Here you go, Master.
And table 3 wants to add a Milan-style cutlet and seafood salad to their order.
Table 3, got it.
This is a pretty nice place.
Isn't it?
Hey, now, we have customers.
Go show them to a table.
Sure, sure...
You're good with your hands.
You'll make a fine bartender.
You might be a little too young, though...
Thank you.
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.
Any luck?
Not yet.
What?
A response. Looks like the automatic identification system found a target.
This guy?
Height, 174 centimeters. Weight, 59 kilograms.
He's a match for the physical data that we were given, all right.
Well, I'll be! Mr. Takano!
What a surprise to see you here!
Well, I was in the area, so...
I see you hired waitresses.
They're just a couple of regulars.
Looks like we're in for the long haul here...
Oh, you're back.
Yeah...
You look like you spent the night here.
No, I just got back from headquarters.
The Administrator?
Is there something new going on?
I see...
I don't think it's worth reporting, but Yutaka Kobari never showed up last night.
I see...
Good morning.
Morning, Miss Karasuma.
That's a lot of food you've got there.
We've got nothing to do...
Yeah...
The two of you look bored.
Killing bugs.
What's that mean?
Hey, Master... Is it okay for the place to be so empty?
Well, I don't know.
But considering that I manage to stay in business, wouldn't you say it's all right?
Still, this is a modern-day miracle...
That's not a compliment at all.
Oh, welcome.
Where did the Chief run off to?
Um, the Chief...
I heard you.
Goodness, can't you wait until a body is done sipping his tea?
What's your problem? If you heard me, you don't have to ignore me!
What was that?
No, nothing.
So, the Chief...
You don't have to repeat yourself.
The Chief is at Harry's right now.
He is?
The two of them cause trouble when they're here,
...but we were the ones who sent them over.
Since we are responsible for them, we can't let them run loose like this.
Oh, so that's why he looked so lively...
Did you say something?
No, nothing.
Still, I hope he doesn't come back all worked up because he went to check up on them.
Really.
Oh, nothing.
Geez, I get all worried and come over here, and what do I find?! Just like I expected!
You know, Mr. Kosaka, it's not as if these two are goofing off.
We're having a bit of a lull here, so I let them take a break.
In the first place, Dojima...
You're always at the office fashionably late, but over here, you show up bright and early!
What's THAT all about?!
Gosh, Chief, you look livelier than usual!
What are you implying?
Dojima.
The Chief was just lonely because he didn't have anyone to vent his angries at.
Robin, your Japanese really is strange.
You think so?
It's definitely strange.
Really?
Yeah?
Around what time did the suspicious individual arrive last night?
It was right after our regular check-in, so around 2130 hours.
That all?
Yeah.
Gather everyone in the briefing room.
All right, this is the footage from last night.
This is when the suspicious man enters the place.
Look at the guy sitting at this table.
Just for a brief moment, he reacted to the man coming in.
What does that mean?
You said that the man who came in had the same build as Yutaka Kobari.
What? The two of you look like that means something.
He reacted to a guy who looked just like Yutaka Kobari.
There's someone other than us after Kobari?!
Check the footage from the past few days,
...and see whether this guy has been in Harry's before.
Roger.
Yutaka Kobari became the target of an STN-J Witch hunt two years ago.
Our informant was the master of Harry's.
Yutaka Kobari was betrayed by his own trusted father.
And he escaped his STN-J pursuers and disappeared.
It was about six months later that we received news of murders...
...in the U.S. that seemed to be his handiwork.
Yutaka Kobari had made his way to America...
...and become an assassin for some criminal organization.
However, there was a report from STN headquarters eight days ago...
...that Kobari had secretly reentered Japan.
Mr. Amon!
He's been there before!
Master, what's wrong?
Oh, it's nothing.
It's always the same. You call me out of the blue and ask me where I am.
Sorry.
That's unusual...
I haven't been sleeping much lately.
It's a case...
A case that I had left behind two years ago has returned.
I really shouldn't be able to think of anything else,
...but I keep finding myself thinking of you.
Strange...
Yeah.
No, I'm saying that it's strange for you to be saying something like that.
We shouldn't see each other anymore.
I was wondering when you would say that.
Can I ask you one thing?
What?
Are you...
This is from the Master.
He's on the move.
Enlarge it.
What, he's pulling out?
Dammit...
He's leaving early tonight.
He just left.
I know. As far as what we could see on this end, nothing happened.
Did he give up already today?
Maybe so. After all, it's been over a week.
That's all right, Robin. Don't worry about that customer.
I'll wake him up later.
Besides, it's late, so start cleaning up.
Sure...
We're finally all alone...
Looks like you understood that message I sent.
What's the matter? You haven't said a word.
Or are you afraid of me?
Afraid?
You may be right. Maybe I am afraid.
It's a sad thing to be a traitor.
You have to be afraid, even of your own son...
Oh, welcome back.
Karasuma and the others went home already?
Yeah, they've been stuck in here all day lately,
...so they wanted to go home early for a change.
Early?
Yeah.
That guy left Harry's rather early tonight.
So...
Show me the footage from when he left the place.
So, you really do hold a grudge against me?
A grudge?
I guess so... It's true that I had a grudge against you.
When I left this country, I genuinely wanted to kill you.
Do you know how it feels...
...to be treated like a monster and then thrown away?!
I'm a human being...
But just because I gained some strange powers...
Just because of that, you abandoned me.
That's right, for the longest time,
...I dreamed of coming back to Japan one day and giving you a taste of the terror I had felt.
But I was wrong.
Yutaka!
You're going to call me by a human being's name?
You may not believe me,
...but I had always tried my best to think of you as an ordinary human.
But once I realized that you and your power were too powerful for me to control,
...I just couldn't overlook it anymore.
Before you turned into someone who would harm others,
...I myself had to break the curse that flows within this body of mine.
I knew that...
No, I realized that when I went to the United States.
The only thing this power could ever become was a tool to kill...
Dammit, that wound from earlier is just now...
Yutaka, it's all right. Don't say anything more.
No, it's all right.
I didn't expect to live much longer, anyway.
The Mafia never lets traitors live...
Traitors?
Yeah, I betrayed the Mafia.
I just had to see you one last time before the end...
Dad, I wanted to see you and apologize.
Yutaka!
Dad... I'm sorry.
That wasn't true. I didn't sell him out because I was afraid...
...that he would harm the people around him.
I was afraid of his powers...
Of the cursed fate that runs in my own blood.
I don't deserve to call myself a father.
Miss Dojima sure is late.
Yesterday, she said that she was bored with doing this.
So maybe she came away none the miser.
I think you mean, "none the wiser."
Care for one?
Hey, Master?
What is it?
I always wanted to ask about your son.
You mean, what I thought about Yutaka?
I'm not sure.
Perhaps two years is longer than it seems.
Those feelings from back then...
Well, there is one thing I can say for certain.
And that is that Yutaka really was my son.
"Was"?
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.