Q.E.D : Shômei shûryô

Hidemi!

Episode 1 The Locked Room in the Sky

Damn it!

Face!

Face, hit!

Now then, I'll take this.

Hey Eriko, Madoka,

this ticket is only for two...

I'm sorry, but I guess you'll have to decide among the two of you.

No, thank you.

I don't need it.

Why?

Why?

Because the two of us are normal high school girls.

What is that suppose to mean?

Eh?

What is it?

What was my passkey?

I placed my belongings at the police station's dojo during summer...

I haven't use this locker for a long time that I forgot my passkey...

Don't ask us.

Let's go.

Wait, don't leave me here!

Somebody?

Help!

Help me out a bit!

No way, that's the girl's locker room...

Just help me out will you!

But I'm heading to the office...

I'm in trouble, I forgot the passkey.

Come on, take hold of the knob and pull!

Do you have a bamboo sword scraper?

I have it...

Why do you ask?

I'm going to sharp a pencil.

Huh?

I've had enough!

I'll use my fighting spirit to find the combination!

How many digits?

Three.

Ten to the power of three, that's a thousand possibilities of combination, you know.

This should be enough.

Ah!

There are fingerprints on three, five and zero.

You'll be able to open the locker if you could find the combination from these three numbers.

Ah...I remember!

Thanks!

You're welcome.

So uh...who're you?

I am Touma Sou. Pleased to be your acquaintance.

Actually, Touma-kun have already graduated from university.

You mean he's older than us?

No,no, he skipped school years and went to MIT in America.

MIT?

MIT...you mean, this?

That's TIM.

And that's quite old.

It stands for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An elite university in America where a lot of Nobel prize winner came from.

You can sit over there.

Okay.

Okay, let's start the homeroom.

Since summer vacation has just ended...

Hey, thanks for before.

I'm Mizuhara Kana.

Say, are you free this coming Sunday?

Okay, now make an arch.

Keep your pose.

Arch your back a little bit more.

Like this!

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch

You're not flexible, Touma-kun.

I'm going home.

If you do that then it won't be my show of gratitude to you.

It never was from the very beginning.

You forced me to come here.

But you could fly for free, you know!

That's not flying, it's dropping.

Morokawa and the others are about to reach ten thousand feet.

They are the skydiving team called the Starship.

An amazing team who had been to the world championship.

Nomaki.

Nomaki!

What's wrong, Nomaki?

You don't look so well.

I'm having a bad feeling about this.

I've been feeling it ever since that day-

Entering exit point!

They're going to jump from there.

It looks fun.

The altitude is ten thousand feet, you know.

In case your parachute doesn't open, it'll feel like

hitting a Shinkansen head on, when you reach the earth.

They're going to jump!

They jumped!

Eh?

What's wrong? Did he lose conscious?

Don't be ridiculous, that's a member of the Starship, you know!

Nomaki, what's wrong?!

Can't you get into the neutral position?!

Nomaki is acting weird, you guys head to the landing point as well!

Roger!

This is because you said something unlucky!

It's my fault?

Ah! His parachute opened.

Thank god. Looks like he'll be okay.

No, that parachute just now is called the AAD,

a safety device that'll open automatically,

once the parachute reaches a certain altitude.

Morokawa! Is Nomaki all right?!

When I took his parachute off,

a knife...

What is the meaning of this?

We were in the air...

Let's go home.

Just a little bit more, okay?

Just as I thought, we shouldn't have jumped!

It's only been a month since that incident.

It can't be helped!

Kumakura insisted on doing the jump.

Kana!

Dad!

What are you doing here?

Don't tell me you skip school and went out playing again?!

What?

Huh?

Shouldn't you be saying "Get away from the crime scene" or,

"Skydiving is dangerous!" or something like that?!

He's Touma-kun, my newly transfered classmate.

I see.

Forgive me. It seems my daughter have already pulled you around.

Like I said, shouldn't you be saying "Don't get your hands on my daughter",

or something like that?!

Geez!

Mizuhara-san.

Hey.

These men are the members of the Starship.

I'm Mizuhara. Please accept my condolences.

I'm Morokawa, the group leader.

I'm Kumakura.

I'm Uowaki.

But this sure is a weird case, don't you think?

A person was stabbed in the air.

A murder occurred inside a locked room called the sky, so to speak.

Can you tell us the details leading up to the incident?

I came here at six in the morning.

I was doing some setting up and other odd jobs until eight.

And... I also went to the club house after that.

Club house?

I was doing some line check here from around eight.

Line check?

I check whether each and every parachute

have been thoroughly packed or not.

If I neglect this, there's a possibility of malfunctions on the parachute.

Err...that's a lot of unheard words for me.

A malfunction means the condition where the parachute weren't able to completely open itself.

What if that happens when you're in the air?

We'll die.

That's merciless...

A more lighter trouble than a malfunction is called "minor problem",

in this case, if the jumper is a veteran, he could adjust the parachute operation.

There are also method of cutting the main line and using the spare chute.

I see.

But, if one makes a mistake,

he'll end up dead.

I'd hate that. I guess I'll stop.

Chief, you were thinking of jumping?

And Uowaki-san, when did you arrive here?

I...

Uowaki, calm down.

I'm sorry, this guy is nervous.

If I remember correctly, I was here around eight twenty.

I took my parachute from Kumakura here,

and immediately get onto the plane.

You take off at nine, yet you're here from eight twenty?

Uowaki-san is always like that.

If I could stay still, I won't be thinking of unnecessary things.

That's when Nomaki came.

Yo, Uowaki-san, nervous again?

Shut up and leave me alone.

That too always happens.

He teased me for a while.

We flew around nine.

Nomaki and Uowaki sits next to each other,

while Kumakura and I, sits opposite both of them.

What's wrong, Nomaki?

You don't look so well.

I'm having a bad feeling about this.

A bad feeling? What does that suppose to mean?

It's a ghost.

Huh?!

Nomaki was stabbed by a ghost.

Uh...

It definitely looked like a work of a ghost.

Because a person who was alive when he jumped,

was dead when he reached the ground.

There's no doubt that he was stabbed in the air, right?

But there's no way a human could do that.

But I think it's more impossible for a ghost to went to the trouble

of bringing a knife just to stab a person.