Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa

Watch were you're going!

Hey you!

Don't ignore me!

I'm talking to you!

1 month later

My editor booked a nice hotel for me to combine my business with pleasure.

Yeah, it's very nice.

Just like the world of Yokomizo Seishi (a novelist of the historical detective novel).

Can I join you?

Hey, don't make me sick.

In fact, I have a love letter for you.

What are you talking about?

I've forgotten a password of a safe.

Didn't you make a note of the number?

I made a secret code so that a thief couldn't open the safe.

But I forgot how to open too.

Probably, this code is influenced by a novel that I was reading at that time.

But I don't remember which novel it was.

This kind of thing is Alice's strong area.

Then, can you ask him?

By the way, what's in a safe?

Well...It's a very able thing.

If you can open it, that's all yours.

You're bored, aren't you?

Unlike you, I have no time to waste.

You're totally wrong.

I came here for a business.

Do-it-yourself!

I have to go. Talk to you later!

He is very cold, meow...

Before starting writing, let's take a walk to get refreshed!

It's Hata's turn to drink!

Welco...me...

Ah...Welcome to our hotel.

Welcome to our hotel.

I'll take care of your luggage...

Please take a guest to Shorai room.

Certainly.

Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa

Episode 2, Heteromorphic man

From this room, you can see the garden...

Please make yourself at home.

A sky without stars,

The daybreak stained with red like blood.

I hear the sound of waltz and polka.

I'm totally confused.

Such a poor pessimist.

I just dance with the sound of bouzouki that I listened to in Greece.

Throw a shadow over the earth and fly in zigzags.

What the hell is this?

I have no idea even though I wrote this.

How about you, Sensei?

I have no idea.

What? Don't you?

Let me think more.

He didn't change his clothes to a room wear.

He may be an invisible man.

Apart from a joke, what should we do if he is a wanted criminal on the lam?

Like...an extremist...Chandelier something.

Ah, Shangri-La Crusade.

That's right. A member of them is placed on the wanted list, right?

Ah, we got a photo of a wanted person from the police.

Onizuka Ryuzou, right?

What? Are you a detective?

Ah, no, I'm a writer of mystery novels.

I recently checked about Shangri-La Crusade.

Onizuka is much taller.

Since a bandage man is as tall as I, he isn't Onizuka.

But I heard that there're a few more criminals on the lam.

Like Onizuka, suspects escaping from the police,

or people trying to flee the group,

or people chasing those people.

Certainly, this kind of hotel is the right place to hide.

Onizuka who is Shangri-La's number two caused a bomb attack.

You didn't give him an instruction, did you?

Including Onizuka, most of members are escaping from the police.

Shangri-La without you is close to be virtually disintegrated.

Moroboshi,

please tell us where they are.

I'm here.

What?

I'm here all the time.

That's why we're able to become one anytime.

Excuse me.

Ah, it's heaven.

Is it your first time to come here?

Yes.

I'm a regular of this hotel.

I'm cosmetic surgeon.

Ah, I saw you on TV!

Did you?

It's beautiful!

Koreeda cosmetic surgery clinic.

We welcome gentlemen too!

Are many men getting plastic surgery these days?

Yes. Each man has own reason to have a surgery.

I can't tell what it is since it's confidential.

How about he wanted to change his figure because he was a criminal on the lam?

By any chance, are you a detective?

No, I'm not!

What's wrong, Yoshii?

Sh...In Shorai room...

It's over there, isn't it?

This room is for that bandage man.

But...He went out for a walk a little while ago.

I saw him too.

Then, who is he?

I don't know who he is, but I know that a bandage man killed him.

Look.

Can you see a scratch?

Well...If you say so, it may be...

I'm worried.

Nobody notice that. Don't worry.

Even though you can't see, it's very deep wound for me.

Chihiro, it's exaggeration.

The size and depth of wound aren't necessarily proportional.

Same as the wound of feeling.

Sensei, how long have you been here?

For quite a while.

Sensei, check this.

It's enough.

Do you want to show or not?

That's what girl's destress is.

I don't want to be mentioned, but I want to be mentioned, right?

I don't know.

But Akemi's problem is that you don't have any problems, right?

I have a few.

I always look for something that I don't have.

Look for something that I don't have...?

That's it!

Excuse me...

Sorry, I'm in a hurry.

I'll listen to you some other time.

What?

I didn't expect to see you such a place.

I'm in a shock right now.

We'll interview you as the first person to discover later.

Yes.

You're a detective after all.

Ah, no. I just know them.

You say that a stranger suddenly appeared and died in this room?

That's right.

The front desk of a hotel opened 24 hours and they didn't see any stranger coming inside from the front entrance at night.

If so...what's going on?

He may have entered a room of a bandage man from the back door.

There's no space at the upper side.

Somebody unlocked the front entrance and let this victim go inside at night.

Only guests or employees could do that.

It must have been a bandage man.

He may have been supposed to meet a victim in his room.

That's possible.

Arisugawa, I tell you that employees of this hotel and all guests are suspects.

That's right.

What?

Arisugawa, include you.

Wait, Komachi.

What's that weird name?

Since your family name is ONO, ONONO KOMACHI... (Japanese waka poet of the early Heian period)

I denied.

I'm sorry.

Komachi.

It's urgent! Please hurry up!

We can't let any guests check out.

I have nothing to do with that incident.

Eri!

Did you kill him?

Why are you here?

He is a stalker!

Please arrest him now!

Eri, what are you talking about?

Don't touch me!

Miss, what's wrong?

She wants to check out now.

And she claimed that he was a stalker.

I'm not!

Please calm down.

I'm fine.

Are you Tanoue Eri?

Leave me alone!

Inspector Nabeshima, she is Tanoue Eri, Shangri-La Crusade deserter.

We promise to protect you. Please stay in your room.

I'll interview you later.

Ono, how did you know about her?

I can remember all faces and names of Shangri-La Crusade members and former members.

It's common knowledge.

Yes...

You sound like Himura.

Don't put me in the same class with him!

What?

Excuse me for being late.

You look just like Kindaichi Kosuke (a famous fictional Japanese detective created by Seishi Yokomizo)

Thank you for coming all the way.

You're a murderer!

That's not funny.

Ah, nice to see you again, Himura.

Himura?

What?

Did you confirm identification of a victim?

His wallet was in his pocket.

According to his driver's license, he is Aiba Noriaki, 21 years old.