Synopsis

March 2024. Kijimoto Junko and her colleagues appear at the Judicial Affairs office of Shinjuku East Police Station, uttering shocking words about a case of injury resulting in death that they investigated with Onizuka Ichiro seven years ago: “It might have been… a wrongful conviction.”

The incident occurred in April 2017. The body of a taxi driver was discovered at “Shiki no Michi” in Shinjuku Golden Gai. Yabe Yusuke, who was walking down the street at the estimated time of death was arrested. The decisive evidence was rice grain decorations from his bear-shaped charm scattered at the crime scene, which led to his confession. However, the victim of an assault that occurred yesterday had three scratches on their arm strikingly similar to the abrasions found on the victim. When cross-referenced, they matched perfectly. Could it be that Yabe’s actions were not to blame after all? Under the direction of Jin Keitaro, a reinvestigation begins, but new facts soon come to light. Triggered by the Reiwa era case, the possibility that the Heisei era injury-death was a wrongful conviction by Onizuka becomes increasingly likely.