In episode 9 of The Detective is Already Dead, the past and present finally come together to reveal unsettling details about Siesta’s macabre fate.
Kodoani.com – The Detective Is Already Dead spent several episodes detailing Kimihiko Kimizuka’s eventual case with Siesta that resulted in the latter’s death. In those episodes, viewers learn more about the hilarious dynamics of Kimihiko and Siesta as they investigate SPES’s activities in London, England. Siesta even reveals her more vulnerable side when she and Kimihiko drink for the first time, leading to a memorable night together in Siesta’s bed. All this buildup broke viewers’ hearts as the moment revealed what really happened to Siesta on the fateful day she lost her life in episode 9.
Continuing where Episode 8 left off, Siesta, Kimihiko, and Charlotte Arisaka Anderson (aka Charl) are on a boat to an island to defeat Hel and restore Alicia. The latter is actually one of Hel’s Dissociative Identity Disorders that alter the ego. Charl and Kimihiko arrive at the SPES base to fight the Chameleon, who turns out to be an extraterrestrial plant known as SEED, the true leader of SPES. The real goal of SEED is to terraform the Earth and spawn, killing every living thing in the process. While Charl fended off him, Kimihiko came to Siesta’s aid in her battle with Hel.
During their fight, Hel reveals to Siesta that Alicia is the real personality. Some time after SEED arrived on Earth, he kidnapped Alicia and performed torture experiments on her body, injuring her. It was this that led Alicia to develop the non-binary Hel personality, presumably to protect herself from the horrors she experienced. Hel, however, chose to take on SEED’s villainous duties and torment Alicia herself. Siesta deduces that Hel is actually motivated by a need for love from a father figure, which angers them, corroborating Siesta’s deduction. The fight, however, turns deadly when a monster Hel previously controlled flees, resulting in Siesta unconscious and Hel killing the monster. This wears out Hel’s transplanted heart, and they proceed to replace it with the unconscious Siesta’s, killing her in the process.
This revelation in Detective Is Already Dead does more than point out the events that led to Siesta’s death. It really has important implications for the true identity of Nagisa Natsunagi, the host of Siesta’s heart. In fact, the episode seems to confirm that Hel and Nagisa are one and the same. First, they have similar looks, with Nagisa looking like Hel with longer hair. Nagisa also demonstrates that she has gaps in her memory (such as not remembering who her heart donor is), which is a symptom of Personality Disorder.
Furthermore, the Nagisa personality can be born from the personalities of both Siesta and Alicia, as she has traits of both. The final highlight is the red ribbon that Nagisa wears in her hair – the same one that Siesta wore during the Toilet no Hanako-san incident, and it’s the same ribbon she promised to give Alicia in London.
The last thing that’s significant about The Detective Is Already Dead’s flashback ending is that it’s proven to be an important episode for both Siesta and Kimihiko. Since the beginning of the episode, Siesta has always hinted that she knew she was going to die and tries to say goodbye to Kimihiko in the only way she knows how. Before the fight with Hel, Siesta wanted to hug Kimihiko but he refused. She also wanted to tell him how she really felt about him, but he refused to listen to her. It wasn’t until Hel succeeded in killing Siesta that Kimihiko finally broke down and admitted that he had always loved Siesta and regretted not showing this when given the chance.
In many ways, Episode 9 is always a heartbreaking episode to watch. In the end, it not only reveals how Siesta really died, but also confirms the romantic attraction that has always existed between her and Kimihiko, making her death all the more devastating. With the revelation that Hel and Nagisa may be one and the same, the fact of this severely affects Nagisa’s relationship with Kimihiko later on, especially with regard to Kimihiko’s own feelings for Siesta. .