"That guy should be in the kind of state where he'd be sent for treatment the moment a street scanner caught him... right?"
"I see. So that's how it is." Karanomori seemed to understand something and added more search criteria, using the suspect's appearance as a condition. The suspect did not look particularly vicious. Who would have thought he was the perpetrator of such a heinous case?
"Ito Junmei, Hiroko Fujii's coworker. He has been absent for the past two weeks due to illness and is receiving health management guidance."
Meanwhile.
Karanomori's information had already been shared with everyone. The Enforcers on the front lines held their Dominators as they coordinated their search.
Ito's apartment.
Nothing happened the moment they broke down the door. The entire room seemed utterly still, though it was no surprise that Ito would not sit around waiting to be caught.
The walls were a mess.
The floor was piled high with garbage.
None of the trash had been sorted. Kitchen waste and other refuse were mixed together, giving off a pungent stench. It seemed the owner of this room lived a truly rough life. However, the Enforcers did not care about the smell. Every one of them remained focused.
"...Not home?"
"But we were right."
Yan immediately noticed the wall. It was not an ordinary wall; it was covered from end to end with photos of Hiroko Fujii. Most horrifying of all, every photo had been slashed to pieces. Every cut proved the madness and bloodlust in Ito's heart when he murdered Fujii.
A virtual projection in the room caught Yan's attention.
He activated the virtual projection.
What it displayed made everyone frown. It was a projection of a completely naked woman—Hiroko Fujii.
Those chaotic marks proved one thing: they were the clearest evidence of