- Blood pressure is dropping! - Route secured.
She's having a cytokine storm.
- Saturation is unmeasurable. - Intubate her. Quickly!
Blood pressure in the 60's.
- Administer IV flush. - Get noradrenaline ready.
VT!
Charge at DC 200.
- Charged. - Stand back!
Charge up to 270.
- Get amiodarone ready. - Charge is ready.
Stand back!
No, it's not coming back.
I'm sorry.
Drain all the blood and
dispose of the body.
Yes, sir.
We need a replacement host...
"Sera," meaning star is coming.
This child is a star.
Daddy, carry me.
She will be frozen at minus 196°C and
will be kept safe under lock and key at Trance Brains Headquarters.
Until the day science makes progress
and the technology to resuscitate a corpse is perfected.
When she's old enough to understand about Ami,
I guess I'll have to tell her, won't I?
I think it was after Ami got in the 4th grade that I told her
that she was actually adopted.
Kohiruimaki-san, right?
My name is Sakakibara Kousei.
Sensei is the leading expert in the research of immortality.
How is the doctor doing?
It's extremely unfortunate that she gave up on her virus research.
Ami...
It has come to light that the director of OB/GYN Aiwa no Mori Clinic,
Sakakibara Mokichi, under the guise of infertility treatment,
had been performing genetic manipulation of fertilized eggs.
A series of unnatural miscarriages started occurring a year ago,
and the incident was exposed by a patient who thought it suspicious
- and reported it. - Oh, he's here!
- Looks like Director Sakakibara has arrived. - Director!
Are you trying to create a devil's child?!
Director, your answer please!
A devil's child, huh?
We haven't been able to determine the identity yet, but
Meishun University
Dept. of Forensic Medicine
all the blood in the body is gone.
All the blood? How can that be...
You mean it was drained by someone?
If you don't have medical knowledge and skills,
you can't drain the blood completely, can you?
Well, let's take a look anyway.
What's going on with this body?
The blood has been completely drained.
Ami...
At around 4:30 am, a police officer on patrol
found a minivan that had gone off the shoulder
of a road in the mountainous area of Yukima-cho.
When he tried to help,
Akiruno City, Tokyo Kurazumi Police Station
the driver suddenly fled the scene.
In a subsequent search of the van,
a body of a woman was found in the back.
Her identity is currently under investigation. That's all from us.
Next, Investigation Unit 3.
Since there is an industrial waste disposal site near the scene,
we believe he was trying to dump the body.
We are searching for the whereabouts of the driver. That's all from us.
Consider the possibility of homicide and find out the identity of the body ASAP.
Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office will work quickly to determine the cause.
Yes, sir.
Chief, are you okay?
Yes, of course.
While transporting the body to the industrial waste site,
the clean-up guy screwed up and got found by the police.
I guess we'll have to hurry...
Hello, Mother (in-law).
Don't be surprised to hear what I'm about to say. The thing is...
a woman who looks exactly like Ami was found dead.
When you adopted Ami,
did you hear anything about her having a twin?
Mother?
I didn't hear anything like that.
I see.
How did that person die?
The cause of death is still under investigation.
Oh...
Sorry to bother you at work.
The body has been identified.
Mayuzumi Miwa, 31 years old. Yoga instructor.
Her mother is Mayuzumi Kaede.
She adopted Miwa immediately after she was born.
She's a single mother.
She was adopted?
Yeah.
But that mother has already died of an illness.
What about her real parents?
That, we don't know yet.
Hasebe-san, please head to the gym where she worked.
I'll go search Mayuzumi Miwa's home with Doctor Mogami.
Okay.
This is terrible...
They were very thorough.
Look. This is easier than it looks.
What did you imitate to end up with such a pose?
Huh? This isn't it?
Please get back to work.
Okay, okay.
Is this the mother's room?
Probably.
- Sounds like they were living together all this time. - What's this?
What was Miwa-san's mother's occupation?
She was a nurse.
For a nurse, there's a lot of books on genetics.
Indeed.
"Elmer gene"?
I've never heard of it.
That's because it's a phantom gene.
Phantom?
In 1987 in South America,
a boy named Elmer who had a strong immunity
to all kinds of viruses was found.
Upon examining that boy,
the MMC3 gene that relates to immunity was found to have mutated.
This gene, named after that boy,
is called the "Elmer gene."
I never knew such an incredible gene existed...
But the Elmer gene hasn't been found before or after that.
Now it's treated like an urban legend.
Anyway, if it really did exist, it would be a phenomenal gene.
Miwa- san was always cheerful,
and there's no way anyone would hold a grudge...
Is there any chance she got embroiled in some kind of trouble?
I don't know... I've never heard of anything like that.
Have you seen a suspicious person lately?
A suspicious person?
Come to think of it, a suspicious car was parked out there.
- A suspicious car? - Yes.
It was parked illegally in front of the gym for a long time, so
I tried to go warn them. Then
it was gone, as if to flee.
This is the day before the incident.
We're checking out the surveillance camera from the surrounding area,
so we should have the license plate number soon.
It certainly is suspicious.
Mayuzumi Miwa's autopsy results came out a little while ago.
Cause of death is multiple organ failure
due to cytokine storm.
Cyto... what?
Cytokine storm.
Simply put, it's like a defense system gone haywire?
Humans are equipped with an immune system, a defense system that
fights against viruses and pathogens to protect the body.
But that ended up going out of control.
Is it bad if it goes out of control?
When the defense system goes out of control,
it can sometimes even attack its own healthy cells.
That's totally bad.
That means your ally becomes your enemy, right?
Yes. Take hay fever, for example. That, too, is a phenomenon
that occurs when the defense system overreacts to pollen.
I see...
So my defense system must be going crazy year after year.
So I guess that means Miwa-san was infected with some kind of virus,
and in an attempt to attack that virus,
her system also ended up attacking her own body.
We requested help in identifying the virus.
What's that for, Hasedon?
Well, I thought we should organize our thoughts,
since I'm getting all confused myself.
About what?
I looked up Mayuzumi Miwa's real parents just to be sure.
Then I found some signs of tampering with the family registry.
What does that mean?
It appears they were trying to hide her connection to her biological parents.
Why would they do something like that...
I don't know...
But as I was investigating, all kinds of things turned up.
Hey, Hasedon, when are you going to use the whiteboard?
It's coming up now.
Ehh~ First of all,
I found Miwa-san's real parents.
Her real mother is
Sudo Akari.
And...
she has no father.
- No father? - Sudo Akari apparently
wanted to be a single mother.
It seems she used a sperm bank to get artificially inseminated
and gave birth to Miwa-san.
So?
Yeah, so...
Well, how shall I say...
What?
Hasebe-san?
Ami-san?
Mayuzumi Miwa and Chief's wife are twins.
They were both born from Sudo Akari.
In 1990, Sudo Akari gave birth
to twins, Miwa and Ami.
But a few months later, she died of pneumonia.
That's why they were both put up for adoption.
Yeah.
Mayuzumi Kaede-san took in Miwa-san,
and Ami-san was...
adopted by Satoko-san.
That's what it comes down to.
At that time, they altered the family registry for some reason,
to erase the fact that they were twins,
along with the connection to their real parents.
And so,
some new facts have come to light, but
honestly speaking, I have no idea how the current case
and this are connected.
That's all.
Kohhi, are you okay?
Yes.
Who's the Devil?
Pandora's Fruit
Scientific Crime Investigation File
Kaede...
Miwa-chan passed away.
Who are you?
Aren't you going in?
I'm going in.
I was just in the mood for cocoa.
Thanks.
Hey...
Chief, we've identified the car that was parked in front of the gym.
The owner is Saijo Hitoshi, 45 years old.
He's a former detective.
Former detective?
Yeah.
He had connections to gangster organizations since his working days,
and he was subjected to disciplinary action 10 years ago.
After that, it seems he started a management consultant company, but
in reality, he was like an underworld handyman
who blackmailed, stole, kidnapped, and everything else.
- He's going to be quite troublesome. - What do you mean?
There's a rumor that a detective who's
still connected to Saijo is leaking investigation information.
That's awful!
Yes, it's awful.
I'm going to cooperate with the First Investigation Division to find Saijo.
Have some cocoa, if you'd like.
Thanks.
Hello.
Yes, I was getting ready to go there...
All right. I'll check it out right away.
Doctor... the virus that caused Mayuzumi Miwa-san's
cytokine storm has been identified.
Prometheus virus...
Why?
This is incredible! It's a major discovery!
You mean immortality will be realized?
That virus was our hope.
That's why we named it Prometheus.
Why did Hayami-san age so rapidly
when the virus is effective in stopping the aging process?
I think it must've have mutated.
What happened to the Prometheus virus?
They were all lost.
No samples are left anywhere.
A virus that accelerates aging, huh?
Maybe it's a good thing that there's none left.
This virus shouldn't exist anymore...
Besides, Miwa-san didn't age, did she?
Age...
The defense system went out of control...
No, there's no way... but...
Doctor?
We're going to the Crime Lab to get Miwa-san's DNA checked.
Do you want them to analyze Ami-san's too?
To see if she and Miwa-san are really identical twins.
Eh...?
How have you been, Shinomiya Satoko-san?
Don't you remember me?
I'm the son of Sakakibara Mokichi of the devil's child incident,
Kousei.
Here's the additional sample that I contacted you about.
Metropolitan Police Dept.
Crime Laboratory
A strand of hair?
Please wait for a while.
Thank you.
Here.
Thank you.
It's a good thing you still had Ami-san's hair.
Did you perhaps have it saved?
No, it just happened to be on her clothes.
Oh...
There's a package I still can't open to this day.
It arrived after she died.
It could be something Ami bought from an overseas site...
I tried to open it many times.
But I couldn't.
5 years have passed already,
but I just can't open it.
It's weird, isn't it?
No, it's not.
It's not weird at all.
After 5 years, it becomes enjoyable
to imagine what's inside.
Is it a stuffed animal she bought for Sera?
She liked to cook, so could it be some foreign spices?
Maybe, without telling me,
she bought some fancy underwear or something.
But when it comes right down to it,
I'm scared.
If I opened the package,
I feel as if I'd be accepting her death.
I'm sorry. I've talked too much.
It's lukewarm.
This isn't soothing at all, is it?
It's plenty warm enough.
Doctor, thank you.
Hello.
All right. Thank you.
The results are out.
Here is the result of the DNA analysis for
Kohiruimaki Ami-san and Mayuzumi Miwa-san.
So it was as expected.
Excuse me...
About the DNA analysis for Miwa-san,
can you wait just a little longer?
Is something wrong?
The thing is, no matter how many times I analyze it, the result doesn't make sense.
Can you take a quick look, Doctor Mogami?
There's no way this gene would exist.
Elmer gene...
The phantom gene really existed, huh?
When the Elmer gene that is resistant to all viruses
strongly resisted the Prometheus virus,
it stopped the aging process,
but in return the overly aggressive immune system went out of control.
Multiple organ failure occurred due to cytokine storm.
So the reason Kaede-san was reading up about the Elmer gene
was because her daughter, Miwa-san, had that gene.
The fact that Miwa-san had the Elmer gene means that...
I think her identical twin, Ami-san, had it too.
It's that car.
It matches the license plate of the suspicious car seen at the gym.
- That's gotta be it. - Yes.
Hey.
Police.
Hasebe-san!
- Gimme your hand... - Let go of me!
Saijo, you bastard!
Stop right there!
Hey, where's Saijo?
I'm sorry, he escaped.
Damn...
You okay?
I'm sorry.
- Saijo's accomplice? - Yes.
When I checked this guy's cell phone,
he had orders from a man named Sakakibara Kousei
to hold Mayuzumi Miwa captive.
Sakakibara Kousei...
You mean Sakakibara, the virologist?
More than likely, he's the mastermind.
I see.
So you quit nursing and you're now doing medical office work?
Yes.
By the way, do you have children?
Yes. I had one daughter, but
she passed away 5 years ago.
Ah, so that's what happened.
I'm sorry.
That's okay.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare indeed.
All this is material about Sakakibara Kousei?
Most of the material is about Kousei's father, Sakakibara Mokichi.
What do you mean?
When I was looking for data on Sakakibara Kousei,
a lot of material on his father came up.
Why? Did his father do something?
Yes. I found out that in 1990,
he was behind a certain famous incident.
- A famous incident? - Yes.
It's called "The Devil's Child Incident."
Devil's child?
Take a look at this.
It has come to light that the director of OB/GYN Aiwa no Mori Clinic,
Sakakibara Mokichi, under the guise of infertility treatment,
had been performing genetic manipulation of fertilized eggs.
A series of unnatural miscarriages started occurring a year ago,
and the incident was exposed by a patient who thought it suspicious and reported it.
- Looks like Director Sakakibara has arrived. - Director!
Don't you think this is a sacrilegious act against God?
Are you trying to create a devil's child?!
Looks like things were getting chaotic at the site.
Now, what is problematic about this incident?
Imai-san, please.
A fertilized egg contains the blueprint, or genes in other words,
for creating a human being.
Director Sakakibara manipulated these genes on his own.
Using this genetic manipulation technology
to create human beings that he wants
is an ethically unacceptable practice.
In 1990,
genetic manipulation itself was still relatively unknown, right?
Yes. There was still a lot of bias even against artificial insemination back then.
Genetic manipulation was probably thought to produce the devil's child.
Sakakibara Mokichi was subsequently attacked by extremists of a human rights group
and was killed.
Looking at the material he submitted to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for a research grant,
it looks like he was trying to produce humans
who were immune to viruses by performing genetic manipulation
on fertilized eggs, and mutating them into the phantom Elmer gene.
The Elmer gene?
Yes. Of course, the Ministry rejected the application.
That's why he was conducting the experiment secretly at the clinic.
He was trying to create the Elmer gene...
Actually, Sudo Akari-san, who gave birth to Miwa-san and Ami-san,
was undergoing fertility treatment at this clinic.
And this is
the list of people who were working at the clinic at that time.
Nurse Shinomiya Satoko
Nurse Mayuzumi Kaede
Satoko-san and Mayuzumi Kaede-san?
We're here.
What do you think?
Brings back memories, doesn't it?
Back then, we caused you a lot of trouble, didn't we?
Who would've thought my father was involved in such an experiment.
- You must've been shocked. - Yes.
Please come on in.
But why was there a need to tamper with the family registry?
Back then, there was a rumor going around
in weekly magazines that the devil's child was born as twins.
They probably kept the birth a secret to avoid prejudice
and to protect the girls.
Is that why they were raised separately?
Ami's the...
devil's child?
So why are we here today?
Even after 30 years, I couldn't find her.
The devil's child was actually born
and was alive somewhere.
With that belief, I've been searching all this time.
It was just when I was starting to think that it was impossible.
Mayuzumi Miwa.
She's the devil's child.
She was the one who came to see me.
After her mother's death,
she found a notebook among her belongings.
There were things written about this clinic in there.
Wanting to know about her birth,
she came to see me.
You know who raised her, don't you?
I don't know...
Mayuzumi Kaede.
The one you were praying to at the cemetery.
Kaede-san had secretly adopted one of the devil's children.
Yes.
Since the devil's children happened to be twins.
Where do you suppose
the other devil's child is?
You, if anyone,
should know about the other devil's child.
I know nothing.
Oh, excuse me.
It's me.
Ishii got caught.
It may only be a matter of time before the police comes for you.
Okay.
Those guys could have known we were coming.
That's true.
It looks like they were rushing to destroy the evidence.
This is useless.
- Tamaki. - Yes?
Ready~.
Isn't this...
Why are Senpai's pictures here?
There's even information about Hayami-san's lab.
Who's this guy?
The bag snatcher from that time...
Hayami-san had her case snatched away on the day the power went out.
Don't you think that's too much of a coincidence?
Are you saying that someone set it up intentionally?
That incident wasn't a coincidence after all.
Are you saying that Sakakibara stole the virus?
Immortality...
Eh?
Sakakibara is seriously trying to make immortality a reality.
Wait a minute... What's this about immortality?
The Prometheus virus that Hayami-san mutated
had the side effect of aging and killing the infected organisms.
That's not an immortality virus at all, is it?
Turning old is like that story of Taro Urashima (children's story).
It's a virus that normal people can't tolerate.
So he needed a human who could tolerate
any kind of virus.
That was Miwa-san, who had the Elmer gene.
He may have been trying to perfect the true immortality virus
that had no any side effects by making her a host
to mutate the Prometheus virus.
But her immune system went out of control
and Miwa-san ended up dying.
There's no way Sakakibara would give up now.
He's sure to look for the next host.
The next host with the Elmer gene...
It's Ami-chan! No, but Ami-chan's been cryopreserved.
Senpai?
There's one more person!
One more person...
Okay, here we go. One, two, three...
Let's go that way!
- Let's go this way. - Okay, let's go this way.
- I should get going... - I'll ask one more time.
Where is the other devil's child?
Like I said, I know nothing...
Please go ahead.
Excuse me.
- This is Shinomiya. - Are you at work right now?
Yes.
Please head over to the preschool right away. Sera is in danger.
It's closer from your workplace, so please do me this favor.
Preschool?
Is something wrong?
Yes. A temperature of 38 degrees...
All right.
Sakakibara-san.
I'm sorry, but I have to get back to my workplace right away.
"Sakakibara"?
My co-worker's grandchild is running a fever.
She wants to leave work early to go to the preschool.
Excuse me.
Mother, where are you now?
Right now, I'm in Nishi-Shinjuku, near Junisha-dori.
I think I can be back in 20 minutes.
Nishi-Shinjuku... That hospital?
Mother, please get away from there right now.
I'll send the police over.
All right. Good bye.
Ah, I see you have a grandchild.
What is her name?
I hope Satoko-san's all right.
Hello. This is Kohiruimaki Sera's father.
I'm coming to pick Sera up, so please have her ready.
Wait...
"Sera-chan," huh?
What a cute name.
Please give it back!
Your daughter's husband,
was it Kohiruimaki-san?
What a coincidence.
We just met the other day.
Excuse me, but I'm really in a hurry.
Sera-chan's mom isn't in any of the pictures.
It must be true that she passed away.
Hey, isn't there a way around this somewhere?
No, I'm afraid not.
At the park?
Please tell them to return to the preschool right away.
This is an emergency.
It was 5 years ago that she passed away, so...
was it around this time that she was alive?
Found it.
They were twins, just as I thought.
She looks just like Mayuzumi Miwa-san.
It's regrettable that both of them passed away, but
it's good news that there's a child.
Sera-chan, huh?
What are you planning to do to Sera?
What are you scheming?
The last judgment.
We need the last judgment.
Let's go.
All right.
Sera-chan! We're going back! Your dad's coming to pick you up.
- They won't be able to find us here, will they? - They won't.
They're not coming yet.
Excuse me. I'm getting off here.
- Right here? - Yes.
Kohhi!
Sera-chan~! Hide and seek is over.
Your dad's waiting for you.
Sera-chan~!
Sera-chan, I found you!
Sera-chan, Daddy's waiting for you. Let's go home.
- Daddy? - Yes.
Let's go.
Who are you?
A new teacher?
Haruna Sensei, Sera-chan's dad's here.
Where's Sera?
I'm sorry, I haven't found her yet.
Let me go!
Sera!
Hasebe-san!
Shinomiya-san? Shinomiya-san!
Shinomiya-san.
Shinomiya-san? Shinomiya-san.
- Get an ambulance. - Yes.
Are you all right?
Yes...
It's this way.
Looks like it was abandoned.
Unfortunately, your daughter wasn't...
In regards to the suspected holding of a girl captive that occurred at Yorozubashi 3-chome,
SERA
neither the suspect nor the victim was found...