Aibou TV Season 4 Episode 8 - Confinement(監禁)

Subtitle: Confinement(監禁)

 Sergeant Kaoru wakes up in an unfamiliar environment and realizes that he has been kidnapped then tied to a chair. A young woman is also in the room, and she points to a poem pasted to an old vault. The poem supposedly contains clues to the six digit number required to unlock the vault containing 400 million yen(４億円 4 oku-en) in pure gold bullion. Misae, the slightly insane woman, wants Sergeant Kaoru to determine those numbers. Apparently, she thinks that Sergeant 'Kaoru is the brains of the Tokumeigakari pair.

Meanwhile, Inspector Ukyō is having the time of his life in his office at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, discussing detective stories with middle school girls who came to interview him. Will Inspector Ukyō realize that Sergeant Kaoru has been kidnapped before Misae realizes that Sergeant Kaoru isn't the "Sherlock Holmes of Japan?" What is the mystery behind the bars of gold supposedly hidden inside the vault?

The poem containing the clue to the six digits

Yamato wa kuni no ma horoba(やまとはくにのまほろば)
Tatana tsudzuku aogaki(たたなつづくあおがき)
Ya ma go moreru(やまごもれる)
Yamato shi uru hashi(やまとしうるはし)

This is a poem appearing in the Chronicles of Japan and Records of Ancient Matters called Song of Shinobi country(国偲びの歌 Kuni shinobi no uta).

Former members of the Hazakura No Kai(刃桜の会)

Captain(taii) Kiyoshi Kondō(近藤 清 大尉)

Lieutenant(chūi) Tarō Ichinose(一ノ瀬 太郎 中尉)

Lieutenant(chūi) Keizō Ichimura(市村 圭蔵 中尉)

Ensign(shōi) Muneo Yamakawa(山川 宗夫 少尉)

Ensign(shōi) Torakichi Ishida(石田 寅吉 少尉)

Warrant Officer(jun'i) Kimihiko Nitta (新田 公彦 准尉) - Nobuhiko Nitta(新田 信彦)'s grandfather

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Misae Shindō(進藤 ミサエ) - Former hostess who has an unusually strong affinity for money. As a result, she already has along criminal history and has been sent to prison twice at a young age. She first embezzled money from her workplace in 1997. Her criminal record after that includes more embezzlement, fraud, attempted robbery, assault, and blackmail. She quit her job about a month ago, saying that she is going to marry a regular customer.

Nobuhiko Nitta(新田 信彦) - President of Nitta South Real Estate Company(新田南不動産), and Misae's customer. Misae calls him "Nobuchan."

After Sergeant Kaoru asks, he explains the origins of the hidden gold sealed inside the old vault. Hazakura No Kai(刃桜の会) - The Group of the Sakura Blade was a secret society of former members of the Japanese Imperial Army. The six members of the society secretly carried out the Imperial Japanese Army's remaining funds and hid the gold bullion in the vault, hoping that it would one day be used to rebuild the military when the Empire of Japan was resurrected. After Japan lost the war, the society secretly worked to rebuild the Empire of Japan. The members of the society died one by one, leaving only his grandfather, who told Nobuhiko about the existence of the vault and what it held, but died two years ago before he could explain how to open the vault.

Shigeko Zama(座間 繁子) - Employee of Nitta South Real Estate Company. She has been taking care of the company while Nitta has been away from the office. She helps Inspector Ukyō locate Sergeant Kaoru by showing him a listing of all 68 open properties the company owns.

Chie(千恵) and Yuka(由佳) - Middle school girls who are members of a mystery novels study group. They interview Inspector Ukyō hoping to use him as a model in their mystery novel they're writing, They got the idea after reading an article about the Tokumeigakari pair that appeared in the Journal for the Citizens of Tokyo(都民ジャーナル Tomin Jānaru). In the article, Inspector Ukyō was referred to as the Japanese Sherlock Holmes(和製シャーロック・ホームズ Wasei shārokku hōmuzu).

Inspector Ukyō reveals to the girls that he did write his own mystery stories when he was much younger. One mystery short story he wrote as a junior high student titled "Bōrei-tachi no hōkō(亡霊たちの咆哮 Roar of the Ghosts)" was published in a doujinshi called New Era Mystery Works Collection (新時代ミステリー作品集 Shin jidai misuterī sakuhin-shū) by a university mystery novel group.

Sōhachi Ochiai(落合 宗八) - Former professor of literature at Teisei(Imperial) University(帝政大学 Teisei Daigaku) who has gone missing a few weeks ago. He was the first victim of the Case of the Disappearing Smart People(インテリ失踪事件 Interi shissō jiken). He had a chronic heart condition and died from a heart attack after Misae gave him a dose of some unknown substance.

Ichirō Itō(伊藤 一郎) - Critic and history researcher who has gone missing a few weeks ago. He was the second victim of the Case of the Disappearing Smart People(インテリ失踪事件 Interi shissō jiken). He died when he fell down a set of stairs.

Kikuo Noda(野田 菊夫) - Famous longtime professor of law at the University of Tokyo. He visited the club where Misae worked at while she worked there. He had just become a professor when Inspector Ukyō was studying at University of Tokyo, but today holds the position of professor emeritus.