After a troublesome round of testing, the Forensics Department officers finally delivered the results: they actually had records of this gun! When that FBI agent named Akai Shuichi had illegally carried a gun while chasing innocent civilians, this was the handgun he had been carrying.
In other words, yesterday's case was actually connected to that group of FBI agents too!
Recalling that case, Inspector Megure remembered many details. "I remember, according to yesterday's murderer, he'd arranged to buy guns from a gun dealer. But when he arrived at the meeting place, there was a murder case there—the handgun dealer had been waiting for him in an alley when his ex-girlfriend, who had jumped from a building, fell on top of him and killed him."
"In the chaos, he picked up the bag from the ground and hurriedly fled the scene."
In theory, this should have been an unrelated case. But why had the gun dealer possessed the handgun registered to Akai Shuichi?
"Those FBI agents may not be very law-abiding, but they shouldn't be the type to kill people... Could the gun have been lost, then picked up by that dealer?" Inspector Megure stroked his chin. "But if they lost a gun, especially one that had been reported, shouldn't they have immediately filed a report with the Metropolitan Police Department? I just had Sato check, but she said they hadn't received anything like that... Sigh, what exactly is going on?"
Although all the evidence pointed toward the FBI and Akai Shuichi, Inspector Megure had dealt with them before. He simply couldn't believe Akai Shuichi would murder an utterly ordinary otaku who was only a little bad.
But it seemed... the colleagues who had appeared out of nowhere behind him did not think like this.
"They actually mobilized this many people."