"Actually, I didn't want to bring it up either." Kazuha had completely recovered from what happened today, but she still got a little angry when she talked about Misari Ito.
"But that old woman was really awful; she actually tried to burn us alive."
"You're going to burn you to death?" Xiaolan looked up at He Ye, somewhat surprised.
Actually, Misari Ito made a pretty good first impression on Ran.
It might be because she and her mother are both lawyers, and they chatted for a while at the time.
She felt that Misari Ito was quite kind, always had a smile on her face, and even had a cat at home. She didn't seem like the kind of person who would do something like arson.
Xiaolan knew the principle of not judging a book by its cover.
But what she didn't expect was that Misari Ito's real image was so different from the image she presented.
"Yes, she set fire to her own house to make people think that she had offended someone during a lawsuit and set the house on fire to vent her anger. As a result, the people inside the house were burned to death before they could escape," Hattori Heiji nodded and explained.
"It's easy to draw a dragon or a tiger, but hard to draw their bones; it's easy to know a person's face, but hard to know their heart..." Guangyou ate his meal with a calm expression. He had seen too many of these kinds of things and was used to it.
"You guys really almost lost your lives." Uncle Mori, his face flushed from drinking, frowned slightly as he recalled the news he had seen earlier.
While recalling the incident, Uncle Mori poured himself a beer and said, "Who knows, the blame for the case might even be shifted to the arsonist who caused panic in this area."
Looking back now, Ito Misari's address was in 4-chome, Kenjiro Town, which fits the pattern of previous arson cases.
Once someone spreads a rumor that the case was committed by the same person as the previous arson case, over time, everyone will come to believe it as well.
"An arsonist?" Hattori Heiji suddenly became curious.
This looks like there's a case brewing!
"..." Kōyū looked up at Hattori Heiji, somewhat speechless.
"Yes, there have been several arson incidents in Tokyo recently," Xiaolan nodded and explained.
“Since they’re called a series, it means there’s some special connection between these arson cases, right?” Hattori Heiji immediately grasped the key point, “like the methods used.”
"No." Uncle Mori finished his beer in one gulp. When he talked about the case, his expression became much more serious. "Although the methods are not uniform, the police always leave a red horse statue at the crime scene."
"The red horse statue?" Kazuha clearly didn't know what the red horse statue represented. Seeing that Uncle Mori's expression was somewhat serious, she asked, "Does this statue have any special meaning?"
"I see..."
Upon hearing this, Hattori Heiji's face showed a playful expression. "This red horse statue must represent the code the police use against arsonists—'Red Horse'."
"So there's such a code?" Guangyou wasn't really aware of it either; this was the first time he'd heard of it.
but...
He then realized that if the red horse statue was deliberately left at the arson scene by the arsonist, then that meant...
"If that's the case, then the red horse statue is a provocation by the arsonist against the police?" Kōyū looked up at Hattori Heiji.
“Hmm.” Hattori Heiji glanced at Kōyū and nodded. “It basically means, ‘I’m an arsonist. If you can catch me, then come and catch me.’”
"You seem to know quite a lot about this," Uncle Mori agreed with Heiji Hattori, and said seriously, "However, it's fortunate that there have been no casualties in the three arson cases so far."
"Is there any connection between those three arson cases?" Hattori Heiji frowned, forgetting to eat after talking about the case. "Or is it that the perpetrator just liked to deliberately set fires to provoke the police?"
"I'm not too sure about that. There doesn't seem to be any connection between those three arson cases." Uncle Mori had only seen these few news items in the newspaper.
I haven't asked the police, so I don't know much.
"If I had to pinpoint a connection, there is one." Uncle Mori took a sip of his drink, rubbed his chin, tilted his head back, and recalled, "The locations are scattered across various places..."
"I remember the first one happened in Rizen-cho 1-chome."
"The second item is Toriya-cho 2-chome."
"The third incident occurred in Okuho-cho 3-chome."
"In that case, the next stop is somewhere in fourth-chome, right?"
Hearing this, Hattori Heiji understood what Uncle Mori had said earlier. "I see. I remember that old lady's address happened to be in Kenbashi Town, 4-chome."
"If she succeeds, the responsibility will most likely be placed on the arsonist who committed three crimes in a row."
“Yes, and it’s still uncertain whether the arsonist committed the crime without warning. The police can’t rule out that possibility.” Uncle Mori nodded and said, “So the police have increased patrols in the 4-chome area of Tokyo.”
"It feels a bit difficult." After finishing his meal, Kōyū put down his chopsticks and said, "The police don't have any leads right now, and there are 4-chome areas in many parts of Tokyo."
"That's beyond our control. We can only hope the police can catch the arsonist soon." Uncle Mori pursed his lips and downed his beer in one gulp.
After drinking it, he complained, "Ever since the third incident, all the izakayas near 4-chome have closed down, supposedly out of concern for arsonists. Seriously..."
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