In the attic of a house on Fourth Street in Beika Town.
Hattori Heiji, his face covered in blood, looked at the fat woman before him and the two burly men holding guns, feeling like he was on the verge of tears.
Just a few hours ago, he had arrived in Tokyo.
He had been about to find the person he was looking for this time and help solve a case... when someone suddenly pressed a gun to his head, dragged him into a van, and kidnapped him.
Then, once they arrived, they did not say a word before beating him senseless.
"Arrogant little Osaka brat, have you thought it through now?"
The fat woman stood before Hattori Heiji, her gaze sweeping constantly over his face. "That face of yours was pretty handsome just now... but now? Tsk, tsk, tsk."
"If you do not want your entire face skinned off, I suggest you obediently help us crack the code."
The fat woman clicked her tongue and looked toward the bloodied man lying on the floor. "Do not be like that rat in the gutter over there. He did not say a single word, so we beat him to death."
Hattori Heiji narrowed his eyes, trying to keep the blood from flowing into them.
From what these people had said, he could roughly deduce why they had kidnapped him, a High School Detective.
Kusukawa, the person he had come looking for, had probably been investigating a tax evasion case and found evidence. But Kusukawa had apparently been foolish enough to go demand that they turn themselves in, only to be captured and tortured into revealing the location of the safe.
However, because the safe had a password and that password was encrypted, Kusukawa had been beaten to death. Though these people