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Episode 07; Simple Mind: Robin’s curiosity gets the best of her and she asks Touko about her relationship with Amon – are they seeing each other? Touko replies yeah, right... A wrecked car is pulled out of the water. The driver was Ryouji Kasai, 32 years old. He was notorious for stealing 20 million yen last month, and many of the serial numbers of Kasai’s money matched that missing. He had been working for a cash in transit firm until three months before the incident. The police take over the investigation from there. The culprit appears to be Tsuneo Tazawa, 37 years old. Doujima and Karasuma decide to go to his place to investigate but find no one home. They hear a car start and drive away outside and decide to follow. Unfortunately, Tazawa is one up on them and is able to crush their car, as they narrowly escape. Meanwhile, Robin and Sakaki try to prevent a car crusher at a junk shop to stop crushing Tazawa’s car. There is a kid inside the car. Tazawa put him to sleep before he tried to kill him. STN-J speculates the motive for the recent events. They hypothesize that witches demonstrate their ability to either threaten others or because they are mentally unstable and can’t control the power. Both men involved in the robbery had gambling debts, so maybe Tazawa snapped and decided to take all the money for himself. The boy found in the car was Mamoru Kudou, 7 years old. His parents died and his uncle, Tazawa, had custody of the boy for the last six months. A neighbor lady of Tazawa also mentions that Mamoru had the ability to bend spoons. Suddenly things begin to make more sense. Tazawa isn’t the witch, Mamoru is. Unfortunately, when they go back to the hospital to find the boy, he’s missing. Tazawa returns to the place where the stolen money had been stashed. He is chased by the police, but Mamoru shows up and destroys the police cars. He then confronts his uncle. He and Mr. Kasai were trying to steal his money. He then accuses his uncle of trying to kill him and attempts to kill his uncle by smashing two train cars together. STN-J appears and capture the kid. Episode 08; Faith: A man doesn’t have enough change to use the vending machine for a soda. He demands that a bystander give him change. He threatens and a man comes from behind him and gags him with a rag soaked with chloroform. At a local hospital, a man named Kurosawa heals a girl by laying his hand on her wound. His hand glows. A colleague calls him the Chosen One. At the diner, Robin appears to have a cold from working long hours in the rain. The waiter offers her hot ginger water and gives her a referral to the Touto Taka no Dai General Hospital. Robin sees a doctor who gives her a prescription and then mentions that wrapping a green onion around her throat may work better then the medicine. Mizutani Kumi, the girl from the operation the night before, awakens from her successful operation quite happy. Risa Kayama, is another patient with an operation next week. Kirihara asks if Kurosawa will heal her as well. Kurosawa responds that if healing the sick is his destiny, then he will continue to follow that path. However, it appears that in order to perform the operation, a donor must be found. Kirihara tells him that they have found one that isn’t useful to society. At headquarters, the group discusses the investigation of a witch, who had a heart attack according to police reports. However, STN-J found different results from another autopsy they performed. The cause of death was necrosis of the heart, something they believe could have only been caused by witchcraft. Michael found a similar case from three years ago. The coroner was the same in both cases a guy named Kazuhiro Kirihara, who now works at the hospital Robin visited. The group becomes suspicious of him when they learn that he autopsied several members of the Japanese mafia and named the cause of death as a heart attack or stroke in many cases as if he was able to erase his victims legally. Kirihara plans a dinner meeting with a member of the Japanese mafia. After several refills of saki, the mafia guy is sound asleep. Kirihara leaves and tries to drive him away, but STN-J follows. They realize they are being followed but the mafia guy pulls on the steering wheel, sending the car crashing into a wall. The doctors escape into a nearby building. Sakuri follows, and is ambushed by the doctors. Luckily he has the green stuff so the Kurosawa’s powers won’t work properly. Robin comes to his rescue. Atop the building, Robin uses her powers to threaten the doctor to surrender. He agrees to, but Kirihara jumps down on top of Robin causing her to land on unstable scaffolding and severely hurting himself in the process. Kurosawa asks her if there are others like the two of them. Vowing to fulfill his destiny until the end, Kurosawa sacrifices his own life for Kirihara’s. His final wish is for Kirihara to save Robin. |
