Detective Designated for Assignment (Senryokugai Sosakan / 戦力外捜査官)

Thanks for waiting.

- I'll be going then. - Oh, Chinami.

We received some yokan from my sister in Tsukudashima.

- Why don't you have some, before you go? - Yokan, in the morning...

It's yokan from "Tsuruya Kisekido".

It tastes so good.

It's from "Tsuruya Kisekido". Why don't you have some?

- Come on. - All right.

- For you papa. - All right...

It tastes so good.

- Thank you. - Here you go.

Delicious!

As expected from "Tsuruya Kisekido".

Yes, it's delicious.

- All right, Chinami, a question for you. - Huh?

My sister from Tsukudajima and I,

always fight over which piece we get

- when we cut a yokan in half. - All right.

But, by doing a certain thing,

we completely stopped fighting with each other.

What's that certain thing that we did?

Hmm...

Using a ruler, you made two equal pieces?

Can you cut that perfectly?

- You did rock, paper, scissors? - Wrong.

Hmm...

"The service that you provided, contributed greatly to the arrest of the culprit."

"Therefore we award you with this certificate of commendation."

Congratulations.

Thank you very much.

I would like to ask the rest of the 18th squad to take pride in this

and have all of you work for a better world and society.

- Yes, sir. - Yes, sir.

- Isn't this amazing! - I'm happy for you.

Are you unhappy with Inspector Umizuki receiving a certificate of commendation from the Superintendent General?

Not at all.

Inspector Umizuki will eventually become someone that the police organization needs.

Please gather around, everyone.

Huh? What is it, Tabuchi-kun?

There we go.

My parents sent me these.

- Please have some if you like. - Really? Thank you.

- Thank you. - You're sharing with us.

I can't guarantee that all of them will taste good because they're not any famous brand.

Huh? Do tangerines also have brands?

Of course. Didn't you know?

If your parents sent you tangerines, that means that you're from...

- Ehime? - No.

- Shizuoka! - No.

- It's Kumamoto. - No.

- It's Io. - No, Io is in Ehime.

- Oh, right. - It's amazing that you thought of that.

I'm from Wakayama.

I have told you this before. How could you not remember!

Hello, the 18th squad.

Yes, understood.

Section Chief, a body has been found in Seijo.

- All right, let's go! Thank you for this. - Yes, sir.

There we go.

The victim's name is Takamura Yoshiki, 53 years old.

He's a famous writer of romance novels.

An author. I see.

The person that found him is the resident housekeeper.

She discovered him and called the police, when she arrived for work at 9 o'clock this morning.

I need to investigate this a bit more

but it could just be a case of him dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.

He probably fell asleep and spent the night in this closed room, while having this old heater on.

It doesn't have an oxygen depletion safety shut off mechanism.

Carbon monoxide poisoning...

I'm Mitayamam the housekeeper.

Yesterday, I made dinner for the sensei and Tamaki-san, his manager, at 7 o'clock.

I went home at 8 o'clock.

Did you notice something strange at that time?

No, nothing in particular.

The sensei, disliked using an air conditioner.

So, he always uses that old heater.

That's why he was always very careful with airing the room.

I see.

- Huh? - It's nothing...

My name is Sado, I'm an editor at "Danbunsha".

I have been working with the sensei for the past 8 years as his editor.

Please, have a seat.

To get straight to the point. Did the sensei have something that was worrying him?

No, his work is very well received in the past few years

and they've become best sellers.

Was there someone that had a grudge against him?

What does a manager of a writer do?

I do everything from arranging his travels to

negotiating possible drama adaptations of his work.

Tamaki-san, what were you doing yesterday evening?

Yesterday, I had dinner with Takamura-sensei and went home at 10 o'clock.

- Moriyama-san. - Yes. Oh, what was it again?

Ask about Takamura-san's family.

Oh... That's right.

Does Takamura-san have any family?

He has a wife, they've been separated for the past five years.

He also has a daughter who's in middle school.

According to the autopsy, the cause of death

was carbon monoxide poisoning as we expected.

The thing is, just, that there was sleeping medication found in the victim's body.

That's all.

So, that means that he took sleeping medication and turned on the heater in a closed room.

This means that there's a possibility that this is a suicide?

Yes.

Three out of Five books that were published in the past three years

have become best sellers with over 500 thousand copies sold.

570 thousand copies of "How the Otaru-unga flows", 850 thousand copies of "Lover from February".

And his latest work "Love in Rebuntou"

has been nominated for a Notoabungaku award, that means that...

All right, I got it. You're saying there isn't any motive for him to commit suicide, right?

- Yes. - All right, Kitazato, you're next.

According to his manager, Tamaki, Takamura-san was reading a book

when he left the house at 10 o'clock at night.

He testified that Takamura-san hurt his right hand when he slammed it between a drawer,

therefore he had a hard time turning the pages.

He was reading this book.

It was found next to Takamura-san's body.

It's written sideways? So, it's not a manga.

Lately, books of the "light novel" genre, are being published with sideways reading.

I read in his essay that he's always on the lookout

- for the latest trends. - So, it means

that this is an accident where he took sleeping medication and fell asleep at his desk?

Sekigawa, was Takamura in the possession of sleeping medication?

No, we haven't found any sleeping medication yet.

What? So, this means that...

He was given sleeping medication without his knowledge.

It means that there is a possibility of murder!

All right, then lets thoroughly investigate everything that's close to victim.

- Futaba and Ootomo will investigate his editor, Sado. - Yes, sir.

- Kitazato and Sekikawa will investigate his manager, Tamaki. - Yes, sir.

And the housekeeper, Mitayama...

- Umizuki and Shitara. - Yes, sir!

And Moriyama. You'll remain here for a while.

- That's all. Dismissed! - Yes, sir!

What's with you? You're not acting like your usual self.

- I'm sorry. - Huh?

I have been a fan of the deceased writer, Takamura Yoshiki,

as long as I can remember.

I have read everything from his books to

essays written in magazines, that's why...

All right, I got it. So, would you like to not get involved with this case?

No.

I'll see this through until the end...

Then, go to Takamura...

Go and investigate one of his family members.

Go to his wife, Takamura Sakurako, who lives separated from him.

Yes, sir.

So, Takamura-san's wasn't taking sleeping medication

on a regular basis?

That's right. Sleeping medication...

- I'm so surprised. It's just like I predicted. - Huh?

During a murder case, they usually say that you should be

suspicious of the person that gets the most benefit from it, right?

Who will benefit the most from the death of the sensei?

My thought is...

Of course, the wife of Takamura-sensei.

She'll get a big inheritance.

That's why she sneaked into the house at night.

But, how was she able to sneak into the house.

His wife lives separate

but they are not divorced.

She should still have a key.

Then, she put sleeping medication into the coffee.

Not possible, there wasn't any sleeping medication detected

from the coffee at the scene.

What do you think you're saying!?

First of all, she made him drink the coffee with sleeping medication.

Then, all she needs to do is to swap the cup with another one.

Now, it's a perfect crime.

The Perfect Crime

His wife, Sakurako-san, has an alibi during the night of the day before yesterday.

Really?

Really?

I'm melting~!

At that time, his wife was on an airplane, heading to Fukuoka where her parents live.

The cabin crew confirmed this.

Oh.

Oh, I feel relieved.

Sorry to let you wait.

Inspector, what's that?

Oh, a novel by Takamura-san, the deceased.

I bought it yesterday, because I wanted to read it.

It's his latest novel "Love in Rebuntou".

How is it?

Huh? I feel all warm inside!

- "Feel warm inside"? - Yes!

Don't you think this line is heartrending?

"There is no reason for love"

"But there is a reason for love to end."

Then, what about this one?

A good friend of the main character says "The person I fell in love with already has a partner"

Then he says.

Are you going to give up because the person you fell in love with has a partner?

Then, are you not going to shoot

Main Character

if there is a goalkeeper!?

Friend

A goal has a goalkeeper!

But, regardless of that, you still try to shoot

isn't that what love is!