to the werewolf village, changed her name to Nora,

then later took the place of Louise,

and kept going back and forth between the villages, playing both roles.

That would've been possible between these two villages.

There are five reasons why.

First, the two villages never interacted with each other.

Second, the underground passage we found connected the two villages in a much shorter,

faster route.

If traveled at the pace of a werewolf, it would likely take just one hour each way.

Third, the human villagers and werewolf villagers

were active during opposite times of day.

Fourth, Louise lived her life isolated from everyone,

and Nora lived on her own as well.

Fifth, there is an underground lake in the underground cave.

Werewolves have an acute sense of smell,

but if they bathed in the lake to rid themselves of their smell,

the others would be none the wiser.

And... when we returned to Heulendorf, Louise's corpse was found.

The injury was in the same location as Nora's.

I realized instantly that the same corpse had been reused.

Nora dug up the corpse, then devoured the flesh above the gunshot wound

to make it look like a werewolf attack.

I didn't eat her flesh.

I just bit her.

I'm not that heartless.

Oh, I do beg your pardon.

Regardless, you tampered with the corpse and carried it to Heulendorf.

It would appear that we passed by each other a number of times.

It got pretty close.

I thought you'd noticed me in the underground passage.

And that's why you hid away Alma's corpse and the shotgun.

With the help of my part-time assistant, Vera, we dug up Nora's grave.

The coffin was empty.