"Brother Yingsi! I know the identity of the third victim!"
Upon hearing this, Fujiwara Yu put down the diary he was reading and looked at Hattori Heiji with a look of satisfaction. If this boy wasn't so young, he really wanted to recruit him as an assistant.
But his age is still too inappropriate, and there is no need to drag him into danger. The "world" here is still not suitable for children to face... Well, it's a pity.
"you say."
"The victim, Arisa Tachikawa, was 22 years old, had a high school education, and was not from Osaka. She lived in an apartment building at 2-4 Minamihorie-cho, Nishi-ku. It wasn't her family who first reported the case to the police, but a colleague who worked as a model at a magazine." Hattori Heiji held up the missing person's report, which was very detailed. He added, "The report was filed on the afternoon of the 20th. According to the clues provided by the reporter, the victim lost contact after a dinner at 8:00 PM on the 19th."
Is she a model? No wonder the missing parts are her legs.
Hattori Heiji was a little confused when he said this. He asked:
"Brother Yingsi, there's one thing I don't quite understand. Tachikawa Arisa is a model, and she's pregnant. Logically, she shouldn't meet the criteria for the perfect woman the victim wanted to create, right? Don't pregnant women usually gain weight? Her figure would probably be a little out of shape, wouldn't it?"
"That's reasonable, but the killer has already kidnapped the victim and naturally won't let him go. Plus, our previous assessment still had blind spots, such as... the order of death."
The first body discovered belonged to Imamura Fujiko, which made Fujiwara Yuu and others believe that Imamura Fujiko was the first victim. However, after the bodies of Takahashi Midori and Tachikawa Arisa were discovered, it was confirmed that the first victim was not Imamura Fujiko, she was just the first victim discovered.
Fujiwara Yu pulled out the Osaka map again, which already had all the pet hospitals in Osaka's western district marked in blue. He took out a red marker and circled the areas where the three victims lived, connecting them with straight lines to form a triangle. A pet hospital that hadn't been included in the calculations now appeared within the triangle.
Because this pet hospital is very close to Tachikawa Arisa's apartment, only a hundred meters away, and the victim was not known before, pet hospitals in this area were not initially included in the investigation.
Shibata Pet Clinic, 3-27 Minamihorie-cho, Nishi-ku.
After memorizing the address, Fujiwara Yuu hurried out of the house, not forgetting to call out to Hattori Heiji who was standing nearby:
"This pet clinic is very likely related to the murderer, Hattori, hurry up!"
"yes!"
It doesn't take long to get to Shibata Pet Clinic from here. It takes more than five minutes to drive there. Of course... Fujiwara Yu was driving quite fast because he was in a hurry, but he still kept it within the legal range. He didn't want to be targeted by the traffic police team hiding in the dark. The police's salary is not much to begin with, and it would be too miserable if it was deducted again.
However, upon arriving at the Shibata Pet Clinic, they found the door closed with a notice posted on it.
【I have a family emergency and will not be open today.】
Fujiwara Yu's expression darkened. He was certain Shibata's Pet Clinic was the place he was looking for. He had already collected all the victim's body parts, only the head was missing. He was determined to kill the last target while the body was still intact, thus completing his dream of finding the perfect woman.
He took out his phone and called Otaki Goro directly, speaking very quickly:
"Otaki-senpai, could you please help me look up the Shibata Pet Clinic in Nishi-ku, Osaka? I need the home addresses of all the employees there, and please hurry!"
"Okay, no problem, I'll help you retrieve the information right away!"
Otaki Goro didn't ask for any reason, but he believed that Takagi Sosuke's request was related to the case. He didn't dare to neglect it and ran around to get the information of Shibata Pet Clinic in person, edited the address into an email and sent it.
Fujiwara Yu received the email within fifteen minutes and opened it quickly. He found that there was only one owner in this pet hospital. The original employees were fired two months ago. It seems that the time when the employees were fired was when the owner Shibata Kenta decided to commit the crime.
The apartment building where Kenta Shibata lives is not in Nishi Ward, but in Naniwa Ward, which is only separated from Nishi Ward by a river. It is less than one kilometer away by car, which can be said to be very close.
There was naturally no way to climb over the wall to enter the apartment building, so Fujiwara Yu directly contacted the apartment manager and successfully obtained the spare key after showing his police officer ID. After opening the door, he smelled an unpleasant odor of corruption. Could it be that someone had been murdered here?
"Hattori, put on your mask." Fujiwara Yu frowned and took a step back to stop Hattori Heiji, who had not yet put on his mask, outside. The stench was even stronger than that of Takayama Midori's house. Inhaling too much would not be good for the human body.
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After the two men were sure that there was no danger in the investigation, they cautiously entered the house and quickly rejected their previous thoughts - because the stench of decay was not emitted by human remains, but the remains of some cats that had been brutally killed and had not been embalmed for a long time, and were now in a state of disarray.
One of the cats had turned to bones, and it seemed that it had died about two months ago, which coincided with the time when Kenta Shibata fired the clinic staff.
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