第25話: 橘の原稿コードに関連する連続殺人を Hajime が捜査

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Hajime suspects Kon Omura from Hiyaku Publishing may have Tachibana's manuscript. However, after directing Hajime to Wataru Tokito, Omura is murdered with a golf club. Hajime then follows Tokito to a construction site and questions him, but after he directs Hajime to Katsura, someone causes steel beams to fall and kill him. Hajime is still on the run from the police, which now include Super intendent Akechi, but the television newscaster Tetsuo Tsuzuki shelters him. Hajime then goes to question the manga writer Ohei Katsura, who directs him to Nonaka Tomomi before Katsura is stabbed from behind and killed. Hajime is again suspected of the murder. However, he begins to suspect that the individual messages that Tachibana told each of the publishers directing them to other participants may be a type of code. Hajime's friends still support him. (Source: Wikipedia)