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Gen-san!
What's wrong?
Is this the place?
Yeah.
I want you to help me out a little, but just for getting inside.
I can take it from there myself.
Sure.
Get it done quick.
Did I drink a little much?
Thanks.
You can go.
Yeah.
Bye! Take care!
Wh-What are they doing here?
Non-chan?
Non-chan, huh?
During the first murder...
You were there, weren't you?
There was a sound I knew well in the video.
Answer me.
Our family lost Yui.
She died.
She's gone forever.
Why did you take her from us?
On that day, eight years ago,
were you there in that hospital basement?
Were you really there with Takuru?
You can't answer me, can you?
Because you weren't!
I know that better than anyone.
Tell me.
Who are you?
I knew it.
So I was right...
Serika...
There's no doubt about it.
She can see this.
And that's not all.
It's like she sees all there is to know about me.
It's you, isn't it?
You were using Senri Minamisawa!
I don't want to hear that from you, Nono Kurusu.
It can't be.
I always found you obnoxious,
but even your Di-Sword's annoying.
Looks like you've got a rather problematic Di-Sword yourself.
Can't you tell?
It's sending your thoughts to me through my Di-Sword.
What?
No way...
This Di-Sword even reads my own thoughts
and transmits them?
And so now I know about you,
though maybe not all there is to know.
Now we're even.
What will you do?
You want to kill me, right?
Then do it.
That's what Takuru wants, right?
Then I'll gladly let you kill me.
You can read Takuru's mind, right?
If Takuru really wants you to kill me, then do it!
What's wrong?
Won't you do it?
Serika...
What you're thinking contradicts itself.
Contradicts itself?
This is what you're thinking.
You exist to give Takuru a goal and help him with it.
But do you really think this is what Takuru wants?
His best friend, Itou-kun, just killed his little sister, Yui.
Do you really think that's what Takuru wants?
I needed to make the game more exciting.
Then kill me, too!
You little...
What's wrong?
O-Onoe?
Aren't you going to attack?
No... No...
Why would Onoe do this?
It can't be!
T-T-Takuru...
Nono!
Takuru Miyashiro-kun remains a person of interest in the case,
Freesia Offices
and no new information about him is available.
As for why they chose to reveal the name of a minor
when issuing the warrant,
police pointed to the importance of this case in their announcement.
Um, are you okay?
The Ministry of Law's Human Rights Protection Bureau, the Lawyer's Association,
and all major human rights groups have given statements
Sorry. Of course you aren't.
I'll go make some coffee.
essentially stating no disagreement with this decision.
Person of Interest's Name Revealed
Public opinion is on the side—
It's just like what happened six years ago, isn't it?
With Takumi Nishijou?
Yes.
He was said to be the killer behind the New Generation Madness,
but he proved his innocence and became famous overnight.
Good morning.
Shinjou-chan contacted us.
The reports say you're a "person of interest,"
but it seems the police have decided you were the mastermind behind these events.
I see.
And she...
Nono?
What happened to Nono?!
Um, well...
She's still alive.
You could say she's through the worst.
Isn't that great, Miyashiro-kun?
Yes, thank you.
Aoba Clinic
Hinae Arimura
So Kurusu-senpai is okay.
But we can't see Nono-san yet, can we?
Yeah... I think not.
Wh-What about Big Bro Takuru?
Oh, right.
Hold on a second.
Here.
Yuuto, Uki...
Are you okay?
Has anything changed?
No, I'm okay.
I'm fine.
But...
The media people... There's so many of them.
And the police are here, too.
It looks like they're searching your room and Nono-san's room for something.
And Dr. Sakuma disappeared and hasn't come back.
What do I do?
I don't know!
I'm really sorry...
Senpai, we need to hang up soon, or the cops will notice.
Hinae Arimura
Hang in there just a little longer, you two.
Okay.
Thank you too, Kazuki.
Okay, Hana.
Take care of them, please.
Where are you going?
Wait, Senpai!
It's a bad idea to go outside now!
There's photos of your face all over the net!
Damn it!
But nobody knows you're here yet.
Not the police or the rest of the world.
Miyashiro-kun,
there's some things I want to ask.
Can you help me?
Yes.
Well?
Any idea?
He's asking if you have any idea where Serika Onoe could have gone.
While you spent a day sleeping,
Shinjou-chan and I went to her house.
But nobody was there.
We copied the data on her computer.
But we didn't find any clues.
At this point, you're all we have.
If you were Serika Onoe's childhood friend,
you must know something.
Knock it off!
Are you going to let this chance go to waste?
The Gigalomaniac serial killer we've been looking for
finally showed herself!
If we trace her back, it might lead us to them...
Enough.
First his sister, and now Kurusu-senpai...
His big sister just got hurt!
Can't you be a little nicer?
I have a very limited number of people I can be nice to.
And you Gigalomaniacs aren't on that list.
You're terrible!
There's no point in lying to you.
I just want to find the killer
and use them to reveal who's pulling the strings.
But that doesn't mean...
Anyway...
You really have no idea where she could've gone?
Yes.
Damn it!
Just trying to struggle against his power did this to me?
Unknown Number
Freesia Offices
I'm going shopping.
Does anyone need anything?
My treat.
I'll take some harusame noodles and an eclair, then.
You, Miyashiro-kun?
I'm fine.
I see.
And you, Mio-chan?
I guess not.
Bye!
I eat the chocolate flavor a lot, too.
Can I really?
Don't worry about it.
Honestly, I'm sick of this flavor.
Yeah...
What is this?
Male bonding? Is that it?
You should've just asked Momose-san.
This is...
Miyashiro?
Arimura?
The white light seen during the Shibuya Earthquake...
Didn't you say you saw it, too?
I'm certain that has something to do with the creation of you Gigalomaniacs.
There was once a planetarium near the epicenter of the quake.
That planetarium was bought out by a certain company.
My investigations revealed that strange men came to be seen there after that.
And there's multiple witness reports of what sound like real boot phenomena.
I've also learned that company is intimately related to AH Tokyo General Hospital.
Um... So, what exactly are you saying?
This is just a theory,
but the planetarium was just like that underground facility.
It was used for an experiment or something similar involving Gigalomaniacs.
But the earthquake destroyed it.
Or perhaps it was vice versa,
and the earthquake was caused by an experiment gone awry.
Anyway, they were experimenting to find some kind of causal factor for Gigalomaniacs,
which ended up spreading around the area.
I think that's what that white light was.
Causal factor?
Something that drew the Gigalomaniac powers out from your brains.
Oh, like an allergen?
Not even close.
Shut up, idiot.
We can assume that everyone who was bathed in that light
was exposed to the causal factor,
but not all of them awakened.
According to our research so far,
young people whose brains were still in development and active,
and only those whose brains were under extreme stress,
developed those abilities.
The powers a psychic develops depend on those conditions,
or more accurately,
on the psychological response those conditions induced.
Does that ring any bells, Miyashiro-kun?
Yes.
When I woke up from the coma I'd fallen into during the earthquake,
I found in rehab that my body wouldn't move like it should.
That put me under a lot of stress.
The psychological stress of wondering
if I was always going to be like this was terrifying.
I think that's how I got my psychokinesis.
Takuru Miyashiro's ability is psychokinesis.
The cause was very difficult physical therapy.
That's what I'd assumed, wrongly, after investigating you.
Wrongly?
I jumped to conclusions.
If not for that, I could've reached Serika Onoe sooner.
Wh-What do you mean?
Just what I said.
All psychics were affected by the Gigalomaniac causal factor during the earthquake,
which is what manifested their powers.
The intensity of the earthquake put them under stress, so they made a wish,
which itself became the trigger.
And Riko Haida, the pyrokinetic...
I finally managed to investigate her thoroughly.
Her face was burned during the Shibuya Earthquake,
and just like the other psychics,
manifested her powers shortly afterward.
Overwhelming stress induced by a sense of despair,
and a wish to make other people feel the same despair she felt,
are what connected with the causal factor.
Now you understand, right?
As far as I know,
everyone's powers manifested right after the white light.
Takuru Miyashiro,
nobody in my data experienced a year-long time lag like you did.
After going back over the data,
I found that a side effect always occurs when the powers of a psychic manifest.
Wh-What is that?
An unbearable headache.
So now I have a question for you.
Did you ever have a terrible headache during your physical therapy?
No, I didn't.
Then, just like with the other psychics,
there must've been a moment during the quake when you got a terrible headache.
There was, right?
What were you doing then?
No, I'll ask a more precise question.
What did you wish for during the earthquake?
Wasn't that when you got your psychokinesis?
No, that's not it.
I never wished for anything like that.
What I wished for then... was...
Senpai!
Are you okay?
Miyashiro, look at this.
This is Onoe's medical chart.
It's dated November 21st, 2009.
It was found on a system in a hospital affiliated with AH Tokyo General.
That's where we went together after the earthquake.
Name Serika Onoe
Yeah.
But there are no records of Onoe prior to this.
Th-That's impossible.
Onoe was with me ever since we were little.
You lived next to each other, right?
That's right.
At the time, you lived in a corner condo on a building's sixth floor.
Your next-door neighbors were the Arai family.
They were an elderly couple who lived off a pension.
They didn't have any kids.
What are you saying?
Onoe lived next door.
Her parents ignored her.
Did you ever meet her parents?
No, right?
Onoe supposedly didn't have any other friends beyond you.
But did you ever even see her talking to someone besides you?
I don't remember...
Name Takuru Miyashiro
And this is your medical chart.
It was found in that same hospital.
Mine?
The cause of your coma is listed as unknown.
They were unable to identify the causal factor.
But instead...
They listed records from the psychology department of a different hospital.
Another hospital?
Psychology department?
It's dated 2006?
When you were in third grade, right?
It says you were extremely dependent on an imaginary friend.
Imaginary friend?
Yeah.
The product of a delusion,
who shouldn't exist in this world.
Episode 9
Duel