What the hell is that?
I got something !
Here...
Forceps.
There’s something moving inside it...
just opened !
His eye...
But the concentration wasn’t high enough to suggest dependence.
We found trace amounts of trichloromethane* in his blood.
DECEMBER 7, 7:16 PM SASAHARA POLICE DEPARTMENT, AUTOPSY ROOM
*Trichloromethane: Also known as chloroform, used as an anesthetic I’m concerned about these bulging veins on the side of his head. Could it be an anomaly of the lymphatic vessels?
Could be... All right.
Let’s start by looking there first.
TADAO SUGANO
SASAHARA POLICE DEPARTMENT MEDICAL EXAMINER
I think I’ll do that.
Yeah. Good idea.
Which means that today, we can mess around until dawn! Oh!
This really isn’t my day...
And I have to turn in that presentation tomorrow morning.
Why don’t you tell him... that you fell behind because the police wanted to question you about something?
Yeah.
The one for Sociology?
The teacher’s a pain in the ass. He doesn’t let anything slide.
Huh?
But I just took a shower.
Oh, wait, no. it’s a pimple. Ewww!
You had blood on your cheek.
I just got a call from the police. The police?
THAT’S OK, RiGHT?
SOUNDS LiKE A HASSLE ANYWAY...
I told them I didn’t know where you were...
Seriously?
Yeah, THAT’S FiNE...
MIKA SEKIGUCHI UNIVERSITY STUDENT
Hello? Huh?
The police?
I told you, I have no idea...
I don’t know.
Yawwn...
wheww, much better!
DECEMBER 7, 5:51 PM
ŌNO GREEN HEIGHTS APARTMENTS, TAKETOYO DISTRICT, CITY OF SASAHARA
SEKIGUCHI
Let’s hear what he has to say...
Here it is, Sir. Hmm...
I’d say he’s the real victim here...
The young man fled...
But he dropped his cell phone at the site of the incident.
Oh...
Say, Ken...
You think this could be a case of involuntary manslaughter?
He was in the middle of sending a text to his girlfriend.
All right...
According to the owner of a hardware store near the site of the incident...
Were you the first on the scene?
At which point he stopped moving!
The victim spewed blood on a young man, who then pushed him to the ground! That was when his head hit the pavement...
Yes, SiR.
Yes, sir! My naME is Officer ikemoto, reporting from Sasahara Central Police Station, SiR!
You can relax, you know...
I APOLOGiZE, sir!
Running into a stark-naked man in the street... who vomits blood on you without warning... sure could make someone panic...
Never call the deceased a “thing”...
One more thing, inoue...
Yes?
He may have been a drug-addled nobody... But you should still treat him like a human being.
Understood, sir .
What is it, inoue?
Yes, sir!
Mr. Mizoguchi! Hmm...
Mr. Mizoguchi!
Can we send this thing to forensics?
NAO INOUE SASAHARA POLICE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION
Yep. Go ahead. get as many witness statements as you can.
Hmm... it looks like he came out of here.
I wonder what was going through his head...
Right, Look at the footprints.
A suicidal exhibitionist?
SHUICHI TAKIMOTO
SASAHARA POLICE
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION
I WOULDN’T BE SURPRiSED iF WE FiND MAGGOTS iN HiS BRAiN...
May his soul rest in peace.
DECEMBER 7, 5:14 PM CENTRAL SHOPPING STREET, CITY OF SASAHARA
Ken... What do you think?
I don’t think he had his head on straight...
KEN MIZOGUCHI
SASAHARA POLICE
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION
A a a a a a a a h
And with every purchase...
WE’RE HAViNG HOTPOT today...
Hello, Dad?
So hurry home! Sales start today!
Twelve rolls of toilet paper for 248 yen!
Step right up!
Too cute!
Ooooh! He’s so cute!
Today only, Unshu clementines at unbeatable prices!
DECEMBER 7, 4:32 PM
CENTRAL SHOPPING STREET, CITY OF SASAHARA
Crazy, huh? I’ll say!