Ushinawareta Kao

[Machine Translation] Deep in the mountains, a body was found with its face smashed in, teeth pulled out, and cut off from the wrists down. The incident took place shortly after a letter was submitted to the police, claiming that police measures were inadequate in spite of reports of a suspicious person being seen. After the incident was reported, an elementary school student came to the Community Safety Section and said that the body "might be his father. His father had disappeared ten years earlier and had been declared missing. He says that he visits the police to make the same confirmation whenever an unidentified body is found. The seemingly unrelated events become intertwined, swallowing up the present and the past, and the case begins to swell in unexpected directions.

山奥で、顔を潰され、歯を抜かれ、手首から先を切り落とされた死体が発見された。不審者の目撃情報があるにもかかわらず、警察の対策が不十分だという投書がなされた直後の出来事だった。事件報道後、生活安全課に一人の小学生が訪ねて来て、死体は「自分のお父さんかもしれない」と言う。彼の父親は十年前に行方不明になり、失踪宣告を受けていた。彼は、身元不明の死体が発見されると、同じ確認をしに警察を訪れているという。無関係に見えた出来事が絡み合い、現在と過去を飲み込んで、事件は思いがけない方向へ膨らみ始める。