Summary:The case is introduced to the Detective Agency.

The sun shines through the streets the next day. People walking amongst themselves chatting away about the events of the past few weeks. Fear in there hearts about who the next victim will be, and when the murderer will strike again. The police have set curfews for the citizens to try to prevent another victim, as they have given the case over to better more skilled hands in the city.

Amongst the streets walks one of the detective agency members. A pile of paperwork in his arms as he walked to work. The boy had grey nearly white hair that's short save for a long strip of hair hanging down one side of his face. He has one purple eye and one gold. Either an ability side effect or a bizarre case of heterochromia. Both shining in the sun like diamonds, yet are so full of life and happiness.

On his lower body he wears black pants, the belt not wound all the way around his waist as he leaves part of the belt waving around in the air freely. A pair of basic if not high grade black leather shoes. On his upper body he adorns a white shirt with a black tie. The files in his arms are files and reports he's been overwhelmed with for the past week or so. Having been taking them back to his apartment to try to finish them early.

He walks up the steps and into the building to the office space he shares with the rest of the members silently. Most of the members are in the office doing their own usual thing. Ranpo reclining back in his chair sucking on a lollipop, bags of sweets scattered around his desk. Yosano, Naomi, and the other secretary in their respective offices doing paperwork. Kunikida typing away as usual, a serious look written all over his face. Glasses gleaming against the lights.

Of course the last but least one that was second laziest in the office, aside from Ranpo. Said man was twirling around in his chair with a smirk holding another book about suicide attempts. The bandages wrapped around his body still present, not like Atsushi expected them to disappear any time soon. With a sigh the tiger boy walks past his mentor to his own desk. Dumping the huge pile of paperwork on his desktop. Sitting down in his chair he opens his laptop, to start more of his ever growing pile of paperwork.

Kunikida clears his throat as he stands from his desk drawing the attention from everyone in the room, papers held in his hands. "Now that everyone is here, we can start the scheduled meeting."

Atsushi raises an eyebrow as he closes his laptop once more "What's the case this time?" he asks the glasses wearer curiously.

The tall man clears his throat as he goes out to handing a single sheet of paper out to everyone as he starts to speak in a professional manner "Last night the president got a call to take on a case that's been stumping the minds of the police for the past few weeks. They are asking for our help to find any clues to solving this particular case."

Dazai looks down at the contents of the paper an unknown look on his face "The heart's of every victim is burst inside their chests like a bomb went off inside them. No physical wounds found on the outside of the body. Most victims are identified through lab tests, because the wallets are either missing as a whole or the identification and money is only taken from the wallets." He points off interested.

Kunikida nods as he continues "The police have found no footprints leading to the bodies, no evidence that can lead them to a suspect. It seems that whoever is taking the contents from the wallets is wearing gloves and has knowledge of forensics because no fingerprints or dna have yet to be found. There are no signs of a struggle either, it's like they died over from a super heart attack or extreme muscle hypertension."

Atsushi raises his hand "Um well how do they know it's a murderer to be exact?"

"Think about this Atsushi. If it was an abnormal event why would so many people fall over from a heart attack? In an alleyway to boot too. If someone was having heart issues they wouldn't go to an alleyway to die, they would try to contact emergency services or fall over dead anywhere." Dazai tells the younger boy as he looks back over the paper, thinking everything through.

Atsushi shakes his head at the revelation as he reads through the paper, its says that there were no security cameras anywhere where the murders happened. The police came to the conclusion that each murder victim wasn't connected to each other in any way, they were picked at random. Most were people that were down on their luck, and were scraping by the last few pennies they had in their pockets or bank accounts. The majority were homeless people that roamed the streets at night.

"Who was the last victim?" He hears Dazai asks.

"Her name was Reserei Skies. She moved here three months ago with her lover, and worked in a small cafe to help pay bills. Both are struggling to pay a months rent. The police talked to her lover, and he told them that she's been working a double shift for the past week to scrape in some money. He's been doing the same, and came home at 1 in the morning last night to find out that she hadn't come home that night. He called the cafe but they told him that they closed at 10 that same night, and proceeded to tell him that one of her co-workers overheard his lover talking about going to a bar to drink." Kunikida explains.

Dazai has a hand to his chin "The woman got off work at 10pm, and headed to a bar. It says that the bartender saw her enter the bar at 10:30pm, and existed the bar at 12:00am. She was heavily intoxicated, but no one acted suspicious around her while inside the bar or leaving. She wasn't seen alive again after 12, and the body was discovered at 2 in the morning. So we have a timeframe of 3 hours to look at." He goes farther down the page for more information "There's no information of how far her apartment was from the bar."

Yosano speaks up "Are they going to send a report of the full autopsy?"

The blond man nods adjusting his glasses over his nose "Yes, that should be here by 4 in the afternoon. Since the clear sign of death was obvious the autopsy isn't going to take very long. I assume you're going to be in your office going over the details, Yosano." He looks over to Dazai and Atsushi "Now since Ranpo, and others are booked for other assignments for the week. Dazai, and Atsushi you two are going to be put on this case for further details." he tells them instantly getting a reaction out of Dazai.

The bandaged man sighs in exaggeration, a bored look on his face. When he averts his eyes away from the glasses wearer does he get yelled at. Eventually Atsushi raises his hand making Kunikida look over at the tiger "What is it? Got a problem with your assignment?"

Atsushi jumps at the stern look sent his way but speaks up anyways "Um no sir, it's just that I have a mission with Akutagawa after lunch. It's to recover some files a low life gang took from the mafia. Should I still go or not?" He asks unsure himself of what the answer would be.

The taller man thinks for a minute before nodding to himself "Since we've got all that we have for the current case until further notice you can go on your mission. Afterwards though you and Dazai are going to scope around the place the last victim was killed at." he says as he turns around to go back to his desk.

With the meeting adjourned everyone goes back to what they were doing previous. With a low sigh Atsushi goes back to doing his reports, starting to type away at the computer. This is not how he planned his day, him and Akutagawa were both planning on taking a walk around the city, and maybe going to a tea shop. Now he would have to cancel those plans in favor of this case, at this point he would have rather went on a mission with Ranpo no matter how annoying the other was.

He takes out his phone to text the other.

To:Aku

From:Atsu

[Hey the plans we had after the mission today, we'll have to cancel those. I have a mission with Dazai afterwards.]

He sends it as he sets it on the table, on vibrate thank god, he wouldn't want get yelled at for being on his phone. He knows Akutagawa might be on a mission right now, he knows enough after working together with him for close to a year now. As he's typing about 10 minutes later his phone buzzes lightly beside his hand. Picking it up he sees its from Akutagawa.

To:Atsu

From:Aku

[Ok, I'll assist you on the mission to keep you from getting annoyed over Dazai. We can go afterwards if the mission isn't to long or go back to one of our apartments. I'm currently on a mission right now, so I'll see you after lunch.]

Atsushi smiles at the response from the other, ever since gaining Dazai's approval after defeating the guild, even defeating the house of the rats Akutagawa has been focusing on more important things than Dazai all the time. He loves spending time with the tiger, and gaining his approval. The same as Atsushi on his end, as after every mission when they had free time they would usually go to a tea shop.

Chuuya would join at times hanging out with the two, of course not to far on the red heads tail was the bandaged man. They would end up hanging out together in a bar, talking things over about whatever came to there minds. Putting his phone down, he smiles continuing to work until the scheduled meeting time.

NOTES:This work is a rewrite of another of my works, but I won't bother giving the link, since it's way different from the other one. It may as well be a re-adaption of a sorts of it. But if you do want to read it, just a warning it has 26 chapters, and it's called 'The dark of the past, and light of the future.' This one in particular is going to have, I'm planning 30 chapters. I don't know know it may be less or more chapter as originally planned, but I won't know until I get there.