Yami No Matsuei Fan Fiction ❯ Rapture Like Blood ❯ Tokyo Case Review ( Chapter 6 )
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Chapter Six: Tokyo Case Review:
-Morning in Ju-Oh-Cho-
The Tokyo shinigami had a new case on their hands. They began the
overview of the case.
In 1964, a woman and her young son moved into Happy Puppy
Apartments. She had just come out of a nasty divorce and hated men
as a result. She drove those beliefs deep into her son. However, a
curious thing happened. It's not clear about Saito's childhood and
adolescence, but it is suspected that Tajizawa-san displayed a
Jocasta type of behavior towards her son. This is only
speculation.
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Not much is known about the years between 1964 and 1997. The
neighbors couldn't tell the police much about the family back in
'97. They barely left the apartment. No one knew of the father or
any other friends outside of Happy Puppy Apartments. The family
didn't even leave a phone number with the manager while they were
living in apartment number 103. Not much mail came to that address
either. Tajizawa-san took up many odd jobs to make ends meet. Her
co-workers didn't have much to give to the police at the time of
the investigation either. The woman's bosses described her as quiet
and a good worker even though she didn't stay at one job very long.
Her son didn't interact with the other kids in the apartment. His
mother even home-schooled him on the days when she didn't have to
work.
In 1997, Tajizawa-san met a man at the grocery store where she
worked and a fling ensued. There is not much known about the
boyfriend either. Tajizawa-san didn't talk much about him just like
she did with everything else. She wouldn't even give them his first
name, but yet her co-workers saw that she clearly loved this man.
The relationship developed pretty quickly within a span of three
weeks. She even wanted to move the man into the apartment that she
lived in. This created tension between mother and son as Saito came
to hate the boyfriend. One July night, Saito came home and found
his mother in bed with the boyfriend. The thirty-seven-year-old
snapped and stabbed them both to death on the spot.
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Nobody knew what happened for the next three days. Saito wouldn't
even answer the door. Afterwards, Saito went to the roof and jumped
to his death. His body was found in the back alley after the
janitor was cleaning up the street around the apartment for the
morning. The police found the bodies of his mother and her
boyfriend later that evening. The crime scene looked like no other
that they had ever seen at that time. Dried blood splattered the
walls, sheets, furniture, and ceiling. The darkness of the room and
freezing air from the AC running in the apartment kept the bodies
from decaying right away even though there was a power outage late
one muggy night. Many of the officers working on the case had to
have months of therapy after what they had witnessed with that
gruesome scene. All of the evidence from the knife and fingerprints
in the bedroom came back to Saito. In the end, the cops ruled the
case as a double-murder suicide. After that, most of the residents
left Happy Puppy Apartments.
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Three months ago, mysterious deaths began occurring near Happy
Puppy Apartments. Eight victims have been found so far. Each one
has been characterized as a young, single woman in their late
twenties to early thirties that worked at the supermarket that
Tajizawa-san used to work at before she died. It is a hunch that
the victims all resemble Saito's mother in '64. So far, not much is
known about these women at the time.
The Ju-Oh-Cho is still trying to work on IDs for each one. Other
than their place of work, the eight women don't have much in
common. All of them have had their chests ripped right open. The
bodies are always dumped around the Happy Puppy Property. There has
been only one survivor in this case. She claimed the culprit was an
old lady with claws. The suspect tracked the would-be victim down
in the parking lot of the supermarket where she worked and tried to
attack her before she got into her car. The only reason she escaped
being the ninth victim was because the manager of the supermarket
was chasing down some teenage shoplifters into the parking lot. Not
many other clues have been left behind.
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Konoe turned to the Tokyo shinigami. "That old lady sounds like a
demon escaped from Hell," he said. "Capture and judge her."
"Yes sir!" the shinigami replied. They disappeared to act on their
order.
Early on that same morning, Hotaru came out to the park with a huge
bag of Kompeito in her hand.