Reverse Investigation

Novel title: The Reverse Investigation

Synopsis: "The Special Case Investigation Division of the Police Agency is responsible for 'reopening cases', not cases that have already been decided, but crimes that were 'attempted'."

Yamazaki Koji passes the national civil service exam and is assigned to the most mysterious department in the Police Agency, the Special Case Investigation Division. There are no routine cases here, only a group of "great detectives" handling a peculiar task: re-examining crimes that have already been solved, but whose perpetrators claim, "I never intended to succeed in the first place." In short, they perform autopsies on failed crimes.

His partner is the eccentric detective Shirasaki Kyosuke, known as the "woodpecker of the legal world." He is an extreme neat freak who hates anything "imperfect," including imperfect crimes, imperfect deductions, and imperfect motives. His catchphrase is: "Anyone who can't even commit a crime properly doesn't deserve to be called a criminal."

And so, alongside Shirasaki, Yamazaki begins investigating one "atypical case" after another: ·