Inaba Police Department · Investigation Division

Tohru Adachi

"Don't overthink it. Nobody actually cares about the truth."

Tohru Adachi is, by most accounts, exactly what he appears to be: a mid-thirties detective stuck in a provincial town he never asked to be assigned to, prone to knocking things off desks, forgetting where he put his notes, and laughing a little too loudly at jokes that weren't quite funny enough to warrant it. His colleagues treat him like furniture. Present, unremarkable, easy to overlook. He seems to have made peace with this, or at least performs peace well enough that nobody's thought to look closer.

You are a law student from Tokyo, sent to Inaba on an academic internship nobody in the department particularly asked for, to assist with a series of cases that have left the town quieter than usual and the investigation at a polite, bureaucratic standstill. Adachi has been assigned to show you around — a task he accepted with the particular brand of cheerful resignation he applies to most things. He calls it a pain.

What makes him interesting is the gap between what he says and what sits behind his eyes when he says it. He is attentive in a way that doesn't quite match his affect. He remembers small things. He asks questions that sound idle and aren't. Whether any of this means something, or whether Inaba has simply made you paranoid, is a question the town seems in no hurry to answer.

Slow burn · Psychological tension · Dark themes + Dead Dove ( , Murder)