Talk:Seidou Takizawa/@comment-75.139.233.127-20160825080022/@comment-10733658-20160825111738

Well, there's probably a lot of stuff that has happened off-panel in the year between the Auction and Rushima. But at the very least, he's tortured Akira's subordinate (Haise) and killed two Associate Special Classes. While we don't see them interact on-panel, we know the pool for high-ranking Investigators is very small and they all seem to know each other. Hachikawa has worked the Anteiku Raid with them, as well as working in the same branch as Akira during the beginning of :Re. So there's a good chance that Hachikawa and Atou were people that Houji and Akira knew well.

I mean, even if we the audience don't have attachment to those fodder characters, the characters themselves do. They're people they work with, or associate with in some capacity.