"Nfu-fu-fu-fu!

There it is—ron.

Three chun, three dora—mangan with 1500 extra."

"What...!

What's up with that...

How do you have three dora?"

"You idiot.

You're the one who flipped over another kan dora when you knew Ooishi was in tenpai!

That's what you get."

"Getting more dora was the only thing I could do after revealing the chun!

You can't discard a dora tile after a yakuhai is out.

Nfu-fu-fu!"

Ooishi grinned meaningfully as his buddies, swearing, began breaking down the walls and reforming them.

"...By the way, Ooishi-san.

Identified her yet?"

"What?

...Oh, the mutilated body in the drainage channel.

Any new leads come up?"

"Yes, well.

You'll have to find proof yourself, though."

"You're really something.

Who was the deceased?"

"Rina Mamiya.

Actual name Ritsuko."

"Apparently she worked for the Blue Mermaid, a hostess bar on Shishibone Flower Road."

"Pfew, that's a nasty place.

A young leader of the Sonozakis owns it, yeah?"

"...Sonozaki—whoops!

So it's related to the S-group.

...That mountain'll be tough to scale."

"Rumors say the deceased had been dipping into the Sonozaki's protection money.

And on a pretty significant scale, too, from what I've heard."

"A woman getting her hands on the protection money...

Sounds like a man's behind it.

Not a lot of women do that sort of thing themselves."

"Nfu-fu!

Well, he's dead anyway.

The body just hasn't been found yet."

"About that... Ooishi-san.

Her cohabitant's apparently alive."

"Alive?

Then maybe he'll die soon.

Vermin usually exterminate other vermin—I think we have a very nice self-cleansing system going on."

"Anyway, her man...

It's, well... Teppei Houjou."

"...Houjou?

Who's that?"

"...Teppei Houjou.

The husband of the housewife who was beaten to death last year in Hinamizawa.

...I heard he disappeared after the incident, though.

...I get it—he was staying at his lover's place, huh?"

"......And so the Sonozakis grow ever more suspicious."

"Where is he now?"

"He was living in a woman's apartment.

He must have thought she abandoned him, so he's been searching around shops and other gathering places."