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Chapter 1: Act 4: Scene 1


 * As far as the narrator is aware, there hasn't been any murders in Enbizaka (other than the great fire) in over a decade(s).


 * The detective Eikichi received the news and rushed over to the scene.
 * Pushing past the onlookers, a doushin (Edo period constable in Japan), Soibee, was there with a truncheon.
 * After confirming Eikichi's presence, Soibee silently lifted the straw mat.
 * What they saw there was a nake woman's corpse, cut around the neck/head in cold blood.
 * Eikichi: "...... Disgusting."
 * Eikichi closed his eyes and reached toward the corpse (I think?).
 * Soibee: "her neck/head was torn up with an edged tool. Otherwise, there's a wound thrust in the chest...... probably the mortal blow."
 * Soibee started describing the corpse.
 * Eikichi: "An edged tool...... you mean the culprit's a samurai?
 * Soibee explains that it doesn't look to be the type of clean cuts from a samurai's sharp sword. "It's something else."
 * Eikichi: "What is it then?"
 * Soibee: "I don't know yet. But, because her kimono was also taken, it may have been the work of your average thief."
 * Eikichi: "Do you know the woman's identity?"
 * Soibee: "Yeah. While you slept in and got here late, I examined everything myself...... She was the lady of Miroku shop."