Petero no Souretsu Ep.8

We now know more about Kureki, the bus-jacker, and this week we have a new character, an old woman who knew him.

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Sugimura and his wife, Nahoko went to a party.  While Sugiwara was talking with Mano Kyouko, his wife goes away somewhere.  After the party ended, Sugimura goes home by himself.  Later that night, the wife comes home and tells him that she went to buy shoes as the one she was wearing were too tight.  She doesn't mention anything about Hashimoto.

Sugimura and his wife, Nahoko

Nahoko tells Sugimura that she feels she is distant from Sugimura.  Sugimura apologizes for making her think that way, and says what she says is not true.

Ide comes to see Sugimura

As for the power harassment suit filed by Ide, it was dismissed as they found no evidence of power harassment or sexual harassment.  Ide is going to work for a different department in the company.  He comes to Sugimura's office to have a talk with him.

He tells Sugimura to beware of Mano Kyouko, that she's scheming something and tried to eliminate Ide by lying about the sexual harassment by Ide.  She became close to Sugimura's wife on purpose to get close to Sugimura, and succeeded in working in his office.

Mano Kyouko is harassed by a stalker, and seems to be thinking about moving with her son.  She and her son slept in a hotel room. 

Hayakawa Tae

From an invoice slip, one of the hostages of the bus-jack finds the sender of the money.  She works (owns?) a convenience store in Gunma prefecture.  Her name is Hayakawa Tae.

(former) hostages and Hayakawa

Four hostages; Sugimura, his colleague Tejima, Maeno Mei (a young woman), and Sakamoto Kei (a young man), go to Gunma to meet Hayakawa.  In a coffee shop nearby her convenience store, Hayakawa starts to talk.

The bus-jacker's real name is Hada Mitsuaki.  Hayakawa calls him Micchan, a sign that they were very close.  She admits that Hada asked her to send the money to the hostages, and that she sent the money from different places as she was told.

Sugimura asks if Hada and Mikuriya, who worked for Nissho Frontier are the same person.  Hayakawa denies that by saying they were both con men with many different titles and worked for Nissho Frontier, but they are different individuals.  

After receiving the money, Sakamoto Kei's personality has been changing.  He seems to be losing his pureness as a young man and taking over by greed.  This week he gave a big amount of money to a person.  He might be getting tricked by a con man.  We will know more about this next week.

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