Lies and Falsehoods At Octopus, Takoda gives Akira the task of drawing a Christmas card although he knows little about Santa Claus or the tradition. When Akira delivers some business cards to the Taihei Detective Agency, he sees Hinako but also recognizes Utsubo as the third of his three targets four years earlier when he first saw Hinako. That night, Utsubo tells Suzuki how he built a prostitution ring consisting of underage girls who were either runways or kidnapped. As a result, his associates were soon assassinated. One of them, Kawahira, was with Hinako prior to the accident that injured her. After laying low for about a year, Utsubo visited her at the hospital posing as a detective. Upon learning about how terrified she was of Fable, he killed Hinako's parents so she would become dependent on him. Utsubo later invites Kainuma and his mother to his office where he exposes Kainuma's interest in Miaski.