Your eye exam took two hours.
What will you report?
What the doctor said.
Almost done, Miss Robin.
Thanks.
You're still not convinced?
It just feels strange that there are things I don't know about my own body.
What's that?
I used to ride it in Italy.
It finally got here.
Your eyesight temporarily worsens when you use your ability at full power.
Aren't you satisfied with that explanation?
But they weren't able to measure it.
Are you going to stop using your glasses, then?
I'll use them.
Of course you will.
If you can't control your powers, they're too dangerous for you to use.
Oh, so does this means you'll start treating me as your partner now?
I'll have you do what needs to be done whether or not you're my partner.
What's your power, Amon?
It seems like you always use a gun...
Oh, or maybe they haven't woken yet.
I'm under no obligation to answer you.
All done, Miss Robin.
I feel like it'll disappear...
...the instant I look away.
I just kept counting...
...all the many traces of loneliness...
...that I'd vomited up.
In this time that seems so dry,
...my heart is thrashing around and drowning.
It takes those lies that make my head spin...
...and tears them to pieces.
And the place I lose my way in...
...is a dim, hazy world.
W-Who are you?!
Hey, Robin, what are you doing?
I was just looking.
Who are you people?
It's rude to stare.
I just thought it was unusual...
Uh, hello?
We're not here to play around. Focus on the job at hand.
Um...
Oh, I'm sorry about that.
Have you seen this man around here?
Is he really going to be in a place like this?
Is our missing witch really gonna be in a place like this?
If he is, it'll be like finding a needle in a haystack.
Shouji Takizawa, age 46.
He had an expensive house and worked in a first-rate brokerage firm,
...but he suddenly disappeared.
There are lots of reasons why he would disappear.
If he wasn't on the witches' descendants list.
You never know.
Maybe he's just a witch who was embezzling company funds,
or a witch who was caught having an affair.
Besides, maybe he's staying in a hotel, not someplace like this.
When he disappeared, he didn't take any money or credit cards with him.
There aren't many ways to live without money in this town.
Still, this is boring work.
Hey, mister, do you have a minute?
What do you two want?
Have you had any newcomers lately?
Are you cops?
No, no... We're just looking for someone.
What's this?
What's what?
Pictures?
What's that smell?
Smell?
Hey, are you okay, mister?
Hey!
All right, I understand.
The lab results are in.
The corpse had no genetic anomalies.
It was a false alarm.
You can't tell if someone is a witch just by looking.
I'm sure Sakaki couldn't have done anything.
I've decided not to punish Sakaki this time.
Also, about Robin's glasses...
Why did you decide to meddle?
You don't seem to understand what's at stake.
From now on, you are to keep a close eye on all her actions.
Understood.
All I'm saying is that "sorry" isn't going to cut it this time!
Are we clear?
Yes, sir.
Sakaki...
What a load of crap!
Hey, she was with him, so why isn't Dojima being chewed out?
Ask her yourself.
It's hard to ask something like that to somebody's face.
It's because I'm special.
My folks are real bigshots.
They thought that the only option left for me is to join the STN.
They begged Mr. Zaizen to let me join.
Are you all right, Chief?
Well, I don't have a fever...
Maybe it's something like hay fever?
Hey, I know!
I heard you get better if you pass the bug to someone else.
Something like this has happened before?
About a year ago, Karasuma sensed the presence of a witch in the middle of town.
I sensed the witch's thoughts in the crowd that was passing by.
But I couldn't tell who the thoughts belonged to.
And when Karasuma turned around,
...one man suddenly started to run away as if he were terrified of something.
But when we caught the man, it turned out that he wasn't a witch.
He was just scared of something. So scared he couldn't even talk.
He didn't even remember being chased by us.
When it happened, I smelled what I thought was sweet olives...
Even though they were out of season.
I don't know if it's the same thing that you smelled, Dojima.
That was the smell of sweet olives, all right.
I have fond memories of that smell...
Memories of what, though, is a secret.
Is it the same witch?
I did some digging,
but the two victims back then and now have nothing in common.
If I had to guess, I'd say that that smell is the key.
That alone doesn't give us any leads.
But...
Are you saying that you'll go sniffing around all over town?
Amon, we got lucky when the man back then only suffered temporary amnesia.
We have to avoid more false alarms.
In both instances, that smell was completely gone by the time they got to the Factory.
It's no good as data.
For the time being, I'll try checking it against Solomon's database.
What, you again?
Yes, sir.
Did you find the man you were looking for?
No, sir.
Let me have a look.
You'd never guess it, but we have territories...
...and a wide network of connections.
Newcomers stand out like a sore thumb.
Oh. Here.
I haven't seen him around here.
You should try the park up the road.
I hear they get new people all the time.
Thank you. I'll check it out.
Welcome...
Have you heard anything out of the ordinary from your people lately?
What happened?
Karasuma, can you remember anything else about what happened back then?
I'm sure it was my mistake.
But it's exactly the same as this latest case.
This isn't a case, Robin.
It's all just conjecture.
We have no proof that there was a witch,
and maybe the guy who ran away is completely unrelated.
Yeah, but...
It's almost as if you want something to happen.
I'm not like that.
I'm relieved on days when nothing happens.
I just...
It's all right. I'm sorry.
I'm getting worked up over nothing.
Michael.
I'm turning up zilch. Not even Solomon has any data on smells.
I'm not surprised.
Do some digging on a witch called Single Eye.
Single Eye?
Dojima.
Yes, sir?
Where's Sakaki?
He stepped out and hasn't checked in since!
He isn't answering his cell phone, either.
I see.
This guy is a really rare type of witch!
There have only been a few reported cases all over the world.
To an outside observer, he doesn't do anything.
He doesn't cause anything physical to happen.
But this guy... he controls minds.
Um, excuse me... Anyone home?
He sends intense thought waves into other people's minds.
Okay, I said "control," but he can't make people do anything he wants.
He creeps into people's minds...
...and implants terror.
No way... Is that even possible?
This is just a hypothesis,
but he just amplifies feelings of doubt and fear that were already in that person.
Then...
The greater your doubts and fears, the more danger you're in.
This witch is tricky.
There's no way to tell who is using this power.
In a city crowd, it'll be impossible to pinpoint who the witch is.
Mr. Amon! I need you here!
There's a guy here with basically the same symptoms as the last one!
He looks like he's terrified of something.
All right. I'll be right there.
Sakaki, keep an eye on him while provoking him as little as possible.
I'm sending the rest of you somewhere else.
See? No weapons.
I'm not gonna do anything. So calm down, okay?
You can do that, right?
H-Hey!
Crap!
I don't get it. Why is he sending us back to the scene of the first incident?
Over there! Stop right around there!
Sakaki, this man is most likely a decoy.
Huh?
He lured you away.
If the man in that first incident was a decoy as well,
...there has to be something at that first location.
Karasuma and the others are heading there now.
Let's get going, too.
Oops, sorry.
I'm getting old, you see, and I can't see too well out of this eye.
Forgive me.
That's all right.
Hey, over here!
Huh?
They're gone...
No way!
Dojima!
Sakaki! The pictures, they're...
I just got a call from Michael.
They just found Takizawa's body. He'd drowned.
Time of death was three days ago. It looks like suicide.
You're joking!
Then who have we been searching for?
Did this witch ever exist in the first place?
Have we just been getting jerked around all day?
That smell...
This is it! This is the smell!
It's all right.
Everything's all right.
The smell... It's fading.
I don't get it...
There's no anger or rage here.
Just despair and sadness deeper than I've ever felt.
He's incredibly sad, that's all...
My secret memory really isn't all that secret.
When I was little, our garden had lots of sweet olive trees.
I can barely remember my parents' faces, but I'll never forget that sweet smell.
How much do you remember of your family?
I don't have parents, so...
You're lucky.
Amon, where are you?
I'm sorry... I came home.
Ignore that last phone call.
It just seems like you're exhausted, somehow.
Well, I'll see you later.
Oh, welcome.
Good evening.
An espresso?
Yes, please.
I have my own.
Can I ask one thing?
Go ahead.
Amon, did you think that the culprit would come back for the pictures of his family?
Yes, although I don't understand why he would be...
...so obsessed with such things that he'd risk himself.
Amon, do you have...
No.
I don't have a family.
Me, neither.
One last question.
How did you know that the smell belonged to a witch called Single Eye?
It was just a rumor. I didn't have any hard evidence.
And the person who told me that rumor is this man here.
It's just something that I heard once.
That when that witch uses his powers, the only trace he leaves is a smell.
And one more thing.
"Single Eye" means just that. He only has one eye.
He has one eye?
No, he has two eyes, all right.
But one eye is just for show. He can barely see out of it.
That man, was he...
Just how far back do I need to go?
Tell me.
It's all so vivid that it hurts.
The truth is, nothing can be shared,
...so I never looked back.
...all those promises...
...inside me eventually...
...gave up on that light from some other time,
...like the light of a morning you can't return to.