Spiral Of Destiny
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Spiral Of Destiny is the first of 25 episodes in the anime Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna. It made its debut on Japanese television on October 1, 2002. It premiered on CoLours TV on June 19th, 2006 in the U.S.
[edit] Plot
The episode begins with clips of Ayumu Narumi speaking on the phone with his brother Kiyotaka Narumi. Kiyotaka asks Ayumu to tell Madoka Narumi, Kiyotaka's wife, that he is leaving to ivestigate the Blade Children, and will not return "until the unseen truth is in my hands". Clips of a girl falling through the air are also interspersed, and the sequence ends with Ayumu saying "It's been two years since that day". This sequence is used as a "prologue to series" as an extra on an american DVD release of the series.
At the true start of the episode, Ayumu awakes on the school roof, noting that he has overslept. He starts down the stairs, but returns to investigate a scream heard from the roof. A panel of safety fencing is missing from the edge; looking down from the fifth floor, a crowd is gathering around an injured student, who has fallen from the roof and is now lying on the ground after bouncing off of a parked truck.
Madoka Narumi, police inspector as well as Ayumu's sister-in-law, arrives to start the investigation. The injured student is revealed as Sayoko Shiranagatani, a second year student, who has miraculously sustained only minor injuries. Madoka rules out the possibility that the incident was suicide in light of the rather large glasses found at the scene; according to Madoka, most people about to commit suicide care a great deal about how they will look as a corpse, and especially in the case of a teenage girl, glasses would not be worn.
At this point, hyperactive school reporter Hiyono Yuizaki appears to interview a witness, Professor Sonobe, a teacher on staff. He accuses Ayumu of pushing Sayoko from the ledge, as he was the first person to appear at the spot from which she fell. Ayumu states repeatedly that he is not the perpetrator, and that no one would attempt to kill someone by pushing them from a building when there was a truck underneath. Sonobe argues that the truck does not usually park at that spot. However, you can see blood on Sonobe's hand.
Madoka and her bumbling assistant Wataya question Ayumu and review Sonobe's statements that he saw Sayoko and a panel of fencing fall from the fifth floor, then, looking up, saw him, the only person who could have pushed her down. Ayumu states once again that he isn't responsible and "doesn't have time for this".
Later, we see that Ayumu and Madoka live together in an apartment building, as well as that Ayumu evidently has quite a lot of talent at cooking, judging from Madoka's terror at finding only "cheap instant curry" on her plate. Unnerved by Ayumu's apathy towards the entire situation, Madoka tells him that as it stands, he is in a very bad position. Ayumu agrees that short of someone using "special tricks", he is in fact the only person who could have done it. Madoka questions the meaning of "special tricks", but Ayumu offers no explanation.
Ayumu reviews the incident and determines that Sonobe intentionally began accusing him to divert attention as he picked up something off the ground and dropped it in his pocket. The next day, Sayoko has lost all memory of the incident due to a head injury, and that a note addressed to her was found at her desk, saying to go to the fifth floor of the school to learn about "the secrets of her past". Clearly, she was purposefully led to the fifth floor.
Hiyono finds Ayumu in the music room, still referring to him as "Mr. Perpetrator", and begins following him around trying to get a statement. They soon team up to find the true perpetrator. Ayumu meets with Mr. Sonobe and says that he will discover the trick he used. They go to the fifth floor to the exact spot from which Sayoko fell. Hiyono again comments how strange it was for Sayoko to be wearing glasses at the time of the incident, and Ayumu determines that it was to see someone on the grounds clearly.
Ayumu calls Madoka and asks her to look something up, but we only hear Madoka's side of the conversation. Later, Sonobe has been called to the school rooftop to meet with Ayumu, Hiyono, Madoka, and Wataya. Ayumu says that Sayoko became caught up with what the letter promising the secrets of her past meant, and went to the fifth floor to find out. When no one was there, the nearsighted girl spotted someone on the grounds below, and out on her glasses to see him better.
Ayumu says that the prescription of Sayoko's glasses was changed without her knowledge, so as to distort her vision. When she put them on looking down from the fifth floor, she lost her balance as a result and grabbed hold of the fence, which had already been tampered with. The object Sonobe put into his pocket was the faulty pair of glasses - but in the act of replacing the glasses, he cut his hand on the broken shards; the cause of the blood on his hand. Ayumu states that the true perpetrator is in fact Mr. Sonobe.
Sonobe more or less admits defeat, and says that he was unlucky to meet someone like Ayumu, "brother of Kiyotaka Narumi." He then offers only the cryptic words "Blade Children", and runs away. Moments later Sonobe is found mysteriously collapsed on the ground outside the school. The episode ends here.
[edit] Quotes
Ayumu: After all, there are no idiots who would drop somebody on top of a truck if they wanted to kill them.
Hiyono: Look, I am well-recognized!
Hiyono: I found the perpetrator!
Ayumu: The melody of logic always plays the notes of truth.
