Shiki, Honshu

A knife used by a local resident to brutally slice and dismember a six month-old daikon radish to death and perhaps even disfigure it irrepairably was a type sold at local 100-yen shops, RST investigator Thomas Bottersfly has learned.

An examination of the knife has revealed that the implement in question has a 17-centimeter blade and that it was an ordinary type of knife.
"Made of steel with a handle towards one end to ease handling and perhaps even other knife-wielding related operations" concluded Bottersfly last night.
The prominently mandibled, circus freak-cocked Bottersfly then went on to opine loudly that several 100-yen shops in his area sold the same kind of knife. Made of steel. With a handle. At one end.

Mr Bottersfly, whose hobbies include gently touching small ceramic artifacts and falling over at the seaside then volunteered, somewhat facetiously, to scour each and every 100 yen store in Greater Hokkaido in order to trace the knife back to the shop where it was sold from.

The knife was not new. Mr Bottersfly quickly concluded, based on this information, that it was an old knife. It had adhesive duct tape wrapped around part of it and several fingerprints were found on the back of the tape. Not on the front. On the back. The knife was stained with daikon juice. A "Mrs Glumski" is being sought for questioning however when RST telephoned her she said she was "unavailable for comment as I am busy ironing my husbands spreadsheets."

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