01x10 - So I Can't Become a Detective

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The new life I got from Kimizuka,

as a legendary detective, had begun.

And not as an ordinary detective, but as

a detective who fights against androids.

The first night after I resolved

to be reborn into a new me

as a legendary detective, I had a dream.

It was a dream about a person

who had formerly fought against

the world's enemies

as a true legendary detective.

I could consider the one in the dream,

Siesta-san, to have the exact

opposite personality to me.

She, the intellectual one,

and I, the intuitive one,

had a big squabble in the dream.

It was unbearable to see,

a quagmire of drama.

In the end, though, I won; but no, I feel

as though Siesta showed more maturity

and ceded the argument

to me of her own accord.

But in the end, Siesta-san said she would

leave responsibility of Kimizuka to me.

With that, both in name and in reality,

I can become a legendary detective.

At last, I can become a somebody.

Or, to put it in opposite terms,

failure is unacceptable.

I hate the me that's a nobody.

I don't ever want to

go back to that place,

like a birdcage,

to the days of nothingness.

That darkness was just

"Episode 10"

"So I Can't Become a Detective"

One week after Saikawa's live stadium

show, school's summer vacation had begun.

It was the ideal chance to follow

through on promises I'd made

to Natsunagi and Saikawa.

I was thinking of just going to

a nearby seashore for starters, but

We're now on our way--

on course for the Aegean Sea!

Hooray!

The scale of this is too huge!

Umm, Saikawa, we did say

let's go to the sea together,

but how did that turn into an

eight-day shipboard journey?

Well, come on. The ship has left port,

so let's shift into vacation mode!

She's absolutely right.

Everybody hates a wishy-washy guy.

Still, it's my first time on one of these,

too, so I'm looking forward to it.

Thank you, Yui-chan.

Don't mention it, Nagisa-san.

It's the very least I can do to repay you.

Fight by our side against SPES. If you'll

do that for us, I have no complaints.

Yes, of course. I'll do

anything I'm able to.

Well, for nothing to happen

at all would be ideal.

Kimizuka?

Huh?

Char?

It's been, what, a year?

Yeah. Since that day

Kimizuka, she's someone you know?

Yeah, Char was my--

our associate back in the day.

By this point, I didn't think

we'd ever meet again.

Yeah, I was surprised, too.

Have you been doing well?

By the look of it, it seems like

you're on this ship by chance.

Is there something on this ship?

Seriously what on Earth have

you been doing all this time?

All this time?

Since Mom passed away.

Kimizuka, did you have no intentions

of taking up Mom's work?

If you mean her dying wishes,

I've taken on that task.

And you are?

I'm Nagisa Natsunagi. Legendary detective.

Nagisa Natsunagi? Oh You're

Could you go play cops-n-robbers

somewhere else?

Don't parade your game of make-believe

that exploits Mom's life in front of me.

I'm not playing any game!

There absolutely has to be some purpose

to my being given life this way!

A purpose that she entrusted to me!

So I'm taking up her dying wishes.

I swear it by this heart!

I see. Do as you like.

But I'm the one who's taking

on Mom's dying wishes.

Umm I'm sorry.

On account of my inviting you two

on this ship, it's turned into all this

No, it's not your fault, Saikawa.

My apologies to you, too, Natsunagi,

for entangling you in this weird--

Natsunagi?

That pisses me off!

There's nothing make-believe about it!

She has no idea what I've been through

How about going for a dip in the pool

as a mood changer? Eh, Saikawa?

Right! There's even a waterslide,

Nagisa-san! Let's go!

--Off, off, off we go

--H-Hold on, Yui-chan!

So

How come?

This makes 17 losses

in a row, only for me.

Something's definitely off about this.

One more hand. One more hand!

What are you doing, goofball?

Who was--?

Who's stupid enough to keep

gambling until they're in tears?

So? You were looking for me

for a reason, right?

Yeah. Weren't you saying earlier that

there might be something on this ship?

Mom's bequest.

Siesta's bequest?

Yes, shortly before dying, Mom left behind

her dying wishes--her bequest--

for the goal of defeating SPES

across the world.

And one of them lies

untapped on this ship.

It took time to delve into it,

but my information is accurate.

A bequest from Siesta

is on this cruise ship

What's the connection to the casino?

You know something worthy

of being a bequest from Mom,

I thought maybe if I kept

winning in the casino,

they'd bring out some

jackpot prize kind of thing

"Bequest"

they'd bring out some

jackpot prize kind of thing

You really are a proper idiot.

What do you mean a "proper idiot"?

Well, since you have no intention

of taking on Mom's dying wishes,

at this point, it has nothing

to do with you anyway.

I'm sorry I made you worry.

So why didn't you try to become

a detective in Mom's place?

It was what she, Siesta, said to me

on that day four years ago.

You Be my sidekick.

So I can't become a detective.

On into the future,

I will always continue to be her--

the legendary detective's--sidekick.

I'll live on, for her.

You're a fool. The one who's truly

tied down by Mom is you, not me.

Well, it's fine. I'll handle

things in my own way.

So you find Mom's bequest--

your own answers--in your own way.

Ha. I guess it's good they're

cutting loose while they can.

After all that, I didn't

come across any leads.

Something's weird here.

What's weird?

Sitting face to face with you

like this and eating.

What else can we do? Saikawa said she's

making the rounds as a guest of honor.

Are you dissatisfied being with me?

I didn't say that.

Kimizuka, what were you doing

when you didn't come to the pool?

Well, I--

After I went and bought a new swimsuit

What?

Nothing.

Natsunagi, do you have time after this?

Huh? Well, um

If so, there's a little something

I want to discuss with you.

Discuss? I mean, we could

discuss it here, now

Yeah It's something that'd be

a bit awkward to discuss here.

I'm remembering there was

a bar across from this place.

Would you meet me there an hour from now?

Umm, just me? You and I alone

together at a bar?

Yeah, that'd be the situation.

Yes, that would be fine

Huh?

Did you wait long?

You went to the trouble of changing?

Eh? Oh, no, it's just, after showering,

this happened to be all I had to wear

So, what did you want to discuss?

That was not the discussion

I expected. It's a different

Ultimately, it's the influence

of my heart's former owner

What are you muttering under your breath?

Huh? What's that now?

Eh? Why are you suddenly flipping out?

I'm not flipping out.

You are flipping out.

I said I'm not flipping out!

Here's your payback!

This is absurd!

But still she's not as bad a person

as I thought, that Char.

Yeah, she's a pure and simple fool.

That's also her strong point.

The truth is, I knew that I was

the one who was wrong.

I merely received this heart,

and got it into my head that I was

taking on her dying wishes.

But, Natsunagi, why did you decide

you wanted to take up Siesta's mantle?

Because from a young age,

my body was a wreck.

That sickroom was just like a birdcage,

and I thought I'd never get out

of it for my entire life.

I felt sure that stuck in there,

I could never be anything at all.

That was really frightening.

But I received a newfound life,

and I wound up flying free of that cage.

And yet I didn't know

how to, you know, fly.

How to fly?

Yeah, and so the way of living of the one

who relied on this heart previously

would become my own way of living

that's what I thought.

So that was it. The only way Natsunagi

could live was by relying on Siesta.

And that was the same for me as well.

Excuse me I'm going to go to bed.

Okay.

Repeat. This is an announcement

for all passengers.

Hey, what's this announcement?

Where's that voice coming from?

There wasn't anyone in the

radio room. What's going on?

What's all this?

A girl is being held in the lounge.

The girl's name is Nagisa Natsunagi.

Kimizuka-san!

Saikawa!

It's Nagisa-san I checked her room,

but she's nowhere to be seen.

So is that bequest of Siesta-san's

related to this incident?

Yeah, we can't rule out that possibility.

We've finished a sweep for expl*sives

--All right, once more

--Any sign of Natsunagi-san?

--All right, once more

Saikawa-sama It's regrettable,

but we did not find her.

However, we did find this

Kimizuka-san, this is

"At 8:00 p.m., bring the legendary

detective's bequest

and come to the main deck."

Would this be SPES?

If it's the legendary detective's

bequest they're after,

that's sufficient as

circumstantial evidence.

But unfortunately,

we don't know what that is.

If that's the case

All we can do is search for Natsunagi

herself, rather than for Siesta's bequest.

Nothing here either, eh?

I'm using my left eye; there shouldn't

be anything I'm overlooking.

I guess that's true.

Squeeze the hands together.

Roll out the shoulders, too.

Breathe in rhythm.

Close the eyes once, breathe in deeply,

and let it out. The blood will flow.

Open your eyes, and your field of vision,

which was clouded, will be clear.

What is all that?

It's a kind of an incantation

to calm my heart

when it feels like it's about to burst

from stress before a live performance.

I apologize for troubling you.

Pretty pathetic.

Pathetic? You, Kimizuka-san?

Yes, don't you think?

Shamefully losing my cool

That's a funny thing to say.

I didn't expect that much of you

from the very start, Kimizuka-san!

Wait, am I being dissed

in a huge way right now?

No, it's not like that.

I was the same way, too.

The same way?

Just like you, Kimizuka-san, I used to be

a person who couldn't live life alone.

After my parents died, I lost sight

of any reference points for living.

I got completely caught up

by promises from the past,

and as a result, I attempted to commit

an act that could never be undone.

Saikawa

But the ones who saved me, of all people,

were you, Kimizuka-san,

who were seemingly in the same

circumstances as me, and also Nagisa-san.

The two of you, trying to save me,

encouraged me to move forward.

That's why I was able to take the hand

you offered without hesitating.

That's why, I'm sorry to say, I won't

expect any more of you than is necessary.

So in the same way,

please don't be concerned

about me any more than necessary.

That's the kind of partners we are.

Yeah, that works. That's fine.

If you call yourself the legendary

detective's sidekick,

then maybe I should be

the sidekick to the sidekick.

The legendary detective's

sidekick's sidekick?

Yes, that's right!

True, it's an arrangement somewhat

like Matryoshka nesting dolls.

I don't know if I could

become your right hand,

but I do think I could become

something like your left eye.

Yeah, that would be ideal.

After all that, we haven't

found anything yet.

But, Kimizuka-san--

Yeah, we were able to achieve the result

of not being able to find anything.

If our adversary can't be found

even using your left eye

Has something occurred to you?

Yeah. From here on, we don't need

deduction or tactics or anything.

It's all-out w*r, you lowlifes.

Enough with these roundabout dealings.

Show yourself, Chameleon!

You're going to return Nagisa Natsunagi.

Astute of you to know I was here.

Natsunagi!

Easy, now.

I'd like you to hold still for me there.

What is it you're after?

I believe I've already

told you what I'm after.

We'd be thrilled to hand over

that supposed "bequest,"

but unfortunately, we don't

know a thing about it.

Won't you just civilly

return Natsunagi to us?

Well, this is a problem

That's not any sort of bargaining at all.

Stop, Chameleon.

Kimizuka

Natsunagi!

I really seem to have

screwed things up. Sorry

All right. This girl's life,

--or the lives of the passengers they're

now desperately trying to evacuate.

--Everyone, come along! This way!

--or the lives of the passengers they're

now desperately trying to evacuate.

I shall give you the honor

of choosing between these!

What's the point of doing that?

Well, it's frosting on the cake, of sorts.

Frosting on the cake?

Yes. If the legendary detective's

bequest can't be found,

then this entire ship should be sunk.

So why Natsunagi? What do you

creeps gain by taking her life?

That's an extremely simple matter.

It's because this girl is imbued with

the legendary detective's blood.

Well, now. Make your choice: This girl's

life, or the passengers' lives.

Kimizuka

sh**t me.

What are you saying, Natsunagi?

The response that's called for now is to

sh**t me and save the passengers' lives.

That kind of dispassionate way

of thinking is unlike you.

Is it? Maybe so

But what's needed

in this situation right now

is a legendary detective's reasoning,

not my strong emotions.

You're a legendary detective, too!

No, I'm not. I'm not anything at all.

Kimizuka, when you said I didn't need

to replace anyone, I appreciated that.

Thank you.

Keep your "correct response."

You say you're not anything at all?

If you're not anything at all yet,

you should be free to become

anything you want.

If you don't know how to fly,

you can learn from someone

how to flap your wings.

If you don't know how to live life,

you can walk in line with someone else!

Have you arrived at your answer now?

Yeah. My answer was settled

from the very start.

The arrangement is that Nagisa

Natsunagi can't die before I do.

Sorry, but that's what was promised