"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 very much looking forward to meeting you before the end of this game, and I hope you won't disappoint me.
"ps: The game starts now."
With a calm tone and a calm face, the man who looked down at the fax in his hand read the words on it at a very slow speed, and many people gathered around him who heard the news.
of police officers.
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, Miwako Sato, who knew this man's nature well, couldn't help but shout and disperse the human wall on the three floors inside and 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 severely." The five fingers of his right hand that clenched 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."
The upright young man Takagi Wataru was also outraged by this ridiculous crime warning letter. He took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the information displayed on the fax machine, then hurriedly walked out of the third department office area with a dark face.
Chiba and Shin, whose faces were also not very good-looking, gritted their 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 filled with situation 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, prisoner
It seems that it suddenly became high-profile."
The serial murders at the beginning were extremely low-key, and they didn't even dare to fart in the face of the police's investigation. They just kept 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, the prisoner who had been silent for a few days suddenly became high-profile. Not only did he dare to send people to appear on the police investigation route and wait for answers, but now he even dared to fax a very ironic crime warning letter directly to the police.
Viewing hall.
"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 very convinced that we will do what he wants.
Take every step like that..."
Whispering the result of her thinking, Sato Miwako's eyes fell on the photos of the seven victims of the serial murder. 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 to the interrogation room where the fitness coach was.
"Huh? Where are the people?"
Not long after, at the door of the office area, Kogoro Mouri pushed in the door with his client who had just arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department. When he looked up, the figures of Katsuki Uehara and others disappeared, leaving only a picture with a eucalyptus painted on it.
A blackboard with a love tree analysis chart stands alone in front of Miwako Sato's desk.
Next to Kogoro Mouri, 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. However, please keep this matter secret for the time being. The police have been blocking information about serial murders.
, in order to avoid causing panic in public opinion."
As a former criminal police officer, Kogoro Mori naturally knew the purpose of the police's efforts to block the news of serial murders.
"Serial murderer?"
Miyazawa Yuka frowned and looked in the direction Moori 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.
Hearing this, Mouri Kogoro was stunned: "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 in the hands of 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 and left a letter at my house asking me to do what it said. He also called and said he would kill my wife and daughter if I called the police. I had no choice but to do so.
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, pressed it several times with both hands, and signaled 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!"