Sei Riku, Teng, and Tomomi Masaoka each had their own thoughts. The one thing they had in common was that they were all considering the doubts surrounding this case. Everyone had different personalities and ways of handling things, so their perspectives differed as well.
"Let's sort this out."
Ginoza said.
All the information had already been projected onto the screen. As he spoke, he switched through the images. "The victim was Satsuki Kuzuhara. She was found in Daikanyama Park. The girl attended Sakura Frost Academy, a higher education institution on the Day of Authority. She went missing a week ago."
"Sakura Frost Academy?"
Sei Riku looked somewhat startled.
"It's where the specimen case suspect—Kouzaburou Fujima—worked." Tomomi Masaoka's tone was icy, with almost no emotional fluctuation. She seemed like an emotionless machine, yet there was a faint sense of incongruity about her.
Ginoza nodded.
"The body was soaked in a special chemical agent, causing the proteins to denature into a plastic-like state. The analysis proves it was the same agent used in the case three years ago... We suspect this is a serial murder case. The possibility of the same perpetrator is indeed very high."
"The mysterious killer... that guy Fujima... making a comeback after three years?"
Sei Riku shook his head and let out a soft sigh.
No matter what, he could not accept this fact. But why?
Teng had been thinking the entire time. At that moment, he seemed to recall something—he thought of Yan, so he decided to ask.
After all, Yan was important to him as well.
He cautiously raised his hand.
"Gino, is it really okay to exclude Xiao Yan? He's been investigating the specimen case all this time, hasn't he? Maybe he has some new clues."
Teng had clearly hit a nerve.
It was a