p2: ============================== ‘Specially ‘round here. [sign]: Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters 7: Depending on Me
[sfx]: Dash! Wait up!
Don’t meet with the victims. Someone will remember that once the incident occurs. [sfx]: Hah!
p3: ============================== It’s fine.
Thanks! [sfx]: Dash! Bye!
[sfx]: Grab
What’s the rush fer?
People done speak fast what they’re nervous, [sfx]: Stare and hidin’ yer palm means a man’s got somethin’ he right wants t’keep hidden.
p4: ============================== Somethin’ been weighin’ on yer mind as o’ late? [sfx]: Twitch! They’ll send you to death row on false charges.
That swollen eyelid’s a Quincke’s edema. Somethin’ what comes from stress. <small: Or from food or drug allergies, sometimes. >
Who in the world…? Anything happens, gimme a buzz. <small: World’s a mighty fearsome place. Can give ya a right fright. >
[card]: Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters Detective, First Investigative Branch / Danki Gensaburou. Geh! / A detective!
See ya ‘round. …Ah.
p5: ============================== I ever met you somewhere? <small: Your face looks mighty familiar. > No?
[box]: First Investigative Branch
He’s this here fellow. [magazine, right side]: Young Sculptor [magazine, left side]: Kenzaki Makoto / After providing sculptures for a popular drama, ----- sudden attention
[sfx]: Snap. Kenzaki Makoto, eh?
p6: ============================== …It couldn’t be. [insert]: H- Hey, who’s the detective who captured you?
[sfx]: Snap
Detective Danki. The man stuck to me like glue, and was abnormally suspicious.
Geh! That’s the worst person who could’ve seen me with Kinugawa. How do I tell him?
…
p7: ============================== Of all things, I go from talking about Makoto to running square into the guy. <small: Hey, what was he doin’ by my shop? > Huh?
p8: ============================== Another coincidence?
…Wait. Can’t be. I mean, that person’s…
[sfx]: Step
We’ve gone out into the middle of nowhere…
[sfx]: Slide
p9: ============================== Hey… I know this place. Which means it’s really…?
[sfx]: Ding-dong!
[sfx]: Silence
[sfx]: Ding-dong x2
[sfx]: Silence
p10: ============================== Ain’t you gonna open up? [sfx]: Rattle
…Whatever. I’m outta here.
I just hear something?
…Guess it was my imagination. [sfx]: Silence
…Nah. It’s faint, but it’s there. The voice of some brat—no, a girl? ………..
p2: ============================== June 13th (Friday)
[sign]: Leather Kawasemi Here’s where he works part-time.
He, the man who’ll be first victim in 22 short days.
The breadth of that sternum, the distance between the humerus and the shoulder blades… There’s no mistaking any of it:
[bold]: Laocoön Statue Gruppo del Laocoonte Believed to have been made between 160 BC and 20 BC. Currently on display in the Vatican Museums.
p3: ============================== [insert]: Kinugawa Keiji-san. [book]: Ancient Greek Sculptures
[insert]: Several hours ago We’ll be splitting up today.
p4: ============================== I’ll work on the case; Makoto, you work on your sculpting.
You want me to sculpt now? [insert]: Aren’t there better things to do? The crimes ended my life. But you, Makoto, will be different.
We’re going on to win! I swear it! So Makoto, you live your own life.
p5: ============================== [small: I’m…] Awesome! Tooting your own horn, huh?
So this means I’ll be in two places at once. [small: Cool!] [insert]: That’s right. Here’s a phone. [insert]: Good thing I had two.
See ya.
……….. [sign]: Leather Kawasemi Kinugawa, huh? It’s been a long time…
[sign]: Welcome New Students
When I enrolled in art school,
Kinugawa was a senior, the best out of anyone. The professors put him in charge, / but…
p6: ============================== He had a short fuse, a reckless attitude, and I heard he made a lot of enemies.
I hated him, and didn’t get involved with the man.
Then, the fire happened.
We severed all ties, went our separate ways. [letter]: Notice of Withdrawal / Kenzaki Makoto
[horizontal line, LEFT TO RIGHT]: Two years have passed since then. / 13, from my perspective.
This time, I will get involved. I’ll find a clue to the culprit.
p7: ============================== [sfx]: Ring x2
Heyya…
Whaaaa?! [sfx]: Rush! You—it couldn’t be…!
[sfx]: Bathump!
p8: ============================== Huh? No…
You’re entirely the wrong age. / <small: Wrong person. > [insert]: Man, You just remind me of a guy I hate. We fought, back in the day…
[sfx]: Mm! Me?
But more importantly, you’d treat a new customer like this? [insert]: Telling him he’s the spitting image of a guy he hates?
That must’ve put you in a bad mood. / My bad.
…This is just how I act… when dealing with customers. <small: Guess I’m not much cut out for it. >
p9: ============================== Man, seriously. [insert]: I meant nothin’ bad by it. It’s cause of stuff like that that me n’ the guy I mentioned came to blows… <small: Sorry. >
Huh…? / Was he always like this?
[sfx]: Ring x2 Kina~ Oh, my man.
YAY! [insert]: The alligator skin came in!
Gimme the rabbit skin—I’m makin’ my girl a pouch. You wanna get dumped? Owww. <small: Ahaha >
How’s this design? [insert]: For the pouch Lemme see.
Ki-chan! [sfx]: Ring!
p10: ============================== My wallet broke! [insert]: Help! Again, you old hag? Show me—I’ll fix it.
Kinu, bro!
Not just enemies— he’s got tons of friends, too?
Did I just decide I hated him without even trying to get to know him?
If I’d opened up my heart to him back at college, [left side]: Police believe they have found the body of Kinugawa Keiji-san. [below that]: Ya happen t’have a motive?? would the future have changed?
p11: ============================== …Oh. / This one. [insert]: It looks nice
I made that one.
Cool. <small: Heh heh. > / You’ll make me blush.
I’d give it to you for 8,000. <small: I made it myself, after all. > Huh…?
…Thanks.
p12: ============================== My main dig’s sculpting, [insert]: not leather. Went to Flower Arts, even.
I’m also a sculptor from Flower Arts. You for real, man? Guess that makes us close.
Oh yeah, wasn’t there a fire there… that took the life of a professor of sculpting?
[insert]: *Sigh* Me, I was part of that whole deal. With a genius dyin’ like that, things went crazy afterwards.
Ton of people got accusations flung at ‘em, even within the department. [insert]: Accusations, huh… There were a lot of oddballs at Flower.
Oh yeah. There was a dangerous one, too. ‘Round then, we’d find dead birds all ‘round the school. And the guy who rumor said did it…
p13: ============================== He had a terrifyin’ look durin’ the day, but at night, ‘e’d have this grin like an old okame mask. Creepy, right?
p14: ============================== [insert]: What’s more, no matter who’d talk to him, Is that so? He’d barely say a word. / And acted like he had a few screws loose.
That said, he wasn’t a student. If y’knew the professor, maybe you knew him: the professor’s flunky,
Saniguma.
Again… [insert]: Saniguma I’m sure the whole place was filled with nutballs durin’ your time, too. <small: Ahaha >
Still, what a coincidence. The guy I hate, the one you look like— Kenzaki Makoto’s his name—he was at Flowers, too, and he… [insert]: Oh, shit. There I go again.
I like you, man. [sfx]: Thud [insert]: Ow!
p15: ============================== Gangly, ain’t ya? [insert]: You eating right? I know a good place; how ‘bout we eat there sometime? [insert]: And lemme make up for my attitude: it’ll be my treat.
Why do you detest this Makoto guy? [insert]: Isn’t he the sculptor whose works are being featured in a drama?
…Sculpture’s a fine art. A pure art. You do it for yourself. You fight with yourself to make somethin’ great. [insert]: You ain’t competing with others.
But Makoto, he’s doin’ commercial work, right? Flatterin’ the show’s audience while producin’ his works. / And commercial work means competin’ with other guys’ sculptures.
p16: ============================== Shit like that’s just there to look pretty. / It ain’t real sculpture.
Screw people like him, who sell their souls. I meet him somewhere, I’m killin’ him good.
The curve of your lumbar vertebrae… And your bone structure—you’re…
Natsuki-san…?!
Geh geh.
p4: ================================= Amazing as ever! [insert]: You got me. It’s been two years, hasn’t it, Makoto-kun?
p5: ================================= [sfx]: Bathump Ah… She smells nice…
And right now, you’re the most popular sculptor there is! [insert]: I watched the show. [insert]: Nod [insert]: Uh, You exaggerate. [insert]: But thank you.
Wait, why is Natsuki-san here? [sfx]: Whisper Why would I know?! Did she come here before I time traveled, too? Though I never saw her…
Sorry. I’m so covered in sweat that I got embarrassed and tried to run off. <small: Ahaha. > [flyer]: Natsuki Hikari’s Exhibition / July 25th through August 2nd I was delivering flyers for my exhibition, and figured I’d get some cardio in while I was at it. <small: I’m giving them to people in the art world. >
Oh, so you’re having an exhibition! <small: I’ll go! > [letter, middle]: Kenzaki Makoto [letter, leftmost]: Natsuki Hikari <the rest is illegible> [sfx]: Whisper Oh. / I do recall getting that during the first loop. So she delivered it herself… But after she was murdered, the exhibition was canceled…
…What do I do?
p6: ================================= … / For now… you’re welcome to have some tea in our home. Huh?!
You can’t let her into our house! [sfx]: Whisper Since they’re going to find her hair in here regardless, letting her in now’s the perfect chance.
[sfx]: Whisper [insert]: Come in. That’s now the problem. I can’t let her see this mess! Don’t put on airs now!
That sounds wonderful. I’m so thirsty, my throat’s about to dry up. [insert]: I could even drink water out of a puddle at this point.
Thanks for having me! Yay! [sfx]: Slam Umm…
p7: ================================= You must be Makoto-kun’s big brother, right? [sfx]: Bathump Uh… Now that I take a closer look, you look just like him! That’s…
I’m Natsuki Hikari. [poster]: The saddest thing in the world is to lie. [insert]: Ooh ...I can’t lie.
There’s tea and stuff in the fridge, so take whatever you want. [insert]: There’s also some banana cola. [insert]: Okay! [sfx]: Open! I’ll pass on the banana cola. That’s a really weird flavor.
p8: ================================= [sfx]: Grab! [cans on the side]: Banana Cola
[sfx]: Pop!
[sfx]: Glug, glug
p9: ================================= <small: Pwah! > / It’s so good! She took a beer!!
[insert]: Heh heh. She hasn’t changed one bit. That takes me back…
Back when I was in art school, Natsuki-san… [sign]: Flower Art University
[insert, bottom right]: Hello [insert, top right]: was the center of attention. [insert, top left]: And not just because of how gorgeous she was. Wow, she’s cute. She’s a feast for the eyes. She smells of bergamot~♡
p10: ================================= [sfx]: Gyah! What’re you doing?! [insert]: You see… I like getting in every second of sleep I can in the mornings.
[insert]: And to do that, I have to minimize the time I spend on makeup! [insert]: Mascara is such a pain. [tube]: Instant Glue So I’m going to try putting on false lashes with instant glue. <small: Since eyelash extensions are so expensive. >
You idiot—don’t— AHHHHH! [insert]: See? ♡ My lashes are perfect.
Three days later [sfx]: Trembling My skin came off with the false lashes… Oww…
Apparently, she made it out of glue. <small: She dripped it. > [sfx] Murmur That’s so expressive. Natsuki-san’s work was both the first at that exhibition to sell… [sfx]: Murmur And the one that fetched the highest price.
She had her own, peculiar way / of looking at things, of thinking, of acting, and then she’d find her own, unique route to her goal.
But damn is she cute. / If only she weren’t such a nutjob.
p12: ================================= That’s what makes her great.
I can’t let her die. I will protect her.
…Now then.
p13: ================================= How do we naturally ask… if she’s managed to make any enemies?
Ah! [insert]: You idiot! I said it out loud.
[insert]: Enemies? Huh~? I live the peaceful life. <small: Heh heh heh. > She answered the question like it was nothing. [insert, on Makoto’s shirt]: Then I’ll ask again. [insert, right of bubble]: In that case, do you know anyone who has a grudge against me?
Why would you ask… / Ah.
…I can think of someone who’d hate not just me and you, but everyone who was in our exhibition group.
You know, there was that fire that killed the professor, and…
p14: ================================= ! The group members. The fire!
…You left school in the middle of all that fuss, so maybe you never heard,
[insert]: But when the fire broke out, one person was slow getting out of the building. He’s still confined to a bed, even now. When I went to visit the individual in the hospital…
p15: ================================= My body’s like this thanks to you and your group!
p16: ================================= ...Is what he said. / Even though it’s all a misunderstanding. I’m not sure if you remember him, but his name’s Saginuma-san.
That’s the man who was always tailing the professor…
…But Saginuma is…
I have to get going to art school. There’s so much work to do for the exhibition. [sfx]: Slipping off
p17: ================================= [insert]: See you! Isn’t there anything we can do for Natsuki-san?
[insert]: Something, something, something. The culprit’s going to slip sleeping pills in her beer and kill her. [insert]: That’s right!
Want to stop drinking? We can both do it, starting today.
After the four of them are killed, I’ll be arrested on August 1st. [flyer]: ki Hikari’s Exhibition / July 25th through August 2nd [calendar]: I’m arrested Her exhibition goes until August 2nd. In other words, everything should be settled once her exhibition’s over.
<small: Then, > / we can go for drinks after the exhibition. And invite all the people from our group. If we refrain from alcohol for all that time, it’ll make the drinks taste even better.
p18: ================================= [insert]: I’d like to, but… …But Makoto-kun, aren’t you still estranged from everyone?
…I want to change the future we all share.
Heh heh. Where’d that come from? [insert]: Weirdo. Okay. I’ll look forward to the drinks. [insert]: It’s a promise.
[sfx]: Relieved Okay. That should interfere with the culprit’s plan!
You should come too, Mr. Big Brother! Yeah, just show on up. [sfx]: Whisper We can celebrate our success in stopping the incident.
I… Huh?
… It’s nothing.
p19: ================================= Sounds like fun.
After I’ve captured and killed the murderer, I’m committing suicide. No matter how much of a scumbag the killer is, I don’t want to live on after taking a life.
And besides…
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[insert]: Now then. There’s 23 days left until the incident. [bag]: Security Shop / Rugged Electronics Let’s find the murderer.
p3: ============================================ *Beep* [sfx]: Roll
[bottles]: Banana Cola Here.
I guess I don’t even have to tell you what I want. <small: I love this drink. > / You really are me.
…It’s really a relief, having myself as my ally.
That’s why the first thing I did was to meet up with you.
[insert]: When I was a child…
p4: ============================================ [insert]: I always wished there were two of me.
[sign]: South Yohohama Elementary School
Don’t bully him.
[sfx]: Silence
Awesome. [sfx]: Cheers Makoto, you sure told him. I was too scared to say anything.
p5: ============================================ Let’s all play dodgeball! Yeah, let’s! [sfx]: Ding dong I don’t like dodgeball.
[sfx]: Stare …?
…Makoto, you’ve got some nerve. / Everyone was all for it until you spoke up… [sfx]: Whisper [insert]: You spoiled the mood. You stick out like a sore thumb.
[sign]: Student Counseling Office
Kenzaki-kun, / You have a habit of speaking your own mind, regardless of what anyone else says. That can be a good thing,
but it can also cause problems.
[sfx]: Clench
p6: ============================================ I want to get along with my friends, but I don’t like when people lie so they can get along with me. / So I won’t lie, either.
But not everyone feels that way. / It’s hard to have a heartfelt connection with another.
If only there were two of me. Then we could empathize with and trust each other. I would never betray myself, so we’d be best of friends.
I’ve managed to find my ideal partner.
[sfx]: Step x2 [insert]: Hey, Criminal!
p7: ============================================ [sfx]: Step x2 Right now,
you probably think Makoto has no idea that you’re about to lay the blame on him.
But you’re the one who has no idea what’s going on here!
p8: ============================================ [transparent bubble]: Stare-------- Just what part of that is “something good”?
[insert]: There you go Now no one should notice. / By the way, I checked when I first came here, / but you had none of these things set up.
[insert]: Inside its nose, is that… Is that a hidden camera?
You’re going to record me 24/7?! Even when I’m butt-naked getting out of the bath? / Stop it! [insert]: You’re covering every corner of the room! [manual]: Your First Security Camera [packaging]: Security Camera x2 [book]: Spy Camera [bag]: Rugged Electronics
p9: ============================================ You idiot. This is the last line of defense to keep you safe.
If we do screw this up and can’t find the culprit, even if we can’t stop the four of them from dying, these cameras will tell us who the culprit is.
Huh?! [insert]: I don’t really get it, but nice going! Remember what Detective Danki said?
All four of the death masks were found inside our home. <small: Along with head hairs. >
[calendar pages at the top, clockwise from upper right]: { 2003 / July / 12th / Saturday 2003 / July / 15th / Tuesday 2003 / July / 10th / Thursday 2003 / July / 8th / Tuesday 2003 / July / 4th / --day [cut off] } But isn’t it strange? I spent all of my time here, / and I never saw any masks. [calendar pages at the bottom, clockwise from lower right]: { 2003 / July / 30th 2003 / July / 29th 2003 / July / 24th July / 21st / --day 2003 / July / 20th / Sunday }
So, how did the culprit sneak in here? How did he leave the masks without me noticing? This’ll give me the answer!
…Huh?
p10: ============================================ [insert]: HUH?! You’re using me as bait / and letting the culprit just waltz in here?!! [building]: Welcome All Cockroaches
That’s why I haven’t changed the locks since before I traveled back in time, nor added any new ones. Given that, the culprit should have an easy time getting in the door.
Now then, culprit!
[sfx]: Thud
[side bubble]: No need to wait for after the incident—come case our place whenever you want.
p11: ============================================ [sfx]: Aiieee! You idiot! / Shouldn’t we perfect our security so that he can’t get in here?! If we can save all four of their lives, we’ve won.
The best defense is a good offense. Act that timid, and even if we prevent the murders, the culprit will get away.
Do you want to live your life in fear of when the killer next will strike? [insert]: Besides, he’s trying to frame us; he won’t try to kill us. Don’t lose your nerve.
…I always did want to grow a pair. [flashback]: { Calm down. / My face, / my voice, } You really are me from eleven years in the future.
Fine, I get it. [insert]: I’ll try to be positive. [sfx]: Crack! [sfx]: Groan It’s… It’s not like I’m the spitting image of bravery. [insert]: I’m terrified myself.
The simple fact of the matter is, we’re not after the same thing. That’s clear as day to me now.
p13: ============================================ My top priority is to capture the culprit. Makoto’s is to prevent the crime from even occurring.
[sfx]: Creak But there’s nothing to be done about that. / Why? Because...
p14: ============================================ [insert]: So then. Let’s start going on the offensive. In just 23 more days, Kinugawa / is going to be murdered. [columns on the calendar]: Sun / Mon / Tue / Wed / Thur / Fri / Sat [circled date in June]: Time Travel [July 4th]: Kinugawa dies [july 5th]: Kooriyama dies [August 1st]: I'm arrested It’ll take place on July 4th.
First is Kinugawa. Then Kooriyama-san, Natsuki-san, and finally Hiyo-kun. That’s the order the bodies will be found.
And we don’t have a clue who the culprit is, right? In that case, first…
p15: ============================================ let’s meet with the four people destined to die and search for clues regarding the culprit.
p16: ============================================ The early bird gets the worm.
Makoto, you keep working at home. With all the deadlines pressing in on you, you’ve got no time to spare, right? Besides, if the incidents do occur and people remember you having talked to them, they might testify against you.
But Kenzaki, you’re me, too. <small: Any witnesses will— > Given what I look like, no one will think I’m you.
Even if I’m at home, if I don’t have an alibi, I’ll just get framed again! [insert]: What if the culprit doesn’t come drop off the masks? The cameras I set up will be your alibi.
[insert]: Huh? Fine. But all that talk about me staying on the sidelines— / isn’t that just because you can’t get along with others? Self-deprecating much?
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p1: =========================================== 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?
p2: =========================================== Chapter 3: Answering my Own Question
p3: =========================================== 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.
A criminal profile, huh? [insert]: You ask me that out of the blue, and…
[insert]: Hmm …The culprit’s a gorilla. A what?!
p5: =========================================== 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.
p6: =========================================== 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.
[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…
p8-9: =========================================== 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
p10: =========================================== 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!
p11: =========================================== …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’.
p12: =========================================== 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!
p13: =========================================== 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!
p14: =========================================== Screamin’ that you act like yer a serious fellow, but yer really the kinda guy who kills for sport!
p15: =========================================== 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…
p16: =========================================== 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?!
p17: =========================================== 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?
p18: =========================================== 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.
p19: =========================================== 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
p20: =========================================== Waahhh! What’s going on here?! [sfx]: Rattle x2 It won’t open! Let me out!
[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.
p22: =========================================== Truly, nothing surpasses viewing the real thing.
p23: =========================================== 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.
p24: =========================================== <the only text is already translated on-page> https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/41100[English] [Translation] Yokohama-sen Doppelgänger 2 by Dowolf2015-03-10T18:32:18+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comDoppelganger 2
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p67: ========================================= Eleven years have passed since the ghastly incident that left four dead. [newspaper]: { [box]: The Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders [not-box]: Suspect Kenzaki arrested }
[box]: 2014 The murderer, sculptor Kenzaki Makoto, continued to insist the charges were false. 2: Speaking to Myself
His execution was carried out, his life brought to an end. Yet, through some trick of fate,
when he opened his eyes, Kenzaki found he had regressed in time to before when the incident occurred. He decided to find the true culprit and exact his revenge. [box, right]: July 4th, 2003 / The Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders take place [box, left]: June 6th, 2014 / Execution carried out / Present Day
p68: ========================================= And the person he chose to be his accomplice was… I’m you from eleven years in the future!
…Huh? [sfx]: Clang
What?!
p69: ========================================= 2. Speaking to Myself
p70: ========================================= BWUHHHH?? NO, NO.
I’m scared! What’s with this guy?! Calm down. / My face, / my voice, they’re ours!
What’re you saying? Shit! Excuse me? Somebody, help! In here This guy, he’s crazy!
p71: ========================================= Look closely! / We’re a sculptor. We’ve learned how to look at a person’s skeletal structure. Even if someone’s clothes, or hair, or build changes, we can see through it due to his skeletal structure. / And this is our skeletal structure.
You’ve even gotten surgery to modify your face. [insert]: Wah! Furthermore, you remodeled your whole body from the bones… / Use that money and toil on something else~~! Where’d you find out all that information about me?
p73: ========================================= No. I’m not some overzealous fan— Wah! / Wah!! Stay back! <small: You deviant! >
…This isn’t working. / I could keep talking for hours, and yet… Isn’t there some way to make him believe? [insert]: Maybe DNA testing? / No; I can’t afford the time, and I don’t want it to become a big deal. [sfx]: Pacing
Crap. …Huh? That’s…
p74: ========================================= [off-panel insert]: Yeah. …I just sort’ve did it while I was waiting. [insert, in bubble]: This isn’t the time to talk about that! [insert, in bubble]: When we see clay, we can’t help but want to create.
[sfx]: Rustle
…I— / I’m still at the conceptual stage, [sfx]: Flip [insert]: Here. And I haven’t shown anyone,
So how did you make the form I had thought up?
p75: ========================================= Furthermore, / your perception,
your rhythm,
the volume…
Those aren’t things you can imitate… / This… Is my sculpting…
It can’t be. [small]: Y— [main part of the bubble]: You’re truly…
I thought about this so much when I was a kid. If there were two of me, / we’d be the best friends ever! [insert]: We’re in the world of sci-fi! I mean, there’s no way we wouldn’t get along! [sfx]: Ha ha
[insert]: Yay! / C’mon, / high five! Starting today, / we’ll take turns. One of us works, / and the other lies around in bed all day. But why two of us?! / Oh, are you a doppelganger?
Me from eleven years in the future~ / Haha! Hah….
p78: ========================================= I look so sloppy…
Yet you look somewhat haggard, / and you have a dangerous look in your eyes. / Did our personality darken, too? That’s not the future chapter I envisioned… Not now that I’ve finally gotten on-track as a sculptor.
[bg text]: Sculptor Makoto / Students Everything’s smooth sailing, so why would I become like you?
…Well, it began on that day, eleven years ago…
p79: ========================================= Or here, should I say it will begin a month from today? [calendar]: 2003 / June / 10th / Tuesday On that day…
Eleven years ago, on July 10th, 2003, Continuing with the news… Like always, I was creating here, in our workshop.
In the thicket around the Yokohama Line, / a passerby found a body believed to be that of Kinugawa Keiji-san. [bottom]: Kinugawa Keiji-san (24) The cause of death was suffocation; it is believed he was the victim of murder…
K… / Kinugawa…?
[sfx]: Rinnnng
Hello?
…No. / I won’t be going to Kinugawa’s funeral. …He and I were… / Heck,
p80: ========================================= I’ve already cut my ties / with the four members of our art school exhibition group.
I don’t think Kinugawa would want me there himself. / Not after all that happened.
He hated me. / But still, murdered? / The poor guy…
In the woods near the Yokohama Line / was found a body believed to be that of Kooriyama Rei-san.
The cause of death and method used were the same as with Kinugawa Keiji-san, leading investigators to believe the same person murdered both…
[sfx]: Rustle
…Kooriyama-san…?
Several days later…
p82: ========================================= Another body has been found near the Yokohama Line. Natsuki Hikari-san was found dead, her body buried underground. [right side]: Found at [upper left]: Again, near the Yokohama Line [bottom]: Natsuki Hikari-san (21)
The event is being investigated as a serial murder case… [sfx]: Shake
p83: ========================================= [tv]: News / Where the body was found …It’s not far from here by car.
[sfx]: Dash!
[sfx]: Crunch x2 [insert]: So this is where her body was buried.
[sfx]: Slump! You all right?!
I can’t… / Why Natsuki-san? [bag]: Plaster How could this happen…?
p84: ========================================= [insert, top]: And a few days after that [upper left]: Found [bottom]: Hiyo Yuujuu-san (23) Found in the depths of the river near the Yokohama Line / was a body believed to be that of Hiyo Yuujuu-san…
[insert]: E— …Even Hiyo-kun…?
All four were murdered using the same methodology. [sfx]: Trembling What the heck is…? All four were active sculptures, a connection making this seem like the work of a single serial killer. / They’ve been named the Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders…
Plaster was found in the mouths and stomachs of each of the victims. Furthermore, there were bruises on their arms and legs.
This tells us the victims were bound while plaster was poured onto their faces, causing their suffocation. [sfx]: Pour…
Man, / that’s awful.
p87: ========================================= Once the victims had breathed their last, the culprit removed the harden plaster from their faces and took the object from the scene. This is one deranged individual.
And no evidence has yet been found as to the culprit, correct?
And then, on August 1st, 2003. [sfx]: Ding-dong! At 6:03 p.m.
[sfx]: Ding-dong.
Wh— / Who’s there?
The culprit…?
[sfx]: Creak
[sfx]: Bathump x2 Hah… Hah. [sfx]: Click…
p88: ========================================= Kenzaki Makoto, right? Yer under arrest as a suspect in the Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders. [sfx]: Crack!
[sign]: Investigation Room 1
The name’s Danki. I’m the one in charge of this here investigation.
There ain’t been one case given to me what I ain’t solved. So say yer prayers.
p89: ========================================= I didn’t do anything.
Really? / In that case, [sfx]: Crack ya happen t’have a motive?
The victims, all’ve them done gone to the same art school you did. But then y’all got into a spat, and didn’t ya get driven t’drop out? / People what knew you been sayin’ you’ve been holdin’ a mighty big grudge ‘gainst them ever since.
B— But I didn’t hate them enough to kill them…! [insert]: Besides, I never bore any ill will towards Natsuki-san.
Fact o’ the matter is, ya didn’t think mighty well o’ them. / So. / Ya got yerself an alibi?
I was holed up in my workshop, crafting. / …Alone.
Now that ain’t gonna work. If there ain’t no one what can verify yer word, that ain’t much of an alibi.
p90: ========================================= Didn’t ya buy up all that plaster ‘fore the incidents ‘cause you were plannin’ on killin’ ‘em with it?
No! / I needed the plaster in order to create my sculptures. So yer sayin’ ya did buy it.
We got ourselves a truckful o’ people willin’ to say ya were loiterin’ in your car ‘round the places we found the bodies. You done bought that car ‘fore the incident, too. / Did ya use it to carry ‘round the bodies? It’s to carry my sculptures! And I was taking drives to get a change of pace.
Excuse me, Detective Danki… [sfx]: Whisper ……
…Kenzaki, you don’t let no one / just walk in or out o’ yer place, right?
No one can enter. / The door’s locked… [sfx]: And I’m the only one who knows where the spare key is.
…And you done said you ain’t never met with any o’ the four victims / since ya quit art school, is that right? [sfx]: Crack
p91: ========================================= Yes, not even once. And you’ve been rentin’ out that workshop fer a good year? That’s right.
[insert]: *Sigh*
In that case, / explain t’ me why I was just done told that, in YER workshop, / THERE’S HAIRS BELONGIN’ T’ ALL FOUR O’ THEM VICTIMS?!
That… That can’t be. They’ve never been inside my workshop.
p92: ========================================= QUIT PLAYIN’ DUMB! Ya punk!
[sfx]: Slam! Everyone from yer school, from yer group, all o’ them’s been killed. / Yer the only survivor. That’s ‘cause you killed ‘em, right?!!!
Now. / How ‘bout you’s confess, / Kenzaki. [sfx]: Creak
p93: ========================================= Besides the hair, in your workshop, / we found fragments from the plaster pulled off o’ t’ victims’ faces.
We even done found the masks that plaster was used t’ make. [insert]: We dunno whether t’ call ‘em “life masks” or “death masks.”
… I’ve never made a mask. [sign]: Investigation Room 1 Someone must have put in in my workshop!
…I— I’m not lying. I’ve never lied…
p94: ========================================= No conclusive material evidence was found to say I killed them. However, there was a mountain of circumstantial evidence, so they soon named me… the culprit.
[tv]: Yokohama Lien Sculptor Murders / Arrested / Suspect Kenzaki Makoto (21) [below tv]: All I could think of was that I’d been set up by the true culprit.
[below that]: Society’s reaction was fierce. [upper left of that]: Fear!! / Crazed Methodology [left of that]: Drama “The Language of Art Students” suspended, emergency meeting called!! / Resumption unknown, second season cancelled. / Plug pulled on movie [above that]: Serial Murderer Kenzaki’s family / go to hell! [bubble left of there]: Since I had gotten somewhat famous after my sculptures were used in a popular drama, after I was arrested, [bubble directly above that]: Interest in sculptures increased.
[newspaper between the last two bubbles]: The wonder of sculpture / In order to prevent Kenzaki’s influence from darkening the image of sculpting, we’re airing a special program [topmost newspaper]: Fans seek the drama to resume airing [left of that]: The one thing we want people to understand is that there are tons of diligent sculptors all over Japan. [leftmost bubble]: Ironically, it led to a sculpting fad. [newspaper below that]: We’re becoming like Rome: sculptures are being placed all over Japan
[first black bubble]: As for me, [second black bubble]: after spending eleven years unable to prove my innocence, [third black bubble]: I was executed.
p95: ========================================= That’s the future that awaits us.
…Hey. Wait. / If you’re me…
Well, / even if I believe that… you expect me to believe that tale of the future?
p96: ========================================= [insert]: I have varicose veins, so I sleep with my legs up.
[sfx]: Snore
Today was an unbelievable day. When I thought everything was coming to an end, everything began.
[insert]: No one here sees me as a murderer. [middle insert]: They don’t attack me, [left insert]: or arrest me. [lower right]: Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders / Suspect Kenzaki [above that]: The Methodology of Kenzaki, who Shook the Nation [left of that]: Kenzaki Sentenced to Death / Maintains his Innocence [below that]: The Sculptor who Murdered Four People [left of that]: Serial Murderer Kenzaki Makoto
[sfx]: Click
[container]: Yakiniku Lunch / 450 Yen [can]: Banana Soda
p97: ========================================= I’m taking it easy, just for today. I’m eating my favorite foods, not the meager prison fare.
And I’m taking a relaxing bath. I have all the time in the world.
……
…Hah.
[sfx]: Drip / Drop
Such little things, and yet… Heh heh heh heh.
Things have been so hard for so long. I was mentally cornered, couldn’t sleep, I kept thinking, I just wanted it all to end.
[insert]: You finally awake? Where are you going?! / You…
Err, umm, what am I supposed to call you? [insert]: And you put on my clothes without asking.
p99: ========================================= Good question. Things are complicated, so I’ll be Kenzaki,
while we’ll call you Makoto.
[sfx]: Clickity-clack
So then, / Kenzaki… [sign]: Flower Art University
What’d you come to our art school for? [sfx]: Trembling [insert]: It’s been, what, two years since I dropped out? / This brings back memories [insert]: Idiot. Stay hidden. We don’t want any witnesses to come forward once the incidents start. [sfx]: Shiver x2 We just came to check. / Oh, there!
p101: ========================================= [small]: Wow [/small]: She’s as cute as ever. And a little more mature! / Right?
!
…She’s alive. Still alive…
…You’d cry in front of someone else? This obstinate version of me is better off dead… [insert]: Though that “someone else” is me… That story about the future must really be…
Huh?
p102: ========================================= Makoto, why’re you crying, too?
Huh…?! What? / Seriously?
W… We’re connected… / I can’t find the right words to say it, But you really are me.
Makoto… Kenzaki… I—
p103: ========================================= I don’t want to believe your story of the future.
But we don’t lie… / yet I can’t dispel my doubts. / I’m half-convinced.
It would be best for you, Makoto, if the incident never takes place, but if it does, you’ll need me. I know the future.
I want to know who really did it, who laid the blame on us. And I need your help to do it.
Working together is to our mutual benefit, right? Together, maybe we can change the future!
p104-105: ========================================= Okay. I’ll work with you.
*Rustle*
If someone actually is murdered, I don’t want to be executed. And besides, even if I hate someone, I’m not okay with them being killed. [insert]: Though I do like Natsuki-san.
If I can prevent the incident, maybe I can save all four of their lives…
I don’t care if it robs me of my humanity. I am going to bring the worst to the worst.
I—
p106: ========================================= will kill the culprit.
will save Natsuki-san.
[left side]: Doppelganger: [right side, first bullet]: 1. A person who looks remarkably similar to yourself [second bullet]: 2. The phenomenon where a double of a person exists. [unbulleted line]: Anyone who sees his own doppelganger…
Will die. https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/40969[English] [Translation] Yokohama-sen Doppelgänger 1 by Dowolf2015-02-10T00:39:47+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comDoppelganger 1
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p1: ============================================ [the opening crawl. Feel free to arrange the lines however] In the summer of 2003, four corpses were found in succession along JR’s Yokohama line between the East Kanagawa and Hachiouji stations. All four had died of strangulation. Furthermore, since all four had been employed as sculptors, the circumstantial evidence led the Kawakami Prefectural Police Investigative Unit to declare it a serial murder case: THE YOKOHAMA LINE SCULPTOR MURDERS. An investigative team was established, the search begun. And then-------------------- [red bubble]: New Serialization! [the white text is translated already]
p2-3: ============================================ Several weeks later, on August 1st, 2003, at 6:03 p.m., they arrested a suspect— [red]: That suspect was me. [black text is already translated]
p4: ============================================ 2014, Present Day [bubble]: M-star [upper left]: Special Report [below that]: Japan’s Villainous Murderers Kenzaki Makoto has been on death row / for eleven years since his capture in 2003…
[tv screen banner]: The Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders Oh, wow. I remember when that took place. Kenzaki… / What’d he do again? Remember? He killed four people, and on their faces he… [little bubble]: Oh! [upper left of the lower bubbles]: He’s still alive? Haven’t they executed him already? <small: It’s been 11 years > 1: Finding Myself
That solitary cell, the one furthest in the back, is his:
p6: ============================================ the villainous murderer Kenzaki Makoto. [sfx]: Gulp I heard that, the other day, he went on another rampage.
WAAAHHHHHH
He’s terrifying, / so I don’t want to deal with him, but I’m curious…
BANG! THUMP! Splat! Splat! [sfx]: Shocked! Wh—What was that?! [sfx]: Dash! That sound came from Kenzaki’s cell.
! [sfx]: Shine!
p7: ============================================ …Was I noisy?
I was kneading this papier-mâché so that it would harden into a form / suitable for my work… [sfx]: Gooey
Kneading…?! Come to think of it, I’d heard that Kenzaki is docile only when he’s working with clay. [sfx]: *Realization*
p10: ============================================ He… He’s good! I’m impressed. / He might be in here, but that man is amazing!
[sfx]: Squeeze I’ll knead more quietly this time.
…Good. *Step*
*Step* *Step*
*Dash* …Excuse me.
p11: ============================================ Th— / The truth is, I’m a fan of yours. Back in elementary school, I traveled all over Japan to see your works. [book]: Kenzaki Makoto sculptures reference guide [book 2]: Makoto Illustrated Reference I even have all the books on your sculptures.
[sign]: Shounan Penitentiary
I’ve always wanted to meet you, / but I can’t believe it’s in a place like this…
p12: ============================================ I’m glad to hear it!
My days are a living hell, but I’m feeling a little better for the first time in eleven years.
I want to thank you somehow. Th—then please, make a sculpture! Of me! I’d be happy to.
*Step* *Step*
…When was the last time I received a request?
Back before
I was arrested,
p13: ============================================ I was a sculptor.
I quit an arts university to work as a sculptor from dawn till dusk.
I abandoned all other happiness in life, devoted myself to my art.
*Drip* *Drip* I’m short on money for rent again this month… If I get kicked out of here, my workshop, I won’t be able to create.
*Sigh* I wanna eat meat… I’m so broke, / I had to skip another night at the bar…
To earn the bare minimum amount of money to live, I’ve spent every moment I wasn’t creating doing any job I could, provided the pay was good.
Most sculptors in Japan live like this, barely eking by, withstanding a life of insecurity while dreaming of the day when a single sculpture will put food on their table.
I was trying to live doing what I loved, so I was prepared for hard times.
p15: ============================================ [poster]: { [bubbles]: Seeking / applications! [below that]: Application Period: August 1st 2003 ~ September 30th [big text]: The Language of Art Students [bottom left]: We’re looking for creations to be featured as those made by the protagonists of our new drama. [bottom right]: Starting January 20th / Every Tuesday, 9:00 p.m. ~ 9:54 / Director: Ooguma Yuu / Starring: Furukaki Yui [search bar]: The Language of Art Students / Search [far bottom right]: Ashi Television } And then, one day, suddenly, [vertical text, under the above inserts]: The Language of Art Students
My work? In a drama?!
I caught a break.
p16: ============================================ High Nielson ratings [upper left bubble]: Two seasons scheduled [middle bubble]: A societal phenomenon [bottom-right bubble]: Movie confirmed [insert]: And somehow, the show hit it big‼
[insert]: My works caught the public eye [insert, far left]: I was acknowledged as an up-and-coming creator. [pic, top]: { [horizontal, top]: J news [vertical]: An interview with the sculptor from the popular drama! [horizontal, bottom]: Kenzaki Makoto-san } [second image]: { [rightmost book]: The World of Kenzaki Makoto’s sculptures [second from the right]: Introduction to Kenzaki’s sculptures [leftmost]: The sculpting boom led by Kenzaki Makoto } [third image]: { [right side]: { [bubble]: Order‼ [below]: Relief } [next image]: { [bubble]: Order Head } [next image]: { [bubble]: Order Half-length statue } [next image]: { [bubble]: Order Bust Tonoko } }
[insert]: Just as all that was beginning…
p17: ============================================ I was arrested as a suspect in the Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders‼ [sfx]: Clang!
[right paper]: He thinks he can do anything, just because he’s an artist?! [left of that]: When the four were murdered, a death mask made by Kenzaki was spotted in his workshop. [first black bubble]: The fall of a promising creator [above that]: Beneath the Façade, a Murderer / He suffocated his victim by covering their faces in plaster [black bubble in the middle]: The world was in uproar. [above that]: Inhuman [left of that]: Kenzaki’s Sculptures Removed / The crusade begins! [down and right of that]: A terrifying crime‼ [below that]: Apologize through death‼ [below that]: <small>History’s <big> Worst </big> [below that]: Go to hell [left and up of that, past the body]: The Art of a Serial Killer / In Sick Taste [above that]: Just too [above and left of that]: The dark side of a popular drama’s sculptor [and the last black bubble]: And my life took a turn for the worse.
…Since coming here, I’ve learned two things… [sfx]: Glare!
First: *Tick* *Tock* We prisoners aren’t told of the day of our executions in advance; we’re just suddenly taken to the execution site.
Second: *Tick* Executions occur from 9 to 11. *Tock*
[bubbles]: Huff x2 [sfx]: Tick / Tock [insert]: This morning might be the day…! / My… My mind’s going insane…! Every morning / for year / after year
*Tick* *Tock* [insert]: I—It still hasn’t even been a minute! / Ugh… Ninety-one minutes to go…
[sfx]: Step x2
[sfx]: Clatch! Kenzaki.
p19: ============================================ Let’s go to see the chaplain.
[sfx]: Thump
I—I know… / I know what that means. That’s the line you say when taking people… / to the execution site!
Settle down, Kenzaki! We’re just following orders.
[sfx]: Ding
[sfx]: Open!
p20: ============================================ Stand up straight Aiie / Aiie! Take proper breaths. [sfx]: Drag
Aiie Eeek! …I wanna— / I wanna see Natsuki-san…
Kenzaki, / If you wish to write a will, do so now. Also, this shall be your last meal.
What would you have us do with your body? I am told your relatives committed suicide from the shock of your crimes… / If no one is willing to receive it, then donate your body to a university hospital. / Thus, in the end, you will serve the needs of others.
[insert]: Nam-Myoho / Renge-Kyo
…This shall be an eternal farewell. [insert]: So you’ve chosen not to leave a will. Have you any last words?
Aiie Aiie
[sfx]: Thump x2 I— / I’ve told you time and again that I—
p21: ============================================ I AM INNOCENT!
I don’t know anything; I didn’t do anything! Huff [upper left]: I’m not the culprit! These are false charges‼! [below that]: And yet! [bottom right, big bubble]: I was suddenly arrested and brought to this‼! [below that]: Huff [small bubble, lower left]: Huff [final bubble]: Give me back / the last eleven years of my life!
You’ve all been deceived! Right now, I guarantee you the real culprit—that dirty liar— he’s living a carefree life out there somewhere. / He laid the blame on me!
p22: ============================================ You, Culprit! [small]: Huff I hate you! Hate, hate, hate you! Hah A curse upon your soul‼!
[various small bubbles on p29] { What’re you saying, kid? / There’s no way that happened. [lower right]: But it did! That guy suddenly appeared. / Like that! [the lone bubble]: So scary. [below that, slightly to the right]: What are you doing? [overlapping bubble]: You’re in the way [left and up]: I’m so hungry. [overlapping bubble]: Hello? }
[all the bubbles on p30] { Where you goin’? [left of that]: Ahaha. That’s great. [overlapping bubble]: And then… [musical bubble]: Why’s that? [directly below that]: He’s disgusting [right of that]: Move it [bottom bubble]: Don’t look at him. Let’s go. }
I’m just trying to tell you that standing there, / in the crosswalk, is dangerous. What’d you start running for?
Huh?! / He doesn’t recognize me?! But my face should’ve been broadcast everywhere…?! … [sfx]: Rustling / Sneakily
You’re homeless, right? Please. Just keep on not remembering.
…I—If I can at least keep my name secret. [sfx]: Bathump x2 What’s your name?
p34: ============================================ [sfx]: BATHUMP! Wh—What do I do? / Lie?! …If I’m going to keep living on the outside, I’ll have to tell lie after lie. / No! I don’t wanna live like that.
Oh. Kenzaki.
[sfx]: Twitch!
Look. It’s on your shoes.
Oh.
Ooh…
p35: ============================================ That’s an odd name. Excuse me. / I’m a little lost, and… Oh, yes, what is it?
Wh—What’s with this guy?! He doesn’t even know my name?!
Take this right here. [sfx]: Stare
…Come to think of it, everyone else is giving me suspicious glares because I’m dirty, but those aren’t the looks you give a murderer…?
[newspaper]: { [right headline]: Two Months Since the Opening of Roppongi Hills [upper-left headline, partially cut off]: The Post Office’s – Begins [lower left headline]: Twelve Girls Band Concert } Roppongi Hills just opened?!
…When’s… this from? It’s today’s.
[sfx]: Stare Th—The hell? You wanna read it that much, just take it.
[sfx]: Rustle
p37: ============================================ [top line]: June 10th, 2003 (Tuesd HUH?‼
This / is from eleven years ago‼ And it’s twenty-five days before… the Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders occurred?!
Excuse me. [sfx]: Shocked! The 3.11 quake was scary, huh?
Th—Three point what?! I dunno. Hey, c’mon, let’s go!
[insert]: What do we eat? [insert]: Yakiniku.
…You wouldn’t eat liver sashimi, right? Huh? You sayin’ that’s edible? [insert]: Just ignore him
…Uh, umm.
[sfx]: Bathump [bubble]: *Gulp*
p39: ============================================ Would you say that I / look like the culprit executed for the Yokohama Line Sculptor Murders?
p40: ============================================ Huh? / What’s that? I’ve never even heard of that case. / Oh… Is it from a novel, or something?
[sfx]: Crackle! A fight’s broken out in front of the station. I’m on my way.
*Tap* You’re still young; work hard, and you can make it through! [insert]: Don’t stay homeless forever. …What’s going on?
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it, but…
p41: ============================================ [insert]: Was I brought back to life, / and brought back in time to before the incident?‼ [bubbles]: { [upper-right]: That piece of trivia is amazing. [overlapping bubble]: Heh heh. [to the right]: Ahahah [bottom, big]: What movie should we see? [overlapping]: Nemo! [upper-left]: Why is it? Why is it? [lower-left of that]: Why is it? Just why? [right-most of the last two]: Cough. Maybe I caught a cold… [left of that]: Not SARS?
p42: ============================================ …A god / or else a devil has given me this chance.
This second chance at life! / Haha! Yeah, I’ll eat yakiniku, and take a luxurious bath, and drink beer. / And then…
I— I’ll be… a sculptor again…‼
No, wait. Now that I’ve got this chance, maybe I’ll do what I always wanted: / go on a trip to see sculptures the world over… I’m free. / I can live my life however I want!
And the thing I want to do the most… is…
[upper-right]: Execution [lower-right]: Those hellish eleven years [upper-left]: A curse upon your soul‼! [lower-left]: False charges
p43-44: ============================================ to drag to light the true culprit, the one who threw me into hell, AND FUCKING KILL HIM‼
p45: ============================================ [sign]: { Forest Park → <- Rest site <- Fishing Spot
The newspaper said today is June 10th… / If I recall correctly, the first murder is on July 4th. The incident hasn’t happened yet. But there’s no time to waste. Someone is going to die in twenty-five days.
I’m no investigator, no detective. Just a former sculptor. And I’m going to fight against someone who pulled off the perfect crime… A villainous serial killer. [sfx]: Scratch
If I don’t think things through before I act, I’ll be in danger.
p46: ============================================ [scratched in the dirt]: Who is the true culprit?
He pinned the crime on me. So, he hates me? Or does hate have nothing to do with it?
I shouldn’t trust anyone anymore… But if I don’t work with someone, / I won’t have any money, or a place to hide…
Oh!
No, there’s…‼ There’s exactly one person I can trust.
p48: ============================================ [sfx]: Hustle and bustle
Wow, you were a lifesaver.
We were short on staff, so we could barely keep up with the rush, but thanks to you hurrying here to help… / Sorry to make you come when you’d already quit working here.
Well, I did owe you for the raise you got me way-back-when.
Everyone knows you don’t swing that way, / but the customers say that’s interesting in its own way. <small: Thanks for your hard work. >
Wh—Wh—Who are you?! What are you doing, just walking into my home?!
[sfx]: Brush
p53: ============================================ [sfx]: Jangle I used the spare key you had hidden in the meter box.
Ah! He cut off the exit. [sfx]: Slowly Wait—how’d he know where the key was hidden?!
*Glance*
!
[sfx]: Glance …! At a time like this, / I’m sure that you…
p54: ============================================ will prioritize your safety and try to run without listening to a word I say. That’s why I previously closed all the storm shutters, / blocking the exits.
I’m sure you’re already aware, / but this is the only way out.
…………..
In that case / I’ll use force!
p55: ============================================ That’s just a bluff so people won’t underestimate you! The truth is, you’re seeking a nonviolent solution / because you have no confidence in your strength.
[sfx]: Shocked! He saw straight through me…?!
I just want to talk, just you and me, without anyone else knowing. But you’re famous right now, so if we talked outside, we’d draw attention…
So I decided to wait here, in your workshop, where you always work alone.
p56: ============================================ ...J—Just who are you?
…I detest lies. / Aren’t you the same way?
I mean, you can’t trust liars, right? The most important thing in a relationship is a sense of trust. And I want you to trust me.
So I will tell it to you straight:
p57: ============================================ I am Kenzaki Makoto, I’m you / from eleven years in the future.
[sidebar]: Past and present meet face-to-face. [big text]: TWENTY-FIVE DAYS REMAIN UNTIL THE MURDERS [bottom-left]: Next issue, what will be the pair’s first action?‼ / Yokohama Line Doppelganger