Yokohama-sen Doppelgänger 3

Doppleganger 3


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Chapter 3: Answering My Own Question
So? What do we do?
Talk to the police?!

Wait.
[sfx]: Grab

What are you going to tell them?
That yourself from the future came back in time

to tell you you’re going to be framed for murder,
arrested, and executed?

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Chapter 3: Answering my Own Question

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No one will believe you, so don’t trust anyone.
There’s no time to waste.
/ The first murder will happen in 24 days.

First, in order to narrow down who the true culprit might be,
let’s clarify the criminal profile.

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[sfx]: Crack!

A criminal profile, huh?
[insert]: You ask me that out of the blue, and…

[insert]: Hmm
…The culprit’s a gorilla.
A what?!

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If Kinugawa couldn’t kill him,
he’d have to be a gorilla-like man.

Nah; the four victims were all drugged. The culprit put sleeping pills in their drinks.

[sfx]: Ding
It could’ve been a woman.
And the drug is easily accessible. I even used it myself.

…Also, the culprit’s favorite DVDs
are Funny Games, Seven, and Silence of the Lambs. <small: In other words… >

The culprit is an eccentric!
/ He covered people’s faces in plaster, asphyxiated them,
/ all to make masks?
He must have been having fun!
/ He’s a serial killer that murders for pleasure.

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Are you absolutely sure?

The only connection between us victims…

is that we were all members of the same group two years ago, in art school.
[small]: Somehow, [/small] the culprit must know that.

[insert]: Wah!
It’s someone connected to us?!
[insert]: The culprit! / Geh!

If he’s not being indiscriminate,
[sfx]: Crack!
he must have some motive to kill us…

What do you think the most common motives are?
[small]: Dunno.
There’s no way I can understand the thinkings of murderers.

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What?

…Nothing.

[insert]: The major groups are:
Rage,
/ jealousy,
/ and enmity.
Those three. <small: Most of the people in the detention center fell under one of those headings. >

…Rage—you mean people who snapped?
The majority acted on the spur-of-the-moment, yes. Or so I’m told.

That’s why this is different. In this case, the person took the time to coldly make his plans.
[art: The word “Rage” crossed out]

And love is out.
/ I never heard about any drama surrounding us.
[art: The word “jealousy” is crossed out.]
Which leaves…

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Enmity…?
Someone who has a grudge against us.
/ As for why…

Two years ago, a professor died.
Some thought I was at fault.
All the members of the group were drawn into that fire…!!!

…It was terrible.
That event
/ changed the lives of so many people…
/ It wouldn’t shock me if someone held a grudge.
In other words, that’s what led the culprit
/ to commit the crime.
[background]: Letter of Withdrawal / Kenzaki Ma

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He pretended to be someone who kills for kicks,
but he’s deadly serious.

[sfx]: Pull
He must’ve acted like it was “fun” for him in order to make heavier my alleged crimes.

…It’s just.
[sfx]: Freeze

It’s nothing.
Hey, tell me!

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…There was this detective. Danki.
His criminal profile was different from mine.

How so?
…It’s nothing we can count on.
/ He arrested me under false charges. We can’t trust a word he says.

[sign]: Interrogation Room 1
[sfx]: Crack!
Y’know,
yer a cold n’ fearsome fella’.

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Ya took the four victims’ bodies,
stripped ‘em down, washed ‘em,
‘n threw ‘em away.

Thanks t’ that, we ain’t found no evidence on their bodies.
That’s mighty clever of ya for yer first kill, destroyin’ the evidence.

There ain’t no murderer what manages to be clever on his first kill.
/ He fumbles on somethin’, exposes some weakness.
…You ain’t foolin’ me, Kenzaki.

WHAT OTHER MURDERS HAVE YOU DONE COMMITTED?!!!
[sfx]: Slam!

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At the time o’ the incident, there wasn’t no one ‘round the Yohohama Line with a history of murder.
Includin’ you.

So how many folks’ve ya killed? How many perfect crimes’ve you committed?!

…I ain’t here t’ brag, but I’ve done solved tricky cases that were about t’ go unsolved!
And my detective instincts’re screamin’ at me!

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Screamin’ that you act like yer a serious fellow,
but yer really the kinda guy who kills for sport!

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A series of perfect crimes, perfect murders? Is that even possible?

[computer]: 100,000 people go missing in Japan every year, approximately 10,000 of which are never found.

…And there’s also cases where people never file a missing persons report,
so the real number eclipses 10,000.
That’s so many…

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10,000 people every year. Where do they live?
Or have they died?
Suicide?
Or murder?

If they were murdered…
then it means someone committed the perfect crime.

No.
In the first place, this criminal did succeed in the future.

Are there others, amongst the missing,
who the culprit has tyrannized like he has us?!

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Which criminal profile is correct?

The one concocted over eleven years by an amateur,
saying that the culprit is a serious individual pretending to kill for fun?

Or else,
is the correct profile the one made by the detective destined to err?

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That the culprit kills for sport, and is feigning a love of the kill?

[sfx]: Creak
…You have a good constitution.

I did a bit of boxing, back in the day.
/ Oh?

What’s this here? Some sort of art? It’s creeping me out.
…Anyways, this city executive comes up to me in the park and starts yelling at me about my tent.

Then I was living in the station! But this time…
There were so many people grumbling about how I stink.

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Thank you so much for letting me borrow your bath,
/ Mr. Volunteer. <small: Sorry to interrupt your jog. >

Hm hmm
/ hmmm ♪

[sfx]: Click

[sfx]: Slide

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Waahhh! What’s going on here?!
[sfx]: Rattle x2
It won’t open!
Let me out!

[sfx]: Open!
Bah!

Eeeeeekkkkk?!!
[sfx]: Slam!
My eyes…!!

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[insert]: WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[bold]: Laocoön Statue
Gruppo del Laocoonte
Believed to have been made between 160 BC and 20 BC. Currently on display in the Vatican Museums.

[bold]: Greek Myth
The goddess Athena attacked the priest Laocoön, crushing both of his eyeballs and using snakes to slay both him and his two sons.

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Truly, nothing surpasses
viewing the real thing.

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Laocoön Statue
An ancient Greek statue on display at the Vatican Museums. The man in the center, covered in eels and looking anguished, is Laocoön. He is flanked on both sides by one of his sons.

The scene is taken from the Trojan War of Greek myth. The battle between the Grecians and the Trojans had reached a stalemate. But then, the Greek Army had a strategy. They crafted a giant horse, filled it with numerous soldiers, and let it be carried into the city of Troy: the Trojan Horse. The people of Troy believed the horse to be a holy object and so brought it within the city limits. Laocoön, priest of Troy, saw through the Greek plan and tried to warn the citizenry; however, this action incurred the wrath of the Goddess Athena. Therefore, he was killed along with his two sons.

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