Reincarnated Into A Dead Woman's Body In Another World

A small evidence board laid on his desk with details and notes pinned. "Where are you hiding..." Kazuo muttered under his breath and penned something down.

He had his hands gripped at the table’s edges, bent forward on the documents strewn about it. He tapped the pen insistently at the side while his eyes shrunk narrower and narrower.

"Base of operations can be anywhere, but it has to be being built. They didn’t have a headquarters when I hunted them down, but that must be false. The place had to just be cleared, but even then there would be..."

But, but, but—he muttered aloud to himself as the words he wrote were not enough to piece the puzzle. "Where; it has to be connected with the cases in early February. The location has to be in Dolpool.

The gang sighting in Erigeron yesterday was a red herring; a distraction to get me away from central Dolpool, it has to be. Then something must be here—in Orchid Borough?

They want to make a show of everything, but why? That reasoning’s contradictory to their goal, always has been," his back hunched over more and more. "If they have Dolpool they could just..."

He finally blinked and held the bridge of his nose. His entire posture stiffened as his shoulders went back. Some evidence had connected in his mind and the pen practically impaled the paper as he wrote something down.

He tore a piece and pinned it to the evidence board. ’Target of Burntish Courthouse’, it read. He shifted the pins and strings around with no pause.

The door to his office opened, "Afternoon detective," Morgana stood at the threshold.

Kazuo removed the yellow string connecting ’Dragon—transmutationist’ to ’Chief Justice’, and connected a red string between the former and-

Morgana cleared her throat.

Kazuo barely glanced up, "Sorry, afternoon. How did your case go?"