Another attempt to reach Mikey turns out to be unsuccessful, and a female voice on the other side of the phone keeps saying «leave a message after the beep.»
«Look, I don’t know where you are, but I’m really worried. Call me as soon as you can. If you don’t do it by tomorrow afternoon, then I will try to find you. Hold on.
Ken turns off his phone and walks to his car, looking around. Exactly from that moment they stopped following him, as his partner disappeared. There were only two assumptions in my head: the stalkers changed the car, or everything is much worse — they got to his partner and Ken is no longer interested in them.

Already sitting in his car, the man remembers the situation in the man’s house, a glass vase with flowers, a plate with sweets and … the same sweets as at the crime scenes. Shaking his head negatively and taking a deep breath, Ken pressed the DVR button in the car and got out, deciding to leave the car at this place. Still, the circle has not narrowed.

***

— You bastard… You did it all, didn’t you? — 

Manjiro hisses and turns away from the persistent stroking of his interlocutor, not even wanting to see this face. — Now it’s clear to me that you fought so hard for these checks and the closure of your hangout. What’s the point if you have the same hangout at home?
— Relax, today you are the main whore of this hangout. — Sanzu wraps his hand around the blond’s neck and squeezes it until it wheezes from someone else’s mouth, throwing the guy on the sofa. — What exactly did you fuck? I just wanted a whore like you in my collection, that’s all.
— You’re so disgusting… — Manjiro sobs and tries to pull his hands out of the grip of the rope on his wrists, is already going to go to extreme measures and break his thumb so that the rope falls off his hands. But this act is interrupted.
— Haitani, hold our sweet policeman’s hands. I want him to try something really cool. You liked Izana, didn’t you? He really likes to do it.
Fulfilling the request of their master, the Haitani tightly squeezed the blond’s hands, lifting them.