Track 03 – Scene 03. Kare no Jijou (His circumstances) (09:46)
What are you staring at? It’s not your first time in this kind of place, right? This kind of room’s just right because it doesn’t have windows so it’s hidden.
Hey! Don’t move as you please! Don’t leave my side! I wouldn’t want you to run away to the police when I take my eyes off you.
Where’s the remote control for the TV?
Ah, that’s it. Hand it over.
Continuing our last report, we have the latest news for the male university student murder case we have briefed before. There is evidence of struggling on the victim at the crime scene but there seem not to be any items taken. The male who committed the crime seemed to be around 20 years old…
Wait up! Wait! That’s not it! It wasn’t me! I’m not the criminal! Just listen to me! I really didn’t do it! When I got there, he was already dead!
[01:34]
I was scared and thought I had to save him and took the knife out of his body. Blood gushed out and then I heard someone’s scream…I think they screamed “murderer”. I got frightened by that word, rushed out of the room and then ran away like crazy…but I didn’t do it! I really didn’t kill him!
[02:07]
There’s no way you’d believe me…a guy wearing clothes stained in deep red who had a bloody knife in his hand and who threatened you and involved you in all this…It’s impossible to ask you to believe my story, huh?
Was he the one who died, as I thought?
I thought it couldn’t be, but it even got on the news…There’s no mistaking it…He was my classmate in university. Unlike me, he was cheerful, sociable and had a lot of friends. He even talked to me, who was plain and unsociable…he always pulled me in his circle. Why did he have to…? We had even promised to celebrate my birthday next week together….Because there wasn’t anyone else who’d celebrate it with me anyway…Why…why is he…? I don’t get what’s happening anymore! Why…?
[03:38]
Hey! I told you not to move!
Huh? Oh…you’re asking about the knife I threatened you with. This is what it was.
Yeah…my house keys.
*sneeze*
Wait! Are you running away now that you know I don’t have a knife? No way! I won’t let you leave!
[04:18]
Huh? Tea? You’re easygoing in this kind of situation…
It’s true it might warm us up but….*sneeze*
I got it. Make it already. But I’ll be keeping watch behind you, so you know. That’s why, don’t try anything funny!
Huh? Then…I want black tea.
Hey, idiot! What are you doing? Cool it with water immediately.
[05:18]
It’s gotten a bit red. Are you okay? Jeez, you’re so careless!
Are you all right? Is that so? I’m glad…
Uh! I’ll make the tea. You stand next to me.
You said you’re also okay with black tea, right?
Put in milk and sugar for yourself. Here. Hold it carefully.
[06:11]
I calmed down a bit. It seems you’re calmer than me. Aren’t you afraid of me?
You’re saying you believe me…Are you serious? Are you going to believe some stranger’s words quickly, just like that? You can’t be sure I’m not lying, can you? Maybe everything I say is a lie…
Heh. Heheh. I look like an idiot. Just before, I asked you to believe me, and now I’m asking if you’re okay with believing me. Heh.
[07:10]
This black tea’s good… *sneeze* Though it seems my body’s not warmed up completely yet. *sneeze*sneeze*. Uh…This is bad. I’m starting to feel cold for real. Maybe I caught a cold.
Are you okay? I see. It’s good if that’s so. Don’t push yourself. *sneeze*
What’s that? It’s wrapped up neatly, is it a present for someone?
I see…you were on your way back from shopping. That’s…um…sor…uh…
Hey! Why are you unwrapping it? Isn’t it something you got for someone? Huh? No, I’m all right. We’re both wet, so you should change. *sneeze* No, I told you I’m fine! Plus, that’s men’s clothing. There’s no way I can wear something that was supposed to be given to someone else! *sneeze*
Uh, I got it! I got it! I’ll change, wait. I’ll change, so turn around. Why are you the one shouting? I’m the one changing…
[09:15]
You can look now. Huh? Stupid, what are you saying? It’s not mine, so of course it doesn’t suit me. Oh…I shouldn’t speak like that when I’m borrowing it…Um…Thanks….
*sneeze*
Track 04 – Scene 04. Aimai na Yume to Genjitsu (Vague dream and reality) (21:03)
Now that I think of it, I haven’t told you my name yet. I’m Ninomiya Naoya. I’m a third year in the Mathematics department at the same university as you.
Huh? Uh…yeah… I knew your face, because I’ve seen you sometimes in the cafeteria. But it’s by chance that I involved you in this. It’s not because I knew you!
Huh? What? You also knew me?
Our campus is not that big so I guess it’s not strange to have seen each other. Ah, then maybe you also knew him? He’s tall and flashy.Huh? You know me but you don’t know him? You’re strange. Usually it’d be the other way around, right? I wonder if this kind of blood stained can be washed off. It’s a lot. This is all…that guy’s blood.
Go to th police? I can’t do that! If I turn myself in now, I’ll only be taken as the criminal and get arrested. My fingerprints are on the knife too. And I’ve been seen standing next to the corpse with the knife in my hand. Plus, I also fled from the scene of the crime. How could anyone not think I’m the criminal?
[02:07]
Plus, the police probably thinks I had a motive.
Hey! Don’t misunderstand! It’s not that I hated him or something! But the people in the same department as me saw us quarrel yesterday! The cause of our quarrel wasn’t that big of a deal, and it wasn’t something that I’d hold a grudge for! I just got unusually emotional. But it’s true that I quarreled with him. If the police investigate that, they won’t believe what I say!
Huh? What are you saying? It’s not that easy to search for the criminal! I’m a suspect in the first place…
Huh? If I noticed something? Do you mean at the crime scene? I couldn’t…I was completely confused at that moment and I didn’t have the composure to look at my surroundings…ah! Huh? No…It’s something really trivial, but… even though his clothes were neat, his room was very dirty. He was a guy who’d make a mess in 30 minutes after tidying up. The shoes were always left at random in the entrance way without putting them away somewhere. At that time, they were lined up neatly. I remembered thinking that maybe someone was there before me.
[04:07]
That’s right… Usually, the one who does something like that is a woman.
Something else? Um… Ah, I know! When I was in the entrance way and wanted to enter the room, I was about to step on something but I dodged it. It was a woman’s accessory…that thing you wear on the ears. Yeah, that! It was an earring. Women come and go in his house so I didn’t mind it much, but it’s possible that it’s something the criminal dropped, right?
Uh…it’s impossible to find the criminal just by remembering something like this…
And … I don’t want to talk bad about dead people but it’s true that he had a lot of relationships with women. He worked at night and he received many things from women. We argued because of that sometimes. How should I say it…he was too kind. He had good kindness, but was a gut who also had bad kindness. He couldn’t say he didn’t need something he was given, and he couldn’t turn down someone who said they wanted to meet him. Yesterday too, when I asked him about his watch because it seemed a very good one, he told me with a troubled expression that he received it from a woman. I said he shouldn’t have accepted it if he was going to make that face and he looked irritated by that…then we started quarreling. Maybe…maybe…it’s just maybe but…maybe there was a woman who hated him enough to kill him.
[06:47]
Why did it get to this…? Isn’t this all a prank of his? If I go back to his house, I’ll find him drinking nonchalantly. Everything’s actually a joke, right? he didn’t really die, right?
Hey, I told you not to move as you please!
Why are you suddenly sitting next to me? What are you saying? I don’t need you to console me…! Anyway, do you even get what kind of situation you’re in now? You’re locked in a closed room alone with a crime suspect! You’d usually be more scared, wouldn’t you?
It doesn’t matter that we knew each other from before…we never even talked to each other until now. Achoo!
Huh? What? A blackout?
[08:00]
Sit here and wait.
Uh…is this it? It won’t turn on… We didn’t do anything to trigger the breaker to drop. Maybe it is a blackout. It’s raining heavily outside.
It’s really pitch dark and I can’t see where I’m stepping. Won’t you say something? I’ll guide myself by your voice. Ah!
Ow…Ah, sorry! Did I hurt you? I really didn’t do it on purpose! It really is pitch dark and I couldn’t see anything! I’m glad it’s a blackout. I think I’m making a face I couldn’t show to anyone.
[09:05]
Darkness is strange, isn’t it? If we stay like this, we don’t know which part’s a dram and where reality starts. Is this moment reality or a dream? Or maybe it’s a dream I see in my dream? It’s getting vaguer by the moment. I wonder where I am right now…Maybe I forgot I was already caught and when the lights will be on, I’ll remember I was in a cold prison cell.
Uh? Did I really not kill him? Maybe I actually just don’t remember and I did it with my own hands…
No! I didn’t do it! I didn’t kill him! When I got there, he was already dead! It wasn’t me! It wasn’t me! It wasn’t me!
Can I stay like this until the lights will be on again, just for a bit?
[10:40]
You… you’re so warm. I’m hot? I see…me body’s hot…
Uh…I didn’t get caught, right? I really didn’t do anything, right?
Ah…I’m sorry…I was about to fall asleep for a moment… Maybe I was feeling relieved by your warmth… My body’s heavy…light…hot…cold…I feel strange…
I feel relaxed in your embrace…
I start