The Vanished (雨の町)

Mother!

It's me!

Let me in!

He is back, finally.

You are in there right? Let me in!

Father, mother!

Father, mother!

Shun!

Your mother was dead 10 years ago!

You should not be at this place

go away!

Please!

Father...

Father! Let me in!

Father...

Father! Let me in!

Father...

Father...

Help!

Help! Father!

Father...

Shun!

"The Vanished"

So how do you gather customers?

From website?

No way!

Then, telephone club?

That's old-fashioned!

Getting an acquaintance to introduce each other is safer.

Such as my coworkers at my part-time job.

I can get as many customers as I want.

How much money does your daughter take?

Anyway

those were the old days. I no longer do it now.

That can't be helped

my health is bad that I can't work.

I get little welfare.

Madam

did your ex-husband do anything to your daughter?

Who had said such things?

He said he had to pay you for that.

That's for sure

after doing such things to your own daughter.

But... that's not only for once, but it happened regularly...

I can't see, I can't see.

I don't see anything.

I can't see, I can't see.

I don't see anything.

Excuse me, would you mind if I ask you some questions...

what was done to your sister?

Don't touch her!

That's not her sister. That's her own child

but she doesn't know who the father is.

Oh!

Aren't you a bit early?

Thank you for your hard work.

So, that's it for now.

Thank you. Please take care of it.

What happened?

Nothing really...

Oh.

Thank you!

- I'm leaving. - Thank you.

Take care.

Souta.

Yes.

What is this?

"The truth of Homicide against the Family at Adachi-ku."

You have not gone deeper at all.

And you have no energy.

You should stop doing this.

Are you killing it?

Of course!

What happened to you recently?

Nothing...

Oh you... give me a moment...

Wait a moment.

What do you think?

The drowned body of a missing child

that's interesting, right?

That's not interesting.

No.

They did the autopsy and found that...

their internal organs were missing.

Nothing.

Not even heart, stomach or lungs.

What do you think?

I don't know.

Hey, what do you think?

Those were eaten by the fish right?

The constrictor of the drowned body gets loosened

so the fishes entered from the anus and ate the organs.

So what would you write then?

Is it organ trafficking?

That's a good center.

"We have it in Japan, the organ trafficking group that..."

"murders the victims behind the scene".

Go and report for this.

No that's ok for me.

What? What do you mean by that?

I'm saying that I don't like those stories.

What? What are you talking about?

Do you think you can make a living by writing those?

If you fail on such a chance

you will get fired.

Go and report on this

go Souta!

What a bastard.

Hey kid, I'm not bullying your mother though.

Stop it!

Souta, go somewhere!

Kaneishi!

Kaneishi!

The day for repayment is already passed.

If you're not coming out I'm going to kill you!

Don't make fool of me!

I'll kill you!

What happened to you?

Are you abandoned by your mom?

Mom...

My name is Kaneishi.

I'm Sakaguchi.

Oh I know this.

It is in the Okame restaurant which I go often.

I have not read it before.

- Oh please. - Thank you.

It must be hard, coming at such an early morning.

I came by the overnight train.

Oh I see.

I don't believe in any occults or any supernatural phenomena

so I can't really help you.

This is not something your magazine will get interested in.

But did this kind of incident happened before in Japan?

I mean, there were no internal organs in those bodies...

There were no internal organs... right?

I don't think so.

So it is possible that someone took them outright?

No, that's...

No I think it is possible

so I brought my video camera to record the interview...

if that is proper... I will pay you for it, of course.

The organs were not there from the beginning.

No organs from the very beginning.

When I cut into by the surgical knife

it felt like cutting the steamed fish paste.

Very smooth.

I mean, the body is a fake.

Don't you think so? There is no body like that.

I can show you if you like, do you?

Yes please.

So yeah... it would be good if you can also take a look at it.

"X-Ray Room."

Please don't take any recordings...

Please touch it.

Please.

The body used to be hard as if it was having the rigor mortis.

But now it has elasticity.

What do you mean by that?

I don't know.

There are some spots for internal bleeding...

while the body has no blood.

I also keep the things left behind.

Would you mind to show me?

Here it is.

The police spent less time for it...

because they do not think it's a serious case.

They put them all here.

How about the school?

I don't know...

but the village called Hinoe village exists.

That's the school uniform right?

Elementary school. Yeah...

I haven heard of the name of the school.

What are you going to do with these?

It will get cremated eventually...

Don't look at me...

That is true editor in chief!

What if that's a lie?

I know, starting with the identity of the child!

Oh excuse me, is there any hotel for free?

What are you talking about?

Yes?

Oh I see.

That must be some hard work.

From Tokyo...

Yes.

He came from Tokyo for a case coverage...

That's amazing!

From so far away.

There is nothing around here.

We don't have any hot springs, the rice also tastes bad.

I order the rice from Niigata.

Oh is it?

Oh this is it.

Shin Uchida

living in the Hinoemura.

Wait...

bu! I think this is wrong...

The person named Uchida that you're looking for...

is 7 or 8 years old right?