The team had cordoned off an area of the convention room to use as their temporary base of operations. They had tried to get in touch with Garcia, but to no avail. She had said she was busy and out of town that weekend, and of course nobody knew exactly where to find her. They were, at the present time, Garcia-less.

Aaron paced back and forth. He was used to brutality, but to use THIS much, even if it was to recreate a scene from a Japanese comic, it was ... obscene. He turned to Reid.

"Spencer, I want you to go around the hall and question all of the visitors here, see if they've seen and strange looking ... no wait, suspicious looking people". Behind them, Derek let out a small snigger, and Spencer looked between them with a blank look on his face. He didn't get the joke.

He never did.

David walked in from the outside, fumbling with his phone.

"I've tried to call Garcia, but wherever she is, she isn't answering her phone, or even responding to her texts. I've called her three times and left two mes..."

He was cut off by a cry from near the door, and they turned to see a giant cat ... no ... somebody DRESSED like a giant cat, running towards them, waving.

It was Garcia.

They looked at her in silence, not even Derek knew how to handle this.

"I'm sorry, with all the noise next door I couldn't hear the phone ringing. Then I heard of a murder, so I thought to call you guys only to find you'd already arrived. I suppose I do work fast"

Derek just stared and asked "What ... ARE you?"

"I'm a cat ... well, a Furry cat" she responded, as if it was the most normal thing in the world. Nobody answered her, leaving only silence. Even the crowd around them seemed to have gone silent. "its a completely normal thing to do! There are thousands of us". Nothing.

Meanwhile, walking around the convention hall, Reid was talking to the people, paying special attention to the people in cosplay of shows he happened to like ... not that he thought they were suspicious at all, just that he wanted to talk to people with what he thought of as good taste. He had taken off his cosplay headband in accordance with Aaron's wishes that he remove his costume. The headband was enough ... right?

Reid was walking through, when one of the vendors called him over

"You're with the cops ain't ya?" he asked

Reid nodded "yes. Well actually I'm with the BAU investigating this crime ... and also with Otogakure" he added, giving a small chuckle to the joke. He didn't care if the vendor didn't get it, it was his joke after all, and in his mind, as long as he found it funny, it was.

"Yeah" the man said "well I saw a man acting really strange around here. He was looking at all these manga volumes, askin' if I had any where the characters get badly injured or killed. I showed him them, of course. Gotta get the business. He took them, looked, jotted some numbers down, and then left. Is that of any help?"

Spencer thought

"have you got One Piece volume 6?".

The man looked confused

"sure I have ... here, you can take a look at it if you want"

Spencer took it and flicked through the book.

Meanwhile, Daniel, a young man who was at Otacon, went into the toilets. He was jumpy, well who wouldn't be after someone getting murdered. He adjusted his costume, and went into the room. He saw a man standing at the sinks washing his hands. He gave him a nod and walked past. He heard a noise. The man tapped him on the shoulder ... and then pain

The cry of pain crashed through the convention hall. Reid looked over, kicking himself for not realising the meaning of the piece of paper soon enough. He threw some money to the vendor and ran, carrying the book.

Reid got there first to find ... a sight for sore eyes. The man had been cut diagonally across his torso, with a blood spray continuing along that line. This was brutally accurate. David and Aaron came in after, followed by Derek. They looked at the body on the floor.

There was a note

it said "Bleach 3 21"

"the next one will be cosplaying Ichigo Kurosaki ... and will be impaled through the chest"

David looked at him "how do you know that?"

Reid took the piece of paper out of his pocket from the last scene. "This says One Piece 6 51. In volume 6 of One Piece, 51st chapter, Roronoa Zoro gets sliced through the chest by Mihawk. It didn't kill him but it should be enough to kill a normal human ... which is what we have here, a man dressed as Zoro sliced through the chest. This piece of paper features a chapter of Bleach where main character Ichigo gets impaled by a spike like appendage of a hollow ... that's where our unsub will strike next"

Aaron looked to him and nodded "well done Spencer. We know what to look for, but we still need to work out how, why, and who he looks for in his targets"

David looked back over at the body and closed his eyes

"We need to hurry. This guy's clearly brutal, he's willing to do anything in the name of accuracy of murder, and in the looks of things, he's killing quicker than before ... we don't have much time"