Vatican Miracle Examiner (バチカン奇跡調査官)

Throw a boiling pot on a fire and jump into it.

Only those with the courage to jump can move forward.

Do not stray from the old road for a new one.

When Venus and the moon align, carefully count the true numbers of the beasts.

Within those three phrases of advice to Solomon lies a puzzle.

There are those who would examine claims of holy miracles from around the world,

and verify a miracle has indeed occurred.

Please show them the way, O Lord, the Vatican Miracle Examiners!

Ikeru mono tsumibukaki kakugo de The living reach out their hands

Ataerareta fukashigi ni te wo nobasu yo With sinful resolve to the mysteries they've been given

Itami ga yobu negai wo tokiakashite The pain calls for resolution of their wish

Hikari yo ashiki tamashii sukuitamae to For the light to save their sinful souls

Koe dake ja tarinainda My voice isn't enough

Kiseki no nai jinsei iranai I don't need a life without miracles

Abunai jounetsu ga miseta akenai yoru no naka de A dangerous passion showed me a vision in an endless night

Dare no yume ga hiraku darou Whose dream will be opened?

Yami to boku wa niteru kai Do I resemble the darkness?

Abunai jounetsu o kaketa kore ga key ad mysterium I took the risk with that dangerous passion for this key ad mysterium

Ima wa semete shinjitetai I want to at least believe now

Dakedo nanimo wakaranai But I don't know anything

We came to Saint Eligius Church to investigate a miracle happening daily,

but after learning of a Decapitating Clown murder thirty-two years ago,

we decided to head into the forest to discover what really happened.

I will contact you again if I make it out alright.

To Lauren, from Hiraga.

This is it.

This is where the four of them sat around the campfire.

Doesn't look like we'll find any trace of a campfire, though.

Hey.

Could this pile of empty cans be Carlo's?

They could. They're in the same bag.

I'm surprised it lasted out here this long.

This thick fog is year-round, and the locals don't come into the forest either.

The police investigating at the time sure did a great job.

These last thirty-two years, everyone was terrified of a demon.

This one can has a strange hole in it.

Cut precisely.

Must have been made by someone.

Yes, to put something into the can.

Which means...?

I noticed something while watching the video.

Compared to Carlo, Antonio, and Teresa,

Domenica was way more terrified.

Almost as if she were on a drug trip.

God, is that what happened?

Who would benefit from having Domenica that terrified?

Carlo Zetti, who worked at a TV station.

He'd be thrilled to have a truly realistic performance from his actress.

And the person who handed Domenica the beer was Antonio, Father Trones.

If we'd discovered this earlier...

What a crude mistake the investigation thirty-two years ago made.

We should move on, quickly.

How do you know where to go from here?

The hints were in the video.

We're going to follow them, right?

Yeah, they're probably old path markers.

Did they know about them, too?

At the very least, everyone except for Domenica knew.

That's the rocky mountain from the video.

That's it. "The House Over There."

There's the well, huh?

Isn't that a magic circle?

This wasn't in the video from thirty-two years ago.

Forget thirty-two years ago, this circle was drawn in the last few days.

Drawn by someone who tried to seal away the demon with a magic circle.

Was it Father Trones?

He was quite scared of it.

Sure is deep.

It is a well.

You sure about that?

What's that? There's something like a ladder going all the way down we can use.

Let's take off the grate.

Huh?

When we were talking about Domenica's beer, everyone looked like they'd realized something.

Well, it's an area you're not all that skilled with, I suppose.

Yes, forgive me.

Here's the story. There are two couples here.

Antonio was feeling troubled about Domenica's unstable emotions,

and Teresa was being abused by Carlo.

It wouldn't be out of the question

for them to develop feelings for one another while talking about their problems.

But that's just speculation.

Yes, but you can clearly understand their motives if you think of it that way.

Are you saying that Teresa was in on it, too?

The Decapitating Clown might've been Antonio in costume.

And he traumatized Domenica to the point of insanity?

It also explains why the athletic Carlo didn't resist when his head was cut off.

He must have thought the two of them were helping him with his TV show.

That would make sense.

And it also explains why Father Trones disappeared.

He felt Teresa's death was divine punishment

and entered into the clergy out of guilt.

When he saw the Motley Clown once again after thirty-two years, he ran away.

The terrified priest then drew this magic circle to seal away the demon.

Yes, he must have wished he could fly away from that horror.

"Fly"? I get it!

That story was very helpful!

Excuse me, Fathers.

We can go down from here.

According to the song, at the bottom of the well is a "shaky shaky pot."

The well was just to disguise this passage.

Wells don't usually have stone-paved floors at the bottom, either.

Let's keep moving forward.

Do you need a break from waking, Hiraga?

No, I'm fine.

This passage sure is long.

That looks like the exit.

Be careful.

Is this the end of the passage?

This must be the pot in the pits of hell.

Roberto, look.

That's the Bourbona crest of arms!

Which means it's the central core of Galdoune.

These doors are here, but they're too heavy to move.

Is this a dead end?

"Throw a boiling pot on a fire and jump into it."

"Only those with the courage to jump can move forward."

What's that mean?

It's part of an old fairy tale.

So we have to jump in here then?

This smell... is that oil?

There's a vent in the ceiling above it, and soot on it.

Why don't we try setting the pot alight?

Lemme borrow this.

Huh?

Hot, hot, hot!

It was connected to the door!

The mechanism is likely identical to Hero of Alexandria's automatic doors.

Steam moves a pulley that opens the doors.

The geniuses of ancient times were truly great men.

As time passes, the doors and chimney will be closed off, and the oxygen in the room will be consumed.

The fiee will go out, and we'll die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Alright, let's hurry on forward.

Roberto, what do you think this underground passage is?

It's a pretty old tunnel.

I don't think Galdoune dug it out. They're just using these ancient ruins.

Fork in the road.

"Do not stray from the old road for a new one."

I see.

Don't look to the side road, just continue down the same tunnel.

That's likely what it means.

Still, we sure have walked a long way.

It must be nighttime outside now.

I wanna go home and eat my mama's cooking.

Luminescent moss.

What are all those holes?

What is this place?

Looks like an ancient settlement.

I just saw someone up there!

He looked just like that boy.

Snow as white as milk.

Doesn't look like this is Galdoune.

Don't shoot.

Huh? Oh, right.

Hey, we'd like to talk to you...

Could you come out?

My name is Roberto Nicolas.

I'm a priest from the Vatican.

Do you live here?

Davanino. My name's Davanino.

Are you-

How old are you? How long have you lived here?

I'm twenty-seven.

I've lived here all my life, same as my father and his father before him,

in service of the House of Bourbona.

Bour-

What do you mean by "in service"?

We mine gold for them.

But even though we can't mine any more gold, they won't let us leave this place.

Roberto...

Yeah, that gold was likely the source of Galdoune's funds.

There are others living here, right, Davanino?

Yes, but my friends here will not come out.

They're afraid of the motley guard.

"Motley"?!

Yes, recently, we got a new head guard, and ever since, there's weird things happening in the golden room.

What kinds of weird things?

They're printing indulgences.

I heard that if they're printed like that, you can get them to the surface.

"Indulgences"?

My friend Canbrino stole just one of them and tried to run away with it.

He was that boy, huh?

But those are no Catholic indulgences.

Those are elaborate counterfeit bills!

Is that why he was killed?

He was killed?!

Oh, I knew he shouldn't have disobeyed the guard!

Who knew they were doing such cruel things down here...?

We'll do everything we can to set you free.

Oh, everyone will be so happy!

Please show use where they're printing the counterfiet bills!

Inside that cave.

Though I can't go with you...