"Temperature?!" Takizawa's face fell the moment he heard Suzuya's explanation. "What kind of clue is that? You could grab anyone off the street right now, and their body temperature would be the same!"
"Not his..." Juuzou Suzuya raised both hands and gave Takizawa an eerie smile. "His hands were colder than a corpse's..."
Takizawa: "..."
"That does seem right. His body temperature is pretty distinctive..." Shizuri recalled how the Ice Mask had grabbed the back of her neck and taken her down in an instant.
"Then besides his temperature and appearance, do you know anything else about him?"
"Nope. There was nothing but money in his wallet... What a boring guy..." Suzuya pouted.
"Just how many things have you done to disgrace Ghoul Investigators that you can say that like it's perfectly normal...?" Takizawa's eyes were filled with contempt and resignation.
"Ahem... Fura, Amon, coordinate with Ward 18. I'll take Suzuya to get a sketch done first." Kōki Shinohara cleared his throat, assigned their tasks, then beckoned Suzuya to leave with him.
"At least with a sketch, we'll be able to identify our target faster." Hōji Kōsuke rested a hand on Takizawa's shoulder, instantly taking the wind out of his sails.
"Whatever else happened, Suzuya did help us this time. Let's get back to work."
Meanwhile, Louis had met up with Tsukiyama and the others in an old house. Since it was in the sparsely populated suburbs, they hadn't attracted anyone's attention.
"That's what happened. Handing her over to Aogiri Tree wasn't particularly wise, but I had my own selfish reasons for letting her go."
A dozen or so men and women crowded the small room. Some were applying medicine to their injuries, while others discussed the day's events. Tsukiyama had hurried off on the way here, though no