A luxurious hotel.
Four Mystery Seekers were discussing the incident in front of a computer.
"According to our investigation, the victims were basically all heinous criminals. Only one was killed by mistake, and that victim was innocent. The reason for the mistake was that someone paid him thirty million yen to take the fall and go to prison..." Li Chun began presenting the information he had gathered.
After listening, Xie Dong was the first to analyze it. "From this, it can be seen that the Behind-the-Scenes Manipulator who killed these people should be a young man under thirty with a sense of justice but no faith in order. What adult would do something so thankless and exhausting?"
Li Chun and Xie Dong were both men and more expressive, so they spoke up first.
Liu Xia and Chen Qiu were women. They merely listened quietly to the two men's analysis.
"The Behind-the-Scenes Manipulator should be an East Islander," Xie Dong continued.
"Why?" Chen Qiu asked curiously.
"It's simple. For you, would criminals in Miken make you angrier and give you the urge to execute them, or would criminals around you make you angrier?" Xie Dong asked in return.
"I get it. Definitely the latter, because they can directly harm you, your family, and your friends, while the former have a much smaller chance of harming you," Chen Qiu said in realization.
"Exactly. There's also a darker reason: the more criminals there are in other countries, the more it proves how wonderful and happy the place you live is. So there's a ninety percent chance that this Behind-the-Scenes Manipulator is an East Islander," Xie Dong confirmed.
Chen Qiu asked, "Then how does he kill people?"
"Judging from the information, those victims were scattered across a wide area and had no social connections