The next morning, both detectives were at Miku Hatsune's house, the place she'd been last scene before she had gone missing. They were accompanied by police officers Gakupo Kamui, Meiko Sakine, and Len Kagamine.
Detective Kagamine paced the grassline of the driveway, muttering angrily under her breath. Finally, she spoke. "Well? What are we still doing, standing here? We should be investigating the crime scene, not that there's anything to investigate, but whatever."
"Patience, ma'am. We're taking time to read up on the case before we go wandering into the house looking for things we don't know are there," Officer Sakine snapped. "Not every case will be solved in 10 seconds flat."
"Calm down, Meiko. Don't yell at the detectives, they're our only chance of help in this," Officer Kamui said. "Now, come on."
He led the group into the home, which was pitch black. Officer Kagamine turned on a flashlight, and they continued their voyage into the crime scene.
After about 3 hours of searching, the only evidence found was a lock of silvery white hair. It was sent to a crime lab, where two professional forensic evidence investigators did their job.
Akikoloid and Aria, two young women who were well known for their excellent help in homicides, suicides, and other cases, were sitting in their forensics lab, comparing the swatch of silvery hair to the hair swatches of known criminals.
Akiko leaned back in her seat. "Ia, this hair doesn't match anything.. Did the detectives find anything else we could possibly observe?"
"No ma'am." Ia answered, barely audible with her soft speaking. "This was all they had for us."
"Mm..."
"Hey, Shion! Take a look at this!" Detective Kagamine screeched. She was holding her flashlight over the bedsheets on the victim's bed, and red stains were just barely visible in the white weave. "I... I think it's blood!"
Detective Shion made his way over to his partner, an unreadable expression on his face.
"...You're right..." he said slowly, glancing at the bedsheets. "Um... Officers, you might wanna come over here and check this out."
Officer Kagamine's face slowly paled as he stared, in horror, at the evidence. "Well.. now we know there was a struggle. This is proof of that idea."
"Finally, finally, finally." Akiko repeated. She held the bedsheets in the microscope, examining the red stains. "It's blood," she announced, backing her chair up and rising to her feet.
"It.. it is?" Ia asked uncertainly. She stood up without another word and strode over to her partner's table, placing her face at the microscope to get a look. "Oh... oh my planets.. it is."
"..Are you alright, Ia? You're acting different..."
"I... I'm fine, ma'am." Ia replied slowly, her blue eyes wider than they usually were.
After the detectives and police had left the scene, they were looking forward to a long week of dead ends.