01x11 - The Ultimate Fiction

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Rica is a worthy adversary.She'll present her argument,

literally die forit and bring herself

back just to havecontrol of the flow.

But I'm not alone in this fight.

I have Kuru on my side and wewon't let you get away with it.

That's right. Just becausethe third solution was rejected,

it's not like everybodywould have changed their minds.

A certain percentageshould have switched over

to the sideof disbelief because of

the first two ideas you gave.

However, manyhave slipped between the two

camps of thoughtis of no consequence.

It stands to reasonthat many would be

satisfiedwith the explanation thus far.

Is calculating my movesthe same way

that you areand choosing her futures

based on which oneshave the fewest dissenters.

She's under the assumptionthat I've been trying

to chip away at herinfluence in stages.

Which is what makes thissuch an effective trap.

The solutions I'vepresented thus far included

previously accepted scenariossuch as Detective Terada

investigating SteelLady Nanase on his own,

as well as Cory, Nancy's father,leaving behind a damninghandwritten note.

Even if they reject thesolutions themselves, the basicelements remain intact.

Even though ourthird solution was rejected,

as was the portraitof the k*ller from it,

nobody took issuewith the part where

I said that CarryNancy's sister was

the one who passedthe note on to the media.

Rika will be satisfiedwith whatever conclusion

continuing on in theimaginations of her website'susers

so she sees no reason to discard

my solutions by theirroots when she can

achieve her goal by simplycrushing the solutions.

If she tried disprovingparts of the story

other than the outcome,she'd stand out more.

Therefore, Rica is forcedto follow the simplest option.

But wouldn't that mean.

Is she saying that whatRica's doing the future she's

chosen have all beena part of her plan?

The elements are now in place.All that's

left is to deliverthe finishing blow.

New fiction is born from fictionand inverts into the truth.

Still.Lady Nancy will be finished.

And now the fourth solution.Let's go.

Huh?

I still say still,Lady Nancy is pure fiction.

The three solutionsI've presented thus far

form the foundation neededto get to the actual truth.

Someone's behind this.They not only created

Lady Nancy, they alsomurdered Detective Terada.

We've been waiting for this.Just give it up. Stubborn.

The one we'vebeen focusing on is

the one behind this.I.e., Kari Nanase.

She's actually still alive.The person who d*ed

at the construction site wassomeone else made to look likeKarin?

If you have a corpsewithout a face,

it being switched forsomeone else isn't a stretch.

Ultimately, the realKari Nancy is still alive.

But that was debunked earlier.Oh, come on.

No one believesthat TV drama nonsense.

But if Kari Nancy was alive,there'd be no steel lady Nancy.

Her father is deadand her sister

had turned her back.Now she was all alone.

If I can just wait it out.Things will settle down.

Of course, I wouldn't be ableto be an idol anymore.

But I'm still young. I couldstart over again if I had to.

Excuse me.I'm sorry to startle you.

I saw you walk by and I couldn't

help but notice. We look alike.

And that was how it all began.

Their faces were different,but their builds

were similar,as were their hair lengths.

And they wereroughly the same age.

We'll refer to her as Ms..A for ease of discussion.

It's impossible for usto know what Ms..

A's circumstances were. Perhapsshe was estranged from herfamily,

had no friends, or sufferedfrom a mental illness.

But unfortunately for her,she was found by. Nancy.

If I can leave my public self

behind and start overas a new person.

That desire for a fresh startled her to commit a crime. Say.

I have a favor to ask.From there,

Carinanos managedto coax mice into her

hotel room and had her touchher personal belongings.

She was careful to wipe away herown fingerprints from the room,

ensuring that only Ms..A's prints would remain.

I assume Ms.. Had somemotivation to assist Carinanos.

Depressed and contemplatingsuicide before being stopped byCarey.

Nancy Missy becamedependent on her.

One might surmise that shewas promised compensation,

so she was more than willing.So I'm going to act as your

decoy and leadthe media away from here.

Do you think it'sactually going to work?

I may not be much help. What

happens if they figureit out right away?

How could they? The outfit'sperfect. You've got this

down there.See that work site? It's empty.

Which is totallyideal because the media

would never go in there.Let's meet there tonight.

If Carinanos hadn't met her,the rumors

would have runtheir course and they

both would have had the chanceto live long, happy lives.

But sunk in the irrationalityof despair.

The idolhad been handed the chance

to restart her life inthe most dramatic fashion.

Miss A's face was crushedbeyond recognition.

The steel beams made itimpossible to identify her thatway.

And that wouldexplain one of the

long standing questionsof the case.

Why did Carinanossay Let the steel

beams hit herwithout any signs of

a struggleor a defensive posture?

It's because the bodywasn't hers.

It was the body of someone else

who'd been knocked unconsciousbefore the steel beams fell onher.

Carini finished falsifyingthe scene of the accident,

and then she fled

Miss A's identity,gave her a sh*t at a new life.

It was the chance she neededto break free from her past.

And that's all filed away.Here's your driver's licenseback, miss.

She'd need to change herappearance to keep from beingrecognized.

But that shouldn't have beentoo difficult for her.

Someone that determined wouldhave been able to pull it off.

The body that the policefound at the construction

site in Makurazaki Citythis year was not Carinanos.

She fooled us allwith the faceless corpse switch.

Meanwhile, she's alive and well.Still, Lady

Nanase cannot be a ghostif Carinanos is alive.

What about the steellady people have seen?

Does that mean Nana say, made up

her own ghost? But why, though?

If Kareen Nana is still alive,then

what the heck is steel Lady?Nana say.

If her ghost appeared, that'dmake people believe she wasreally dead.

So the creation of the ghost was

a sort of unofficialdeath certificate.

But if that's the case,didn't steal

Lady Nancy's showup kind of late.

That depends.When did the rumors of her

ghost begin?It was right around June.

Back in February,everyone was still freaking

out about her accident..

After so much time had passed.Wouldn't

that just be stirringup the hornet's nest?

There's no wayCarinanos spread the steel,

Lady Nancy rumors the..

Risk of her being foundout is too great.

The site's viewersare now taking an active

part in tryingto solve the mystery.

Hang on. Suppose she was livinglife just fine until around May.

But then maybe she heard a rumor

that there was a girlwho looked a lot like her.

That's realistic. Unlikeplastic surgery, which takes

too long and has its limits.I think I see by that point,

she might have even moved away.

But if she thoughta similar occurrence

might happen in the future..

In order to makeherself completely dead

in people's minds,she created Steel Lady Nancy.

They've started drawing theirown conclusions. They've takenthe three solutions offered,

changed the eventsand the people involved,

and kept elementsthat supported their narratives.

Are you sayingthe pop idol dressed

up as a ghost version of herselfand went around attackingpeople?

More than onceI'd wager she wore

the outfit and carriedthe steel beam

to make the rumor spread faster.Plus Jiggly moves..

To reinforcethe spectral aspect, she created

a character namedSteel Lady Nancy Complete

with a steel beamand a smashed face.

This logic about whythe ghost was needed,

it's just likein the third solution

using pieces of that solutionwill give a satisfactory answer.

She got theirattention by getting them

to logically tryto explain an urban legend.

So this was the real reasonwhy she gave multiple solutions.

Until now, the sitehad gathered up the imaginations

of hundreds of thousandsof people to

give form to Steel Lady Nancy,

as well as life.But not anymore.

This time,the people on the forum

are trying to usethat same power

of imagination to prove thatSteel Lady Nancy doesn't exist.

I think we won. Not quite.Though soon enough, I have

yet to deliver the final blow.

Until then, I'll prevent Ricafrom grasping the future shedesires.

After all,there's an order to this world

that even the strongestcannot infringe upon.

Exactly right. In orderto make herself completely dead,

at least accordingto the public eye,

she invented her veryown ghost and made

sure Steel Lady Nancywas immediately the first

thing that cameto people's minds.

This might nothave gained much attention

until somebody pointedout that the Steel

Lady looked a lotlike Karina Nanasi

in order to makesure that nobody

figured out that a bodyswap had happened

and to keep the facelesscorpse trick under wraps.

She decided her nextstep needed to be extreme.

Karina Nancy startedto appear in Makurazaki

City every nightas Steel Lady Nancy

since she was simply playingthe ghost version of herself,

I'm sure the portrayalseemed convincing.

The rumor spreadand suddenly it was

a huge hit on the internet.But for the rumor to spread more

effectively to make it go farand wide, she did one thing.

Yes, she created the SteelLady Nancy Wiki page by herself.

Enough. I know that youcreated this website

and that you're also the admin.

What? No way.And I'm sure you're

reading my posts as we speak.

From the beginning, I've beenworking to expose your crimes.

This site spreadrumors about steel lady

nannies veryquickly and magnified them.

But the spreadof information was a

little too convenient,which is expected.

You had the informationmanage the account

and ultimately createdsteel lady nannies.

You've tried to reject everysingle solution that I'vepresented so far.

All of mysolutions were intended to

erase a ghost from the equation.

Yet if someone had concludedthat the ghost was a fake,

it would have messedthings up for you.

You want these rumorsto spread further

so your ghost passingon as an ideal.

Which is why you'verefuted everything I said

and even went so far astrying to moderate my posts.

That's a flat out lie.The person

who created the websiteand runs it was always Rica.

Huh?I told you from the very start,

there'd be a fairamount of lying.

No way.Know about the urban legend,

but I cantotally see you're ready.

The truth is completelyirrelevant on the Internet

to the peopleinvested in this lie.

This forum that they'rein is the

front line of the entire case.

Now,I'll explain to the assembly why

you choseto k*ll Detective Terada.

Hell, yeah. Lay it all outthere. I don't want a car wreck.

That's gonna happen. Justlast night in Makurazaki City.

You were there to inflamethe Steel Lady Nancy Panic,

by checking out the nextlocation at which you plan toappear.

The detective who didn't thinkSteele Lady Nancy was a ghost,

drove by and saw youand thought you were suspicious.

You were probably stilldressed normally at the time,

but there was somethinghe couldn't overlook.

The fact that yourboobs were massive.

Such distinguishingfeatures reminded him of Steel

Lady Nancy and madehis intuition go to work.

For what it's worth,I heard that the detective

wasn't a fan of big breasts.

Of course,the same could be said for.

Taking my petite frameinto consideration, Curro..

Isn't the kind of man who judges

women based on their chestsize or appearance. Hmm.

Ha. Uh. Could youplease hurry with that?

I'm with Makurazaki City PD.We've had reports of suspiciousactivity.

I'd like to askyou a few questions.

What brings youhere this evening?

Oh, I was just riding my biketo the convenience store.

I was getting a little hungry.

Then he said the lastthing you expected to hear.

Have I seen her before? Yes.There's something familiar. Thatface. Oh.

Nanos. It is you.

A dead woman was standingthere in front of him,

rendering the usually capabledetective stunned anddefenseless.

You saw your opportunityand you took it.

After knocking Detective Teradaunconscious, you recognized

the chance to make it look like

Steele.Lady Nancy had att*cked him.

If there was no signthat the detective

fought back and hisface had been smashed in,

it'd be a tough sell to believe

a woman like youhad committed the crime.

From there,you disposed of any trace

of your presenceand fled the scene.

And this is the extentof your crimes to date.

If you choose to refute thisas well, then be my guest.

But if you're able, I ask you

to prove to the forumthat you are not Nonis.

I'll say it again.The real k*ller is Carinanos.

But this is a total lie.Who's this poster?

At first I thought.. They werecoming. Nana stays alive.

She's Carrie. If she's still..

Alive. I wonder if she'sgoing to get away.

Maybe the posteris involved in the case.

That's a bit of postabout a new sighting.

If it's a real ghost.So is it true or a lie?

She reeled them in.The Nana's wiki

is part of the k*ller's plot,

and the first three solutionswere rejected because of them.

She just managedto destroy still Lady

Nana's simply by statingthat Carrie Nana is still alive.

I can't believe you madeall this happen.

Hold on. Rika's. The actualadmin of the site, isn't she?

So what's to stop her from justsaying she's not Carrie Nana's?

Who's actually goingto believe that Now?

The masses have now beenconvinced that Carrie Nana isthe admin.

Hell, they love the idea somuch they're running with it.

Whether she admits it or not,this wave of thought won'tchange.

Iwanaga. Use the firstthree solutions to feed

them basic elementsof the plot that would

build the foundation forher ultimate solution.

She couldn't have done it, had a

predetermined futurenot been fought for.

Throughout his repeated deaths,Curro chose future

after futureto destroy the monster.

Curro has decidedon the ultimate future.

Rica won't be able to reach any

further options to changethings from this point onward.

She can't controlSteel Lady Nancy any

more now that the sitehas lost its power.

Now, ladies and gentlemenof this distinguished committee,

time to cast your votes upon us.

Does a ghost named StealLady Nancy truly exist or not?

You don't needto do anything special.

Your votes are automaticno matter what you choose.

I just ask you to decideone way or another.

Flip the switch in your mind.Choose

based on what yourown conscience tells you.

There are realspectres in this world,

but there arealso many false ones.

Fiction reverts to fiction.

Now the monster born from liesshall be struck down by them.

Yokai, Ayakashi, Specters,Demons, Mononoke and ghosts.

There is order to everythingnext time. She who defendsorder.