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'''Report*1:YUME''' is the first report of the [[Placebo]] story of ''[[The Silver Case]]'', and the overall third chapter of the game. This is where the story of [[Tokio Morishima]] begins, and is the first case of the game to be written by [[Masahi Ooka]], the writer for this and every subsequent Placebo chapter.  
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}}'''Report*1:YUME''' is the first report of the [[Placebo]] story of ''[[The Silver Case]]'', and the overall third chapter of the game. This is where the story of [[Tokio Morishima]] begins, and is the first case of the game to be written by [[Masahi Ooka]]. It follows Tokio's perspective during the events of {{CL|1}}.
  
 
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Yume is the introductory report that follows along the path of Morishima as he unravels his side of the mystery hidden within the 24th Ward and the ongoing "Kamui Case" investigation. It introduces the player to Morishima himself along with his cast of reoccurring characters, and gives the player an idea of how the rest of the story will play out as Morishima goes about his daily life, shirking work and making somewhat idle conversation to further his reports while he himself loses a grasp on his sanity.
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Yume follows Tokio's investigation during the events of {{CL|1}}. It introduces the Placebo storyline and many of its recurring characters, as well as Tokio's daily life that makes up much of Placebo. It shows how Tokio came to be involved in the "Kamui Case", and him just starting to unravel the mysteries of [[Ward 24]].
  
 
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'''Tuesday, April 6th, 1999, Around 12PM'''
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The chapter opens with Tokio driving his car, speaking directly to the player and asking if they have ever felt like a reject. He says that he used to work as a police reporter, but after something happened that he'd rather not mention, he decided to quit. After this he became a freelance writer and did worthless tabloid work. One day, he received a request by mail to investigate everything related to [[Kamui Uehara]] for a large sum of money. He decided to take the deal. Tokio introduces his room at the [[Typhoon]] apartment building where he does most of his work. He reads an email from a former acquaintance named Shige, saying that the new millennium is a chance to start fresh and asking for him to pay back 50,000 yen that Tokio borrowed from him. Tokio replies by writing that the end of the millennium is next year, and that he'll pay him back then. Tokio writes in his diary apologizing to Shige, saying that he never plans on paying him back, and re-evaluating their friendship. He introduces his partner, his pet turtle named [[Red]]. Tokio comments on the expensive furniture that he regrets buying, and looks at the park outside the window. Tokio promises to continue telling the story of how he became involved with Kamui after a smoke break.
  
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Morishima is driving down the road in his car during midday, and begins to introduce himself and his role to the player, almost as if he is submitting a report of some kind. He keeps the story brief, telling the viewer to "keep their pants on" before arriving at his apartment at the [[Typhoon]] apartment complex, the same as that featured in [[case#2:Spectrum]]. He lament's his time spent at his old job, a police reporter at a news agency, and the amount of work that he'll have to do for the new Kamui Case. We are shown Morishima's Room, a seemingly one-room apartment with basic utilities and a pool table for a computer desk. Morishima moves to the computer where he reads his email (this is where the player is introduced on how to navigate his computer, which is typically automatic), and he gets an email from a former acquaintance named [[Shige]].
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The email says that Shige is looking forward to making a fresh start in the new millennium and asks to be paid back a friendly loan he gave Morishima of [[50,000¥]]. Morishima responds saying that 2001 is the true start of the millennium, but reveals in an aside that he has no intention to pay him back. He opens his e-journal, the Morishima Memo, and says that he can't pay because he's essentially broke until he gets paid by the Kamui Case, in which he may pay back his debt. We are then introduced to his pet red-eared slider turtle [[Red]], who has been partnering with him for just over two years. He also goes on to brag about his Italian furniture and the few items in his home, such as his landline phone, before looking out at the park behind his apartment from his room window. He takes a quick smoke of a Placebo cigarette and allows some time to pass, likely falling asleep soon after.
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'''April 7th, 1999, Wednesday, 3:37PM'''
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'''Wednesday, April 7, 1999, 3:37PM'''<br>
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Tokio laments to Red that the job is from his old boss, [[S. Inohana]]. He writes that he skimmed over some info on Kamui online. He notes that Kamui's entire existence has been covered up until recently, and that he recently killed two members of the Security Force [[Republic]]. He recaps the events so far, including the murder of [[Yuriko Sonoda]] and [[Yuka Kawai]] following Kamui's escape.
  
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Morishima informs his pal Red that he took the job from his old jerk of a boss [[S. Inohana]], before sitting down at his computer and opening a Morishima Memo. In his memo he reflects on how he had searched for Kamui, but generally only stumbled upon false information, and that he has been steadily growing in popularity as a serial killer amongst 24th Ward citizens. He decides to do some more research.  
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'''Thursday, April 8, 1999, 5:39AM'''<br>
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Tokio writes that he searched for info until morning, but found almost nothing. He is unable to find any information on Kamui's first crime, or any details of his past. He notes that while in the hospital, Kamui was a model patient and remained in a mostly catatonic state. He decides that to learn more he has to get in contact with someone who has encountered Kamui and survived. He notices the time and decides to call his old coworker [[Erika Yukawa]], and says that he could also use her as a shield. He asks Erika for any information on Kamui to bulk up his report, but she hangs up without replying. Tokio writes that Erika still works at the news agency, and could be useful if he could convince her.
  
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'''April 8th, 1999, Thursday, 5:38AM'''
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Tokio is awoken by his doorbell ringing, and he yells at whoever is there to go away. He reads an email from Erika, calling him a nuisance for contacting her. In another email, she says that the [[Heinous Crimes Unit]] is in charge of the Kamui case, and that it may be possible to get information from them due to the lack of media attention. She recommends talking to [[Tetsugoro Kusabi]], who she says is rather talkative. She says she's helping Tokio only out of her own curiosity, to see if he is still a real journalist.
  
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Though he searched all night, Morishima didn't get much info, supposedly because it's being hidden by some kind of higher power, likely that power developing information control mentioned in [[case#0:lunatics]]. He looks for someone from the security force that was in ''Lunatics'', but ultimately also finds nothing. He checks his email and reads [[Today's Word]], a daily email service giving small quotes and philosophical information, and [[Weekly Lovers]], a email series on "The amazing world of carnivorous plants." This week was on the ''winged nepenthes'', a lovely tropical pitcher plant. He notices the time as 5:40 am and goes to call his previous colleague [[Erika Yukawa]], saying that it would be worthwhile to use her for info and as a shield against any accusations of illicit sources. After he asks for information on the Kamui Case, Yukawa abruptly hangs up the call, much to the chargrin of Morishima. He writes in his memo about how she still works at his old agency before eventually falling asleep.  
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Outside [[Precinct 24]], Tokio waits for over 30 minutes for Kusabi to show. Kusabi arrives, but remains defensive and dodges the main topic of discussion. He asks Kusabi to give him a chance and to call if he wants to tell him anything.
  
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'''11:37AM'''
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Tokio emails Inohana, saying that he didn't turn up any information from the HC Unit. He asks Inohana for any directions. He notes that the job is more complicated than he thought.
  
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The doorbell rings, awakening Morishima, who is quite unamused about the situation. He does not answer the door. He instead moves to his computer and checks his email, reading two from Yukawa one of which chews him out for treating her like a "cheap woman" for calling so abruptly after no contact, and another on how he should contact [[Tetsugoro Kusabi]] at the [[Heinous Crimes Unit]], before giving a small positive message that she still reads his articles in magazines when she gets her hair done.  
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Tokio reads an email from Inohana, saying that a man named [[Kaiji Enzawa]] saw Kamui and to meet with him that afternoon at a cafe called [[Prussian]].
  
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He gets an email from DNNet as well, saying that there was a failure to pass a law between three differing countries, and that the Chief Cabinet Secretary Kitajima says that the government is "undertaking the necessary emergency preperations" to deal with Kamui. There is also a warning about an e-mail spread virus called Dream1999.exe that activates if run on a computer and will be sent out in any outgoing email. Morishima reads the Daily Word, speaks to Red about contacting Kusabi, commenting on how odd te name is, and pulls out a few old agency cards. He is soon back at home typing into a Morishima Memo before we transition to his journey.  
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'''2:49PM'''<br>
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Tokio heads to the location of the meeting in his car.
  
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'''[[Precinct 24]], 3:34PM'''
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Tokio arrives late at Prussian, but finds that Enzawa hasn't shown up yet. After ordering a coffee, he notes that the cafe isn't as clean as others and is more like a bar. Enzawa arrives and sits down in front of Tokio. He tells him that he saw Kamui near the [[Babylon]] Shopping Center five days prior. Tokio asks what Kamui was like, and Enzawa replies that he looked like the moon. Enzawa tells him that Kamui possesses a terrible creative power that allows him to distort reality, noting that to him Kamui's crimes are like a work of art. Tokio dismisses Enzawa for his admiration of Kamui, and doubts whether he actually met him. He decides that he should check out Babylon anyway, since Red is almost out of food.
  
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Morishima converses with Kusabi, who doubts his affiliation with any agency because of his disheveled looks, and refused much info. Morishima is not discouraged and saw this as a good outcome, saying that he has more of a "premonition" than a hunch that Kusabi may need his card in the future despite Kusabi's initial misgivings on taking it from him.  
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'''Saturday, April 10, 1999, 6:07PM'''<br>
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Tokio wakes up at home and types a cryptic memo about a woman who died at Babylon, and that he can still hear a voice.  
  
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'''Morishima's Room, 8:27PM'''
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Tokio visits the bar [[Jackhammer]], where the [[Bartender]] asks if he's going through a break-up. He offers him a piece of advice - to buy a knife and take up whittling to calm himself down. Tokio brushes off the idea.
  
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Tokio sends a report email to S. Inohana about how no one seems to know very much about Kamui, even though he admits to himself that that isn't true, and that Inohana must wait for more information as he'll try again soon, trying not to upset his client.  
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Tokio reads a news update about the murder of [[Kei Nanami]] at Babylon. Erika writes to him that she rushed to Babylon after hearing Tokio was there. She heard that he had been rescued by the HC Unit and confirmed it through Kusabi. She asked what he saw at Babylon and to respond when he read the email. Tokio struggles to remember what actually happened that night.
  
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'''Morishima's Room, April 9th, Friday, 1999,  12:21PM'''
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Tokio meets Kusabi and thanks him for taking care of him. Kusabi tells him that Kamui has been taken into custody. He was found in a catatonic state hidden in [[Ayame Shimohira]]'s art studio. Kusabi asks if he remembers meeting [[Akira]] at Babylon, and asks him not to write anything that's been leaked. Tokio is briefly startled by a memory of Akira.
  
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Morishima reads an email from Inohana saying that there'll be contact with a man named [[Kaiji Enzawa]] at 4 pm at Hachisukacho, Block 2 at a café named Prussian. The man will be holding a job-hunting paper. Morishima responds by calling him impatient, and then reads Today's Word.
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Tokio writes that he still can't wrap his head around what happened at Babylon. He wonders if he may have met Ayame that night. He decides to go to Babylon and try to remember.  
  
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'''En Route, 2:49PM'''
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Morishima makes his move and heads over to Prussian.  
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On the way to Babylon, Tokio remembers that he was driving that day as well, before his meeting with Enzawa.  
  
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'''[[Tea Room Prussian]], 4:11PM'''
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Morishima arrives late, but the man isn't there. He decides to order a drink and chain smoke until he arrives, refusing to indulge in alcohol this early. The man arrives and looks generally out of place, sitting in front of Morishima. He looks like just a regular businessman in his fifties. He "self-depricatingly" orders a coffee, and says that he saw Kamui himself walking a few blocks away from the Tea Room. When Morishima inquires on how Kamui looked, Enzawa tells him that "he was like a new moon," and that his murders hold a kind of "creative power" that can influence reality, like art. Morishima reprimands him for presenting murder this way, but Enzawa agrees that it shouldn't be the way that it is. After asking him if he was a Kamui believer, Morishima says "Fuck Kamui's believers" and shuts down the conversation. Reflecting on it, Morishima doubts Enzawa ever saw Kamui, and decides to go to [[Babylon]] Shopping Center to buy Red food.  
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At Babylon, he remembers stopping there to get food for Red, and wonders if he met anyone other than Akira that night. He remembers that he had lost his lighter, and met a woman who lit his cigarette and said he was "just like" her.
  
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'''April 10th, 1999, Saturday'''  
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Tokio pieces together his memory of that night, and believes he didn't actually meet Kamui at Babylon. He tries to go back to sleep, and sees another vision of the girl from Babylon. She asks if he heard her scream that night. An image of her corpse appears, and she says she's inside him. He remembers that he may have met another woman that night, but was in a trance. After he came to, he met Akira, and residual thoughts started speaking inside him.
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'''9:48PM'''<br>
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Tokio writes to Inohana that Kamui has been captured by the HC Unit, but has yet to say anything.
  
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Morishima checks his email and reads the Daily Word. He then opens his Morishima Memo, lamenting the fact that he witnessed the murder of a woman and was even more distraught at the sight of Kamui himself.
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Tokio writes that he still isn't sure what happened at Babylon, but that he knows something instinctively. He believes that the consciousness of the dead woman flowed into him, causing him to see a vision of Kamui. He sends an email to Erika asking her to look into Ayame and the location of her art studio.  
  
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'''Industrial Way, Bluedahlia St., [[Jackhammer]] Bar, 10:24PM'''
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'''Monday, April 12, 10:45AM'''<br>
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Tokio reads an email from Inohana, telling him to report immediately on what he saw at Babylon. Erika emails him, telling him that Ayame's art studio is named [[Gladiolus]], and that she is a well-known underground digital artist. Kamui was her partner for their digital works, being the real artist while Ayame was just a programmer.
  
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The [[Bartender]] asks Morishima if he's had a breakup to which Morishima does not answer. The Bartender says that his typical advice for breakups is to purchase a knife, and then some scrap wood, maybe the size of a brick, and to start whittling. He brings up "creative power", and that statues may have been the first form of stress relief in humans. He says that maybe even God himself created us for this reason. Morishima calls the idea laughable, and the scene fades.
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'''3:38PM'''<br>
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Tokio heads to Gladiolus, and wonders what kind of woman Ayame was. He suspects that being close to Kamui affected her in some way.
  
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Tokio writes that Ayame wasn't at Gladiolus and was taken into custody. He had a tabloid writer get hold of documents about her, but finds that her place of origin has been written over and is unknown. He believes Ayame is the key to understanding Kamui. He writes that the victims are somehow involved with Ayame. He emails Inohana, saying that he saw a woman killed at Babylon, and that Kamui was arrested.
  
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'''Morishima's Room, April 11th, 1999, Sunday, 2:42PM'''
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'''Tuesday, April 13, 1999, 10:47AM'''<br>
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Tokio reads a news update about Kamui's arrest. After some time passes, he writes that he went to the HC Unit, which was swarmed with reporters. He wasn't able to meet with Kusabi, but spoke with another detective named [[Morichika Nakategawa|Nakategawa]], who proved useless. He wonders if he might be able to ask Akira about what happened at Babylon. He decides to get in contact with Enzawa again tomorrow.
  
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Morishima wakes up groggy and goes over to the computer to check his email. He reads an email from DNNet, detailing the murder of the woman at Babylon Shopping Center, revealed to be [[Kei Nanami]], in that she had her chest hollowed out with a sharp blade. According to the email, the seemingly empty Babylon was filled with people. Yukawa asks Morishima over email if he's alive, as he apparently entered a coma after encountering Kamui days before at Babylon, though Morishima seemingly does not remember this. Morishima reads Today's Word before reflecting on the fact that he cannot remember anything after Babylon before waking up this afternoon.
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'''Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 11:22AM'''<br>
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Tokio calls Enzawa, and asks him to meet to discuss Ayame.  
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'''Precinct 24, 4:11PM'''
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Morishima thanks Kusabi for his willingness to cooperate before some back and forth reveals that Kusabi has Kamui, and that [[Ayame Shimohira]] was the key to his arrest, as they were in a relationship. According to Kusabi, Kamui was her "atelier." Kusabi mentions wanting to let Morishima in on exclusive information, telling him to meet up with [[Akira]], though Akira may not remember their encounter. Kusabi offhandedly mentions that he'll be vacationing to a hot spring with "his woman" and that Morishima shouldn't "sniff around too much like a dog." Morishima smokes a Placebo cigarette as an Akira flashes in the corner of the screen with his lightning sound effect as Morishima remembers him.
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'''Morishima's Room, 5:57PM'''
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Morishima debates trying to sell the story so far out around his client, but laughs it off as impossible, likely due to the current lack of information. He goes over the events leading up to his coma in his head chronologically, remembering that he was at Babylon.
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'''En Route to Babylon, 6:41PM'''
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Morishima reflects on the last time he was driving down this street to meet up with Enzawa.
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'''Babylon Shopping Center, 7:18PM'''
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Morishima arrives at the shopping center, trying to remember anything he can, going over how Kusabi says he met Akira. He then realizes as he goes to smoke a Placebo brand cigarette that he's lost his lighter, before a mysterious voice offers him a light. A woman appears, seemingly in Morishima's head, urging him to "'''JUST FUCKING REMEMBER'''". Morishima does remember. He remembers fire.
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'''Morishima's Room, 9:09PM'''
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Morishima wakes up, stating that he met with a woman, then with Akira. He tries to connect the dots on what happened that night, but he can't. He hears the woman's voice again, telling him that she was the one to light his cigarette after he lost it that night, and that she felt something similar to herself within him. She seemed to be crying out for help internally. She tells him that "it's already begun," that she "is already inside" him, and finally, that ''the past is alive''.
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Morishima attempts to take things in order from that night, one step at a time. He got pet food, then felt fire. He was trying to smoke a Placebo cigarette. A woman lit it for him, and she wasn't the only voice he heard asking for help that night. She wasn't like other women, according to her, so she asked him for help. Morishima saw Akira when he came to. He had "residual thoughts" that were speaking to him. He saw the same ghost Akira did in the Decoyman case. She wasn't asking for Morishima's help. Kusabi later rescued Morishima as Yukawa told him. Morishima, now, lights a Placebo cigarette and concludes that he may or may not have been at Babylon, but that he definitely did not see Kamui in the flesh.
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'''9:48PM'''
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Morishima sense a simple email to Inohana, stating that Kamui was captured by the HCU but could not speak.
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'''Midnight, 1:02AM'''
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Morishima opens his memo, reflecting on how he now instinctively remembers what happened, and reflects on how Enzawa called Kamui a moon. To Morishima, Kamui was no moon, but a "swelling sunm a demon, a god." Morishima doesn't know how he got to be at that area of Babylon, but now fears Kamui. He swiftly emails Yukawa about Ayame, asking for information on her origin, and her "atelier."
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'''April 12th, Monday, 10:45AM'''
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Morishima checks his email. Inohana asked for immediate correspondence on what occurred at the Babylon Shopping Center. Yukawa emails back upset that Morishima never responded to her previous email, but does give him information on Studio [[Gladiolus]], and informs him that Ayame was relatively well-known within underground art culture. She made odd digital content, but was regarded as simply the programmer, while Kamui was the real artist. She states that all underground types are talking about the news, and that she wants to speak to Morishima directly, but he gives no response, opting instead to simply read Today's Word.
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'''Flower track, Studio Gladiolus, 3:38PM'''
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Morishima simply reflects on how Ayame must have felt before she undertook all of what happened pertaining to the murders.
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'''Morishima's Room, 9:06PM'''
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Morishima opens a memo, and writes about how Ayame's place of origin was written over so many times that it was labeled "unknown" after learning of it from a tabloid writer on the scene, which was full of detectives after she was taken into custody. He didn't really understand the art that she and Kamui produced. He believes that the women he heard at Babylon must somehow be involved with Ayame, but can't determine how that would be, or who they were asking for help for and why. He only knows that Ayame herself was "beautiful." Morishima then emails Inohana, giving him the full scoop that he was at Babylon the night of the murder and that he saw a woman get killed, presumably by Ayame herself, and that Kmaui was arrested at their atelier. Morishima states that he is now interested in studying Ayame, and tells Inohana to get off his case and quit bothering him.
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'''April 13th, Tuesday, 1999, 10:47AM'''
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Morishima reads an email at his computer from DNNet detailing Kamui's arrest. The scene fades to a later time in which Morishima opens a memo and says that there was too much media at the HCU, but that he was able to see the director [[Nakategawa]], who informs him that Akira is useless for information. Morishima is surprised to hear himself described as "a reporter Kusabi knows", and while in wait for more information on Ayame, he takes a break to read Today's Word and set up an appointment with Enzawa at the same cafe.
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'''April 14th, Wednesday, 1999, 11:22AM'''
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Morishima calls Enzawa and they decide to talk about Ayame, as Enzawa reveals he knows something. They agree to meet at Tea Room Prussian at 5pm, as Enzawa was already wanting to meet up with Morishima.
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Enzawa shows up wearing the same clothes as the last time he met Morishima. He tells him that Morishima is well known among the "freaks" surrounding Kamui after speaking his name, which was previously undisclosed to Enzawa, and that he has information pertaining to Ayame for the same reasons. Enzawa asks Morishima about Babylon, before telling him that Ayame is special. He says that "a man can only spread his seed, but a woman is able to choose a seed and raise it." He says that Ayame was created to be above Kamui, and that her womanhood is an important factor. Ayame is a "clever, cool, noble human being," not savage like Kamui, and that she only desired, not truly loved him. She hates his actions but wanted his child, while Kamui needed to impregnate as many women as possible to begin a new generation of his own, which Ayame tried to stop. She wanted to have an exlcusive lineage with him, but Kamui did not agree. Enzawa says that Ayame's blood is "the most virtuous in this world" and that she is perfect, and that the truth rests inside him, before brushing all of this as a joke, stating that Enzawa is their "neighbor." He presses on the subject until Morishima realizes that it is Ayame that killed those women, not Kamui.
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Morishima opens a memo and types that Ayame had now been arrested, and that their were too many reporters to get inside the HCU precinct. He rang Kusabi and Nakategawa, but they gave nothing but conformation on the events. He himself did not actually see what went down at Babylon, but only caught up on it after. No one knows yet what truly happened. Morishima emails Inohana about the Ayame Case and tells him that she did it out of jealousy among his own speculations, but that he won't write about Babylon.
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Morishima reads an email from the DNNet that the Kamui Case killer was actually an ex-partner of Kamui's who was thought to have separated from him years ago. Yukawa emails Morishima asking to speak in the Scolba chat room at 2pm, to which he replies quickly and lights a Placebo cigarette. He opens a Morishima memo and says that while both Yukawa and his client Inohara want to speak, he does not have much to say, lamenting that he'd rather take Red and skip town. He emails Inohara saying that Ayame abducted Kamui, reenacted his killing methods, fooled everyone, and hid him, all out of jealousy for the women he slept with, pushed over the edge by her feelings for Kamui and the desire to have his child before offering his own theories. She became the same as Kamui, his copycat, and thought that Kamui was responsible for nothing. He then reads the Weekly Lovers about the Dionaea Musipula Ellis Droseracea family (Venus Flytrap), and Today's Word. He talks to Red about how he's getting fat and realizes it's chat time.
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Morishima meets Yukawa and they have some small back and forth about Ayame's origins and killings. Yukawa believes that there's more to her motivations, but Morishima remains oddly quiet, refusing information on the subject and on that of his current report. Yukawa tells him that she still kind of hates him, but would like to do business, and that they may work best together. Suddenly, the chat room is hacked by someone only identified as "????", who asks why he is interested in Kamui. The hacker tells Morishima that he saw Kamui that day, amplified him, and was filled with fear. He says that Kamui lives in the hearts of all people, amplified. He then text spams the word kill before leaving and unlocking the chat room.
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'''YUME'''
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'''5:13PM'''<br>
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Tokio meets Enzawa at Prussian, and he questions Tokio on his supposed meeting with Kamui. Tokio tells him that he didn't actually meet him, and asks what kind of woman Ayame is. Enzawa says that Ayame is special, and that she is even above Kamui due to her ability to give birth. He says that Ayame wanted to give birth to Kamui's child, and that the survival instincts of Kamui's seed tried to eliminate all other lines. Enzawa calls Ayame perfect and virtuous being. He tells Tokio that Ayame has been arrested, and he realized that she is the perpetrator.
  
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Tokio writes that Ayame was the true culprit behind the deaths of the three woman and the Republic members. He realizes that he never saw Kamui or Ayame with his own eyes. He emails Inohana, saying that Ayame was the killer and that her motive was jealousy. He decides to avoid talking about Babylon for now. Tokio thinks to himself that Ayame just needed a bit of security.
  
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'''Thursday, April 15, 1999, 1:54PM'''<br>
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Tokio reads a news update confirming Ayame's identity as the killer. Erika emails him, asking to talk in the Scolba chatroom. Tokio writes that he doesn't have anything worth reporting and that he should take a trip after the Kamui Case. He writes to Inohana, going over the full details of Ayame's murders. He speculates that Ayame was calm and calculated, but had bottled up violent emotions. Her knowledge of Kamui's relationships with other women pushed her over the edge, causing her to become a Kamui copycat. He speaks to Red, saying that he's been feeding him too mush
  
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In the Scolba chat, Tokio speaks with Erika. She finds it strange that Ayame's past has been erased, and asks him why she was as capable of killing as Kamui. Tokio says that jelously made her do it, but Erika believes that she had a deeper reason for doing it. She asks who hired him to look into Kamui, but he withholds the name. Erika tells him that they could work better together, despite her still somewhat hating him. The chat becomes corrupted and Erika is forced out. A person called The Bat joins the chat, warning Tokio to stop investigating and that Kamui is inside him.
  
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'''HANA is coming soon...'''
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Report*1:YUME is the first report of the Placebo story of The Silver Case, and the overall third chapter of the game. This is where the story of Tokio Morishima begins, and is the first case of the game to be written by Masahi Ooka. It follows Tokio's perspective during the events of case#1:decoyman.

Description

Yume follows Tokio's investigation during the events of case#1:decoyman. It introduces the Placebo storyline and many of its recurring characters, as well as Tokio's daily life that makes up much of Placebo. It shows how Tokio came to be involved in the "Kamui Case", and him just starting to unravel the mysteries of Ward 24.

Summary

The chapter opens with Tokio driving his car, speaking directly to the player and asking if they have ever felt like a reject. He says that he used to work as a police reporter, but after something happened that he'd rather not mention, he decided to quit. After this he became a freelance writer and did worthless tabloid work. One day, he received a request by mail to investigate everything related to Kamui Uehara for a large sum of money. He decided to take the deal. Tokio introduces his room at the Typhoon apartment building where he does most of his work. He reads an email from a former acquaintance named Shige, saying that the new millennium is a chance to start fresh and asking for him to pay back 50,000 yen that Tokio borrowed from him. Tokio replies by writing that the end of the millennium is next year, and that he'll pay him back then. Tokio writes in his diary apologizing to Shige, saying that he never plans on paying him back, and re-evaluating their friendship. He introduces his partner, his pet turtle named Red. Tokio comments on the expensive furniture that he regrets buying, and looks at the park outside the window. Tokio promises to continue telling the story of how he became involved with Kamui after a smoke break.

Wednesday, April 7, 1999, 3:37PM
Tokio laments to Red that the job is from his old boss, S. Inohana. He writes that he skimmed over some info on Kamui online. He notes that Kamui's entire existence has been covered up until recently, and that he recently killed two members of the Security Force Republic. He recaps the events so far, including the murder of Yuriko Sonoda and Yuka Kawai following Kamui's escape.

Thursday, April 8, 1999, 5:39AM
Tokio writes that he searched for info until morning, but found almost nothing. He is unable to find any information on Kamui's first crime, or any details of his past. He notes that while in the hospital, Kamui was a model patient and remained in a mostly catatonic state. He decides that to learn more he has to get in contact with someone who has encountered Kamui and survived. He notices the time and decides to call his old coworker Erika Yukawa, and says that he could also use her as a shield. He asks Erika for any information on Kamui to bulk up his report, but she hangs up without replying. Tokio writes that Erika still works at the news agency, and could be useful if he could convince her.

11:37AM
Tokio is awoken by his doorbell ringing, and he yells at whoever is there to go away. He reads an email from Erika, calling him a nuisance for contacting her. In another email, she says that the Heinous Crimes Unit is in charge of the Kamui case, and that it may be possible to get information from them due to the lack of media attention. She recommends talking to Tetsugoro Kusabi, who she says is rather talkative. She says she's helping Tokio only out of her own curiosity, to see if he is still a real journalist.

3:34PM
Outside Precinct 24, Tokio waits for over 30 minutes for Kusabi to show. Kusabi arrives, but remains defensive and dodges the main topic of discussion. He asks Kusabi to give him a chance and to call if he wants to tell him anything.

8:27PM
Tokio emails Inohana, saying that he didn't turn up any information from the HC Unit. He asks Inohana for any directions. He notes that the job is more complicated than he thought.

Friday, April 9, 1999, 12:21PM
Tokio reads an email from Inohana, saying that a man named Kaiji Enzawa saw Kamui and to meet with him that afternoon at a cafe called Prussian.

2:49PM
Tokio heads to the location of the meeting in his car.

4:11PM
Tokio arrives late at Prussian, but finds that Enzawa hasn't shown up yet. After ordering a coffee, he notes that the cafe isn't as clean as others and is more like a bar. Enzawa arrives and sits down in front of Tokio. He tells him that he saw Kamui near the Babylon Shopping Center five days prior. Tokio asks what Kamui was like, and Enzawa replies that he looked like the moon. Enzawa tells him that Kamui possesses a terrible creative power that allows him to distort reality, noting that to him Kamui's crimes are like a work of art. Tokio dismisses Enzawa for his admiration of Kamui, and doubts whether he actually met him. He decides that he should check out Babylon anyway, since Red is almost out of food.

Saturday, April 10, 1999, 6:07PM
Tokio wakes up at home and types a cryptic memo about a woman who died at Babylon, and that he can still hear a voice.

10:24PM
Tokio visits the bar Jackhammer, where the Bartender asks if he's going through a break-up. He offers him a piece of advice - to buy a knife and take up whittling to calm himself down. Tokio brushes off the idea.

Sunday, April 11, 1999, 2:42PM
Tokio reads a news update about the murder of Kei Nanami at Babylon. Erika writes to him that she rushed to Babylon after hearing Tokio was there. She heard that he had been rescued by the HC Unit and confirmed it through Kusabi. She asked what he saw at Babylon and to respond when he read the email. Tokio struggles to remember what actually happened that night.

4:11PM
Tokio meets Kusabi and thanks him for taking care of him. Kusabi tells him that Kamui has been taken into custody. He was found in a catatonic state hidden in Ayame Shimohira's art studio. Kusabi asks if he remembers meeting Akira at Babylon, and asks him not to write anything that's been leaked. Tokio is briefly startled by a memory of Akira.

5:57PM
Tokio writes that he still can't wrap his head around what happened at Babylon. He wonders if he may have met Ayame that night. He decides to go to Babylon and try to remember.

6:41PM
On the way to Babylon, Tokio remembers that he was driving that day as well, before his meeting with Enzawa.

7:18PM
At Babylon, he remembers stopping there to get food for Red, and wonders if he met anyone other than Akira that night. He remembers that he had lost his lighter, and met a woman who lit his cigarette and said he was "just like" her.

9:09PM
Tokio pieces together his memory of that night, and believes he didn't actually meet Kamui at Babylon. He tries to go back to sleep, and sees another vision of the girl from Babylon. She asks if he heard her scream that night. An image of her corpse appears, and she says she's inside him. He remembers that he may have met another woman that night, but was in a trance. After he came to, he met Akira, and residual thoughts started speaking inside him.

9:48PM
Tokio writes to Inohana that Kamui has been captured by the HC Unit, but has yet to say anything.

Midnight, 1:02AM
Tokio writes that he still isn't sure what happened at Babylon, but that he knows something instinctively. He believes that the consciousness of the dead woman flowed into him, causing him to see a vision of Kamui. He sends an email to Erika asking her to look into Ayame and the location of her art studio.

Monday, April 12, 10:45AM
Tokio reads an email from Inohana, telling him to report immediately on what he saw at Babylon. Erika emails him, telling him that Ayame's art studio is named Gladiolus, and that she is a well-known underground digital artist. Kamui was her partner for their digital works, being the real artist while Ayame was just a programmer.

3:38PM
Tokio heads to Gladiolus, and wonders what kind of woman Ayame was. He suspects that being close to Kamui affected her in some way.

9:06PM
Tokio writes that Ayame wasn't at Gladiolus and was taken into custody. He had a tabloid writer get hold of documents about her, but finds that her place of origin has been written over and is unknown. He believes Ayame is the key to understanding Kamui. He writes that the victims are somehow involved with Ayame. He emails Inohana, saying that he saw a woman killed at Babylon, and that Kamui was arrested.

Tuesday, April 13, 1999, 10:47AM
Tokio reads a news update about Kamui's arrest. After some time passes, he writes that he went to the HC Unit, which was swarmed with reporters. He wasn't able to meet with Kusabi, but spoke with another detective named Nakategawa, who proved useless. He wonders if he might be able to ask Akira about what happened at Babylon. He decides to get in contact with Enzawa again tomorrow.

Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 11:22AM
Tokio calls Enzawa, and asks him to meet to discuss Ayame.

5:13PM
Tokio meets Enzawa at Prussian, and he questions Tokio on his supposed meeting with Kamui. Tokio tells him that he didn't actually meet him, and asks what kind of woman Ayame is. Enzawa says that Ayame is special, and that she is even above Kamui due to her ability to give birth. He says that Ayame wanted to give birth to Kamui's child, and that the survival instincts of Kamui's seed tried to eliminate all other lines. Enzawa calls Ayame perfect and virtuous being. He tells Tokio that Ayame has been arrested, and he realized that she is the perpetrator.

10:03PM Tokio writes that Ayame was the true culprit behind the deaths of the three woman and the Republic members. He realizes that he never saw Kamui or Ayame with his own eyes. He emails Inohana, saying that Ayame was the killer and that her motive was jealousy. He decides to avoid talking about Babylon for now. Tokio thinks to himself that Ayame just needed a bit of security.

Thursday, April 15, 1999, 1:54PM
Tokio reads a news update confirming Ayame's identity as the killer. Erika emails him, asking to talk in the Scolba chatroom. Tokio writes that he doesn't have anything worth reporting and that he should take a trip after the Kamui Case. He writes to Inohana, going over the full details of Ayame's murders. He speculates that Ayame was calm and calculated, but had bottled up violent emotions. Her knowledge of Kamui's relationships with other women pushed her over the edge, causing her to become a Kamui copycat. He speaks to Red, saying that he's been feeding him too mush

In the Scolba chat, Tokio speaks with Erika. She finds it strange that Ayame's past has been erased, and asks him why she was as capable of killing as Kamui. Tokio says that jelously made her do it, but Erika believes that she had a deeper reason for doing it. She asks who hired him to look into Kamui, but he withholds the name. Erika tells him that they could work better together, despite her still somewhat hating him. The chat becomes corrupted and Erika is forced out. A person called The Bat joins the chat, warning Tokio to stop investigating and that Kamui is inside him.

All the Way
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