Case 3 Parade

case#3:Parade is the third case of the Transmitter story of The Silver Case and the fourth chapter of the game as a whole. Unlike the rest of the game this chapter utilizes a different art style with a monochrome color scheme evocative of ||The 25th Ward: The Silver Case||.

Summary

The case opens amidst a surreal and disparate retelling of the events of ||Parade|| in ||Mikumo 77|| unbeknownst to the player this is from the point of view of Sumio Kodai. The case begins properly with Sumio and Tetsugoro Kusabi resuming their stakeout of the residence of ||Chairman Yukimura|| now accompanied by ||Akira||.

Sunday, July 11, 1999, 9:51 PM
While in the car once again staking out the Yukimura residence, Sumio asks Tetsu if he likes fairy tales. Tetsu quickly dismisses the very notion as "kid's shit", but Sumio continues talking despite Kusabi's vocal disinterest. Sumio continues the discussion anyway as Kusabi tells him that he is going to sleep, despite this Kusabi continues to talk to Sumio. He explains that fairytales are whitewashed and sanitized from their original much darker roots. Sumio tells a fairytale from his childhood about a band of heroes that set out to rescue a princess from an evil serpent but reveals that the princess had been killed by the serpent and then the heroes killed the serpent in revenge. After hearing Kusabi's angry reaction to this ending her clarifies that there was never a serpent in the first place, in the end the story was merely about people killing other people. Sumio concludes that that "Fairytales are crimes" and that no matter what justification there is for committing a crime, a crime is still a crime. After a moment of silence Sumio asks Tetsu what he would do to the heroes in the story to which Tetsu initially says he wouldn't do anything but changes his mind. He tells Tetsu to go to sleep and that he and Akira will keep watch. Once Kusabi falls asleep, Akira does a routine patrol of the Yukimura estate. Akira returns to the car from an otherwise uneventful patrol when much to everybody's surprise the Yukimura estate explodes. Tetsu tells Sumio to burn this image into his eyeballs, Sumio assures him that he will never forget this.

REGRET

Trivia

• In the 2016 Remake of The Silver Case, the in-game artwork for this chapter was changed significantly from the original PlayStation version. The original art style featured a style more akin to contemporary (for the time) TV Anime. This artwork is present in the Art of Grasshopper Manufacture artbook which states that this art was initially produced for the cancelled Nintendo DS port of The Silver Case.