Babylon (バビロン)

What time are we going to arrive in Kyoto?

After 11.

I think we can make it to Yamashina before 12.

I asked Officer Mitoni from Digital Forensics.

It includes information that the Special Investigations Team isn't authorized to see.

What, specifically?

Information about a certain individual.

Records owned by schools and hospitals, credit card information, and credit history.

For Ai Magase?

That's right. I found out that the doctor who Magase was seeing in middle school was actually her uncle.

His name is Kurauzu Sakabe.

He runs a clinic in Kyoto now.

To be honest,

I still can't believe it.

How she can enslave people and men.

I don't believe everything either.

But three people have committed suicide.

And all three of them had made contact with the same woman.

There must have been something going on.

She had the leader of one of the big voting blocs in the election twisted around her little finger.

Then does that mean that she was physically engaged with all three of them who died?

Even Officer Fumio and Officer Okuda?

I'm not sure.

I'm sure she did with Inaba.

But Okuda was with Magase for only an hour.

And Fumio spent even less time with her.

How much time was it?

Fifteen minutes.

Hold on.

Do you think that

that woman, Ai Magase,

abetted the suicide of all 64 of the victims all by herself?

You think she did with all of them?

That's crazy.

I'm just asking out of curiosity.

You interrogated Ai Magase yourself, right?

Yes.

What kind of a person was she?

Well...

to sum it up in one word...

The most evil woman in the world.

KYOTO YAMASHINA

SAKABE CLINIC PEDIATRICS - PSYCHIATRY

Thanks. We're fine.

So? What about Ai?

I can't tell you the details since the investigation is still ongoing.

Ms. Ai Magase

is currently a key witness in a certain investigation.

We wanted to ask you about her.

Ask me?

What do you want to know about Ai?

Everything.

Tell me everything you know about her.

What do I know about her?

She was...

well...

a bad child.

She's your brother's child, right?

Your last names are different though.

He married into his wife's family.

Magase is Ai's mother's last name.

But if you want to talk about her last name...

She was adopted.

Adopted?

My brother and his wife couldn't have children.

They met the child through an organization that supported adoptions.

That's why the first time I met Ai

was when she was 7.

I saw a glimpse of it even back then.

A glimpse? Of what?

Eight years ago,

I was running a mental health clinic in Tochigi.

The clinic was doing well.

But I was busy, and never had time to visit my parent's home.

One day,

my brother and a teacher at Ai's middle school contacted me at the same time.

They said the same thing. They asked me to conduct psychological evaluations on Ai and a few others.

-Psychological evaluations? -They're different from psychiatric examinations.

It's just for checking mental health as part of treatment.

Why did your brother ask you to do that?

My brother said there was an incident.

An incident?

I'm not sure if you could really call it an incident, though.

If you ask me whether an incident really happened, I'd say it's more appropriate to say that it didn't happen.

What do you mean?

I think you'll understand once you hear the rest.

Seven middle school students in their third year came for the psychological evaluation.

I began evaluating them immediately.

I'm going to get straight to the point.

All seven of the students had Generalized Anxiety Disorder, except for Ai.

In this disorder, the patient is unable to identify the source of their anxiety.

They were suffering from a vague feeling of anxiety?

But the students said that wasn't true.

Not true as in...?

All seven of them said the same thing.

They said they were afraid of Ai.

They said Ai did something horrible to them.

They said they were raped by Ai.

Are you saying she raped them?

As a middle school student herself, she raped her fellow classmates?

-She didn't. -What?

I asked the children the same thing.

I asked them whether she raped them or forced them to have sexual intercourse.

But they all replied the same thing.

They didn't have intercourse. Or anything close.

She hadn't even touched them.

Then I asked them what happened.

They said they had talked to Ai.

That's all.

That doesn't make sense.

Nothing happened, but they still said they were raped?

What actually happened?

I evaluated Ai in order to

find the answer.

It happened in an instant.

When I saw Ai for the first time in two or three years in the examination room,

what those male students were trying to say about Ai

hit me like an avalanche.

I knew why they couldn't explain it.

Of course they couldn't explain it.

That's right. When I saw her,

I was definitely, without a doubt...

aroused.

You got aroused by her when she was in middle school?

You think it's odd, right?

She was a child. And my niece.

It's definitely immoral, no matter how you think about it.

It's immoral and wrong.

But her whole body was telling me to do it.

Did she say that she wanted you to do it?

Ai didn't say anything.

She never even hinted that she wanted me to.

So it might all be just my imagination.

It's not something

that I can explain.

Why did the students say they were raped?

It's because Ai

was extremely, overwhelmingly enchanting when she was 15.

It wasn't only her body.

Her voice, her movements and her eyes. They filled the air everywhere despite her intentions.

It was like an excessive smell of strong perfume.

No. It was much stronger than perfume.

It was like a megaphone.

It was like she was shouting in my ear through a megaphone.

She forced herself inside me. She came inside me.

It was indeed...

rape!

But

there were no specific acts, right?

Then Ai is innocent.

Yes. Ai wasn't accused of anything in that incident.

But I felt it was dangerous to leave things the way they were.

I recommended that Ai go for counseling.

I told her she should get counseling at the hospital where I worked.

And she...

Accepted immediately.

Ai said that she wasn't good at talking to people.

Talking to people?

I thought to myself of course she can't.

No one would be able to talk to her like that.

And then Ai

said that she wanted to get better at talking to people.

She started counseling at my hospital.

Half a year after she began,

Ai said she was done with the therapy.

She said she wanted to focus on studying for her entrance exams.

I didn't have any reason to stop her.