Report 3 Tsuki

Report*3:TSUKI is the third Placebo report of The Silver Case. The chapter follows Tokio Morishima's perspective during the events of case#3:parade.

Description

TSUKI follows Tokio's investigation into a series of riddles that he believes were sent to him by The Bat. Tokio and Erika Yukawa grow closer during their investigation, and eventually come to unravel the truth behind the events at Mikumo 77.

Summary

Wednesday, July 7, 1999, 9:08AM
Tokio is awoken by the sound of construction outside. He reads an email from Slash, providing the mail address of The Bat, "junk@kipple.ne.jp". Tokio asks Red if he wants to grow big and attack the construction workers outside. He decides to take Red with him on a drive. In his car, Tokio writes that Red is something of a coward, and gets sensitive whenever anything disturbs him. He wonders if The Bat has anything to do with Kamui Uehara, and decides to contact him.

3:28PM
Tokio emails The Bat, telling him to contact him to talk about Kamui. Outside, the construction starts again.

Thursday, July 8, 1999, 9:05AM
Tokio wakes up again to the sound of construction. He reads an email from The Bat, sending him four riddles. Tokio gets in his car to escape the noise, and decides to play along with The Bat's game. He tries working through the first riddle, but makes no progress.

1:39PM
Tokio goes to the smoke shop Mulholland to buy cigarettes. The old lady hands him a pack Placebo brand cigarettes. She says that her late husband used to smoke them, and is probably still smoking them in Heaven. Tokio decides to head home.

2:23PM
Back home, Tokio thinks to himself that Erika would be better at solving the riddles than he is. He emails her, asking for her help and forwarding the riddles. Next he emails S. Inohana, asking if anyone known as "The Bat" was ever involved in the Kamui case. Tired of the noise over the past couple days, he goes to sleep.

12:03AM
Erika emails Tokio, asking who The Bat is, and telling him to search for keywords to solve the riddle. Inohana tells him he hasn't heard of The Bat, but to find out who he is.

1:24PM
At Jackhammer, Tokio wonders aloud about the riddle. The Bartender recognizes the riddle from Mother Goose, and tells him that the answer is "the blind man".

3:06AM
Back home, Tokio emails the answer of the first riddle to The Bat, and asks what happens when he solves them all.

Friday, July 9, 1999, 9:05AM
Tokio wakes up to the noise again, and reads an email from The Bat, saying that when he figures them all out, he'll tell him a fairy tale, and then tell him who he is. He emails Erika, telling him that The Bat was the one who interrupted their chat in Scolba. He tells her the riddles are related to Mother Goose, and that they should be solvable.

11:09AM
At Apricot Square, Tokio meets up with Erika, who brought a Mother Goose book. They cross-referenced the riddles with the tales from the book, and figured out all of the answers; "The blind man", "Needle and thread", "Hell", and "Parents". Erika wonders what the meaning of the answers is, and if The Bat is really worth chasing after. Tokio tells her that he believes The Bat is connected to Kamui. Back home, he writes that he's letting The Bat get to him and that he is starting to fear him like the way he fears Kamui. He sends the four answers to The Bat and asks who he is.

7:51PM
Tokio smokes in his room, remarking that the construction outside is finally over.

Saturday, July 10, 1999, 9:09AM
Tokio receives an email from The Bat, telling him a fairy tale about three boys and a princess. In it, the clouds are dirtied black, and the village died out. Then, a night-mare eating chimera disappears along with the wind. He reads an email from Erika telling him to call her as soon as he reads it. Inohana tells him to report with information about The Bat. He tells Inohana that there's nothing yet to report. He calls Erika, who tells him that she believes the poems themselves have more meaning beyond just the answers. He agrees to meet with Erika again and show her the new mail from The Bat.