[Machine Translation] Detective Minoshima Akira discovers that Yoichiro Akashi, a death-row inmate he was trying to prove wrongly convicted, has been involved in a separate murder case. The trust he had begun to feel in Akashi is shattered. Minoshima loses his mental stability and begins to see visions of his senior colleague, Takashi Ibu, who was shot dead by the "Strangler". However, through the cases he solves, Minoshima is exposed to the many facets of human nature, and he visits Akashi again. Then, a delicatessen girl is murdered in an empty apartment. Is this the work of the "Strangler" this time? The third installment of the series reaches its climax!