I Found a Hole in my Yard. It Might Be a Dungeon, but That’s Now my Garbage Dump

ean, you’ll probably turn the tables at them.]

Sponsored Content

 

 

Hiroki tried making a joke, but it seems like the employees didn’t get it.

 

 

 

 

 

★　★　★　★　★

 

 

 

 

 

[That Prefectural Police Commissioner, he was a bum, wasn’t he?]

 

 

[Yes.
Well, it was a murder case within their jurisdiction while they were on high alert.
The pressure from the top must be intense.]

 

 

Detective Manda made fun of Detective Nagai, who was driving the car, for yelling at the government employee to the point of breaking his voice in the morning investigative meeting.

 

 

[Well, I can understand why you wanna yell at the higher-ups.]

 

 

There were four cases in this prefecture alone.
With seven consecutive murders in a row, including those in Tokyo and neighboring prefectures, it’s not hard to imagine the criticism against the police, who are unable to solve the cases, are getting stronger.

 

 

[Not only the presidents of the company, his wife and children as well…… That freaking murderer, he’s not human.]

 

 

[Even though his modus operandi is quite rough, why is that they still haven’t caught him, Manda-san?]

 

 

[It’s exactly because he’s rough.
They don’t know his motives, the murder weapon, the tools he use or anything like that.
It’s as if whoever’s attacking those families was just a random attacker.]

 

 

Sponsored Content

The modus operandi of the perpetrator is so simple and common that it’s almost mind-boggling.

That’s why the police are investigating this as a series of crimes are committed by the same person.

 

 

First, the perpetrator sneaks into a company late at night.

Then, he would threaten a small number of employees working overtime to get information about the president’s home, and he would then either knock them out, tie them up, shove them into lockers or the like.

Then, after robbing the company of its money and valuables, he would break ito the president’s home late at night and murder his family.

 

 

[Manda-san, is it true that the murderer only targets black companies?]

 

 

[Are you talking about that story from the weekly news? Well, all companies don’t have a good reputation.
It is true that they’re on MHLW’s list of black companies.]

 

 

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) publishes a monthly list of companies by prefecture that are in violation of labor standards-related laws and regulations in order to improve the populace’s working environment.

The so-called “black company list” refers to this list of violating companies.

 

 

[But Nagai, how many companies do you think there are in the world? Including those with past violations, there are hundreds of such companies in this prefecture alone.
It’s impossible to be on the lookout for all of them.]

 

 

[Moreover, that criminal is frighteningly agile and strong.
He broke into an office on the 7th floor of a 20-story building through a window, stole the money in the safe and smashed through the iron grill fence.
He moved so fast that the security cameras didn’t even see them.]

 

 

[Most places don’t even have their security equipment running when they’re working.]

 

 

With the exception of a few financial institutions and infrastructure-related companies, most companies only turn on their alarm systems at night when the last employee leaves the office.

Also, most companies don’t operate security cameras during the day, except for those in industries that require remote monitoring.

 

 

[Moreover, none of the victims’ companies had alarm systems or surveillance cameras to save money.
Manda-san, do you think this could be a coincidence?]

[I wonder…… Company presidents are often quite stingy.]

 

 

Manda stared at the blurry photograph distributed at the investigative meeting, which was described as “the image of a man who looked like the culprit moving around”.

 

 

The photo, which was taken by a surveillance camera from a distance, was out of focus, and probably because he was moving at a high speed, the image was too blurry to be useful in identifying the culprit’s face.
However, the murderer’s odd posture——— low, wearing a beanie, hunched over, and arms outstretched——— was well captured.