Case #3: Parade is the third case in the transmitter chapter of The Silver Case. It tells the recent events surrounding the Yukimura Zaibatsu, a company that is being targeted by terrorists.
Plot[]
The case opens with Tetsugoro Kusabi and Sumio Kodai, as well as the player character, Akira, conducting a stakeout at the Yukimura Manor. They have been conducting the stakeout to protect the manor ever since threats have been directed to the president of the Yukimura Zaibatsu. However, even with such tension in the air, nothing seems to be happening.
Eventually, Kusabi tells Akira to go and check the surroundings of the manor to see if there's anything out of place. Having not seen anything out of the ordinary, Akira enters the car again, only to see the manor getting blown up minutes later.
The police arrives shortly and searches through the wreckage. No human remains are found, raising the suspicion that Chairman Yukimura has been kidnapped by the ones who destroyed the property.
Hours later, the Central Police Department receives a tape from an unknown sender. It is a cryptic tape, showing chairman Yukimura bound, gagged, and seemingly unconscious in a damp warehouse, confirming the suspicion that he had indeed been kidnapped.
Central finds a suspect, Hiseki, and soon puts him into custody. The agents that had been assigned for the stakeout are now assigned for interrogating the suspect, but when they reach his confinement, they are met with his lifeless body hanging on a rope.
With the tape being the only lead so far, HC department 2 analises the tape in a forensic lab, finding a hidden message on the tape that reads "July 26th, 600 billion yen diamond".
The terrorists then proceed to call central to tell them how exactly the ransom exchange is to be carried out. They mandate that the operator should only go equipped with a headphone, a pocket knife, and a taser. Should the one with the ransom hold anything else than the ransom itself and the equipment specified, chairman Yukimura would be killed. Akira is assigned to carry out the exchange.
Akira receives orders directly from the perpetrators through the radio, dictating every action he should do to complete the exchange. Akira ends up in a Trash disposal facility, nicknamed "the crematory" by the suspects. After obeying all the orders and finally reaching the delivery point, On top of a smokestack, Akira hands the suspect the ransom through a zipline between his smokestack and the perp's smokestack. After receiving the ransom, the perp removes his mask, displaying his sewn mouth, only to jump into the active smokestack, cremating him and the ransom. Backup soon arrives and secures president Yukimura, who is unharmed.
The ransom, as well as the whole ordeal, took a heavy load into the Yukimura Zaibatsu, having causing them disastrous losses. Nearing bankruptcy, President Yukimura holds an emergency meeting on a Saturday with the company board, hosting 10 advisors and managers of the company on his office. On the meeting, Yukimura states that the history of the company has been one of glory and honor, even though it was built on top of multiple sacrifices. He goes on to say that he wants to put an end to the company and it's history, and at the end of the speech, he says that "It is time to wash your sullied bodies clean". Yukimura then pushes the button of the detonator he was holding, exploding Snow Tower, the building his office was situated him, killing himself and the 10 employees in the process. The Yukimura Zaibatsu is no more.
Afterwards, baffled by the recent events having little to no logic at all, detective Kusabi goes to one of the former company's many warehouses to dig up it's past. There he, along with Akira, finds out that the company had a confidential and gruesome relation with Mikio 77, a village where the Zaibatsu used as an industrial zone for themselves. The archives found tell how much the industries installed by the Zaibatsu injured the village, dumping chemicals in the village's water supply and having fumes spread out through the air. The files also tell of constant protests in part of the villagers against the Zaibatsu.
Still looking for more answers, Kusabi goes by helicopter to Mikio 77 with Akira and Sumio to search for clues. Nearing the decrepit village, they are forced to fall back due to an explosion destroying the entirety of the village. Afterwards, Kusabi unveils the fact that Sumio was one of the persons behind all of these events, and asks him why he would go that far. Sumio responds "To Kill the Past".
The case ends. The word stamped onto the moon's surface, regret, is a reference to the song by the real life band New Order, with the same name.
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