04x06 - Tragic Sunday

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In solemn recognition of the Armed Detective

Agency's considerable contributions during the White Whale incident,

as they worked to protect the safety

of the city and the citizens of Yokohama,

we award the Shiku Fusuma Award.

Your agency is the pride of our nation.

I don't think that a private company

has ever been awarded the chic award.

Yeah, it's easy to see why they captured Pushkin and Fyodor.

After the European authorities failed to do so,

the rumor has it the detective agency's

been tapped as special advisers to the municipal police combat squad.

If that's true, the Special Investigation Department

has fresh mud on its face. They have no reason to be ashamed.

That's just an example of how capable

the armed detective agency truly is.

Well, hello, assistant senior attorney. This is all unofficial,

but it was the detective agency that was

responsible for preventing the crash of the Weil airship. That's impressive.

I believe the Armed Detective agency will

soon be carrying the full weight of this nation's center of power.

I told you, stop attacking head on.

Yeah, but.. Don't let your power control you.

It's whenever you start drowning in the tiger's

river of power that you always seem to lose the fight.

To put it quite bluntly, the tiger

is strong. But you are weak.

It's time for work. Let's go.

A m*rder society? Yes. This is an urgent request from the government.

The photo of the first victim.

Terrible. The victim was a young diet member.

As you can see, he had the skin

of his upper body torn off and was forced

to wear it inside out. The K*llers..

Got interesting taste, doesn't.. He?

There have been four such incidents in

the past week by the same culprit.

The vice commander of the Coast Guard

k*lled by a powerful corrosive being poured on his head.

The Ministry of Is External Defense Department

chief secretary was injected with high density air using an air compressor,

leading to expulsion of all blood from his pores.

Lastly, a top m*llitary envoy, a pain

inducing plant from South America known as the su1c1de

weed, was implanted in his armpit.

He was then locked in a room

where he slammed his own head against

the wall, causing a deadly cerebral contusion.

This must be the decay of angels.

It's a message from the m*rder*r.

The decay of angels. The decay of angels.

It refers to the five signs that angels

at the pinnacle of the sixth path

of existence exhibit before their death.

President. The robe becomes stained with grime and oils.

The crown wilts and rots. The body becomes dirty and odorous.

Sweat pours out of the armpits.

It's a serial m*rder*r making a deliberate display of brutality.

Just a second, please. There have only been four murders so far.

Of the five omens, dissatisfaction and apathy remain.

Therefore, there's going to be one more m*rder. Not true.

We are going to stop the m*rder before it happens.

Each of us will commit to putting

an end to this villain's twisted ploy. I disagree.

Y Rumbo. Care to explain? My friend

gave me a warning about this.

The detective agency is about to get a huge job offer.

Don't accept it. If you do, it'll be the end of the agency.

I think we should turn this job down.

Have you seen the Sheikha Fatima Award in my office?

It's the honour of the century for

those of us who protect people.

You're telling me to take the job because we got a bow? No.

Of course not. That's nothing but a piece of wood.

Awards and accolades add up to little more than set dressing.

Even if we were honored as thieves in a basement,

we would still risk our lives to stop this attempted m*rder.

Fine. Do what you want to do then.

Rambo, wait! Don't stop him! Kunikida. The agency

will pursue the m*rder*r as planned.

And Rampo will pursue the facts behind the agency's potential demise.

A dual investigation Rampo knows full well that's the most optimal solution.

Apathy and dissatisfaction are part of the five death omens.

Huh?

Yes. This is Sakaguchi of the Special Operations Division.

I've been unable to contact Dazai.

Do you happen to know his whereabouts? No.

Then please convey a message to the agency staff.

It's in regards to the serial m*rder victims.

There is evidence that the victim's bodyguard rosters,

along with their itineraries, were tampered with

and modified by certain government figures. Huh?

It may be that the decay of angels

is the alternate identity of a government body. Please be careful.

Hello there. Oh, you're from the Department of Justice.

Thank you for your service. You're a

newcomer at the detective agency, right?

How's the investigation coming so far?

We're going through all our files of

dangerous, gifted suspects, but nothing yet.

Who were you on the phone with just now? Oh, that was.

There's evidence they were tampered with by certain government figures. Huh?

Oh, I was just asked to run a few more errands.

Never mind me. What brings you to this part of town, sir?

Actually, I just happened to spot you

as I was enjoying a cup of coffee.

My favorite coffee shop is right over there.

I can use my taiga's sense of smell.

I don't detect any scent of coffee on him.

Something the matter? No, nothing at all.

But I have to be off now

to go feed the boss's pet chameleon and stuff. Pardon me.

Very good. The armed detective agency is doomed to destruction.

The decision has already been made.

Mind telling me which horse came in first?

Oh I see. He's blind. The number

nine.. Horse. Thanks so much.

You picked the winner, didn't you?

You mean you can tell that I won? Yes.

By your sweat temperature. The sound of your muscles.

I can see a whole lot more than I used to.

Now that I've lost my sight. The fact is,

I can even predict what tomorrow will bring you,

because you're not going to have it tomorrow.

Former Port Mafia executive Osamu Dazai. counts of aggravated m*rder,

counts of intimidation, a total of charges,

including fraud, for which I'm arresting you.

Gentlemen, the hunting dogs have arrested one

of the members of the agency. Ha!

It's about time.. Sheltering the k*ller of people.

Known associations with the Mafia. A doctor

suspected of murdering one of her patients

will expose those hypocrites for these crimes.

And dismantle the detective agency once and for all.

It's what we've been waiting for.

Attorney. Tonight, sir, I've gathered the documents.

Orders sent to Fukuzawa to assassinate pro-w*r

individuals at the end of the conflict.

The armed Detective agency won't survive the publication

of this information and the list of

targets for assassination. Right here, sir.

Father, I can finally avenge you for what they did.

I must thank the people who provided this to us,

though I'm still unclear how they managed

to get their hands on such highly classified information.

I ought to meet with them in person, don't you think?

I've already arranged for the interview to take place.

Oh. When is that? Why? Right now. Sir. Oh.

Yeah. Oh, thank you for all you've

done for me these past six months, sir.

Now, then, quiz time. Why did I keep

you alive instead of k*lling you just now?

The answer is because you're going to hate

going back to your own station before you die.

You got me. Then I knew I was being tracked,

but I guess hiding in a big

crowd was no use against the hunting dogs.

Are you going to take me out along with all these people?

It's so clear. I can hear your rage.

Soon it'll turn into fear of being punished for all your crimes.

I really can't wait for that moment to happen.

I can see we're going to get along great.

Just tell me one thing, though. What's

specifically made you come arrest me now?

Fingerprints, recordings, photos, all manner of evidence

seem to suddenly reemerge out of thin

air as though a switch had just been thrown. Yes.

It was about my special ability from the beginning.

You wanted to reverse a perfect m*rder

and restore guilt to those who deserved it.

That's why you lured me in.

Hey. What's up Daisy? So I'm detective agency.

I'm going to give you four pieces of information. First piece,

I restrained government bigwigs with fun machines.

It's the chainsaw human disassembly show. As soon as it's time,

he'll be cut into the dissatisfaction.

Second, if someone not a member of the detective

agency comes in, the chainsaw will activate automatically.

And third, the chainsaw will activate at exactly : pm.

And finally, my fourth piece. Oh!

Damn it. I just realized I don't have a fourth one.

What do I do now? Hey, you. You got any..

Ideas? Crap. And on here. Oopsie. Stop

the camera! I can't go on.

minutes till p.m.. Yes I understand.

Be careful, given he's demanding that an agency member enters first.

You'd be crazy not to suspect a trap.

Do you have any idea what they're supposedly after?

I got this. I'm standing in front of the clue now.

I smell blood.

Chief. Tanida is Fukuzawa's detective kid. I know what the.

I know what the decay of angels is after.

For all of us to arrive there in time.

It'll take us at least ten minutes.

You're to go in first and stop the timer device.

It might be dangerous to charge in from the front.

Instead, I think I'll have to use the underground escape route.

You're even more nimble than your rumoured to be Tiger Boy.

My name is Nikolai Gogol. Loki's quiz

time. What is my special ability?

His hand in the cape shows up somewhere else.

You have a matter. Teleportation ability. Bingo.

My special ability lets me connect my cape

with the point somewhere else in space.

I have a range of roughly m or so.

So even if I hide, he'll still sh**t me. Fine. Oh, dear.

Huh? Tiger fangs.

They went and dropped the utility pole from the surface.

Decay of Angels is a criminal organization

comprised of five people jester, Nikolai,

Daemon, Fyodor and three more. Special rank

very dangerous gifted individuals will wipe out the gifted, rotting..

This country's values, starting with you if you don't get smart fast.

Okay, now I see V is an organization

of gifted individuals brought together to drive out other gifted individuals.

V is in five the five death omens of an angel.

And one of them has the special

ability to exchange information that the others want.

That's the one who wounded me. So

they stole information from inside here.

But on the plus side, when they were

in my head, I learned their goal.

Good. I'll contact the agency. You need

to see a doctor. Fast. Wait.

They're attempting to use my memories in order

to steal a page from a book.

What page? From a blank novel. That makes

anything written in it become reality.

It's a page from that book torn out to use for research.

His special ability is strong. Very strong.

Well, it's just about that time..

For me to go ahead and restrain you. Get, get.

It's not just powerful and combat. This ability

could be used for raids, burglary, eavesdropping, abduction.

He could do anything. He's the one who k*lled the government officials.

Why? Huh? Why do you k*ll people?

And why do you k*ll them so horribly?

The four that I k*lled asked me

the same question before they d*ed.

And I have two answers. First, because it's fun.

It's so damn fun and it gets me so excited.

Sounds like a plausible answer, if you ask me.

Doesn't that sound fun to you?

Just think about it for a moment.

You're k*lled by a monster without a speck of humanity.

Unfair, but easy to understand. You can

die with a sense of closure. But you aren't going to be some

monster's victim when I m*rder you.

So I'll tell you the second and real reason why.

Sorry to fool you, but I'm perfectly sane.

I understand how evil k*lling truly is,

and I feel as much guilt as anyone.

Do you happen to like birds? I love little birdies.

They fly unbound whatsoever by gravity with total freedom.

That's the feeling that I wish for.

That's why I joined the decay of angels.

That empty page that was stolen by the decay of angels.

It has the same special power as the entire book itself.

But I know that there's a rule to using the book.

What's written in the book, in any of its pages,

must have the causal consistency of an actual novel.

For some reason, a narrative like logical

consistency is required to overwrite reality.

Someone who had such an ability must

have been the one who created it.

I suppose it's a good rule since you can't just write.

One day humanity was doomed and expected to come true.

Chief Tanida abandoned the mission and run.

Their intentions are to use the agency

as the ultimate catalyst for doom.

The freedom of a bird. And that's what you're k*lling for.

I don't understand you at all.

I'm sure you don't. In the end,

Fyodor was the only one who did.

And it's quiz time again. At what

point did I start lying in what I just told you?

Did I fool you? Don't you know

you should never lend your ear to a jester?

You'll have trouble getting to sleep at night.

Now I'm going to give you your leg back.

My leg's stuck in the ground. I can't get it out.

And thus ends our show for now. I hope you'll visit again.

Stop!

Time. Only five more minutes to go.

The m*llitary. If anyone besides the detective agency enters, the hostages die.

Kenji, stop the m*llitary police. Roger that.

I want you others to follow me.

If it isn't my old boss, it's

almost time to say bye bye to your lower half, sir.

Wow. In solemn recognition of your strong

sense of justice, I'll set you free.

You can use this phone to call for help.

You're just some lousy cur. Take it from me.

The justice system will destroy you all for this.

I truly envy you, you know. Birds

born in a cage don't realize that they're prisoners.

The prison is here. See? It's your own skull.

We can't escape it if we tried.

Not from this warm, moist hell.

Headquarters sn*per team here. Target sighted through the window,

but the target's faces are obscured by white hoods.

The white hoods are the decay of angels.

Wait for our signal to fire. Rescue squad status.

They're not identified. Gifted. Flipped our armored vehicle over. What?

How? Tell Intel to pull up the gifted immediately.

Lieutenant, take a look. The hostages are all general manager level dignitaries.

I might just be true after all.

The decay of angels are actually government agents like we all feared.

If that is true, captain, it's dangerous

to collaborate with other agencies, right?

Tell them we need to know now

what the hostages secret meeting was about. Sir.

A whole bunch of government traders. Which arm

are the two Kiev angels from?

The hostages are all just beyond this door.

The first thing we're going to do

is throw in this sonic grenade.

And simultaneous to that, demon, snow will decapitate the perpetrators.

A frontal special ability fight had caused

the hostages deaths. But there's no other way.

There are times up now we press the start button.

No. Not yet. There's still a few

minutes till the : deadline. Nope.

We're right on time. Also. Everyone take off your hoods.

Targets are removing their hoods. Now we'll see their faces. Don't miss.

Dive in now.

The hell.. Is this?

It's the hostage room. Impossible. We haven't opened the door yet.

Is this the start button? Why am I pressing it? Welcome.

You're the m*rder*r. But I don't get

why you're the one who's tied up.

This is my escape from the biological brainwashing we call morality.

Hear it. Listen to my brazen scream of free will.

Help me, help me! Please, Mr. Tony,

go for help before it's too late. The perpetrator's name.

Allison. Hey, I know who the perpetrator is.

The hostages are being cut in half.

You have permission to fire. Captain. We've

learned that the subject of the meeting

was the publication of the detective agency's criminal acts.

And the key to get out of their..

Apathy. Dissatisfaction with one's own station is all

about.. The detective agency.

Decay of angels aren't just the perpetrators. They're the armed detective agency.