My name is Yamada Naoko.
I'm a super skilled magican.
Instigated by Ueda, I went to see the 100% accurate fortuneteller, Yoshiko-sama.
But Ueda suddenly disappeared, so I went to Yoshiko's house, which is supposedly near a time gap.
Being someone who hates liars,
I detected Yoshiko-sama's fortunetelling videotape secret right away.
She was using a trick to change her content of speaking.
The next day, Yoshiko-sama gave a dangerous prediction.
Never open it!
That night, Ueda showed up.
I've seen what you're reborn as in 100 years.
After 100 years?
Takiyama, who planned to make money by using the time gap
thought the time gap was in the box which Yoshiko predicted not to open.
He went into that suspicious box and lost his life.
Takiyama-san!
Again, I solved the trick of confusing characters and numbers.
I, the super genius, finally had to compete with Yoshiko-sama.
But my prediction was wrong!
The poisonous water which Yoshiko predicted, I'll have to drink it...
This should be a trick, too.
If not... Don't do dangerous things!
Damn.
Don't you dare to drink it?
Drink it...
Then I'll drink it.
The powder was not poison,
but just some salt.
Salty.
Whichever glass of water you drink will be safe.
How could you do this?
Too dirty.
Dirty?
It's you that was fooled. Stupid.
If you can foresee the future,
you wouldn't have been fooled.
Besides, if this would have been poison, the result would be the same.
You'd be dead now.
If you think I'm lying, drink that water and see.
So? Salty, right?
The "poison" was put into that glass of water.
Now you see?
Don't be cheated by this kind of false fortune-teller.
I told you not to do this!
I can't take care of you all the time.
Now it's pretty clear.
Yoshiko-sama does have the power.
Impossible.
Then how did Yoshiko-sama know which one had the salt in it.
She didn't look.
I see.
All the glasses had salt water in them.
She just let me drink the last one.
So? Salty, right?
The "poison" was put into that glass of water.
The glass...
The glass bottle.
Hey...
Excuse me. Can I take a look of the glass bottle?
You washed it?
Forget it. How could she leave you any evidence?
You look depressed.
Eh?
What?
Isn't that posed differently than from before?
Your illusion.
Spirit?
Hey.
Because of you...
you caused us trouble.
No fortune telling for today.
We've lined up for so long.
How will you repay us?
If you do have the power to foresee,
at least be like Yoshiko-sama,
and tell us some useful information.
Or tell us the weather tomorrow.
Partly cloudy.
How about humidity?
30%.
How could a prediction have that probability?
That means partly cloudy.
How about others? Like stocks?
Your brain is full of stocks.
Someday you'll be destroyed by money.
Is that a prediction, too?
How will I be destroyed by it? Tell me.
When you're eating your lunch,
no food will be in your lunch box, but money.
God will punish you. Since you love money so much,
you can just eat money for your whole life.
Lunch will become money.
And then?
The clock will go counterclockwise.
Aren't you overdoing it?
Cooked rice will become raw.
The armor will suddenly move
to punish you.
Everybody, remember what she said.
If any one thing doesn't happen,
we'll stick you onto a cross
and hang you
and throw you down into the mountain.
That Kamikakushi over there. You're with her, right?
I am not.
Who are you? Be careful or I'll string you.
What a pathetic guy!
Are you telling the truth?
What?
The clock will go counterclockwise and the armor will move.
Of course it wasn't true.
Then why were you saying that?
I thought it sounded cool to exaggerate it!
Let's run. Naoko.
Run away with me.
There's no other way.
At this rate, we'll be killed.
But we haven't found Ueda-san...
Our lives are worth more than him.
Damn it. You.
You asked for trouble.
I'm leaving now. Goodbye.
Wait...
Miss...
Can you come over for a while?
That huge guy
asked me to give this to you.
My investigation about the time gap is doing fine.
This could be the most astonishing discovery in the physics field.
Yet I saw the terrible future in the time gap.
You lost the water glass game to Suzuki Yoshiko.
And you predicted things that can't happen.
I can only wish what I saw is not the real future, but a terrible nightmare.
If you find out what I said is true
while reading this letter.
For your own good, there's only one way to be saved.
Get on your hands and knees in front of everyone.
Say "I'm sorry," and start to cry.
Say you'll change and strive to become a gentle, graceful, ladylike woman with bountiful breasts.
No way.
Eh?
Yamada Naoko NAKAMA Yukie
Ueda Jiro ABE Hiroshi
Yabe Kenzo NAMASE Katsuhisa
Corrections and translation awrittensin
You...
Ueda?
What is up there? ("Up there" sounds like "Ueda")
Why are you still here?
You better run as soon as possible.
They do want to stick you on a cross.
It's time for lunch.
You can't run now.
If what you predicted is not true, you know what will happen, right?
Everybody. You can help yourself now.
Lunch will become money.
Eh?
Was it you?
Did you do it?
Not me.
Besides, how did I know which lunch box you would pick up?
Let me see yours.
Please change it to rice.
Yes.
How come...
Cooked rice will become raw.
Hey, look!
The clock goes counterclockwise.
Her predictions...
Stop saying silly things...
She did it.
She did it while we were away.
Did some tricks.
I didn't.
Then who else did it?
This liar still doesn't regret what she did.
Let's stick her to the cross.
Calm down.
Stop it.
How could this happen?
Ueda-san?
Why are you dressed like this?
Didn't I warn you to run?
Where were you before?
Everywhere. Sometimes on the ground. Sometimes in the trees.
No wonder I always felt like someone was watching me!
Then why didn't you just show your face?
There are a lot of reasons.
I thought they kidnapped you.
I was so worried.
I didn't think you would worry about me.
Actually I am not.
Goodbye.
Wait...
Can you help me take it off?
What?
I can't get out of it.
After I followed you to that fortuneteller's place,
I suddenly thought of something to do and went back to your apartment.
Then I was in a place you couldn't reach me temporarily.
Where have you been?
That's not important.
That's not important! I looked for you for a long time.
Then I knew from Detective Ishihara
that you and Yabe-san came out looking for me.
What?
So I hurried to follow you here.
We're all the way in Chiba?
Then I hid to observe the situation here.
Ueda-san? Hurry up.
Then why did you hide yourself?
I felt it was for them not to know that I was in this with you.
Then if things became dangerous for you,
I could run away easily by myself.
You are so...
And just like I thought, you started to ask for trouble.
Pretended to be a fortuneteller. Said you want to save them,
but actually wanted to have their donations for Suzuki Yoshiko.
Now please donate.
You're shameless.
Besides, I wrote you letters to warn you to leave here.
Leave here now.
That prediction letter?
I asked Matsu-san to give it to you.
Then I gave her the envelope.
Actually what was inside was a blank paper.
After I saw what happened, I then wrote another letter
and changed it
without Matsu-san's noticing.
I thought you might find out.
But you didn't.
Why would I bother thinking about that?
Ah. So... that dream was...
Right. It was not a dream.
I tailed you. You found me because of my carelessness.
To let you think you were dreaming.
I had to jump up to a tree
and beat you until you were unconscious.
Why?
Then put you back in front of the restroom.
What the hell are you thinking? I'll strangle you!
Idiot.
There's no such thing as a time gap.
The weather is hot here because a dry wind that comes down from a mountain warms as it descends.
It's a simple phenomena called "The Foehn Effect."
Foehn? Did you come to save me or to get in my way?
Which is it?
There's another reason I didn't want them to know I was with you.
That old lady.
She's sick and very near death.
Obaachan. Don't give up hope.
You seem pretty healthy.
Don't need to comfort me.
I know I'll die at any time.
That's not true...
How do you know?
You're not a doctor.
Of course I know. I saw it.
Eh?
I went into the time gap and saw your future.
Obaachan. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
No. Today of next year, you'll still be here.
Really?
Yes. Of course.
Because of that, that old lady
didn't doubt anything about me no matter what I did.
Therefore, I could mix the two lunch boxes of coins and bills
into whole.
But how did you know which boxes Nakano-san would choose?
Listen carefully. He's middle-class man, drawing castles in the sky..
When in a convenient store, he'll rummage through the shelves for the one
right at the back and has the latest expiration date.
When buying a magazine, he'll take the second one from top.
Next, he's right-handed.
So, the answer is quite obvious.
The lunch box he would choose must be on the right bottom.
And was counted the second from top.
Any normal Japanese can be evaluated by a simple mathematical deduction.
Then how did you change cooked rice into raw ones?
I just ate all the cooked rice and changed it. That's all.
You ate a whole pot of cooked rice?
No matter how much it is, I can finish any quantity of rice.
Why? Because I'm an average Japanese. (Average = abereiji)
You're Abe Reiji? (She thinks he's saying a name.)
The clock was a lot of trouble, though.
I had to reverse its angle so
it would look like it was going counterclockwise.
Besides, I did it wearing that armor.
Finally, I just put it upside down.
Anyway, I took pains with your work.
Since you're so capable and have time
why didn't you just run away?
Your surprised face was hilarious.
It's not good to laugh that loud.
Why not?
They will find out.
That's why. It was you who let her predictions became true.
I was almost cheated by you.
What are you talking about?
No need to act.
Everybody, please calm down.
Do you want to protect them?
He is one of her party.
He's always with them.
Please wait a minute.
What they did is really unforgivable.
But you can't be killers, too.
So, how about just
letting me deal with them?
Please wait.
We do not have bad intentions.
I'm a professor at Japan's University of Science & Technology. My name is Ueda.
I was here to investigate the time gap.
Oh. You are a professor.
So about the time gap, did you find anything?
Of course. That's really amazing.
The time gap does exist. Just like a wormhole!
This is the greatest discovery in history.
No way.
There's no time gap at all.
This is just a trick played by Suzuki Yoshiko-sama.
To cheat people
in order to get money.
Right. The bag you hold.
Inside are not sweet potatoes, but money, right?
But at the end, you'll give it to Yoshiko-sama, won't you?
Many people are waiting to rob you.
I can't blame them.
You're holding it like it's a treasure.
It's easy to see there's no sweet potatoes inside.
This is really dangerous.
Shimizu-san.
Why are you telling us these?
I can't stand it anymore.
I don't want to live a life like this.
People will know it sooner or later.
Won't they?
Give Yoshiko a lot of money for donation, just to ask for fortune,
but no one knows when her oracles will come true.
Because Yoshiko-sama can't see the future at all.
Now things have become like this.
I'll have to leave here some day.
The difference is I'll always have to run for the rest of my life.
Then Shimizu-san.
Why don't you tell everybody the truth?
You can accuse Suzuki Yoshiko.
Now the situation is difficult.
Who they trust more is Yoshiko, not me.
Besides, if they know they were cheated,
at that time, they might riot against us.
Anyway, please run after me.
I'll show you the short cut. Let's go.
Let's go.
Sorry.
Are you ok? I can take this for you.
Wait.
Where are you going?
I see.
You're gonna betray me, aren't you?
No.
So how do you explain this?
Shimizu-san. You can't go that way.
Wait.
Don't go any closer.
There is a time gap.
Shimizu had just accidentally fallen into it.
That's impossible.
There's a special method to entering the time gap.
Those who don't know it will fall in and become stuck there.
If this happens, no one can save you.
But Shimizu-san said there's no time gap.
Shimizu knows nothing about the time gap.
Be careful.
This...
is Shimizu-san's.
The time gap seems to have some- thing to do with the magnetic field.
If you wear metal, it'll cause a twist of the magnetic field
and the body will be torn apart.
This way...
That way?
So the time gap does exist.
That's impossible.
But Shimizu-san was just...
Ah... My bag...
it fell into the time gap, too?
That's all I have.
Osabe-san. The bag must be somewhere.
Things can't just disappear.
But...
Here... eat these.
And cheer up!
I made these last night.
Onigiri is the best food to eat outdoors. Eat, hurry up.
They're delicious.
I rolled some salmon
so be careful of fish bones.
I also rolled pickled plums.
You, eat one, too.
Eat.
Want a big one or a small one?
Small one is a small rice roll.
They seem to have left.
That's right. The bag will come back.
If it fell into the time gap,
it'll come back after a while.
That's right. How would I forget such a simple rule?
I'll just wait at the place it disappeared.
The bag will show up again.
Wait. Osado-san.
No, it's Osabe-san.
Here. I found it.
The bag is here.
What's that? Shimizu-san was twisted.
Shimizu-san did fall into the time gap.
NO. Must be Yoshiko.
Because she found out Shimizu-san was going to betray her.
But that's impossible.
When we heard Shimizu-san's scream,
wasn't Yoshiko-sama with us during that time?
YOU... Look...
Fake?
Ouch...
There...
Ouch...
They're coming...
What's going on? They are here...
See them? A tall guy...
Eh?
Is this a tunnel?
It seems to go through to another side.
I hate this.
I don't care about myself,
but please save that child from the wrong and deceitful path.
Matsu-san.
Oh my! Why are you there?
Did you hear what I just prayed for?
No.
Ok...
Matsu-san. This is...?
This is called Praying Rock.
It is said gods lived here. It's a divine place.
When there were important activities held in this village
Elders would come here to talk to the gods
and pray for the gods to take care of us.
Then, I'm off.
Oh... I see.
Eh?
The truth of the Kamikakushi. (the mysterious disappearances, or hidden hair)
The mysterious disappearances...
You mean the legend about those girls who disappeared in the mountains
and then re-appeared suddenly?
Yes. Then those girls
could predict what was going to happen in the village.
It was probably because they found that tunnel here in the woods.
They just walked in here.
While they hid inside, they could hear everything the elders prayed for.
And then they just went back to village to tell everybody the "future."
Things young girls aren't supposed to know.
Therefore, people felt surprised.
It was just a little trick.
But they certainly got the adults' attention.
Eh? This...
is Shimizu-san's shoe.
Why is it here?
Right.
Shimizu-san used this tunnel, too.
That time, Shimizu-san ran way in front of our eyes.
Into the woods, and hid in this tunnel.
But we did see the blood.
That's Shimizu-san's making.
To make us believe he was falling into the time gap.
But why did he do that?
Because he wanted your money.
After we saw the blood,
we would believe that Shimizu-san really fell into the time gap.
And then Yoshiko found it
and said so by the way.
Originally, Yoshiko and Shimizu were going to cooperate,
yet something unexpected happened.
Yoshiko found out he was running away.
Where are you going?
You're gonna betray me, aren't you?
Shimizu-san, startled, ran away.
He hid inside the tunnel to wait.
But Yoshiko knew there was a tunnel here.
So at the time he came out, Yoshiko killed him.
Then, Yoshiko just needed to move the body back
around the time gap when nobody was there.
I don't believe what you said.
Let's end the act, okay?
Osabe-san.
Eh?
It's been bothering me this whole time.
Why was Osabe-san holding the bag like that?
If it's really that important,
why didn't you just hide it somewhere?
What you did was tell everybody
"My bag is full of money."
Osabe-san. Did you do that on purpose
to let Shimizu-san take your money?
And to let Yoshiko know it,
you shouted while we were going to run.
I can take this for you.
Can we take a look at your money inside the bag?
They are all fake, right?
What's your purpose here?
Osabe-san.
You're right.
I'm not here to ask for fortune.
I don't believe in fortunetelling.
I just couldn't forgive them.
Suzuki, Yoshiko, and Shimizu.
Suzuki Yoshiko was a normal fortuneteller on the street.
Looked at people's palms. Predicted their futures.
Or just listened to people's trouble and gave them suggestions.
She was really good at that
so gradually she was said to be a pretty accurate fortuneteller.
However, she didn't feel contented.
Suddenly, in her heart grew an evil thought.
Tomorrow afternoon...
She told Person A to go to a specific place.
Then came a Person B, who she also asked to go to the same place at the same time.
She told Person B he would meet someone, Person A at this place.
Of course, her prediction came true.
But Person B, of course, wouldn't know how she could predict that.
If she uses the same way
to many people who come to see her, what do you think will happen?
It will become meaningless, and people will start to notice things.
It's impossible to control someone's future without them noticing, right?
Shimizu heard that Yoshiko was a famous fortuneteller.
He went to see her. "You have clear lines on the palm".
Shimizu started to build the donation system.
They are just like a cult.
But why are you doing this?
My fiancee was killed by them.
My fiancee was an editor in a magazine publishing house.
She was in charge of the horoscope columns.
Then she heard about Suzuki Yoshiko.
How can so many of her predictions be correct?
She felt suspicious
so she followed people who went to see her and investigated them.
She found out the truth.
Then she went to Yoshiko to tell her to quit her bad tricks.
"Or I'll call the police."
"Instead of worrying about others, I suggest you worry about yourself."
"You'll be attacked by strangers."
Then?
Was she attacked?
Yeah. The same day she gave her that prediction.
Yoshiko brainwashed three of her followers into thinking my fiancee was a demon.
They feared her, so they pushed her down the stairs.
And she died.
I told to the police that it was done by Yoshiko.
But they didn't want to listen to me.
They didn't dirty their hands
to kill my fiancee.
So I'll do the same thing.
Without dirtying my hands either,
Shimizu-san is now dead.
You purposely let Shimizu-san betray Yoshiko
and let Yoshiko killed Shimizu.
Please wait a second.
Osabe-san.
Is Yoshiko next?
Don't do silly things. Don't kill anymore.
Then you're asking me to let go that woman?
No. This time we could get her to confess!
The one who killed Shimizu-san is indeed Yoshiko.
We'll convince her to admit her guilt. And make her go to the police.
So please stop this revenge.
You finally gave up and came back.
This time, we won't let you go.
You've all been deceived!
I want to talk to Yoshiko-sama.
What you say?
Shimizu-san was killed by Yoshiko-sama.
What are you talking about?
Everybody. Go.
Wait.
It's interesting. Let's see what they're going to say.
Shimizu-san didn't fall into a time gap.
But walked out from a secret tunnel
and killed in Prayer Rock.
This shoe was found there.
Nonsense. What kind of proof is this?
Stop doing this. Yoshiko.
You should wake up.
What did you say?
You've been this way ever since you were a child!
Said that you could disappear and you could see the future.
You liked to do that
to get the adult's attention.
Matsu-san.
Are you her mother?
Don't talk nonsense.
This woman. How could she be my mother?
My mother
is someone like me who has special power.
But she was killed by bad guys.
No. Yoshiko.
Your parents are normal people.
They passed away because of illness.
Before I adopted you, you were bullied by your relatives.
And so you felt lonely
and wanted to be noticed by people.
Therefore, you started to lie.
Shut up.
Anyway, you just want to show off as my foster mother.
What do you want?
Money?
I knew it already.
What you told me to take,
this medicine,
is not really a medicine.
You've been slowly poisoning me this whole time!
What are you babbling about?
It's ok.
I know you're still a gentle-hearted, good kid.
Everyone, please forgive this child.
I'll die in her place.
To apologize.
Matsu-san. Doctor.
Call a doctor.
Don't you have any feelings?
She wanted to protect you by sacrificing her own life!
What that woman said was all nonsense.
What?
Did you bribe that woman
and ask her to say all that stuff?
What did you say?
Then take out your proof.
You guys are making wild guesses
without any proof.
It's you who want to deceive us.
No proof, right?
We don't need any proof.
Our eyes won't be deceived by you.
Because...
she has the ability to see through things.
What?
Right. Forgot to introduce myself.
I'm a professor at Japan's University of Science & Technology, Ueda.
Her power is real.
Right?
Eh?
Yes.
I've seen through everything you've done.
But you just predicted something useless.
I did those on purpose.
If so,
then let's continue the game we played last time.
This time we can use real poison.
It's you who will lose.
Ueda.
Interesting.
Well...
Can I join the game this time?
Because there are three glasses.
Shouldn't there be three people?
But you might drink the poisonous one.
Don't worry.
I'll listen to her.
You two, listen to me.
I saw the cup Matsu-san drank out of that had the poisoned water in it.
That poison has a special feature.
After the poison is put into the water, and the cup is shaken, bubbles will form.
That is to say, we just choose in which no bubbles form?
Drink those two first
and she has to surrender.
Have you finished discussion?
Then let's start.
Everyone, please face the back and close your eyes.
Yamada Anthony. Please come put the poison in.
Yes.
Nakano. Change their positions.
Game time.
No bubbles in any glass!
What's going on here?
Probably the poisonous one was not moved.
Then there's no way to tell?
Ueda. I told you you were...
You, who can see through things...
Why do you have to discuss there?
Then I'll start.
Wait.
You'll lose.
Hey.
I'll win. See the right glass?
See that little crack around the rim?
That glass was in the middle originally.
Now that it's on the right means...
The middle one and the right one were changed.
Yeah. So the poisonous one was not moved at all.
So the poisonous one should be...
The unmoved one. The left glass.
Therefore, the middle one and the right one
should be safe.
Come on.
What are you discussing about?
Sorry to make you wait.
Now, I'll start.
Delicious!
Then it's my turn.
Osabe-san.
How could it be?
Osabe-san.
Foolish people.
Osabe-san...
Don't. Don't drink that water.
Why?
The one you drank is poisonous.
Mine was just water.
I was just acting.
Osabe-san.
You. It's you who drank it. I didn't do anything.
I didn't dirty my hands, yet got what I wanted.
Just like what you did to my girlfriend.
I'm just returning it to you.
Yoshiko-sama's fortunetelling was not accurate after all.
She said I would lose something important.
Yet she didn't say what it was.
That's the tricky part of fortunetelling.
The important thing means
because you lost it and you start to feel its importance.
Because it's lost, it becomes important.
But you said you went to someplace I couldn't get in touch with.
Where was that place?
I called to your office several times.
Because you kept calling me. I thought you got mad.
Why did I have to be mad?
Of course I was worried about you.
That's right. You're right.
Oh! I forgot.
This is for what you did in my dream.
Goodbye.
Yamada. What are you excited about?
Good. It's about time.
Please give me back my Japanese long rice bag.
Jimmy...
What?
After you put it at my place, Professor Ueda came.
He said he wanted to take a look. So I opened it.
And what was inside looked like rice.
We thought it looked odd so we tried to eat it.
The more we ate, the more we felt it was, in fact, rice.
Ate it? Ate the whole thing?
Not me. It was Ueda-san.
No matter how much it is, I can eat any quantity of rice.
He seemed like he just couldn't stop eating!
Poncho, shut up!
Ueda.