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Kara no Shojo trial, Prologue: The Psychological Test
Part V

In the evening, Uozumi show up at Reiji's office with some files from the police department he wanted to see concerning the factory shooting case. When Uozumi wonders whether they'll actually help him catch his perp, Reiji says he doubts it; Uozumi demands to know why he had him bring them all the way over here, then, and Reiji is all "lol I forgot". They discuss the case for a while, and before he leaves, Uozumi asks Reiji if he'd mind taking on another case. He wants him to help investigating a phony religion that's been swindling its followers (probably the Koizumi Kei's dad ran), but Reiji declines and suggests he pawn it off on Takashiro instead; he's been looking to take on less dangerous cases like that now that he has a wife and a baby on the way.

Next, we get an angsty Mizuhara POV monologue about how she hates everything and everyone, but especially her mother, but because you-know-who is always by her side she can live on.

We now skip ahead to February 28th, back to third-person, where Uozumi has been called out to Inokashira Park early in the morning to investigate the body dumped there at the point-and-click crimscene (just a pair of arms and legs wrapped in black cloth, which must be Yui's). They estimate from the growth of the maggots that she's been dead for at least two weeks. He thinks that this came right as they solved the shooting case; the motive was money, just as he'd thought, etc., and thinks about bringing Reiji in on this one too.

Uozumi stops at Moon World on the way back, and is kind of hilariously tongue-tied around Kyoko as she tries to make conversation.