"I really don't get why the police department hired someone like that." Back at her desk, Miwako Sato couldn't help complaining to the colleagues around her.
Although the First Investigation Division had taken advantage of their access to give him a little payback, remembering what Conan had mentioned over the phone still made her furious.
The detention center was an extremely complicated environment, holding every kind of prisoner imaginable. There were punks and thugs detained for public-order violations, as well as suspects temporarily held over criminal cases.
Moreover, since detention centers were essentially facilities for temporary custody, they lacked the orderly arrangements of an actual prison. They were basically crude communal sleeping quarters, and living in those conditions for any length of time was torture in itself.
Two months had passed between Tang Ze's detention and trial. From the perspective of a criminal case, that was not especially long, but keeping a minor in a detention center for that amount of time must have caused him considerable suffering.
And then trash like Tōru Adachi had to show up, taking out his frustrations by turning a blade on someone weaker than himself!
"This case has dragged on for so long, and victims keep appearing one after another. The higher-ups are probably under a lot of pressure," Hitoshi Shiratori guessed.
"Being under pressure doesn't mean they can just take anyone..." Miwako Sato shook her head, though she did not continue attacking him with harsher words.
This was a serial murder case spanning multiple locations, and the killer's message was blatant. The Metropolitan Police Department had been under no small amount of pressure.
Choosing to bring in a former detective with a questionable background like Tōru Adachi at a time like this might not quite count as grasping at straws, but the real