Ransom

"Ears?" Shiraishi frowned as he looked at the photograph Munakata showed him.

Since leaving the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department and coming to a local precinct, Shiraishi had rarely seen anything this bloody.

There had been no shortage of bombings in public places in Beika Town that left flesh and blood everywhere, but that was fundamentally different from the bloody intimidation of mailing someone severed body parts.

The former could have been the work of any extremist criminal, while the latter—looked very much like something Violent Organizations would do!

"Sato Seiichiro—Ichijo Rin—this was the case from four years ago, right?" Shiraishi remembered it.

Back then, the case had been handled by the Criminal Investigation Department at the Main Branch. After all, Sato Seiichiro had merely "once been a member of a violent organization." From the disappearance case alone, there had been no sign of any connection to Violent Organizations, so it naturally had not fallen under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department's jurisdiction. Shiraishi had not known much about it then.

However, after taking office at Beika Police Station, Shiraishi had gone through all the cold cases and suspicious cases, so he still remembered this one.

"Chief, do you think this could be related to the violent organization Sato used to belong to?" Munakata asked.

Munakata rarely threw questions like this to Shiraishi, but this time was different. Shiraishi knew more about this area.

"I remember it was called the Kawaguchi-gumi? A fringe organization that was disbanded eight years ago. Sato himself was only a peripheral member—" Shiraishi shook his head. Based on experience, he judged that it was probably unrelated.

Eight years ago, Shiraishi had not even been a police officer, so he naturally did not know the specifics. But according to the files, it had been an ordinary small organization