Damn it!
Just trying to struggle against his power did this to me?
Unknown Number
Your stomach wound okay?
Sorry.
You just attacked me out of nowhere, and I couldn't help myself.
Liar.
You thought that you expected it.
That's just like you.
So?
You can at least tell me why, right?
Don't play dumb.
Why did you make Takuru Miyashiro out to be the killer?
The whole plan was to make Senri Minamisawa,
the pyrokinetic, out to be the killer!
He learned too much.
I'm actually doing you a favor here.
What?
Your power helped me a lot.
I was supposed to have to kill him.
And instead I'm willing to end this with his arrest as the killer.
Shut up.
That's just what you want to happen!
And if he goes to trial,
he'll get the death penalty for sure.
His safety was the one condition I had for helping you.
Don't tell me you're planning on taking him and running.
You know that's impossible!
We don't know until we try.
Your power's a threat, sure,
but isn't there a limit to what someone at the bottom of the Committee org chart can do?
You've got me there.
Sure, I'm not even at the bottom. I'm below the guy on the bottom.
I don't even know the names of the core members.
It's a fact that as of right now,
you don't have him, and neither do the police.
You don't know where he is, do you?
I suppose Freesia might be a good place to start.
Episode 12
Serika Onoe
What is this?
It's dark.
I can't see anything.
Huh?
I'm lying down?
No, I'm floating.
Where am I?
What I am doing here?
You ever heard of Woodburn Heron?
Heron's sensory deprivation experiments...
He took away the test subject's senses of sight, hearing, and touch.
And except for simple meals and defecation,
just had them lie on a bed.
The experiment was to find out how many days a human could last like that.
The result was two or three days at most.
The worst cases complained of psychological instability over a period of days,
and their minds were destroyed by auditory and visual hallucinations.
Those experiments are banned now, because they're so dangerous.
Bye.
Have fun breaking.
How long am I supposed to stay like this?
10:50 PM
And with that, I end the Second Shibuya Restoration Festival.
Thank you.
He never showed.
Who tweeted that Miyashiro would come here?
What? You didn't honestly think he'd kill himself, did you?
Don't just believe whatever you read.
That pisses me off.
What?
It was a fake.
Hey, what do we do now?
Want to go to karaoke?
What's that?
Aoba Clinic
No, wait.
I'm saying...
Damn it.
What's wrong?
There was an anonymous call that said Miyashiro was at the Hikariwo.
They know.
What?
Where'd that information come from?
I don't know.
HQ insists it doesn't matter.
My men are heading to the Hikariwo now.
Shinjou-san, what will you do?
How many days have passed?
Four days? A week?
Save me... Save me...
Save me... Serika!
Taku? Taku, are you okay?
Are you hurt?
No, you're fine.
What are you doing here?
I'm always near you, Taku.
Are you my delusion?
Yup!
Just like old times, huh?
Hey, Serika...
When I created you, what did I wish for?
I don't know.
I only know about you, Taku.
Only the me on the other side knows that.
I killed the you on the other side.
And you, too...
You shouldn't let it bother you.
I'm having fun here.
If you didn't call me here, I wouldn't have been able to talk.
I'm sorry... I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry...
Taku...
Even so, you can't forgive me.
I'm responsible for everything that's happened so far.
But I might be the reason why.
But I'm dead.
So you can't ask me, right?
So what did you want to do, Taku?
This is good, huh?
Yeah!
I'm glad. It's tofu!
Hey!
Senpai!
Is that what you want?
I have to get revenge.
What does he hope to accomplish with this experiment?
What's going to happen to me?
You don't want to find out?
I don't care.
That isn't like you, Taku, somehow.
Shut up.
But I do kind of want to see you acting on your emotions alone.
Wasn't it a little brighter?
Okay.
I think that's about right.
Is your location okay?
If I'm still where I was when I blacked out.
What if you aren't?
I'll think of something.
There is no way to be sure about this.
This really isn't like you, huh?
Probably the only chance you've got is the moment when you get back.
So you've only got one chance.
One is plenty.
I see.
You're about to make a really reckless bet, okay?
Okay.
You're betting your life, okay?
Okay.
You're not going to make any excuses for your dumb decision, okay?
Okay!
Okay, go! Get on stage, Taku!
Shatter into a million pieces!
You bastard!
Okay!
Wh-What?
Run!
You little—
Damn you!
Shit!
Do you understand how much work it took to recreate this?
Takuru...
What?
I know I got you.
How?
How are you still sane?
Answer me!
I see...
So that's it, huh?
You got through this with an imaginary friend?
Sheesh.
You're no fun, you know?
I told you to go crazy.
Right?
You stupid brat.
I should've mind-controlled you into the torture room to begin with.
Here!
This is no good.
I won't gain anything new from causing you to go crazy from the pain.
Maybe I'll try killing them in front of you, then.
I don't think they've left Shibuya yet, have they?
Yeah, that's right.
The more important they are to you,
the better the result.
Wait...
Wait.
I won't let you!
What?
Wh-What the hell?
Use my mind control on you?
Hinae Arimura is with him.
I want to neutralize her ability.
What a pain.
All you'd have to do is use it on Takuru himself, right?
Don't get mad.
I'm minimizing the use of mind control on him.
It damages the brain.
Right?
Yeah.
But I'm using it one more time at the end.
Just once.
Got it?
Got it.
So, next question.
What am I mind controlling you to do, exactly?
Here's the script.
First, you've been cut off from the Committee already.
You want back in.
Make me believe that lie.
Second, in order to make that happen, you're betraying me, your co-conspirator,
and trying to make Takuru Miyashiro out to be the killer.
Imprint this on my brain as well.
Third, make me tell him at the appropriate time
that I was the one who killed his parents.
And finally...
Change the reason I exist.
I'm getting involved in this fake story, too?
It has to be that way.
Outside of Hinae Arimura, there's one other person who can be a threat.
Mio Kunosato.
Her, huh?
I see.
If she thinks I have information about the Committee,
she won't let me go, no matter what.
It's ironic, but thanks to Mio Kunosato,
I'll be able to stay near Takuru Miyashiro.
You're one scary woman, huh?
You've thought all that through?
No, it's thanks to your mind reading.
I'm the one manipulating the characters in this game.
I see. Game, huh?
I like fun things, too.
But even for a short time, I wouldn't try to change the reason I exist.
I'm not interested in your opinion.
All you want is Miyashiro's True Gigalomaniac data, right?
I'll give you what you want.
Well, that's true.
But, as I've said plenty of times before,
the chance Takuru's mind can withstand what I'm planning is zero.
Don't underestimate him.
I've said that plenty of times before, too.
I'm allowed to destroy him, right?
Our rule was that you don't get to interfere in the experiments I do on him.
If it weren't for your mind control,
I would've killed you first.
Fascinating!
Want to try?
Scum.
Oh, right.
Why do I need to make him out to be the killer?
You just want him to solve the case, right?
That's...
"I'm different than other people."
A lot of people say that.
But most of them are wrong.
They're all idiots, and they don't realize it.
But I'm the one person who really is different.
I lived through the hell that was Shibuya.
And my parents were killed by somebody.
The word "special" means "something which is clearly distinct from others."
Not many people have experienced what I experienced.
So I really am special.
Hey, Onoe, did I ever tell you about that comment about the Shibuya Earthquake?
Remember how after the post-earthquake chaos began,
a bunch of media started asking all the victims for comments?
Most of the stories were about how great the Japanese were.
Despite the size of the disaster,
there was very little rioting and looting.
They said it was something very special.
And I think they're right.
When they asked what was the hardest thing,
some talked about not being able to tell their families they were safe.
Or not being able to give their kids their favorite foods.
They were all worried about other people, not themselves.
But then one of them said something different.
He said the hardest part was outsiders telling them to hang in there.
I don't know how these people can get so excited over a single tweet.
I could never do that.
He's obsessed with being a part of the action.
That hasn't changed since he was little.
That's who he truly is.
I know you're obsessed with the New Generation stuff.
September 29th
You picked the days specifically
to make this "The Return of the New Generation Madness," too.
The reason you made the murders similar to the New Generation ones,
left the Sumo Stickers at the scene, and pointed that out to Takuru,
was all to make Takuru solve the Return of the New Generation Madness, right?
You're the one who decided how they would die, right?
Don't blame those nasty things on me.
I need to be able to test my mind control like that, or it's no fun, right?
So, all the prep work is done now, right?
Why do you have make this end the same way as the old case?
I'll say it again.
Don't underestimate him.
He will keep searching without limits.
The reason he created me...
Serika!
Please, Serika...
Please...
Give me...
Give me something I want to do!
Help me do it!
So it was all fake?
This ends with you claiming to be the real killer?
No, that's not right.
That wouldn't make me the one who solved the mystery.
I wouldn't feel like it was me.
Stop it.
I see.
So it was dad's job to be the real killer.
I was supposed to kill dad,
and then think I ended things with my own two hands.
Then you'd knock me out, and...
No!
And then you'd...
Yeah, you'd control what information got released to the public.
No!
Right?
In the New Generation incident, he was going to be publicly executed.
So you must have the police arrest me
and drag me in front of a lot of people.
And at the last minute, proof that Dad—
that Sakuma was the real killer comes out.
And I turn into a hero.
So that's it?
Well, Onoe?
Otani's death, Takayanagi's death, Kakita's death,
Watabe's death, Haida's death, Itou's killing Yui...
And I basically stabbed Nono too, didn't I?
No! I did it!
That's right. You did it!
My parents, too!
I made you do it!
I told you, no!
Too many things involving the case were going on around me.
But of course they were, right?
The whole point of the case was for me to solve it!
The case was amazing.
It was what I wanted to do.
I thought it was a juicy scoop!
Anything less and I wouldn't have wanted to solve it, right?
Stop it.
Don't get any dumb ideas!
Stop it, please!
I said stop!
You can't kill me, right?
I'll knock you out.
You might not know what happened when you wake up,
but as time passes, I'm sure you'll realize.
Realize what?
What you really want to do isn't what you're thinking now.
It's to have the whole world know you as the hero
who solved a case like the world has never seen before.
That isn't what I want.
It is!
I can tell because of who I am!
No, I'm the only one who can!
Why?
Why?!
Why are you trying to tell everyone you're the killer?
The people down there are the ignorant idiots you hate!
They came to see your suicide the same way they might go watch a movie.
They're all worthless!
You can imagine what they'll say, right?
I'm just as bad.
I didn't even know about the childhood friend who was with me for my entire life.
It's over now, game maker.
Stop it, Taku.
I'm not going to kill you. You can tell, right?
I'd rather you did!
Why are you saying that?
No! I don't want to be like them!
Don't take my reason for living away!
I've read lots of people's minds since I was born!
They're all uncertain and worried!
I can't believe they live like that!
How can they smile?
They don't even know why they're doing it!
I don't... I don't want to be normal!
No.
You're going to be a normal girl.
Stop... please...
Please...
Let me...
Let me help you forever!
It's time. Goodbye.
Taku!
The Return of the New Generation Madness
Psychotic Killer Takuru Miyashiro Admitted to Psychiatric Hospital
AH Tokyo General Hospital