Chapter 1058: It's Just a Phone Call

Akaso Kaze took out his phone and took a picture of the photo the girl left in the bar's signature column. The girl in it looked very happy.

Homeless, runaway.

This is a topic that can barely connect Calico Cat and Matsukura Hana.

If they met through social networking, maybe they would have left relevant clues, but the suicide website suddenly shut down while the police were investigating.

Perhaps that website administrator already knows something.

"Ai," Akaso Kaze called Ai. "Are you at the office right now?"

"At the Medical Examiner's Office."

"Eh?"

"The composition analysis seems to have results," Ai stood by the hallway, looking at Mikoto talking to her colleagues in the office. "That forensic pathologist of yours just happened to call the office."

"What do you mean 'that forensic pathologist of mine'?"

Akaso Kaze's brow twitched.

"I'm going to the Medical Examiner's Office now to tell them that I've found the place where the murdered girl worked. I only know a pseudonym 'Calico Cat,' which might also be a screen name."

"Calico Cat?"

Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Examiner's Office. It was Akaso Kaze's third visit. As soon as he put on a work badge and entered the autopsy team's office, he saw Ai and Mikoto chatting together, looking quite harmonious.

"How is it?"

"The analysis team has already brought the composition table over," Mikoto saw Akaso Kaze and hurriedly took out a document. "After comparing, we found this..."

Akaso Kaze picked up the analysis document regarding the hot spring water quality: "Yuruka Hot Spring?"

"When the Philippine Sea Plate sinks under Honshu, it brings up a large amount of seawater. The seawater turns into steam due to the heat of the mantle, and when it rises to the surface, it becomes a hot spring. This Yuruka Hot Spring is one of the few in the world where the salt concentration is twice that of seawater, and it is closer to the composition ratio on the table than seawater."

Mikoto smiled lightly and took out a promotional poster for the Yuruka Hot Spring resort: "And there's also this, venison with extremely high glycogen content. How about it?"

"Venison?"

Akaso Kaze grabbed the poster, looked at the analysis table carefully again, and stared slightly wide-eyed at Mikoto: "You found the specific location just like that?"

"In other words, the last place Calico Cat went might have been Yuruka Hot Spring, and she ate her last dinner there before being murdered. As long as we confirm the specific location, we can start investigating from the vicinity."

"N-no good!" An intern suddenly ran into the office in a panic, caught his breath, and said anxiously, "The director just contacted the police station, and it seems they intend to give up on continuing the investigation!"

"Eh? Why? We finally have a clue."

"They said it was confirmed that the suicide note was left by the person herself, and there's no matching missing person report. The victim was all alone, and the Sato family wants to close the case as soon as possible, so the police station intends to handle it as a forced suicide case, with Sato Masakazu as the culprit!"

"How can they do this?"

The faces of everyone in the autopsy team instantly turned ugly.

"But didn't Officer Mouri go to investigate that suicide website administrator?"

"I heard it was the higher-ups' idea."

"Not surprising," an old forensic pathologist walked into the office and said, unfazed. "The police have many big cases on hand. For this kind of troublesome suicide case, of course, it's better to avoid extra trouble. Pretending not to see it makes everyone happy."

"But what about Matsukura Hana?" Mikoto clenched her fingers; as long as she closed her eyes, she felt like she could see the victim's face again.

"There is another girl who might be imprisoned. When little Calico Cat was alive, she couldn't save her, but at least we must save the girl she was willing to protect even in death. This was her final prayer."

"... This can't be helped. There's no evidence to confirm there's really another girl. We'll have to look for that girl named Matsukura Hana separately."

"Then what about the murderer?"

"Little Calico Cat, who was able to swallow the plea for help," Mikoto's eyes were slightly red. "Just because of a suicide note, with no relatives looking for her. Are we just going to ignore her prayer?"

"This."

"Is there really no way?"

Everyone in the autopsy team was a bit dejected. The old forensic pathologist shook his head helplessly and said, "We've done our best. A forensic pathologist is, after all, just a forensic pathologist."

"Excuse me," Akaso Kaze put down the analysis and looked at the autopsy team, who had suddenly fallen into chaos, and raised his hand slightly. "The higher-ups' idea. Whose idea is it?"

Mikoto was stunned, turned to Akaso Kaze, and opened her mouth slightly: "Ah, I almost forgot! Akaso-sama must have a way."

"Officer Megure, there might be a girl currently in danger, and she could be murdered at any moment. It's nothing, I just happened to run into it. The forensic pathologists here are very capable."

In the autopsy team's office, Akaso Kaze hung up the phone under the stunned gazes of many forensic pathologists.

"It's no problem. The Metropolitan Police Department will contact the Nishi-Musashino Police Station, but we also need to find more clues as soon as possible."

"So amazing. Akaso-sama's influence in the Metropolitan Police Department is truly not small." The old forensic pathologist sighed and clicked his tongue repeatedly. ===== CHAPTER 1060 =====