A cell phone rang and everyone rushed at Kyu's side to see who it was. Even Kyu's face turned serious at the caller-id. It was Dan-sensei.

['Class Q; Go straight to Katsudoteki Park.' He ordered in a stern and serious voice. It had to be a new case.

No questions were asked. They all waited for the train in silence until Ryoma had the nerve to break it. "What does 'Class Q' mean?

Ryu stole a glance at him while Kyu answered, "Q means 'qualified'. This is a special class for those who Dan-sensei believes are good enough to be his successors."

Successors? Things got a little more interesting. "So it's a competition?" Ryoma asked with interest.

"No, no, nothing like that!" Kyu raised his hands in mock surrender, "We just work together as best as we can and whoever Sensei likes best he will choose." Kyu laughed awkwardly.

"Oh. Don't you ever feel any type of competitiveness?" Ryoma probed. How can you be in line for such a heritage and not try to look better than every one else?

Kyu laughed the same way and Ryu's glare started to get more penetrating. "Of course not! We're all friends. You're one of us too, right? New York City DDS Campus."

Ryoma nodded and remained silent for the rest of the ride. There was something missing in this class, or rather something unnecessary added. Didn't these students know the value of being the heir to the DDC fortune? Being Dan Morihiko's heir meant that they would inherit not only all twenty four campuses in the world, but 32 billion dollars, a considerable amount of fame and acknowledgement in the world, and not to mention access to all legal movements and cases made by virtually every law enforcement group in the world, and a lot more (hospitals, factories, mansions, ect.)

Of course it isn't like he really needed all that, he already had mansions and money, but it would help his status in the family and protect him from any, erm, "tricks" that they might consider pulling. Life gets complicated like that.

But before he could even consider highlighting himself to Dan-sensei, he had to disable the competition first. Bring them down; make them feel helpless, and worthless, 'till they just can't do this job anymore.' Not hurt them physically, just build the path. Then, the only outcome would be that they would either surrender and consider him the only saint worthy of getting that inheritance, or just be so weak that they weren't much of a competition at all. Ryoma mentally snickered. He was learning from Rizaya.

"Kutsudoketi Park," the speakers yelled. Class Q departed the train and started towards the scene blocked by yellow "DO NOT CROSS" tape and surrounded by ambulances, police cars, and soon to be, Ryoma predicted, the press and news. Every one held up their DDS notebooks to keep the officers from telling them to leave. The officers promptly stood back.

Ryoma took charge and asked him, "Stats?" his voice was so cold the rest of them hung back and watched while the officer stood up straighter.

"39 year old, female, Sugasaki Meiko, three shots to the chest throat and chest. Time of death 11:30 this morning."

"Gunshots?"

"Yes, sir."

Ryoma started walking towards Dan-sensei's direction with Class Q closely behind him. Dan-sensei was in a wheelchair with Katagiri-sensei behind him inspectin the crime scene. The corpse of an Irish woman with red hair was lying on the gound face up with its eyes wide open in fear along with her mouth turned down in a frown. The sight was sickening.

"There you are!" Katagiri exclaimed when she saw them all rushing towards Dan-sensei and the body. Dan-sensei's eyes managed to tear away from the body when he saw Kyu.

He cleared his throat and said, "The Tokyo Police department has asked DDS to investigate this crime because they are busy with some other cases. I trust this won't be too much for you?"

"No sensei," Kyu answered for the rest of the group, "We have Ryoma-kun with us too now,"- Since when have we been on first name basis? - "Will Class A come too?"

"No, this time it's just you." Dan-sensei answered with some level of expectation, Hongo should be here soon."

"Who's Hongo?" Ryoma asked.

"He's our teacher and he accompanies us on all our cases." Ryu explained.

"He's really strict!" Kenta cried.

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Sorry! Had to stop there to get it up as soon as possible. I'm thinking that there might be some action after this ;-) Also, who wants Rizaya to make an appearance sometime in the next 3-4 chapters? Will be taking votes.