"xxxx, x month x... yesterday? Murdered inside the company he ran, body brutally dismembered. Judging by the marks in the pictures, it wasn't cut open with a knife or anything like that, and it doesn't look like he was dismembered after death, either. He was torn apart by something while he was still alive... Hm? This is the camera footage from the victim's office before he died. Let's watch it first."
As he spoke, Takai Geki clicked open the video file, only for the loading screen that suddenly popped up to instantly sour his mood.
"No way, it still has to compress and decode... Does it have to be this much trouble..." With nothing else he could do, he could only boredly look over the files of the four victims again. "Still, although these guys all died in different ways, why do I keep feeling like they're connected somehow? They all seem to have been killed only after being tortured... Hm? What's this?!"
His gaze suddenly landed on something unbelievable, and in a fluster, he marked a certain part of the four victims' files as important. Immediately after, he opened another document and entered the four characters "Xiangchuan Dapu" into the search.
"Xiangchuan Dapu. The only thing these four people have in common is that they all knew this person. A coincidence? And... he looks really familiar."
Still puzzled, he clicked on the only file named Xiangchuan Dapu. At the same time, the video that had finished loading also began playing automatically.
"Xiangchuan Dapu, from Kanto, a fugitive in a hit-and-run case ten years ago, still not arrested and brought to justice to this day... And the victim in that hit-and-run was named... Senba Setsune..."
Senba Setsune. The familiar name instantly made Takai Geki's eyes widen, and he could not