Chapter 1060

"Hum." Akaso Kaze suddenly stopped the car at an intersection and looked at a warehouse-like wooden house on the other side of the country road; a refrigerated truck with a snowflake logo was parked in front of the house.

"What's wrong?" Misumi asked in confusion.

"It's a snow truck."

Akaso Kaze paused, then turned along the path and drove toward the small house.

"The killer might have used the nickname 'Snow' to pretend to be a woman and contact Calico Cat, which is why that message specifically wrote 'Snow Man'."

"Snow?"

Misumi smoothed her hair, which had been messed up by the wind, pulled Ai along, and hurriedly followed Akaso Kaze out of the car and into the truck.

The outside of the truck box was printed with a snowflake pattern, along with the word "snow" and a special label reading "Minus 20 Degrees"; Misumi's gaze was instantly drawn to it.

"It really is. A moving freezer, and there aren't many people around."

Misumi licked her dry lips and followed his gaze to the water pipe still dripping in front of the house; the pipe was covered in salt crystals and hung with a sign that read "Hot Spring."

Vaguely, she seemed to see the image of two girls happily washing their faces in front of the water pipe.

"Is this really the place?" Misumi looked at Akaso Kaze, carefully collected the salt crystals from the pipe, and then opened the truck's cargo door with trembling fingers.

"Little Calico Cat was in a place like this."

"The dead will never return," Akaso Kaze said, crossing his arms and looking at the surrounding area.

"But we still have a chance to save another person; isn't that exactly what Calico Cat was desperately trying to convey to us?"

"What happened to Little Calico Cat? Little Calico Cat."

"Thump! Thump-thump!"

The Onuma residence, 5-chome, Chozuka Town.

Onuma Satoru looked with disgust at the woman locked in the inner room who kept screaming after he had torn the tape off her mouth.

He walked over and punched her a few times, only rising again once the woman went silent.

Just as he was planning to drag the woman away, the sound of a doorbell suddenly rang outside.

It was just a very ordinary doorbell sound, yet for some reason, it made his body tense up.

He couldn't help but swallow hard as he looked toward the entryway.

The plan should have gone very smoothly; although the famous Onmyoji lord was mentioned on the news, finding him based on just one corpse seemed impossible no matter how he thought about it.

He had also cleared and deleted all the information online and had even stayed honestly at home for several days.

Onmyoji Lord Akaso.

Impossible, how could they possibly find their way to a place like this?

However, Onuma Satoru's face stiffened, and with dry lips, he reached out to grab the doorknob, one hand picking up an iron rod to hide behind his back.

If they really did show up at the door, if it was only one person, he could fool them first, then find a way to probe for information and resolve it slowly.

Killing one person is killing, and killing several is also killing.

"Click!"

The door opened, and suddenly someone blocked the gap; a police badge appeared in Onuma Satoru's line of sight.

"You are Mr. Onuma, right?"

The next day, at the Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, after Misumi finished her autopsy work, she happened to run into the old director at the autopsy team's office.

"The West Musashino Police Station has already sent Onuma Satoru to the prosecutor's office," the old director said to everyone after seeing Misumi nod.

"Although he refuses to talk, the police have already obtained a lot of evidence. According to the administrator of that suicide website, Onuma Satoru disguised himself as a woman online, using the name 'Little Snow' on SNS social networking sites to find young girls who wanted to commit suicide, talked to them, just as Lord Akaso guessed."