Saki Aikawa

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**Saki Aikawa** (合川 咲姫 *Aikawa Saki*) is a coroner 'troublemakers' specialist who handles troublemaker cases in multiple Tokyo jurisdictions.

## Appearance

Aikawa is a slender woman who wears her dark hair in a braided pony-tail that is often seen hanging over her right shoulder. She has several bangs that hang in front of her face and wears several hair clips on her left bang. Her left ear has four earpiece bits.

Normally, she is seen wearing a two piece manufacturer coverall and pants with several buttons undone so that it reveals her cleavage. There is also an armband with the word "coroner" (検視官) on her left arm and she wears a black fanny pack on her belt.

## Personality

Aikawa appears to have a very calm and professional demeanor. Even in situation where things are very embarrassing and compromising, the woman always maintains a straight face. Even in face of the flirtatious Tsubaki Iwanome or situation of hilarity, Aikawa is known to remain emotionally muted.

## Chronology

### The Lemmings Incident

During the Human Knots case at the Materials Compiling Group No.3 board room, Aikawa reported her findings that one of the pair of footprints were a perfect match for Lemmings. In addition in regards to the video footage of the skeletons appearing at the Shakuzawa Building, Aikawa told her peers that video forensics were unable to find any alteration, but even with that assessment it did not mean that it was no an illusion.

At the Materials Compiling Group No.3 headquarters she was approached by Kōzaburō Arase who lifted his shirt to show the shoe imprint on his chest so that she could run the footprint. Aikawa thought he was joking, but did so at a glance and identified it as a woman's shoe and inquired what the story was until Fumiyo Yamada came with a first aid kit to tend to Arase's bruise. There was no need to run the footprint in the system as Aikawa identified it as the same as the footprint left at the scene of the Human Knots case. When she noticed the other police personnel were getting uncomfortable with seeing Arase's exposed yakuza tattoo on his back, the coroner asked the detective to go somewhere private to treat his injury.

While seeing off Arase and Yamada, Lemmings had snuck into the police station unknown to the officers and was standing behind them. He was in the same room and undetectable by anyone, though Aikawa briefly senses something, though when she turned around found nothing out of the ordinary. She was later distracted when a colleague called her over, failing to perceive that the assassin standing in close proximity to her.

After Tsubaki and Arase encounter with Lemmings and witnessing him fight an unknown assailant at Youtoukorou, Aikawa was told what her peers witnessed. When asked by Tsubaki on what she thought of the case, the specialist stated that if Arase had not been there with him to corroborate what he saw she would have thought Tsubaki had lost his mind, but after examining the scene of the battle she admitted that what they said was true. Tsubaki then inquired about "sensei" which Aikawa immediately recognized as referring to Mikoto Saimyouji and stated that he was chirper than usual, as he claimed to have found a real deal occultist. This then led Tsubaki to take photos related to the "Skeleton in the Burning Building" and "Human Knots" from her clipboard, declaring he will visit the troublemakers at the fraud's.

### Solitaire's Escape

Aikawa attended a meeting with Comps-3 after Phantom Solitaire escaped from police custody right under Tsubaki and Arase interrogation. In her usual deadpan manner she found the whole situation funny. Tsubaki was wholly embarrassed by the fiasco as it made the police look like laughing stocks, though Arase believed that they were okay since they restricted news of the troublemaker's excuse from the press. Though Aikawa pointed out that the moment Phantom Solitaire's escape got leaked to the Internet, the gag order didn't mean a thing, highlighting another joke of what the police had become.

## Etymology

* The name **Saki** means "bloom, blossom, flourish" (咲) (**saki**) and "princess, noblewoman" (姫) (**hime**).
* Saki's surname **Aikawa** means "mutual, reciprocal, each other" (相) (**ai**) and "river, stream, brook" (川) (**kawa**).

## Trivia

* The reason why she undoes the buttons on her shirt is because buttoning anymore is too tight. This has been a source of contention with her more prudish female colleagues.

## References

1. ↑ Dead Mount Death Play (Manga) Volume 1: Chapter 6
2. ↑ Dead Mount Death Play (Manga) Volume 1: Chapter 7
3. ↑ Dead Mount Death Play (Manga) Volume 1: Chapter 8
4. ↑ Dead Mount Death Play (Manga) Volume 2: Chapter 11
5. ↑ Dead Mount Death Play (Manga) Volume 3: Chapter 19