The first 200 lines.
Telepathy
This wind should let up by tomorrow, and
you can look forward to a comfortable day.
Thank you for watching.
See you tomorrow.
NEP LEAGUE
Today's opponent is
the Intellectual Beauty Team.
Intellectual beauty? Why do I see a burly one there?
Social networking service is the easiest communication tool
that connects people to people.
You recommend something you think is nice to a friend.
That friend recommends it to another friend.
This is the point. Listen up, everyone.
This is the crucial point.
The important thing is that you recommend it to a friend.
Trust and empathy.
The thing that brings these two together is your friend's...
What was that?
The content can be anything.
As long as you create a network, the product can be anything.
Isn't it easy? So let's keep pushing to expand that circle.
That's the first step of the Isoya Method.
Okay, okay.
Wakana?
Why the Natto Combination Meal?
If you're the Teito University's associate professor,
you should eat something more extravagant.
There are lots of fashionable café's nearby, you know.
It's a waste of time. Besides, a natto combination meal is
cheap, delicious, and healthy.
It's extremely reasonable.
If your question has been answered, please leave.
Why would I come here just to ask that?
Aren't you going to ask me, "Then what do you want?"
I don't want to hear it.
Something very strange is occurring.
Have you heard that a mysterious phenomena occurs between twins?
For example, synchronicity between twins.
Synchronicity. A meaningful coincidence.
And telepathy.
The incident occurred 3 days ago at approximately 7:00 pm.
Why did you let her in, Professor Yukawa?
The operator of an antique shop, Isoya Wakana-san, 26 years old.
Hey! Ask before you use the blackboard!
That woman was attacked by an unknown assailant in her home at Omori, Ohta-ku.
We couldn't care less about that.
And so?
Professor!
The bedroom window on the first floor was broken,
and the suspect is believed to have entered through there.
The wife must've came across the suspect who snuck in to burglarize.
Why was the suspect carrying a hammer if burglary was the motive?
Watch your words, woman.
To break the window, what else?
A brutal suspect and a short-sighted investigator.
Hey, wait a minute.
But I'm different.
Isoya Wakana-san, who suffered a blow to the head, survived, but
she's still in a comatose state, hovering on the border of life and death.
Wakana.
The ones who found Wakana-san unconscious on the floor were her husband,
Isoya Tomohiro-san, and his subordinate, Yamashita Shinichi-san.
Isoya-san is a business consultant, and
he was giving a lecture at a seminar that night.
Buying a product is important, of course, however,
I believe expanding your circle of friends is the most important thing.
During that time, Yamashita-san was holding on to Tomohiro-san's cell phone for him.
You've reached Isoya's cell phone.
Tomohiro-san?
Say, is Wakana there with you?
I think something happened to Wakana.
That phone call was from Wakana-san's twin sister, Haruna-san, in Nagano.
Twin sister?!
Nagano?
I tried calling Wakana, but there's no answer!
This is Yamashita. The president is in the middle of a lecture right now.
Please go help Wakana! Hurry!
Wait a minute now. How did the sister in Nagano know?
Anyway, the way the sister was carrying on was unusual, so
Tomohiro-san rushed home immediately after the seminar was over.
I'm home.
Wakana?
I'm back. Wakana?
Wakana! Wakana! Wakana! Wakana!
Am...ambulance. Ambulance. Ambulance. Ambulance.
In other words,
the twin sister who was more than 200 km away from Tokyo
sensed her sister's peril, and it became a reality.
That's impossible.
However,
that's a common occurrence that can happen to anyone, not just twins.
It's what's known as premonition.
Yes, indeed.
However, at the time of the incident,
Wakana-san and Haruna-san were both making stew.
Their salads were garnished the same way too.
The same way?!
If they were raised in the same environment since they were children,
it's not surprising at all that they would have the same food preference.
It's been chilly these past few days.
There must've been plenty of housewives who thought about making stew on a cold night.
At least 10,000 in Japan.
But...
Incidentally,
I had stew that night too.
What do you think about this then?
The moment Wakana-san was thought to have been attacked,
her sister Wakana-san also felt an excruciating pain on her head.
Really?
You said telepathy between twins,
so I was expecting a more persuasive occurrence, but
they're all nothing more than unscientific testimonies.
Professor Yukawa.
All that can be explained using logic.
Coincidence and assumption. It's very simple.
I know, right? Okay, go on, leave.
Hey! Girlie! Your bag.
Come on in.
Excuse us.
We start running a fever on the same day.
Often, even before we started kindergarten.
We get pimples in the same spot.
At the same time, huh?
So they say.
Surely, that can't be.
We're both still hooked on the Korean Wave.
Yes, but there are lots of people like that.
We pick the same colored underwear too, huh?
I'm wearing purple today.
Me too.
So they say.
Seriously?
When I call my sister, wondering how she's doing,
the line's always busy.
I'm calling my sister
at the same time too. Wondering how she's doing.
So they say.
Professor.
It's a tie, do it again. It's a tie, do it again. It's a tie, do it again.
It's a tie, do it again. It's a tie, do it again. It's a tie, do it again.
Their record for number of consecutive ties is 22.
22?!
It's a tie, do it again...
We met in Hokkaido.
We met in Hawaii.
After we started dating, my sister told me she found a boyfriend too.
What a surprise that was when she introduced him to me.
So they say.
I'm starting to feel dizzy.
Well, Professor. Can you still logically prove that
there's nothing going on between twins?
We can't.
I can.
What?
You can?
What I was shown just now is precisely the sychronicity between twins.
In other words, a meaningful coincidence.
However, that doesn't change the fact that it's a coincidence.
More than that, I'm more amazed with your energy
you must have expended to gather that many sets of twins.
Wasted as it was, you're to be commended.
What is this? It wouldn't kill you to take some interest, will it?
Why are you so stuck on twins?
Just because the younger sister had a premonition,
I find it hard to believe that would have any effect on the investigation.
I know, right?
She not only had a premonition,
but she's saying she saw the assailant.
What?
She said she saw the assailant's face.
If that's true, it means Haruna-san is
a witness of the crime, right? Anyway, never mind.
Wait.
Yes?
Professor.
Why didn't you say so sooner?
Huh?
Don't.
When the older twin was attacked in Tokyo,
her younger sister in Nagano saw the assailant's face.
Yes.
Very interesting.
I was feeling uneasy that whole night.
And for a brief second, it appeared in my mind.
A man's face.
A man's face.
And then
I felt a pain as if I was given a blow on the head.
You had similar experiences in the past too, didn't you?
Ever since we were little, we'd hurt the same spot, and
even when we acting separately, we'd eat the same thing for lunch, things like that.
They were daily occurrences.
Even now, Wakana and I are connected.
Connected?
Even in her unconscious state, Wakana's brain is functioning properly and
sending me messages.
Messages.
That's something intangible and can't be expressed in words.
But even now, I can tell Wakana is suffering.
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