"Dear Officer Uehara, hello.
"Congratulations on successfully passing the test and winning the qualification to participate in this game. To be honest, I admire your performance very much. Your agile skills and rational judgment are still fresh in my memory.
“So, I’m really looking forward to seeing you before the end of this game, and I hope you don’t disappoint me.
"PS: The game starts now."
A calm tone and a calm face. The man who lowered his eyes to look at the fax in his hand read the words on it at a very slow speed, and was surrounded by many police officers who heard about it.
The naked provocation appeared on the page and made the police extremely angry.
"That's enough, stop hanging around now and go to work quickly."
Seeing that Katsumi Uehara remained silent after reading the contents of the fax, Sato Miwako, who knew the man's nature well, couldn't help but shout out and disperse the human wall on the three floors outside.
Chiba Kazunobu, who also noticed something was wrong with Uehara Katsumi's state, frowned: "Uehara, you..."
"I'm fine, I just suddenly wanted to catch this bastard in the interrogation room and ravage him." The five fingers of his right hand that tightly grasped the fax slowly loosened. Uehara Katsumi raised his eyes and smiled, fixing the paper in place. on the blackboard.
"I'm going to check this fax."
Takagi Wataru, an upright young man, was also so angry by this ridiculous crime warning letter that he took out his mobile phone to take a picture of the information displayed on the fax machine and hurried out of the third department office area with a dark face.
Chiba Heshin, who also had an unattractive look on his face, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to see what's going on over there."
Although the surveillance of the Takasugi Group Building and the surveillance of the intersection leading to the place where the body was found when the serial murder occurred may not yield much, it is indeed one of the several types of investigation methods that the police can currently use.
After watching the two people leave, Sato Miwako leaned against the desk, raised her right hand and put it on Uehara Katsumi's shoulder and patted her: "Don't worry, we will catch him."
"That's not what I was thinking about."
Katsuki Uehara shook his head, his eyes firmly fixed on the blackboard covered with case analysis: "Don't you think it's strange, Sato?"
"You mean this fax?" Miwako Sato, who was leaning against the corner of the desk with her arms crossed in front of her chest, raised her eyes and landed on the fax posted on the blackboard: "It's indeed strange. The prisoner seems to be It suddenly became high-profile.”
The serial murder case was extremely low-key at the beginning. Faced with the police investigation, he did not even dare to fart. He just maintained the progress of one corpse a day and continued to stimulate the nerves of the police officers headed by Shiratori Rensaburo;
But after the serial murder case, the prisoner who had been silent for a few days suddenly became high-profile. Not only did he dare to send people to wait and see on the police investigation route, but now he even dared to fax a very ironic crime warning letter directly to the Metropolitan Police Department.
"Judging from the current series of performances, the prisoner is obviously not a mentally disturbed lunatic. So the only explanation is that he has completed all the arrangements in the few days of silence, and is also very convinced that we will do what he wants. Take every step like that..."
Mumbling the results of her thinking, Sato Miwako's eyes fell on the photos of the seven victims of the serial murder case. She frowned, as if she had thought of something, and suddenly turned her head to look at Uehara Katsumi next to her——
The latter took the fax off the blackboard and raised it towards her: "If this is the case, and the game wants to go on as he wants, then the prisoner needs an NPC to guide us to the next step. .”
"The fitness instructor you caught at the Takasugi Consortium."
"That's right."
The two looked at each other, then immediately stood up and walked towards the interrogation room where the fitness coach was.
"Huh? Where are the people?"
Not long after, at the door of the office area, Mouri Kogoro pushed in the door with his client who had just arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department. As soon as he raised his eyes, the figures of Uehara Katsuki and others disappeared, leaving only a blackboard with a tree analysis diagram of the case standing alone in front of Sato Miwako's desk.
Next to Mouri Kogoro, a woman in a dark blue trench coat was also puzzled: "Detective Mouri, you said that the police changed people to investigate the case of my husband's death in a car accident. Is that true?"
"Yes, Mrs. Miyazawa. At present, your husband's death is probably related to a horrific serial murder case. However, please keep this matter secret for the time being. The police have been blocking information about the serial murder case. , in order to avoid causing panic in public opinion."
As a former criminal police officer, Mouri Kogoro naturally knew the purpose of the police's efforts to block news of serial murders.
"Serial murder case?"
Miyazawa Yuka frowned and looked in the direction Mouri Kogoro was looking. The blackboard with her husband's photo before his death came into view.
Next to the photo of her husband, Nobu Miyazawa, there were photos of nine people - seven of them had death written under them, the eighth had nothing written under them, and the ninth had "Arrested" written under them. ".
"Coach Kirino?" Seeing the photo of the arrested man, the woman named Miyazawa Yuka showed a bit of surprise between her eyebrows.
Mouri Kogoro was stunned when he heard this: "Mrs. Miyazawa, do you know him?"
…………………………………………
"No, I don't, I don't even know who he is!"
In the interrogation room, facing the two police officers who came in again, especially after seeing the fax carried by the two men, the man who had been silent since his arrest finally spoke.
And this opening was so exciting that it almost broke my voice: "I don't know anything, really, believe me, I really don't know anything!
"That guy kidnapped my wife and daughter, left a letter at my house asking me to do what it said, and he called and said he would kill my wife and daughter if I called the police. I had no other choice. choose!
"If you search my house now, you should still be able to find the letter that guy left for me. It's on the bedside table in my bedroom! I'm not lying! Believe me, you believe me!"
Katsuki Uehara slapped the fax on the table and pressed it several times with empty hands, signaling the man not to get excited and calm down: "OK, don't get excited, I believe you, Mr. Kirino. But now I have to know whether the prisoner has told you anything, For example, what to say to the police or what to ask the police to do.”
"Yes! Yes! That guy told me on the phone that he would not speak until the police received his fax, otherwise he would kill my wife and daughter."
The man nodded hurriedly: "He said he would make those who deserve it pay with blood!"
