Before long, Fang Zheng and Silvia had also successfully found Katou Kirin and Julie.
Katou Kirin had been easier to find. According to her, her identity in this world was Fang Zheng's younger sister, and she was currently attending a girls' school.
Julie, on the other hand, had been rather unlucky. She said she had become a mid-ranking officer in some underground criminal organization... It really left one speechless.
Although the four of them had different identities, all of their roles were connected to Fang Zheng, the detective.
Silvia played Fang Zheng's client.
Katou Kirin played Fang Zheng's younger sister.
Julie played a role similar to Fang Zheng's assistant—after all, detectives needed some connections with the underworld.
After gathering the three of them, Fang Zheng held an emergency meeting with them in a café.
"If I'm not mistaken, then if we want to leave this world, we'll need to solve this case."
Fang Zheng slapped a newspaper onto the table. Its headline read: "Indiscriminate Murder Case in the Ueno District."
"What is this?"
Katou Kirin looked curiously at the newspaper, and Fang Zheng began to explain.
"This is an investigation assignment I received from the police as a detective. Over the course of a month, three victims appeared in Ueno. What they had in common was that they were all young women, and their limbs had been severed. The stumps had been carefully treated, and their eyes had been pierced through to somewhere near their brains... According to the autopsy reports, all of this was done while they were still alive."
"That's horrible..."
Katou Kirin's face turned pale as she trembled. Julie and Silvia did not look much better either.
"Not only that, there are details the newspaper didn't report."
Fang Zheng took out the detective's notebook and found the