What's going on?
When you're standing on the station platform,
do you ever think about what would happen?
What would happen if you jumped onto the tracks.
Nope.
Wow, talk about getting straight to the point.
Do you want to die, Kotake?
Are you being bullied?
Or are you having issues at home with your parents?
You've misunderstood me.
It's not that I want to die,
I'm just talking about jumping onto the railway tracks.
That's the same thing, right?
If you dive in front of train, in most cases, you die.
That's true, but...
I don't mean it like that.
I've got it!
I knew you would, Sen-chan!
You haven't once thought about wanting to die, have you, Kaname?
Me?
No, I haven't.
Isn't that obvious?
Have you, Sen-chan?
Thought about wanting to die, that is.
Nope.
What the hell was that about?
Don't go scaring us like that.
It's all because you started talking about weird stuff.
Is it really that weird?
It's majorly weird.
Talking like that when you don't have a reason to die.
What do you think, Sen-chan?
I...
Sen-chan!
Maki's calling for you.
Oh, she is?
What's up?
It's my duty day.
Sen-chan!
Yeah, yeah.
I'm coming now.
Jeez, I told you this morning as well.
You did?
What's with the big show of pretending you didn't know?
He sure is forgetful.
You're just overly pedantic when it comes to remembering things, Kaname.
Yeah, but that's better than forgetting stuff, right?
Whether it's sad things, or embarrassing things,
humans can live on because they can forget such things.
You borrowed those words from someone else, didn't you?
Have I been found out?!
There was this game I completed the other day...
Easy does it...
This level's tricky.
What's up, Kaname?
Kotake, have you heard the news?
Has an airplane crashed?
Or has the school burned down or something?
You idiot, not that.
Sen-chan is dead.
You piece of shit host. Who the hell do you think you are?
I'm sorry!
Forgive me!
Going and getting one of our girls pregnant...
Saying you're sorry doesn't fix shit!
You think an abortion would put an end to the whole issue?! You stupid fuck.
Piece of shit.
Wait.
My job comes first.
Job?!
This area is off-limits.
Get the hell out of here now!
You little-
Take that!
Thanks for saving me.
You're certainly strong.
What you just did was really something.
You have a letter!
A letter?
It's a shigofumi.
A letter delivered from the afterlife.
Sounds interesting.
So, who's it from?
Here's hoping it's from a beautiful woman.
Wh-What is this?
I already told you.
It's from the afterlife.
Right, Mr. Dad?
My job here is done.
Oh, yeah, right.
W-Wait a moment.
You weren't here to save me?
I'm just a courier.
Helping those in trouble isn't part of my job.
Poor guy.
What goes around, comes around.
I'd say the woman he managed to woo was just as big an idiot as he was.
But you know, in the end, those types of women...
From the Fukuin Department?
Yeah.
Apparently we have another individual to deal with.
I see.
There was no suicide note or anything, was there?
On the apartment building rooftop, that is.
I just don't understand what goes through the minds of people who want to die.
If something in life's really that bad, you should just run away.
Yeah, there's no point in dying because of it.
Did you know Senkawa Daiki-kun?
Was he being bullied?
What news hour is this going to be shown on?
I've gotta tell my parents so they can record it for me.
Hey, you!
Mind if we ask you a few questions?
I can't believe you just went and committed suicide on us, Sen-chan.
He was our friend as well.
I wish he'd talked to me about his problems.
Friend?
Was he?
Kotake.
Next, it's your turn.
To do what?
The Principal and the others are calling for you.
This issue is something which concerns the honor of our school!
Tell us anything you know.
Passing on information to the staff is a student's duty.
You were friends with him, weren't you?!
Why did Senkawa die?!
Anything is fine, just talk to us.
So, there weren't any issues at home, after all?
Indeed, there were no problems at home at all.
I believe Daiki died due to some sort of issue at school.
Oh, really?
Why the hell did they ask me?
Because you were one of Sen-chan's friends.
So were you.
You think...?
Both teachers and classmates have asked me all sorts of questions about Sen-chan's death, right?
But I wasn't able to answer a single question.
Now that I think about it,
I didn't actually know any basic facts, like how many people were in his family,
what he wanted to do after finishing school, or what his dreams were.
So, I'm wondering if we were even really friends,
or just happened to hang out together this whole time.
That's obvious.
It was normal not to know what he was thinking.
Yeah, but...
Back in middle school, there was this girl who suddenly shot her dad.
I was actually pretty close friends with her.
Yet, despite that, I could never have imagined that she'd do such a thing.
Even now.
You just don't know, do you?
That's right, you just don't know.
What other people are thinking, that is.
Honestly...
Why the heck do humans go around doing things like committing suicide?
Whatever happened to the survival instinct?
Isn't this that whole "sacrilege against the sanctity of life" thing?
It's because they're flawed.
Humans are flawed.
Suicide...
Incest...
Murdering one's parents...
The only life form tainted with so many flaws is a human being.
Yeah!
Humans sure are messed up!
Next, we're going to discuss the news about the mysterious suicide of Senkawa Daiki-kun.
There wasn't a suicide note, was there?
Is there any possibility it was an accident?
No, this is a clear cut case of bullying.
This kind of case occurs regularly, when the school doesn't grasp the reality of bullying.
People have also mentioned the possibility of abuse by the boy's father.
No, it's clearly a case of apathy syndrome.
There was nothing worth living for,
and as he got older-
You're all wrong.
Sen-chan wouldn't die for any of those reasons.
So, why did he?
Why did Sen-chan die?
There isn't any reason.
You just don't know.
What other people are thinking, that is.
Although there's no way of knowing, you'd nevertheless like to, right?
Who's that?
No one move!
This room is now...
a courtroom.
The father of Senkawa Daiki-kun, the boy who committed suicide yesterday,
has taken his son's classmates hostage and barricaded himself inside their classroom.
Please calm down!
According to his spouse,
Family members, please make your way over here.
he appears to have been brooding...
All I want is to find out why my son died.
You understand where I'm coming from, don't you?
You'll talk to me, won't you?
About Daiki.
What happened to my son?
I-I don't know!
Not a thing!
He wouldn't have died without a reason, now, would he?
But, he wasn't being bullied or anything!
It's the truth!
Sen-chan was always cheerful.
Ladies and gentlemen, please follow the instructions of the police!
Failing to do so could provoke the culprit!
Noji-san!
Have you come to lend a hand?
No, that's not why I'm here.
My son is inside.
Hey, you!
What's the matter?
No, it's nothing.
Okay, let me rephrase the question for you.
Who was my son's closest friend?
No doubt about it, he's in here, right?
Sen-chan is dead.
Apparently he jumped off the top of an apartment block.
What's with that?
Sen-chan said it himself, didn't he?
That he hadn't ever thought about death.
He said that this afternoon.
Not even half a day has passed since then.
Why did he do it?
Have you, Sen-chan?
Thought about wanting to die, that is.
Nope.
Was it you?
I heard you were friends with my son.
Thank you.
No, not at all.
You should know, right?
Who drove Daiki to his death, that is.
I don't.
Are you protecting someone?
Or, is it your school report that you're worried about?
If you were one of Daiki's friends, don't you think you could please tell me why?
Friend...
If you were his friend, surely you can't just let the person responsible for his death stroll free?
Why did Sen-chan die?
What?
Don't you, as his father, know why?
Don't you know why?!
That's enough, Kotake!
I want to know why as well!
The reason why Sen-chan died!
Please ignore him.
Ever since Daiki-kun died, he's been quite troubled by it all...
I'm not the one who should know!
I didn't abuse him...
I...
Two hours have passed since the children were taken hostage.
Despite that, the culprit has yet to issue any demands.
Sorry about this, Noji-san.
Having you on standby.
Not at all, it's all part of the job.
Kaname...
A SWAT team from the Metropolitan Police Department, Security Squad,
Security Department #1, comprised of 24 men, has just arrived on the scene.
Roger.
It'll all be over in a flash...
Who are...
you?
A courier for shigofumi.
Shigofumi?
A letter from the afterlife.
The afterlife?
Is that...
The sender is Senkawa Daiki.
The addressee is Kotake Tooru.
For me?
Sen-chan wrote this?
Hold it!
If it's a letter from Daiki, I'll read it.
Wh-What the...
Don't just go opening that!
The letter is addressed to me.
It's a letter from my own son!
It's addressed to me!
Shut up!
Could it be her...?
My job is to deliver shigofumi.
Do not get in my way.
W-Wait!
Please, read it out aloud to me.
I also want to know why.
I understand.
"Kotake,"
"this isn't really that big of a deal,"
"but I was told that I might as well write something, since it's my right to do so."
"What we started talking about midway during our conversation on the school roof,"
kind of got me thinking.
I've thought about it before, you know.
Wondering what would happen if I jumped, that is.
There are times when you just feel like that, aren't there?
It wasn't that I wanted to die or anything.
I guess, I just didn't really want to live, either.
So that's how it was.
Sen-chan...
just jumped by accident.
That's why he died.
I, too, sometimes wonder what would happen if I fell by accident.
"I had no reason to die."
"Just like when you decide to take a different route,"
"or chose to eat a fried noodle baguette for lunch."
"It was just that same sort of feeling."
It can't be...
What's with that?
What... on earth?
Is that even possible?
Beats me...
I can't believe it...
Let me see that!
This letter has to be fake!
There's no way my son would write such a thing.
Something like this...
Like this...
It's genuine.
What?
Sen-chan wrote that.
No doubt about it.
How do you know?!
Because...
We have him!
We have the culprit!
Any casualties?!
Confirming now.
Everyone is safe.
There's no way that Daiki would commit suicide!
He wasn't that kind of kid!
Because, he was my friend.
Sen-chan, you're okay with me being your friend, right?
"Death doesn't save you."
"You just fade away."
What's that?
Mikawa Kirameki.
Some words by a popular author from a little while back.
Mikawa!
Mikawa.
It's you, isn't it, Mikawa?
Who's that?
It's me!
I was in the same class as you in middle school.
Nojima Kaname.
Mikawa, why did you...
Why did you shoot your father?!
I loved you.
I aspired after you.
What I saw at the end of these feelings I had for you... was it hatred? Or love?
Next time on Shigofumi:
"Tears."