"Can we go directly to the scene and investigate it again?"
"Yes. Before you arrived, you probably already asked around about what happened. At the Hiyihara Family's children's request, we never cleared the scene. For more than a year now, aside from the traces left during the investigation, everything over there has remained exactly as it was when the crime occurred."
Having received that answer from the police, the group exchanged looks, each finding surprise in the others' eyes.
"By the way, the Hiyihara Family child refers to Mr. Yadaken Makoto, the one who sent us the letter, right? So he never accepted the previous conclusion and deliberately preserved the scene to reopen the investigation?" As Ran Mouri spoke, her brows had already drawn together slightly.
That was no ordinary scene. It was the murder scene where his adoptive parents had died.
To preserve a place like that, even if he had not lived in that house since then, was still something heartbreaking and frightening just to imagine.
The place that had become his home was now bound to loss and pain, its warm memories of the past forever unrecoverable. Anyone making such a cruel decision would need tremendous resolve...
"No, Dashu decided to do that." Once again unexpectedly, the serious-faced officer gave another answer. "The Hiyihara Family's youngest son."
"Huh? Him? I remember hearing that he was very young..."
"That's right. Dashu is only eight this year. More than anything, he simply could not accept the investigation's conclusion at the time and begged the station to leave the scene as it was. Since it was his request..."
Ran Mouri's brows twisted even tighter, and this time her fingers had tangled together as well.
If even the youngest child in the family was this obsessed, then this was not something