Vatican Miracle Examiner (バチカン奇跡調査官)

You alright, Hiraga?

Why did the police ask us such absurd questions?

Those who live outside the providence of God are complicated people.

I did never learn much about those 'complicated' people...

It's changing colors! Look, Roberto!

You're right... without the other miracles happening, either.

What could this mean?

And they confiscated our other cameras...

Nothing we can do about it. There's a high chance they captured what happened here tonight.

Let's just be thankful we have the one.

You're right.

It's getting late. Shall we leave this for tomorrow?

But I've got to look over the video and verify the data...

Oh, that's right, I need to examine that boy's blood, too!

When on Earth did you take a sample?

And investigating the murder isn't our job.

We don't know that yet.

If it's connected...

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

Just as we were investigating a miracle at Saint Eligius Church, a murder took place,

one very similar to the local legend of the Decapitating Clown.

Lauren, there's something I'd like you to send me right away.

Haros, Haros, Haros!

Haros, Haros, Haros!

Deep in the forest is the House Over There!

At the House Over There is a well that drowns out flames!

Hey! If you sing that song, an evil monster really will come and get you! At the House Over There is a well that drowns out flames!

Hey! If you sing that song, an evil monster really will come and get you!

A long time ago my friend sang that song and got her head chopped off!

Don't sing that song again, okay?

Okay...

"The House Over There"?

Good morning to you, Father.

And to you, Father.

I woke to the sounds of a strange song and yelling.

Oh, Mrs. Venninuanvi's family.

The song those children were singing is an old village folk song.

Folk song?

What is "The House Over There?"

It's a slang phrase in this region that means "Hell."

Hiraga, are you awake?

Yes, come in.

Hey now, you pulled an all-nighter?

Did you discover something important?

Yes. The light and sound come together, but the statue of Christ changes on its own.

Huh? Then were you able to figure out how it happens?

At the moment, I've got a guess...

I've messaged Lauren to send me the tools I need to confirm my suspicions.

That, and...

when I tested that poor boy's blood, I found something remarkable about it.

"Something remarkable"?

His cholecalciferol levels were extremely low.

What is that, exactly?

Simply put, Vitamin D3.

And his hemoglobin levels were half of what normal levels should be.

Half?!

I think those levels were caused by the environment in which he was raised,

as Vitamin D3 is synthesized in the skin from sunlight.

Which means this boy was kept out of the sun for many years.

What about the hemoglobin, then?

Hemoglobin transports oxygen and nutrients to cells.

What if that level of hemoglobin was enough for his body to function?

That would mean he didn't have enough nutrients for the hemoglobin to transport.

What kind of place was he living in?

Yes, it must have been like Hell.

"Like Hell..."

Haros, Haros, Haros!

Haros, Haros, Haros!

Haros...

The Greek god of death?

What about him?

He was in that song they were singing outside.

Didn't you hear it?

I'm sorry, but I was so focused on the blood analysis that I didn't even notice it.

You're going to hurt yourself, you know.

You should probably take a small break.

Yes, you're right.

What about you, Roberto?

I'm going to take a little walk around Monte.

Mrs. Venninuanvi...

It's such an honor for a priest of the Vatican to visit my little home.

There's something I'd like to ask you, actually.

About that song your children were singing this morning.

Oh my.

Marco, let's go play outside!

You could hear them from the church? Okay, Tonio!

Oh, it's terrible. It's a song that calls forth the Devil!

I'll be very strict with them from now on not to sing that song...

Actually, I was more interested in what you said to them.

You said that a friend of yours had her head chopped off in the forest?

Yes, the Carlo incident...

It happened so long ago, thirty-two years ago, in fact.

Thirty-two years ago...

I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but...

Carlo was a notorious troublemaker who always made his girlfriend Teresa cry.

Could you tell me a bit more about the incident?

I don't mind, but I think it's best if you asked Antonio instead.

Antonio?

My cousin, Trones Antonio Venninuanvi.

He was involved in the incident as well.

Father Trones...

There was an incident like that in the past?

Yeah, another murder involving the Decapitating Clown.

According to Mrs. Venninuanvi's husband,

Carlo, the victim, went into the Clown's woods with three friends to shoot a documentary.

In the end, Carlo was killed,

and a woman named Dominica developed a mental illness.

What about the killer?

He was never caught, and the case is still unsolved.

And, years after the incident, the woman named Teresa was struck by lightning and killed.

The only one still alive is Antonio...

Father Trones.

But he's gone missing, too.

So, after I spoke with Mrs. Venninuanvi, I went by all their homes.

First, I stopped by Dominica's home.

The woman with the mental illness.

Yes.

I heard she lived with her father,

but her illness has gotten so severe that she can't leave the house.

She was Father Trones' lover, but before that,

she was an emotionally unstable woman who was difficult to handle.

Still, for her condition to have declined that far,

she must have experienced something truly terrifying.

Unfortunately, I was unable to meet Dominica herself.

Next, I went to Teresa's home.

After losing her boyfriend Carlo,

she was engaged for many years to Father Trones, before she was struck by lightning and died.

Her father was so lonely.

My wife died young, then I lost Teresa, who I raised alone...

It's a sad, lonely tale.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I heard that your daughter was struck by lightning right before her wedding.

Yes, she seemed happy to marry Antonio... oh, he's Father Trones now,

and I never had a good opinion of Carlo...

Carlo Zetti was her first fiance, I hear?

He was rich, and a star rugby player, and in the beginning, that's what Teresa fell for.

But soon after, they began to constantly fight,

and Teresa would often go off alone to cry, her face swollen with tears.

That's why I was honestly a bit relieved when Carlo died.

You supported her marriage to Father Trones, then?

Yes, Antonio is a good man.

When my daughter died,

he was so distraught, he donated away all his riches

to become a man of the cloth.

Father Trones must have been so shocked by Teresa's death.

Looking back on it now, I think my daughter had a premonition of what was to come.

A few days before she died, she was strangely anxious.

What do you mean?

She would wake in the middle of the night, and kept looking out the windows...

As if she were afraid of a demon or something.

No, she may just have been afraid of Rodriguez.

Rodriguez?

He was Carlo's buddy, and a hoodlum at that.

He had a lot of money for someone without a job,

and after Carlo died, he started following Teresa around.

Where is he now?

He's dead now.

Died five years ago in a drunk driving accident.

Where does his family live?

I heard he was living with a woman

named Fioletta Cordwell,

but she just up and disappeared.

The last house I stopped by was Carlo Zetti's.

There, I found...

Sorry for the wait.

Here is a copy of the video Carlo recorded.

Thank you very much for letting us borrow this.

But why would a priest from the Vatican want to see this?