Back in the car, Shizuku eagerly pulled out the file and began going through the information inside.
First were the victims—just like in the movie and novel, there were four of them, two men and two women. Two of the girls attended the same school and were close friends. The men were students at a cram school and knew each other as well.
If not for a certain reason, this case probably would not have been transferred to the Police History Compilation Office.
That reason was coincidence.
First, all four had died at the same time on the same day.
Second, the condition of their bodies had been surprisingly identical. Every one of them had been clutching their hair with all their strength, as if trying to pull something away.
Finally, all four had died of unknown causes. Of course, the medical examiner had offered scientific explanations after the autopsies. But they were not exhausted middle-aged people worn down by work, nor were they elderly people whose bodies had already grown weak. They had been healthy, lively young people. Four people dying at the same time, in the same manner—that alone was a problem.
Of course, Shizuku had also noticed the differences between reality and the novel and movie.
In the novel and movie, one victim's relative was a journalist working for a newspaper, who investigated the matter out of professional instinct. But in this world's reality, it had been a young police officer responsible for documenting cases. He seemed to have heard from the victims' friends that they had watched a strange videotape, along with a rumor that a woman on it had told them they would die in seven days, and he had begun investigating.
Well, that was normal too. Young people always wanted to crack a major