The Silver Case – A Comprehensive Guide

 

Things You should know before playing The Silver Case

This guide will try and help you, the reader, into the onboarding of the The Silver Case world.

Characters

In the Game Manual you have available a neat little chart with all main and relevant characters/parties you’ll encounter along the game’s story. Here you have the page in question:

Protagonists:

Protagonist (Akira)

Age: ??. Akira (real name unknown) is the protagonist of the Transmitter cases in The Silver Case. Initially a member of Republic (Special Forces Unit), he is later recruited into the Heinous Crimes Unit following the failed mission to apprehend Kamui Uehara. The player is asked their name at the beginning of the game, which becomes Akira’s name.

Tokio Moroshima

Placebo / Transmitter

Age: 33. Tokio Morishima is the protagonist of the Placebo chapters. He receives an order from S. Inohana to report on Kamui Uehara. Tokio tries to find information about Kamui as well as following the investigations of the HCU. He is assisted by his ex-girlfriend Erika Yukawa as well as other contacts on the internet.

HCU Unit:

Sumio Kodai

Age: 26. Originally from the industrial city of Mikumo, Sumio was assigned to the Heinous Crimes Unit after graduating from the Central Police Academy. Since then he has served effectively as the backbone of the 24 Wards Police Department. He has a partnership with Kusabi and always likes to get into the heart of an investigation. He has a serious attitude and is above petty disagreements within the department over status and promotion, focusing only on preventing crimes and solving mysteries. His history suggests that he gave up the chance to make a bigger name for himself out of choice, though his real motives remain unclear.

Tetsugoro Kusabi

Age: 44. A veteran agent who is partnered with Sumio, Tetsugoro may give off the impression of a dull-witted man past his prime, but when it comes to investigating crime he is able to act upon instinct and lead the case to its resolution. As a regional agent he headed the Silver Case 20 years ago, which was concluded with his arrest of the hit-man known as “Original Kamui”, Uehara Kamui. His success was rewarded and he was reallocated to the Security Department, but in compliance with the wishes of his former boss Kotobuki, he was made an additional member of the Heinous Crimes Unit at its inauguration. There is also another side to him that is a regular father, scared of losing the affection of his daughter.

Chizuru Hachisuka

Age: 25. Chizuru has a background in crime investigation based on the collection of scientific evidence and data. Level-headed and beautiful, she is the only female member, but in truth no one can stand her. There are often conflicts between her and Kusabi, who prefers to rely on his instincts when solving a case. She possesses a strong desire to advance her career, but she also harbors doubts with regard to her position and role in the HC Unit. While she constantly and swiftly rejects the persistent advances of her partner Morikawa, deep down inside she is actually somewhat attracted to him.

Kiyoshi Morikawa

Age: 38. A companion of Kusabi since the days they worked together as regional agents, Morikawa is a veteran who has served in the HC Unit since its inception. Calm and collected, he is an efficient and talented agent. His colleagues think him somewhat temperamental due to often being absent from the office, unable to locate his whereabouts. At such a time he is to be found at the scene of the crime, conducting thorough investigating in search of valuable evidence. His efforts may go unnoticed, but acquiring information firsthand proves to be an effective approach when it comes to solving cases. He does not hesitate to offer whatever support he can for his team, but looks like he has seen some things that he would not want to talk about to anyone.

Morichika Nakategawa

Age: 38. Nakategawa is a man who always gives off a well-groomed impression. He hates working as a group and often insists on working alone. However, since he used to work in the public sector he has connections to be found in each and every area and can ensure communications with neighboring parties go smoothly. He focuses more on investigating from the police department than searching for clues at the scene of aout of his way to offer Sumio assistance. Or perhaps from another angle you could say he is assisting Kusabi through Sumio.

Shinji Kotobuki

Age: ??. The HCU Chief. Long-time partner of Kusabi for more than 20 years. Has a laid back attitude but cold and unbreaking demeanour. He can always be seen smoking a cigarrete.

Sakura Natsume

Age: 22. She joins the HCU in Case #5 lifecut. His father is Daigo Natsume, a member of the Republic Special Forces Unit and ex-collegue of your character. After an incident in one of the chapters involving his dad, Sakura is determined to join the HCU and catch Kamui.

Other Characters

Uehara Kamui

Age: ??. A dyed-in-the-wool psychopath who gained the title of “the King of Crime” after stabbing a government official to death. Kamui’s motive is completely shrouded in mystery, and it is not known whether he’s acting alone or following orders from some higher power. His victims are major witnesses of suspicious industrial disasters and persons of interest in legal cases which cannot be tried under the current system.

Erika Yukawa

Age: ??. Erika is Tokio’s ex-girlfriend and ex-job collegue. She’s a reporter with a forward, smart and kind personality. She helps Tokio during his investigation. She’s married to Tokio’s ex-boss, S. Inohana

Kaiji Enzawa

Age: ??. Enzawa meets with Tokio at the start of the Placebo storyline. He gives Tokio a bit of info about Kamui and is seen to be a fanatic.

Ryu Munakata

Death-Filling Special Agent (Central Police). He meets usually with Kusabi at the Harakiri baseball practice range.

Hikaru Kobayashi

Age: ??. The kid who’s death we investigate in Case #2, he is said to have died of a heart attack.

Koichi Sugita

Age: ??. Koichi was Hikaru’s best friend. You speak with him in Case #2 to figure out the mistery

Tomonori Furuya (Oldman)

Age: ??. Tomonori is a net user that we are introduced to in Case #4 kamuiDrome. He uses the handle Oldman. He ends up in a website called KamuiNet and starts interacting with the users there.

 

How to Approach Chapter Progression

Chapter progression in The Silver Case should be approached in the following way: First you do a Transmitter chapter, after completing it, a Placebo chapter will unlock, you play that one, after completing the corresponding Placebo chapter you go and play the following Transmitter chapter.

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This is the best way to play the game due to Placebo chapters giving a 3rd perspective on the Transmitter events and laying them out in a more direct and concise manner.

World

*Note and context: This game’s setting happens in a fictitious Kanto Ward called Ward 24 (referencing the real life 23 Kanto Wards) This game seems to translate Ward 24 as “24 Wards” sometimes. But all events only occur inside one ward, Ward 24.

Ward 24 Brief History
(Important for understanding of certain events later in the game as well as the ending)

March 1979
The dispute among the Kanto Big 3 NGO Parties (Nonprofit civic organizations)
Ward 24’s story begins in the Diet-governed, market economy-based socialist state of Kanto. Its economic activities are limited by government regulations, there are severe reductions in corporate taxes and private consumption, as a result, Kanto is exhausted and impoverished.

In the middle of this social and economic crisis, three NGO parties known as the FSO, TRO, and CCO―previously operating as nonprofit organizations, now political parties―had finally forced the government to pay attention through the use of tactics such as exhaustive lobbying and direct communications with citizens.

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FSO: Frontier Faction. Conservative Party. Striving for Political power
TRO: Techo Faction. Extremist Revolutionary Faction. ½ of the Ward 24 government
CCO: Civic Faction. Civilian Participation type. ½ of the Ward 24 government
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As a result, in March of 1979, the “direct governance system” was implemented.

This meant the “volunteerization” of everything from collection and separation of garbage to maintaining public order and security. But this caused a new problem to arise. Since the main source of funding for the three respective factions’ operations was political contributions from a wide range of both corporations and private citizens, the feud among the corporations developed into a war between opposing factions.

Ward 24’s major departments (Communications, Finance, Investment and the Environment) formed around what used to be parts of TRO and CCO, who are now in the political power through an alliance. The three parties became inherently linked to Ward 24. As time went by, this war gradually shifted into a battle between the FSO and the TRO/CCO.

What is The Silver Case?
Under this political and social climate and ‘en route’ to a symposium, TRO/CCO chairman Ginji Nakane was assassinated in front of the TTV Station building. He was stabbed to death. The suspected assassin, Kamui Uehara, then went to the secret headquarters of the TRO/CCO and murdered the 10 top alliance members. Regional Investigation Unit Special Agent Tetsugoro Kusabi arrived at the scene and arrested Uehara. Uehara was thought to have carried out the assassinations alone under contract, but the person or persons who contracted him were never found.

Due to the victims of this attack being elderly, the incident was christened “The Silver Case”. Taking into consideration the possible effects on society, only the name “Kamui Uehara” made it into the mass media.

In January 1980 the Ward 24 was officially recognized by the government as a Special Administrative Region

February 1980
Kaoru Hachisuka is appointed as the first mayor of the “24 Wards”.
As a means of avoiding unwanted conflict, the primary center of the government and Department of Finance are established around the former TRO, while the Department of the Environment and Department of Investment are run mainly by the former CCO.

However, the Department of Security is organized into a combination of the two factions: the Central Police Department/Heinous Crimes Unit (former TRO) and Public Security Department/Secret Security Unit/Special Forces Units (former CCO).

This is all lore you should be aware when entering into the game. It will become more relevant after Case #3.

Controls

These are some important notes to remember while playing TSC and even after being taught how the Menu Window works in Case 0:

Keyboard
When playing with a keyboard you must remember the letters “MCIS”: Move – Contact – Instrument – Save.
Each keyboard key corresponds to a shortcut to each of these functions in the Menu Window.
This is super useful especially while moving, being able to “Contact” or interact directly with people or objects in the environment while moving instead of having to go back from Movement to the Window Menu and select Contact to interact is much a welcome addition to this remake.

Controller
While moving you can press the Y button to interact or “Contact” with a character or object, The I and S options can only be accessed through the Menu wheel while using a controller (You can still press those keys in your keyboard while using a controller to access them through shortcut).

Things You Should Know While Playing The Game (Chapter Resumes)

I’ve listed down every chapter in the game and gave a quick rundown and relevant info that can clear some confusion for the player (Please, don’t go to wikis or websites or you’ll just be spoiled). I recommend reading each resume after each chapter so you are sure you got everything. No spoilers for future chapters or future games are mentioned inside any one chapter resume.

TRANSMITTER

In Transmitter we take the role of our own character. We assign his name (although in canon and others, this character can be known as Akira). Transmitter follows the investigations of the Henious Crimes Unit, sort of a Police Department focused on investigating and arresting criminals in the 24th Ward. You are eventually assigned as a member of HCU #2 and begin investigating. The main plot of the game will be followed in this Transmitter story as well as the events regarding Kamui.

Case #0: lunatics

Lunatics start with HCU agent Tetsugoro Kusabi driving his car when all of a sudden he encounters a man holding a severed head, after shooting Kusabi and failing, Kusabi asks Chizuru Hachisuka over radio to pinpoint his location and to call the Special Forces Unit “Republic” to take care of him. They find his location to be in the Cauliflower building. There, Kusabi speaks with the head of the Unit, Natsume, they know each other from before, they comment Kusabi formed the HCU after the Silver Case, and that Natsume has a daughter, Sakura, 22 years old. After that, the Unit enters the building. While scouting the building, they find 2 women, the first in shock and the second dead without a head.

The Prot. arrives to the rooftop, we see the moon hiding behind the clouds, we find a third lady holding a severed head and saying “HELPMEHELPME”. We then see the moon appearing from behind the clouds again and we find the man, pointing a gun at us. He says various things: “ILLKILLYOUIDIDNTDOANYTHINGILLKILLYOUTHATWOMANKILLEDTHEMILLKILLYOUJUSTWANTEDTOPROTECTMIKAILLKILLYOUFORGIVEME”, “REBELPLEASEDONTKILLMEREBELIREALLYDONTWANTTODOTHISREVELSOMEONEHELPME”, “REALGAME”, “DONTWANNADIE”, before Kusabi arrives and kill him.

This starts a fight between the Special Forces and Kusabi, before they learn he’s from the Heinous Crime Unit, moment in which they shut up. He takes a notice on the protagonist and asks why didn’t we kill the suspect. We are explained that in the 24 Wards, everyone that commits crime has some kind of “Crime Virus” and can be transmitted, the HCU and Special Forces dispose of them. We suddenly see an apparition / ghost saying “YOUKILLEDTHEM”, Kusabi is able to see it too and says it’s “a Demon brought by the criminal powers”. The apparition says “STOPIT” “IMNOTDEAD”. Kusabi tells us to shoot it, but instead the 3rd woman has appeared, grabbing the guy’s gun and shooting it, “Why won’t you leave us alone? We were finally going to be together. That woman is gone now!” she says. We are tasked to kill her while she says “Please Help Me. I just couldn’t take that woman anymore. That’s why I killed her, what is wrong with that? I’ll kill you all!” Before dying she speaks in a prophet-like manner signaling the return of “Kamui”, “he will be the God of Chaos”. Kusabi indeed has heard that name before saying “The lion has awakened. This is gonna be a long journey”.

Case #1: decoyman

We open the chapter with Kusabi and Munakata speaking in the Harakiri batting center. They comment on how Kamui’s gonna make a move, that he’ll wake up.

We see an FMV of a woman running and then cut to a report of Kamui Uehara. We learn that he was arrested in 1979 during the “Silver Case”, in 84 he was diagnosed with mental disorders, so the criminal trial was canceled, and was committed into a psych ward. We are told he has killed his hospital’s personal counselor with a harpoon gun and has escaped.

A biosatellite is tracking down Kamui’s location. The “Republic” Spec Ops Unit is tasked with capturing him in the woods in E Ward. 2 officials are killed in duty and 2 injured. Only “noteworthy” thing here is Natsume saying to us “Do you know the phrase “Flower, Sun and Rain”? The answer is inside Kamui, don’t let him get to you, he’s not here, he’s next door, he’s just peeking in” before we loose him. Kamui goes missing.

We are one of the injured men and we find Kusabi and Sumio Kodai from the HCU in the Hospital investigating. Sumio points out we don’t have a real name or any info to our person, we only have the codename we assigned to him. Natsume is the only other survivor but he’s in the ICU. Sumio and Kusabi try to ask us some questions but we’re still in a “state of psychosis”. They are called because of a murder. They take us with them, being the sole witness and all and Kusabi gives us the nickname “Big ♥♥♥♥”.

The crime scene is in the sewers. We meet Morikawa, and see the victim of this crime, a woman, dead, hanged upside down. We learn from 2 cops that Kamui seems to be a top secret criminal, only a rumor to the public. We find another ghost going up the sewers, it says “HELPME” and also a green eyed doll playing an audio about a story and laughing at the end. We go to the HCU HQ, we learn that the worker was seeing Kamui after hours in secret, raping him as he was mentally unable to respond. She was in the end killed with the other woman, Yuka Kawai, who was killed in her home and moved to the sewers. Kusabi points out now that that is too complicated for Kamui.
Kusabi and Sumio are tasked to set up a Stakeout. Before that, Morikawa tells Kusabi about a love letter Munakata gave him that points out to Kamui’s hideout, being the Babylon shopping mall.
We cut to our house and we receive an e-mail from “The Bat”, calling us “Chinchilla”, he tells us he knows us better than ANYONE and that we shouldn’t put our noses where we’re not called”. We then receive a call from Kusabi telling us to go to Babylon with them.

They send us alone into the mall to investigate. Kusabi tells us that Kamui is looking for a woman, 23 years old who went to art school with him. We find a man in the meantime. Tokio Morishima, the protagonist of the Placebo storyline, in a state of shock. Back in the first floor we find 3 ghosts screaming “HELPME”, Tokio says also “KAMUIISCOMING”, we then notice a shadow in the floor, we look up and it’s the woman we’re looking for, dead and in the crystal rooftop, which breaks, letting her body fall.

Back in HQ, the team finds an art studio, Gladiolus, with connections to Kamui, where he used to work with a woman called Ayame Shimohira. We go with Sumio.

There, we meet with Ayame. She tells us Kamui and her used to be partners. Sumio thinks he’s actually been there. He kinda hits on Ayame, she also seems interested. Sumio says all victims had some sort of relation to Kamui and maybe Ayame will be a victim. Sumio says he has a good sense of smell, not a good hearing, but a good smell, specially to predict things. He smells Kamui was there. Ayame acknowledges his sense of smell and we hear a sound coming from the closet, it’s Kamui tied up and gagged by her. We take both of them to the HQ.

Kamui indeed seems to have Hyposthenic Disorder. Apparently Ayame found Kamui passed out outside her door, tied him up and was going to kill him, in revenge for cheating on her. Sumio can read lips and he tells us that Kamui is repeating the word Shelter over and over. Him and Morikawa conclude that Kamui couldn’t kill anyone because of his disorder, someone was framing him while being locked up. We hear a gunshot and find that Hachisuka has been shot and Ayame has gone on the run, we chase her to The Shelters.

We go to the “Shelter exhibition hall” and we look for her. Inside the shelters we find 3 kids roaming the site. Two tell us they’re looking for her mommy and a third kid hides from someone. In the last shelter we find Ayame with a gun, Sumio talks with her. She seems to have the 3 kids hostage. They are Kamui’s kids, from the 3 women killed, Ayame killed them, but couldn’t bring herself to kill the kids. Just as Ayame is about to kill herself, the kids suddenly tell her to stop, that she’s going to kill THEIR BROTHER. Ayame is pregnant with Kamui’s child. At the same time, Kamui feels this and is seen to be sad in HQ.

Ayame is taken into custody and the team is discussing that the details about Kamui were discovered because of an FSO paper company (we learn FSO was an alliance, a party). Kamui seems to have been raised in The Shelters, under The Shelter Kids Policy, a human experiment that looked to manage the personality of kids while raising them, to convert them into specialized people to survive in specific environments, the project was put into action when Kamui was 4 years old, 20 years ago.

Case #2: spectrum

This is the part of the game where events related to Kamui and the main plot stop being relevant until chapter 5. The game’s director, Goichi Suda, stated that The Silver Case is an amalgamation of a lot of things he wanted to do at the time. As a result we can see all of these chapters as individual stories he wanted to tell.

case#2:spectrum
We start the chapter with the narration of a kid named Koichi who’s speaking about his friend Hikaru, who seems to have dissapeared.

We are called in our first official mission as a member of HCU to investigate the misterious death of a man named Kenichi Hiruma in the Typhoon apartment complex.

In the meantime we see Kusabi and Sumio in the stakeout mentioned in the last chapter for a misterious case. From here we get Kusabi’s iconic line “I need 50.000 yen”. We also learn that Sumio is actually in love with Ayame.

We move to Typhoon, this is where the man lived. Seems like the man died from suicide, he dropped from the 3rd floor, but he didn’t have reasons to kill himself, so we investigate it as a murder. Morikawa has to run some “errands” so he leaves us alone.

Eventually we meet the kid named Koichi, Hikaru’s best friend, Koichi is left alone most of day as his mother seems to work all afternoon and night in a “grownup job”. The kid is worried about his friend Hikaru, a transfer student who’s been bullied. He thinks he may have been kidnapped by the kids that bullied them or something fishy, he tells us they had a secret base. He seems to trust us and wants us to be their investigation assistant and come every day to talk. After going we see hte ghost of Hikaru telling us to help Koichi.The following day, Koichi takes us to his secret base and shows us who could be the potential kidnapper, he names the 5 kids that bullied them.

We watch Kusabi and Sumio discuss money and Kusabi is out of it. He asks Sumio for 50000 yen and Sumio just asks Naka for the 50000 yen. The following day we learn that Kusabi’s debt has gone to 100000 yen. And wonders how long has the stakeout been, to which Sumio answers “Well, it can’t be helped”. Kusabi gets mad at the use of those words. Explains the sotry of when he was at regional, Chief Kotobuki told him that “Detectives don’t use the words ‘Can’t be helped’, don’t ever say that in front of me again”, he looked like he was going to stab Kusabi. Kusabi tells Sumio that “If we give up, we lose. That’s a detective’s jobe. Never use those words again” to which Sumio replies “Ok, then. If I want to die I’ll just use those words”, to which Kusabi responds “Oh yeah, don’t worry, I’ll kill your a*s”.

In our house we recieve a mail from a “Takeshi Kinjo”. He tells us that he’s eager to meet us and that we give “the girl” his regards if we see her, she’s bound to be late, but she’s not bad, that she’ll like us, but please we don’t stop her, she just wants to enter into a new world, so Kinjo just wants to save her. And that we please give him our support.

Back with the investigation we find Chizuru off duty being quite hard. Morikawa asks us to leave them alone, they seem to be in some kind of relationship.

We interview everyone we can in Typhoon, between them we find Tokio Morishima, who lives here. The building manager also tells us that Hikaru had a weak heart, Koichi and Hikaru were playing and he suddenly had a heart attack and a kid Koichi’s age should have had a bad shock.
When we go to the parking lot we find a furious ghost screaming “I WON’T ALLOW IT. I WON’T LET ANYONE BULLY KOICHI”. When we see Koichi calling us from his apartment, we see Hikaru’s spirit saying “FORGIVE ME KOICHI”. We go up to see Koichi and he tells us Hikaru was afraid of something “that day”. He then remembers someone from the third floor was watching Hikaru (Kenichi Hiruma), apparently they were chased by him for some reason.

We go back to HQ and Morikawa tells us Koichi is the key to all of this, that he seems to have some memories key to the case buried deep down and we must take them back to light. He then makes a 100 question quiz just to prove what we’re made of. Even Kotobuki approves.

We go back one last time with Koichi who explains the guy went after them again, apparently he felt a jealous rage due to seeing them playing outside as he had problems with his “autonomic nerves” which prevented him from living a normal life, “he had no place at home or at work”, so he chased them, wanting to kill them. But this time, in the end, they were forced to be separated and Hikaru had a heart attack while being chased by Hiruma, which is whatHiruma intended. Pressured by the guilt of leaving Hikaru and not being able to protect him, Koichi actually tried to die, like his friend, approaching Hiruma later, so Hikaru would forgive him for leaving him. But something happened and the one ending up dying was Hiruma.

We finally cut to Kusabi and Sumio who after a week in Stakeout see something “glittering” in whatever they are watching.

Case #3: parade

Case 3 starts with the title sorrounded by machinery, then we are presented a poem and images of some kids in a mountain being chased by creatures and sorrounded by factories.

A princess and 3 young boys.
Memories
The clouds turned black, and the village died off
Afterward, the nightmare eating chimera disappears with the wind

We then see an FMV of a girl under a tree looking up to the moon, then hidden by the clouds

We cut to the Tetsu and Sumio stakeout. We are with them. Sumio is talking about fantasy. He says it is made to “brainwash kids” and control them. He thinks fantasies are just realistic stories without all the happy stuff. He speaks about a fairytale from his hometown:

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess.
A terrible giant serpent fell in love with her. The serpent had taken over the land. He invaded it, turned the king into stone and took her away.
Then came a band of heroes.
To rescue the princess, theyu ventured to the huge castle. The heroes combined their powers and fought the serpent… And then they defeated it.
Everything was fine and good…

He tells us to think about it, it’s been tweaked to make it nice. The realistic parts have been ofuscated.

The princess was dead, she was killed by the serpent.
And there is no serpent. It was a human.
The heroes were people too.
Humans killed another human for revenge.
“That’s just a crime”.
Fairytales are crimes. The unrealistic fantasy that happens in real life is crime.

After a patrol around the house we are looking over, the house explodes.
Tetsu then tells Sumio to burn this image into his eyeballs, to never forget it. Sumio assures him he never will.

July 12:
Back in HQ we are introduced to Sakaguchi, the Advisor from the Central Police and his Consultant Administrator, Michiru Kosaka. Sumio expands some info telling us that Central is a group of criminal investigators, traditional crimes have dropped so much that things aren’t done their way anymore. This case is about a kidnapping “so these guys showed up”.

Sakaguchi explains that 2 months ago a note was sent to the Yukimura Zaibatsu (The Yakimura Bussiness Group. Yuki-mura means “Snow town”) saying “The Monkey Laughs”, it was a code only understood by Chairman Yukimura. For that reason a Stakeout was put in place on his residence. As we know, the house ended up getting hit. Apparently no mortal victims were found. However Chairman Yukimura has been missing since then. The priority is to find Yukimura as well as the bomber.
Apparently the Yukimura Group holds great influence over the national economy.

We then see Sakaguchi speaking with Kotobuki, the HCU boss, he just mentions how the HCU agents are like a bunch of Pitbulls, that Kotobuki should watch his back if they ever try to bite him.

Then Kosaka informs about a video that has just arrived from the perpretator. The video shows the Chairman, alive, strapped to a chair to a side in a basement, in the center there’s an inflatable female doll sitting on a chair and a light shinning on her. Nothing else is shown. No petition is shown.

We then drive to “Snow Tower”, the HQ for the Yukimura Zaibatsu. Here Sumio and Tetsu comment on how the Tower has some sense of guilt in the air. We then go to the Presiden’ts room. Kosaka is here. We see there are some croocked business men talking about who will succeess the new chairman when he dies. Tetsu then realizes that whatever they are looking, it’s not in the tower.

July 19:
7 days later, we jump to “3 Monkeys’ apartment”. “Suspect in custody”. 3 Monkeys is the name given by the team to the perpetrator. The HCU had the eye on someone, when they were going to detain him at his apartment, he’s found to have hanged himself. His name was Hanao Hiseki.

July 22:
A new video arrives. We see the silhouette of a man lighting a cigarrete. The camera then pans to a side to show Yukimura still strapped. We then cut back to the inflatable doll being showered in some sort of dark liquid.
The police interprets the video as that someone is going to be killed next. Sakaguchi tells Kosaka to put it all in finding out anything.

July 23:
Back in HQ, Kosaka contacts Tetsu to tell him that he’s ready to commit Harakiri, asking for a last favor to Tetsu. Tetsu just answers “I dare you to cut!!”. Apparently Central asks HCU to investigate. Sumio analyses the video and finds a “watermark”, an invisible message hidden in the DCT coefficient:
“July 26th, 600 billion-yen diamond”

July 25:
Police realizes that the only way to get 600 billion yen is to put in mortage all Yukimura-owned land. In the end Kosaka didn’t die.

July 26:
The suspect specifies to bring the 600 billion-yen diamond with us to a trash processing plant in the industrial zone. We follow the suspect’s indications and go up one of the cremator towers. We see the suspect on the other tower, a man with a bionic eye, and a face mask. He launches a rope to us and we hand the diamond through it. When he recieves it, he says “Kill the past”, removing his mask to reveal a sewd up mouth. He then jumps into the chimney, getting burned. At the bottom, the firefighters open the tower and find the Chairman drugged and unconcious.

July 27:
In HQ, people discuss how Yukimura is ruined. Also the suspect, left no remains, nothing, not even the diamond. Kosaka arrives and speaks with Tetsu, they want him in Central but he denies. They discuss about the nature of the case, no mortal innocent victims, but they have ruined a great number of them

Suddenly we are shown a scene in the street. Yukimura is meeting with Sumio.

Later, the Yakimura Group has a meeting at Snow Tower. Here we see all members of the board and the chairman. Yukimura speaks of the great glory and honor the name brings, but that history is built over sacrifices and he wants to liquidate that history right there. He activates a detonator and blows the whole tower up.

After this, Central and HCU will be taken as a joke, Sakaguchi resigned to ensure all his subordinates’ jobs. Tetsu mentions how he wants to learn all about the Yukimura history, we drive with him ot the Yukimura warehouse.

Here we find a way down to the basement and find what Tetsu was looking for. There’s a series of documents telling the incident of “Mikumo 77”:

The Yukimura group opened a factory in the town of Mikumo. The factory was releasing waste materials to the town’s water. This caused many protests from the townfolk asking for the factory to close. After years of inspection manipulation and worsened health conditions of the townfolk, tensions were high. The wastes contained addictive narcotic materials that caused hallucinations and erratic behaviour. One night the daughter of one of the factory managers, Riru Yukimura, was kidnapped by a mob during a parade, she was raped and killed. In the incident, the girl’s friends, 3 kids, were injured. These 3 kids grew to form “The Mikumo Boys” which have threatened the Yukimura to publish the truth. “The leader of the group is named SuXXo XXXXi”

Here Tetsu is able to link the reports with Sumio’s fairytale. “Let’s go see his a*s off”

We fly in Helicopter to Mikumo. Here we find Sumio.

He mentions being nostalgic, “this final parade had to be big”. He’s sorry for being happy. Kusabi says there are going to be fireworks and asks Sumio to watch them together.

We fly away as the village explodes, the girl from the fmv from the beginning appears, sitting on a chair, disappearing.

Sumio mentions he went this far to Kill the past. All of him was there. Kusabi says he’s an idiot, but they agree moving forward is the best. They remember Sumio’s first day in HCU, they talk about getting Sumio a new suit, but they never buy it. Kusabi tells him they’ll buy that suit when he gets old, that is. “Keep confident. Live Positively.”

This ending is meant to be kinda cryptic. It is better explained in PLACEBO *3: TSUKI

Case #4: kamuiDrone

We start the chapter with a chat room. We see some individuals speaking about the relation people have with the net. In storms “oldman” speaking about believing in the net and its powers, god resciding in it. “BELIEVE IN THE NET”.

We cut to our room, we read an email from Tokio explaining he figured out the mystery of Mikumo, he liked Sumio and feels sorry for Kusabi. He gives us info, he’s investigating a case of dissapearing women related to the world of the underground, a club, Ronny Rockets.

We cut to “Tomonori Furuya’s basement”, a guy with glasses in his computer, he’s “oldman” from the beginning. He’s talking with people online about parent-child relationships. oldman comments he won’t be back around that chat room, people there will miss him, to which he responds for himself. “♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥”. He starts looking for other websites and stumbles upon a website called “KamuiNet”.

Here there are criminal records and assasinations from Kamui:
– Age 16: Makoto Ishihara, Mitama City Mayor and Shin Yanagi, pres. of Sumikawa Corp., a recycling business that bribed Nakahara. Responsible for dumping PCDD illegaly.
– Age 17: Yukio Hata, Vice-Minister of the Kanto Ministry of Justice.
– Age 18: 5 male junior high school students who violated and killed a 17-year-old female.
– Age 19: Toshiki Sato from the Church of Psyentology. This cult forced members to refrain from giving birth and get poisoned.
– Age 20: The Silver Case “Dispute among the 3 Kanto NGO Parties: TRO/CCO Chairman Ginji Nakane is assasinated on his way to a symposium recording in front of the TTV station (Dec 7th 1979) same day of publication of corrections regarding the election of the new district mayor. Arrested in site. It was decided he had been contracted, contractor was never found.

We are presented his personal file with almost all info being Unknown. Crimes always occur in winter and victims are major witnesses in cases of human-caused disasters or that can’t be judged under present legal structure. Famous quote: “Kill The Past”.

Back at home we recieve an email from The Bat again calling us “The Main Character”. He warned us to stay away from Morishima. He jokes with us: “Morishima and you are “The same person””, he says Morishima is dangerous and he wants to kill him.

We cut to HCU’s HQ. Naka informs that there has been 15x more dissapearings this month and they’re linked to internet crimes. Then tells a story about an imaginary shy girl that spent all his time in the computer making friends. One day she’d find the darkness. She was drawn to it and lured outside of her home. She bought fashion magazines and sexy clothes. She started going out to night parties. She recieved attention and felt that was her place. Suddenly a guide appeared before her and presented her with a gift of dream papers. “Wait one week and this world will be yours”. On the last day: “I need you. You’re special” appeared in an email. A link, brought her to a site “Dark Angel”. After that, she dissapeared.

Naka’s point: Find that girl. Naka assigns the case to us. He gives us a flyer “The Discovery. Black Site Network”. After this we go to the Ronny Rockets club. (Between the lines we hear, someone saying Mulholland is an entrance to paradise). We show the flyer to a guy called “Teacher”. He gives us a Dark Angel flyer.

We go back to HQ and Naka helps us to enter securely into Dark Angel, we introduce some info and go home. We then recieve an email from the site telling us we will join after an inspection, it will take one week.

We cut then to Kusabi and Sumio having a conversation. They speak about the shape of crime, Sumio believes the Mikumo case would be the last of its kind, hard, unyielding and heavy. They then mention how the emontion-heavy cycle of human interaction can exhaust a person down, but people may adapt to make this process “simpler”. Kusabi says Sumio’s rationalizing what he’s done, it doesn’t change the fact he’s a killer.

Back with Furuya, he seems to have been pestering the people at Kamuinet, becoming an obnoxious figure. Furuya in return has been threatened to be killed. Furuya taunts everyone to come and do it if they can. The people at Kamuinet start tracing him down. Someone is on his side, “Neutral”. They seem to have found Furuya and are going there.

We are then presented a sign saying [Sayaka Baian | ON]
A montage of photos of an anime girl and its idol counterpart appears. In HQ, Naka and the team is investigating an illegal livestream of an idol,Sayaka Baian, a group of people sneaked cameras in her house. HCU bought for 300.000 yen 2 passwords to the stream. Here, we see live footage of the idol in her house. When she’s going to take off her clothes, the stream stops.

The following day, Baian has comitted suicide after learning of the incident, 11 hardcore fans were implicated and arrested. The team discusses the relationship between idols, their online hardcore fanbases, the invasion of privacy through the net and if this is to be expected as an idol. We finish this section with distorted footage of Baian alterning with a field of yellow flowers upside down.
We are then presented a sign saying [Sayaka Baian | OFF]

Kusabi and Sumio speak. Sumio explains he had a dream about Riru, their goddess. She was crying when Mikumo dissapeared. Tetsu says he’s going close to fantasy. He warns Kusabi about something coming and that he’s still his subordinate, nothing’s changed.

We see Furuya destroying kamuinet and opening a new one where he’s the admin. He recieves a mail from Neutral calling him a dictator and crazy. Furuya taunts Neutral to come get him. Next day, a woman calls at Furuya’s door. She’s a woman called Nakama, she’s Neutral. They say they’re both connected by fate and sleep together. Nakama mentions she was looking for him, watching him, that Furuya’s special, he’ll “become the moon, shining brightly in the darkness”, that they’ll create their own world together, he’ll trascend Kamui.

Back to Kusabi and Sumio, Sumio says something is going to happen, asks Kusabi if he’s going to run. They speak about how a person is made by the connections, bonds and emotions that anchor them, that connection can dissapear when they face another person, they can change. Sumio concludes Kusabi is going to run, but he won’t change.

Back to Oldman and Neutral, they are doing an announcement, they have changed their image and are realizing their “purpose”. They are Method Tank (MT), they call themselves gods and want to start a revolution based on love. It will happen 9/9/1999. They quote Kamui, “Kill the past”.

A week has passed and we recieve a mail from “Chairman Kinjo”. we have gained our “passport”. We are tasked to go to the Kinjo Building and “take care of the tardy girl. We are given a link to Method Tank’s website.

Kusabi and Sumio speak about MT, how they’re Kamui ripoffs.

We go to Kinjo Tower, here we find a girl. She mentions Naka is cute because he cried when Baian died. She mentions people think that she’s Neutral, also that yesterday this was lively, but she came late, how she was kinda raised by “them”, suddenly, she speaks about dimensions in computers where undivisible number can be divided, she’s going there. She says she’s happy to have talked to someone one last time. “They forgave me for being late, they’re pretty nice, for aliens”. She says this place needs us. She says goodbye and the screen becomes white.

It’s 9/9/1999, MT accomplish their plan, a massive worldwide blackout.

Kusabi and Munakata meet in the batting center and discuss MT. They were arrested. Muna mentions Kamui is coming back and Kusabi has to kill him but he shouldn’t act, they’re going to smoke the remnants of the FSO.

In the last scene, Kusabi is hearing the news, he mentions MT were a ripoff, nothing important happened.
K: You ok with this Sumio? – Sumio appears magically
S: I told you, didn’t I? It depends on you – He disappears
K: What can I even do? Tell me Sumio…

Case #5: lifecut

We start the chapter with a documentary on Kamui. Apparently after the electricity cut he’s become conscious again and has gone into a new killing spree (which seems to be untrue). The documentary shows us Kamui now has more sympathisers in society.

We cut to Munakata and Kusabi discussing “TRUMP”, a criminal ring under Kamui’s orders that seems to be linked to the government. The HCU is after them. Naka has been ascended to Chief and thus Kotobuki to the General Police (The guys in Case #3). We are introduced to Sakura Natsume and Kenta Mikoshima, new members of the HCU. Sakura is the daughter of Daigo Natsume, the agent with mustache and glasses in Case #0.

From Kusabi and the chief’s conversation we can learn that the factions are uneasy because of the Kamui report leak. Kotobuki says the phrase “It can’t be helped” which was mentioned before as a phrase to never be said. It’s implied that by saying this phrase the Chief asked Kusabi to kill him.
We then meet Kusabi in the Kamui Op, he tells us to not trust the “truth”. Then Morikawa says the chief was killed by Kusabi and has orders to dispose of him. Then Hachisuka says Kamui is not some body but an idea, a “crime virus” that lives in the information people share, this operation wants to kill Kamui on live TV so people understand Kamui is no more. Finally Tokio, who tells us he knows all the secrets and that we read an email he sent us.

Kamui is killed in the end and Kusabi, Morikawa and Chizuru go missing (Later, Naka will order Sakura and Mikoshiba to go after them).

We go back home and read Tokio’s email. He tells us to go to Kinjo tower to look for HCU’s private informer, Takeshi Kinjo. Once there he gives us some revelations:
– Morikawa was on his side
– The heart of the political power in the 24th Ward is in capital (money) invested in the redevelopment of the city. The syndicate or faction that controls this capital is the one with power. This time being the TRO/CCO alliance with FSO fighting to have it. The factions are at war.
– The Silver Case Kamui was a hitman, different from the Case #0 and 1 Kamui, he didn’t kill because of ideals, he just took jobs and was contracted by the FSO.
– The FSO is then responsible for the “Kamui” idea / virus. Kamui is meant to live through the “Shelter Kids” policy. They are converted into mindless soldiers who will one day “be possessed” by the Kamui consciousness and become him.
He finally tells us to go visit Mulholland, the cigar shop Tokio frequents.

In the Baseball Center we see Kusabi and Munakata speaking, we learn Kusabi is not affiliated with anyone. And that Kamui is FSO’s tool to disbalance the TRO/CCO alliance, pushing them to fight and that FSO is very little compared to TRO and CCO.

We visit Mulholland and find out there’s a secret door to the underground. Here we find Tokio, who warns us about the people ahead and that Morikawa gave him a notebook, and later Morikawa on a train platform, who tells us to find Kamui, find the truth with our mind’s eye and read his notebook. While speaking, a train arrives, Kusabi is on the train and shoots Morikawa and then hides. We board it and end up in a Mass Production Center. Here, we find Chizuru, she reveals that she’s been behind all of this and her job’s to take care of people that “get in the way”, after asking us if we’re against her, Sakura appears from nowhere and kills her.

Back in the Baseball center we find Munakata speaking with Naka. We learn that Munakata is with the TRO and Naka with the FSO and is tasked to kill him, Kusabi and the Protagonist.
Naka is about to kill Munakata and calls him a “creep who feeds from the lives of young women”, when ironically in Case #4 it’s suggested he likes “younger” women, he reveals he’s the Secretary of the Feminist Confederation and claims that parties don’t matter, there are no factions, 20 years ago and now, anyone’s will has a price. Muna asks if there have been traitors, if that’s why “Ayame knew”, Naka says there are no traitors, just one big faction. He reveals that he (from the FSO) signed “Project Elbow: Ayame Maspro” a project started by the TRO to prove to him that. Naka is killed by Muna and Mikoshiba shows up, he asks if Kusabi actually has something to do with The Silver Case, Muna shoots him to protect Kusabi.

Back with Sakura, she reveals to us more things:
– The government started human testing projects in the underground. The goal was to cultivate the “New Human”.
– For achieving this, they needed to improve the general living conditions. One by creating the HCU and the Special Forces, which for 20 years has been “disposing” of negative elements in society, criminals and people “not suited”.
– Two was The “Shelter Kids“ policy. 1440 kids were raised under specific conditions and being controlled. After 4 years, they were released into the world, with memories erased and this time without being controlled. Some of them are assigned to Special Forces with a new identity.
– The Protagonist is a Shelter Kid, as well as Sakura.
– Kamui is a “manufactured human”. A Shelter Kid is possessed by his “consciousness” when a Kamui is “needed”.
– We are the following Kamui
– Also, Kamui is only the male stock. A Female stock exists: Ayame Maspro (who Naka mentioned moments ago). And her goal is to trap Kamui. There are also 1440 girls in stock for Ayames. The Serial Killer Ayame from Case #1 one, her victims were also 3 Ayames. Chizuru was the first Ayame. Sakura is also an Ayame and the Factory we’re in now is the “ground zero” for these operations.

We come out of the Underground and into the Triangular Towers, this was the home of the Shelter Kids, for 4 years the Kamui generation is trained, let out free, and then replaced for 4 years with the Ayames.
Sakura just tells us that at the top of these there’s a TV Tower and we must go there.

Inside we find the “TRUMP” crime ring assassinated (who are revealed to protect the Shelter Kids and Kamui) by Kusabi. We also find docs about experiments trying to replicate the “Silver Eyes” which have something to do with immortality:
– The original Kamui had one of these implanted and they were trying to make a copy of it through “Ocular Silverization”. Only people with a specific gene can have a Silver Eye, they use the Shelter Kids as test subjects. Tests consisted of ocular surgeries. Of all 2880 kids, none were compatible but the experiment was called a “success” due to how close they were to make it.

In Tower 5 we find Kusabi. He says he’s there to finish the Kamui experiment by destroying the mechanism that transfers Kamui from one host to another. We help him. We go up an elevator to the TV Tower. In the ride, Tetsu explains to us The Silver Case. In this TV Tower he shot Kamui 20 years ago after he killed all TRO/CCO elders. That was Kamui Uehara, the hitman who was called the “Format Kamui”, the one used for the Shelter Kids. The only ones who knew the truth were him, Munakata and the HCU chief. The Silver Case was never done public and the TV Tower was computerized completely and closed.
At the top, there’s the 10 Elders Graveyard and a secret stairway into the heart of the tower. We find a big room with lots of computers connected to a giant brain on the ceiling, the Black Box, the center of the 24th Ward and the Kamui operation. In the middle, a man with glasses is seen spinning in his chair. In the end, we decide to kill him and stop ourselves from becoming Kamui, the Shelter Kids experiment and effectively killing our past with it, living forward facing our true self. You and Kusabi escape to the woods victorious.

We see Kusabi with Munakata speaking about the final fate of Kamui. If the Prot. has Kamui inside him or if the memories of all Kamuis live in him. The case ends with Munakata warning Kusabi about knowing too much. With Kusabi calling us, Munakata’s fate on the air. Kusabi, full of blood, gives us some final words.
Kill the Shadow. Give Birth to the Light

Case #!: danwa

In danwa we have a last conversation with Tetsugoro.

He first confirms to us that Sumio is in Jail.

He then tells us that apparently the version of The Silver Case we learnt during the game was also incorrect. Tetsu’s version says that he didn’t kill Kamui, the elders did it. The elders were after Kamui’s Silver Eye. Aparently Kamui already had the so called Silver Eye implanted and the elders wanted it for its power, mainly the ability to be immortal and be young forever.

Tetsugoro claims that a fight for the eye started between the elders and from among them one stood victorious, killing the rest, Uminosuke Hachisuka, the grandparent of the family.

He ended up claiming the Silver Eye for himself. Tetsu fired at him without killing him. After that, the elder Uminosuke killed his son Kaoru (Mayor of the 24th Ward) and took his place and identity.

In the end of the conversation Sakura confirms that Kamui is back somehow and that Hachisuka has been found dead.

Case #25: whiteout prologue

Feb. 23 2003, 4 years after the events of the main story, In whiteout prologue we start with a new character Shirobayu, who just enterted the HCU to have money to give to his mother and family. He doesn’t care if he dies, he’ll happily die in duty so his mother has a life allowance and government mantainance for his duty.

He’s tasked to look for our character.

We cut to the Harakiri Batting Center, here’ we find Munakata in a wheelchair once more speaking with Michiru Kosaka from the General Police. They start speaking about Sentais (japanese Power Rangers, the original ones), how the shows eventually add more heroes to the group and make the parents buy more toys. They compare the Sentais to the TRUMP Kamui ring asking “if the sentais were like TRUMP, what would they be?” followed by Muna giving Kosaka a Joker card and leaving it open to interpretation, Muna gives Kosaka a hint to know where the info came from, from the “3 of spades”. Kosaka says he’s going to take care of the Joker. Followed by Muna saying “Tell Tetsu I said Hi”, Kosaka tells us they’re still looking for him. They change subject and we learn Sakura and Kosaka were dating but they broke up. Kosaka doesn’t want to talk about it and we learn that apparently Sakura is a tough woman. Befroe Muna leaves, he says he lost 20 kilos and that’s why Kosaka lost Sakura.
Kosaka calls Sakura, saying there’s one more TRUMP member, someone new. Sakura already had a hunch “The only playing cards connected to the world of the underside of the cards are the Joker and the Ace”
Sakura is with our character at the moment. She tells us to take out the Joker before Michiru & Co do it.

We cut to the underground once more looking for The Joker, here there’s a poster in a room announcing the construction of a 25th Ward. Sakura tells us to detain him if necessary and speaks to us about the underground, a place were people gather for its bloody past, seeking Kamui. Sakura also has another hunch, she says Kusabi may come down here also, according to her, he’s a man always wanting to live in the edge of death.

We are found by Shirobayu, the policeman from the beginning, he points a gun at us and says he found The Joker. He tells us to raise both hands and get down on the floor, we don’t comply and he threatens us with shootijng us.

The screen goes blank.
We hear a gunshot.

PLACEBO

Placebo follows the story of Tokio Morishima, an independent investigator who quit his job as a journalist not so long ago. He is tasked by his former boss, S. Inohana to research about Kamui, the main perpretator of The Silver Case. He is assisted by his ex-girlfriend, Erika. After having a fateful event in the Babylon shopping mall, his life will start spiraling slowly into a deep hole where he will have to seek for the correct answers.

report *1: YUME

We are introuced formally to Tokio Morishima. An ex-reporter for a news agency that quit his job and now is working as a gossip / private investigator. He recieves an email from his exboss to research as much as possible from Kamui Uehara, the perpretator of the rumored Silver Case. He accepts as the pay is better than whatever he was doing.

We can see Tokio following the same info the main Transmitter sotoryline uncovers, Kamui scaping the Hospital, killing that woman, the 2 agents in special forces, etc.

We learn that The Silver Case is still a secret to the public, black boxed, as Tokio says. He comes to the conclusion that he must talk to the surviving S.F. agent to get more info about Kamui. But first he still need more info from other sources, so he calls his ex-collegue Erika, who’s not so happy to contact him, but still points him towards the HCU and to talk to Kusabi. (After visiting him, he gets nothing).

Next day, Tokio’s contractor arranges a meeting with a Kamui witness, Enzawa. Once there, Enzawa points him to Babylon Shopping Center, where he saw Kamui 5 days ago. We also learn Enzawa is some kind of Kamui fanatic.

In the middle of the night Tokio wakes up and writes in his memo, but he seems to be in trance or something as what he writes about still hearing a woman’s voice, she’s dying, TOkio writes “and then Kamui…” after laughing and going back to sleep.

Next day Tokio goes to Jack Hammer bar and meets the bartender. He can sense Tokio’s not doing well and recommends him to buy a knife and carve wood.

Back at home he reads the mail, the assasination at the Babylon Shopping center has been made public. Another email from Erika informs him that last night Tokio was at Babylon and was in a trance, rescued by the HCU. Tokio can’t remember anything. He then goes to the HCU to speak with Kusabi, after a thank you for rescuing him, he asks for info about Kamui, Kusabi confirms Kamui is secured but doesn’t speak. HE also points Tokio to investigate Ayame.

Back at home, Tokio writes a memo and acknowledges that he doesn’t remember a thing from yesterday at babylo, only that he went to buy food for Red, he goes there to investigate. He remembers he met with our character and that a girl gave her a light to light his cigarrete. Back at home, Tokio seems to be connecting with the spirit of the woman that lit his cigarrete, who was the same girl that Kamui killed. The woman tells Tokio they are alike in an aspect, she doesn’t disclose exactly that.

Tokio then sends an email to Erika to investigate Ayame, she replies with the name of the studio and her past with Kamui as an artistic duo in the underground scene. Tokio learns Ayame has been taken by the Police, gets a hold of her file but he mentions here origin place is filed as “unknown”, she apparently has no past. Another dead end. Tokio wonders if the killed women was a work of Kamui or Ayame’s.

The following day Kamui’s arrest is made public. Tokio then thinks speaking with Enzawa again might make it. He meets again with Enzawa to talk about Ayame. He thinks Ayame is a special woman, even above Kamui. She’s not a savage. But Ayamae apparently wished for Kamui’s child, not only that, she only wanted one line of descendants, hers, so she killed all other women who had children with him.

Back at home Tokio realizes Ayame was the perpretator of 5 killings and was arrested indeed.

Erika is impressed that Tokio actually knows about the case, she arranges a meeting with him at the Scolba chatroom.

Tokio resumes the whole case to his contractor. Ayame was in a relationship with Kamui in the past. They were artists. They split up. Some time later Ayame learned that Kamui had children with 3 different women, this enraged her. She killed these women copying Kamui’s Modus Operandi. She was already pregnant with Kamui’s child. Kamui was not responsible of anything.

Tokio enters the chatroom with Erika. They point out Ayame’s past is a mystery and speak a bit about jealousy and if there was another reason. Erika wants to know more and asks Tokio to investigate together. After this the chatroom seems to glitch and an unknown user starts speaking with Tokio, kicking Erika out. This user starts speaking about how Tokio apparently saw “amplified Kamui” and how Kamui was sleeping inside him. Tokio ends the chapter by thinking “Tthe Bat…?”

report *2: HANA

In Hana not much happens. As in the last PLACEBO chapter, Tokio learns about the truth behind the case ourt character learns, so we’ll skip those details and focus on events relevant about Tokio’s life and relationships.

We start the chapter learning that Tokio has bought the wood the bartender recommended him to carve, he hopes to carve a paper knife out of the wood. After reading some emails we go to the Jack Hammer bar.

Tokio informs the bartender about this. They start speaking about how carving really makes the time fly, the bartender says it’s because it’s a primitive thing. They say carving wood is easier than understanding women, and that the bartender has given up on looking for the attention of women.

In the morning Tokio is called to the door but day after day he doesn’t care and never answers. Inohawa tells him to inform about Kamui, again, Tokio doesn’t care. Later he sees our character through the window… Tokio says “… Wait how do I know his name?”. Tokio learns about the passing of a neighboor (the same one we investigate in Transmitter). Apparently Tokio also despises our character.

Tokio goes to the Stakeout where Kusabi and Sumio are to ask some questions. Mainly what the HCU has been up to in his apartment building. Kusabi says ♥♥♥♥ but asks Tokio if he’s rich to give him 50.000 yen.

Tokio really wants to know about the HCU case just to report something to his contractor, he doesn’t give a ♥♥♥♥ but just needs to keep reporting or he won’t have a paycheck.

Tokio is about to finish his paper knife and wonders what he will sharpen it with.

Tokio ends up learning about Hikaru, about how was playing, got a heart episode and died later in the hospital, likewise, Kenishi, Hiruma, the guy who commited soucide was 24 years old and worked as an advertisement artist.

Tokio tries to speak with Koichi to no avail. He resorts to Erika’s help to speak with the child, she accepts.

Now Tokio speaks with the bartender and tells him the paper knife is done and he’ll do a wood turtle. (A rather funny scene happens in which TOkio shows the bartender a photo of Red smiling, to which the bartender responds with a “quite nasty, to be honest, the patterns and his face” “He’s smiling!” “That’s a smile?” “Never mind, you hurt my feelings, I’m going home”)

On the morning Tokio finally responds to the door and it’s our character. Tokio, like in Transmitter, has a nasty response to seeing him.

Tokio can see Erika speaking with the kid, they haven’t seen each other in 3 years.

Tokio writes a memo, he says that when he turned 30, being a crime reporter, he was unhappy and he quit. Erika was the trigger for that. But after quitting he also relaized he didn’t know what to do beside reporting.

Back in the bar, the bartender and him speak about carving and later about merits. How people by nature want to be recognized for the things they do.

Later Erika confirms to Tokio that Koichi seems to be repressing the fact that Hikaru died and that our character may help him help Hikaru. Tokio finally meets with Erika in the park and they speak about Koichi and the pureness of kids. Tokio mentions why Koichi got near her and not him, because she looks kind. “Kids are like a mirror that reflects adults as they are”. That the purity Erika sees in Koichi is her own purity. Erika concludes that that’s nonesense, that Tokio has forgotten he was a kid and he’s just trying to use him, adults should be more empathetic with kids, kids are delicate.

Tokio feels the only people that pay attention to him are his turtle and the bartender, everyone else hates him.

Erika tells Tokio later in an email Koichi let her in into his base. Next day he was nowhere to be found, so she went to his school and learnt that Koichi and Hikaru never excelled at anything but were bullied. She also met his mom, who’s a hostess, still a proper and respectable woman. Koichi has been lioving with her since he was 3, divorce.

Tokio then writes in his memos that the reason he’s been hearing ghosts or spirits is beacause of our character, he has acted like a sort of catalyst for Tokio or something.
Tokio then writes to Slash, his hacker contact. He requests him to find the guy who entered the chatroom in the past chapter, the Bat.

Erika calls the following day saying Koichi gave her a letter, she put it in Tokio’s mailbox so he could read it.

The letter addresses Erika: “Dear Big Sis”, here he tells Erika that he can’t play with her anymore, that he rememebered that Hikaru got killed and he killed the guy who killed Hikaru. He tells Erika she looked lonely and decided to spend time with her. She reminded him of Hikaru.

Tokio writes a memo, he reminices about how the purity of this kid made him go over the edge and killed for his friend. Normal people are jundged based on their ability to not kill, Koichi lacked this ability, but this purity was the trigger. But dosn’t the wish to kill come from a pure feeling? Tokio wonders what our character thinks about this…

Tokio finally talks to Red asking him “What was I like a kid? What were you like a kid, Red? How old are you?”

report *3: TSUKI

We begin with Tokio waking up to construction work. Tokio recieves a mail from Slash telling him that they got The Bat’s e-mail. Tokio writes him an e-mail to talk about Kamui. He gets a reply with just some riddles:

pastebin.com – https://pastebin.com/g3KQ6XFG

Tokio figures he has to play their game to get something back, but has no clue about how to solve them.

Tokio goes to MULHOLLAND to buy cigarretes. The old seller lady talks about her husband who died and pictures him still smoking up there.

Tokio goes back home and figures out Erika could help him. He also writes his contractor, Inohana about The Bat. Inohana answers saying that there isn’t anybody named “The Bat” involved with Kamui in the past, but he should be marked for the future.

Tokio goes to the bar, they discuss the riddles and the bartender recognizes the poem from an old word games book called Mother Goose. The bartender figures out the answer for the first riddle: “The Blind Man”.

Tokio writes The Bat back with the answer. They answer telling him that if he solves the rest of the riddles they’ll tell Tokio a fairytale.
Tokio also learns about a virus called FESTA that wipes your computer. Also, constructions are over at this point.

Tokio asks Erika for more help to get the money from the contractor and “go both on a trip to Hawaii”. They meet in the park. She bought the Mother Goose book. From here on out we see a pretty cute scene where both of them look for the answers to the riddles:

pastebin.com – https://pastebin.com/jhG1pF29
[#1]: The Blind Man
[#2]: A needle and a thread
[#3]: Hell
[#4]: Parents

But still they have no idea what all of this means. Erika questions if it’s worth it to chase The Bat, that what if it’s just a loser messing around? But Tokio has a gut feeling it is worth it and there’s something Kamui related hidden here. Tokio writes The Bat with the answers.

The Bat congratulates him and gives him the fairytale. It’s literally the same one, word by word, we were presented at the beginning of Case #3: parade.
Erika then calls Tokio saying the poems themselves might tell them something.

Erika and Tokio meet again at the park to read the fairytale. Erika thinks that the “A princess and three boys” part is specially weird along with the date on the email: August 2nd 1979. Erika then remembers the Mikumo 77 case including the girl’s murder. She then reminisces about how the two of them used to work together like that in the past.

Both of them research and just get public info of the incident (The factory, pollution, the girl’s murder and factory shutdown). Erika calls and tells Tokio about an old man who used to live in Mikumo. She sees him the next day, and finds out the Yukimura Group owned the factory and pushed development in the city. Also the old man told her a story:

A demon marked a girl with a seal that would bring disaster.
The people were all baffled by it.
Some boys sorrounded the girl to protect her, but the people had turned into a violent mob and took her away. The innocent girl had her feathers plucked and was sacrificed.

“And apparently each of the kids in the story is either blind, deaf or dumb”. Erika links the mob with the crooked family riddle.

After this Tokio gets the news about the Yukimura mansion blowing up. Tokio drives to the HCU HQ and talks to Kusabi. But he “can’t tell ♥♥♥♥”.

*3 TSUKI ᴾᴬᴿᵀ ²

12 days later (July 23rd). Erika tells Tokio about suspicions of something happening to the Yukimura chairman. Also, Tokio went to Mikumo 77 for 3 days without finding out anything new, just an empty ghost town. No new mails from The Bat either. He left info about Mikumo to Kusabi hoping he might read it.

Tokio recaps the case info (Tokio seems to think there are only 2 boys and a girl) “the girl was murdered and raped. The water was polluted with a narcotic substance. The 2 (3) kids protecting the girl, one was blind, one deaf and one dumb. 20 years, they should be adults now. What about Kamui, is he related to the Yukimura Group?”

He fasts through his emails and activates the FESTA virus by accident. Luckily he had a backup in his laptop.

Kusabi calls and says he got the info. Yukimura is fine, they’re looking for the bomber and has no leads about the other 2 men. Tokio realizes he has to visit the old Mikumo man (Yamikumo).

He reveals the names of 2 of the 3 kids: Fuyuki and Kiseki, also that the mobb gouged the eyes of one and sewed his eyelids shut with a needle and thread, Other had his mouth filled with oil and sewn shut and the last one had his ears stabbed out, “See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil” (the 3 monkeys). “Now the 2 (3) boys are looking for revenge”.

Inohana writes an email and is pissed at this point. He goes back to the bar.

Tokio recieves a news mail explaining how the bombers commited suicide. 2 individuals. He then recieves a mail from Erika explaining how the chairman had been kidnapped but now is secured, the perpetrators were 2 people from Mikumo, Fuyuki (being deaf mute) and Hiseki (Not Kiseki, being blind), Hiseki died after the mansion explosion and Fuyuki dropped into a smokestack.

The Bat sent an automated e-mail to Tokio titled “parade”, he was Hiseki and when he “recieved your mistaken email” he chose Tokio to be an spectator for his little parade. He ends the email with “Do you like fireworks?”. Tokio then realizes the real Bat faked his email and gave him a fake clue to follow, pointing him to Hiseki.

Erika tells Tokio the old man is dying. He goes to visit. He reveals the girl’s name, Riru, relative to the Yukimura. Finally, he reveals a 4th name, the deaf one (Tokio thought the deaf one was Riru), “Hiseki, have you forgotten? Your boss!”. In his last breath: “….o”.

5 days later, Erika informs Tokio the embargo for the rest of the report should publish. Tokio changes subject and asks Erika to go fishing with him (basically asking her out), to which she hangs up. Tokio then recieves a news report on “Snow Tower exploding by terrorists”, 11 people dead.

Tokio goes to the Batting Center and meets with Sumio.
T: Tell me a fairytale.
S: Go ask your mommy
T: She’s not here, and that blind kid is dead…
S: It’s a long story…

Tokio later recieves a news report about Mikumo exploding. Tokio writes a final memo:
– Sumio answered all of the questions he had
– Sumio, Fuyuki and Hiseki were The Mikumo Boys, Sumio being the leader.
– Riru was part of the Yukimura
– The pollution problem started in Mikumo 77
– There were protests every Sunday, residents called it the “parade”. The parades became bigger every weekend and one day, a violent mob was formed which attacked the Yukimura house. They kidnapped Riru, whi they though was a witch.
– Riru’s parents left her and ran away (“eaten by their parents”).
– The Mikumo boys tried to stop the mob.
– Sumio had his ears stabbed out. Hiseki his eyes sewn and Fuyuki his mouth sewn. They started to plan their revenge from then on out.
– Sumio joined the HCU and became really good at leap reading and faked his tests. Hiseki created special radios and phones for him.
– Their goal was to destroy the Yukimura.
– The plan: Kidnap the chairman, blow his house, Hiseki’s suicide, Fuyuki’s suicide with the diamond, the chairman being fred to blow up his own tower. Finally, they would purify Mikumo and release Riru’s restless soul, blowing it up.

Case #3’s ending then shows us Sumio blowing up Mikumo, he was going to die there, but Kusabi told him to get up on the helicopter and “watch the fireworks together”. The girl we see in FMVs is Riru’s soul resting. Kusabi was taking Sumio to prison. “We’ll buy you a suit once you get old”, when he gets out.

Tokio reflects: “Does Sumio plan to die? Or does he plan to atone for his sins by continuing to live on?” Tokio writes Erika: “Aug 2nd 1979 is when Riru died. […] The Nightmare eating Chimera was the bomb warning all along.”

report *4: AI

We start the chapter on 9/2/99. Tokio wakes up from a weird dream. He was waiting at a bus stop with other children, when the bus arrives, a pretty woman lets everyone in except him because he didn’t have enough “Live weight”.

Tokio reads a mail from Inohana saying Kamuinet was leaked yesterday, also a random girl has mailed him asking him to take bikini / nak*d pictures of her, she frequents Ronny Rockets. Anyway, Tokio is not interested in any of that, he’s more into Sayaka Baian’s case.

He then goes to see Kusabi, he won’t talk about Sumio and also doesn’t know anything about the internet investigations.

Tokio then calls the girl from the email for information about Kamuinet. She’s able to give him an url. Tokio says she’ll recieve a prize. After this he enters Kamuinet, but he’s not able to find anything worth it. Tokio then enters a chat room, and people realizes he’s just lurking and call his attention, he’s warned everyone can see his address and name, then taunts the guy he’s texting with his actual address (the madman!). After this, everyone tells him to ♥♥♥♥ off and he leaves.

Tokio then goes to the bar. The bartender and him speak about the generation gap. The bartender mentions most of net users are in their 30s. He mentions he loves finding personal journals online and read them, that they are written for no one specifically, for him that’s the appeal.

Tokio has the same nightmare once more, this time he had time to ask the woman what that phrase meant, like rangers with cows, when the livestock is not heavy enough they are sent back, Tokio idn’t have enough live weight yet.

He recieves a mail from his mom, Misao Morishima. Here, we learn Tokio never calls her. She mentions a “Taka” teaching her how to use a computer and Tokio’s email address. She says she sent pomegranadts to Tokio. Tokio will reply later to her and just asks himself “Did I like Pomegranates?”

Tokio then recieves a mail from an unknown user (probably The Bat) and warns him as well as the HC Unit about not getting close to kamuiNetor anything Kamui related, attached there’s a paste of the chat conversation Tokio had recently. He then writes Slash and asks him to follow The Bat’s trail. We learn Slash works at the company that hosts the chats Tokio uses.

Back at the bar, Tokio is surprised to find Erika speaking with the bartender. Tokio sits next to her, shows his mother’s pomegranate and gifts it to her. Tokio reveals he’s adopted at this point, he was raised with love and care, more than he needed, so he “ended up like this”. He can’t fae his mom since he was 7. Before that, he can’t remember much. Tokio mentions Erika The Bat is back.

Tokio once more has another nightmare. The woman this time asked Tokio to remember who those kids were, that the bus is coming soon with them and he should be quiet, to not look or speak. If they notice you, they’ll seal you in forever. Tokio thinks it’s weird dreams stick to his memory, is it a dream?

Slash tells Tokio he will try again with The Bat, he also sends Tokio info about kamuiNet, here we get confirmation oldman (Furuya) broke kamuiNet and built a new one.

Tokio then goes to Mulholland. Tokio mentions the old lady he envys her, that she doesn’t seem to have a care of the world.

Now Tokio seems to be dreaming aobut his mom. He closes his eyes in the dream, suddenly something touches his hand. Someone is next to him and can’t let them notice his presence. It is a child’s hand. He can hear a dozen children saying “Hold it, please”. Suddenly someone grabs his shoulder from behind, he opens his eyes and “there stood…”

Slash sends an email mentioning they sent some Bat info to an underground BBS. The Bat seems to have used an abandoned email. But there’s a way to track him. He sends a bonus present, a video of Sayaka Baian’s stream. He reflects on why Baian killed herself, to say goodbye to this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up world. He later mails his mom saying he may visit in the future. Finally, Tokio finally writes a memo about Slash, he doesn’t know who they are, just using them as a tool. He worries that the net can tweak the real world, if that’s true, then The Bat is a real threat.

Yet another nightmare.

Erika writes him saying oldman has a partner, Neutral. She mentions Baian, how the agency is at fault for not doing enough risk management, she wonders is the whole stream was a setup from them. Tokio warns Erika to also be careful, The Bat could be a real threat.
Slash confirms he has The Bat on their sights. He sends Tokio an underground document about the 24th Ward mayoral elections, something written by someone ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the head.

Tokio goes to HCU’s HQ to talk to Kusabi, they both mention they look awful. Kusabi mentions Tokio he sent a mail to our character, “Did I?” asks Tokio. They then speak about how youth is drawn to raw desire, “truths” and confuse it with freedom, but they mix up reality and fiction.

When Tokio gets back home he enters the chat room and starts speaking with “Setsuna” a random user who’s wiling to listen to anyone because “it’s the internet”. He is not open to that. Setsuna asks a lot of simple questions to try to start conversation with no answer. They say goodbye and leave.

Tokio wakes up the following day without having any nightmares. He recieves a mail from The Bat warning him for the last time. He then writes Slash to cease all investigations on The Bat. But he thinks there should be another way to deal with him.

Next morning, Tokio recieves a mail from The Bat telling Tokio he’s dealt with Slash and he’s next. As Tokio didn’t know who they were, The Bat fills him in, Slash was a pale, thin woman who spent her days on the computer and she was above-average for a networker. In panic, he sends a mail to Slash to be sure it’s not a bluff.

Tokio visits the HCU to confirm Slash’s death, but they wer ein a meeting.

Tokio writes Inohana about the whole Bat and Slash ordeal and asks for help on getting info about them. Tokio also set his “own trap” against The Bat, he posted in a bunch of message forums “Find The Bat, who killed Slash” with the goal of drawing his attention.

The following day Enzawa calls. He says he must give us info from Inohana in person. They meet in an empty lot in the D2 district. Enzawa seems to not know Inohana personally, he reveals for the first time Erika is married with Inohana. He then reveals that Tokio is under the assumption he was hired to investigate Kamui, but in reality “the client has been fooling you from the beginning”, the client was actually a syndicate trying to stop Kamui from returning and Enzawa was Tokio’s supervisor. He mentions he doesn’t belong to just one but goes back and forward between syndicates and confirms he’s The Bat. He then explains Tokio actually came into contact with Kamui at Babylon, and that’s a personal issue to him. He reveals he’s been Kamui and Ayame’s neighbors all along since they were young, tasked to watch them. Then, he explains Kamui is not as important as Ayame, that he’s devoted his whole life to her. Suddenly, he points a gun at Tokio. But before he can shoot, a sniper takes him out of nowhere.

He arrives home and explains Erika what happened and that they must end the investigation. She asks to go to a chat room. Tokio explains everything to Erika in detail. Erika thinks then that Tokio may have some Kamui info worth getting killed over and he should continue, but Tokio wants to quit. Tokio reveals Erika he’d use her as a shield, because the contractor was Inohana in theory, in case of any dangerous orders. Erika says to continue together, to protect each other. Tokio says no, he’s made the decision to disappear.

Later, Erika arrives to his house to persuade him, but Tokio just asks her to take care of Red for a while. She accepts, resigned.

That night, the blackout happens. Tokio gives a last farewell to Red while a misterious voice says to Tokio: “Let’s go…”, to which he just replies “Ok…”

report *5 HIKARU

Here we take control of Tokio once more after the events of Case #5, It’s December 27 some days before new Years Eve. We come back to the apartment and get emails from Erika saying Red is good and well, waiting for us. We learn Tokio has Lingering Consciousnesses and ghosts that haunt him daily (the voice from the end of report *4). Between scenes, Tokio seems to be speaking with a specific consciousness who seems to know a lot about the events in the game and we learn some stuff:
– He starts by telling Tokio he’s destined to kill our character and tries to convince him to do so.
– Tokio started hearing ghosts when Kamui awoke at Babylon
– Tokio was a “Shelter Kid”.
– Tokio was a “bug” between the Shelter Kids, his personality started to “break-down”, had a meltdown and was expelled, got to “normal life” once more, erasing his memories.
– One of the goals of the Shelter Kids project was to create the perfect city with the perfect inhabitants.
– The Shelter kids were 4 year olds who had to do mundane simple and minimal stimulation tasks for 4 years (reason why he can’t remember anything before age 7 and why he’s adopted)
– Hachisuka, the actual Mayor, was a lieutenant in one of the citizen activist groups 20 years ago when the plan for the city was coming up. It was a disaster after the Mikumo incident so he proposed to rework the 24th Ward from the ground up. He knew a man called NEZU, a genius programmer, the best one (possibly according to some theories to be the guy we saw spinning in the chair in the Black Box in Case #5), Nezu was the one to put together the 24th Ward revision plan. From his desk, at the touch of a button he can control almost anything in the city, the balance between parties, the Kamui project, the Shelter Kids (which was in the end implemented by the tech faction)…
– For Nezu running the city is like playing a game.
– There was a Shelter Kids prototype which was a failure 20 years ago and then Nezu came with the idea of using Kamui as a “template” which prompted the start of a new generation of Shelter Kids which was successful just because “Kamui always followed orders” which was the objective for the project… And because it seemed fun to Nezu.
– [It is thought that some parts and periods of the Shelter Kids Policy were executed by FSO and others by TRO in seasons. For example, The first batch of kids were TRO, after its failure, the first Prototype Kamui batch of kids were made by FSO, then following this recipe, TRO continued without knowing the implication of FSO and doing the Ocular Silverization experiments and also the Ayame Maspro ones)
– In the end, this back fired because Kamui ended up being a blood thirsty beast, a calamity, and these traits were in the end transferred to all Shelter Kids (which prompted the events in this game and Ayame’s killing spree)
– Apparently this consciousness isn’t aware that Kusabi and our character ended the Kamui transfer process already and he’s telling Tokio that Kamui is about to be transferred into our character.
– The lingering consciousnesses will disappear apparently if Tokio kills us.

In the end, this consciousness finishes by saying “Through and through, what an unfortunate son…” this meaning who’s speaking to Tokio is his own father. (More about this in Case #!)

We also speak about perfection with the bartender, how it is unobtainable and that’s why it’s so appealing, but still by virtue of us humans being filthy and imperfect we can be pure. He puts himself as an example fighting with the fact he’s a g*y man who likes BD*M, having to come with terms with who he really is, facing it straight. Giving the advice to Tokio to just let himself go.

Tokio channels with the ghost of Ayame the serial killer from the beginning of the game and she confesses that Ayame was created to be even more perfect than Kamui, closer to the “Format Kamui”, to fight against the powers that created him, the Yang to the Ying

Erika finds out Tokio is back and they speak in the chatroom. Erika is conducting an investigation about the Silver Case and Kamui. Tokio lets her know about the Shelter Kids for her investigation. Tokio reveals he’ll disappear again, this time away from the 24th Ward for a time. They give their last farewell in a rather touching conversation.

Enzawa sends Tokio a mail from the afterlife and explains it was Nezu who killed him in the end.
He reveals Nezu was aware of Kamui being a monster, it was part of his plan, all because it was fun, like seeing Godzilla destroy the city. To see how the city changed with Kamui’s appearance. Nezu, the ultimate Kamui believer. That’s why Enzawa believed in Ayame, Ayame being pure and a pawn to defeat Kamui. But for some reason Ayame was not going to kill Kamui, that task ended up “in Tokio’s hands”.

Tokio writes an email to himself in case the consciousnesses get to him. In this email he says he’s not going to kill our character. He’ll let everything just go. He’ll delete everything in his computer and “delete the memories in this machine that is me”. The email is meant to act as a memorandum for when he loses his mind.

Tokio wakes up in the bar minutes before New Year and has a note from the bartender telling him that maybe it’s best to run. The spirit of an unknown woman (possibly an Ayame) tells him “THERE IS NO ESCAPE” to which he responds “Shut the ♥♥♥♥ up”. While he goes out from the bar, different spirits try to bring him down mentally. In the end Tokio asks himself “Will these voices disappear one day? Will I go insane eventually?” to which he answers himself with a final “♥♥♥♥ Off”

report *6 Yami

In Yami we follow Tokio 1 year after the events of the game and we are in a plane to Lospass Island (the location in which the game “Flower, Sun and Rain” takes place), Tokio has a flashback from his childhood when the ocular silverization experiments took place. He is woken up by some mails from an unknown sender saying “The Bat is always watching”, another one from Slash saying that he did die but his self is now on the internet and a final string of mails from an unknown sender reminiscing about immortality and how the world would be populated if everyone couldn’t die and also how the soul and consciousness would still exist somehow even though the body is reduced to smithereens. Finally, a girl called Catherine speaks to him. She asks about his eye, Tokio says he has a weird eye and that it’s cursed. The girl seems to know something and calls his eye “an eye that pierces into the darkness, an immortal eye” and if it was stolen. Tokio questions if the girl is even real. Tokio continues with the eye conversation saying he got his own eye out with a spoon and got this new one from his father, that the eye actually chose him, his new host and that it brings the curse of immortality.

Catherine says to replace the curse, “a blessing” he just needs to sleep a little bit more.
Placebo is over.

Catherine is the name of Sumio Mondo’s *Silver Case* in Flower Sun and Rain, the following game in the Kill The Past series. Tokio appears in the game also and this is the moment when he goes to the island.

In the end we can summarise that Tokio has a Silver Eye, he got it from his father, Mayor Hachizuka somehow (either killing him or getting it from his body), that the Silver Eye chose him and finally that he’s running away like we saw in the end of the las Placebo chapter.

Things You Should Know After Playing (Various Questions) SPOILERS

What’s up with the ghosts?
In first instance the game doesn’t seem to answer or reference again the ghosts plot point opened in Case#0, Case#1 and Case#2, at least not directly.
This is indirectly explained in Case#! And Report*6 Yami with the Silver Eyes. Apparently people with Silver Eyes can perceive other entities be it phantoms, ghosts, essences, consciousnesses, etc.
Then by looking at Case#0, Case#1 and Report*5, we can infer that Kusabi, The Protagonist and Tokio have Silver Eyes (in this game only Tokio is directly confirmed to have a Silver Eye).
What Silver eyes are exactly seems to be answered in more detail in Flower Sun and Rain and The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
A different case is The Protagonist, for whom there is no indication of him having Silver Eyes, yet he is able to see ghosts. It could be because he is the next Kamui host, the story never ends up explaining it outright.

So, wait… When did Tokio get a Silver Eye?
As we learn in Report*6 Yami, he got it from Mayor Hachisuka. We learn in Case#! That Hachisuka is killed. Either Tokio killed or not Hachisuka that is for you to learn in the following games in the Kill The Past series, you should only know that he got it from Hachisuka. “Yeah.. [I stole it from my father] But you could also say that it sort of took me over. The eye chose its new host” as he tells Catherine.

Who were Shelter Kids?
(In order of revelation):
The Protagonist
Chizuru Hachisuka
Kamui
Ayame
Tokio Morishima
Sakura Natsume

Final Notes

Thanks a lot for reading and using the guide. I hope the experience was easier by using this guide and the chapter resumes. If you have any feedback or want any questions solved or think any data is wrong feel free to comment about it down below.

What now, then?
Well, you can play Flower Sun and Rain, there are 2 versions PS2 and NDS. PS2 is not localized but the NDS version is and was on sale in Europe and America. I recommend getting a hold of a copy if you can or you can watch a playthrough.

Thank you so much and have a Pretty Good Day

-Gill @Gillpradi

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