He felt like he'd dodged a bullet, a slight exhale of breath he didn't know he was holding in. Putting his badge back into his pocket, he moved to the table, though giving plenty of room.

"Yeah. When we found the first victim, all of the 'injuries' were posthumous, obviously from how she was hanging up. And then the second was no different."

He glanced over the body; she was young, though not at young as Saki Konishi, but younger than Mayumi Yamano...

"... when our forensic guys went over the bodies, they could pin point time of death, but not the exact cause."

It had been beyond frustrating-- the victims just seemed to drop dead.

"...The victims aren't all girls this time, if I remember right. So it's not an exact copy of what Adachi did..."