And that's when I finally realized...
That we were were looking at a copycat of Jack the Ripper.
Which means if we can't catch the killer within 40 days, he might disappear.
There's a separate incident that concerns me as well.
Ueji Keiji is obviously one of the tattooed prisoners.
Sapporo
Asahikawa
Utashinai
He's getting closer and closer to Sapporo!
Iwamizawa
Ebetsu
What's about to happen in Sapporo?
Everyone else, follow me!
Golden Kamuy
We're heading to Sapporo!
Sapporo
There's a place near here that sells delicious curry rice.
Want to wash it down with some Sapporo beer?
Episode Fifty Town of Reunions
We'd stand out dressed like this.
Delicious candy!
What's wrong, Toni Anji?
I recognized that voice.
Who was it?
Ueji.
Oh him? That devil.
Taro! Taro!
Who are you looking for?
Taro is my dog.
You were looking for him yesterday, weren't you?
Yeah. Have you seen a white dog?
Does he have a black spot next to his nose?
Yeah! That's Taro!
I just saw him over there!
Really?!
Suifuutei
Ice Cream
Western Cooking Suifuutei
I remember the first time Ueji Keiji came to talk to me in prison.
He said that he was working outside when somebody claiming to be my aunt talked to him.
I didn't even know I had an aunt.
Supposedly she said she wanted to come see me,
but she couldn't have it getting out that she was related to Botaro the Pirate.
Her husband had some kind of relationship with the government.
Once in a while when he came back from work detail, he'd tell me he saw her.
He spent years asking me if she ever came to see me.
I waited for her to come.
She was my only living relative after all.
One day I got assigned to the same cell as Ushiyama Tatsuuma,
who said he was chained up to Ueji when they were on work detail.
And he said he'd never seen a woman like that.
I questioned Ueji about this and he looked me in the eye and broke down laughing.
He loves to see the faces of disappointed people.
Where's Taro?
Did you see him around here?
I want to see the faces of people who get their hopes up and then see them dashed!
The best face full of disappointment I've ever seen is my father's!
It was the best thing I've ever seen!
Where's Taro?
Every day I'm filled with the desire to see something better than that.
But there's one more thing that's always on my mind... Killing and burying boys your age!
I want to kill the failure I was before I got these tattoos... and bury him!
Where's Taro?
The desire to see disappointed faces...
The desire to kill little boys...
These two desires that burn within my brain.
What should I do with them, you think?
I think they'll go away if I kill a young boy whose face is
filled with ultimate disappointment!
All right, let's see what your face looks like when I break your damned spine.
U-hi-yama-san?!
Look! That lady's tits are so huge they're dragging on the ground.
I'm gonna make your face look like a squished octopus.
Oh?
Listen to me!
I'll show you something incredible!
Something that's just amazing!
It's something to do with where the buried gold is!
Fine, fine.
It's no fun if it's just you!
That was Ushiyama, wasn't it?
Curry rice is delicious, huh?
Jeez...
Sorry, can I get another spoon?
What the hell?
We meet again, young lady.
Dick-sensei?!
Ushiyama?!
Stop!
I don't want to lose either of you!
That's right! Calm down, you two!
Try and talk this out!
Stop them, somebody!
Ushiyama-san?
Hey, pirate.
It's been a while.
That didn't work.
Knock it off, you guys!
Kadokura, you okay?
Might've sprained something.
Why did you guys even come to Sapporo?
Ushiyama, get away from him.
If we don't all stop them, the police and the 7th Division will show up!
Kirawus, Ariko, and Ogata should be around here!
Go get them!
Ogata?!
Ogata is here?
Mr. Hood! Ogata's here!
Ogata! Mr. Hood!
O! GA! TA!
He said my wildcat is somewhere around here?
Oh no! I need to get some distance from it!
Just wait, my wildcat!
I crossed the seas to find you!
That's my gun!
Calm down, Mr. Hood.
You don't need the spoon.
Where's my wildcat?
Now, now...
If I fire this bullet, it'll cause a hell of a lot of chaos.
What?
Asirpa-san, get somewhere safe!
You'll pay for what you did to us at Abashiri, Hijikata Toshizo!
Separating me from Asirpa-san!
Thanks to that, Ogata shot me in the head!
That happened?
I could've killed you at Abashiri.
Just try it, geezer!
I knew you'd get in my way.
Damn right I will!
Nopperabo and Hijikata Toshizo want to make Asirpa-san an idol for the Ainu,
and a fighter in the war for independence, right?
My thoughts on the matter are somewhat different.
We don't need women or child soldiers.
But if they don't care about the future of their people,
they can live carefree lives in the mountains.
Then there's no need for you two to kill each other!
I want to ask you...
What happens to the Ainu in the future you see?
The lumber resources of Hokkaido will be drained dry at this rate.
I would make coal mining the economic foundation of the Ezo Republic.
I would bring in foreigners from outside to develop the mines and make our nation powerful.
The Yamato people have always lived alone on the mainland.
But the Ainu have lived alongside the minorities of the far east,
as well as the Russians, for generations.
They can be the connection that forms a nation composed of different ethnic groups.
The Hokkaido Ainu and the Karufuto Ainu.
And the blue-eyed Poles that have been oppressed by the Russian Czars.
You, Asirpa, who share their blood,
are the perfect person to rule such a multicultural nation.
The Ezo Republic?
Better than Lt. Tsurumi, but not much...
I don't want the 7th Division taking the Ainu gold, no matter what.
Lt. Tsurumi took all the tattooed skins that Sugimoto had.
But we have new skins that neither you nor Tsurumi are aware of.
We have to work together.
That's Asirpa?
She's changed since the last time we met.
She's standing tall against those proud warriors.
I forgot about Ueji.
The pain...
I'll show the skins of Botaro and Matsuda Heita.
So I want you to show me the skins you have.
We don't have them all yet, so we can't break the code.
But I want to see them.
I'll allow it as long as you're the only one to see them.
No...
It's not "Horkew Oskoni"?
Golden Kamuy
I realized that all the words in the tattooed skins followed a rule.
I checked the copies made of Shiraishi, Matsuda Heita, Botaro, and Gansoku's tattoos.
They all followed the rule.
Which belonged to the taxidermist?
This one.
It's likely a fake.
Yeah, this doesn't follow the rule.
And you're sure this one is real?
I skinned Sekiya and Yoichiro myself.
These follow the rule.
And this one?
Ogata gained this in a Barato gambling hall.
Ogata, huh?
That's suspicious.
Do you know the prisoner this skin belonged to?
No.
It's not clear where it came from, but it follows the rule.
The problem is... this one.
How did you get this one?
Kantaro obtained it at an oil wholesaler.
I believe it to be real.
Why?
Because Lt. Tsurumi was after it as well.
But this one doesn't follow the rule.
This kanji can be read "Ha" right?
It's also read "U".
There's another strong reason to believe that both are real.
The taxidermist made six fakes.
If the one the taxidermist's cat found is a fake,
then that leaves five.
Ariko Ipopte stole those five from Tsurumi.
Though we can assume that
he was allowed to do so by Lt. Tsurumi, who wanted us to have the false skins.
This would mean that all six fakes are here.
And you're absolutely sure that the five skins this man brought were fakes?
It's extremely likely.
Of the five fakes, these three don't follow the rules.
That's fine.
But these two do...
Am I wrong?
The key to unlocking the skins isn't Aca's name?
Asirpa, Ogata told me that you had the key to unlocking the code.
Is that true?
Tell me.
Tell me, right here, right now.
I don't know.
I can't be sure without all the skins.
And even if we did find all the skins, without a way to determine which are fakes,
we can't crack the code.
I mixed real skins in with the ones I gave to Ariko.
The tattoos must follow some law, some rule.
If the ones they thought were real were fake,
and the ones they thought were fake were real...
It will confuse them enough that I can stop them from decoding it.
Where's Mr. Hood?
Hiding somewhere.
Even if Ogata gets close, he'll keep the kitty away.
Kadokura, you ass, you knew that Nopperabo was a fake!
Shut up! Who even cares at this point?
You can't talk to me like that!
That scared the shit out of me, damn it!
Ushiyama-san, if we find the gold, what will you do with your share?
Hmm...
Maybe I'll use it as a prize to lure strong people from around the world,
and have a battle to determine who's the strongest.
That sounds just like you.
What's your dream, Shiraishi?
My dream?
Go to a brothel and get some good food.
You do that all the time anyway!
Ipopte.
Your father was among the seven Ainu killed at Tomakomai, right?
I didn't even realize that my father was trying to use the gold to buy weapons
for an Ainu rebellion.
He was always a quiet, peaceful man. I had no idea he was thinking of such a thing...
They say my father, Wilk, killed your father and the others.
But I believe he didn't.
They were all trying to work together for a better future for the Ainu.
I'm sure that as we search for the gold, we'll find what happened to our fathers.
Asirpa, I'm the type of Ainu who's never really cared about his people.
Get your asses to sleep!
There are only two days left until the next Sapporo serial murder occurs!
We need to get up early to investigate!
Shut up, damn it!
You can do it... You can do it.
My hands are dried stiff.
I can't find the killer.
Lt. Tsurumi will scold me!
No matter how much I rub one out, I get nowhere.
I stare at my hands... Heheh.
Was that a police officer talking about an investigation?
"I stare at my hands," huh?
You could write a good poem with that.
What's the next crime scene...
Which is it?
This is the church, so that way?
This is...
I've figured it out!
I'm sure of it!
Tomorrow's murder scene will be here!
You're a reporter, right?
What do you mean you know where the next murder will be?
You're the cop who was at the crime scene!
Are you trying to steal my prize?
Will this map tell me?
Give me that map.
I refuse!
I have to tell Hijikata-san and the others.
Well, whatever.
I can just look at the map.
A Nambu semi-automatic pistol?
The 7th Division!
You there! What are you doing?
I know you're there.
Come out.
Tobacco
The red light district is filled with shops of inexplicable purpose.
These were secret brothels that came to be called "the strange shops."
The government must be behind the killings.
Why?
They come and arrest us all the time. They call it tanuki-hunting.
There are lots of streetwalkers like us here, who they can't tax.
It's their way of saying we need to work at a licensed shop if we don't want to get killed.
No matter what their reason, we need to find and stop this dangerous person.
Let's hurry! The killer will appear in this area tonight!
At the licensed brothels and strange shops, the staff always see your face.
They'll go after the streetwalkers. I'm sure of it.
If we can talk to every one we find,
we can narrow down the places where the criminal will appear.
For tonight, at least, you need to stay inside.
You'll be killed if you don't.
Then you stay with me tonight!
The girl who was killed was my best friend.
We tried so hard to survive, sharing our food when we were starving.
But the horrible way she was killed...
What did we do to deserve that?
I'll avenge her, I promise.
I'll stomp the killer into paste.
There's no time left!
We won't be able to get every single streetwalker inside!
Hurry!
If we fail tonight, the criminal will disappear!
Oh no! The sun's setting!
It's over!
We can't find the crime scene in this huge city!
Ishikawa Takuboku?
What's wrong, Ishikawa?
What happened to you?
The 7th Division came after me so I hid in the gutters.
Because I know where the next crime scene will be!
Ishikawa...
The criminal is copying the times of Jack the Ripper's crimes as well.
There's still time before late tonight.
Look at this map.
This is the Toyohira River.
This is the church in the eastern district slum.
And the locations of the four murders.
Wait.
This isn't a map of Sapporo.
What map is this?
Whitechapel in London.
There's a church called
St. Botolph without Aldgate, known as the Prostitute's Church.
The prostitutes would walk around the church and attract their customers there
so that the police wouldn't target them.
The location of the Thames River, crime scenes, and the church...
The scenes of the Whitechapel crimes...
If you overlay them with a map of Sapporo...
They match perfectly.
The criminal is trying to recreate the exact location of
the Jack the Ripper killings here in Sapporo,
a town that's laid out similarly to Whitechapel.
Jack the Ripper's fifth murder was here.
In other words, the location of the last murder in Sapporo...
is the Sapporo Beer Factory!
I've told you everything I know.
Fine. Get to sleep.
Well done, Ishikawa.
You've impressed me.
Your Ezo Republic sounds like a lot of fun.
I want to see this to the end no matter what.
Hey, Takuboku-chan,
isn't this postcard of the famous oiran who's come from Tokyo to the Sapporo Susukino Brothel?
Were you hoping that you could solve this crime and get a shot at her?
The only way to fuck an oiran is to get her to like you! No amount of money will do it!
You'd be better off dying and being reincarnated as a grasshopper.
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