Midnight Invitation Page #5

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Yeah, at 5 o'clock?

At 5 then

Right, see you later

Bye bye

Hello

Yes, I've just finished

Perfect, I'll come straight down

Yes, right now

See you downstairs

See you tomorrow

Um, Mr Tamura of sales?

He's already left

Eh? Oh no...

20 minutes ago

Excuse me, do you have some sort

of memo from Mr Tamura in sales?

- Mr Tamura?

- Yes

- Isn't he still in the office?

- No

Aizawa

Ah, doctor, it's Keiko

Just now Tatsuo disappeared

Doctor, what should I do?

Is that right? I see

Anyway, please remain calm

No need to worry

What do you mean, I needn't worry?

Mr Fujimura?

Keiko, I owe you an apology

I've deceived you

Deceived me?

How do you mean?

The experiment at Tokyo University

The talk of such things as curses

and suggestions was a gambit of mine

When I saw Mr Tamura's dream record,

I had doubts

Ah, be seated

Alright?

Long tunnel, castle remains, valley

It's just the same

as his brother's dream

Dreams may hint at the future,

but two people seeing the same

dream landscape is overly contrived

And yet this dream unexpectedly

started to appear for the first time

Clearly it was intentional

So assuming Tatsuo

had tried to con me with this,

I thought I would turn it against him

The experiment at Tokyo University...

Yes

You could say I set a trap

Sure enough, Tatsuo was taken in

A doctor thinks the incidents

are due to hypnotic suggestion

Then he himself

pretends along the same lines

So he came up with that thing

about the 11th and vanished

I can't believe it

But why...

why did Tatsuo do that?

Presumably he didn't

want either one of us...

to know the truth

Tatsuo's dream record became phony

before you returned from Kumamoto

I believe around then, he somehow

learnt the truth about his brothers

Do you know Tatsuo's

current whereabouts?

No, I dont know

I expect you're worried

But I'm waiting

for a report from Mr Fujimura

- You're waiting...

- Keiko

If it comes tomorrow...

we'll learn everything about

where he's gone and what his purpose is

Doctor...

It's fine

You should go home and get some rest

I bet you haven't slept much lately

Er, Doctor Aizawa...

Ah, doctor

It's Fujimura

Sorry doctor, I was given the slip

Oh...

Yes, he kept changing taxis

I thought it was strange

I got caught at a red light...

Where are you now?

I'm in Kumamoto

Ah, it's a place

called Sunroad Shinshigai

Yes, the amusement zone

Yes, um...

what should I do now?

Keiko

Yes

It's the phone

Phone?

Yes, from a Mr Toba

Hello, this is Keiko

It's regarding your enquiry

Mountain, valley,

railway and castle ruins

I think all these may exist

in the vicinity of Kumamoto

From Takamori, the Takachiho line

Takachiho Pass, Ama-no-Iwato

The clans in that area

were vying for supremacy...

in the second half of the 16th century

So they are more like

mountain fortresses than castles

- Doctor!

- Why are you here?

To Kumamoto?

Well, actually I got

a call from Mr Fujimura

He says he was

given the slip by Tatsuo

Anyway, I've decided to go

Tatsuo's in Kumamoto after all...

It seems from Takamori to Takachiho...

there are valleys and

castle ruins along the railway

I got a call last night from that

Mr Toba you introduced me to

I see

Keiko

Daan's theory that

dreams predict the near future

That's just one theory

Very few scholars take it at face value

Doctor

I want to believe it

Tatsuo went so far as to deceive me

What's he trying to hide?

Something tells me the key

is contained within that dream

I want to take this risk

It's something I have to do

Doctor, Keiko...

please take a look at this

Double Suicide at Tatsuda Park

It's Kazuo

He was killed

It's definitely murder

He wouldn't kill himself

The double suicide

thing is a fabrication

His female companion?

The body's unidentified

Doctor

Could it be...

Satsuki...

You know her?

She's "Gogatsu", from the diary

Why...?

It's Junkichi's wife

Kazuo...

Why did you...?

The man had been laid carefully

at the root of a cedar tree...

from which a woman hanged herself

But it will be noted that this man...

also has a cord scar to the neck...

and a haemorrhage

to the eyelid conjunctiva

Based on the degree

to which rigor mortis had set in,

it will be noted that at least 12 hours

separated the pair's time of death

12 hours...

Well, anyway,

it will be confirmed

by the final autopsy result

The following is speculation based on

the aforementioned preliminary findings

To start with, the woman,

discovering the hanged body of the man,

brought it to the ground

And after laying down the body,

she too decided to hang herself

In other words,

a copycat double suicide

Kazuo...

was here in Kumamoto

around the time the young lady came

He probably wanted to resolve

the situation before anyone found out

I suppose that's why

he pretended to disappear

That much is clear

Why exactly did Kazuo Harada go

so far in trying to resolve things?

Naturally, there's a connection to the

disappearances of Junkichi and Shohei?

Mrs Harada, given what has happened,

may I ask that you

tell us everything you know?

It could be that Junkichi and Shohei...

were killed by Kuze...

By your brother?

He isn't my brother

What do you mean?

I'm committing a sin

I'm living with a man who killed

my husband and his younger brother...

I'm committing a sin...

Mrs Harada

Keiko brought these

home with her last time

To whom does this

old man's face belong?

It's not the face of an old man

It's Kuze's child

Child!?

He's barely 20 years old

He can't speak or move his limbs

What he thinks is a mystery

I've been made to look after

that child for 7 years

I've been made to atone

Atone?

My husband was the one who caused

the child's body to become like that

Please explain

The medicine

Medicine?

The child suffered from rheumatism

Since Kuze and my husband

went back a long way,

he offered to take responsibility

for the treatment

It was a new drug

Certainly, it had an instant effect

and all the pain suddenly stopped

Kuze was delighted

But... as the treatment continued,

things took a turn for the worse

His head started to swell up...

and he lost the use

of his arms and legs

I expect it was ACTH

Administering large doses of steroids

is highly effective for a while,

but very risky

Naturally, he was taken to hospital?

He was hospitalised

for nearly 6 months,

but even at the hospital

they threw up their hands

Kuze ended up going crazy

He struggled to raise the child

on his own, after he lost his wife

Kuze became someone else...

became like a devil

It was around then

that Junkichi disappeared

And for the 7 years since then?

Yes...

Believing I must atone

for the sins of my husband

Believing so...

Taking care of the child

Being in Kuze's embrace...

It's like hell...

For 7 years, a living hell

Mrs Harada,

where is Tatsuo at the moment?

Tatsuo, now...

is with Kuze,

where the child is kept

Kuze is raising the child

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